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1002 IX | herself.~ ~"Now, in the hovel beyond Zembin, where I was
1003 I | changing their aspect and hue at every phrase. Eager~criticism
1004 IX | longer saw~the house, but a huge bonfire. The farmhouse had
1005 VI | pass, she waits with~proud humility till some one makes way.
1006 II | us while we remain in the humor peculiar to the well-filled~
1007 V | the sparkling glitter of a hunted viper's eye when driven
1008 V | if they may not even be hunting a fortune?~Henceforth the
1009 III | I believe her capable of hurrying here and~compromising herself.
1010 III | women looked down, as if hurt by this brutal~truth so
1011 III | exterior /I/ is but the~husk; that this self, as brilliant
1012 VI | woman to be seen in the hyperborean regions of the Rue Saint-Denis,~
1013 VIII| splashing~water in her bath! Hypocritical and generous; loving tawdriness
1014 II | myself to that rapturous idolatry which is at once the triumph
1015 II | II~ ~Mademoiselle des Touches
1016 III | III~"Her stalking-horse was
1017 VIII| but in cases where the illegality of your feelings~might be
1018 VIII| phenomenon of will,~conquering an illness by a battle, and yet doomed
1019 IV | grimaces which were quite illusory.~ ~"At the very moment when
1020 VII | the airs by which Blondet~illustrated his satire.~ ~"This explanation,
1021 I | confidence in which the illustrious de Marsay opened up~one
1022 V | banker's bastard, he stares impertinently at the prettiest duchess,~
1023 II | my old friends know how impetuous and fervid I was then.~I
1024 I | renounced his pretensions to importance. Perfect equality set the~
1025 VIII| practice of manoeuvring,~the important small things, the musical
1026 IX | Vandenesse,~"always leave a deep impression."~ ~"But a sweet one," said
1027 V | guess, she made~the most impressive pause I ever heard.--'Good
1028 VII | she simply drops her hand~impressively, letting it fall over the
1029 I | which make~this enchanting improvisation impossible to record; still,
1030 VIII| good~father. In short, he improvised public works, empires, kings,
1031 VI | grenadier, the face of an~impudent courtesan, her hair too
1032 IX | seized by I know not what impulse of terror; we no longer
1033 V | acquired over the~thoughtless impulses which make us commit so
1034 IX | rose to~his lips; he roared inarticulately like a lion. Incapable of
1035 VIII| at least eight~or nine inches above the standard, and
1036 I | anecdotes, of historical incidents,~meander with ease. Paris,
1037 V | her marriage as an act of~inconstancy. Men will never distinguish
1038 VII | ease in full dress; nothing~inconveniences her. You will never see
1039 IX | Nordier's Oudet, threw an incredible fulness of~tone into the
1040 IX | about to die. She had become incredibly thin, but her~face had preserved
1041 IV | church I have become very incredulous. On the day of~my first
1042 VII | slave at home; she is never independent~but in perfect privacy,
1043 V | and velvet did not make indestructible laws.~Napoleon never guessed
1044 VI | Panoramas, where the products of India~flourish, where the warmest
1045 IV | with a little~prudish and indignant mein.--'Marry him, you have
1046 V | ladies' of~to-day--the indirect offspring of his legislation."~ ~"
1047 I | together several persons, whose~indisputable merits have won them European
1048 IV | proves the necessity for~indissoluble marriage than the instability
1049 VII | let us not be~selfish! Individualism is the disease of the age,
1050 IX | seemed so phlegmatic and~indolent.~ ~"As you may suppose the
1051 III | a horrible code--that of Indulgence. In taking~vengeance on
1052 IV | wild beasts as they are, by inevitable law,~deaf and mute. Eliminate
1053 VIII| you may call Providence--inevitably overwhelming~such as we
1054 VI | gown is made of a neat and~inexpensive material, but made in a
1055 IV | know that your conduct is infamous?'--'In what respect? I consider~
1056 III | continuing his story, "with infernal ingenuity--for,~as we had
1057 IV | Eliminate revenge, and infidelity in love is nothing.~Those
1058 IX | over women the~irresistible influences to which our nature yields"--
1059 IX | two words. Brave and well informed, he seemed to~know nothing
1060 II | admired de Marsay without~infusing into his admiration that
1061 II | old gloves; I drank an~infusion of the flowers /she/ had
1062 I | were not the~most famous. Ingenious repartee, acute remarks,
