Chapter

 1 1|          and few are chosen is the~law of earth as of heaven. Madame
 2 1|          spontaneous. The dominant law of a~statesman is to apply
 3 1|           be. And~yet the contrary law is an axiom written on the
 4 1|          institution which~neither Law nor Napoleon had been able
 5 2|         retained under fire of the law~against pluralists. Sometimes
 6 2|          much, it is true, but the law does not take into~account
 7 3|            strength of his son-in-~law's merits. To his thinking,
 8 3|           of the best heads in the law courts, the Comte du~Chatelet,
 9 5|          tell you there is a fatal law which interferes with~all
10 5| administrative genius,--I mean the law of promotion by average.~
11 6|  Billardiere is vacant; my son-in-~law, Monsieur Baudoyer, a man
12 7|        should make himself another Law, without Law's fatal ill-~
13 7|       himself another Law, without Law's fatal ill-~luck; he ought
14 8|         their son and daughter-in-~law. Uncle Gigonnet-Bidault,
15 8|         gendarmerie, the courts of law, the galleys~and the police