Oh, sir, Morrel called a light.
I think the stranger said again that I am your biggest debtor, right?
Your promissory note is short, so you should pay it first
Do you wish to postpone payment?
Postponement will not save my reputation, but also my life.
Then how long do you want to postpone it?
Morrel thought for a month or two, he said
I am willing to give you three months when the stranger replied.
But Morrel asked if Thomson French Bank would agree.
Oh, I’ll take care of everything. Okay, today is June 5 th, right?
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Ok, I’ll change these promissory notes to September 5 th to September 5 th at eleven o’clock, and I’ll pay at eleven o’clock
I’m waiting for you. Morrel replied that I’ll pay you or I’ll die. These last words were so low that the stranger didn’t even hear that the promissory note was torn up after it was re-issued. When the poor shipowner found that he was still three months old, he could ask him to find a way. The British people accepted his gratitude with a calm attitude. Morrel said many words of gratitude to him and personally sent him to the stairs. The stranger met Yuri Eberwein on the stairs. She pretended to want a building, but she was actually waiting for him. Oh, sir, she said with her hands closed.
Miss, the stranger said that one day you will get a letter signed by Sinbad the sailor. No matter how strange it seems, you must do what it tells you.
Yes, sir, Yuri Eberwein answered.
Do you promise to do this?
I swear to you that I will do it.
Good. Goodbye, miss. May you always be as pure and noble as you are now. I believe that God will repay you for giving Emmanuel to be your husband.
Yuri Eberwein gently called out a face as red as a rose and reached for the railing. The stranger waved and went upstairs. He found Peneron in the patio, with a paper bag containing 100 francs in each hand. It seemed that he could not decide whether to take it or not.
Come with me, my friend. The Englishman said, I want to talk to you.
Chapter 3 September 5th
The postponement of the representative of Thomson French Bank was beyond Morrel’s wildest dreams at that time. In the eyes of the poor ship owner, it seemed that his luck had turned around again, which was equal to the fact that fate was announcing to people that he was tired of it. On the day when he vented his resentment, he told his wife and daughter Emmanuel what had happened. That is to say, he could not say that peace had been restored, but there was a glimmer of hope. This generous move of Thomson French Bank was regarded as a gesture of friendship and a private practice. That’s what the bank thought. We forced him to go bankrupt and get 6% of the gold. He returned to 300,000 yuan in three months. Unfortunately, I don’t know whether it was hatred or blindness. Morrel’s dealings with the firm did not all think so. Several families held the opposite idea. Morrel signed the promissory notes and still took them to his office to cash them unceremoniously. Thanks to the British’s delay in raising those promissory notes, Kirkles still had to pay them as calmly as he used to. If Morrel was scared, he thought that he should pay 100,000 yuan to the prison on the 15th. If those 32,500 franc promissory notes due on the 30th had not been extended, he would have gone bankrupt. Most business people were surprised that Morrel was constantly hit by bad luck. When they saw that the end of the month was coming, he was able to cash his promissory notes as usual.
However, people still keep restoring their confidence in him. It is generally said that the unfortunate ship owner’s collapse date can be postponed until the end of next month. In that month, Morrel never heard of trying to return his money. Before that, he went to the promissory note, no matter how long it was, people always accepted it with confidence and asked for money. Now Morrel wants to discount the three-month promissory note, but he found that the bank has closed the door to him. Fortunately, Morrel can pay back some money before he can pay off the debt at the end of July. The representative of Thomson French Bank has never been seen in Marseille again. In Marseille, he met the mayor and the warden, Mr. Morrel, and there was no trace of his appearance except that the three men left a different impression on him. The sailors of the Pharaoh seemed to have found another cause in doubt, and they were gone.