1063 III | his story, "with infernal ingenuity--for,~as we had loved each
1064 II | rushed to my heart when I~inhaled the perfume she used. I
1065 VII | value of thought by her inimitable bearing."~ ~"To be such
1066 VI | itself to~die--emigrating inland before the march of ideas,
1067 III | looking at me with a face of innocence so~perfect that it must
1068 VII | have had no opportunity of inquiring, towards the end of the~
1069 III | felt how common I was, I~insensibly formulated a horrible code--
1070 VI | guided opinion and turned it inside out~like a glove, could
1071 VII | natural or affected of her~insinuating voice; her empty words will
1072 VI | where the middle class insist on seeing~princesses, these
1073 II | Mademoiselle des Touches always insists on her guests remaining
1074 VI | disdainful, makes the most insolent~dandy step aside for her.~ ~"
1075 IV | indissoluble marriage than the instability of passion. The two sexes~
1076 VI | history.~/Organize/, for instance, is the word of the Empire,
1077 VIII| really great in everything by instinct or by~temperament; Caesar
1078 VIII| medley~of men of all nations, instinctively making their way from north
1079 VII | perfect lady' represents the~intellectual no less than the political
1080 III | two seconds longer, every intelligent spectator~feels that he
1081 VIII| moment the cold was less~intense; my fellow-officers were
1082 IV | there are no daisies. At the intensest moment of tenderness,~and
1083 VI | a certain effort in the intentional droop of the eyelid. There
1084 II | the horses' pace being intentionally reduced to a walk,~and read
1085 I | intimate friends, proved by intercourse of fifteen~years, and some
1086 I | for a clever sally or an interesting~subject.~ ~The memory of
1087 III | assumed~that we have an internal self of which the exterior /
1088 II | the Baronne de Nucingen interposed, "I~request that it may
1089 II | request that it may not be interrupted by any reflections."~ ~"
1090 III | genuine," said de Marsay,~interrupting himself, "it is the visible
1091 II | wine, during the delightful~interval when every one may sit with
1092 IV | your fidelity. Between two intoxications I looked calmly about~me.'--'
1093 IX | held by Napoleon before~the invasion of Russia.~ ~"Everything
1094 I | is one of those English inventions which tend to /mechanize/~
1095 I | composed of the persons~invited, a fashionable and much-bored
1096 IX | the fire, he said,~'/Son'io/.'~ ~"We all walked on without
1097 VIII| as happened often. His irascibility was so far beyond belief
1098 VI | back, rubbed shoe-leather, ironed~bonnet-strings, an over-full
1099 VII | persuaded that she is giving irony or grace to what she says
1100 III | other, some terrible and irreparable revenges~were possible--
1101 IX | he exerted over women the~irresistible influences to which our
1102 IV | short~duration that we are irresistibly urged to ask, 'Do you love
1103 VII | especially is where you feel~how isolated women are nowadays, and
1104 V | No, only a rational issue.'--'Good-bye,~Monsieur de
1105 VI | Marsay. "The 'perfect lady,' issuing~from the ranks of the nobility,
1106 VIII| the extreme fairness of~Italians when they are fair. It is
1107 IV | IV~"This, of course, applies
1108 VII | heavy finger, has opened the ivory gates~of the temple of dreams.~ ~"
1109 IX | IX~"He spoke with a strong
1110 VI | other in~a revolutionary jargon, through long columns of
1111 Add | Daughter of Eve~ ~Espard, Jeanne-Clementine-Athenais de Blamont-Chauvry, Marquise
1112 VII | an 'Ah!' a~'What then!' A jerk of her head will be her
1113 IX | When the English are in jest, their foils have the buttons
1114 II | dead, depicted the innocent~jesuistry of women, painting it with
1115 VII | crushed. Thus she is apt at Jesuitical /mezzo termine/, she is
1116 IX | was quietly approaching to join our caravan; we gazed at
1117 VI | footwalks.~ ~"Our Unknown jostles no one. If she wants to
1118 II | had for a~long time been a journalist, and who admired de Marsay
1119 V | of school and by~obscure journalists, which demolished the splendors
1120 IV | I ought indeed to go a~journey to part us more effectually.
1121 II | the triumph and the~frail joy of the young. I treasured /
1122 VIII| have the opportunity of~judging of it. No one could be calm
1123 V | Valois ever effected a more judicious retreat at the first~attempt.
1124 IX | rising.~ ~ ~ ~ ~PARIS, June 1839-42.~ ~ ~
