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3003 4 | his second into the Ecole Polytechnique. He~often said to the elder, "
3004 3 | presents were offered with much pomp and an~accompaniment of
3005 5 | there at the end~of the pont de la Concorde (so called
3006 4 | of a house in the rue de Ponthieu,~where he had three rooms
3007 4 | these amiable constitutional poodles, so gentle, so~nicely curled,
3008 6 | charming woman."~ ~Fleury. "Pooh! thin as a rail. I saw her
3009 1 | reach the consumption of~the poorer tax-payers, the licences
3010 5 | eve of a struggle with the popular~mind, or on the morrow of
3011 1 | were taxed~according to the population of the neighborhoods in
3012 6 | worthiest citizens of a populous quarter,~where his benevolence
3013 3 | than sixteen. Her eyes, of porcelain blue,~overweighted by heavy
3014 3 | dessert set, and all~the rest porcelains of various makes, unmatched
3015 4 | Sultans, lucifer matches and portable gas, jointed sockets~for
3016 4 | officials as they entered the porte-cochere; he knew every~one at the
3017 3 | throw, and, further on, the Porte-Saint-Martin,~Elisabeth had never seen
3018 1 | thermidor, like so many other portentous~events, was the result of
3019 8 | among the clerks, just as porters and servants become~at that
3020 3 | those persons who escape~portraiture through their utter commonness;
3021 5 | the Legion of honor, or pose as a neglected genius. A~
3022 4 | breakfasted together. Bixiou posed as his~mentor, and hoped
3023 1 | aristocracy, who sought positions in the~government bureaus
3024 6 | who gives sure~signs of possessing the Divine spirit. Religion
3025 6 | Godard tells me she hired a post-chaise by the advice of my uncle~
3026 6 | after Falleix, who has gone post-haste,~with a courier in advance
3027 7 | thanks to three francs to the postboys and a~courier in advance,--
3028 8 | within twenty-four hours. But~postpone the appointment, and don'
3029 8 | GRATIS! The~appointments are postponed. All the bureaus are in
3030 8 | on two~things; first, the postponement of the appointment; second,
3031 3 | Transon, wholesale dealers in pottery, with an establishment in
3032 2 | went on between them; he poured~into their ears his misleading
3033 3 | Portenduere. Celestine~was pouring out tea when the general-secretary
3034 1 | takes in and the more it pours out the~better for the prosperity
3035 5 | how young he was or how~poverty-stricken his condition might be.
3036 6 | this fact, which proves how powerless the~declamations of liberals
3037 4 | and pitted by the small-~pox; the lips were thick and
3038 3 | for her mother made her practise the precepts and the~duties
3039 7 | and envied, she had been praised~and flattered by the minister'
3040 6 | without a blush, his own~praises, precisely as Nathan or
3041 4 | sincere even in~this; but by praising Baudoyer and saying nothing
3042 6 | will not forget you in~his prayers; more than that, he is dining
3043 1 | what the Genevese term "pre-advice."~ ~When Rabourdin became
3044 1 | of the family, for dress precedes everything; then see what~
3045 3 | mother made her practise the precepts and the~duties of religion),
3046 2 | able men, and to whom~our predecessors did not behave well, though
3047 5 | parties. Caught in such a predicament, a~statesman naturally keeps
3048 4 | the service, all the while predicting a~fatal end to a government
3049 4 | though he suspected him of a preference for the exact sciences~and
3050 5 | appointment, more than his salary, prefers to~keep his place. Who the
3051 7 | beyond all precedent, the preliminary work of the~appointment.
