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2501 3 | patent of invention and gold~medal granted at the exposition
2502 8 | eaten in the midst of gloomy meditations.~ ~"And it is my Wednesday,"
2503 8 | at me, but this~one is as meek as a lamb,--still, he hasn'
2504 6 | speech in silence. This meekness, which surprised the~other
2505 3 | vaudeville, comic operas, melodramas, or~act as prompters behind
2506 2 | remain where~a charm of melody and poesy surrounds him
2507 8 | Distilled, evaporated, melted! Such a man, the king of
2508 8 | the papers with me,--your memoranda, all the~documents. I promise
2509 6 | church~of Saint-Roch. The memorial address will be delivered
2510 5 | circulars, the Canalis of memorials, the gifted son of diplomatic~
2511 4 | to the bureaus.~ ~Three men-servants lived in peace in the Billardiere
2512 3 | needle, her mother had her~mend the household linen and
2513 5 | you, so I have!"~ ~Bixiou [mending his pen]. "And what did
2514 4 | his best to repress it, mentally resolved to abandon the
2515 4 | together. Bixiou posed as his~mentor, and hoped to rid the division
2516 8 | list, at the Opera, or the Menus-~Plaisirs, or the Museum.
2517 2 | upon him as a dangerous Mephistopheles,~courted him, and gave him
2518 8 | disbursements. Where~is the merchant who would not gladly give
2519 1 | mathematicians, poets,~merchants, men who understand money,
2520 5 | poorest places are at the mercy of a thousand mischances
2521 3 | cotton gowns in summer and merino in~the winter, which she
2522 4 | the~disrepute which they merited. "Do you take me for a Chazelle?"
2523 8 | working. And he makes such a mess of his room. I find everything~
2524 6 | that, when a minister's~messenger summons the head of a bureau
2525 6 | doctrines with a shake of their~metallic heads. An onlooker would
2526 3 | of~Brezac, collectors of metals and other relics from all
2527 7 | effect on the secretary and metamorphosing his~roughness into sentimental
2528 4 | Courier~and a friend of Michael Chrestien, he looked to
2529 4 | government office is, in short, a microcosm of~society, with its oddities
2530 4 | for literature to use the microscope of the~Leuwenhoeks, the
2531 5 | into the control of the middle-~aged men of the Chamber
2532 1 | clerk is sent~away and a middling sort of man replaces him.
2533 1 | finally, a~bearing that was midway between the indolence of
2534 5 | year; a painter can daub a mile of canvas and be~decorated
2535 3 | Baudoyer, motionless as a mile-stone, was employing his mental~
2536 7 | to put the cat near the milk-jug, he began an~explanation
2537 4 | mouth, as though he were a~millionaire who had just dined. Always
2538 8 | groceries we should now~be millionaires. Well, let us be grocers.
2539 4 | the five-~franc coins. He mimicked Dr. Gall when lecturing,
2540 4 | him "the white~rabbit." Minard--the Rabourdin of a lower
2541 1 | thought her husband narrow-~minded, timid, unsympathetic; and
2542 4 | collections of shells and~minerals, knew how to stuff birds,
2543 1 | own, neither~forests, nor mines, nor public works. That
2544 7 | whim that forbids me to mingle ill-assorted colors and
2545 2 | lately viewed is here in~miniature, modest and pure; his soul,
2546 7 | And is it with the present ministers--between ourselves, a wretched~
2547 Add | Madame~The Middle Classes~ ~Minorets, The~The Peasantry~ ~Mitral~
2548 1 | continued down through the minutest details of~administration
2549 8 | terrified, for he lives on such minutiae. Some~nations would be satisfied
2550 7 | countenance.~ ~"She performs miracles," thought des Lupeaulx. "
2551 1 | cringe, and creep through the mire of these~cloacas, where
2552 7 | opposition papers, the "Miroir," "Pandora,"~and "Figaro,"
2553 7 | looked himself over in a mirror, admitting honestly that
2554 1 | among artists there are~more miscarriages than births; which is tantamount
2555 4 | egoist, a~spendthrift and a miser in one,--that is to say,
2556 1 | that~most hateful of all miseries, the mediocrity that simply
2557 8 | rounds of the~offices and is misinterpreted by hatred; in consequence,
2558 8 | honors to the neglected and misjudged administrative~talent.~ ~
2559 1 | suspicious persons were misled. The moment seemed~propitious
2560 8 | wish (if you'll allow me to~misquote a saying of Louis XVIII.),--
2561 | Miss
2562 5 | Briere,--it is like a~stage missive. Look," said his Excellency,
2563 4 | time--~and it was one of her mistakes--turned for help to des Lupeaulx.~ ~
2564 7 | Celestine. "But you are mistaking the dog for the~game," she
2565 1 | upon public offices, like a~mistletoe on a pear-tree, these officials
2566 1 | Duphot.~Nevertheless, she mistook the quietude of the political
2567 2 | to their wives or their~mistresses.~ ~"Say that his bill is
2568 1 | used to its own profit the mistrust that stands between~receipts
2569 7 | only such as we who never misunderstand each other," he said;~"this
2570 7 | school-girl."~ ~"You have misunderstood me," he said, with a covert
2571 8 | administration, stolen and misused, has gone the rounds of
2572 3 | who was very fond of her,~mitigated this rigorous treatment
2573 3 | Censier, had slowly made a moderate fortune out of~a small trade.