1125 VI | Saint-Denis,~never in the Kamtschatka of miry, narrow, commercial
1126 II | Marsay. "You are all far too keen-sighted for me to say any more on~
1127 IV | a monopoly of capillary keepsakes, and I mention his~address
1128 VII | its sharps to sign the key. A mere weak~women, she
1129 III | that~which made the Moor kill Desdemona. As she lived
1130 II | when his benefactor was killed at ten o'clock--or~say Pitt,
1131 III | Desdemona's forgiveness. Thus, killing the~woman is the act of
1132 VII | respected as to protect all kinds of merchandise on board.~
1133 VIII| improvised public works, empires, kings, codes,~verses, a romance--
1134 IV | is too late now,' said I, kissing her hands, and~putting on
1135 IV | cried she, falling at~my knees, 'there is some horrible
1136 VI | company used to meet."~ ~"The knell of the highest society is
1137 II | mother-of-pearl dessert knife. "To~wit: the power of always
1138 VIII| was in a rage his brow~was knit and the muscles of the middle
1139 IX | her features and~the tight knitting of her brows a sort of presentiment;
1140 IX | all.~ ~"Having reached a knoll where we could still see
1141 II | used. I was miles away from knowing that woman~is a stove with
1142 V | France about organizing labor, and you have not yet organized~
1143 VI | black silk cape, stirs its lace frill,~sheds an airy balm,
1144 VIII| my grocer buried in Pere Lachaise, a good husband and a good~
1145 VIII| sublime~sufferings, which lack the publicity--the glory,
1146 VIII| that historians will be lacking. The age of Louis XIV. had
1147 IX | phenomenon--the Colonel was not a~lady-killer, or was indifferent to such
1148 VI | Nowadays princes have lady-like wives, obliged to share
1149 VI | princesses, these are really only ladylike young women. In these days~
1150 IX | room, softly lighted by a lamp, looked like every sickroom
1151 VI | retreating~to the recesses of its landed estates, where it has hidden
1152 IX | color contrasted with this languidly elegant complexion, and
1153 VII | ever~given to a sculptor by lassitude.~ ~"Only the perfect lady
1154 VII | by the showy and not very lasting products of an industry~
1155 VI | species affects the hottest latitudes, the cleanest~ ~Longitudes
1156 V | Marechal de Richelieu, or Lauzun,~or Louis de Valois ever
1157 I | so no one can afford the lavish~extravagance of going home
1158 IV | they are, by inevitable law,~deaf and mute. Eliminate
1159 I | Revolution began again, lawfully. Everybody is on~the march
1160 II | the happy effects of that laxness of mood, that benevolence
1161 V | frightened doe, trembling~like a leaf, gave me one of those looks
1162 III | feverish? And, then, if she~learns that I am ill, I believe
1163 V | de Talleyrand.--This~duke leaves four children, two of them
1164 IX | on together, like geese led in~flocks by a child's wilful
1165 IX | struck our captain's right leg and~broke it, throwing him
1166 V | indirect offspring of his legislation."~ ~"It was logic, handled
1167 VII | can there watch at your leisure the studied~deliberateness
1168 I | I~Dedication~To Leon Gozlan as a Token of Literary
1169 III | uneasiness I had felt in the fear lest she should have disposed
1170 VII | drops her hand~impressively, letting it fall over the arm of
1171 V | Civil Code has swept its leveling influence over their~heads.
1172 I | breeding,~and, above all, a liberal flow of ideas. No one there
1173 VIII| like the young and foolish lieutenant of artillery that~I was.
1174 I | of the old spirit of our~light-hearted people. Only, unfortunately,
1175 IX | absolute. The~room, softly lighted by a lamp, looked like every
1176 VII | marvelous mistress. What she likes in you is a man to swell
1177 VIII| powerful, active, and clean-~limbed as a greyhound. His black
1178 IX | roared inarticulately like a lion. Incapable of uttering~a
1179 IX | sounds resembling the roar of lions~in the desert, the bellowing
1180 IX | involuntary~distrust. His under lip, which was thin and very
1181 I | the hideous skeleton of literature at bay never~stalks there,
1182 III | Moor kill Desdemona. As she lived alone in the house,~the
1183 VI | or else a servant out of livery follows her at a distance
1184 VIII| of disease in~bed after living in the midst of ball and
1185 I | little woman with such a load of~diamonds?" Or, after
1186 V | genius gleams under curling locks, and strut in a pair of~
1187 VII | by modern doctrines, at loggerheads together."~ ~The women could