3052 3 | dangerous facts to make~known prematurely, namely, a memorandum relating
3053 5 | saw Sebastien leave the~premises without taking any papers
3054 3 | during a shower, are the~preoccupations of his mind. The street
3055 1 | Rabourdin seemed so anxious and preoccupied as he now did in~the mornings
3056 7 | Rabourdin was in full tide of preparation for her Friday~dinner, standing
3057 6 | said Monsieur Gaudron,~preparing, with the curate, to take
3058 1 | useless, required for its presentation to the~public mind close
3059 4 | uttered his name a dreadful presentiment took possession of the lad'
3060 4 | their husbands happy and~yet preserve their own liberty, made
3061 6 | religion, and so faithful in preserving its monuments.~The church
3062 7 | dress~for dinner, his wife presided at his toilet and presently
3063 5 | whether these autographic presses could not be made to do~
3064 7 | which makes her lose her prestige. Such~a domiciliary invasion
3065 5 | all his usual ideas. But, presto! ten minutes later the~water
3066 5 | appointment in your second~hat, I presume" [points to the hat on the
3067 5 | felt with~the secretary for presuming to interfere with her private
3068 5 | chief Baudoyer, successor presumptive to the deceased."~[Minard,
3069 3 | position as head of a bureau~presupposed labor that was more intricate
3070 8 | joker~thought it amusing to pretend that he had won it.~ ~Bixiou [
3071 8 | paper to the minister. "He pretends to reorganize the government
3072 4 | the mother's side, made~pretension to the hand of Mademoiselle
3073 3 | reached an age when~men assert pretensions in regard to women. The
3074 7 | the vanishing line of the prettiest~swan's-neck that ever lover
3075 6 | this skirmish dead silence prevailed. They all wrote steadily~
3076 4 | sweating-sickness, a malady which prevails~in Champagne. I am about
3077 1 | Already,~terrible sacrifice of pride! she had dismissed her man-servant,
3078 7 | addressed,~"a set of usurers and priests--money and the church. The
3079 Add | Establishment~The Secrets of a Princess~Pierrette~A Study of Woman~
3080 6 | brokers for publishers, printers, and paper-makers, whose~
3081 6 | have just come from~the printing-office of the ministerial journal (
3082 4 | Saint-Joseph and of the Society of Prisons, one of~the mayors of Paris,
3083 3 | in life to bear constant privation.~After thirty-three years
3084 8 | to do, had better offer a prize for the~ablest answer to
3085 4 | bestowed took the place of prizes given out to proteges,--
3086 8 | Rabourdin,--in fact, in all probability, he will send you his~resignation--"~ ~"
3087 6 | might not be prudent to probe the wife's~heart and make
3088 2 | affair. The cashier then~proceeds to turn a compliment, and
3089 5 | controlling the various interests proclaimed and~supported by so many
3090 1 | of everything, prolongs~procrastination, and perpetuates the abuses
3091 4 | the society of actresses, procured him his~employment under
3092 3 | perseverance of a mole, prodigies of~work which the man of
3093 7 | ambitious public man should produce some bold~scheme,--he should
3094 7 | is certainly unique. It produces--~whence and how, who knows?--
3095 7 | charm of her manners were~producing their effect on the secretary
3096 1 | in case of war;~but the productions of the soil were freed,
3097 3 | family director,~called profane books. This discipline had
3098 7 | amazement to this singular profession of~rascality. The apparent
3099 5 | A~literary man becomes professor of something or other, or
3100 3 | the navy, mining, and~the professorial chair were all fenced about
3101 4 | furnace~door; such was the profile portrait of Antoine, the
3102 1 | himself to his country was a profitable contract for~both sides,
3103 8 | reason of the miserly~and profoundly illogical habits of the
3104 1 | years, by its~machinery, the project of a canal which would have
3105 4 | Chazelle's, which~was round and projecting, had the impertinence, so
3106 1 | overwhelmed by it. Was France less prolific of political capacities~
3107 3 | cashier with a hissing and prolonged sound on the~last letter; "
3108 1 | is afraid of everything, prolongs~procrastination, and perpetuates
3109 8 | to whom the minister was promising an honorable~pension. After
3110 4 | matters,~he never signed a promissory note; and had prudently
3111 3 | What would such future promotions avail me, if you dismiss
3112 3 | operas, melodramas, or~act as prompters behind the scenes. We may
3113 8 | domicile."~ ~[Old Poiret junior promptly inserted the said key between
3114 4 | their purpose.~ ~Bixiou (pronounce it Bisiou) was a draughtsman,
3115 4 | government hot-house; he~is propagated and developed there, and
3116 5 | Dauphin is living. Are you prophesying the~Dauphin's death?"~ ~
3117 1 | misled. The moment seemed~propitious for Rabourdin. What could
3118 1 | of the government than to propose and carry through a reform
3119 4 | principal vice was a mania~for proposing rural parties during the
3120 2 | fetched, carried, and buried propositions, said the Yes~and the No
3121 1 | of merit or~some landed proprietor whose door-bell his father
3122 6 | recovery of a bet."~ ~Dutocq. "Proscribe a thing and you recognize
3123 6 | come~down to pedestrial prose. I should say, 'He belonged
3124 3 | their~fortunes, actual and prospective, together with the individual~
3125 1 | conceive the plan~and fit it prospectively to the administrative skeleton;
3126 4 | Finding~himself without prospects on leaving college, he attempted
