Chapter
1 Dedication| Chateaubriand and of every man of genius, to struggle~against
2 I | years old and a~married man, escaped the great Requisition
3 I | s recommendation~of the man as an honest and intelligent
4 I | round sum in the~"working man's paradise" (as he was pleased
5 I | extinguished everything else in the man, down to~the very instinct
6 I | much study, makes the fat man~stouter, and the lean man
7 I | man~stouter, and the lean man leaner still.~ ~For thirty
8 I | thoroughly in keeping with the man's character, defects, and~
9 I | the very nature of the man came~out in the manner of
10 I | David came home, and the old man received him with all the
11 I | M. Vaflard is an honest man, who~uses hard metal; and,
12 I | of bargains means that a man can look after~his interests. "
13 I | after~his interests. "A man who is ready to pay you
14 I | are the provinces. If~a man came in from L'Houmeau with
15 I | there you are."~ ~A generous man is a bad bargain-driver.
16 I | something on account. The old~man's inquisitiveness roused
17 I | working expenses, the old man pretended not to~understand.
18 I | a poor, ignorant~working man, had made his way, Didot'
19 I | you? You will make a poor man of business.~A man that
20 I | poor man of business.~A man that buys books is hardly
21 I | which the niggardly old man~wrapped his refusal. David
22 I | find out~how far the old man would go. He called old
23 I | time~of it, so had the old man; besides, I shall be working
24 I | essentially Jesuitical. Here was a man who thought that~education
25 I | place. In short, the old man scented~misfortune in the
26 I | of~which our successful man of business is made; it
27 I | could any one employ a man whose father had been a
28 I | drunkard to boot? The old man was sure to leave~plenty
29 I | this business."~ ~The old man saw what the Cointets meant;
30 I | Houmeau were Liberals to a man. The Cointets had~tried
31 I | francs per annum.~ ~The old man came into town very seldom
32 I | character of~that young man. Only a few days after his
33 I | the gout. Gout is a rich man's~malady; the rich will
34 I | problem. Halfway between the man of science on the one side
35 I | intelligence which sets a man on a level with lofty heights,
36 I | gives to the fighter, the~man born to struggle in obscurity,
37 I | nobler methods, which every man in love with glory tries
38 I | another is made welcome too, a man whose~ ~gifts are greater
39 I | are greater than mine, a man destined for a brilliant
40 II | espouse the quarrel. "He is a man~of L'Houmeau!" a shopkeeper
41 II | families, all devoted as one man to the Government, grew
42 II | other part of France. "The man of~L'Houmeau" became little
43 II | every possible way.~ ~So "a man of L'Houmeau," a druggist'
44 II | modified the~effects of a man's education upon a young
45 II | qualities so necessary in a man are~disadvantages in a woman
46 II | country gentleman was the man for him, somebody not too~
47 II | was the~problem. Such a man would be the phoenix of
48 II | was generally held to be a man of~remarkably feeble intellect;
49 II | de~Bargeton looked like a man of seventy, whereas his
50 II | to flight by imitating a man's~voice. Everything was
51 II | There was not a single man~who could inspire the madness
52 II | de Barante appointed a man whose adventurous life was
53 III | the little talents that a man could turn to such~useful
54 III | the~quality required, a man who knows nothing can safely
55 III | he appears to control, a man's~fitness for this business
56 III | thousand mediocrities for one man of genius; and in spite
57 III | on the scene as a jaded man of the world, broken in
58 III | slightly supercilious, like a man out of his proper place
59 III | hardly to be~expected of a man of the Imperial school,
60 III | he knew it not. A great man of the~future had been born
61 III | passion in the tone of a man who would have a~rival's
62 III | often at first, as became a man of L'Houmeau; but~ ~before
63 III | Lucien loved Nais as a young man loves the first woman who
64 III | be folly to love a young man of twenty, so far apart
65 III | Decidedly Lucien was a great man,~and she meant to form him;
66 III | that anybody but a young man~of two-and-twenty would
67 III | headmaster of the school, a man of a~phlegmatic temperament,
68 III | the existence of a great~man in Angoumois. Mme. de Bargeton
69 III | besetting~his career as a man of genius, nor of the obstacles
70 III | great~qualities; and a young man loves to have the real quality
