Chapter

 1 1|    which he~witnessed in the lives of the government clerks,
 2 1|   about this period in their lives she resolved to take~the
 3 2|      In the most illustrious lives as in~the most obscure,
 4 2|     the nobleness of private~lives. A pretty and rather wide
 5 3|    former clerk's widow, who~lives on a meagre pension and
 6 4|     or chief of division, he lives either~above or below the
 7 4|    over the details of their lives,~and washing much of their
 8 5| nobody; the government clerk~lives between two negations. The
 9 6|     Oh, what a dog-kennel he lives in! But Monsieur~Mitral,
10 7|       To the best of~married lives there come moments of regret.
11 8|    full of facts about their lives; in~short, the reason why
12 8|   clerk is terrified, for he lives on such minutiae. Some~nations