Chapter
1 I | industry. A bargain was struck. M. le~Comte de Maucombe, disguised
2 I | natural to the bear that M. de~Chateaubriand remarked
3 I | pounds weight of type from~M. Vaflard's foundry----' "
4 I | what I call a typefounder! M. Vaflard is an honest man,
5 I | fivepence a pound."~ ~"You call M. Gille's italics, running-hand
6 I | nail-~heads,' do you? M. Gille, that used to be
7 I | know enough to see that M. Gille's sloping letters
8 I | tombs to describe a V or an M, and huge borders of~masks
9 I | sent them out with a plain M on them after the style
10 I | republican army. Nature had meant M. Chardon senior for~a chemist;
11 I | were requested to apply to M. Postel,~M. Chardon's successor
12 I | requested to apply to M. Postel,~M. Chardon's successor in
13 I | successor to the business, for M. Postel let~them have rooms
14 I | two of his father's ideas. M. Chardon had talked of a~
15 I | the pleasure of addressing M. Lucien Chardon?"~ ~"Yes,
16 II | decided Lucien's career.~ ~M. de Bargeton was the great-grandson
17 II | Mirault and was called~simply M. de Bargeton. This M. de
18 II | simply M. de Bargeton. This M. de Bargeton, the alderman'
19 II | likewise, the grandson of M. de~Bargeton the Waster
20 II | d'Espard family. As for M. de~Negrepelisse, the younger
21 II | only in youth.~ ~As for M. de Negrepelisse, he would
22 II | hesitated for a moment.~ ~M. de Negrepelisse maintained
23 II | phoenix of sons-in-law.~ ~To M. de Negrepelisse pondering
24 II | requirements in his mind. M. de Bargeton~seemed to be
25 II | answered to this description. M. de~Bargeton, aged forty,
26 II | In the bluntest manner M. de Negrepelisse~pointed
27 II | prospect of such liberty.~M. de Bargeton was of the
28 II | expected that in no long while M. de Negrepelisse~would leave
29 II | the more startling since M. de~Bargeton looked like
30 II | officials excepted; for M. and~Mme. de Bargeton were
31 II | bound to be attentive to old M. de~Negrepelisse (who kept
32 II | the brothers Fauchet, over M. d'Arlincourt's Ipsiboe,~ ~
33 II | 1821, the great essayists, M. de Bonald and M. de Maistre~(
34 II | essayists, M. de Bonald and M. de Maistre~(those two eagles
35 II | excise fell~vacant, and M. de Barante appointed a
36 III | III~M. de Chatelet--he began life
37 III | wit to adopt the particle--M. du Chatelet was one of
38 III | rhyme did duty for reason. M. du Chatelet had besides
39 III | Council, who put him in M. de Barante's department~
40 III | vacant. So the part~that M. du Chatelet once had played
41 III | the ladies of~Angouleme.~ ~M. le Baron Sixte du Chatelet
42 III | the women, flattered by M. du Chatelet, discerned
43 III | Bourbon~Lilies; she loved M. de Chateaubriand for calling
44 III | live. For these reasons M.~du Chatelet thought he
45 III | to the Promenade, where M. du Chatelet was waiting~
46 III | pointed to a seat by her side, M. du Chatelet~ensconced himself
47 III | understanding?~ ~As for M. Sixte du Chatelet, he was
48 III | such was the matter of M. du Chatelet's discourse. "
49 III | meant to have no more of M. de Cante-Croix, and gave~
50 III | ask Lucien to dine with M. de Bargeton as a~third.
51 III | controller of excise as "M.~Chatelet," and left that
52 III | Chandour,~harkening to "M. Chatelet's" counsels, determined
53 III | de Bargeton called him "M. Chatelet," he swore to
54 III | scouring a caldron, and M. Postel himself, girded~
55 III | Good-day, sonny," said M. Postel, that typical, provincial
56 III | is the matter with you?" M. Postel inquired, putting
57 IV | to~compel them to accept M. David Sechard, I am quite
58 IV | in the drawing-room; but M. de Bargeton was there,~
59 IV | husband face to face.~ ~M. de Bargeton's intellect
60 IV | conversation dropped dead.~Then M. de Bargeton mutely implored
61 IV | twaddlers~of Angouleme credited M. de Bargeton with more understanding
62 IV | them, they went off to give M. de Bargeton the benefit
63 IV | kept tidy, and~cared for, M. de Bargeton had come to
64 IV | through pride, and argued that M. de Bargeton must possess
65 IV | frequented the house~long enough. M. de Bargeton, spread at
66 IV | is natural enough," said M. de Bargeton.~ ~Lucien took
