Eugenie with money [Grandet]

After listening to Grassin's report, Eugenie's heart moved, and she thought of a question: "Mr. Nucingen told me just now that he is also one of my uncle's creditors, and he directly lent my uncle 100 million francs back then. Funds. When you notified all creditors, did you also notify Mr. Nucingen?"

Grassan looked confused: "Mr. Nucingen is also a creditor of Mr. Guillaume? But among the names of all the creditors, there is really no name of Mr. Nucingen."

Eugenie figured it out right away. Nucingen hadn't told the truth just now. When he lent money to Guillaume Grandet, he didn't do it himself, but hired an agent. .

This is also easy to understand.As Charles' father, it is impossible for Guillaume to be ignorant of the relationship between Charles and Annette, so how could he accept financial help from the husband of his son's lover?

If that was the case, Guillaume would not have made such a decisive act of shooting himself.

Eugenie didn't feel much about Nucingen lying again, anyway, she didn't give Nucingen full trust, for example, even if Nucingen just admitted that she was also Guillaume's creditor, Eugenie didn't tell him, it was I acted as an envoy to let those people know the news of Charles Grandet's return to Paris.Not only that, but even which hotel Shire stayed in and which room he lived in, let the creditors know clearly.

So for partners or something, it is enough to reach 70.00% trust and be able to cooperate with each other.Nucingen just reached the passing mark, and Eugenie came to his goal of cleaning up Charles, and Eugenie graciously forgave him for his little lies.

Nucingen didn't know that he had just lied to Eugenie, and that Grassin had inadvertently exposed him. He was on the carriage home and said to Annette: "Madame, put away your sad face, that Charles is now determined to If you want to miss Mademoiselle Eugenie, you won't have time to care about the feelings of your former mistress."

Annette's tears were finally shed by this cold sarcasm: "Sir, you are stabbing me in the heart. Over the years, your mistresses have been one after another. Have I ever troubled you once? Are your mistresses a little embarrassed? You can't forgive me for letting you taunt me mercilessly when I am in the most pain. "

"What's the difference?" Nucingen looked at his tearful wife with a shameless smile, "You are an upper-class wife, so you shouldn't have blemishes on your reputation. And my mistresses are just actresses from the opera house, Their goal is to become the mistress of people like me. They are much more straightforward than you, and they never thought that they would become female cousins ​​and be worshiped as saints."

"Sir, you are insulting me." Annette's shrill cry was heard far away.But Nucingen was not moved, and his voice was still so cold: "When you betrayed me, you have already nailed yourself to the pillar of shame, no matter whether I insulted you or not."

Annette's uncontrollable crying came from the car, and the coachman drove the car quietly, without any curiosity, and didn't look back to see what happened in the car.

In the Champs Elysees Hotel, Miss Aubrion was also crying. She finally got engaged to someone. Who knew that the engagement would be broken off as soon as she returned to Paris. How could this girl like a dragonfly don't cry?

Mrs. Aubrion circled the room angrily: "Charles Grandet! How dare he break off the engagement, who gave him the courage to do such an insulting thing. Mr. Aubrion, absolutely You can't just let this guy go."

Mr. Aubrion also kept pacing the room: "But now, we can't find anyone to make Charles Grandet pay for his actions." If he can find someone, he would like to Let the person who bought their house give up his own house.

Daughter, whether to marry or not to marry, it is important to have a house.

Regardless of her husband's embarrassment, Mrs. Aubrion kept clamoring to make Charles Grandet look good.Now that the two families are still living in the same hotel, Mrs. Aubrion made full use of the dining time to belittle what Charles did to nothing.

Charles, who was eating after Aubrion's house, happened to hear the discussion in the restaurant about the just-dissolved engagement. He was afraid that others would know that he was the hero in the discussion, so he didn't even eat, and quietly returned his meal. Room.

He collapsed on the bed with his limbs flat, wondering how he had fallen to such a point.According to his plan, as soon as he told Eugenie about his dissolution of the engagement, Eugenie should be moved and weeping and throw herself back into his arms.