3127 4 | the number proposed in the~prospectus. He adored Monsieur Rabourdin,
3128 7 | honor?" cried Mitral.~ ~"God protects those who guard his altars,"
3129 8 | Monsieur Rabourdin (the~protege of friends of the noble
3130 4 | place of prizes given out to proteges,--a place,~moreover, where
3131 2 | draped his lies; his amiable protestations and hackneyed~courtesies,
3132 8 | power; he began in 1814 by~protesting against the Charter when
3133 4 | were beginning to show a protuberant stomach; Chazelle's, which~
3134 1 | salary; every one was able to provide for his own future and France~
3135 1 | an unknown protector had provided him with a~place. At twenty-two
3136 1 | stimulated the~production of a province; is afraid of everything,
3137 4 | suffice to give foreigners and provincials an idea of the~internal
3138 6 | expedition to Quiberon,--thus proving the~nature of his loyalty,
3139 8 | Suppose it is rather fussy and provoking, like all good housekeepers,~--
3140 4 | Athanase-Jean-Francois-Michel) formerly provost-marshal of the~department of the
3141 6 | a perfect treasure of~prudence and virtue, a model of wisdom,
3142 4 | promissory note; and had prudently attached his own~salary
3143 4 | muslin~dresses, silk mantles, prunella boots, handsome fichus,
3144 5 | whose work~obliges them to pry into the human heart, was
3145 4 | some happy hit,~such as the publication of portraits in the famous
3146 8 | Now, in the~first place, a publicist would call the attention
3147 6 | himself, in a book recently published, the responsibility~for
3148 6 | man who discounted for a publisher.~ ~"Bless me, so it is!"
3149 6 | said~journal, brokers for publishers, printers, and paper-makers,
3150 4 | and finally~writes the puffs and advertisements. Du Bruel
3151 2 | blond, as shown by the hand, puffy like that of an~old woman,
3152 6 | solemn as a priest in a pulpit]. "Why, Hoche and Tallien,
3153 1 | dared to feel each other's pulse, or had the higher salaries~
3154 2 | marriage might float him and pump the waters of debt out of
3155 3 | himself with such~terrible punctuality that not one of them dared
3156 5 | a prince who knew how to punish and reward. The State now
3157 7 | Dutocq! People are always punished through their kindnesses!
3158 7 | will not. That is the only punishment that I~impose--"~ ~"IMPOSE!"
3159 4 | who was fond of making puns,~declared that an anagram
3160 3 | originality. Something pinched and puny about Elisabeth Saillard
3161 4 | Godard. Zelie Lorrain, a pupil,~in the first place, of
3162 6 | us for the amount of the~purchase-money. Ah! now you begin to see
3163 2 | buffets made by Boulle, also purchased by the auctioneer, furnished~
3164 4 | deed. This conscientious puritan of freedom, this apostle
3165 4 | which lies perhaps in the purity of their~nervous systems,
3166 3 | those who did not see its purport and connection,~an air of
3167 8 | carrying a lamb gules; second, purpure, three~mascles argent, two
3168 4 | not private. Much ridicule pursued Vimeux in both bureaus~when
3169 1 | helping an~inventor and pushing his interests, or of devoting
3170 8 | Cancale?"~ ~Poiret [much put-out]. "Then it is a settled
3171 8 | government clerk?"~ ~Poiret [puzzled]. "Why, no."~ ~Bixiou. "
3172 5 | to justify the saying of Pythagoras, 'No man is known until
3173 7 | sexagenarian Excellency than a~quadragenarian secretary; there's more
3174 3 | uprightness that might be called quadrangular,~a religion without piety,
3175 4 | talents, such as playing quadrille music on the flute,~which
3176 7 | newspapers, without being able to~quaff enough of it.~ ~"THERE first,
3177 7 | iron-bound court in Europe as to~quarterings of nobility."~ ~"You will
3178 4 | the breast like that of a~quartermaster of gendarmerie. Though unyielding
3179 4 | thousand francs earned by~his quarters, thirds, and halves of plays
3180 3 | pavements, the flaggings of the~quays and the boulevards, when
3181 5 | vigor he would quickly have quenched it. But, accustomed to~back
3182 3 | of officials: he sees the questionable means by which his superiors~
3183 2 | disputations with fate, self-~questioning, self-answering, and buckling
3184 5 | practised sophistries and quibbled instead of~judging; he had
3185 6 | to Gigonnet, "you are too quick on the~trigger."~ ~"Come,
3186 2 | with the~prefect in the quietest way, because des Lupeaulx
3187 1 | Nevertheless, she mistook the quietude of the political thinker
3188 8 | What?" said his wife, quivering with sudden anxiety.~ ~"
3189 1 | warfare by adding their quota of assistance under the
3190 6 | Convention, in which he had to quote~Robespierre, and he said, '
3191 4 | Bixiou to name him "the white~rabbit." Minard--the Rabourdin
3192 1 | budgets which now excite such rabid discussion,~results that
3193 7 | thoroughbred before the race, and~re-read the invitation
3194 1 | thoroughbred English horse, a racer~harnessed to a cart full
3195 4 | put his pen in the same rack, sat down in~his seat at
3196 5 | clerk becomes a~notary, a rag-picker lays by two or three thousand
3197 8 | Rabourdin resigns in a rage at finding Baudoyer~appointed
3198 4 | half-starved like Vimeux, with ragged clothes and~half-concealed
3199 6 | Fleury. "Pooh! thin as a rail. I saw her in the Tuileries,
3200 3 | single pedestals, with brass railings and cracked marble tops;
3201 3 | piercing cold or fog or rain a timid, pale young man
3202 6 | till the last, when they~rained upon him."~ ~Bixiou. "Oh!
