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"'D'Aldrigger is leaving seven or eight hundred thousand francs, Taillefer answered, addressing Desroches. "'Oh, pooh, there is only one man who knows how much they are worth, put in Werbrust, a friend of the deceased. "'Who? "'That fat rogue Nucingen; he will go as far as the cemetery; d'Aldrigger was his master once, and out of gratitude he put the old man's capital into his business.
He squeezed du Tillet's hand with an expression such as a woman's face wears when she is playing her neighbor a trick. "Martin Falleix came up. 'Well, have you heard the news? he asked. 'Nucingen has stopped payment. "'Pooh, said Werbrust, 'pray don't noise it about; give those that hold his paper a chance. "'What is the cause of the smash; do you know? put in Claparon.
Six weeks afterwards, the Bordeaux shipping intelligence announced that two vessels with cargoes of bullion to the amount of seven millions, consigned to the firm of Nucingen, were lying in the river. "Then it was plain to Palma, Werbrust, and du Tillet that the trick had been played. Nobody else was any the wiser.
Gobseck's peculiar genius had then devised an agency for discounting the planters' claims on the government. The business was carried on under the names of Werbrust and Gigonnet, with whom he shared the spoil without disbursements, for his knowledge was accepted instead of capital.
His business was that of discounting commercial paper in the quartier Saint-Martin, where he was known by the nickname of "Gigonnet," from the nervous convulsive movement with which he lifted his legs in walking, like a cat. Monsieur Bidault began this business in the year II. in partnership with a dutchman named Werbrust, a friend of Gobseck.
"'It is a fact, said Werbrust; 'I am taking his paper myself at twenty per cent discount. "The news spread swift as fire in a straw rick. The most contradictory reports got about. But such confidence was felt in the firm after the two previous suspensions, that every one stuck to Nucingen's paper. 'Palma must lend us a hand, said Werbrust.
He looks solemn, he listens, ponders, and reflects; his interlocutor thinks that after this consideration he has come round his man, till Palma says, 'This will not do for me. The most extraordinary thing about Palma, to my mind, is the fact that he and Werbrust were partners for ten years, and there was never the shadow of a disagreement between them."
Mitral was a being with a sinister wig, a face the color of Seine water, lighted by a pair of Spanish-tobacco-colored eyes, cold as a well-rope, always smelling a rat, and close-mouthed about his property. He probably made his fortune in his own hole and corner, just as Werbrust and Gigonnet made theirs in the quartier Saint-Martin.
"Now Palma was the Keller's oracle, and the Kellers were brimful of Nucingen's paper. A hint from Palma would be enough. Werbrust arranged with Palma, and he rang the alarm bell. There was a panic next day on the Bourse.
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