[The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lesser Bourgeoisie CHAPTER X 8/15
If this trickster can't be hoodwinked as to the sale being a bona fide one until the time when his right to buy it expires, some other scheme must be resorted to.
Now, is this business strictly legal? Am I justified in doing it for the benefit of a family I seek to enter? That is the question I have been revolving in my mind for the last three days." Brigitte, we must acknowledge, hesitated, and Theodose then brought forward his last card:-- "Take the night to think of it," he said, "to-morrow we will talk it over." "My young friend," said Brigitte, looking at the lawyer with an almost loving air, "the first thing to be done is to see the house.
Where is it ?" "Near the Madeleine.
That will be the heart of Paris in ten years.
All that property has been desirable since 1819; the banker Du Tillet's fortune was derived from property about there.
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