Chapter

 1 1  |            intercourse with Madame Colleville, then very intimate with~
 2 1  |       salon to~the level of Madame Colleville's, to be invited to the
 3 2  |             whom her rival, Madame Colleville, called the Celimene of
 4 3  |     thinking how the pretty~Madame Colleville, whose intentions were exactly
 5 3  |         like the husband of Madame~Colleville, Celestine's rival, play
 6 4  |          be virtuous; while~Madame Colleville and other "ladies" of her
 7 4  |         the bureau Baudoyer,~named Colleville, was chief-clerk, and would
 8 4  |          Madame Rabourdin in hers. Colleville, who was~son of a first
 9 4  |        their own liberty, made the Colleville home a rendezvous~for all
10 4  |          best artists and orators. Colleville's humble position~under
11 4  |         Rabourdin's bureau to whom Colleville was~so attached was named
12 4  | ex-Lothario, led as~idle a life as Colleville led a busy one. Colleville,
13 4  |         Colleville led a busy one. Colleville, government~official in
14 4  |          the last few weeks Madame Colleville had made an evident change~
15 4  |            help to des Lupeaulx.~ ~Colleville had a passion for reading
16 4  |           a never-ending marvel to~Colleville. Raising the anagram to
17 4  |           on letters. The~sight of Colleville, a man of real feeling,
18 4  |         Thuillier is rich, and the Colleville household costly." This~
19 4  |         passing~that though Madame Colleville was well known in the bureaus,
20 4  |          was almost unknown there. Colleville, an~active man, burdened
21 5  |        private motives of his own. Colleville and Chazelle were absent.~ ~
22 5  |           known until he~dies.'"~ ~Colleville [rushing in]. "Gentlemen,
23 5  |               All. "We know it."~ ~Colleville. "I defy you to know it!
24 5  |            with what labor! Madame~Colleville asked me what was the matter."~ ~
25 5  |   Billardiere has~just expired?"~ ~Colleville. "That's Bixiou's nonsense!
26 5  |            keep people~waiting."~ ~Colleville [triumphantly unfolding
27 5  |              the name of a cat?"~ ~Colleville [provoked]. "It is the archaeological
28 5  |            What utter nonsense!"~ ~Colleville. "Nonsense! nonsense indeed!
29 5  |               Godard [irritated at Colleville's tone]. "Monsieur Colleville,
30 5  |      Colleville's tone]. "Monsieur Colleville, let me~tell you that Bonaparte
31 5  |           that, my dear fellow."~ ~Colleville [angrily]. "Let me tell
32 5  |           do you make that out?"~ ~Colleville [solemnly]. "Napoleon Bonaparte.--
33 5  |          talking such nonsense."~ ~Colleville. "If my place is taken from
34 5  |     Rabourdin, chef du bureau'?"~ ~Colleville. "Bless you, so I have!"~ ~
35 5  |        what did you make of it?"~ ~Colleville. "It comes out as follows:
36 5  |           Try Isidore Baudoyer."~ ~Colleville [mysteriously]. "I sha'n'
37 5  |           tell that one myself."~ ~Colleville. "And I'll pay if you find
38 5  |           Ris d'aboyeur d'oie.'"~ ~Colleville [petrified with amazement]. "
39 5  |           with dignity]. "Monsieur Colleville, do me the honor to~believe
40 5  |         spy, some pious fraud,--to~Colleville perhaps, whose wife has
41 5  |               Minard, Desroys, and Colleville raise their heads in amazement;
42 5  |           lay down their pens, and Colleville blows his nose.] "Every
43 5  |           of~us is to be promoted! Colleville will be under-head-clerk
44 5  |          of boots now and then."~ ~Colleville. "But you don't get twenty-five
45 5  |      Monsieur Baudoyer gets it."~ ~Colleville. "Only through the influence
46 5  |         back to three thousand."~ ~Colleville. "Monsieur Cochin signs
47 5  |  government place, and that plucky Colleville,~who works like a galley-slave
48 5  |      constitutional government."~ ~Colleville. "Gentlemen, gentlemen!
49 5  |            find~that anagram, papa Colleville?"~ ~Colleville. "Yes, here
50 5  |       anagram, papa Colleville?"~ ~Colleville. "Yes, here it is."~ ~Fleury [
51 5  |               Fleury [leaning over Colleville's desk]. "Capital! famous!
52 5  |           is only to be pitied!"~ ~Colleville [after consulting his colleagues]. "
53 5  |          is far superior to Madame Colleville," said~the vaudevillist,
54 6  |          Yes, tell us."~ ~Fleury. "Colleville."~ ~Thuillier. "Why?"~ ~
55 6  |            Fleury. "Because Madame Colleville has taken the shortest way
56 6  |          Thuillier. "I am too much Colleville's friend not to beg you,
57 6  |        because the charming Madame Colleville won't~invite Fleury to her
58 6  |      Baudoyer, to promote Monsieur Colleville; he is~an object of great
59 6  |            an interest in Monsieur~Colleville; he was educated at my expense."~ ~"
60 6  |   Rabourdin by promoting a certain Colleville!"~ ~"Why not make over the
61 7  |      Baudoyer himself must appoint Colleville in return~for ecclesiastical
62 8  |         and be under-head-clerk to Colleville, who~will arrange with them;
63 8  |            deal in that~anagram of Colleville's. 'Xavier Rabourdin, chef
64 8  |           Duc de Maufrigneuse, but Colleville is to be our under-head-clerk,~
65 8  |      Bixiou, du Bruel, Godard, and Colleville (the latter appointed head
66 8  |      saraband!"~ ~"Monsieur," said Colleville, "I come to offer you my
67 8  |           of that poor~Desroys."~ ~Colleville [entering joyously]. "Gentlemen,
68 8  |     opinion. Are you satisfied?"~ ~Colleville [gravely]. "Monsieur Rabourdin
69 8  |           Poiret. "What was it?"~ ~Colleville. "That of being a statesman
70 8  |        here in your day. Messieurs Colleville and Baudoyer didn't wear
71 Add|      Nucingen~The Middle Classes~ ~Colleville~The Middle Classes~ ~Colleville,
72 Add|    Colleville~The Middle Classes~ ~Colleville, Flavie Minoret, Madame~