2574 6 | Phellion [affecting modesty]. "Possibly."~ ~Bixiou [
2575 7 | better than to be the wife of Mohammed?"~ ~She began to laugh;
2576 8 | that Phellion's eyes were moist, and he could not~refrain
2577 4 | with a curious litter and~moistened by the attendant's watering-pot;
2578 1 | die withered for want of moisture, like~seeds on stony ground.
2579 6 | serviceable to deprive~ourselves momentarily by taking them in to him." [
2580 8 | principles that~are subversive of monarchial power. He is the son of
2581 5 | been an honor to European monarchies and to the republics whose~
2582 2 | obtain, as they said in the monasteries, a voice in~the chapter.~ ~
2583 2 | represents both life and a~monastery.~ ~A few days earlier the
2584 7 | reform? No, no; change the~monetary system if you will, but
2585 7 | presence of the implacable money-~lender of the rue des Gres.
2586 5 | with a small capital as a money-changer, soon buys a share in a~
2587 7 | was instituted by an old money-lender to whom the~paper was under
2588 8 | their~days in verifying money-orders, documents, roles, registers,
2589 1 | distribution of the public moneys, and forced to~retain the
2590 8 | evils. The liberal scandal-~mongers delighted in representing
2591 2 | minister was~gazetted in the "Moniteur," and the greater or lesser
2592 4 | purpose, steady as a girl, monotonous and~apathetic, holding cafes,
2593 1 | penalty of being thought monsters.~ ~Thus it was that this
2594 4 | creameries on the~boulevard du Mont-Parnasse. For the last six months
2595 2 | Lac d'Orta at the foot~of Monte Rosa, with an island resting
2596 4 | summer season, excursions to~Montmorency, picnics on the grass, and
2597 6 | faithful in preserving its monuments.~The church of Saint-Paul
2598 2 | constitutional ministry.~ ~Moralists usually employ their weapons
2599 4 | worthy capitalist. As~to morals, he was the lover and the
2600 5 | promotion and the~statistics of mortality combined. It is very certain
2601 7 | replied Rabourdin, "I have mortally offended des Lupeaulx;~such
2602 4 | appliances, and various mortuary~instruments, and watched
2603 8 | whatever kind with a bon~mot, so in these days of the
2604 1 | are exclusively wives,~or mothers, or sweethearts, women purely
2605 7 | not escape me," she said, motioning~towards the minister and
2606 1 | through almost imperceptible motions. Her attitude and manners~
2607 3 | and there was, I admit, a motive of self-~interest behind
2608 3 | buckles, cotton stockings of mottled~thread knitted by his niece,
2609 2 | he had only to whisper "motus" in his ear to be sure it
2610 8 | government to do work, to mount guard~and show off at reviews.
2611 2 | beadle face. The next~day he mounted the private staircase and
2612 8 | appointed. But," she added mournfully, "it is~easier to believe
2613 3 | dressed well, and wore moustachios, all of them as impudent~
2614 3 | Christmas holidays. No~one moved as the cashier entered,
2615 7 | nonsense, Celestine. Spare a much-tried man. I cannot get~an audience
2616 3 | To go~on foot and not get muddied, to save his clothes, and
2617 8 | that~definitions lead to muddles."~ ~Poiret [wiping his forehead]. "
2618 2 | nudge, shrinking from no mudhole, but gracefully leaping
2619 4 | on a chief~azure three mullets argent; with the motto; "
2620 1 | many offices to satisfy the multifarious ambition of~the middle classes.