1188 V | legislation."~ ~"It was logic, handled as a hammer by
1189 VI | latitudes, the cleanest~ ~Longitudes of Paris; you will meet
1190 I | groups thin~out, the mere lookers on go away, and the waxlights
1191 IV | once found, you perceive, a loophole for escape. In scenes~like
1192 VI | fastened, strings showing loops of rusty-white~tape through
1193 II | almost always attent, is~loquacious or silent, as characters
1194 VIII| collection of~men it has been my lot to meet. He was an Italian.
1195 VII | ladies of old flaunted their love-affairs, with newspapers~and advertisements;
1196 II | ironical bow.~ ~"If this is a love-story," the Baronne de Nucingen
1197 VIII| looking at~Lord Dudley's lovely daughter.~ ~"During the
1198 II | towards the true idol. If two lovers will~only play that game,
1199 VIII| Hypocritical and generous; loving tawdriness and~simplicity;
1200 VIII| seen the wooden houses of Lower Normandy, or~the poorest
1201 V | emotion, 'Well, Henri, you are~loyal, noble, and a charming man;
1202 V | and you are beneath all loyalty. There is no honesty in
1203 V | Granting that he has~great luck in marrying them all well,
1204 Add | Country Parson~In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:~
1205 VI | displayed, to~the Cape of the Madeleine; in the least muddy districts
1206 IX | genius being mistaken for a madman, and of which the explanation
1207 VI | dignity, like Raphael's Madonnas in their frames.~Her aspect,
1208 VII | position as to produce the magical effect~of the 'lost profile,'
1209 VIII| more terrifying than the magnetic flashes of his blue~eyes.
1210 VII | is no longer a wife, a maid, or a~townswoman; she is
1211 II | phenomenon is seen in a young man--~Richelieu, who, when warned
1212 IX | of impatience by~which he manifested the regret he felt at having
1213 VIII| women, and next morning~manipulating Europe as a young girl might
1214 V | in his collar, cover his manly bosom with~half an ell of
1215 II | disdained swain,--all these old manoeuvres are not to compare on~either
1216 VIII| trifles, the practice of manoeuvring,~the important small things,
1217 V | own rooms in the family mansion, nor her fortune, nor her
1218 VI | columns of type printed in old~mansions where a press groans in
1219 VI | herself in her~shawl or mantilla; she knows how to draw it
1220 IX | clothed in rags, exhausted by marches, her hair in~disorder, and
1221 V | do not believe that the Marechal de Richelieu, or Lauzun,~
1222 VI | the west by~the Avenue de Marigny, to the south by the road,
1223 IV | the hair. My wife herself marked~those handkerchiefs. You
1224 IV | there has~been a rage for marking linen with hair; happily
1225 III | feverish stiffness which marks the~beginning of a cold,
1226 V | Duchesses are~vanishing, and marquises too! As to the baronesses--
1227 V | that he has~great luck in marrying them all well, each of these
1228 VIII| without food, out of the marshes of Zembin, and was~wandering
1229 VII | shades of which the lady is a~marvelous mistress. What she likes
1230 VI | lands before that of the masses. The women who could have
1231 II | the power of always being master of himself; of profiting
1232 VIII| done? Is not Taglioni a match for Camargo? or Malibran
1233 IV | was as atheistical as a mathematician.~ ~"Two months later I was
1234 V | we are~born to suffer. In matters of passion we are always
1235 Add | Mystery~ A Daughter of Eve~ ~Maufrigneuse, Duchesse de~ The Secrets
1236 VIII| frankly addressed to Camille Maupin. "This~epigram is not mine,
1237 IX | having~finished his meagre meal, wiped his moustache, bid
1238 I | of historical incidents,~meander with ease. Paris, the capital
1239 VII | religion at this moment means you and~me; it is property,
1240 VI | does not explain what is meant by a lady!" the young~Pole
1241 | meanwhile
1242 I | inventions which tend to /mechanize/~other nations. England
1243 VIII| military obedience. It was a medley~of men of all nations, instinctively
1244 IV | little~prudish and indignant mein.--'Marry him, you have my
1245 Add | Grandet~ Cesar Birotteau~ Melmoth Reconciled~ Lost Illusions~
1246 IV | capillary keepsakes, and I mention his~address for the benefit
1247 VII | to protect all kinds of merchandise on board.~The whole aristocracy
1248 II | solid politician, or had merely been moulded in~the fire
1249 I | persons, whose~indisputable merits have won them European reputations.
1250 VIII| must be said, your faults, mesdames, are all the more poetical,~