3203 4 | face~was that of a pensive ram, with little color and pitted
3204 1 | their course," saw "Report"~rampant throughout France, from
3205 8 | we may all be accused of rancor and revenge. No, let~the
3206 1 | dress in keeping with the rank to which she aspired, the
3207 Add | Birotteau~ ~Nathan, Madame Raoul~The Muse of the Department~
3208 6 | organ would contain that he~rarely took the trouble to read
3209 7 | this singular profession of~rascality. The apparent artlessness
3210 4 | the Malpighis, and the Raspails (an attempt once made by~
3211 3 | well-rope, always smelling a rat, and close-mouthed about
3212 2 | was always in~search of Ratons. As he is one of the principal
3213 6 | say, 'Death carries on its~ravages amongst the few surviving
3214 5 | marines of~the guard! You rave, my good fellow! And I,
3215 8 | quarterly, first,~argent, a wolf ravisant carrying a lamb gules; second,
3216 1 | freed, and industry, finding raw~material at a low price,
3217 4 | walked along, the sun's rays~reflected from the pavements
3218 8 | Without~laying down his razor, the general-secretary cast
3219 8 | Bixiou [seeing Phellion re-enter]. "Victrix cause diis placuit,
3220 6 | my sight." So saying he re-entered the cafe.~ ~The next day
3221 8 | You go first alone." [Re-enters the bureau Rabourdin.] "
3222 8 | by vouchers, produced and re-produced on balance-sheets, and~receipted
3223 8 | urgent nor necessary; troops re-uniformed and~gold-laced over and
3224 3 | the~public lotteries or reading-rooms. Some, like the husband
3225 1 | individual tax-payer pays less in reality, while the~State receives
3226 4 | departments before he can~realize how much their petty and
3227 3 | blamable action that~she might reap the fruits; and she would
3228 5 | and~consistent; thus he reaped the benefits of what was
3229 1 | no notice of the sudden reappearance of~luxury in the bosom of
3230 2 | the first tall clock that~reappeared in the nineteenth century
3231 2 | downstairs, and the next morning~reappears smiling with an excellent
3232 4 | After trying to get a few reasonable ideas into this foolish
3233 4 | what system is to art, or reasoning to~deed. This conscientious
3234 7 | Lupeaulx was all the more reassured by the genuine laugh which~
3235 4 | of the Left centre, and rebelled~against the tyrannies of
3236 6 | over all the obstacles that~rebellion arrayed against him. He
3237 2 | by one of~those acoustic rebounds which are very little studied.
3238 1 | Rabourdin to desire the recasting of the~clerical official
3239 7 | doubtless, ready to~give me a receipt for them if Baudoyer is
3240 | recent
3241 8 | place in the minister's reception-room, more~instructive than the
3242 3 | wishes. But her~ears were receptive of many things; she thought
3243 8 | Lupeaulx by the arm into the recess of a window. "My~dear friend,
3244 3 | and never made it up. The recipient of these gifts was~placed
3245 2 | rendered those that the recipients were not likely to~forget.~ ~
3246 1 | by his own work. Were the recital~of his efforts to be omitted,
3247 3 | Leibnitz, nor Laplace has ever reckoned, the distance that exists~
3248 6 | pay one's debts, that's recognizing~them."~ ~Thuillier. "You
3249 7 | help you,~consider that I recollect the past."~ ~"So do we,"
3250 6 | article on La Billardiere, recollecting with~amusement the dilemma
3251 7 | which gives her an unfading recollection to which she~recurs with
3252 8 | paper."~ ~His tears and sobs recommenced and made so much noise that
3253 7 | for in politics everything recommences. Such proceedings may do
3254 5 | The worthy man strongly recommended~Rabourdin, saying he should
3255 4 | months in decomposing and~recomposing words and fitting them to
3256 2 | Lupeaulx. After one~of these reconciliations he received the formal promise
3257 7 | they are grand dukes. She reconnoitred the field, as it~were, while
3258 3 | labors. The youth copied~and recopied the famous "statement,"
3259 6 | before us for drawing up and recording~the notarial deeds (bear
3260 1 | bureaucracy was enthroned!~Records, statistics, documents,
3261 1 | themselves. It is difficult~to recount in detail, chapter by chapter,
3262 4 | sounded consciences by recounting immoral~jests, and then
3263 8 | in ten years you shall recover the luxury that you love,~
3264 6 | allows of no action for~the recovery of a bet."~ ~Dutocq. "Proscribe
3265 8 | representative government to be recruited from men of talent whom
3266 4 | little fellow who gives us "recta" his ten francs on New-Year'
3267 7 | only by his honesty and~rectitude,--poor dear man!"~ ~Des
3268 7 | recollection to which she~recurs with happiness all her life.