2621 1 | be no advance,~increased, multiplied, and grew majestic. From
2622 8 | fifteen hundred francs. Multiply forty~thousand by fifteen
2623 4 | have teeth; he is~too--but mum! When I think that I carry
2624 2 | will.~These rapid remarks, murmured as they were, struck his
2625 8 | Menus-~Plaisirs, or the Museum. Great deal of capacity,
2626 1 | finely-formed, she was a good musician, drew and painted, spoke~
2627 8 | metal, except that of his musket."~ ~Poiret [his eyes wide
2628 4 | with flowers, embroidered muslin~dresses, silk mantles, prunella
2629 7 | through the disarray of muslins~rumpled in sleep enjoys,
2630 3 | the remains of a leg of mutton with onions. "You~might
2631 8 | good reasons for creating a~myriad of offices? I don't see
2632 5 | Baudoyer."~ ~Colleville [mysteriously]. "I sha'n't tell the other
2633 8 | for peculation, it is a myth. France at this~present
2634 2 | a~zenith and there is a nadir, a period when the fur is
2635 3 | will want me to brush my~nails and curl my hair, which
2636 2 | too square, and with short nails--the hand of a~satrap. His
2637 4 | alone?" asked Sebastien naively.~ ~There were good reasons
2638 1 | hopes they had placed on the nameless protector,~he tried, for
2639 7 | the silver, folding~the napkins, and polishing the glasses.
2640 Add | In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:~Another Study
2641 1 | reader would not believe the~narrator's word if he merely declared
2642 1 | grieved, thought her husband narrow-~minded, timid, unsympathetic;
2643 3 | obstinacy and severity,~narrowness of ideas, an uprightness
2644 2 | suspicion he was flattering ad~nauseum, insinuating as a perfume,
2645 8 | suppose they have armies and navies? how can they exist at all
2646 5 | like Paulmier, and the near-sighted ones, all had their~chance
2647 5 | thoughts in his mind he was necessarily aloof from the excitement~
2648 2 | leisure to attend to. He saw~necessities as they arose; he obeyed
2649 7 | branches.~The bracelets, necklace, and earrings were all what
2650 1 | him; she would even be, if needful, his secretary; she would
2651 3 | Elisabeth knew how to hold a needle, her mother had her~mend
2652 5 | colleague."~ ~Dutocq. "Well, you needn't make the lithograph till
2653 5 | clerk~lives between two negations. The world has neither pity
2654 5 | Bruel made a sign in the negative.~ ~"No?" continued des Lupeaulx. "
2655 Add | Chatelet, Marie-Louise-Anais de Negrepelisse, Baronne du~Lost Illusions~
2656 5 | absurdity not to steal my neighbor's~nonsense."~ ~Baudoyer [
2657 1 | to the population of the neighborhoods in which they lived.~ ~In
2658 4 | theory--that in Horatio Nelson, "honor est a Nilo."~Ever
2659 8 | des~Lupeaulx. "Have the nerve to do this; make yourself
2660 5 | the threads of a flimsy net; he struggled~with himself.~ ~"
2661 4 | artificial flowers, bonbons on New-~Year's day and pretty boxes
2662 4 | at the~office he read the newest books, extracted their wit,
2663 8 | four sergeants of~Rochelle, Ney, Berton, Caron, the brothers
2664 4 | Francaise"; "Eh, c'est~large nez," in "Charles Genest," an
2665 7 | you wish me to. Isn't that nice of me?~What do I want better
2666 4 | constitutional poodles, so gentle, so~nicely curled, so caressing, so
2667 3 | where he was known by the nickname~of "Gigonnet," from the
2668 4 | he did Rabourdin, whom he nicknamed "the virtuous~woman." Without
2669 8 | official look and the dolce far niente habits of a government~office.
2670 4 | head adorned with a cotton night-cap tied on by~flame-colored
2671 8 | times on~tiptoe, in her night-dress.~ ~"I must go once more
2672 4 | young La~Billardiere, his nightmare, his detestation, whom he
2673 7 | the slipper in the Arabian~Nights, the luckless man was fated
2674 4 | Horatio Nelson, "honor est a Nilo."~Ever since the accession
2675 8 | controversy raised by the nineteen members of the extreme Left,
2676 2 | clock that~reappeared in the nineteenth century to claim honor for
2677 | ninety
2678 1 | contagious in~a household; the ninth thermidor, like so many
2679 2 | has much to do with the nobleness of private~lives. A pretty
2680 1 | councils~of state with the nobles. Under the constitutional
2681 2 | habit of giving affirmative nods acquiescing in what is said~
2682 7 | Lupeaulx, who had glided noiselessly up to them, uttered an angry~
2683 2 | fortune dazzling. In the nomenclature which we derive from fabulists,~
2684 8 | for a~rumor of Rabourdin's nomination had spread through the ministry
2685 1 | Celestine, alarmed at the~non-advancement of her husband, insisted
2686 4 | and white~paper. They are nonentities who are made to bear all
2687 8 | but one way of untying the noose which treachery and~the
2688 5 | Three places right under our noses, which will certainly be~
2689 6 | drawing up and recording~the notarial deeds (bear that in mind).
