Chapter

 1 I  |               had a following.~ ~Emile Blondet, Journalist, with abundance
 2 I  |               Rastignac refuse?" asked Blondet, apparently addressing~Finot.~ ~"
 3 I  |                as socially," commented Blondet.~ ~"But how did he make
 4 I  |             him without a penny," said Blondet.~ ~"Oh! in 1827," said Bixiou.~ ~"
 5 I  |      extenuating circumstances," urged~Blondet. "When he escaped the clutches
 6 I  |         Oriental views of women,"~said Blondet.~ ~"The Baron blended the
 7 I  |             said Finot.~ ~"Who?" asked Blondet.~ ~"Some fool that he came
 8 II |               not scatter himself like Blondet here, who chooses~these
 9 II |              off at a stroke," replied Blondet. "Rastignac's~fortune was
10 II |              said Couture, speaking to Blondet; "her~cleverness simply
11 II |                 said Finot, turning to Blondet.~ ~"But there is reason
12 II |               what he says," exclaimed Blondet. "The problem~is a very
13 II |              bound to know that," said Blondet.~ ~"There are women," Bixiou
14 II |               Oh, what rubbish!" cried Blondet. "The Marechal de Richelieu~
15 II |              Bixiou is sublime," cried Blondet. "What does Finot~say to
16 II |             own purposes."~ ~"And you, Blondet?"~ ~"I do not preach, I
17 II |               traduce ourselves," said Blondet with urbane good~humor.~ ~"
18 II |              little tap to the back~of Blondet's head, "you are making
19 II |                with the waiter?" asked Blondet.~ ~"I want five hundred
20 II |              to his beginnings?" asked Blondet.~ ~"I have only known him
21 II |               seen in our days," began Blondet. "In 1804~Nucingen's name
22 II |        advantage over du Tillet,"~said Blondet, "unless it is that he has
23 II |                   Right, my son," said Blondet; "but we, and we alone,
24 II |         Beaudenord; neither~Finot, nor Blondet, nor Couture, nor I am likely
25 II |      vaccinated (you know~what I mean, Blondet).~ ~"And yet, in spite of
26 II |       formulated a dismal truth," said Blondet.~ ~"And a moral," added
27 II |                Double distilled," said Blondet. "Happiness, like Good,
28 II |                atsay Blois," continued Blondet, taking no notice of the~
29 II |             from thy waistcoat-pocket, Blondet?~Between ourselves, let
30 II |                he added in an aside to Blondet.~ ~"In England, Finot, you
31 II | self-possession which you know!" added Blondet. "It is~enough to make any
32 III|             the ordinary level," added~Blondet.~ ~"Well, Godefroid sojourned
33 III|                far~away."~ ~"Ah!" said Blondet, "you have set your finger
34 IV |              on a little faster," said Blondet; "you are~maundering."~ ~"
35 IV |             Bixiou, looking askance at Blondet, "wore a simple~white crepe
36 IV |           acknowledge it. Go on," said Blondet.~ ~"I resume. 'Pretty enough
37 IV |                his completeness," said~Blondet; "whenever he is not gibing
38 IV |                even with you for that, Blondet," returned Bixiou in a~significant
39 IV |        head-clerk."~ ~"At Paris," said Blondet, "there are attorneys of
40 IV |             self in it?"~ ~"Ugh!" said Blondet. "Nothing is less respected
41 IV |             three times a day," opined Blondet; "a man of~more than ordinary
42 IV |       somewhere in the Foreign Office. Blondet, I call your attention to
43 IV |                 he was absorbed," said Blondet. "Love gives the fool his
44 IV |           chance of growing great."~ ~"Blondet, Blondet, how is it that
45 IV |            growing great."~ ~"Blondet, Blondet, how is it that we are so
46 IV |               Finot so rich?" returned Blondet. "I will tell you how it~
47 V  |                 This comes home," said Blondet, "but my dear fellow, this
48 V  |              story, this is blague"~ ~"Blondet, if you were not tipsy,
49 V  |               of our~national thought. Blondet is driving a hearse to his
50 V  |             hearse to his own suicide;~Blondet, forsooth! who manufactures
51 V  |             who"~ ~"Bosh!" interrupted Blondet, "one reason for loving
52 V  |              Florine's Matifat?" asked Blondet.~ ~"Well, yes. Lousteau'
53 V  |            Once they tried to quiz me, Blondet. I told them a long-winded
54 V  |             answer to this riddle."~ ~"Blondet has roughly given you the
55 V  |              shares, would~you?" asked Blondet.~ ~"No," said Finot. "Where
56 V  |                on a small scale," said Blondet, "but on a~large we call
57 V  |              inventions"~ ~"Yes," said Blondet, "the responsible editor
58 V  |               and pedantic,"~commented Blondet.~ ~"Yes," rejoined Couture,
59 V  |           exclaimed Bixiou, turning~to Blondet. "He will ask us next to
60 V  |       patrimony by divine right," said Blondet.~ ~"Gentlemen," cried Couture, "
61 V  |                     He is right," said Blondet. "What times we live in,
62 V  |              the State!"~ ~"Oh, bravo, Blondet!" cried Bixiou, "thou hast
63 V  |             political~sense," rejoined Blondet.~ ~"Explain your meaning,"
64 VI |              VI~"Here it is," returned Blondet. "There has been a good
65 VI |                unscrupulous rascality. Blondet has given you an account
66 VI |               crown for Couture!" said Blondet, twisting a serviette into
67 VI |              almost like talent," said~Blondet.~ ~"Oh! so I am not maundering
68 VI |                playing truant," put in Blondet.~ ~"Of course they went
69 VII|                that Hebrew is," put in Blondet; "he has not had a~university
70 VII|                creditor."~ ~"Oh!" said Blondet. "For my own part, all that
71 Add|                Humorists~Cousin Pons~ ~Blondet, Emile~Jealousies of a Country