3269 5 | mistakes~perpetual division and redivision for progress, an unhappy
3270 5 | youth and fire need to be redoubled. The minister in whom~Rabourdin
3271 4 | slight favor, or to get~redress for a trifling wrong, you
3272 1 | maintenance of which it, in turn, reduces. Can it be~thought a proper
3273 5 | extremely out of place to refer to him as such in a~government
3274 8 | moist, and he could not~refrain from wringing his hand.~ ~"
3275 4 | Exchequer,~that wayside refuge where private secretaries
3276 7 | hide the harshness of her refusal under~the grace of her words. "
3277 6 | Fleury. "True! when one refuses to pay one's debts, that'
3278 4 | five sous a game, and were regaled~with cakes and beer. He
3279 7 | things as they did~under the Regency. Ah! they had plenty of
3280 4 | likeness is obvious;~in regiments, in law-courts, you will
3281 4 | described~in the Yearly Register:--~ ~"Chief of Division.--
3282 8 | orders and receipts are registered on the~rolls, and checked
3283 8 | money-orders, documents, roles, registers, lists,~permits, custom-house
3284 4 | an~impossible equality, regretted keenly that his poverty
3285 1 | in the morning with~the regularity of clock-work, always passing
3286 6 | government office is so regulated that, when a minister's~
3287 1 | difficult undertaking is the rehabilitation of the Civil~Service while
3288 4 | allowed du Bruel to go off to rehearsals, come to the~office at his
3289 2 | The~salon had lately been rehung in gold-colored silk with
3290 7 | her bedroom, where chaos reigned; a jumble of furniture~to
3291 8 | State, and not requiring reimbursement or insisting on security."~ ~
3292 6 | heart bleeds under these~reiterated blows?'" [Du Bruel writes
3293 8 | Fleury. "That priests rejoice, and Monsieur Rabourdin
3294 3 | determined to push her way. If we~relate the life of her father and
3295 3 | him the Eastern question relates only to the morning skies.
3296 2 | world, cultivates social relations and extends them, he succeeds.~
3297 7 | her in which the nerves relax and the feelings soften.~ ~"
3298 3 | The~nerves of the old beau relaxed; the agreeable smile, which
3299 4 | selfish; egoism develops, and relaxes all the secondary~bonds
3300 3 | some of the higher powers~released it by a bill at sight."~ ~"
3301 1 | of things which the State releases from its perpetual and~harassing
3302 4 | of eyebrows induced the relentless Bixiou to name him "the
3303 7 | no offence by a~certain reliance on her own dignity; for
3304 4 | interests of his digestion, to relieve the~bureau of the sight
3305 1 | breathe freer, agriculture is relieved, the State~receives as much,
3306 5 | where I am and what I can rely~on. If you don't succeed
3307 1 | largest revenues from the remainder, by~lessening the enormous
3308 8 | we take it to pieces and remake it? No one would have the~
3309 1 | poor~father of a family, remarking to the pretty woman at his
3310 5 | a~misfortune now beyond remedy, Rabourdin said no more.
3311 5 | said~the vaudevillist, remembering des Lupeaulx's former affair. "
3312 3 | and well-defined~outlines reminded an artist of the Venus of
3313 1 | for~everybody fears to remodel it, though no one, according
3314 8 | ministry~is aroused your remonstrances will meet with general approval."~ ~
3315 3 | Madame Saillard ventured to~remonstrate with her uncle.~ ~"It is
3316 4 | distinguished~doctors have remonstrated against the influence of
3317 8 | commotion, owing to a general~removal of officials, from the highest
3318 3 | country, and had~lately removed to the neighborhood of Ile-d'
3319 1 | expect a man whom the State remunerated with twelve thousand francs~
3320 1 | he puts back again. All~remuneration implies something furnished.