1251 III | house, I caught sight of a messenger; I charged him to~have the
1252 IX | a beautiful Sicilian of Messina, who was not indifferent
1253 I | gold pieces against base metal.~ ~Here, again, secrets
1254 VII | she is apt at Jesuitical /mezzo termine/, she is a~creature
1255 II | Concini's peril,~slept till midday, when his benefactor was
1256 VII | her gazing fixedly at a middle-aged man wearing a~decoration,
1257 VIII| bronze; mirthful and kind at midnight amid women, and next morning~
1258 VIII| bed after living in the midst of ball and bullets; a man
1259 II | perfume she used. I was miles away from knowing that woman~
1260 VIII| discipline, and had forgotten military obedience. It was a medley~
1261 IV | sidelong attitudes,~and mincing grimaces which were quite
1262 II | We each devoted all our minds to concealing a love so
1263 IX | to no known cry. And yet, mingling with this horrible and~ominous
1264 VII | crotchets and quavers and~minims, its rests, its pauses,
1265 IX | wife for a few of the last minutes vouchsafed to him; but it
1266 VII | whiteness, or~glancing in the mirrors to see if her head-dress
1267 VI | never in the Kamtschatka of miry, narrow, commercial streets,
1268 IX | questions, and we related our misadventures, mingled with~reflections
1269 IX | and figure, charms which misery, cold, and neglect had not~
1270 II | deceive the curious and mislead the observant we had adopted
1271 | miss
1272 IV | there is some horrible mistake; I love no one in the world~
1273 IX | campaign, the generals, their mistakes, the~Russians, and the cold.
1274 IX | the dying woman might have misunderstood it.~A busy statesman, always
1275 Add | Beatrix~ ~Laginski, Comte Adam Mitgislas~ The Imaginary Mistress~
1276 VIII| I ever saw among all the mixed collection of~men it has
1277 VI | drapery recalling the antique Mnemosyne.~ ~"Oh! how thoroughly she
1278 VII | anything but the most charming model ever~given to a sculptor
1279 VII | rosy, the forehead squarely modeled, the~eye has its spangle
1280 V | to suffer~from it.'--This modest epigram increased her rage;
1281 V | their~dignity, all their modesty, their refinement, and even
1282 VII | shining,~and--I ask your modesty--those moments are rare?"~ ~
1283 VI | golden ages of~the French Monarchy. The great lady's fan is
1284 VII | her daughter; she carries money in her~bag, and has open-work
1285 I | dolphin in the fable, carry a monkey on~your shoulders; here
1286 IV | Rue Boucher.~The man had a monopoly of capillary keepsakes,
1287 VI | were a Montmorency--if a Montmorency would ever be~such a creature--
1288 VI | days, even if she were a Montmorency--if a Montmorency would ever
1289 II | effects of that laxness of mood, that benevolence which~
1290 VIII| most concentrated, the most mordant, the most acid of all~forces;
1291 VI | five o'clock fold up~like morning-glory flowers. The women you will
1292 II | playing with his gold and mother-of-pearl dessert knife. "To~wit:
1293 V | heart, they were cast in a mould then and~there, once for
1294 VI | she puts her foot forward moulding her skirt~with such a decent
1295 V | Buisson, as we all are, and mounted in patent-leather like any
1296 VII | At the~theatre she never mounts higher than the second tier,
1297 III | dooming me to the eternal mourning into which the~first betrayal
1298 IX | his meagre meal, wiped his moustache, bid us good-night, shot~
1299 II | remarked the change which a~move produces in the spirit of
1300 I | invited, a fashionable and much-bored circle. Each one grimaces
1301 VII | less than the political muddle, just as she is~surrounded
1302 VI | Madeleine; in the least muddy districts of the citizen~
1303 VI | genius for~walking. The municipality really owed them asphalt
1304 II | was so complete that the murmurs of the~coachmen's voices
1305 VIII| his brow~was knit and the muscles of the middle of his forehead
1306 VII | but not so as to suggest a museum or a curiosity~shop. You
1307 VIII| important small things, the musical tones and harmony of coloring,~
1308 I | its~reserved depths, its myriad subtle byways, and its exquisite~
1309 VII | woman has~emerged from those mysterious garments like a butterfly
1310 VIII| she is a woman /comme il n'en faut pas/,"~Blondet replied,
1311 V | which would certainly have~nailed any man but me on the spot.--'
1312 IX | Sicilian was a little woman~named Rosina, very dark, but with
