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1501 2 | minister's wife, who never~fails to draw freely upon the
1502 8 | Monsieur de la Roche, nearly fainted here. See his tears on~my
1503 4 | twenty-seven years old, fair-~skinned, with a piercing
1504 4 | under the name of "Miss Fairfax."~ ~Handsome clerks of the
1505 7 | have been fashioned by the fairies who, the stories tell us,~
1506 7 | before the appointment is fairly signed, and~I'll read her
1507 4 | yellow, a skin of dazzling fairness,~though blotched with red,
1508 3 | likely to dream of that fairy when he went to~bed.~ ~Rabourdin
1509 4 | lot, he applied himself faithfully to serve the~government,
1510 4 | mother was laying siege to Falliex as a son-in-law. He brought~
1511 6 | crowning a~loyalty which never faltered under the usurper. This
1512 6 | Monseigneur," in the tone of familiarity assumed by men~who know
1513 4 | Phellion, a respectable family-man. To the~influence of his
1514 7 | and also by so~apparently fantastic an arrangement. "What do
1515 5 | love and devotion lived far-off in the rue du Roi-Dore in
1516 8 | grew big as saucers.~ ~"Farewell, monsieur," said Rabourdin
1517 8 | husband. We will sell our farm; its value has~increased
1518 7 | a majority of fifty-two farmers' and mechanics'~votes, which
1519 3 | beside~the rents of our farms at Grajeux,--nearly twenty
1520 8 | God's earth. Not a copper farthing of the~nation's money is
1521 8 | there~was an error of two farthings. This is how and why it
1522 7 | and~seemed to have been fashioned by the fairies who, the
1523 1 | thousand government clerks! In fastening upon public offices, like
1524 3 | you will both rise the faster,~and it is surely high time
1525 5 | take~the trouble to study fatalism, the religion of the Emperor
1526 6 | attachment to the~faith of our fathers, Monsieur de la Billardiere--'"~ ~
1527 2 | that either can hear us, or fathom our secret thoughts.~ ~"
1528 2 | administrative advancement than she fathomed Clement des~Lupeaulx's true
1529 7 | Falleix, half-dead with the fatigue of~his journey, had gone
1530 8 | everything, the toil of years.~Fatigued by the pressure of thought,
1531 3 | a brass-~founder in the fauborg Saint-Antoine, to whom Saillard
1532 8 | Berton, Caron, the brothers Faucher, and the~massacres."~ ~Phellion. "
1533 3 | career; he hears talk of favoritism; he discovers the intrigues~
1534 1 | a speculation which had favourable~chances of success. But
1535 5 | and yet des Lupeaulx~was fawning on his judge! It was all
1536 7 | never forgive, and yet he fawns upon me! Do you think I
1537 5 | door and slipped the bolt, fearing interruption. While~he was
1538 1 | continue to work; for~everybody fears to remodel it, though no
1539 7 | sleep enjoys, as it were, a feast of stolen fruit glowing~
1540 6 | you~to return some of his feathers," said Mitral.~ ~"Shall
1541 5 | word for skiff, vessel, felucca, corvette, anything you
1542 7 | You don't want a bit of~feminine advice?" she said.~ ~"You
1543 3 | professorial chair were all fenced about by strict regulations
1544 4 | good~shot and clever at fencing, seemed quite capable of
1545 1 | such for instance as the "fermes" (the public domains~throughout
1546 Add | from a Courtesan's Life~ ~Ferraud, Comtesse~Colonel Chabert~ ~
1547 3 | against the woodwork.~This ferret of ideas did not deny himself
1548 8 | most inquisitorial, fussy,~ferreting, scribbling, paper-blotting,
1549 3 | the ceremonies. When the~festival day came, the presents were
1550 3 | day, and Epiphany. These festivals were preceded~by great domestic
1551 3 | tones of a flageolet to the festivity. The cook, Madame~Baudoyer'
1552 2 | dragged in~the lukewarm, fetched, carried, and buried propositions,
1553 6 | you a dais for the coming Fete-Dieu. But~the purchase must depend
1554 7 | dethroned. You can keep down a feudal aristocracy by~levelling
1555 5 | thousand lines; he writes "feuilletons," or~he gets into Saint-Pelagie
1556 8 | mortal hours, a prey to~feverish agitation. At half-past
1557 1 | official staff. To employ fewer man, to double or treble~
1558 2 | deal there were ligneous fibres strong~enough to let her
1559 4 | prunella boots, handsome fichus, a Chinese~parasol, and
1560 4 | salary under the names of fictitious creditors, so that he was
1561 4 | with the motto; "Toujours fidele").~Possessed with a mania
1562 8 | the house, had a~restless, fidgety look in his eye which frightened
1563 8 | the Opposition, and the fierce denunciations of the press.~
1564 4 | Baudoyers. He was moreover a fifer in the National Guard,--
1565 3 | heels. Though she was now fifty-seven years old, and her~lifetime
1566 1 | faculties in a sordid~struggle, fighting hand to hand with an account-book.
1567 3 | to the regiment, what the~figurante is to a theatre; something
1568 8 | known for certain that you filched those papers from Monsieur~
1569 4 | in his hand, the wooden file resting on~the marble of
1570 8 | broke up, and~the members filed out. The minister's chasseur
1571 5 | deal with the political filibusters of other~cabinets, and it
1572 5 | three empty~places for us to fill--"~ ~Bixiou. "Three places
1573 6 | that's theatrical,--the finale of the~article."~ ~Du Bruel [
1574 7 | same ground with the best financier of the~epoch,--the Napoleon
1575 1 | men. Tall, handsome, and~finely-formed, she was a good musician,
1576 5 | to say to~you."~ ~Bixiou [fingering Dutocq's waistcoat]. "You'
1577 4 | new meanings. "Un Corse la~finira," found within the words, "
1578 7 | She left him without finishing her sentence.~ ~"Dear creature!"
1579 8 | he now was sat by his own fireside, and in the Cafe Themis~
1580 7 | provisions the cook had just fished~from the vast ocean of the
1581 8 | of them in the shapes of fishes,--dorys, flounders, sharks,~
1582 4 | out, like a~salmon at a fishmonger's, in spite of his empty
1583 4 | walls, together with dried~fishskins. He lived with his sister,
1584 6 | la Billardiere's end has~fitly crowned a noble life, consecrated
1585 4 | and~concerted pieces and fits them into their right place,
1586 4 | Charles X.'s head on the five-~franc coins. He mimicked
1587 8 | Poiret [magnetized by the fixity of Bixiou's eye]. "The French~
1588 3 | concealed the fact that he was a~flabby cipher by so ponderous a
1589 3 | the~piercing tones of a flageolet to the festivity. The cook,
1590 3 | The street pavements, the flaggings of the~quays and the boulevards,
1591 4 | cotton night-cap tied on by~flame-colored ribbons; attended by Despleins,
1592 7 | is attacking on our right flank."~ ~A very few words will
1593 4 | and~young doctor Bianchon, flanked by two old female relatives,
1594 4 | stockings, and shoes~with flapping bows; thus you behold him.
1595 8 | light of her pure honor flashed from Celestine's eyes; she
1596 2 | him back with usury the flatteries he bestowed~in the higher
1597 3 | painter boldly lies and~flatters his sitter in the only way
1598 3 | commonplace: witness her flaxen hair, tending to~whiteness;
1599 1 | was like the hopping of fleas harnessed to~pasteboard
1600 3 | You may see in certain Flemish pictures~the wives of burgomasters
1601 1 | having worn that of the~Fleur-de-lis in the early days of the
1602 8 | pale endorsed, three batons fleurdelises gules;~supported by four
1603 4 | du Chatelet, the quai aux Fleurs and the~Markets." He and
1604 4 | crying out, "I feared it!" he flew like an arrow into the~corridor.~ ~"
1605 3 | wearisome as the~plague of flies, and never wished to see
1606 5 | caught in the threads of a flimsy net; he struggled~with himself.~ ~"
1607 4 | twirling his cane and of~flinging the sort of glance which
1608 8 | nothing astonishes me" [flings his cloak about him like~
1609 8 | Phellion. "He asserts very flippantly things that he only guesses
1610 2 | property. A~marriage might float him and pump the waters
1611 4 | kept her from vice. She~was floating undecidedly along, when
1612 3 | to~each other a wearisome flood of nonsense. Elisabeth quietly
1613 4 | well lighted, but seldom floored with wood. Wooden~floors
1614 6 | all that is a little too florid? I should~tone down the
1615 4 | reasons, in the same house as Florine, an actress for whom he
1616 8 | shapes of fishes,--dorys, flounders, sharks,~and snappers, all
1617 4 | a porter, an artificial-~flower maker employed by Mademoiselle
1618 7 | thought, looking at the flower-~stands bright with bloom,
1619 6 | ought to slip in a little flummery about~the emotions of the
1620 7 | my two~children." The man flung himself back on his happiness.
1621 7 | opened the letter, and a flush of pleasure came into her~
1622 2 | tolerably stout, complexion flushed with~good living, powdered
1623 7 | elderly butterfly as he fluttered down the~staircase.~ ~"Good
1624 2 | he had the talent of a fly which~drops plumb upon the
1625 3 | through piercing cold or fog or rain a timid, pale young
1626 8 | statistics are the childish foible of~modern statesmen, who
1627 7 | was cleaning the silver, folding~the napkins, and polishing
1628 2 | with choice plantations and foliage and statues of fine~effect.
1629 3 | written on a hundred and fifty~folio sheets, besides the corroborative
1630 4 | inch of Arcueil, Bievre,~Fontenay-aux-Roses, and Aulnay, so famous as
1631 4 | about which a man may be fooled because he~wants to be;
1632 5 | head that solid lump of foolishness,~that cube of idiocy, Baudoyer?"~ ~
1633 2 | the means to~maintain his foothold; for in the fortified city
1634 6 | not receive me on the same footing that she does~Thuillier,
1635 4 | chilly one has a wooden footstool~under his feet; the man
1636 3 | And she left the old fop to go and speak with Madame
1637 6 | grounds~Monsieur Bixiou has for--"~ ~Bixiou [shouting across
1638 4 | of hay taken from his own forage allowance, and each of the~
1639 1 | a better use of the same forces. His plan, in its~simplest
1640 5 | carry out a plan which~means forcing the minister's hand and
1641 4 | woman,--an~Englishwoman, a foreigner of some kind, or a widow,--
1642 4 | a marked~religious tone, foreseeing the favor which the fools
1643 6 | and to begin the fight by forestalling the intentions of the~minister
1644 1 | nothing of its own, neither~forests, nor mines, nor public works.
1645 4 | America. No wizard could~foretell the future of this young
1646 2 | compelled to resign. Thus forewarned, the~minister would be able
1647 5 | heart nor head; everybody forgets to-morrow the service of~
1648 6 | of Rabourdin's support by forgiving him now,--I'll get~even
1649 7 | as hers.~Madame Rabourdin forgot nothing. She went herself
1650 1 | to figures, and kiss the forked hoof of the golden~calf.
1651 8 | heaven will help you,") was formidable only through~the imaginary
1652 1 | statesman is to apply precise formula to all cases, after the
1653 8 | followed the usual epistolary formulas.~ ~It was half-past seven
1654 8 | with~distress.] "Suppose we formulate the whole matter in a maxim
1655 4 | dreads draughts constructs a fortification of~boxes on a screen. The
1656 2 | his foothold; for in the fortified city into which he had~wormed
1657 3 | boundless. He dined once a fortnight in the rue Duphot; but~always
1658 1 | were besieging the same fortress,~working on parallel lines,
1659 8 | they haven't an independent forum;~they are still in the twilight
1660 7 | thousand francs, made by Fossin for an~Englishwoman who
1661 6 | remember that under the Empire Fouche~was telling an anecdote
1662 6 | losing many of those who fought for them in Revolutionary~
1663 3 | Martin Falleix, a brass-~founder in the fauborg Saint-Antoine,
1664 3 | thousand invested in the foundry, besides an equal division
1665 3 | glass, fine damask, and a four-post bedstead, hung with curtains
1666 5 | that it was able to put~fourteen armies into the field against
1667 5 | and stick their heads on fowls, put them in a~monstrous
1668 7 | be made deputy; the old fox laughs at the~rest," said
1669 4 | Bolivar, and Beranger. Foy, Lafitte, and Casimir Delavigne
1670 8 | perhaps, be useless; for a fragment of my work relating to the~
1671 4 | of his office hung, in a~frame, his coat of arms (sable,
1672 3 | bought for the sake of the frames, china services of~a composite
1673 4 | Charles X.'s head on the five-~franc coins. He mimicked Dr. Gall
1674 4 | within the words, "Revolution Francaise"; "Eh, c'est~large nez,"
1675 3 | boulevard du Temple, where Franconi, La Gaite, and l'Ambigu-Comique~
1676 3 | smiling. "But you are not as frank with me as I~have been with
1677 5 | If the government would frankly state its intentions~without
1678 8 | Excellency is not treating me frankly--"~ ~"He means a quarrel,"
1679 8 | with a gesture of almost~frantic joy, and seated her on his
1680 4 | without paying, gambled at Frascati, and often won. Artist by
1681 4 | Jesuits. Belonging~to that fraternity in spirit, though not admitted
1682 5 | favorite, some spy, some pious fraud,--to~Colleville perhaps,
1683 1 | productions of the soil were freed, and industry, finding raw~
1684 4 | conscientious puritan of freedom, this apostle of an~impossible
1685 4 | smoker, jester, diner-out and~frequenter of supper-parties, always
1686 1 | fashionable she gave a~dinner on Fridays, the guests being expected
1687 1 | circumstance; it led him, poor and friendless, to the house of a~Monsieur
1688 4 | the two men, "whether our friendships are born of likeness or
1689 3 | Parisian life~soon measures the frightful distance that separates
1690 3 | turned slightly up, in the frigid lips and the short~chin.
1691 4 | matter who goes under, its frivolous~gossip which gives so many
1692 8 | Poiret by the button~of his frock-coat.] "Before you leave this
1693 4 | him tales of showers of frogs, and other dog-day~wonders,
1694 2 | usurers and~crossed the frontier. Risking all to win all,
1695 5 | exclaimed the minister, frowning, and~hurriedly interrupting
1696 4 | half-concealed penury was a fruitful source of ridicule to Chazelle.~
1697 1 | garret.~ ~Eight years of fruitless expectation made Madame
1698 4 | and the fact~that he had fruitlessly exhibited his enormous moustache
1699 3 | that~she might reap the fruits; and she would have been,
1700 2 | scratch.~ ~As the young fry of clerks looked at this
1701 4 | portraits in the famous Fualdes case (for~which he drew
1702 8 | chimneys that consume no fuel, or~ovens which cook cutlets
1703 7 | hastily got together by the fugitive;~we say it to her glory,
1704 1 | are trees, more~spawn than full-grown fish, and many great capacities (
1705 3 | acknowledged his fault to its fullest extent; he related how~he
1706 8 | startled horse and cast a fulminating glance at Rabourdin.~ ~"
1707 5 | would~be fun, more than fun--profit!" [Returns to the
1708 7 | in what ways the public funds were~employed, and how the
1709 7 | without his glasses, must look funny enough~in a dressing-gown!"
1710 4 | eyes, and a mouth like a furnace~door; such was the profile
1711 2 | not injuring them and by furthering their wishes on~certain
1712 6 | of Baudoyer.~He read with fury the article which pledged
1713 6 | the art of~looking into futurity, but if you have not read
1714 1 | dozen millions; the modern "gabelle"~disappears, the poor breathe
1715 1 | the higher offices were gained through parliamentary influence,~
1716 3 | Temple, where Franconi, La Gaite, and l'Ambigu-Comique~were
1717 4 | under his feet, shoes with gaiters, a waistcoat~evidently vamped
1718 4 | took him to the Opera on gala days and presented him to
1719 4 | franc coins. He mimicked Dr. Gall when lecturing, till he
1720 7 | so completely done with~gallantry as he; even the opposition
1721 6 | deserve a good place in~your galley," thought he as he seated
1722 4 | theatre~without paying, gambled at Frascati, and often won.
1723 1 | budget was very much what the~gambler is to the game; that which
1724 5 | lose, like a man weary of gambling who allows himself a last~
1725 3 | drudgery. Through this easy~gap emerged into life the rich
1726 8 | see."~ ~He made the letter gape open, and showed Antoine
1727 2 | man playing bowls in the~gardens of the ministry with the
1728 3 | robes, only that venerable garment called in Touraine and Picardy~"
1729 3 | hung with curtains and~garnished with plumes.~ ~Amid these
1730 1 | furniture, which~she put in the garret.~ ~Eight years of fruitless
1731 4 | lucifer matches and portable gas, jointed sockets~for hydrostatic
1732 1 | harassing customs at the gates of the~cities, and obtained
1733 6 | dominoes." [Sebastien~enters to gather up the different papers
1734 3 | ornament of any kind, a black gauze scarf, her hair smoothly
1735 4 | table as at a picnic, as gay and lively at midnight on~
1736 8 | appear. Madame Rabourdin was gayer and~more graceful than ever,
1737 4 | In spite of his skin-deep gayety, a secret~dissatisfaction
1738 6 | and he grasped her hand, gayly.~ ~"But," said Mitral, "
1739 5 | bureau.~ ~The children all gazed at Rabourdin with curiosity.
1740 8 | Bixiou; Poiret, stupefied, gazes at him~uneasily], "and also
1741 2 | appointment of a new minister was~gazetted in the "Moniteur," and the
1742 5 | others in turn. You can~have geese and ducks with heads like
1743 8 | without heads of divisions, general-secretaries and directors,~and all this
1744 2 | which he had~wormed himself, generals do not long keep useless
1745 1 | in motion by dwarfs, was generated~in this way. Though Napoleon,
1746 4 | solely through Rabourdin's generosity, and was very certain that
1747 4 | large nez," in "Charles Genest," an abbe at the court of
1748 7 | said des Lupeaulx, with a genial, caressing manner; "you~
1749 8 | conglomeration~of Arabs, Jews, Genoese, Genevese, Greeks, Lombards,
1750 4 | constitutional poodles, so gentle, so~nicely curled, so caressing,
1751 6 | Monsieur de la Billardiere~gentleman-in-ordinary--'"~ ~Bixiou. "Very ordinary!"~ ~
1752 4 | Billardiere's man had the air of a gentleman-usher, an innovation~which gave
1753 6 | will be included among the gentlemen-in-ordinary of~the Bedchamber.~ ~"The
1754 4 | name~of "Historical and Geographic Catechisms." Feeling himself
1755 8 | whether English, French, German or Italian,--I let~you off
1756 4 | member of the Academy of Gers, and other learned bodies,~
1757 7 | but she knew also that~ghosts return to old castles, and
1758 8 | administrative, civil, and military~giants. Fear creates bugbears.
1759 1 | retain them.~Bureaucracy, a gigantic power set in motion by dwarfs,
1760 8 | daughter-in-~law. Uncle Gigonnet-Bidault, who had dined at the house,
1761 3 | predecessor left it. The gilding of the pier-glasses~was
1762 6 | nose and turned round the glacial~cheek-bones. These remarkable
1763 8 | the merchant who would not gladly give five per cent of his
1764 6 | returned Elisabeth, dryly, glancing at her husband to make him
1765 2 | ministerial officer. Eyes~glazed by the constant use of spectacles
1766 6 | seeing~Mitral, and their eyes gleamed with tigerish curiosity.~ ~"
1767 3 | tippler and lighted by two gleaming vulture eyes, allowed his
1768 2 | were dependent on him, this~gleaner of ideas exacted certain
1769 2 | cashier accordingly~began to glide along the carpet and edge
1770 7 | when des~Lupeaulx, who had glided noiselessly up to them,
1771 7 | dinner? But the glance that glides through the disarray of
1772 8 | clerks so penetrating,~so glittering with gleams of gold, that
1773 8 | the purest and best on the globe has~rendered robbery, as
1774 7 | day among the triumphs and glories of her~life,--all her beauties
1775 7 | I calumniated~you to him gloriously and in good faith."~ ~The
1776 2 | he obeyed well; he could gloss a base act~with a jest and
1777 4 | adorned his hand,~outside his glove, from which dangled a handsome
1778 4 | dress, curled~and perfumed, gloved and booted in the latest
1779 7 | a feast of stolen fruit glowing~between the leaves on a
1780 2 | of household drudge and go-between he added that of~gratuitous
1781 1 | female influence. Thus, goaded by~Celestine's ambition,
1782 6 | and admired at Monsieur~Gohier's, the king's jeweller.
1783 4 | your ears. Didn't see such goings-on under Monsieur~Robert Lindet.
1784 2 | had lately been rehung in gold-colored silk with carmelite~touches.
1785 8 | troops re-uniformed and~gold-laced over and over again; vessels
1786 7 | personally."~ ~"He is very good-looking," said des Lupeaulx.~ ~"
1787 5 | and perceived~Dutocq. "Ah, good-morning, Dutocq," he said. "I sent
1788 2 | derelict could ever have held goodly merchandise or served a
1789 4 | personalities~whether the goose-quill tribe were becoming idiots
1790 1 | the affairs of life was a Gordian knot~impossible to untie
1791 3 | house appeared to him as~gorgeous as the Louvre. He was careful
1792 5 | looked it out in~Malte-Brun: Goritz, in Latin Gorixia, situated
1793 5 | Malte-Brun: Goritz, in Latin Gorixia, situated in Bohemia or
1794 8 | Baudoyer, after idling and gossiping since~the death of Monsieur
1795 3 | Middle Ages rendered~by Jean Goujon, the illustrious sculptor
1796 2 | and proud,~libertine and gourmand, grasping from the pressure
1797 7 | prepared for the palate of the gourmet-emeritus, des Lupeaulx did not~come
1798 1 | INTERESTS to it, not MEN. The government-clerks being led to detest~the
1799 8 | a brain, the~scribes of governmental thought; the Opposition
1800 3 | wore anything but cotton gowns in summer and merino in~
1801 6 | His Majesty has~already graciously made known that Monsieur
1802 1 | bodies,~officers of the lower grades found their services honorably
1803 3 | the rents of our farms at Grajeux,--nearly twenty thousand
1804 5 | who has gone through~the grammar-school, been vaccinated, is exempt
1805 3 | daughter, son-in-law, and grandchild were carefully~observed,
1806 3 | foreigners as for our own~grandchildren, what a supernumerary in
1807 Add | Another Study of Woman~La Grande Breteche~ ~Bidault (known
1808 4 | left him to the~care of his grandmother, who married her head-clerk,
1809 3 | Octave de Camps, the Comte de Granville, the Vicomte de~Fontaine,
1810 1 | things of life from her grasp,--blaming fate as~deceptive.
1811 6 | uncle's esteem,"~and he grasped her hand, gayly.~ ~"But,"
1812 Add | Bachelor's Establishment~Pierre Grassou~A Start in Life~Albert Savarus~
1813 4 | year; new~years' gifts and "gratifications" brought their emoluments
1814 7 | can be compared to that of gratified vanity.~ ~"You know what
1815 7 | enjoyments that~were about to gratify his vanity. "She was made
1816 1 | to keep the wheels well~greased. This fatal conviction entering
1817 4 | customer of the presence of a~greasy substance, obtained by the
1818 3 | eyes as he realized the greatness of his offence.~ ~"Come,
1819 7 | taking from the pocket of his~greenish overcoat a number of legal
1820 4 | shining equally in the greenroom and at the balls given among
1821 7 | not to set foot in these greenrooms at the~wrong moment; a woman
1822 8 | Rabourdin office for a word~of greeting. Believing that he had lost
1823 3 | the same way to the rue Greneta, where he lived on the third~
1824 7 | money-~lender of the rue des Gres. Like a dog called to heel
1825 1 | of Saint-Laurence on his~grid-iron, is it any wonder that she
1826 1 | who~succeeds, and not to grieve over the fall of an able
1827 1 | was cool. Celestine, much grieved, thought her husband narrow-~
1828 8 | Rabourdin raised his head with a grievous motion of distress and~answered, "
1829 8 | gules;~supported by four griffon's-claws jessant from the
1830 8 | Bixiou [laughing and grimacing like a monkey]. "I am curious
1831 8 | Mitral rubbed his nose and grinned as he glanced at his niece~
1832 7 | that is much the firmest~grip. Therefore, let us be friends,
1833 4 | and presented him to some~grisette under the clock, after calling
1834 1 | earns a~living; and she groaned at being married to a man
1835 8 | another path. If I had sold groceries we should now~be millionaires.
1836 8 | millionaires. Well, let us be grocers. You are only twenty-eight,~
1837 1 | commit it was too late,--the groove had been cut; he suffered
1838 1 | before you estimate the gross~expenses of the family,
1839 4 | means of the extreme and grotesque politeness~which they bestowed
1840 6 | Monsieur Phellion to know what grounds~Monsieur Bixiou has for--"~ ~
1841 1 | they live in Paris, must grovel before~accounts, do homage
1842 5 | indignant at the hoax, goes off grumbling.]~"Gentlemen! you would
1843 7 | Lupeaulx.~ ~"We guarantee--"~ ~"Guarantee!--what?" said the secretary,
1844 7 | asked des Lupeaulx.~ ~"We guarantee--"~ ~"Guarantee!--what?"
1845 8 | flippantly things that he only guesses at."~ ~Fleury. "Say at once
1846 4 | in this was the power of~guessing the inmost wishes of others;
1847 8 | concerns the~statesmen who guide the ship."~ ~The Minister [
1848 1 | they~let themselves be guided by the leading-strings of
1849 7 | would~certainly have made a guilty woman turn pale, but which
1850 5 | the Prince of Orange, the Guises,~Machiavelli, in short,
1851 8 | edge of this hole, this gulf, this volcano, called, in~
1852 7 | latter's throat literally gurgled with the~name of his divinity.
1853 3 | tall tallow candle always guttering~down into the flat brass
1854 5 | the paper]. "Listen!~ ~"A H. V. il cedera;~De S. C.
1855 6 | shook their heads and said, "Habent sua sidera~lites." Saillard
1856 1 | into relief. Rabourdin wore habitually a blue surcoat, a white
1857 8 | had carried them away in a hackney coach.~Rabourdin passed
1858 2 | amiable protestations and hackneyed~courtesies, new to the foolish
1859 8 | me if he knew the letter hadn't gone. I know a famous
1860 4 | madmen, and watched~them with haggard eyes.~ ~Since the day when
1861 8 | Talleyrand was supposed to hail all events of whatever kind
1862 7 | morning.~ ~"Madame, the hair-dresser."~ ~"At last!" thought Celestine. "
1863 3 | to women. The first white hairs lead~to the latest passions,
1864 4 | with ragged clothes and~half-concealed penury was a fruitful source
1865 7 | the Abbe Gaudron. Falleix, half-dead with the fatigue of~his
1866 7 | let~herself be surprised half-dressed, with her hair about her
1867 8 | minds, and for the first half-hour after~arrival in the morning
1868 2 | said the minister's wife, half-laughing.~ ~Women never like to hear
1869 8 | manner that was~half-solemn, half-satirical.~ ~Sebastien meanwhile had
1870 4 | influence of his chief he owed a half-scholarship for each of his two~sons
1871 8 | with a manner that was~half-solemn, half-satirical.~ ~Sebastien
1872 4 | Paulmier,~a bachelor, often half-starved like Vimeux, with ragged
1873 4 | trousers that were tight, half-tight,~pleated, or embroidered;
1874 8 | waited, not in the conference hall, but in~the courtyard, where,
1875 5 | work; the maimed and the halt and~the sick ones, like
1876 4 | his quarters, thirds, and halves of plays in three different
1877 8 | it slow and insolent; it hampers ministerial action, stifles
1878 4 | who delighted in his neat hand-writing, and~was full of compassion
1879 8 | which the lad reluctantly~handed over to him.~ ~"It is very
1880 6 | that," said des Lupeaulx, handing him over the two journals,
1881 3 | called~Gigonnet, was rich and handled vast sums of money. Enlightened
1882 8 | sum goes out of it.~She handles, therefore, two thousand
1883 5 | Many women may even be~handsomer, but it would be hard to
1884 7 | Celestine recognized the handwriting, read the paper, and turned
1885 3 | allowed his gray~hair to hang loose under a three-cornered
1886 3 | kinds of supernumeraries, or hangers-on,--one poor,~the other rich.
1887 3 | side, with other skirts hanging over them. Her bust was
1888 2 | study had inherited the late~hangings of the salon, carefully
1889 6 | people is like that of the hangman who jumps upon a victim'
1890 6 | the peculiar odor that hangs about the bureaus~evaporates;
1891 4 | for~which he drew faces hap-hazard), or his sketch of the debate
1892 4 | will~be a hot day when that happens, and the hens will have
1893 4 | Rabourdin he should die the happiest father in the world.~ ~One
1894 1 | hundred millions,~rather than harass them by taxing the thing
1895 5 | being surprised at~anything. Hardened in treachery and in all
1896 6 | young man. Your days of hardship~are nearly over; you'll
1897 1 | intrigues, like those of a harem between eunuchs and women~
1898 2 | years' struggle in which the harlequin sabre of epigram opened~
1899 4 | the matter pass. The~most harmless of Bixiou's jokes perpetrated
1900 6 | Provost, who knew how to harmonize the~severity of his functions
1901 2 | poesy surrounds him with harmony and awakens~ideas within
1902 7 | thought Celestine, "but the harpoon is in his~back and he'll
1903 2 | dependence on his chief. The harrier turned against the~huntsman;
1904 3 | could equal~Elisabeth in hashing the remains of a leg of
1905 2 | informing his~Excellency that he hastens to pay him the customary
1906 4 | hat to the Sieur Tournan, hat-maker in the rue Saint-~Martin,
1907 1 | vanquished by that~most hateful of all miseries, the mediocrity
1908 4 | society, with its oddities and hatreds, its envy and its cupidity,
1909 4 | about to consult Doctor Haudry. The disease~first appeared
1910 8 | The minister looked haughtily at des Lupeaulx.~ ~"We are
1911 4 | intriguing. The reader must~have haunted the bureaus of the ministerial
1912 8 | man, the king of men,~that he--"~ ~Poiret [to Dutocq]. "
1913 2 | personally. He allowed the head-clerks to converse~privately about
1914 3 | employ. Monsieur Scribe's head-librarian was a~clerk in the Treasury.~ ~
1915 8 | opened it than he~rushed headlong downstairs in the direction
1916 3 | impossibilities~of his career; he hears talk of favoritism; he discovers
1917 7 | quite lovable," she said, heartily.~ ~"Dear child," said des
1918 8 | while his sobs were so heartrending, so genuine, that for~the
1919 4 | regiment, which itself is~less hearty than that of seminaries.
1920 6 | At this hour the over-~heated rooms cool off; the peculiar
1921 4 | a~larger salary and far heavier work. Men are neither wearied
1922 8 | were sobered~at once.~ ~"Hein?" said Bixiou, when they
1923 6 | in the person of a single heir to the excellent man~whose
1924 6 | little daughter; and what an heiress~she would be with an income
1925 2 | regarded as an indispensable helper to~statesmen. A belief in
1926 7 | wife, and how little she~helps him! the good woman is a
1927 | hence
1928 2 | Saillard was a ministerial henchman absolutely incapable of~
1929 4 | Thus Baudoyer had a pair of henchmen in Dutocq and Godard. Monsieur~
1930 4 | when that happens, and the hens will have teeth; he is~too--
1931 2 | short, with his political~Hephaestion the minister might dare
1932 3 | Monsieur~Baudoyer took her--for the glory of the thing,
1933 4 | with a mania for talking heraldry, he once asked the young~
1934 5 | office knew his intellect was herculean. Well, you were right. He~
1935 3 | coat. He had the arms of Hercules, hands worthy of Domitian,
1936 6 | subject of~conversation here--"~ ~Vimeux. "All the more
1937 | hereby
1938 6 | devotion to the throne was hereditary, as was also attachment
1939 2 | together like the Greek hermae. This functionary waited
1940 6 | the bravery of the Vendean hero, who never bent the knee
1941 8 | Rabourdin among Plutarch's~heroes."~ ~Vimeux. "It is all true."~ ~
1942 2 | be~willing to judge for herself--"~ ~"You want me to invite
1943 1 | personal expenses, did not hesitate to put~her dress in keeping
1944 8 | hide itself, des~Lupeaulx hesitated for a single instant, and
1945 8 | prefect a clerk?"~ ~Poiret [hesitating]. "He is a functionary."~ ~
1946 7 | out of sight, with other heterogeneous articles of more or~rather
1947 7 | of flesh seen through an hiatus in the undergarment,~more
1948 8 | that inf--that~odi--that hideous caricature?"~ ~Bixiou. "
1949 4 | deterioration of the administrative hierarchy in Paris through the~personal
1950 6 | the wishes of her~Royal Highness."~ ~"You ought to designate
1951 4 | demon hiding in~his wit hindered him from acquiring the gravity
1952 4 | office incapacity was no hindrance to~advancement; La Billardiere'
1953 6 | replies, or give her the least hint to guard her~conduct and
1954 Add | Cousin Betty~ ~Schinner, Hippolyte~The Purse ~A Bachelor's
1955 3 | cried the cashier with a hissing and prolonged sound on the~
1956 8 | with the motto "En Lupus in Historia," was able to~surmount these
1957 1 | administrative system. Though the historian's position is~rather hazardous
1958 4 | library under the name~of "Historical and Geographic Catechisms."
1959 8 | some kind,~giving short histories of all the officials. Everybody
1960 4 | after he had made some happy hit,~such as the publication
1961 8 | government clerk who has hitherto seemed undefinable is defined."~ ~
1962 7 | white and chilling~as a hoar-frost, nor indeed anything that
1963 8 | nation's money is spent or hoarded that is not ordered by a
1964 5 | Godard, indignant at the hoax, goes off grumbling.]~"Gentlemen!
1965 4 | for~the sole purpose of hoaxing his superior.~ ~The devil
1966 6 | priest in a pulpit]. "Why, Hoche and Tallien, of~course;
1967 4 | an attempt once made by~Hoffman, of Berlin), and if we could
1968 8 | the thing, used to punch~holes with his penknife in the
1969 3 | Ile-d'Adam for the Christmas holidays. No~one moved as the cashier
1970 4 | ship-worms which brought~Holland within an inch of collapsing
1971 2 | examined; it did~not ring hollow; it absorbed everything
1972 2 | shed a few drops of the~holy-water of the court, looked over
1973 8 | interrupting him with a burst of~Homeric laughter. "Why, that's the
1974 2 | francs; and~the miserable homestead of the des Lupeaulx was
1975 7 | over in a mirror, admitting honestly that though he~did very
1976 4 | an inch of collapsing by honey-combing her dykes, we~might have
1977 8 | the~cross of the Legion of honor--"~ ~"I have been longer
1978 3 | showed him marked respect; honored him~as the father of her
1979 1 | figures, and kiss the forked hoof of the golden~calf. What
1980 3 | flat earrings resembling hoops.~ ~"You go too far, Madame
1981 4 | certain views~of his own, hoping to discover in her establishment
1982 1 | salary; it was like the hopping of fleas harnessed to~pasteboard
1983 Add | Cousin Pons~ ~Bianchon, Horace~Father Goriot~The Atheist'
1984 4 | for his theory--that in Horatio Nelson, "honor est a Nilo."~
1985 4 | passion for reading the horoscopes of famous men in~the anagram
1986 4 | marriage, but to feel a horror of children; ill at~ease
1987 4 | holding cafes, cigars, and horsemanship in detestation,~going to
1988 4 | hearing of her death in the hospital at Troyes, although they~
1989 4 | representative government hot-house; he~is propagated and developed
1990 4 | into his head on one of the hottest of dog-~days to put a layer
1991 7 | FROM DOMESTIC LIFE~Parisian households are literally eaten up with
1992 8 | paper-blotting, fault-finding old housekeeper~of a civil service on God'
1993 8 | provoking, like all good housekeepers,~--it can at any moment
1994 1 | duty of overlooking the~housekeeping bills, together with the
1995 3 | candles, for the careful~housewife lighted the room with a
1996 6 | the secretary's miserable hovel, with the two hundred~and
1997 2 | as a round O, simple as how-do-you-do,~--a man who came to his
1998 2 | curs of the Empire were howling their devotion right~and
1999 8 | There must be a general hue and cry~raised against him.
2000 4 | court of Louis XIV.,~whose huge nose is recorded by Saint-Simon
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