2690 6 | to tell you that all your notes and debts have been~brought
2691 6 | not already received their~notification of this sad event are hereby
2692 5 | My father-in-law has been notified of the event. If you want~
2693 7 | apt to have very ignorant notions about~household matters,
2694 4 | Their mother~made herself notorious by misconduct, and the two
2695 7 | Feraud, who is still in favor~notwithstanding Louis XVIII.'s death, Delphine
2696 2 | talk is full of "buts," "notwithstandings," "for myself I~should," "
2697 2 | discreet~as a tomb out of which nought issues to contradict the
2698 4 | that du Bruel was~writing a novel which was to be dedicated
2699 3 | office is precisely what the novitiate~is in a religious order,--
2700 4 | the guillotine was there! now-a-~days they only mark 'em
2701 | nowhere
2702 2 | others by a glance or~a nudge, shrinking from no mudhole,
2703 4 | condition, by lessening their numbers and giving to each a~larger
2704 1 | or the petty troubles of nuns full of underhand~vexations,
2705 4 | that was very~clean. Zelie nursed her children herself when
2706 4 | trousers. In~winter he added a nut-colored box-coat with three capes,
2707 7 | fabric so diaphanous that a nutshell can contain it. Madame~Rabourdin'
2708 7 | come to terms~ with~ ~Your obedient servant,~Gobseck.~ ~ ~The
2709 2 | necessities as they arose; he obeyed well; he could gloss a base
2710 1 | that she had any personal objection~to her suitor, who was young,
2711 7 | dear des Lupeaulx, you will oblige me by~doing such and such
2712 5 | diplomatists, and all whose work~obliges them to pry into the human
2713 4 | Thirty-eight years old, oblong face and bilious~skin, grizzled
2714 2 | illustrious lives as in~the most obscure, in animals as in secretary-generals,
2715 8 | joyous; the~glasses, however, obscured the glances so successfully
2716 5 | advance him will remain in~obscurity."~ ~Bixiou [looking alternately
2717 3 | grandchild were carefully~observed, also the anniversaries
2718 3 | called a "casaquin," another obsolete name for a short gown~or
2719 1 | petty minds, stands as an obstacle to~the prosperity of the
2720 3 | wrinkles, was expressive of obstinacy and severity,~narrowness
2721 3 | young men who are foolish or~obstinate enough to say to themselves, "
2722 2 | employ their weapons against obstructive~administrations. In their
2723 4 | collectively this likeness is obvious;~in regiments, in law-courts,
2724 4 | devoted to~the author,--who occasionally gave him tickets to the
2725 4 | made it the business and occupation of~his life. Vimeux had
2726 4 | thoughts are tied down to occupations like that of horses who
2727 4 | typographic space was at this time~occupying an area five feet six in
2728 8 | seat in the centre.~Has it occurred to you that I might fling
2729 8 | Rabourdin,~another scene was occurring in the place Royale,--one
2730 7 | owe thirty-thousand and odd miserable francs,--you will
2731 4 | microcosm of~society, with its oddities and hatreds, its envy and
2732 1 | variety and ease as by the oddness and originality of her~ideas.
2733 8 | you make that inf--that~odi--that hideous caricature?"~ ~
2734 8 | Monsieur Rabourdin is incapable of--"~ ~Bixiou. "Very proper
2735 7 | cup of tea, you~will be offering me a thing I no longer care
2736 6 | they prove it when occasion offers."~ ~"The price was five
2737 8 | officials lying about in the~office--" [Phellion stopped short,
2738 3 | when about to tell some office-gossip,--a series of movements~
2739 3 | nothing more than a~political office-holder, of little ability as head
2740 2 | advantage of an influx of~office-seekers, to slip out and get into
2741 6 | when~about to go to work officially. In spite of his Roman virtue
2742 4 | the history of Cephalic Oils and the~Paste of Sultans,
2743 1 | daughter's salon, and a few old-fashioned pieces of furniture, which~
2744 4 | evidently vamped over, an olive surtout, and a black cravat.
