nly paid over, to my care, one hundred thousand francs. I gave them to Roguin just as I would give you my purse,moncler jacket, and I have no receipt for them. The owners of the land have not received one penny; they have just been talking to me. The money you thought you raised upon your property in the Faubourg du Temple had no existence for you, or the borrower; Roguin has squandered it,ugg australia, together with your hundred thousand francs,adidas jeremy scott, which he used up long ago,–and your last hundred thousand as well, for I just remember drawing them from the bank.”
The pupils of Cesar’s eyes dilated so enormously that he saw only red flames.
“Your hundred thousand francs in his hands, my hundred thousand for his practice, a hundred thousand from Claparon,–there’s three hundred thousand francs purloined, not to speak of other thefts which will be discovered,” exclaimed the young notary. “Madame Roguin is not to be counted on. Du Tillet has had a narrow escape. Roguin tormented him for a month to get into that land speculation, but happily all his funds were tied up in an affair with Nucingen. Roguin has written an atrocious letter to his wife; I have read it. He has been making free with his clients’ money for years; and why? for a mistress,–la belle Hollandaise. He left her two weeks ago. The squandering hussy hasn’t a farthing left; they sold her furniture,–she had signed promissory notes. To escape arrest, she took refuge in a house in the Palais- Royal, where she was assassinated last night by a captain in the army. God has quickly punished her; she has wasted Roguin’s whole fortune and much more. There are some women to whom nothing is sacred: think of squandering the trust moneys of a notary! Madame Roguin won’t have a penny, except by claiming her rights of dower; the scoundrel’s whole property is encumbered to its full value. I bought the practice for three hundred thousand francs,–I,though it had hardened, who thought I was getting a good thing!–and paid a hundred thousand down. I have no receipt; the creditors will think I am an accomplice if I say a word about that hundred thousand francs, and when a man is starting in life he must be careful of his reputation. There will hardly be thirty per cent saved for the creditors. At my age, to get such a set-back! A man fifty-nine years of age to keep a mistress! the old villain,that I’d spent an uneventful day with the flora and fauna.! It is only two weeks since he told me not to marry Cesarine; he said you would soon be without bread,–the monster!”
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