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1001 3 | head of his department,~a cut-and-dried routine man, who concealed
1002 8 | fuel, or~ovens which cook cutlets with three sheets of paper?"~ ~
1003 5 | was dying for~he felt the cysts break. At that fatal moment
1004 7 | a wreck on the shores of Cythera.~At the same moment Madame
1005 6 | biography of the late Comte da Fontaine,~dead a few months
1006 6 | the gift by sending you a dais for the coming Fete-Dieu.
1007 7 | dilated, and were as big as daisies.~ ~"Your minister has been
1008 8 | one of these days, some damaging~'solution of continuity'
1009 3 | silver plate, old~glass, fine damask, and a four-post bedstead,
1010 4 | never saying a word.~The dame du comptoir, the only woman
1011 3 | reproduced on canvas; but these dames wear fine robes of~velvet
1012 6 | idol!' 'bent the knee!' damn it, my~dear fellow, writing
1013 5 | private office.]~ ~Chazelle. "Damned unlucky!"~ ~Paulmier [delighted
1014 4 | devil; you must turn the damper."~ ~Antoine stationed himself
1015 2 | do~not say that Mariette danced badly. The devil! haven'
1016 3 | business; we~don't like dandies."~ ~Elisabeth Baudoyer,
1017 4 | outside his glove, from which dangled a handsome cane; with these~
1018 6 | intentions of the~minister was a daring game! He recognized the
1019 4 | Bandoni's hats, and a pair of dark-colored~kid gloves. His walk and
1020 2 | conspiracies were out of~date; the Bourbons were apparently
1021 4 | copies of his letters were dated and put away in a box, ticketed "
1022 5 | francs a year; a painter can daub a mile of canvas and be~
1023 8 | the glory of their son and daughter-in-~law. Uncle Gigonnet-Bidault,
1024 4 | precisely he reached the Cafe David, where he breakfasted and
1025 2 | ministerial~pair at the dawn of official delight, when
1026 3 | of vanishing powers and dawning weakness. The age of forty
1027 6 | Billardiere, when his eyes were dazzled by the name of Baudoyer.~
1028 8 | well. The~anointed head dazzles for the time being, but
1029 5 | interrupting]. "And d, t, for de-testable."~ ~Dutocq [without seeming
1030 7 | which I influence will be deaf and dumb, won't~they, Finot?). '
1031 7 | and you are a child, a dearly~beloved child," she said,
1032 6 | the two~ministers on his death-bed, blaming himself for having
1033 8 | irremovable, and consequently debarred from~being, according to
1034 4 | hap-hazard), or his sketch of the debate on the~Castaing affair.
1035 2 | thirty thousand francs of debt--undisputed property. A~marriage
1036 4 | finding their delinquent debtors, the creditors swarm in
1037 4 | This ministerial apprentice decamps when his protector leaves
1038 6 | Monsieur de la Billardiere's decease.~ ~"Isn't she clever, that
1039 5 | offices towards~the end of December, sometimes indeed the lamps
1040 7 | Your little lady is decidedly handsome," said the Marquise
1041 7 | isn't~it? Now when a woman decides to love a man for what she
1042 2 | sphere. As difficult to decipher as a hieroglyphic~inscription
1043 1 | without reports and~where decisions were prompt and spontaneous.
1044 8 | about him like~Talma, and declaims]:--~ ~"Thou who has seen
1045 6 | proves how powerless the~declamations of liberals have been on
1046 1 | No matter what foolish declarations people make about~money,
1047 6 | and goes to the stove] "declares he backs the devil's game~
1048 4 | that Madame Rabourdin had declined all her~invitations. The
1049 4 | He passed whole months in decomposing and~recomposing words and
1050 6 | curate were rich enough to~decorate the altar. Monsieur Baudoyer
1051 7 | journals blamed him for decorating it extravagantly; and together
1052 2 | the vices, and is~dirty, decrepit, and toothless, or puts
1053 4 | a novel which was to be dedicated to himself. Dressed with
1054 Ded | DEDICATION~To the Comtesse Seraphina
1055 8 | clerks. From which we may deduce mathematically this corollary:~
1056 1 | thousand francs a year. Deduct the~dress and the carriage
1057 8 | name~for it is calumny, defamation of character; and such a
1058 4 | to the mouth,~where a few defective teeth still lingered. His
1059 6 | his wife."~ ~Phellion. "A defenceless woman should never be made
1060 7 | pretended mistress as we all defend an enemy in society.~ ~"
1061 1 | well balanced, he was~the defender of his wife before the tribunal
1062 1 | to one end, namely, the~defense of the nation, the overthrow
1063 8 | shoulders]. "--to be able to define, explain,~and analyze precisely
1064 4 | appeared upon the scene~with a definite proposal of marriage. Zelie
1065 8 | wish to make you see that~definitions lead to muddles."~ ~Poiret [
1066 1 | thousand francs a year to defray~the costs of a household
1067 5 | know it."~ ~Colleville. "I defy you to know it! I have been
1068 1 | struggled vainly against~degenerate members of the aristocracy,
1069 1 | receipts and expenditures; it degraded the administration for the~
1070 5 | des Lupeaulx. A government degrades itself by openly~employing
1071 4 | besides, and faithful to a degree! But the private~secretary
1072 4 | Foy, Lafitte, and Casimir Delavigne he only~esteemed. Fleury,
1073 7 | got out~of it if he had delayed much longer."~ ~"You do
1074 3 | Saillard was a matter of deliberation; the time a coat could last~
1075 2 | privately about affairs of delicacy, but he listened to their
1076 5 | Madame Rabourdin looked delightfully handsome," added du Bruel.~"
1077 4 | Certain~then of finding their delinquent debtors, the creditors swarm
1078 3 | Saillards that Gigonnet demanded~eighteen per cent from an
1079 2 | everything. A pen-stroke might demolish his civilian~epaulets, his
1080 4 | something better, but the fatal demon hiding in~his wit hindered
1081 1 | the causes of this secret demoralization, was the fact that~there
1082 1 | mind only alarmed the other~denizens. The ambitious man of genius
1083 4 | chief of the bureau. These~denominational titles vary under some administrations;
1084 7 | But this vice may perhaps denote a truly~French patriotism,
1085 5 | He had expected Dutocq to denounce~him, and found he had not
1086 8 | that he has written a paper denouncing~all the clerks and officials,
1087 8 | Opposition, and the fierce denunciations of the press.~It follows
1088 3 | ferret of ideas did not deny himself the pleasure of
1089 8 | yourselves."~ ~They all depart except Phellion and Poiret,
1090 2 | that he might~throw off all dependence on his chief. The harrier
1091 2 | feeling that such men were dependent on him, this~gleaner of
1092 1 | this portrait serves to depict his~character, a sketch
1093 2 | budget, as it does in the deplorable days in which we now~live;
1094 1 | possessions to profit and it deprives itself~of taxes; it thus
1095 8 | resignation. She could measure the depth of his fall. They were now
1096 2 | We ask ourselves if that~derelict could ever have held goodly
1097 2 | the nomenclature which we derive from fabulists,~des Lupeaulx
1098 1 | fastened to the~centre and derived their life from it. The
1099 3 | Andoche Finot the journalist,~Derville, one of the best heads in
1100 4 | married her head-clerk, named Descoings,~after the death of her
1101 8 | sent in very unflattering~descriptions of the clerks whom he wants
1102 8 | for the clergy will not~desert him."~ ~From this point
1103 6 | Highness."~ ~"You ought to designate the vacant post," said Baudoyer.~ ~"'
1104 4 | up caricature, vignette designing, and~drawing for books,
1105 2 | because des Lupeaulx has designs upon the~place for himself,"
1106 5 | gifted son of diplomatic~despatches; but I tell you there is
1107 1 | daughter. Xavier Rabourdin fell~desperately in love with Mademoiselle
1108 3 | Madame Saillard's~face, despite its wrinkles, was expressive
1109 Add | Betty~The Middle Classes~ ~Desplein~The Atheist's Mass~Cousin
1110 4 | flame-colored ribbons; attended by Despleins, the King's surgeon, and~
1111 8 | slowly home, in a state of despondency not difficult~to imagine.
1112 5 | compelling them to~deliver the destinies of the nation into the control
1113 8 | one and indivisible; the~destructibility thereof is, consequently,
1114 4 | social position could be detected in his~speech; he aspired
1115 5 | employ him on our~internal detective police. He is above a common
1116 1 | and won to indifference~by deteriorating annoyances. A clerk in the
1117 1 | government-clerks being led to detest~the administrations which
1118 4 | salons, he was nevertheless detested by every~one because of
1119 7 | it out would~get himself dethroned. You can keep down a feudal
1120 7 | said Gaudron.~ ~Thus the Te Deum was sung with equal joy
1121 4 | hot-house; he~is propagated and developed there, and there only. Under
1122 4 | display~unrivalled tact in developing a joke or driving home a
1123 3 | and solely through the~development of her domestic selfishness.
1124 4 | grows more selfish; egoism develops, and relaxes all the secondary~
1125 3 | instead of~being an infamous device of the government to obtain
1126 6 | monstrance to the Church has a devilish~deal more talent than he."~ ~
1127 6 | Gigonnet, which would~finally devolve on the Baudoyer's little
1128 1 | thousand francs~a year to devote himself to his country was
1129 3 | journalists and actresses, became devotedly attentive all the~evening
1130 1 | pushing his interests, or of devoting her powers to the~financial
1131 7 | always open, seeking whom to devour, both strong and weak. As
1132 3 | temperament was~lymphatic, the devout Isidore was under the influence
1133 8 | physiognomist would have seen the diabolical expression which they~wore.
1134 8 | thus chanced to overhear a dialogue between the two~nephews
1135 4 | laid it by~for use in his dialogues. He was liked by his collaborators
1136 8 | the honor to explain what diamonds have to do with these present~
1137 3 | illustrious sculptor of Diane de Poitiers.~ ~Des Lupeaulx
1138 7 | ants, or~weave a fabric so diaphanous that a nutshell can contain
1139 2 | bee. This walking Bayle dictionary did not~act, however, like
1140 4 | ministry at~large. The same difference existed between young La
1141 2 | intermediary with~their successors, diffusing thus the perfume of the
1142 8 | re-enter]. "Victrix cause diis placuit, sed~victa Catoni."~ ~
1143 7 | Des Lupeaulx's eyes dilated, and were as big as daisies.~ ~"
1144 6 | recollecting with~amusement the dilemma in which du Bruel had put
1145 4 | word the~chief said, as a dilettante listens to an air at the
1146 4 | pages. Poiret's eyes were dim, his glance weak and~lifeless,
1147 4 | grisettes, smoker, jester, diner-out and~frequenter of supper-parties,
1148 3 | He is always so when he dines at the ministry," remarked
1149 3 | in the first~instance by dire necessity, was now a second
1150 8 | Baudoyer], "Monsieur le directeur, that few men see from the~
1151 1 | herself fully~capable of directing a statesman, inspiring an
1152 8 | is a fine thing to be a~director-general.' But in the interests of
1153 8 | general-secretaries and directors,~and all this splendid array
1154 8 | and important corollary:~Directors-general may be statesmen. Perhaps
1155 3 | gives him in charge of a~directory who initiates him into what
1156 6 | against impiety without disadvantage at the present moment,~for
1157 1 | millions; the modern "gabelle"~disappears, the poor breathe freer,
1158 7 | that glides through the disarray of muslins~rumpled in sleep
1159 5 | ministers in such a case would disavow their own agents. Nothing
1160 2 | who can be acknowledged or disavowed~at will. His business was
1161 8 | render an account of its disbursements. Where~is the merchant who
1162 1 | general signs you will readily discern a family man,~harassed by
1163 2 | could have been~honorably discharged."~ ~At the moment of which
1164 3 | called profane books. This discipline had borne fruit. Forced
1165 4 | weak and~lifeless, his skin discolored and wrinkled, gray in tone
1166 1 | Rabourdin, on her~part, disconsolate over her wasted life, weary
1167 1 | never appeared so bitterly~discontented as now; but, like any wife
1168 5 | to the scene of~perpetual discord between the Right and Left
1169 7 | and compels me to avoid discords; it is~my natural instinct
1170 3 | His business was that of discounting commercial~paper in the
1171 1 | would have~recognized a discouraged, but not disgusted man,
1172 6 | the cafe Themis, with much~discourse as they drove along about
1173 2 | maladies of power.~ ~After discovering in the so-called superior
1174 6 | environs of Paris when he discusses the human heart and" [lays
1175 7 | commonplace," she said, with a disdainful curl of her~lip. "Just think
1176 7 | paid," said des Lupeaulx, disdainfully, so as not to~seem worsted
1177 3 | experience--~or if you like, the disease--of government official life.
1178 4 | his out of a scrape by a disgraceful marriage. The two~understood
1179 2 | advise while~flattering, and disguise the advice under the flattery.
1180 5 | Chazelle [dismally]. "Disgusting business! I don't see why
1181 7 | did she seem to him~in her dishabille. There is something indescribably
1182 8 | of her. So defeat doesn't dishearten you? You are~right; we shall
1183 7 | spite of the flattering dishes~prepared for the palate
1184 1 | or a dozen ambitious and dishonest leaders,~the Civil Service
1185 5 | the resources of political dishonesty, lies, and calumnies, and
1186 7 | you are playing is just as dishonorable as the real thing that is~
1187 8 | dishonored at the~ministry, and dishonored--"~ ~The light of her pure
1188 3 | mixture of walnut armchairs,~disjointed, and covered with tapestry;
1189 5 | be visible."~ ~Chazelle [dismally]. "Disgusting business!
1190 7 | study," said des Lupeaulx, dismissing his valet by a~sign.~ ~"
1191 7 | bolting the door of the~disordered room.~ ~She rang for Therese,
1192 5 | from being more rapidly dispatched than that of the former.~
1193 8 | just as the clerks were~dispersing, agitated all minds, and
1194 4 | close observer, who could display~unrivalled tact in developing
1195 7 | aristocracy in this~respect displeases certain clear-sighted personages
1196 8 | Excellency had more time at his~disposal.~ ~Just at this moment Saillard,
1197 1 | is obliged at any time to dispose of a mass of~these securities
1198 4 | that of intellect; evilly disposed and wholly self-~interested,
1199 2 | whom he is weak, undecided, disputations with fate, self-~questioning,
1200 1 | question of laws,--namely, a disquisition in which the reasons for
1201 4 | office, had obtained the~disrepute which they merited. "Do
1202 4 | skin-deep gayety, a secret~dissatisfaction with his social position
1203 3 | implacable as to her dues and dissembling in her actions. Once~offended,
1204 8 | my dear fellow, there's dissension among the powers that~be.
1205 1 | this~array of documents; dissertations stood in place of action;
1206 3 | equivalent to~the cleverest dissimulation, and thus it was that the
1207 1 | threatened with immediate dissolution because an able clerk is
1208 2 | whom we~find again on a distant shore, tossed up like the
1209 8 | about Rabourdin?"~ ~Fleury. "Distilled, evaporated, melted! Such
1210 4 | been able to give a more distinct idea of Messieurs~Gigonnet,
1211 4 | junior, called "junior" to distinguish him from his~brother Monsieur
1212 5 | of prompt decision which distinguishes men who are~early accustomed
1213 8 | it may not be altered or distorted while passing~through the
1214 4 | and who, poor beasts, yawn distressingly and die quickly.~Rabourdin
1215 1 | way. Education,~equally distributed through the masses, brings
1216 1 | who~impose upon them the distribution of the public moneys, and
1217 1 | ameliorated in the country districts.~In short, the State will
1218 2 | was necessary to cross the ditch between the Empire and~the
1219 7 | the court and clergy, to divert suspicion~and put them to
1220 5 | meaning; his attention was diverted~for a moment, and his Excellency
1221 8 | sorry I interrupted you" [he dives into his office~desk]. "
1222 8 | staircase. It seems she was divinely dressed. In short, it is~
1223 2 | given to the ministerial divinities! how many visits of self-interest~
1224 5 | division,~but in all the divisions--"~ ~Bixiou. "Forward, march!
1225 5 | paper and reads], "Charles dix, par la grace de Dieu, roi
1226 4 | curled, so caressing, so docile, always spick and span,--~
1227 4 | dust. Several distinguished~doctors have remonstrated against
1228 6 | usurers all applauded these doctrines with a shake of their~metallic
1229 4 | on one of the hottest of dog-~days to put a layer of lard
1230 4 | showers of frogs, and other dog-day~wonders, also the startling
1231 6 | this afternoon. Oh, what a dog-kennel he lives in! But Monsieur~
1232 7 | queen by letting loose a few dogs upon the men we were~talking
1233 8 | usual official look and the dolce far niente habits of a government~
1234 5 | t you who said he was a dolt, it must have been Minard."~ ~
1235 2 | surround it~with sufficient domain to throw dust in the eyes
1236 3 | to bear the res angusta domi of arts and the~beginnings
1237 7 | lose her prestige. Such~a domiciliary invasion may be called,
1238 1 | prompt and spontaneous. The dominant law of a~statesman is to
1239 7 | is this~Baudoyer?"~ ~"A donkey," answered des Lupeaulx; "
1240 8 | Antoine and Laurent had donned~their full uniform, when,
1241 1 | told himself that nature doomed her to a disappointed life
1242 1 | landed proprietor whose door-bell his father may have answered.~
1243 4 | of the department of the~Dordogne, officer of the Legion of
1244 8 | in the shapes of fishes,--dorys, flounders, sharks,~and
1245 4 | and speckled~with bluish dots; his nose flat, his lips
1246 1 | studied the budget under its double-aspect~of ways and means and of
1247 4 | there were others again who doubted whether to call him a spy
1248 7 | woman for seven years!--doubting her devotion!"~ ~"But,"
1249 4 | They went to live, like dove-turtles, near the~barriere de Courcelles,
1250 7 | comfortable middle-class dowdy, and~when she goes to the
1251 8 | to soften the pain of my downfall," he said to the lad,~"bring
1252 2 | parliamentary politics; dragged in~the lukewarm, fetched,
1253 6 | in]. "I don't know." [He drags Bixiou back into his~cabinet,
1254 2 | principal actors in this drama~he deserves a description,
1255 7 | slender still by the black~draperies, was shown to advantage
1256 4 | lymphatic being who dreads draughts constructs a fortification
1257 4 | pronounce it Bisiou) was a draughtsman, who ridiculed Dutocq~as
1258 4 | stove in the large office~draws like the devil; you must
1259 6 | windows?"~ ~Though Fleury was dreaded as a bully in all the offices,
1260 4 | the lymphatic being who dreads draughts constructs a fortification
1261 7 | impatiently, "The hair-~dresser already!"--an exclamation
1262 3 | highly respected leather-~dressers in the rue Censier, had
1263 4 | flowers, embroidered muslin~dresses, silk mantles, prunella
1264 2 | was Madame's bedroom and dressing-room, and~behind them her daughter'
1265 2 | the cost of the State, and driven about in the minister's
1266 1 | splashes his superior as he~drives his tilbury to Longchamps
1267 6 | Billardiere died this morning of dropsy, caused by heart~disease.'
1268 5 | observe,~he's a partner in a druggist's business in the rue des
1269 4 | were in the habit of using drugs. After that Poiret paid
1270 5 | You can~have geese and ducks with heads like ours,--you
1271 4 | illustration." The influence of the Ducs de Maufrigneuse and de~Rhetore,
1272 7 | stab, and conversation a duel with witnesses; where~all
1273 1 | to the maternal eyes a duke or~an ambassador, a marshal
1274 7 | even when they are grand dukes. She reconnoitred the field,
1275 4 | the doors of which were duly~labelled. The private offices
1276 3 | II. in partnership with a dutchman named~Werbrust, a friend
1277 3 | etc. Pigault-Lebrun, Piis, Duvicquet, in their day,~were in government
1278 1 | gigantic power set in motion by dwarfs, was generated~in this way.
1279 7 | before a ball. When the eye dwells~on a woman in full dress
1280 7 | midnight, an hour~when company dwindles and conversations become
1281 4 | collapsing by honey-combing her dykes, we~might have been able
1282 5 | Monsieur Cochin signs E. A. L. Cochin (he is named
1283 5 | the clear-sightedness of eagles; their mind is weary~when
1284 1 | of her own mind. From the earliest days of their marriage~Celestine,
1285 5 | there are a thousand ways of~earning five francs a day; why,
1286 1 | the mediocrity that simply earns a~living; and she groaned
1287 8 | added mournfully, "it is~easier to believe that than to
1288 2 | want~good stout horrors easily visible. With their eyes
1289 3 | anniversaries of birth and marriage, Easter,~Christmas, New Year's day,
1290 3 | early from home.~For him the Eastern question relates only to
1291 3 | with onions. "You~might eat your boots with those onions
1292 2 | panelling them on the~walls in ebony, the cost of which has since
1293 4 | of it himself. He played ecarte, was the life of~evening
1294 4 | a young elm, with other~eccentricities of natural history. Vimeux
1295 1 | else. Besides all this, the eccentricity of events leads~to endless
1296 7 | Colleville in return~for ecclesiastical assistance."~ ~"What shall
1297 6 | said Saillard to the two ecclesiastics, "do us the~honor to take
1298 4 | Laurent and Gabriel,~from Echelles in Savoie,--one to serve
1299 8 | Appoint Baudoyer!" echoed the minister. "Do you know
1300 7 | other, and every word said echoes in all ears; where~every
1301 4 | and his second into the Ecole Polytechnique. He~often
1302 4 | highest part of the quai des~Ecoles."~ ~Suddenly, having taken
1303 1 | together with the petty economies and cares of a~small establishment.
1304 1 | direction of simplicity. To~economize is to simplify. To simplify
1305 4 | was Adolphe) had lately economized on dinners and lived~entirely
1306 1 | partial revolutions, the eddies, as it were, of the storm~
1307 2 | Sometimes, in return, he helped editors, or got rid of obstacles
1308 1 | de Carigliano, and thus efface forever the~odious name
1309 5 | power. Now the period when effeminacy succeeds to vigor presents
1310 8 | is denied; they~form an efficient argument in the mouth of
1311 2 | the effect of exceptional effort. The~salon had lately been
1312 2 | in a wig at the top of an egg, and two little legs at
1313 4 | life he~grows more selfish; egoism develops, and relaxes all
1314 2 | Chardin des Lupeaulx. Vain and egotistical, supple and proud,~libertine
1315 7 | and the countess, in an eight-ear conversation, that they
1316 3 | day~become deputy of the eighth arrondissement. As Gigonnet
1317 5 | the minister's hand and ejecting a man of talent?~Between
1318 5 | Bonaparte.--No, appear not at Elba!"~ ~Dutocq. "You'll lose
1319 7 | cultivating," thought the elderly butterfly as he fluttered
1320 6 | Bixiou."~ ~Phellion [with an elegaic air]. "Monsieur Rabourdin
1321 7 | articles of more or~rather less elegance,--a domestic carnival, in
1322 2 | woman accustomed to such elegancies, though she~never spoke
1323 1 | luxury was~everything, always elegantly dressed, always on pleasure
1324 1 | showed an independent and elevated mind; her conversation charmed
1325 4 | found in the root of a young elm, with other~eccentricities
1326 4 | now-a-~days they only mark 'em when they come in late!"~ ~"
1327 2 | ministry; an individual much~embarrassed by his own person, who,
1328 1 | security in specie,~and that embarrasses business and the movement
1329 1 | Englishman on the road to his embassy.~ ~From these general signs
1330 8 | spring up once more and grow embittered,~envenomed. Then, for your
1331 4 | to say, "I saw the Louvre emerge from its rubbish; I~saw
1332 3 | drudgery. Through this easy~gap emerged into life the rich supernumeraries
1333 1 | be depended~on in great emergencies. Thus a loan should be put
1334 5 | L. Cochin (he is named Emile-~Adolphe-Lucian), which,
1335 Add | of the Valley~ ~Cochin, Emile-Louis-Lucien-Emmanuel~Cesar Birotteau~The Firm
1336 7 | saw those sinister faces, emitting a~simultaneous look as direct
1337 1 | business-house are to their~employer; they learned a science
1338 2 | merchandise or served a high~emprize, co-operated in some defence,
1339 8 | the peerage,~which will enable me to marry a banker's daughter
1340 4 | man put an end to the laws enacted against "the partisans of
1341 1 | France shone like a~vast encampment, prodigal and magnificent
1342 3 | ignorance of higher emotions had~encircled all her faculties with an
1343 4 | voted by the Chambers for encouragement of the~Arts. Add to these
1344 5 | was when nothing was more encouraging~than a civil-service career.
1345 5 | ended where all pretty women end--~in piety."~ ~Dutocq. "No,
1346 3 | clerks; they~know he does not endanger their interests, for he
1347 1 | of the government clerks, endeavored to~ascertain the cause of
1348 1 | world. Perhaps she was only endeavouring to excuse to her own~mind
1349 8 | argent;~fourth, or, on a pale endorsed, three batons fleurdelises
1350 3 | clerks in Paris who are not endowed, like Rabourdin,~with patriotic
1351 5 | Convention--that model of energy--was made up in a great measure
1352 3 | he worried in their work,~enforcing the rules rigorously, and
1353 2 | himself to be drawn into an engagement by the~handsome Madame Rabourdin,
1354 8 | baby's bottle, or a fire engine, or chimneys that consume
1355 3 | such as civil and military engineering, the navy, mining, and~the
1356 2 | surface for a few years, then engulfs on a stormy night, but whom
1357 3 | related the~incomprehensible enigma of the resignation of a
1358 2 | are confided to~grave and enigmatic individuals who can be acknowledged
1359 3 | should play cards; but she enjoined him to take nothing, to~
1360 3 | Saillards were therefore enjoying an income of not less~than
1361 7 | pleasure came into her~face. No enjoyment can be compared to that
1362 7 | and thinking of the social enjoyments that~were about to gratify
1363 1 | independent of it or to enlighten it on its own~follies. About
1364 7 | France should~be personally enlisted in the support of the government."~ ~
1365 3 | subjected to no such rules and entailed no drudgery. Through this
1366 3 | together with the individual~enterprises of each outside of his government
1367 4 | was just as surprisingly~entertaining at table as at a picnic,
1368 3 | best seats, and found much entertainment in watching~the passers-by.
1369 7 | execution. Celestine,~brightly enthusiastic, sprang into her husband'
1370 2 | to be allayed! how many entreaties and pledges~given to the
1371 4 | floor, divided in two by an entresol, were the living~rooms and
1372 4 | sentence to the preceding~entries in his journal: "It is asserted
1373 2 | kept its~books by double entry, the Sieur Saillard was
1374 8 | where~his letter-paper and envelopes, his wood, and his boxes
1375 8 | more and grow embittered,~envenomed. Then, for your own sake,
1376 7 | beauties had been seen and envied, she had been praised~and
1377 7 | They must be secret envoys from foreign powers," whispered
1378 4 | oddities and hatreds, its envy and its cupidity, its~determination
1379 2 | might demolish his civilian~epaulets, his place at court, his
1380 3 | Christmas, New Year's day, and Epiphany. These festivals were preceded~
1381 8 | Then followed the usual epistolary formulas.~ ~It was half-past
1382 2 | issues to contradict the epitaph~intended for the passer'
1383 8 | playing dominoes.~ ~At certain epochs in history certain powers
1384 7 | you are, how tender, how equable in anger,~how loving, you
1385 2 | about in the minister's equipage,~des Lupeaulx possessed
1386 1 | several of the shops where she equipped~herself for war. To make
1387 6 | is so eminently wise and equitable~that I bet Rabourdin will
1388 1 | seemed to enter upon an~era of tranquillity in which
1389 2 | appearance, was standing erect and rigid on his two legs,~
1390 6 | eligible to the Chamber. Ergo, with it des Lupeaulx goes
1391 7 | important nature of the~errand which brought des Lupeaulx
1392 5 | keeps him to do his private errands,~I believe. I've rung three
1393 5 | l. d. partira;~Eh nauf errera,~Decide a Gorix.~ ~"Every
1394 5 | corvette, anything you like)~errera--"~ ~Dutocq. "What a tissue
1395 7 | to her. She immediately~escaped into her bedroom, where
1396 4 | luck there, though~it often escapes them. Many end the weary
1397 8 | jessant from the sides of the~escutcheon, with the motto "En Lupus
1398 3 | of treachery and police espial. If a single page of these~
1399 4 | sequence), Bixiou was so essentially useful to Baudoyer and Godard~
1400 3 | left to live upon after establishing their~son.~ ~Mitral was
1401 4 | Casimir Delavigne he only~esteemed. Fleury, as you will have
1402 8 | of the virtuous, honest, estimable, upright, and pious Baudoyer,
1403 3 | the bric-a-brac from an etagere. His dress was all of the
1404 8 | are two kinds of good,--eternal good and temporal good."~ ~
1405 Add | Country Town~ ~Gruget, Madame Etienne~The Thirteen~A Bachelor'
1406 5 | ignorant of the laws of etiquette. Well, no man~can be a universal
1407 7 | plays against me just as l'Etourdi~played against Mascarille."~ ~"
1408 6 | riveted on the paper.~ ~"Your eulogy costs us four thousand eight
1409 1 | those of a harem between eunuchs and women~and imbecile sultans,
1410 5 | you~catch the meaning? et eut--and had) E-u fin riche;
1411 5 | and the minister could not evade~him.~ ~"Will your Excellency
1412 8 | Fleury. "Distilled, evaporated, melted! Such a man, the
1413 6 | hangs about the bureaus~evaporates; silence is restored. By
1414 7 | mine.' Don't you think the evasion~charming?"]~ ~"But you must
1415 7 | ten on the evening of~the eventful Tuesday, she left home in
1416 4 | suppress the fact--signal~evidence for his theory--that in
1417 4 | equivalent to that of intellect; evilly disposed and wholly self-~
1418 1 | Rabourdin considered that an evolution~of twenty years would be
1419 4 | fixed and unvarying in her evolutions as was Poiret~junior in
1420 1 | horizon. This tale, which is evolved from~the very heart of the
1421 1 | patiently seek out a slow~evolving medium for all changes so
1422 4 | of the~usurper." Fleury, ex-captain of a regiment of the line
1423 4 | handsome Thuillier," an ex-Lothario, led as~idle a life as Colleville
1424 6 | went on, speaking~to the ex-sheriff in a low voice, "we three
1425 4 | Rabourdin, who was never exacting with his~subordinates allowed
1426 8 | judges push~the gift of exactitude, the genius of inquisition,
1427 6 | s clever and witty, and exalts La Billardiere."~ ~Du Bruel. "
1428 6 | settle it with the head examiner. But~you know perfectly
1429 5 | regulations for~civil-service examiners, we are worse off than common
1430 8 | and Bixiou in a state of~exasperation difficult to describe; for
1431 4 | copies, alleging that they exceeded the number proposed in the~
1432 6 | would say a word to his Excellency--'"~ ~"'If you would deign,'"
1433 2 | consequently give the effect of exceptional effort. The~salon had lately
1434 4 | fool by~tempting him to excesses, and openly avowed that
1435 2 | their favor; a~perpetual exchange of little services went
1436 4 | instance, in the Court of Exchequer,~that wayside refuge where
1437 8 | view, a neutral being. The excise-man is only half a clerk; he
1438 1 | to the budgets which now excite such rabid discussion,~results
1439 8 | Vimeux are there, talking excitedly.] "What's the matter, gentlemen?~
1440 7 | hair-~dresser already!"--an exclamation as little agreeable to des
1441 7 | hi!"~ ~These dry little exclamations served as a laugh to the
1442 6 | pointing out a reason for~the exclusion of the candidate? A gratuitous
1443 1 | France to five~thousand men, exclusive of the departments of war
1444 1 | ornamental women, women who are exclusively wives,~or mothers, or sweethearts,
1445 4 | during the summer season, excursions to~Montmorency, picnics
1446 8 | ideas, but men capable of executing them that~we lack."~ ~Des
1447 6 | tender look like that of an executioner when~about to go to work
1448 7 | then, begin your work, executioners," said the secretary,~smiling.~ ~"
1449 5 | labelled 'Civil Service executions'; make him cutting~the throat
1450 5 | grammar-school, been vaccinated, is exempt from military service,~and
1451 4 | of the empire a man could~exercise over himself. Monsieur Phellion
1452 4 | corridors, the masculine exhalations contained in rooms without~
1453 4 | keeps in his collection and~exhibits to this day, blissfully
1454 3 | reckoned, the distance that exists~between 0 and the figure
1455 7 | together for~a becoming exit. She wished to make a last
1456 2 | of which has since become exorbitant. Elegant~buffets made by
1457 1 | Eight years of fruitless expectation made Madame Rabourdin at
1458 6 | sharp~practice, and full of expedients and judicial precautions,
1459 6 | all the blunders of the expedition to Quiberon,--thus proving
1460 6 | helped in sending off Falleix expeditiously, explaining to him the~advantage
1461 3 | bear up under the horrible experience--~or if you like, the disease--
1462 3 | are too clever, and I too experienced,--too blase, if~you like,--
1463 4 | trick on his creditors. Expert in legal matters,~he never
1464 4 | Pillars of the ministry, experts in all manners and customs~
1465 5 | la Billardiere has~just expired?"~ ~Colleville. "That's
1466 6 | off Falleix expeditiously, explaining to him the~advantage of
1467 2 | indemnity.~Moreover, he explains the matter to the minister'
1468 5 | is permanently stained; explanations are of no avail;~no one
1469 4 | greatest pleasures was to explore the environs of Paris,~which
1470 8 | administration, in which we are all~exposed--"~ ~Phellion [in a loud
1471 8 | unearthed a~paper of his, exposing the present system of administration
1472 3 | gold~medal granted at the exposition of 1825). Madame Baudoyer,
1473 8 | after ten years' public~exposure to the inclemencies of Parisian
1474 8 | fallen man to his home, expressing~his feelings of respectful
1475 2 | to des Lupeaulx (invited expressly to hear this~remark), "Why
1476 1 | prudent, because he knew men; exquisitely courteous with women, of~
1477 6 | Falleix, who is going to extend his business and~use his
1478 3 | breeches with~straps that extended beyond the buckles, cotton
1479 2 | cultivates social relations and extends them, he succeeds.~After
1480 2 | several~houses with handsome exteriors, the apartments of which
1481 7 | the wisdom to let their external situation conform~to their
1482 1 | the first place, she~often extinguished him by the brilliancy of
1483 1 | excellent when the~object is to extort money, become ridiculous
1484 3 | thought his old countryman~extortionate, and complained to the Saillards
1485 7 | masters?" he said.~ ~The two extortioners continued cold and motionless.
1486 4 | he read the newest books, extracted their wit, and laid it by~
1487 1 | hopes and by the natural~extravagance of happy love, Monsieur
1488 7 | He'll build; he'll commit extravagancies," continued Gigonnet;~"Falleix
1489 7 | blamed him for decorating it extravagantly; and together they~laughed
1490 2 | them; they have neither eye-glass nor telescope; they want~
1491 4 | thinks and suffers. His white eyelashes and~lack of eyebrows induced
1492 3 | blue,~overweighted by heavy eyelids which fell nearly straight
1493 8 | letter?" asked Antoine, eying it.~ ~"Nothing; I looked
1494 7 | injured the sale of cotton fabrics enough to~revolutionize
1495 2 | nomenclature which we derive from fabulists,~des Lupeaulx belonged to
1496 8 | in at the right moment to facilitate some~compromise."~ ~"But
1497 4 | struggled hard to suppress the fact--signal~evidence for his
1498 3 | character of his countenance, faded; the real man~appeared,
1499 6 | vaudevilles together, and I'll~fag at your work in the office."~ ~
1500 1 | statistics, documents, failing which France would have
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