Produced by David Widger
THE PARISIANS
By Edward Bulwer-Lytton
BOOK V.
CHAPTER I.
The next day at noon M. Louvier was closeted in his study with M.
Gandrin.
"Yes," cried Louvier, "I have behaved very handsomely to the beau
Marquis. No one can say to the contrary."
"True," answered Gandrin. "Besides the easy terms for the transfer of the mortgages, that free bonus of one thousand louis is a generous and noble act of munificence."
"Is it not! and my youngster has already begun to do with it as I meant and expected. He has taken a fine apartment; he has bought a coupe and horses; he has placed himself in the hands of the Chevalier de Finisterre; he is entered at the Jockey Club. Parbleu, the one thousand louis will be soon gone."
"And then?"