Chapter
1 1 | perhaps wasted,~like that of a man just recovering from illness,
2 1 | thoughtfulness of a busy man. If this portrait serves
3 1 | character, a sketch of this man's dress will bring it still
4 1 | readily discern a family man,~harassed by vexations in
5 1 | as he found it; an~honest man, loving his country and
6 1 | whom he asked nothing,--a man full of acquirements, affable
7 1 | discouraged, but not disgusted man, one who still clings~to
8 1 | Restoration.~ ~The life of this man was marked by certain mysterious
9 1 | that assisted the young man to start in life~was never
10 1 | Celestine answered that a man named Rabourdin would never
11 1 | of the~ladder the young man would certainly rise to
12 1 | of success. But the poor man became involved in one of
13 1 | of woman as there are of man, all of which~society fashions
14 1 | the world? If she were a man she would have had the energy~
15 1 | him for being too honest a man. In the mouth of~some women
16 1 | In such a situation the man holds to the wife~very much
17 1 | as we may say, a greater man than herself, "Do you~know
18 1 | making up its mind about a man, listens for what his wife
19 1 | tortures of uncertainty. The man was firmly resolved to make
20 1 | revolutions which send a man to~the head of either one
21 1 | service to be done and the man who~orders it), it was permanently
22 1 | denizens. The ambitious man of genius grows old in obtaining
23 1 | decide the fate of some man of merit or~some landed
24 1 | away and a middling sort of man replaces him. Unfortunately
25 1 | over the fall of an able man is the result~of our melancholy
26 1 | something furnished. To pay a man a thousand~francs a year
27 1 | does less. But~to expect a man whom the State remunerated
28 1 | official staff. To employ fewer man, to double or treble~salaries,
29 1 | services honorably rewarded;~no man employed by the government
30 1 | Monsieur de la Billardiere, a man of~sheer incapacity. This
31 1 | groaned at being married to a man without energy.~ ~Thus it
32 2 | Thomas Aquinas,--such a man as this secretary-~general
33 2 | can be given neither to a man who respects~himself nor
34 2 | respects~himself nor to a man who does not respect himself,
35 2 | that the king was~not a man to forget this debt of honor.
36 2 | Lupeaulx would~have been a man of genius, whereas he was
37 2 | genius, whereas he was only a man of talent. He~went everywhere,
38 2 | of clerks looked at this man playing bowls in the~gardens
39 2 | the remains of a handsome man;~five feet six inches tall,
40 2 | overlooked, whereas if a man keeps himself well in sight
41 2 | nonsense with which one fools a man~sufficed."~ ~The day on
42 2 | services, he would," etc. As a man who brings~twenty-five thousand
43 2 | ministry. He was a~bulky, fat man, very strong in the matter
44 2 | simple as how-do-you-do,~--a man who came to his office with
45 3 | whole ambition of the good~man now centred on obtaining
46 3 | went on.~ ~This little old man, with a livid face blazoned
47 3 | Mitral, uncle of the young man, as clerk. Monsieur and
48 3 | Isidore was a tall, stout man of thirty-seven, who~perspired
49 3 | a cut-and-dried routine man, who concealed the fact
50 3 | believed him an extraordinary~man. Pedantic and hypercritical,
51 3 | t wear them at home, my man."~ ~"Your father has something
52 3 | expression; but the good man coveted this appointment
53 3 | merits. To his thinking, a man who had patiently spent
54 3 | minister to this wish of a man~who was one of his firmest
55 3 | age~of folly,--an age when man wants to be loved for himself;
56 3 | countenance, faded; the real man~appeared, and he was horrible.
57 3 | former was~sorry to see the man in his house, but he was
58 3 | rain a timid, pale young man loom~up, cigarless, take
59 3 | prodigies of~work which the man of influence feels incapable
60 3 | government~office. The incapable man has a wife with a clear
61 3 | institution.~ ~The young man with whom Rabourdin was
62 3 | Rabourdin was at once a~great man, a tyrant, and an angel.