The fact is that Eugenie was not only not moved, but also questioned his IQ.Being questioned by a person he looked down upon made Charles, who has always been proud, angry, and lost Annette's understanding because of this—when Charles said those words to Annette, he had already foreseen that the relationship between the two would be the same. Can't go back to the past.

Now, Charles felt that the whole of Paris was full of malice towards him. He felt that his decision to return to China was wrong. He should stay in America and continue to sell those black or yellow races to enrich his pockets.

If I still stay in America...

There are not so many ifs in the world, people always have to pay the price for their actions.Even if the person concerned does not admit the price, it does not mean that others have also forgotten it.Charles will understand the next day that not being able to get the forgiveness of Eugenie and Annette does not mean that the whole of Paris is full of malice towards him, and those who are really full of malice towards him have already been waiting at the door of the hotel.

"What, my father's creditors want to see me?" Charles couldn't believe his ears, and looked suspiciously at the hotel doorman who informed him: "My father passed away seven years ago, how could there be any What creditors. How do you do things, do I have to see anyone who wants to see me?"

The doorman didn't expect that he would be blamed for reporting to the guests, and he didn't get a tip, so his attitude became blunt: "I don't know, sir. I will report what they ask. This is my duty."

Charles waved the doorman away distractedly, but still didn't think about giving him a little tip.This decision will make Charles regret it countless times in the future, but he doesn't know it yet.

Soon, there was a knock on the door outside Charles' room, and someone kept calling his name, asking loudly if he was up, and they wanted to see him——by Guillaume Grandet son.

Being named by someone in this way, still in the best hotel in Paris, Charles had to open the door, and asked the people who blocked the door in dissatisfaction: "Gentlemen, do I know you, why do you want to see me? "

A thin man stepped forward: "Although we don't know you, we are all creditors of your father Guillaume Grandet. As early as five years ago, you promised to pay your father in full , we begged to see you only to remind you to fulfill your promise."

"Why do you have to pay in full?" Charles looked angrily at the man talking to him: "Aren't my father's properties still being liquidated?"

The man was not intimidated by Charles at all: "I am very pleased to inform you, Mr. Charles Grandet, that your father's property has been liquidated five years ago. So we did not ask the court to declare him bankrupt, Just waiting for you to return to Paris and fulfill your promise."

"What promise, why didn't I know that I had made such a promise?" Charles asked, knowing that the amount required to repay the debt in full was as high as 200 million francs, and he was even more annoyed: "I never said such a thing."

"What, aren't you afraid that your father will be declared bankrupt?"

"If you hadn't made such a promise, how could we keep Guillaume Grandet's reputation clean?"

"If you don't pay, then we can only sue your father, Guillaume Grandet."

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The people blocking the door were yelling and calling Guillaume Grandet's name over and over again, so that the hotel guests had to recall the rumor they heard in the restaurant yesterday. The protagonist in it had the same surname Grandet couldn't help pointing at Charles.

Unprecedented embarrassment, Shire had to let the creditors into the room, and he could hear the hotel guests' comments after closing the door. He armed himself with anger, hoping to frighten these creditors who were more angry than him.

The creditors who had already had no hope of repaying the debt were suddenly aroused when they saw Charles' attitude: "Mr. Charles Grandet, you are really not going to pay your dead father back his debt." Debt?" It was the same lean man who asked on behalf of all creditors.

Neither Eugenie nor Annette will ever forgive herself, and Miss Aubrion has broken off her engagement with herself. Charles has decided to leave Paris again and venture to the American continent again, but this time is different from the last time. Otherwise, he would leave Paris with a huge fortune.

From then on, he swore that he would never set foot in France again. To Charles, what these French people thought of him was no longer important, so his answer was very straightforward: "You are right, sir, when you lent The money was given to my father, and it was settled when my father passed away."

The creditors, who did not expect to enter the room and hear such impudent words, threw their fists at Charles, even the most refined.

Shire, who was facing a dozen creditors alone, was not an opponent of so many people even though his body was very strong during the speculative business, so he had to hold his head and let the creditors beat him.

But his mouth was still stubborn, and he did not forget to threaten: "Gentlemen, you are committing a crime, and I will sue you to the police."