3321 1 | cloth with red pipins,~she renewed parts of her furniture,
3322 8 | love,~which we must needs renounce for a short time. I, too,
3323 1 | illusions of~his youth and renounced every secret ambition; you
3324 3 | thousand francs, brought~in a rental of eight thousand. Falleix
3325 8 | minister. "He pretends to reorganize the government from~beginning
3326 8 | session that I have amply repaid you."~ ~For all answer,
3327 1 | sake of his daughter, to repair the secret loss by~risking
3328 3 | brass buckle. Since 1804 no repairs of any kind had been done
3329 1 | from her~father would amply repay all present privations with
3330 3 | jealousy of the countess, repeating her remarks about the invitation~
3331 1 | wife, by dint of constant repetition, had~inoculated him with
3332 1 | and a middling sort of man replaces him. Unfortunately for the~
3333 4 | immoral~jests, and then reported and paraphrased results
3334 3 | rewarded with~well-earned repose, she was incessantly employed
3335 4 | more or less those that are represented here. It is difficult even
3336 3 | themselves on a matter in hand. Repressed by~religious devotion, her
3337 7 | throbbing artery with which to~reproach him. Madame Rabourdin knew
3338 1 | an adored wife~happy! She reproached him for being too honest
3339 3 | pattern and~wonderfully reproduced on canvas; but these dames
3340 1 | position is~rather hazardous in reproducing a plan which may be thought
3341 2 | pay no attention to the reptiles; happily, they~abandon to
3342 3 | since~the year II. of the Republic, and now sixty-nine years
3343 4 | relying on no one~but himself. Republican in secret, an admirer of
3344 3 | be puffed up~by the false reputation the quartier Saint-Antoine
3345 5 | this office into such~high repute with the administration.
3346 5 | his hand]. "Gentlemen, I~request you to shout a little louder;
3347 5 | schemes and impractical~requests. Far from coming fresh to
3348 1 | weary others.~To satisfy the requirements of her mind Madame Rabourdin
3349 6 | laughing~to himself as he reread the biography of the late
3350 3 | give strength to bear the res angusta domi of arts and
3351 4 | these government bureaus resemble each other. Into~whatever
3352 4 | petty and belittling life resembles that of~seminaries. Wherever
3353 3 | admired his chief without~reservation, and who was, as yet, wholly
3354 6 | le baron,' because I am reserving his honors till the last,
3355 8 | probability, he will send you his~resignation--"~ ~"His resignation?"~ ~"
3356 5 | Let us all~give in our resignations! Fleury, Chazelle, fling
3357 8 | No, I am not. Rabourdin resigns in a rage at finding Baudoyer~
3358 5 | them from~attempting the resistance which youth opposes to intrigues,
3359 1 | Celestine by her father.~She resisted for a long time; not that
3360 8 | the statesmen of the Left, resolve~themselves into figures.
3361 8 | her husband. The husband, resolving slowly not to remain~at
3362 4 | when the clank of his spurs resounded in the corridors and on
3363 2 | given neither to a man who respects~himself nor to a man who
3364 1 | places which were formerly resplendent with mighty powers and are
3365 4 | Correspondence." He dined at the same restaurant (the Sucking Calf in~the
3366 6 | bureaus~evaporates; silence is restored. By four o'clock none but
3367 5 | he chose, without being restrained by any~consideration. After
3368 1 | herself untrammelled by the restraints which society~imposes. In
3369 1 | than seven; and, in the~restricted number there is less chance
3370 1 | which may seem immense,~rests on very simple machinery.
3371 1 | of power. He saw how it resulted in~restless intrigues, like
3372 8 | yourself."~ ~Phellion [resuming]. "--and he hath said that
3373 7 | impossible."~ ~"What is that?"~ ~"Resuscitated the dead. I did not think
3374 1 | tax-payers, the licences of retail dealers were taxed~according
3375 1 | and all men~to his will, retarded for a time the influence
3376 8 | replaced,~and that would be a retrenchment. Little La Billardiere had
3377 3 | single~word which would reveal to others her real opinion
3378 7 | She was on the point of revealing her husband's plan, when
3379 4 | guessed Dutocq's hatred to his revered Rabourdin. So that when
3380 7 | midst of a disorder the reverse of picturesque,~wrapped
3381 6 | Nathan or Canalis might have reviewed one of~their own books.~ ~"'
3382 8 | mount guard~and show off at reviews. You may perhaps tell me
3383 1 | its~simplest form, was to revise taxation and lower it in
3384 5 | able only to understand revolt.~ ~Rabourdin told himself
3385 3 | how many can toil without revolting against it; it~learns which
3386 8 | conspiracies, Carbonaroism, and~revolts with weapons; it is now
3387 6 | those who fought for them in Revolutionary~times.'"~ ~Bixiou. "Bad,
3388 7 | cotton fabrics enough to~revolutionize the Rouen manufactories.
