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Esther and her elderly lover retired to the bedroom, Louchard finding it necessary to apply his ear to the keyhole. "I lofe you more as my life, Esther; but vy gife to your creditors moneys vich shall be so much better in your pocket? Go into prison. I shall undertake to buy up dose hundert tousant crowns for ein hundert tousant francs, an' so you shall hafe two hundert tousant francs for you "
"That scheme is perfectly useless," cried Louchard through the door. "The creditor is not in love with mademoiselle not he! You understand? And he means to have more than all, now he knows that you are in love with her." "You dam' sneak!" cried Nucingen, opening the door, and dragging Louchard into the bedroom; "you know not dat vat you talk about.
From the group of bumbailiffs, looking like what they were, all standing with their horrible hats on their yet more horrible heads, with mahogany-colored faces and bleared eyes, damaged noses, and hideous mouths, Louchard now stepped forth, more decently dressed than his men, but keeping his hat on, his expression at once smooth-faced and smiling. "Mademoiselle, I arrest you!" said he to Esther.
Two physicians came to see you yesterday, your man tells me, who think your life is in danger; now, I alone can put you in the hands of a clever fellow. But the deuce is in it! If your life is not worth a thousand crowns " "Tell me de name of dat clefer fellow, and depent on my generosity " Louchard took up his hat, bowed, and left the room. "Wat ein teufel!" cried Nucingen. "Come back look here "
You might as well look for a needle in the river as for a woman in Paris, who is supposed to haunt Vincennes, and of whom the description answers to every pretty woman in the capital." "And could not Contenson haf tolt me de truf, instead of making me pleed out one tousand franc?" "Listen to me, Monsieur le Baron," said Louchard. "Will you give me a thousand crowns?
Contenson, without committing any indiscretion, had told Louchard that he knew the only man who was capable of doing what the Baron de Nucingen required. Peyrade was, in fact, the only police-agent who could act on behalf of a private individual with impunity.
In these days the smallest banker, like the greatest, exercises his acumen in the smallest transactions; he bargains over art, beneficence, and love; he would bargain with the Pope for a dispensation. Thus, as he listened to Louchard, Nucingen had hastily concluded that Contenson, Louchard's right-hand man, must certainly know the address of that master spy.
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