But you ought to be reasonable.

The poor fellow can't pay off the last fifteen thousand francs due on his practice, and you should reflect that fifteen thousand francs would certainly buy back your notes." "Well; give me two weeks to get your lease--" "No, not a day later than Monday next! Tuesday your notes will be in Louchard's hands; unless you pay them Monday, or Thuillier signs the lease." "Well, Monday, so be it!" said Theodose; "are we friends ?" "We shall be Monday," responded Cerizet.
"Well, then, Monday you'll pay for my dinner," said Theodose, laughing.
"Yes, at the Rocher de Cancale, if I have the lease.

Dutocq shall be there--we'll all be there--ah! it is long since I've had a good laugh." Theodose and Cerizet shook hands, saying, reciprocally:-- "We'll meet soon." Cerizet had not calmed down so suddenly without reasons.

In the first place, as Desroches once said, "Bile does not facilitate business," and the usurer had too well seen the justice of that remark not to coolly resolve to get something out of his position, and to squeeze the jugular vein of the crafty Provencal until he strangled him.
"It is a fair revenge," Desroches said to him; "mind you extract its quintessence.

You hold that fellow." For ten years past Cerizet had seen men growing rich by practising the trade of principal tenant.