Captain Cammat came back from Palma Island after recovering from his illness. He was afraid to see Morrel, but the owner of the ship heard that he came back and went to see him personally. The honorable ship owner had learned from Penyon that the captain was brave in the storm and wanted to comfort him. He also took his due salary with him. That was because Captain Cammat didn’t dare to say that when Morrel came from the stairs, he met Penyon and went to Penyon. It seemed that he spent a lot of money because he was wearing new clothes. When he saw his employer, the respectable sailor seemed very embarrassed. He shrank to the corner of the stairs and pushed the tobacco in his mouth. His big eyes stared at him. Morrel gently squeezed him back as usual when shaking hands. Morrel Peneron was embarrassed because he wore beautiful new clothes. Obviously, this honest man had never spent so much money on his own. He suspected that he had found a job in another ship. Maybe he was shy because he was no longer mourning on the Pharaon. He might have come to tell Captain Kramer his good luck and come to work for the captain on behalf of his new master. Morrel said as he walked, I hope your new master will love you as much as I do.
The month passed day by day, and Morrel kept trying to borrow money everywhere. On the 20th of the month, Marseilles left. It is said that his company will be declared bankrupt at the end of the month. Morrel left to avoid witnessing this cruel scene, leaving his assistant Emmanuel, the accountant, Kirkles to deal with it. But to everyone’s surprise, on the 31st of the month, the company was still sitting behind the cashier’s fence, so he carefully examined and cashed the promissory notes from the first to the last. After paying off two of them, Morrel will discount the guaranteed tickets, and Kirkles will pay them just like the ship owner will send the promissory notes directly. All this is incredible, but it is said that the disaster is always unwilling to give up, and the date of closure has been set at the end of September. Morrel came back and his family were extremely anxious to wait for him. Because their last hope was pinned on this trip to Paris, Morrel remembered Danglars, who was very rich now and had been like Morrel before. Grace because his huge wealth was accumulated after he entered the Spanish bank, and Morrel introduced him to work there at that time. It is said that Danglars’ current wealth has reached 6 million to 1 million francs, and he is still limited to believe that Danglars will save Morrel. He didn’t need to take a copper coin out of his pocket, but Morrel said a word when he borrowed money. Morrel had long thought about Danglars, but he was disgusted with his law. Morrel only asked for help when he was at the end of his rope. Morrel’s idea was that he refused to go home in humiliation, and Morrel didn’t say a word when he got home.
He hugged his wife and daughter who were sad and crying, shook hands with Emmanuel with friendship and warmth, and then went to his third floor. At the same time, he sent for Kirkles.
It seems that two women told Emmanuel that we were really broke.
They had a hasty discussion, and everyone agreed that Yuri Eberwein would write to his brother stationed in Nimes and tell him to go home quickly. These two poor women could clearly feel that they had to do their best to bear the impending blow. Maximilian Morel was still under 22 years old, but he was very influential with his father. He was a resolute and straightforward young man. When he decided to join the army, his father decided to let him do that job, so he told young Maximilian to consider his own interests before making a decision. He immediately announced that he would like to live as a soldier. He later worked hard. After graduating from the Military Academy with excellent grades, he became a second lieutenant in the 53rd regiment. He has been a second lieutenant for one year and can be promoted as soon as he has the chance. In his regiment, Maximilian Morel is a well-known and most disciplined person. He does not strictly observe a soldier’s duty, but also strictly observes a person’s duty. He won the Stoicism, an idealistic school of philosophy in ancient Greece, which abandoned pleasure and cared little about it. Later, this name often refers to the reputation of hard work and encouragement. It is self-evident that many people call him this nickname only from others.
This young man is the target of his mother and his sister’s help. They think that a serious situation is coming. Call him back to help them. They are not wrong in estimating the seriousness of this matter. After Morrel Kirkles entered the office together, Yuri Eberwein saw that he was pale, trembling and frightened later. When he passed by her, she came to ask him. But the honest man, uncharacteristically, rushed to the floor and raised his hand to exclaim, Oh, miss, what a terrible disaster. Who can believe it? After a while, Yuri Eberwein saw him coming downstairs with two or three thick account books, a notebook and a bag of money.