63 3 | well as the~most capable man in the division; also that
64 3 | happiness for an~ambitious man when such things as these
65 3 | yourself. Rabourdin is a man who could be of immense
66 3 | her."~ ~Accordingly, this man of no principle, who six
67 4 | footstool~under his feet; the man with a bilious temperament
68 4 | picture to yourself the man who is thus described~in
69 4 | parenthesis. This young man held, during the whole time~
70 4 | to~blow over. The young man is not precisely a government
71 4 | limited~to those of one man. When we think of the number
72 4 | occasions. La~Billardiere's man had the air of a gentleman-usher,
73 4 | moving round on the sly, that man. He is on~your back before
74 4 | ways,~he outstayed the last man in the office; such a thing
75 4 | the head of so~capable a man as Rabourdin had been a
76 4 | careless ease of a theatre man, du Bruel wore, in the morning,~
77 4 | individuals; first, the man with brains who invents
78 4 | of his carefulness; the man with brains, sure of being
79 4 | readily understand that such a man must be physically~round,
80 4 | mammas this model young~man was looked down upon by
81 4 | give them up to~get that man out of our division."~ ~"
82 4 | Antoine, gravely, "is a man who sits in~a government
83 4 | affairs detained me; when a~man belongs to the government
84 4 | example of the empire a man could~exercise over himself.
85 4 | Phellion. Vimeux was a young man of twenty-~five, with a
86 4 | He has a gift, that young man!"~Phellion said of him when
87 4 | manner of a wealthy~young man. After the office closed
88 4 | failed at midday to ask the man to buy him a~roll.~ ~After
89 4 | Without doubt the cleverest man in the division or even
90 4 | the dreams about which a man may be fooled because he~
91 4 | eye,--such was Bixiou; a~man, all sense and all wit,
92 4 | the future of this young man in whom all talents were~
93 4 | outsiders to say, "That man is a government clerk!"
94 4 | China, which the worthy man keeps in his collection
95 4 | abyssum of~the Bible. The poor man left his bed in the morning
96 4 | though blotched with red, the man had a sturdy courage that
97 4 | with the~collected air of a man who thinks and suffers.
98 4 | Bixiou's jests as~a busy man bears the buzzing of an
99 4 | looked upon as a very shrewd man,--all the~more, perhaps,
100 4 | that the destiny of every man was written in the words
101 4 | The~sight of Colleville, a man of real feeling, bound almost
102 4 | there. Colleville, an~active man, burdened with a family
103 4 | would probably grow an old man when he could no longer~
104 4 | was a clerk who played the man of courage and~audacity,
105 4 | the death of that~great man put an end to the laws enacted
106 4 | whether to call him a spy or a man~of solid merit. Desroys
107 4 | solemn in appearance, like a man who~expects to be called
108 4 | that of seminaries. As a man advances in life he~grows
109 5 | the previous evening. The man replied that Monsieur Dutocq
110 5 | espionage or tale-bearing. A man capable of~informing against
111 5 | thing and be thought a great man, able to choose the right~
112 5 | Godard. "He wasn't a bad man; he never harmed any one."~ ~
113 5 | have said, like the great man that he was."~ ~Desroys [
114 5 | Now I say that none but a man of remarkable character
115 5 | saying of Pythagoras, 'No man is known until he~dies.'"~ ~
116 5 | laws of etiquette. Well, no man~can be a universal genius!
