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`` I wo n't refuse a good offer ; madame makes it a deal better than the apothecaries . What they sell is all drugs . '' `` They put too much sugar , '' said the master ; `` you ca n't taste anything else . '' The following day the family , meeting at eight o'clock for the early breakfast , made a picture of genuine domestic intimacy . Grief had drawn Madame Grandet , Eugenie , and Charles _ en rapport _ ; even Nanon sympathized , without knowing why . The four now made one family . As to the old man , his satisfied avarice and the certainty of soon getting rid of the dandy without having to pay more than his journey to Nantes , made him nearly indifferent to his presence in the house .