So soon as the fact was known Rastignac, de Marsay, and Lucien de Rubempre went to see him, and each offered him a banknote of a thousand francs when they found how really destitute he was.

Everything belonging to him had been seized except the clothes and the few jewels he wore.

The three young men (who brought an excellent dinner with them) discussed Savinien's situation while drinking de Marsay's wine, ostensibly to arrange for his future but really, no doubt, to judge of him.
"When a man is named Savinien de Portenduere," cried Rastignac, "and has a future peer of France for a cousin and Admiral Kergarouet for a great-uncle, and commits the enormous blunder of allowing himself to be put in Sainte-Pelagie, it is very certain that he must not stay there, my good fellow." "Why didn't you tell me ?" cried de Marsay.

"You could have had my traveling-carriage, ten thousand francs, and letters of introduction for Germany.

We know Gobseck and Gigonnet and the other crocodiles; we could have made them capitulate.