2745 5 | the practice you will get on--elsewhere." [To Bixiou,
2746 8 | Should be dismissed; pension one-third of his present~salary.~ ~"
2747 6 | their~metallic heads. An onlooker would have fancied he heard
2748 2 | was always to be seen in open-worked silk stockings, low~shoes,
2749 2 | at the time when our tale~opens, but thirty thousand francs
2750 4 | he enjoys, moreover, the opera-~boxes, the social invitations,
2751 4 | sent~Madame Rabourdin an opera-box for a first representation,
2752 4 | and first clarionet at the Opera-Comique at~night, worked hard to
2753 8 | night in the lobby of the Opera-house~of the return of Monsieur
2754 3 | write vaudeville, comic operas, melodramas, or~act as prompters
2755 8 | with which we shall co-~operate in your labors. Allow me
2756 3 | cut~deep enough to let the operator see into him. His severe
2757 5 | because to all such attacks~he opposed the inert force of a substance
2758 5 | the resistance which youth opposes to intrigues, both high~
2759 6 | in this way through two opposing newspapers in one~evening,
2760 5 | administration than in parliamentary optics, and he was far~indeed from
2761 3 | begins she was the~hidden oracle of the two functionaries,
2762 5 | Louvois, the Prince of Orange, the Guises,~Machiavelli,
2763 4 | all our best artists and orators. Colleville's humble position~
2764 3 | Celestine's rival, play in the orchestra of a theatre;~others like
2765 3 | department than writer of deeds, order-~clerks, or, possibly, under-head-clerk.
2766 4 | portrait of Monsieur Dutocq, order-clerk in the~Rabourdin bureau:
2767 4 | administrations; for instance,~the order-clerks are sometimes called auditors,
2768 8 | be mere~regulations, and ordinances will be thought laws. God
2769 1 | whole time was surely to organize theft~and poverty. A galley-slave
2770 8 | went~further. That great organizer appointed supreme magistrates
2771 3 | at a word, black eyes of oriental shape, able, like those~
2772 4 | Dutocq held Baudoyer was the original cause of~his acquaintance
2773 4 | depended on it. Vimeux was originally~appointed to Baudoyer's
2774 4 | a "carbonaro," others an Orleanist;~there were others again
2775 1 | women,~accomplished women, ornamental women, women who are exclusively
2776 7 | took off one~by one the ornaments of her apparel, she thought
2777 2 | little lake, like the Lac d'Orta at the foot~of Monte Rosa,
2778 1 | those~perpetual ministerial oscillations which interfered with all
2779 6 | nobility as good as any other--it was pointing out a reason
2780 6 | called out to me, "Duc~d'Otrante, go to the Hotel de Ville."'
2781 2 | thought that this~word was the outcome of his own mind. Were it
2782 8 | Chamber, and the foolish~outcries of the Opposition, and the
2783 2 | tried in Spain, and what an outcry that excited!~ ~In addition
2784 7 | himself took her to the outer door.~ ~"I am quite sure
2785 2 | have had to~make a little outlay; but these are times when
2786 4 | boots, well-made coats which~outlined his elegant figure; in bewitching
2787 3 | slender and well-defined~outlines reminded an artist of the
2788 7 | not to~seem worsted at the outset.~ ~"True," said Gobseck.~ ~"
2789 4 | whose dress did not~lead outsiders to say, "That man is a government
2790 4 | contrary to his usual ways,~he outstayed the last man in the office;
2791 8 | that consume no fuel, or~ovens which cook cutlets with
2792 6 | labor. At this hour the over-~heated rooms cool off; the
2793 1 | imposed upon the rich without~overburdening the poor. To give another
2794 2 | brought them to the front, he overcame their political mediocrity
2795 7 | the pocket of his~greenish overcoat a number of legal papers.~ ~"
2796 3 | wants. At twenty-five he~overflows with vigor and wastes it
2797 8 | and he thus chanced to overhear a dialogue between the two~
2798 3 | by rolls of flesh which overhung the collar of~his coat.
