“Oh! we have time enough!”
“You kill me, D’Herblay, with your calmness,” said the superintendent, passing his handkerchief over his face.
“Do you not remember that I one day told you not to make yourself uneasy, if you possessed courage? Have you any?”
“I believe so.”
“Then don’t make yourself uneasy.”
“It is decided, then, that, at the last moment, you will come to my assistance.”
“It will only be the repayment of a debt I owe you.”
“It is the vocation of financiers to anticipate the wants of men such as yourself, D’Herblay.”
“If obligingness is the vocation of financiers, charity is the virtue of the clergy. Only, on this occasion, do you act, monsieur. You are not yet sufficiently reduced, and at the last moment we will see what is to be done.”
“We shall see, then, in a very short time.”