67 IV | live in L'Houmeau," said M. de Bargeton, "and people
68 IV | I don't know," answered M. de Bargeton, relapsing
69 IV | the cause."~ ~"Ah!" said M. de Bargeton, "final causes!
70 IV | he began, returning to M. de~ ~Bargeton.~ ~"Very
71 IV | seldom."~ ~Silence again. M. de Bargeton watched Lucien'
72 IV | the occasion) announced "M. du~Chatelet." The Baron
73 IV | the uncomfortable sense of M.~de Bargeton's imagined
74 IV | humiliate him in~his poverty. M. de Bargeton had counted
75 IV | Why, the latest thing is M. Chardon," Chatelet said
76 IV | theatrical style of~dress. M. du Chatelet gallantly plied
77 IV | Angouleme;~her husband, M. de Chandour, known in the
78 IV | women--he made them laugh. M. du Chatelet was~beginning
79 IV | she would~not confess.~ ~M. de Saintot, otherwise Astolphe,
80 IV | over the department that M. Saintot was engaged upon
81 IV | sustained the general belief in M. de Saintot's abilities.~ ~
82 IV | After this pair came M. de Bartas, known as Adrien
83 IV | among the circle.~It was M. de Bartas who boomed out
84 IV | extolling the composer.~ ~M. Alexandre de Brebian performed
85 IV | albums in the department. M.~Alexandre de Brebian and
86 IV | Alexandre de Brebian and M. de Bartas came together,
87 IV | figures in the rooms was M. le Comte de Senonches,~
88 IV | most perfect intimacy with M. du Hautoy, otherwise~Francis,
89 IV | looked after the~fortunes of M. and Mme. de Senonches with
90 IV | pleasing a spectacle, that if M.~du Hautoy had shown any
91 IV | not know of the mystery. M. du Hautoy was a finical
92 IV | maintain a~dignified reserve. M. de Pimentel and M. de Rastignac,
93 IV | reserve. M. de Pimentel and M. de Rastignac, for instance,~
94 IV | wight happened first upon M. de Bartas,~who talked music
95 IV | music in reply, and next on M. de Saintot, who quoted~
96 IV | necessities of the~unfortunate.~ ~M. de Severac was fifty-nine
97 IV | between Mme. du~Brossard and M. de Severac to a glorious
98 IV | that no one except Louise, M. de Bargeton, the Bishop,
99 IV | the house, spoke of him as M. de~Rubempre; for his formidable
100 IV | formidable audience he was M. Chardon. Lucien's~courage
101 V | repeated efforts on the part of M. de Bargeton, who, obedient
102 V | easily explained," said she. "M. de Rubempre works for a~
103 V | why does he call himself M. de Rubempre?" inquired
104 V | broke in, "we came to hear M. Chardon's poetry, and~you
105 V | service," said Amelie to M. du~Chatelet, "go and manage
106 V | riddle?" said Amelie, giving M. du Chatelet a~coquettish
107 V | himself addressed sometimes as M. Chardon,~sometimes as M.
108 V | M. Chardon,~sometimes as M. de Rubempre, while they
109 V | he addressed the coarse~M. de Senonches as M. Lili;
110 V | coarse~M. de Senonches as M. Lili; that Nimrod broke
111 V | strong likeness between M. Chardon and M. de Cante-Croix,
112 V | likeness between M. Chardon and M. de Cante-Croix, madame?"~
113 V | the purpose of calling him M. de Rubempre, and~not M.
114 V | M. de Rubempre, and~not M. Chardon, as before; "you
115 V | poetry does not grow in M. de Rubempre's head like
116 V | difficult labor," interrupted M. du Hautoy.~ ~"Your excellent
117 V | mouth was aggravated by M.~de Bargeton's imbecility;
118 V | mother indeed in the~Church.--M. de Rubempre, will you recite
119 V | called upon to~accompany M. du Bartas on the piano
120 V | dear Camille's talents for M. de Severac's~benefit.~ ~
121 V | for us."~ ~"My dear child, M. de Rubempre is just about
122 VI | question to that learned body. M. Marcel, who used to be~
123 VI | sent the two readers to M. l'Abbe Grozier, Librarian
124 VI | greatness~and such pettiness.~ ~"M. de Bargeton is an old dotard.
125 VI | after Lucien's~fancy had put M. de Bargeton to death, he
126 VI | pressed upon his head.~"M. de Rubempre" discovered
127 VI | father. "The gentry, that is M. le Marquis, M. le Comte,
128 VI | that is M. le Marquis, M. le Comte, and~Monsieur
129 VI | the daughter of the late M. Chardon, the druggist in~
130 VI | alone in the world, in came M. de Bargeton. Lucien~frowned
131 VI | give her pleasure," said M. de Bargeton, "and me also.~
132 VI | after dinner."~ ~Cajoled by M. de Bargeton, cajoled by