2799 5 | you suppose Baudoyer will overlook what~happened just now?"~ ~
2800 2 | times when hidden merit is~overlooked, whereas if a man keeps
2801 7 | t you think her a little overpowering?" said des Lupeaulx with
2802 7 | might happen, through an oversight of the porter, to enter
2803 8 | happened," he said, "but I overslept~myself. I've only just waked
2804 3 | eyes, of porcelain blue,~overweighted by heavy eyelids which fell
2805 5 | snatch from the~current of overwhelming business. Yet in spite of
2806 4 | without asking them back. He owned a country-house~at Aulnay,
2807 3 | patience and sagacity of an ox, and his square~head, deceived
2808 2 | the creditors should be~pacified, what persons should be
2809 3 | about the room, talking, pacing up and~down the garden,
2810 8 | meanwhile had made up a package of papers and letters~belonging
2811 4 | leaving college, he attempted painting,~but in spite of his intimacy
2812 5 | best shop in the rue de~la Paix,--a fine dead stuff, the
2813 5 | I could earn that at the Palais de~Justice, copying briefs
2814 8 | argent, two and one; third, paly of twelve, gules and argent;~
2815 5 | defended the King in a printed~pamphlet in reply to an impudent
2816 7 | opposition papers, the "Miroir," "Pandora,"~and "Figaro," could not
2817 2 | had bought at a bargain; panelling them on the~walls in ebony,
2818 4 | stairways, doors with oval panes of glass like eyes, as at~
2819 5 | explanation of the stolen~paper--"~ ~"Don't be uneasy," said
2820 8 | ferreting, scribbling, paper-blotting, fault-finding old housekeeper~
2821 3 | Madame Saillard, an old paper-dealer retired from business ever
2822 6 | publishers, printers, and paper-makers, whose~behests no editor
2823 8 | so doing I employed~the parabolical method of savages. Listen
2824 8 | Bixiou [with his finger on a paragraph]. "Here YOU are, pere Saillard.~
2825 5 | analyzed in five or six such paragraphs,--~the essence, in fact,
2826 1 | same fortress,~working on parallel lines, but without each
2827 8 | explain?"~ ~Bixiou. "I'll paraphrase my opinion. To be anything
2828 4 | jests, and then reported and paraphrased results to des Lupeaulx;
2829 1 | workers, victims of such parasites; men sincerely devoted to
2830 4 | handsome fichus, a Chinese~parasol, and drive home in a hackney-coach,
2831 4 | under glass, hung Chinese parasols on the walls, together with
2832 7 | Lupeaulx, "for such a man pardons. The~real danger is with
2833 4 | for he well~deserves the parenthesis. This young man held, during
2834 1 | revolved, which, we may remark parenthetically, is the secret~of much human
2835 7 | rooms, or she loses her pariostre,~--that precious SEEMING-TO-BE!~ ~
2836 6 | Baudoyer has bestowed upon the parish~a monstrance that many persons
2837 6 | most pious and faithful~parishioners, must have keenly felt the
2838 8 | Genevese, Greeks, Lombards, and Parisians,~suckled by a wolf and born
2839 4 | walnut furniture in the parlor, and a tiny kitchen that
2840 7 | to appearances--to the "paroistre," as d'Aubigne said in~the
2841 1 | sometimes cried out? So, in her~paroxysms of thwarted ambition, in
2842 1 | found it in~those petty partial revolutions, the eddies,
2843 1 | stated with more or less partiality. No real result is~attained;
2844 5 | time to become~a bishop "in partibus." A sober, intelligent young
2845 3 | of his merely mechanical participation in the great idea, the~lad
2846 4 | laws enacted against "the partisans of the~usurper." Fleury,
2847 2 | Monsieur des Lupeaulx was partly the cause of the~unusual
2848 3 | all of them as impudent~as parvenus. Journalists were apt to
2849 4 | little La Billardiere~the "Pascal Lamb."~ ~"You are early
2850 2 | epitaph~intended for the passer's eye, bold and fearless
2851 3 | entertainment in watching~the passers-by. In those days the Cafe
2852 5 | the noise you are making" [passes into Monsieur Godard's room].~ ~
2853 8 | not~possess, even in their passionate moments; for women are stronger~
2854 3 | hairs lead~to the latest passions, all the more violent because
2855 3 | She even professed to obey passively all his wishes. But her~
2856 4 | of Cephalic Oils and the~Paste of Sultans, lucifer matches
2857 4 | the various~administrative pastures,--for instance, in the Court
2858 3 | by Falleix in smelting (patent of invention and gold~medal
2859 3 | treated the youth almost paternally; often endeavoured to~get
2860 1 | and belles lettres. All patronage ought to~flow directly from
2861 3 | out by nature on the same pattern and~wonderfully reproduced
2862 4 | in secret, an admirer of Paul-Louis Courier~and a friend of
2863 7 | up."~ ~"Then," she said, pausing in a corner where she was
2864 2 | phrases, however, which pave the way to opposition.~ ~
2865 4 | again, book-~keepers.~ ~Paved like the corridor, and hung
2866 7 | well-trained cat puts a velvet paw on her~mistress's laces
2867 4 | absolute discretion; they pawned and took out of pawn, bought
2868 8 | custom-house receipts, payments, taxes received, taxes spent,~
2869 1 | offices, like a~mistletoe on a pear-tree, these officials indemnified
2870 7 | woman for scattering her pearls."~ ~The conversation became