3389 1 | circle where his~thought revolved, which, we may remark parenthetically,
3390 3 | in the civil service the~revolving wheel which turned clerks
3391 6 | under its administration. No rewards~have ever been more truly
3392 3 | the~lad of twenty would rewrite whole pages for a single
3393 4 | tied on by~flame-colored ribbons; attended by Despleins,
3394 8 | Monsieur Cochlin, who is~rich--"~ ~Bixiou. "By cochineal."~ ~
3395 1 | great world. Her~dress was richer and more elegant than was
3396 4 | these men, who was also the richest, waited upon the main~body
3397 6 | folly in ever trusting you richly deserved. A fine thing indeed,~
3398 8 | pun?"~ ~Thuillier. "No; a riddle."~ ~Phellion. "I am sorry
3399 7 | to whom~an aide-de-camp rides up and says: "The enemy
3400 4 | was a draughtsman, who ridiculed Dutocq~as readily as he
3401 4 | buy a pair of spurs and a riding-whip.~Jokes at the expense of
3402 8 | going on? what scandals are rife about Monsieur Rabourdin
3403 8 | Rabourdin is to be director. Riffe, the secretary's~copying
3404 3 | mortgages, with the wife's rights reserved in case the~borrower
3405 3 | fond of her,~mitigated this rigorous treatment with a few presents.
3406 3 | work,~enforcing the rules rigorously, and arriving himself with
3407 3 | those verger-beadle-bell-~ringing-grave-digging-parish-clerks who are taken to be caricatures~
3408 3 | government officers; they had risen by their own~merits; they
3409 3 | that one, full of talent, risks~his health in doing, with
3410 4 | though not admitted to its rites, Dutocq~went from bureau
3411 7 | expressive glances; the rivalry~between the minister and
3412 6 | Baudoyer, whose eyes were still~riveted on the paper.~ ~"Your eulogy
3413 1 | for an Englishman on the road to his embassy.~ ~From these
3414 8 | and my scourge." [They all roar with laughter.] "Yes, yes,
3415 6 | Mitral, "I'd like to know the robber!"~ ~"Nobody can rob us but
3416 8 | word of honor, the State robs the poor~officials as much
3417 8 | of the four sergeants of~Rochelle, Ney, Berton, Caron, the
3418 8 | money-orders, documents, roles, registers, lists,~permits,
3419 3 | small safe which is in my roller secretary; it shuts~with
3420 8 | know the news?"~ ~Fleury [rolling his eyes savagely]. "Rabourdin
3421 6 | officially. In spite of his Roman virtue he must~have been
3422 4 | with whom they set up a romance~illustrated with stupid
3423 4 | well-made and graceful,~with a romantic face, and eyes, hair, beard,
3424 1 | Madrid, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Rome; all~places which were formerly
3425 2 | Orta at the foot~of Monte Rosa, with an island resting
3426 2 | it was~not all a bed of roses for des Lupeaulx; he flattered
3427 3 | and covered with tapestry; rosewood bureaus; round tables~on
3428 8 | composed~by the sublime Rossini for Basilio,--which goes
3429 5 | manufacturers; whereas, in the~rotatory movement of this present
3430 1 | clerk in the employ of the Rothchilds~corresponds with all England;
3431 7 | enough to~revolutionize the Rouen manufactories. Celestine'
3432 2 | scent of~secrets, brings the rouge or the shawl at the right
3433 1 | these reforms~without too roughly jarring the existing state
3434 7 | secretary and metamorphosing his~roughness into sentimental courtesy;
3435 5 | fellow, I am in a position to rouse~the whole division against
3436 1 | parliamentary influence,~royalty had nothing to do now with
3437 5 | Debats,' Chateaubriand, and~Royer-Collard, is only to be pitied!"~ ~
3438 4 | the Louvre emerge from its rubbish; I~saw the birth of the
3439 8 | minister loses a fine mind." [Rubs his hands.]~ ~Laurent [entering]. "
3440 1 | still fair, though rather ruddy and~touched here and there
3441 2 | certain exquisite Turkish~rugs which her father had bought
3442 2 | was all-important for the~ruling powers to have a household
3443 7 | the disarray of muslins~rumpled in sleep enjoys, as it were,
3444 5 | errands,~I believe. I've rung three times and can't get
3445 3 | bracketed, the captions in~a running hand, and the sub-titles
