Jules Verne

Name: Cæsar Cascabel — Part 1, Chapter I
Author: Jules Verne

Cæsar Cascabel — Part 1, Chapter I (1890)

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“Cæsar Cascabel — Part 1, Chapter I”, published in 1890, is a work by Jules Verne. It explores elements such as Cascabel, Clovy and Sacramento.

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Jules Verne, Cæsar Cascabel — Part 1, Chapter I (1890)

“ Cascabel came in.
“Mr. Morlan,” said the latter, “your humble servant. I'd like to buy a safe.”
William J. Morlan knew Cæser Cascabel: was there a man in Sacramento who did not? Had he not been, for three weeks past, the delight of the population? So, the worthy manufacturer made answer:
“A safe, Mr. Cascabel?—Pray accept all my congratulations—”
“What for?”
“Because buying a safe is a sure sign that a man has a few sackfuls of dollars to make safe in it.” ”

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Jules Verne, Cæsar Cascabel — Part 1, Chapter I (1890)

“ I don't want any of your fortune, if fortune means doing nothing! Do you think you have a right to lay those talents idly by, that nature has so freely lavished on you? Do you imagine I could live with folded arms and run the risk of letting my joints grow stiff? Do you see John giving up his work as an equilibrist, Napoleona ceasing to dance on the tight rope with or without a pole, Sander standing no more on top of the human pyramid, and Clovy himself no longer receiving his half-dozen dozen slaps on his cheeks per minute, to the great gratification of the public? No, Cornelia! ”

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Jules Verne, Cæsar Cascabel — Part 1, Chapter I (1890)

“ Cascabel. And all I'll ask you for this one is six and a half.”
“Six and a half dollars?” rejoined Cascabel. “I don't care for that ‘six and a half.’ Come, Mr. Morlan, we must knock the corners off that sum! Is it a bargain at five dollars straight?”
“I don't mind, because it is you, Mr. Cascabel.”
The purchase was made, the money was paid down, and W. J. Morlan offered to the showman to have his safe brought home for him, so as not to trouble him with such a burden.
“Come, come, Mr. Morlan! A man like your humble servant who juggles with forty-pounders!” ”

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Jules Verne, Cæsar Cascabel — Part 1, Chapter I (1890)

“ During the time it would take a thief to guess them, you might hang him a million times at your ease!”
“A million times, Mr. Morlan? That's wonderful indeed! And what about the price? You'll understand, a safe is too dear when it costs more than a man has to put in it!” ”

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Jules Verne, Cæsar Cascabel — Part 1, Chapter I (1890)

“ But, Sacramento is in California, and California is in America, and America is not in Europe. Now, home is home, and Europe is France; and it is not a day too soon, that France should see us once more ‘within its walls,’ after a prolonged absence of many a year. Have we made a fortune? Properly speaking, we have not. Still, we have in hands a certain quantity of dollars that will look uncommonly well in our safe, when we have changed them into French gold or silver. ”

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Jules Verne, Cæsar Cascabel — Part 1, Chapter I (1890)

“ Cascabel.
And they were indeed “all square,” to use the words of the honest showman. The total in hands amounted to nearly two thousand dollars, say ten thousand francs. Ten thousand francs! Is not such a sum a fortune, when it has been earned out of the public through one's own talents only?
Cornelia put her arms around her husband's neck; the children embraced him in their turn.
“Now,” said Mr. Cascabel, “the question is to buy a chest, a beautiful chest with secret contrivances, to lock up our fortune in it.” ”

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Jules Verne, Cæsar Cascabel — Part 1, Chapter I (1890)

“ No, sir, what I want is a really strong little chest that I can carry under my arm and hide away down in my wagon when I am on the road.”
“I have just the thing, Mr. Cascabel.”
And the manufacturer exhibited a small coffer supplied with a safety lock. It was not over twenty pounds in weight, and had compartments inside, after the manner of the cash or deed boxes used in banking-houses.
“This, moreover, is fireproof,” added he, “and I warrant it as such on the receipt I give you.”
“Very good!—can't be better!” answered Mr. Cascabel. ”

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Jules Verne, Cæsar Cascabel — Part 1, Chapter I (1890)

“ On all sides bustled busy looking men, merchants, ship-owners, manufacturers, some awaiting the arrival of vessels that sailed up and down the river whose waters flow to the Pacific, others besieging Folsom depot, from which numerous trains steamed away to the interior of the Confederacy. ”

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