1313 Add | In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:~ La Grande
1314 IV | vous/ instead of~/tu/. 'Nay, better, I beg you to do
1315 VI | that her gown is made of a neat and~inexpensive material,
1316 VI | her from her hips to~her neck, outlining a carapace, as
1317 IV | collection of hair and skilled needlewomen,'--on hearing this a~suspicion
1318 IX | exquisiteness and exacting needs of their intellect. He came
1319 IX | which misery, cold, and neglect had not~altogether defaced,
1320 III | Only a man who is half a Negro could behave so: indeed
1321 VII | Then she plunges into some neo-Christian speech sprinkled with~political
1322 | Nevertheless
1323 V | distressed, that I saw her too newly~assumed dignity giving way;
1324 IV | imperceptible movement which~newspaper writers represent in Parliamentary
1325 II | Blondet; "for we all, like Newton, have our apple, which falls
1326 | nine
1327 VI | issuing~from the ranks of the nobility, or sprouting from the citizen
1328 VI | citizen class and those of the nobility--not altogether noble nor~
1329 V | at a convent. Thus your noblest dames have been turned~into
1330 VIII| Oudet sketched by Charles Nodier, I found my own sensations
1331 IX | bellowing of bulls--no, it was a noise which can be~compared to
1332 IX | powerful~as that of Charles Nordier's Oudet, threw an incredible
1333 VIII| great as it was in~his normal state, became almost unbounded.~
1334 VIII| the wooden houses of Lower Normandy, or~the poorest farm-buildings
1335 VII | from certain people, for nosegays~live but a day; they give
1336 VII | shown in clear outline, the~nostrils are transparently rosy,
1337 VI | exquisite simplicity. You notice that her gown is made of
1338 II | all the changes of life, noting our~passions and our sentiments,
1339 VII | sprinkled with~political notions which is neither Catholic
1340 II | and I was--I may say so now--one of~the handsomest young
1341 | nowhere
1342 II | slumbered in~me as gold in the nugget. I would have ordered my
1343 III | distressed at being unable to nurse me herself. She wished she
1344 V | her dear little children,~nurses them herself, and keeps
1345 VIII| and had forgotten military obedience. It was a medley~of men
1346 VII | slave whom~she sometimes obeys. If your meeting takes place
1347 VII | to swell her~circle, an object for the cares and attentions
1348 V | just out of school and by~obscure journalists, which demolished
1349 II | curious and mislead the observant we had adopted a~scheme
1350 IV | a wrong if I placed any obstacle in the way of~this prospect,
1351 VII | apprehension of the most obtuse. She~knows how to listen
1352 VIII| banter, the wit and the obtuseness,~the diplomacy and the ignorance
1353 IX | the Duke~had a thousand odd ways on the surface, such
1354 IX | without human~decency, and the offence to her dignity as a woman,
1355 IV | who heard de Marsay seemed offended by seeing themselves so~
1356 VII | her tucker is doing its~office of faithful guardian to
1357 I | ball and rout. First, an official party, composed of the persons~
1358 V | of~to-day--the indirect offspring of his legislation."~ ~"
1359 II | love with a woman six years older than myself. No one of you
1360 IX | mingling with this horrible and~ominous roar, we could hear a woman'
1361 II | Dudley, "I rode past her~open carriage, the horses' pace
1362 VII | money in her~bag, and has open-work stockings on her feet; in
1363 VI | displays no gaudy colors, no open-worked stockings, no~over-elaborate
1364 VII | at the Italiens, at the Opera,~at a ball. She will then
1365 VI | obliged to share their opera-~box with other ladies; royal
1366 IX | seconds we saw our Colonel's opponent stretched on the~ground,
1367 IV | style of beauty utterly opposed to that of my deceiving
1368 IX | this~captain was sitting opposite to me, and his wife was
1369 I | In spite of the covert opposition of the Faubourg Saint-Germain,
1370 III | the tale, I, the~exhausted orator, the Minister dried up by
1371 VI | were, which would make an~ordinary woman look like a turtle,
1372 VI | a magnificent history.~/Organize/, for instance, is the word
1373 V | labor, and you have not yet organized~property. So this is what
1374 V | great deal in~France about organizing labor, and you have not
1375 IX | and the feeling had its origin in a lofty tenderness which,
1376 II | of a~hundred and twenty Othello-power, that terrible passion slumbered
1377 | others
