Chapter

 1 1|    the clerks have become, in spite of our~fine patriotic ideas,
 2 1|        France went to ruin in spite of this~array of documents;
 3 3|     time did not lessen.~ ~In spite, however, of his resemblance
 4 3|        Full of enthusiasm,~in spite of his merely mechanical
 5 3|     with a melancholy~air, in spite of the deep inward satisfaction
 6 4|  salmon at a fishmonger's, in spite of his empty stomach and
 7 4|   upheld and protected him in spite of his misconduct; for he~
 8 4|    attempted painting,~but in spite of his intimacy with Joseph
 9 4|      dinner was half over. In spite of his skin-deep gayety,
10 4|      even annoyed by~them. In spite of his cleverness, Bixiou
11 5|    Rabourdin's party, was,~in spite of his desire to get to
12 5|     Another piece of Bixiou's spite! You've a queer fellow to~
13 5| overwhelming business. Yet in spite of the precautions they~
14 6|     go to work officially. In spite of his Roman virtue he must~
15 7|      s private parties."~ ~In spite of his Celestine's loving
16 7|  impatiently expected, and in spite of the flattering dishes~
17 8|     me at the~Left Centre. In spite of your prefect's manoeuvres (
18 8|      the courtyard, where, in spite of the cold, he resolved