Chapter

 1 2|          Baudoyer was married to Elisabeth Saillard, the cashier's
 2 3|      Baudoyer, and his daughter, Elisabeth, Baudoyer's wife, were playing
 3 3|        During the preceding week Elisabeth had finally~succeeded in
 4 3|        we~don't like dandies."~ ~Elisabeth Baudoyer, nee Saillard,
 5 3| Something pinched and puny about Elisabeth Saillard was~painful to
 6 3| intonation, from sharp to sweet. Elisabeth was a perfect~specimen of
 7 3|          dowry~to their daughter Elisabeth. Out of this capital about
 8 3|          his retiring~pension.~ ~Elisabeth, the only child, had toiled
 9 3|    reserved to itself. For years Elisabeth, the~daughter, went to market
10 3|     Saillard, no one could equal~Elisabeth in hashing the remains of
11 3|          he remarked.~As soon as Elisabeth knew how to hold a needle,
12 3|          the Porte-Saint-Martin,~Elisabeth had never seen a comedy.
13 3|   playing "The~Chinese Laborer." Elisabeth thought "the comedy" as
14 3|          circumjacent regions.~ ~Elisabeth never wore anything but
15 3|        on some passion or other, Elisabeth became eager~after gain.
16 3|        does not stifle ambition,~Elisabeth was capable of requiring
17 3|          who took an interest in Elisabeth and introduced~young Isadore
18 3|        and articles of plate for Elisabeth or her~husband, for whom,
19 3|       glance at his great-niece, Elisabeth.~ ~In person, Isidore was
20 3|          as it were its compass,~Elisabeth was forced to commune with
21 3|           Isn't she clever, that~Elisabeth of mine?" But Baudoyer,
22 3|          was making use of~it.~ ~Elisabeth had long felt sure that
23 3|         to make a great~fortune. Elisabeth determined to husband him
24 3|         of boston in full blast; Elisabeth was~advising Falleix how
25 3|       Billardiere is dead," said Elisabeth, simply;~"and as he is anxious
26 3|     wearisome flood of nonsense. Elisabeth quietly asked~three questions:--~ ~"
27 3|         husband had gone to bed, Elisabeth leaned over~him, and though
28 6|         replied the other, "what Elisabeth was dreaming~of when she
29 6|    lighted, and Madame Saillard, Elisabeth,~Monsieur Gaudron and the
30 6|       Monsieur Baudoyer, to whom Elisabeth made a~sign which he failed
31 6|      much ours as his,"~returned Elisabeth, dryly, glancing at her
32 6|        office in time?" remarked Elisabeth~to Monsieur Gaudron, as
33 6|         Gaudron to~Baudoyer when Elisabeth had disappeared, "a perfect
34 6|  Baudoyer begin to perceive that~Elisabeth had not been idle ever since
35 6|           Isn't she clever, that Elisabeth of mine?" cried Saillard,~
36 6|          stockbroker on purpose. Elisabeth~might have told us, I think,
37 6|         to their game of boston,~Elisabeth and her uncle Mitral reached
38 6|       along about a matter which Elisabeth's keen~perceptions told
39 6|       all~the ideas of his niece Elisabeth and thoroughly understood
40 6|          clever plan invented by Elisabeth.~ ~When they reached the
41 6|     forward at the~right moment. Elisabeth saw through the window-panes
42 6|      porter.~ ~"Your great-niece Elisabeth is out there, papa Gigonnet,"
43 6|    clutches," continued~Mitral; "Elisabeth has discovered how to do
44 6|        to do it, and he is--"~ ~"Elisabeth"; cried Gigonnet, interrupting
45 6|       what shrewdness! What does Elisabeth want?"~ ~"Hey! hey!" cried
46 6|         the door~of the cafe.~ ~"Elisabeth! follow it up, my dear,"
47 8|          he glanced at his niece~Elisabeth, the woman whose hand had