1378 VI | from her hips to~her neck, outlining a carapace, as it were,
1379 VII | in the sunshine, her feet outstretched without your~feeling that
1380 VI | open-worked stockings, no~over-elaborate waist-buckle, no embroidered
1381 VI | ironed~bonnet-strings, an over-full skirt, an over-tight waist.
1382 VI | an over-full skirt, an over-tight waist. You will see~a certain
1383 II | of suspecting that it had overmastered me, I had abandoned~myself
1384 II | Richelieu, who, when warned overnight by a letter of Concini's
1385 VIII| call Providence--inevitably overwhelming~such as we consider light
1386 VIII| he added.~ ~"You need not owe Napoleon any grudge on that
1387 II | open carriage, the horses' pace being intentionally reduced
1388 IX | about seven or eight hundred paces from our shelter~we, most
1389 VI | alone knows how dearly he paid for it," said Lord Dudley.~ ~"
1390 III | my eyes~to an attack of pain, and the sweet creature
1391 VII | profile,' so dear to great painters, by which the cheek~catches
1392 II | innocent~jesuistry of women, painting it with the subtlety peculiar
1393 V | curling locks, and strut in a pair of~patent-leather pumps
1394 IX | outline and features. Her pallor~made her skin look like
1395 VI | equator of the Passage des Panoramas, where the products of India~
1396 VII | about, and looking like a pantry. You will find the staircase~
1397 VI | every three years, society papers about as mirthful as~an
1398 IX | charming expression.~On parade, or with the army of Italy,
1399 VI | asphalt pavement that lies parallel. According to the~weather,
1400 IX | I was wrong; I ask your pardon a thousand times, and if~
1401 VI | are glaring in the eyes of~Parisians: hooks ill fastened, strings
1402 VI | to call the breeze of a~Parisienne? You may recognize over
1403 IV | newspaper writers represent in Parliamentary reports by the words:~/great
1404 IX | what I once saw him do in a paroxysm of fury. We were dragging
1405 Add | Cousin Betty~ The Country Parson~In addition, M. Bianchon
1406 I | almost always two separate parties going on at~every ball and
1407 VIII| divided off by a wooden partition, the~smaller division serving
1408 VIII| woman /comme il n'en faut pas/,"~Blondet replied, emphasizing
1409 VI | decent preciseness that the passer-by is filled with~admiration,
1410 V | last century, with powder, patches, high-heeled~slippers, and
1411 VI | though unguarded by any patent.~ ~"As she walks she gives
1412 IV | then saw achievements of patience surpassing~those which the
1413 VII | and~minims, its rests, its pauses, its sharps to sign the
1414 VI | Feuillants,~but not the asphalt pavement that lies parallel. According
1415 II | from the courtyard, and the pawing~and champing made by horses
1416 VIII| Joseph Bridau. "If you had to pay for the charms of conversation~
1417 III | the roofs of Paris like pearls in the~sea. No sooner was
1418 VI | is almost always a long pelisse, with~bows to fasten it,
1419 IV | She had at once found, you perceive, a loophole for escape.
1420 VIII| happily towards evening I~perceived a wretched little Polish
1421 V | de Nucingen.~ ~A scarcely perceptible smile on de Marsay's pale
1422 VIII| like my grocer buried in Pere Lachaise, a good husband
1423 II | will say nothing. She was~perfection then, and to this day is
1424 I | world. By tacit agreement, perfectly carried out, at supper every
1425 V | suffer when I recall her perfidy, I still laugh at~her expression
1426 VIII| inadequate! There is no second performance of the same flash of wit."~ ~"
1427 III | This little~comedy was performed for the benefit of simpletons
1428 II | by a letter of Concini's peril,~slept till midday, when
1429 VIII| be surrounded by~greater perils. I have seen much of the
1430 IV | Marry him, you have my permission,' said~I, replying to this
1431 V | or at any rate sink into perpetual melancholy," de Marsay went~
1432 Add | Addendum~The following personages appear in other stories
1433 VII | beautiful hand,~the most perspicacious beholder will believe that
1434 VII | of profile, you will~be persuaded that she is giving irony
1435 VII | her head will be her most pertinent form of~questioning; she
1436 IX | might perhaps explain the phenomenon--the Colonel was not a~lady-killer,
1437 VIII| commonest ways~of being philanthropic. I sat down to eat on one
1438 VIII| days. My~comrades could be philanthropists /gratis/--one of the commonest
1439 I | under the reign of Louis~Philippe, when the Revolution began
1440 II | crushed with my scorn the philosopher who~first uttered this terrible
1441 IX | character which seemed so phlegmatic and~indolent.~ ~"As you
1442 IX | husband, a gentleman of~Piedmont, had a face expressive of
1443 Add | in Life~ Modeste Mignon~ Pierre Grassou~ Letters of Two
1444 IX | night by the dying woman's pillow;~pulmonary consumption,
1445 VIII| used to become naturally pinched and white whenever he was
1446 IX | matter is moulded~under the pipe of the glass-blower; still,
1447 VI | with an indifference which piques your curiosity. She~knows
1448 II | killed at ten o'clock--or~say Pitt, or Napoleon, he was a monster.
1449 VI | fine cotton stockings, or~plain gray silk stockings; or
1450 V | our dupes!'--'I see that plainly,' said I, with a stricken~
1451 V | betrayal! It was~deliberately planned!'--'No, only a rational
1452 VI | and dale~in his pursuit of plants, among the vulgarities of
1453 VII | the triumph of a purely plastic art,"~Blondet went on. "
1454 VIII| hands, a shapely foot,~a pleasant mouth, and an aquiline nose
1455 IV | may demand any proofs you please.'--'Rise, my dear,' said~
1456 VIII| de Marsay.~ ~"Ah! vat a pleashre it is to dichest vile you
1457 IX | aggravated his rage. He was pledged to~protect the husband,
1458 IV | have not much hair; he has plenty~of every kind and every
1459 IV | be!' said I,~admiring the pliancy of her quick intelligence,
1460 II | the marble to dispel that poem!"~ ~This cry of nature,
1461 VIII| mesdames, are all the more poetical,~because they must always
1462 VIII| Saint-Huberti? Are not our poets superior to those of the~
1463 VII | where the other refuses point-blank~and falls full length. This
1464 IX | understanding our~curiosity, pointed to his breast with the forefinger
1465 IX | signal to his antagonist,~pointing to the wood and drawing
1466 VIII| genius--for he had his mean points. Who will ever~explain,
1467 V | time yet before you have a policy. You talk a great deal in~
1468 I | byways, and its exquisite~politeness. You will there still find
1469 II | with a smile, "that more~politicians were undone by us than we
1470 VIII| gravitation, he left us~poorer than on the day when he
1471 VIII| of Lower Normandy, or~the poorest farm-buildings of la Beauce.
1472 IX | made her skin look like porcelain with a light within. Her
1473 III | note no doubt was in the porter's~hands. At last, at half-past
1474 III | water! That has~been my portion of love in this base world.~ ~"
1475 VIII| When I read the fantastical portrait of Colonel~Oudet sketched
1476 I | curious~confessions, several portraits, and a thousand follies,
1477 II | Nucingen.~ ~"For six months, possessed by my passion," de Marsay
1478 I | capital of taste, alone possesses the~science which makes
1479 IV | friend; 'but be~as devout as possible, reconcile yourself to God,
1480 III | irreparable revenges~were possible--I despised myself, I felt
1481 VII | citizen womankind, she cannot possibly be~mistaken for the spell
1482 VIII| Comte de Vandenesse. "When posterity shall have~followed us,
1483 VIII| sight enough--were eating~potatoes, some horseflesh broiled
1484 I | without elaboration, were poured out without disdain, but
1485 VII | insignificant speech with a charming pout~and smile; or throw a Voltairean
1486 V | of the last century, with powder, patches, high-heeled~slippers,
1487 VIII| those of Talleyrand, of Pozzo de Borgo, and of Metternich,~
1488 VIII| knowledge of trifles, the practice of manoeuvring,~the important
1489 VIII| which~might make them seem praise frankly addressed to Camille
1490 VIII| the Comte de Vandenesse preach to us!" exclaimed Madame
1491 VIII| more reason because he has preached a great deal by~example,"
1492 II | opportunity.~ ~Was not this preamble necessary to make you know
1493 III | happiness. There is always a precious ape in the prettiest and
1494 VI | skirt~with such a decent preciseness that the passer-by is filled
1495 VI | glance~at her is like the preface to a good book, it leads
1496 VIII| makes everything small, you prefer small dishes, small rooms,~
1497 II | a man~whom he had made a prefet, a man of wit and observation,
1498 VII | exclude~all idea of art or premeditation. If she has a royally beautiful
1499 IX | knitting of her brows a sort of presentiment; perhaps she~foresaw her
1500 VII | theoretically. She must preserve herself in~her position
1501 IX | incredibly thin, but her~face had preserved its really sublime outline