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Title: La comedie humaine
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Balzac, Hono 1799-1850 Wormeley, Katharine Prescott Ives, George Burnham, 1856-1930
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Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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he was too beautiful to keep a reading- room. Can it be that youre the father of her child?the lorette asked Nathan. One morning, continued Desroches, Cerizet, who,since the purchase of Maximes bill, had by degreesarrived at the costume of a bailiffs chief clerk, wasadmitted to the counts apartment after seven fruitlesstrials. Suzon, the old valet de chambre, although hewas no novice, finally mistook Cerizet for a solicitorwho came to offer Maxime a thousand crowns if hewould obtain a stamp-office for a young lady. Havingno suspicion of the little rascal, a genuine Paris gamincoated with prudence by his police-court convictions,Suzon urged his master to receive him. Cant you seethe man of business, with the furtive glance, the sparsehair, the bald head, in the tight black coat and muddyboots What an image of the Creditor! cried Lousteau. Before the count, the image of unblushing Debt,continued Desroches, in blue flannel dressing-gown,slippers embroidered by some marchioness, and white
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A Man of Business. 297 flannel trousers, with a superb smoking-cap on hisglossy dyed locks, displaying a dazzling shirt-front, andtoying with the tassels of his girdle? Its a genre picture, said Nathan, to one whoknows the pretty little reception-room where Maximebreakfasts, full of pictures of great value, with silkenhangings, and where you walk on Smyrna rugs, gazingin admiration the while at what-nots laden with curiosand rareties to make a king of Saxony die with envy! That is the scene of the conflict, said Desroches. With that statement the narrator obtained the mostprofound silence. Monsieur le comte/ said Cerizet, I am sent byone Monsieur Charles Claparon, formerly a banker. Ah! what does he want of me, the poor devil? Why, he has become your creditor for a matter ofthree thousand two hundred francs and seventy-fivecentimes, principal, interest, and costs. The Coutelier bill/ said Maxime, who knew hisaffairs as thoroughly as a pilot knows his coast. Yes, monsieur le comte, Cer

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