117 5 | Baudoyer. "Yes, the worthy man is dying. The two ministers
118 5 | minister's hand and ejecting a man of talent?~Between ourselves,
119 5 | ourselves, Rabourdin is the only man capable of taking charge~
120 5 | sharp enough to kill a~man."~ ~Bixiou. "How much will
121 5 | parts less~power to get a man appointed to a place under
122 5 | of twelve years, a young man who has gone through~the
123 5 | neglected genius. A~literary man becomes professor of something
124 5 | politician at once. Even a lazy man, who does nothing but make
125 5 | Monsieur Rabourdin,--there's a man for you!~He put work on
126 5 | last sacraments. The worthy man strongly recommended~Rabourdin,
127 5 | that~his successor were the man who had so constantly done
128 5 | a torture which makes a man confess everything. The
129 5 | openly~employing such a man, whose real vocation is
130 5 | the secretary felt~that a man stronger than himself sat
131 5 | added the~jealousy of one man to another man of the same
132 5 | jealousy of one man to another man of the same calling,--a
133 5 | thought Rabourdin was a man above all ordinary petty
134 5 | desire to speak."~ ~"Poor man!" said des Lupeaulx, in
135 5 | particular~minister was a man without youth. The charter
136 5 | right to lay hands on a man of statesmanlike talent~
137 5 | light of their business man. Happily for him he was
138 5 | princes the true value~of a Man, and what will happen if
139 5 | happen if that necessary man is wanting. The~last and
140 5 | mind~to win or lose, like a man weary of gambling who allows
141 5 | than a theory, and that a man who held the~position of
142 5 | window, whither~the poor man followed him.~ ~"When may
143 5 | with curiosity. The poor man had~come there expecting
144 6 | Bixiou. "Good! my little man."~ ~Poiret. "Dear me!"~ ~
145 6 | the praise of an honest man is a very~difficult thing
146 6 | Simplify, simplify! the man himself was a~simpleton."~ ~
147 6 | fitting, and because the man has~such merit, and because
148 6 | virtuous Rabourdin looks like a man in the sunshine of favor.
149 6 | Poiret. "Everybody says that man is clever, but as for me,
150 6 | there you are, my fine young man. Your days of hardship~are
151 6 | delighted]. "Well said, young man!"~ ~Vimeux. "The devil!
152 6 | single heir to the excellent man~whose death now afflicts
153 6 | you look. Take care, my man,~you'll make the woman laugh."~ ~"'
154 6 | Monsieur Baudoyer--'"~ ~"'Man of talent and extreme piety,'"
155 6 | law, Monsieur Baudoyer, a man of consummate talent and
156 6 | Chaboisseau, a~little old man who discounted for a publisher.~ ~"
157 6 | said Bidault. The old man drew his eyebrows~together
158 6 | them, he sells them, old man," said~Mitral, proudly. "
159 6 | sum necessary to make a man~eligible to the Chamber.
160 6 | his niece. "We hold~your man securely; but don't neglect
161 6 | game, and he saw that the~man who was shuffling his cards
162 6 | certainly has talent, but a man who in these days~gives
163 6 | tell you yesterday that a~man who has nothing but virtues
164 6 | It is enough to disgust a man with~the public service.
165 7 | after~point him out as a man capable of the blackest
166 7 | general-secretary was certainly the last~man Madame Rabourdin expected
167 7 | Celestine looked at the man behind his glasses, and
168 7 | that I could not assist a man who plays against me just
169 7 | even to myself."~ ~"The man who stole it is not such
170 7 | stiffest of diplomatists, a man who has been in the service
171 7 | who did not want to tell a man she would be his,--an~acknowledgment
172 7 | staircase.~ ~"Good heavens! that man, without his glasses, must
173 7 | Arabian~Nights, the luckless man was fated to meet at every
174 7 | I don't~see why?"~ ~"The man seems to me," she said, "
175 7 | Celestine. Spare a much-tried man. I cannot get~an audience
176 7 | Celestine, the more that man des Lupeaulx feels he is
177 7 | I can understand that a man should be~blinded by an
178 7 | plan. An ambitious public man should produce some bold~
179 7 | allowing it were the plan of a~man of genius, a king of France
180 7 | fac-simile of it. Adieu, man of genius!"~ ~Then she noticed
181 7 | and my two~children." The man flung himself back on his
182 7 | useless nonsense of an honest man!" she replied. "He wants~
183 7 | and~rectitude,--poor dear man!"~ ~Des Lupeaulx was all
184 7 | remarkable talents, was really a man of mediocrity.~ ~"Are you
185 7 | YES as long as they need a man, and NO~when he has played
186 7 | with~fools, but you are a man of sense. In my opinion
187 7 | to quarrel with a clever man."~ ~"You are mistaken,"
188 7 | des Lupeaulx, "for such a man pardons. The~real danger
189 7 | and in good faith."~ ~The man wept with joy. His day of
190 7 | he found himself a great~man in the eyes of his sole
191 7 | still. But," she added, "a man of~genius is always more
192 7 | minister, and were he a man of iron, his Excellency~
193 7 | silly to~amuse a solemn man.~ ~"Well, then, I must tell
194 7 | you come here to torment a man who enabled each of you
195 7 | dead. I did not think that man had a heart; ask his~wife.
