[The Wandering Jew by Eugene Sue]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wandering Jew CHAPTER XV 9/14
Besides, I may furnish a few notes; but you must not pay Dumoulin till after delivery of the manuscript." "That is well understood: for, if we were to pay him beforehand, he would be drunk for a week in some low den.
It was thus we had to pay him twice over for his virulent attack on the pantheistic tendencies of Professor Martin's philosophy." "Take note of it--and go on!" "The merchant announces that the clerk is about to send the banker to give in his accounts.
You understand ?' added Rodin, after pronouncing these words with a marked emphasis. "Perfectly," said the other, with a start; "they are but the expressions agreed on.
What next ?" "But the clerk," continued the secretary, "is restrained by a last scruple." After a moment's silence, during which the features of Rodin's master worked strongly, he thus resumed: "They must continue to act on the clerk's mind by silence and solitude; then, let him read once more the list of cases in which regicide is authorized and absolved.
Go on!" "The woman Sydney writes from Dresden, that she waits for instructions. Violent scenes of jealousy on her account have again taken place between the father and son; but neither from these new bursts of mutual hatred, nor from the confidential communications which each has made to her against his rival, has she yet been able to glean the information required.
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