2871 Add | Classes~ ~Minorets, The~The Peasantry~ ~Mitral~Cesar Birotteau~ ~
2872 8 | to~impossible, and as for peculation, it is a myth. France at
2873 1 | by the scantiness of her~pecuniary means. No matter what foolish
2874 3 | him an extraordinary~man. Pedantic and hypercritical, meddlesome
2875 1 | carefully all appearance of~pedantry. Blinded by mistaken tenderness,
2876 3 | round tables~on single pedestals, with brass railings and
2877 6 | you can't come~down to pedestrial prose. I should say, 'He
2878 2 | might lose everything. A pen-stroke might demolish his civilian~
2879 1 | husbands in Paris, under penalty of being thought monsters.~ ~
2880 8 | directed the point of your pencil against a man who cannot
2881 4 | thick and the lower one pendent; the eyes light-~blue, and
2882 4 | Into~whatever ministry you penetrate to ask some slight favor,
2883 4 | bureaus, where the sun seldom penetrates, where~thoughts are tied
2884 8 | glance at the three clerks so penetrating,~so glittering with gleams
2885 8 | to punch~holes with his penknife in the arms of his chair
2886 4 | duty~of giving lessons in penmanship,--an honorable career, he
2887 4 | Phellion's face~was that of a pensive ram, with little color and
2888 8 | tales) that these strange~peoples claim to have a policy,
2889 4 | Mademoiselle Baudoyer, not perceiving that~her mother was laying
2890 6 | matter which Elisabeth's keen~perceptions told her was the most powerful
2891 6 | Tuileries, and I much~prefer Percilliee, the ballet-mistress, Castaing'
2892 1 | Removals required by this perfecting~process, always ill-understood,
2893 1 | had taught Rabourdin that perfection is brought~about in all
2894 3 | her adversaries with the perfidious patience of~a cat, and was
2895 6 | candidate? A gratuitous piece of perfidy! an~attempt to kill with
2896 4 | where they had tasks to perform, where the head of the~bureau
2897 4 | enough to attend a~first performance of his plays in a body and
2898 2 | rid of obstacles to~the performances of some play; gave gratuities
2899 3 | caricatures~until we see them performing their various functions.
2900 7 | gracious countenance.~ ~"She performs miracles," thought des Lupeaulx. "
2901 2 | was decided for Casimir Perier as to~age; and as to worldly
2902 6 | and troublesome~times to perilous missions, and of late years
2903 5 | better managed. At such~periods not a dinner took place
2904 5 | centimes, which~represents a permanent income equal to our salaries,
2905 1 | official thought everything permissible~that conduced to these results.
2906 8 | roles, registers, lists,~permits, custom-house receipts,
2907 4 | harmless of Bixiou's jokes perpetrated among the clerks was the~
2908 8 | by subordinate powers who~perpetually threatened each other with
2909 1 | the abuses which in turn perpetuate~and consolidate itself.
2910 1 | prolongs~procrastination, and perpetuates the abuses which in turn
2911 3 | Journalists were apt to persecute the tribe, who were~cousins,
2912 4 | aspect of these strange personalities~whether the goose-quill
2913 3 | cipher by so ponderous a personality that no scalpel could cut~
2914 7 | successfully, he~was endeavoring to persuade the Marquise d'Espard, Madame
2915 3 | daughter's sake she had persuaded her father~to take the important
2916 3 | had finally~succeeded in persuading Falleix to give up wearing
2917 2 | official and his wife, and to pet their~children. Then he
2918 7 | parties they are what the~'Petit-Chateau' is to a court ball. You
2919 7 | the bad taste to seem a petitioner."~ ~"No, no, speak freely.
2920 4 | found elsewhere (see "Les Petits Bourgeois"). We may remark
2921 4 | do they give you, these pets of Monsieur le marechal~
2922 2 | such times the minister petted and cajoled des Lupeaulx.
2923 1 | Far from accepting~the pettiness of middle-class existence,
2924 7 | shall say to the clerical~phalanx, 'Such and such a paper
2925 4 | the eldest son of deceased philanthropy, and which is~to the divine
2926 5 | Chazelle [continuing his philippic]. "You may not be, but I
2927 8 | going~to say is intended for philosophers--I wish (if you'll allow
2928 8 | little~treatise on moral philosophy, and I am just at the heart
2929 4 | written in the words or~phrase given by the transposition
2930 4 | that such a man must be physically~round, fat, and comfortable,
2931 1 | the manner~of judges and physicians.~ ~Rabourdin, who said to
2932 6 | cheek-bones. These remarkable physiognomies brightened up on seeing~
2933 8 | successfully that only a~physiognomist would have seen the diabolical
2934 7 | from what may be called the physiognomy of~signature. If ever a
2935 3 | garment called in Touraine and Picardy~"cottes," elsewhere petticoats,
2936 4 | Antoine. "I know him by that pickpocket~step of his. He is always
2937 4 | entertaining at table as at a picnic, as gay and lively at midnight
2938 4 | excursions to~Montmorency, picnics on the grass, and visits
2939 7 | disorder the reverse of picturesque,~wrapped in a dressing-gown,
2940 3 | left it. The gilding of the pier-glasses~was rubbed off; the paint
2941 7 | and Madame Rabourdin; "it pierced the mask of~your spectacles.
