Chapter

 1 1|     moment when he is head of a bureau in one of our~most important
 2 1|         was termed, head of the bureau.~From that day the hand
 3 1|      merely to become head of a bureau. No one comes or stays in
 4 2|         trip across it from the bureau to the~department, from
 5 2|     Isidore Baudoyer, head of a bureau in Monsieur de la~Billardiere'
 6 3|       his position as head of a bureau~presupposed labor that was
 7 4|         that of~the head of the bureau. As to the important personage
 8 4|         administrative sense, a bureau consists of a man-~servant,
 9 4|     called head or chief of the bureau. These~denominational titles
10 4|    order-clerk in the~Rabourdin bureau: Thirty-eight years old,
11 4|         rites, Dutocq~went from bureau to bureau, sounded consciences
12 4|      Dutocq~went from bureau to bureau, sounded consciences by
13 4|         appointed to Baudoyer's bureau, but he manoeuvred to get
14 4|       near a Bixiou. Baudoyer's bureau held~the martyr, a poor
15 4|     finished, on his way to the bureau, and bought her materials
16 4|         all the rest. He of the bureau Baudoyer,~named Colleville,
17 4|     would have been head of the~bureau long before if the Restoration
18 4|       The friend in Rabourdin's bureau to whom Colleville was~so
19 4|       digestion, to relieve the~bureau of the sight of that amorphous
20 4| manufacture.~ ~In the Rabourdin bureau was a clerk who played the
21 4|  perform, where the head of the~bureau was no other than a schoolmaster,
22 5|   sagacity than in a government bureau.~Self-interest stifles all
23 5|       boot.~ ~The clerks of the bureau Baudoyer arrived at eight
24 5|   morning, whereas those of the bureau Rabourdin seldom appeared
25 5|       About ten o'clock, in~the bureau Baudoyer, Bixiou was relating
26 5|       Xavier Rabourdin, chef du bureau'?"~ ~Colleville. "Bless
27 5|     your being made~head of the bureau, and I under you?"~ ~Bixiou [
28 5|       like~you, to be head of a bureau. Du Bruel can be director,
29 5|        and you the~head of this bureau; he will leave you his place
30 5|         between a kitchen~and a bureau, put a skewer in his hand,
31 5|        how the land lays in the bureau; we will~talk about it later" [
32 5|    civil thing to the head of a bureau.~ ~The children all gazed
33 6|       WORMS AT WORK~Rabourdin's bureau was during his absence a
34 6| messenger summons the head of a bureau to his Excellency's presence~(
35 6|       and betook himself to the~bureau Rabourdin, where the usual
36 6|        and du Bruel head of the bureau. Monsieur~Baudoyer gets
37 6|       that bet? Does the entire bureau Rabourdin bet against~me?"~ ~
38 6|     really be made head~of this bureau?"~ ~All. "Yes, tell us."~ ~
39 6|    taking Bixiou as head of the bureau and me as under-head-~clerk,
40 6|         of Paris, and head of a bureau in the ~late Monsieur de
41 6|          You can be head of the bureau and take~me for under-head-clerk.
42 7|       the wife of the head of a~bureau is out of place here; a
43 8|    first alone." [Re-enters the bureau Rabourdin.] "What~Dutocq
44 8|       Dutocq into the Rabourdin bureau. Fleury, Thuillier, and~
45 8|     things are going on in your bureau. Du~Bruel! I want you." [
46 8|    latter appointed head of~the bureau) entered.~ ~"What a crew!"
47 8|        where you are, head of a bureau under Baudoyer," went on
48 8|       am appointed head of~this bureau."~ ~Thuillier. "Ah, my friend,
49 8|     devil's game, and that your bureau owes me a dinner at the
50 8|         to a conclusion. So the bureau is the~clerk's shell, husk,
51 8|         pod. No clerk without a bureau, no bureau without~a clerk.
52 8|      clerk without a bureau, no bureau without~a clerk. But what
53 8|        which I bequeath to this bureau and to all bureaus: Where
54 8|     that~although the head of a bureau, strictly speaking, may