[The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lesser Bourgeoisie CHAPTER XII 23/27
The money should be on the table in a case like this." After the interview with Thuillier was over, la Peyrade took Godeschal in the carriage to the rue du Bethizy, where Desroches lived, explaining that it was on their way back to the rue Saint-Dominique d'Enfer.
When they stopped at Desroches's door la Peyrade made an appointment with Godeschal to meet him there the next morning at seven o'clock. La Peyrade's whole future and fortune lay in the outcome of this conference.
It is therefore not astonishing that he disregarded the customs of the bar and went to Desroches's office, to study Sauvaignou and take part in the struggle, in spite of the danger he ran in thus placing himself visibly before the eyes of one of the most dreaded attorneys in Paris. As he entered the office and made his salutations, he took note of Sauvaignou.
The man was, as the name had already told him, from Marseilles,--the foreman of a master-carpenter, entrusted with the giving out of sub-contracts.
The profits of this work consisted of what he could make between the price he paid for the work and that paid to him by the master-carpenter; this agreement being exclusive of material, his contract being only for labor.
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