Chapter

 1 4  |        that office. His name was Fleury. He boldly~subscribed to
 2 4  |       partisans of the~usurper." Fleury, ex-captain of a regiment
 3 4  |     never~ventured on tormenting Fleury, for the rough trooper,
 4 4  |         Victoires et Conquetes," Fleury~nevertheless refused to
 5 4  |    person. Dutocq~meanly courted Fleury because he feared him. Fleury,
 6 4  |    Fleury because he feared him. Fleury, crippled with~debt, played
 7 4  |      Delavigne he only~esteemed. Fleury, as you will have guessed
 8 5  |  Rabourdin. You know how devoted Fleury is~to him? Well, I can make
 9 5  |         to him? Well, I can make Fleury despise him."~ ~Bixiou. "
10 5  |             Bixiou. "Despised by Fleury!"~ ~Dutocq. "Not a soul
11 5  |    sixty-five centimes a day."~ ~Fleury [entering]. "Down with Baudoyer!
12 5  |         Emperor Napoleon had."~ ~Fleury. "All of which signifies
13 5  |      alternately at Chazelle and Fleury]. "My sons, you~have yet
14 5  |       belonging to the State."~ ~Fleury. "Because it has a constitutional
15 5  |         no politics!"~ ~Bixiou. "Fleury is right. Serving the State
16 5  |        give in our resignations! Fleury, Chazelle, fling yourselves
17 5  |       what~happened just now?"~ ~Fleury. "Another piece of Bixiou'
18 5  |        than in this office."~[To Fleury.] "What are you doing here,
19 5  |         doing here, monsieur?"~ ~Fleury [insolently]. "I came to
20 5  |          do not disturb mine."~ ~Fleury [in the doorway]. "It would
21 5  | Colleville. "Yes, here it is."~ ~Fleury [leaning over Colleville'
22 5  |          his colleagues]. "Come, Fleury, you're a~good fellow, but
23 5  |      what harm~you may do us."~ ~Fleury [dryly]. "Well, adieu, gentlemen;
24 6  |   Baudoyer gets the division."~ ~Fleury. "I'll bet a hundred francs
25 6  |       constitutes a~contract."~ ~Fleury. "No, no; you can only apply
26 6  |             Poiret. "Dear me!"~ ~Fleury. "True! when one refuses
27 6  |          knows he's dismissed." [Fleury rushes to the window.]~"
28 6  |    dominoes"~[blows his nose].~ ~Fleury [interrupting]. "Pere Poiret
29 6  |          they? I didn't know."~ ~Fleury. "Are you blind?"~ ~Sebastien. "
30 6  |        how; a charming woman."~ ~Fleury. "Pooh! thin as a rail.
31 6  |        They both play comedy."~ ~Fleury [looking askance at Dutocq]. "
32 6  |      Dutocq. "I mean nothing."~ ~Fleury. "Do you all want to know
33 6  |           All. "Yes, tell us."~ ~Fleury. "Colleville."~ ~Thuillier. "
34 6  |              Thuillier. "Why?"~ ~Fleury. "Because Madame Colleville
35 6  |         not to beg you, Monsieur~Fleury, to speak respectfully of
36 6  |          Colleville won't~invite Fleury to her house. He backbites
37 6  |     backbites her in revenge."~ ~Fleury. "She may not receive me
38 6  |     under her windows?"~ ~Though Fleury was dreaded as a bully in
39 6  |      Baudoyer; then, as~Monsieur Fleury takes the opposition sheet,
40 6  |      indeed I would." [They~hear Fleury's voice.] "There's Fleury
41 6  |        Fleury's voice.] "There's Fleury cursing Baudoyer. Hey, how
42 6  |         taking them in to him." [Fleury hands over~his paper, Vimeux
43 8  |      Bixiou. "What intrigues?"~ ~Fleury. "Baudoyer's, confound him!
44 8  |       Then you know the news?"~ ~Fleury [rolling his eyes savagely]. "
45 8  |        his 'heads~that fall'?"~ ~Fleury. "'Heads that fell?' why,
46 8  |      that he only guesses at."~ ~Fleury. "Say at once that he lies;
47 8  |       deserves the thrashing."~ ~Fleury [getting hot]. "If the government
48 8  |      just at the heart of it."~ ~Fleury [interrupting]. "What are
49 8  |     authorizes the statement."~ ~Fleury [to Poiret]. "Come, don'
50 8  |          the eye of the soul."~ ~Fleury. "And the soul is the eye
51 8  |      kinds of good are~there?"~ ~Fleury. "Amazingly indecorous,
52 8  |       into the Rabourdin bureau. Fleury, Thuillier, and~Vimeux are
53 8  |          other clerks return.]~ ~Fleury. "A great shock; I still
54 8  |         Dutocq left the room.]~ ~Fleury. "I say he is a Judas Iscariot.
55 8  |         What about Rabourdin?"~ ~Fleury. "Distilled, evaporated,
56 8  |      another~inquisitive man."~ ~Fleury. "'Inquisitive man' stands
57 8  |         a species of Cardinal de~Fleury, who, timid for over five
58 8  |          What does that mean?"~ ~Fleury. "That priests rejoice,
59 8  |         t say that yesterday."~ ~Fleury. "If you address me you'
60 8  |    Laurent [entering]. "Monsieur Fleury is requested to go to the~
61 8  |        the clerks. "Done for!"~ ~Fleury [leaving the room]. "I don'
62 Add|     Great~The Firm of Nucingen~ ~Fleury~The Middle Classes~ ~Fontaine,