133 VI | through Louise's~love and M. de Bargeton's weakness,
134 VI | Amelie, who had come with M. du Chatelet, was sure~of
135 VI | degree of~intimacy between M. Chardon (alias de Rubempre)
136 VI | fabric of his good fortune on M. de Bargeton's~tomb. M.
137 VI | on M. de Bargeton's~tomb. M. de Bargeton, troubled with
138 VI | printer's~foreman; he was M. de Rubempre, housed sumptuously
139 VI | friendship had grown up between~M. de Rubempre and the Bishop,
140 VI | with the utmost propriety. M. de Bargeton~pervaded the
141 VI | minutes later,~always taking M. de Chandour, the most indiscreet
142 VI | controversy on the point with M. de~Chandour. Chatelet said
143 VI | that whenever~he went with M. de Chandour to Mme. de
144 VII | she asked the servants.~ ~"M. de Chandour and M. du Chatelet,"
145 VII | servants.~ ~"M. de Chandour and M. du Chatelet," said Gentil,
146 VII | been~detected at Nais feet. M. de Chandour, elated by
147 VII | anything but a patroness to M.~Chardon. Still, if it is
148 VII | she is old enough to be M. Lulu's mother, as~Jacques
149 VII | For my own part," said M. du Chatelet, "I think that
150 VII | Chatelet, "I think that M. de Rubempre's~position
151 VII | says that he SAW you and M.~de Rubempre in such a position
152 VII | but, between~ourselves, M. de Bargeton is the proper
153 VII | ill-founded tittle-tattle, M. de Bargeton was~preparing
154 VII | with a~certain solemnity.~ ~M. de Bargeton followed her
155 VII | show a warm interest in~M. de Rubempre, which he,
156 VII | dishonoring for both you and me if M. de Rubempre~defends her.
157 VII | shot."~ ~"I am going," said M. de Bargeton, and he took
158 VII | me."~ ~It did not trouble M. de Bargeton that he must
159 VII | uncomfortable, and on the way to M. de Chandour's house he
160 VII | ridiculous.~ ~But people of M. de Bargeton's stamp, who
161 VII | loosens their~tongues. So M. de Bargeton bore himself
162 VII | significant fashion from M. de Bargeton to Stanislas,
163 VII | time of night, when old M. de~Bargeton was invariably
164 VII | rose to his~feet and took M. de Bargeton aside, saying, "
165 VII | quarrel. Then Chatelet went to M. de~Chandour.~ ~"Stanislas,"
166 VII | discovered Mme.~de Bargeton and M. de Rubempre in an equivocal
167 VII | equivocal position?"~ ~"M. Chardon," corrected Stanislas,
168 VII | second. My father-in-law, M. de Negrepelisse, will~wait
169 VII | This was the speech that M. de Bargeton had ruminated
170 VII | in; Chatelet was smiling, M. de Bargeton looked exactly
171 VII | the other half admired M. de Bargeton's attitude.~
172 VII | was solemn and mysterious. M. de Bargeton stayed a few~
173 VII | declared, with one voice, that M. de Bargeton was within
174 VII | acting like this?"~asked M. de Saintot.~ ~"But he was
175 VIII| the people in the market. M. de Bargeton all but~killed
176 VIII| Bargeton all but~killed M. de Chandour this morning
177 VIII| Chandour this morning in M. Tulloy's meadow; people
178 VIII| Tue Poie.) It seems that M. de Chandour said~that he
179 VIII| saw it all from his~cart. M. de Negrepelisse came over
180 VIII| clock in the morning to~be M. de Bargeton's second; he
181 VIII| Bargeton's second; he told M. de Chandour that if anything~
182 VIII| officer~lent the pistols. M. de Negrepelisse tried them
183 VIII| them over and over again.~M. du Chatelet tried to prevent
184 VIII| them at twenty-five paces. M. de~Bargeton looked as if
185 VIII| fire; the ball lodged in M. de Chandour's neck, and
186 VIII| hospital has just said that M. de Chandour will have a
187 VIII| in Angouleme, for some of M.~de Chandour's friends might
188 VIII| apprentice brought in Gentil, M. de Bargeton's~footman.
189 VIII| table with her husband; M.~de Bargeton's early morning
190 VIII| saw the dignified face of M. de Negrepelisse, the old
191 VIII| When Gentil announced M. de Rubempre, the white-headed
192 VIII| could leave her father and M.~de Bargeton together; she
193 VIII| faith in you!" she said. "M. de Cante-Croix had an adored~
194 VIII| Chardon undertook to ask M.~Postel to lend them a thousand
195 VIII| said David, "just tell M. Postel that I will put
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