3446 1 | after a time, merely the running-gear of the machine; the most~
3447 4 | was a mania~for proposing rural parties during the summer
3448 8 | out.]~ ~Thuillier. "He may rush as much as he pleases to
3449 6 | he's dismissed." [Fleury rushes to the window.]~"Gentlemen,
3450 3 | resemblance to the handsome Russian Emperor~and the terrible
3451 8 | supported by four griffon's-claws jessant from the sides of
3452 3 | customs changed. The saint's-days of~father, mother, daughter,
3453 7 | line of the prettiest~swan's-neck that ever lover kissed before
3454 4 | frame, his coat of arms (sable, two swords in saltire,
3455 2 | struggle in which the harlequin sabre of epigram opened~a breach
3456 3 | cotton shirts instead of sacking, and to brush up his hair
3457 5 | revealed by the anagram of this sacramental sentence" [he pulls out
3458 4 | fireplaces are commonly kept sacred to heads of bureaus and~
3459 7 | where women put what they sacredly hide, and~showed it to him.~ ~"
3460 6 | way to it--~through the sacristy."~ ~Thuillier. "I am too
3461 1 | why the nation should be~saddled with a thousand millions
3462 5 | callers; his Excellency saddles me with that burden when
3463 7 | and found Madame Rabourdin sailing~with the wind of success,
3464 1 | of things or incurring~a Saint-Bartholomew of clerks, Rabourdin considered
3465 5 | his~crown of course); de Saint-Cloud partira; en nauf (that's
3466 3 | as God was greater than Saint-Crepin, to use his own~expression;
3467 7 | a~bourgeoise of the rue Saint-Denis. Bah! you and I are too
3468 6 | Palais-Royal on the rue~Saint-Honore. Dutocq came up, bowing,
3469 4 | member of the~Association of Saint-Joseph and of the Society of Prisons,
3470 4 | page of Volney, studied Saint-Just, and employed himself on~
3471 1 | only be likened to that of Saint-Laurence on his~grid-iron, is it
3472 5 | Hatred lived in the rue Saint-Louis-Saint-Honore,~whereas love and devotion
3473 3 | commercial~paper in the quartier Saint-Martin, where he was known by the
3474 5 | feuilletons," or~he gets into Saint-Pelagie for a brilliant article
3475 4 | huge nose is recorded by Saint-Simon as the delight of the Duc~
3476 3 | subterfuges. Like~those saintly personages in whom religion
3477 6 | to speak to God and his saints."~ ~"He is as good as he
3478 4 | lay himself out, like a~salmon at a fishmonger's, in spite
3479 1 | francs for the consumption of~salt and you obtain ten or a
3480 4 | arms (sable, two swords in saltire, on a chief~azure three
3481 8 | s voice]. "Gentlemen, I salute you with a~collective how
3482 4 | called an "adipose chest."~He saluted Antoine with dignity.~ ~
3483 Ded | To the Comtesse Seraphina San Severino, with the respectful~
3484 3 | suppositions, flooded with the~sapient arguments of the two officials,
3485 8 | snappers, all dancing a saraband!"~ ~"Monsieur," said Colleville, "
3486 7 | of the appointment is not satisfactorily arranged within~six days
3487 1 | considered the means of~satisfying it, though he hid his hopes,
3488 2 | short nails--the hand of a~satrap. His foot was elegant. After
3489 8 | little~eyes grew big as saucers.~ ~"Farewell, monsieur,"
3490 7 | she took the pretty~air of sauciness which women may properly
3491 8 | Fleury [rolling his eyes savagely]. "Rabourdin a blackguard!
3492 Add | Grassou~A Start in Life~Albert Savarus~Modeste Mignon~The Imaginary
3493 4 | Gabriel,~from Echelles in Savoie,--one to serve the heads
3494 4 | school~on a smaller or larger scale. The government clerks,
3495 3 | ponderous a personality that no scalpel could cut~deep enough to
3496 8 | with its evils. The liberal scandal-~mongers delighted in representing
3497 8 | know what~is going on? what scandals are rife about Monsieur
3498 1 | martyrized at heart by the scantiness of her~pecuniary means.
3499 5 | itself in the way of their~scanty comfort.~ ~"I thought Rabourdin
3500 8 | could be bought. Such an old scarecrow is just the thing for a
3501 3 | any kind, a black gauze scarf, her hair smoothly bound~
3502 4 | a witty saying, he would scarify his two neighbors before
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