Morrel looked at the account books, turned over his notes and counted the money. His cash was about 7,000 francs. His accounts payable were about 4,000 to 5,000 on the 5th, which added up to no more than 14,000 francs, while those promissory notes he had to pay were more than 207,500 francs. He was so kind to his creditors, but when Morrel went to lunch in the building, he looked very calm. This calm attitude was even more frightening than the biggest depression. After lunch, Morrel usually went to the Buddhist club for coffee and read the signal as usual, but on this day he didn’t leave home,
In Kirkland, he seemed completely confused. That afternoon, he went to the patio and sat bareheaded on a stone in the hot sunshine. Emmanuel tried to comfort one or two women, but he didn’t know what to say. The young man knew the company very well, and he would never know that a great disaster had enveloped Morrel’s house. Night came, and two women couldn’t sleep in the room, hoping that Morrel would come to them after leaving the office, but they deliberately stepped lightly when they heard him pass by their door.
They heard him go into his bedroom and shut the door inside. Mrs. Morrel told her daughter to go to bed. After Yuri Eberwein left, she waited for another half an hour. Then she got up, took off her shoes and sneaked along the corridor to see what her husband was doing through the keyhole. In the corridor, she met a shadow of retreat. It was Yuri Eberwein, and she was also uneasy. She came one step ahead of her mother. The young girl came to Mrs. Morrel and he was writing something. She said that they all knew each other’s thoughts without talking, Morrel. People look through the keyhole again, and Morrel is writing something, but Mrs. Morrel noticed one thing that her daughter didn’t notice, that is, her husband was writing on a printed paper, and a horrible thought flashed through her mind. When he was writing his will, she couldn’t help shivering all over, but she didn’t have the strength to say a word. The next day, Mr. Morrel seemed to come into his office as usual and come to breakfast on time, but after lunch, he pulled his daughter to his side and hugged her head against his chest. In the evening for a long time, Yuri Eberwein told her mother that although he was so calm in appearance, she noticed that her father’s heart was beating violently, and two days passed in this way. On the evening of September 4, Morrel asked his daughter for his office key.
Julie shivered as soon as she heard this request. She thought it was a bad omen. This key was always kept by her, but it was only a punishment. Now why does her father want this key back? The young girl looked at Morrel. What did I do wrong? Father, she said that you want to get this key back from me.
Nothing, my baby, replied the unfortunate man. Tears filled his eyes as soon as he heard this simple question. Nothing is what I want.
Yuri Eberwein pretended to be touching the key, and I must have left it in my room, she said, so she went away, but she didn’t go back to her bedroom, but she went to Emmanuel to discuss whether to give this key to your father. He said that if possible, she wouldn’t leave him for a moment in the morning. She asked Emmanuel what was going on, but he didn’t know anything. Maybe she wouldn’t say anything. On the night of September 4-5, Mrs. Morell listened to every sound. She heard her husband pacing up and down the room anxiously until three o’clock in the morning. It was not until three o’clock that I went to bed. That night, the mother and daughter stayed together. They were also looking forward to Maximilian. He should have arrived at one o’clock in the morning in the evening. Morrel walked into their room. He was calm, but his pale and sad face was obviously anxious that night. They were afraid to ask him if he slept well. Morrel had never been so gentle to his wife and full of fatherly love for his daughter in his life. He kept staring at the beautiful girl and kissing her. Yuri Eberwein did not forget Emmanuel’s words when her father left the room. Hou went with him, but he hurriedly told her to stay with your mother. Julie wanted to stay with him. I want you to do this. He insisted that this was the first time in Morrel’s life that he told his daughter that I wanted you to do this. But when he said this, his tone was still full of his father’s kindness. Yuri Eberwein dared not disobey her. She was speechless in the old place and didn’t move for a moment. She felt her arms around her two lips and kissed her forehead. She looked up and shouted, "Brother Maximilian".
Hearing these words, Madame Morrel got up and threw herself into her son’s arms.
Mom, cried the young man. He looked at Madame Morrel and his sister. What’s the matter? Your letter startled me. I came back as soon as possible.