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cried the old man . `` Go to bed . To-morrow our happy life will begin . '' Next day , Goriot and Rastignac were ready to leave the lodging-house , and only awaited the good pleasure of a porter to move out of it ; but towards noon there was a sound of wheels in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve , and a carriage stopped before the door of the Maison Vauquer . Mme. de Nucingen alighted , and asked if her father was still in the house , and , receiving an affirmative reply from Sylvie , ran lightly upstairs . It so happened that Eugene was at home all unknown to his neighbor . At breakfast time he had asked Goriot to superintend the removal of his goods , saying that he would meet him in the Rue d'Artois at four o'clock ; but Rastignac 's name had been called early on the list at the Ecole de Droit , and he had gone back at once to the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve .