Parisians in the Country

d not stir as the two ladies entered with Gaudissart. His thoughts were running on the casks of wine. He was a sp

the strongly marked jawbone, the hollow cheeks, and the oblong tendency of all these lines, together with his unnaturally long and flat chi

bout! Here is a gentleman whom my husband sends to you, and you must liste

oked at Gaudissart, made him a sign to sit

versation, and interpose if it became necessary. They were hardly installed before Monsieur Ver

ess been in business

s, interrupting him. "I pacificated C

gone to Calabria!" whi

dissart, "we shall quick

triking the attitude taken by a man

aying before you the material advantages of this enterprise, whose psychological aspects it would be a waste of time to explain to you. Listen! Of all kinds of social wealth, is not time the most precious? To economize time is, consequently, to become wealthy. Now, is there anything that consumes so much t

hat's right,"

omizing time, but of giving it a price, a quotation; of representing in a pecuniary sense those products developed by time which presumably you possess in the region of your intellect; of representing also the moral qualities with which you are endowed, and which are, Monsieur, living forces,-as living as a cataract, as a steam-engine of three, ten, twenty, fifty horse-power. Ha! this is progress! the movement onward to a better state of things; a movement bor

nter," said

u are a painter; you have a glorious future, a

Gaudissart, thinking he meant to go away; but

ssart, going on with his phrases, "but you a

elf," said

, then, you-painter, artist, man of letters, statesman of the future-you reckon upon your t

e a hundred th

them in the long run through your works of art, your writings, or your fortunate speculations during your lifetime. But, as I have already had the honor

and," said

mpany which recognizes in you a value of

nter," said

ur family, your heirs, if, by reason of your death, the hopes foundered on your intellectual capital s

d the lunatic, sharp

I see that Monsieur u

d the Territorial Bank in the Rue des

nizes and esteems in himself, it is of course necessary that each should pay a certain premium, three per cent; an annual due of thre

ve," said

e we, after all? Book-keepers in the great Bureau of Intellect. Monsieur, I don't apply these remarks to you, but I meet on all sides men who make it a business to teach new ideas and disclose chains of rea

sked the

s the qualities which are estimated in your policy

atte

the anxieties you were dragging about with you in the shape of wife and children who might otherwise be left destitute at your death. If you attain

a fine

e against poverty; or, if you like it better, the discounting, the cashing, of talent. For talent, Monsieur, is a bi

ury!" cried

thought Gaudissart, "I must catch him with other chaff. I'l

glass of wine?"

re," replied

ns. You are here at the very head of Vouvray," he continue

the vintage of 1819. The good-man filled a glass with cir

laimed the commercial traveller. "S

r vintage has not been good enough for the Dutch and Belgian markets, to mix it with wines grown in the neighborhood of Paris, and call it Bordeaux. But what you are drinking just now, my good Monsieur, is a wine for kings, the pure Head of Vouvray,-that's it's name. I have two puncheons, o

at we were saying," i

st, intellectual capital, capital wine,-all the same etymology, don't you see? h

ntellectual capital through your

"Would you like to buy my puncheons

issart, "of the results of insurance and the employmen

down, and fell once

u die the capital will be paid to

t discu

s there wer

s quib

that suicide is one of those

" said the

short discussion on this point, I will say, once for all, that deat

at all!" cried Margaritis. "My bank

an. "Nothing at all? What do you call sickness, and afflictions

points," sai

ht to master it, and will master it some day with a brush, a chisel, with words, ideas, theories, systems. Civilization is atrocious! It denies bread to the men who give it luxury. It starves them on sneers and curses, the beggarly rascal! My words may be strong, but I shall not retract them. Well, this great but neglected man comes to us;

or that," interp

use he can give security. Well, Monsieur, is not that a great gulf to bridge over in our social system? But that is only one aspect of our work. We insure debtors by another scheme of policies and premiums. We offer annuities at rates graduated according to ages, on a sliding-scale infinitely more advantageous than what are called tontines, which

rned it. You must line your inside with velvet if you are going to pump at it like

of it all?" said Gaudiss

but I like the discounts I get at my Terr

lend upon landed property and redeem it on a large scale. But that is a narrow idea compared to our system of consolidating hopes,-consolidating hopes! coagulating, so

th his glass at his lips. "I like progres

tch the whole sentence. "The 'Times' is a bad n

ourse! Wife! wife! where is the newspape

said Gaudissart, changing his attack,

thing about that, tell me w

icio

r himself and filled Gaudissart's glass. "Well, Monsieur, I have two pu

all the commodities I-But allow me to tell you about their noble newspaper. You, who have understood

id Margar

rfectly. Your wine is very good, Mons

there is a man from Paris who co

Monsieur. The 'Globe,' o

e over it," sa

e head of every great man. Genius will make itself known; but sometimes it happens that great men, in spite of their gifts, remain obscure. Such was very nearly the case with Saint-

d the fool, fall

was sent to proclaim the equality of man in the sight of God. But what is the fact? Equality up to our day has been an 'ignus fatuus,' a chimera. Saint-Si

ated?" asked

dual progress, a social co-ordination in which each man shall receive the full worth of his individual labor, in which no man shall be

vants?" demand

vants if they have no

the good of y

gher point of view: you must take a general survey of humanity. Here

said the fool, who th

stirred, roused you, then, my dear sir, the 'Globe' newspaper,-noble name which proclaims its mission,-the 'Globe' is an organ, a guide, who will

y drink

ghest style; I may say, in prophetic style. Superb

orkmen who pull things down want win

ore, Monsieur, when they pull down with one hand and bu

, two puncheons, three hundred bottle

dn't be a bad thing: they give more for worse wines-(Good! I've got him!" thought Gaudissart, "he wants to sell me wine which I want; I'll master him)-W

said the madman; "I a

ughly comprehend the insura

roug

easured the full impo

e; on

to himself and not to t

rent qualities which need development, or for the protection of their families against a precarious future. Now, if you will subscribe to the 'Globe,' and give me your personal assistance in this district

d on th

e its interests

dvan

nd

nd

subscribe, don't y

thing, for life,"

, clear type, well set up; what I call 'good nap.' None of your botched stuff, cotton and wool, trumpery; flimsy rubbish that rips if you look a

me," said

s a trifle,-e

uit me," said

ave got grandchildren? There's the 'Children's

hildren. That suits me very well: a fine idea! intellec

, Monsieur," s

e hi

to push me in

e dist

your app

hav

r, I take your wine

hundred

pany, but a hundred to me. I enable you

twenty,"-"cent vingt" ("

al pun

ons. About

etter! why, y

the fool. "Come out

to row and hillock to hillock among the vines. The three ladies and Monsieur Vernier, left to themselves, went off into fits of laught

n hadn't carried hi

h the eager step of men who were in ha

r of the Parisian, da

d wrote an order for the delivery of the two casks of wine. Margaritis, having carefully read it over, c

all have the honor to call for you to-morrow. Meantime, send the wine at once to

procal. He therefore required his promised supporter to sign a bond (which the lunatic carefully

issart departed in high feather

ng of t

d his mo