71 III | Genius~was answerable to no man. Genius alone could judge
72 III | know. It was the duty of a man of~genius, therefore, to
73 III | to~reconstruct law; the man who is master of his age
74 III | impossible to paint the young man of the~nineteenth century
75 III | another Cuvier, a great man of the future, and a father,~
76 III | letters in which a young man points~a pistol at a refusal,
77 III | noble feeling; and while no man at court had a nobler air
78 III | treacle,~but it would take a man like your father to find
79 III | though he had~blessed the man for his kindness, for honest
80 III | Perhaps David was the only man in Angouleme who knew nothing
81 IV | smooth for him; the young man and the~comrade felt all
82 IV | usually showed the worthy man.~ ~"That is natural enough,"
83 IV | suspicious cat; the young man's presence disturbed him.
84 IV | Stanislas, was a~ci-devant young man, slim still at five-and-forty,
85 IV | curiosity; he~posed as the man whom nothing can arouse
86 IV | supposed to be a scientific man of the first rank.~He was
87 IV | this blindness seem in a man of jealous temper, that
88 IV | landowner in the neighborhood, a man whom every one~envied, was
89 IV | clumsiest way. No eligible man had any taste which~Camille
90 IV | unpleasant shock to a young man with~so little experience
91 V | of hell. An intelligent man in the sphere most~stimulating
92 V | the Baron is a very clever man," she observed to Lolotte.~ ~
93 V | The poet, luckless young~man, being a total stranger,
94 V | when, taking Lili for a man's surname, he addressed
95 V | her consul a~very great man; but the Marquise laughed,
96 V | His prophets. This young man is a poet," he added laying~
97 V | should give myself out for~a man of genius, should I not?"
98 V | glory and success await the man of talent who~shall work
99 V | whole of his time, and for a man who has~nothing but his
100 V | declines to~believe in any man's superior intellect until
101 V | Dear Eve, listen~to me. A man needs an independent fortune,
102 V | You are an~angel; I am a man."~ ~"I am not so learned,"
103 V | imaginary riches. I am a~poor man, dear. Yes, it pleased my
104 V | exceedingly bad ones in a man who has his way to~make.
105 V | watchfulness of the born man~of business, you will reap
106 VI | with the intuition of a man of~talent, had a glimmering
107 VI | he thought bitterly. "A man~with a career before him
108 VI | himself about me; the old man lives for~himself," said
109 VI | with the eagerness of a man who~would fain have no delay.
110 VI | but you are the better man of the two. I would~look
111 VI | hard to lay, for the old man was only too~delighted to
112 VI | enough~pleased. A young man's love has so many attractions--
113 VI | requires of this or that man or woman? There are~some
114 VI | Houmeau; he was not even a "man~of L'Houmeau"; he lived
115 VI | party made much of the great man of Angouleme.~ ~Matters
116 VI | without a hope that the old man might relent at the sight~
117 VI | the day on which a young man tugs out some~of the hairs
118 VI | what you might say to a man if you cared nothing at
119 VII | proves Nais' innocence. A man does not go down on~his
120 VII | you will behave like a man of spirit and a~gentleman,
121 VII | is, I know that he is the man to trample this puppet under
122 VII | Good, that is how I like a man to behave, dear; you are
123 VII | conduct, and made the old man~very happy and proud by
124 VII | clings to life, poor, dear man,~and yet he would give his
125 VII | must stand up and face his~man on the morrow, and look
126 VII | Bargeton bore himself like a man of uncommon sense~and spirit,
127 VIII | well. In a duel between a~man of sixty and a man of thirty-five,
128 VIII | between a~man of sixty and a man of thirty-five, all the
129 VIII | Bargeton's~footman. The man had come with a note for
130 VIII | Rubempre, the white-headed old man gave~him a keen, curious
131 VIII | his own~opinions of this man whom his daughter had singled
132 VIII | beloved, is the life for~a man who has anything in him.
133 VIII | success of a clever young~man to be brought into a high
134 VIII | or famous people. A young man~with good looks and more
135 VIII | stinging~gibes and humiliate a man of letters; there was no
136 VIII | mind~so much on being best man at a wedding party of tradespeople
137 VIII | with Lucien, he sent his man to Ruffec with~instructions
138 Addendum | Cerizet~Eve and David~A Man of Business~Scenes from
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