Chapter

 1 1| Therefore, supposing there~are six millions of tax-payers in
 2 2|      their~advantages; in all, six salaries retained under
 3 2|       to choose,~among five or six daily invitations, the house
 4 2|        handsome man;~five feet six inches tall, tolerably stout,
 5 3| accepted one~invitation out of six. The company sang at dessert,
 6 3|       violin, but for the last six years~Monsieur Godard, who
 7 3|     towards me. I fancy myself six months hence almost a stranger~
 8 3|       man of no principle, who six years earlier had kept~a
 9 4|    occupying an area five feet six in length by thirty-six
10 4|    Mont-Parnasse. For the last six months Dutocq had taken~
11 4|        marry a hunch-back with six thousand a year,~or a woman
12 4|        way to~the office. From six to eight o'clock in the
13 4|        Saint-Antoine, and from six to eight~o'clock in the
14 5|       my~life. That stuff cost six francs a yard in the best
15 5| succinctly analyzed in five or six such paragraphs,--~the essence,
16 7|     more than you have done in six years. Come, tell me this~
17 7|         but to nurse it up for six or seven~years, that's a
18 7|        with a civil service of six thousand men instead of~
19 7|         There! it is half-past six o'clock; finish shaving
20 7|       do the work with five or six~thousand. You never heard
21 7|  governing France with five or six thousand~offices, when what
22 7| satisfactorily arranged within~six days our names will be substituted
23 7|        to be nominated; within six your debts will be cleared
24 8|        agitation. At half-past six o'clock the session broke
25 8|     cried Rabourdin, eagerly; "six years' toil~certainly deserves
26 8|   after you left. Heavens, no! six months~later they were made