2942 Add | Bachelor's Establishment~Pierre Grassou~A Start in Life~
2943 6 | consummate talent and extreme~piety--'" After looking at Monsieur
2944 3 | Messrs.~Planard, Sewrin, etc. Pigault-Lebrun, Piis, Duvicquet, in their
2945 3 | Sewrin, etc. Pigault-Lebrun, Piis, Duvicquet, in their day,~
2946 5 | soon as he has~made his pile; and as for me, I shall
2947 4 | dignity to the division.~ ~Pillars of the ministry, experts
2948 4 | the neck,~with a vulgar pimpled face, gray eyes, and a mouth
2949 6 | fixedly at him]. "Your diamond pin is loose, it is~coming out.
2950 1 | shade that women might at a pinch fall in~love with it for
2951 8 | Baudoyer bowed and remarked piously that names were given in
2952 4 | itself~with a stove, the pipe of which goes into the chimney,
2953 4 | State, blue coat with red pipings for~undress, and broad red,
2954 1 | of brown cloth with red pipins,~she renewed parts of her
2955 7 | simultaneous look as direct as a pistol shot and as brilliant as
2956 4 | gave him tickets to the pit,--and~applauded his pieces
2957 4 | always tuned to the highest pitch,~shining equally in the
2958 8 | Liberalism would never offer us a~pitched battle. It has given up
2959 5 | with the struggle~between Pitt and Napoleon, two men who
2960 4 | ram, with little color and pitted by the small-~pox; the lips
2961 4 | filled with the~desire of placing his Zelie in better circumstances,
2962 8 | re-enter]. "Victrix cause diis placuit, sed~victa Catoni."~ ~Phellion. "
2963 3 | comedy" as wearisome as the~plague of flies, and never wished
2964 2 | use of spectacles made him plainer than he~really was, if by
2965 8 | the Opera, or the Menus-~Plaisirs, or the Museum. Great deal
2966 3 | mention among them Messrs.~Planard, Sewrin, etc. Pigault-Lebrun,
2967 2 | one was looking about for~planks, and the curs of the Empire
2968 2 | well~surrounded with choice plantations and foliage and statues
2969 1 | adorned her salon with plants and flowers, always fresh,
2970 3 | brush up his hair instead of~plastering it flat. During the preceding
2971 3 | Godard, who was a great flute player, contributed the~piercing
2972 4 | most of the great comic players.~ ~Launched into the world
2973 4 | the youth looked upon the playwright as a great author, and it~
2974 2 | or such a matter, on~the plea that it would cause real
2975 7 | who understand~making life pleasant as she does. To keep such
2976 1 | old, with~gray hair of so pleasing a shade that women might
2977 3 | self-~interest behind my pleasure--"~ ~"Ah!"~ ~"You have a
2978 4 | world.~ ~One of his greatest pleasures was to explore the environs
2979 2 | how many entreaties and pledges~given to the ministerial
2980 7 | the Regency. Ah! they had plenty of wit and wisdom in those~
2981 6 | ve not forgotten how you plucked him in~that affair about
2982 5 | government place, and that plucky Colleville,~who works like
2983 2 | talent of a fly which~drops plumb upon the best bit of meat
2984 3 | curtains and~garnished with plumes.~ ~Amid these curious relics,
2985 8 | my resignation. I shall~plunge into industrial avocations."~ ~
2986 2 | fire of the law~against pluralists. Sometimes he threatened
2987 8 | always put Rabourdin among Plutarch's~heroes."~ ~Vimeux. "It
2988 3 | cigarless, take notice of his pockets. You will be sure to see
2989 8 | the~clerk's shell, husk, pod. No clerk without a bureau,
2990 2 | where~a charm of melody and poesy surrounds him with harmony
2991 3 | celebrities, such~as: Canalis the poet, Schinner the painter, Dr.
2992 6 | I should~tone down the poetry. 'Imperial idol!' 'bent
2993 1 | artisans, mathematicians, poets,~merchants, men who understand
2994 7 | motionless. Gigonnet silently~pointed to the documents in his
2995 3 | illustrious sculptor of Diane de Poitiers.~ ~Des Lupeaulx stopped
2996 5 | The Restoration, like~the Polish revolution, proved to nations
2997 4 | walls, brick floors well polished,~walnut furniture in the
2998 7 | folding~the napkins, and polishing the glasses. The ill-advised
2999 4 | conceit. The two chiefs were~polite to him, but the clerks held
3000 6 | Saillard and Baudoyer were politely avoided, for nobody knew~
3001 4 | the extreme and grotesque politeness~which they bestowed upon
3002 2 | compliment, and to slip in a few politic phrases:~"If his Excellency
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