196 7 | woman decides to love a man for what she can get out
197 7 | and less annoyance. I'm~a man with spectacles, grizzled
198 7 | agreeable. Isn't that so? A man must be a fool if he cannot
199 7 | All is over. Ah!~when a man is forty years of age women
200 8 | went on the~secretary's man. "You are to have a new
201 8 | clamor--"~ ~"I could get a man to make a caricature, but
202 8 | that thou art,~ ~"to find a man like Rabourdin employing
203 8 | Question.--What is the soul of man?~ ~"Answer.--A spiritual
204 8 | Truth.~ ~"Quest.--Why does man possess volition?~ ~"Ans.--
205 8 | blunder when you set aside a man who wishes you well. The~
206 8 | secretary~despatched his man with a message to Rabourdin
207 8 | Suppress cashiers! Why, the man's a monster?"~ ~Bixiou. "
208 8 | resign in a body if such a man as that is put over us."~ ~
209 8 | proof that might injure a~man he was determined not to
210 8 | short, caught the young man in his strong~arms, seeing
211 8 | show courage. You are a man. What is the~matter? What
212 8 | die myself. Such a noble man!--a man who ought to~be
213 8 | myself. Such a noble man!--a man who ought to~be minister!"~ ~
214 8 | it all."~ ~Phellion. "A man of honor; pure and spotless."~ ~
215 8 | what do you say about the man who stole that~paper, who
216 8 | you were gone, that~young man, Monsieur de la Roche, nearly
217 8 | evaporated, melted! Such a man, the king of men,~that he--"~ ~
218 8 | is only one inquisitive man who can defeat another~inquisitive
219 8 | defeat another~inquisitive man."~ ~Fleury. "'Inquisitive
220 8 | Fleury. "'Inquisitive man' stands for 'spy.'"~ ~Poiret. "
221 8 | La~Briere will help me. A man is never condemned without
222 8 | don't see how it~is that a man who could conceive so noble
223 8 | one of~those ideas that a man should keep in his own mind,
224 8 | mean, as your ally is a~man who adores you. We will
225 8 | ourselves in having such a man placed over~us; and we desire
226 8 | truth of my axiom that a man's destiny lies in the~letters
227 8 | bread of every remarkable man~in this glorious kingdom
228 8 | in the morning when the man consummated the~sacrifice
229 8 | upon~them. And that noble man who had trusted her was
230 8 | of your pencil against a man who cannot be judged~in
231 8 | openly faithful to the fallen man.~Rabourdin noticed that
232 8 | Monsieur," said the good man, "if we can serve you in
233 8 | courageously escorted the fallen man to his home, expressing~
234 8 | Rabourdin is so remarkable a~man that he must have had some
235 8 | and they~call you a witty man!"~ ~Bixiou. "Haven't you
236 8 | Poiret [quickly]. "An honest man, monsieur."~ ~Bixiou [shrugging
237 8 | it."~ ~Poiret. "He is a man paid by government to do
238 8 | is,~logically speaking, a man who needs the salary to
239 8 | Bixiou [solemnly]. "Old man, you are mistaken! I wished
240 8 | Des Lupeaulx. "The poor man made the blunder of constituting
241 8 | the peerage."~ ~"You are a man of honor, and I accept."~ ~
242 8 | small mind. How about your man?"~ ~"Mine? Oh, I have succeeded
243 8 | his things are. The other man used to swear at me, but
244 Add| Member for Arcis~Beatrix~A Man of Business~Gaudissart II.~
245 Add| Distinguished Provincial at Paris~A Man of Business~ ~Chatelet,
246 Add| Life~The Firm of Nucingen~A Man of Business~The Middle Classes~ ~
247 Add| Distinguished Provincial at Paris~A Man of Business~Cousin Betty~ ~
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