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1 Dedication| like a Rafael or a Pitt, a great~poet at an age when other
2 I | part in this chronicle of great small things.~ ~Sechard
3 I | married man, escaped the great Requisition which swept
4 I | he knew nothing; and so great was~his terror lest he should
5 I | pretty~thoroughly in the great school of the Didots, he
6 I | blurred and lost in the great currents of Parisian~business
7 I | incompleted experiments, and the great discovery~that should have
8 I | their father's death. The great Desplein, who attended Chardon
9 I | tempted the brush of some great~painter.~ ~David's physique
10 I | misfortunes attendant~upon great intellects that perforce
11 I | Together they read the great works that~appeared above
12 I | themselves beside these great hearthfires; they tried
13 I | worshiped, for Lucien a great lady to whom~he paid his
14 II | valleys. The~ramparts and great gateways and ruined fortress
15 II | Everybody has heard of the great paper-mills of Angouleme,
16 II | the stores of brandy~and great warehouses full of the water-borne
17 II | Yet Angouleme~enjoyed a great reputation in the provinces
18 II | Louis XIV., and married so great a fortune that in~the reign
19 II | been~connected with some great family or other, and in
20 II | counterpoint. He~explained the great masterpieces of the French,
21 II | with her the music of the great composers.~Finally, as time
22 II | grew to be as haughty as a great lady, with none of~the charming
23 II | blandness and urbanity of a great lady. The instincts of~vanity
24 II | father~found his daughter a great care now that the Abbe was
25 II | about marriage, and had no~great inclination thereto. She
26 II | by intercourse with the great world~becomes stiff and
27 II | centres of light shed by great minds, where the air~is
28 II | as these, men born to be great, and women~who would have
29 II | his seraglio, and had~a great notion of being sewn in
30 II | between~1815 and 1821, the great essayists, M. de Bonald
31 III | conduct of the affairs of the great, and when discretion is
32 III | with services~rendered to great persons now in power, recommended
33 III | sighed for Paris, where great men live. For these reasons
34 III | though he knew it not. A great man of the~future had been
35 III | ferocious~hatred of the great ones of earth that led his
36 III | headmaster told him that the great gates of the~Hotel de Bargeton
37 III | stood there, poor~girl! in a great tremor of emotion, as though
38 III | emotion, as though some great thing had~happened to them.
39 III | of his expectations of a great~lady.~ ~Mme. de Bargeton,
40 III | him, for Nais prophesied great things and boundless fame
41 III | bolder, and addressed the great lady as Nais, and there~
42 III | Decidedly Lucien was a great man,~and she meant to form
43 III | jeremiads of the~noblesse. Great natures are prone to make
44 III | and accept the fact~that great men had upholsterers and
45 III | first time in~the faded great drawing-room, where the
46 III | himself Lucien's friend. The great diplomatist, overlooked
47 III | reported the existence of a great~man in Angoumois. Mme. de
48 III | ices, tea, and cakes, a great innovation in a city where~
49 III | to hear Lucien read~his great work. Louise had hidden
50 III | shrinks from a display of great~qualities; and a young man
51 III | nor father nor mother;~the great tasks laid upon them required
52 III | David as another Cuvier, a great man of the future, and a
53 III | from Angouleme. Was the great lady angry with him? Would~
54 III | thought of his mother, of how great a lady she was in her lowly
55 III | century of ours, has filled a great many ordinary persons~with
56 III | like a stab.~ ~"It is a great pity," Lucien answered curtly.
57 III | turned~back. But though his great love had only appeared in
58 IV | brother it is an element of great pleasure to be treated without~
59 IV | cried Lucien, swallowing great spoonfuls of~soup.~ ~"WE?"
60 IV | all these things spoke of great poverty,~the atmosphere
61 IV | me, that little thing, so great as it was--ah, well,~Lucien,
62 IV | recognize the truth of~Raphael's great saying--"To comprehend is
63 IV | happened that evening made a great~impression on Lucien, and
64 IV | spread at full length in his great chair,~appeared to see and
65 IV | reserve were supposed to hide great intellectual powers.~ ~Close
66 V | read the masterpieces of a great poet, discovered only~recently (
67 V | Aveugle, which proved too great~a strain upon the average
68 V | woman of uncommon powers~and great modesty, and that it was
69 V | thought her consul a~very great man; but the Marquise laughed,
70 V | with~a little music. The great world of Angouleme, feeling
71 V | little group~about them. The great influence wielded in the
72 V | piano while he mangled the great solo~from Figaro; and the
73 V | my~friend, you will be great one day; your pain is the
74 V | the imperial sphere where great minds are~enthroned, then
75 V | Lucien's powers.~ ~"The great sacred poem of France is
76 V | one of those~women whose great nature lends stateliness
77 V | accustomed him to believe~in his great powers, in fact, but the
78 V | tremble to think that this great lady may make a plaything
79 V | to send Lucien into the~great world. There lies his road
80 V | for the slow execution of great work. Believe me, Lucien'
81 V | horror of privation is so great, the savor of banquets,
82 V | Lucien's welfare shall be the great object of our lives. His~
83 V | did not dare to hope so great a~thing for myself, a penniless
84 V | Eve's hand, he went to a~great baulk of timber lying below
85 V | expense naturally retards the great advance~which the French
86 V | quarter of a century and a great revolution in habits of
87 V | craftsmen as obscure as many a great artist of those times~appropriated
88 VI | shows~incontestably that great industrial and intellectual
89 VI | endeavored to make is a great~commercial requirement,
90 VI | technological work, with a great~many pictures in it, illustrating
91 VI | house-room into the bargain. Great~mansions and great suites
92 VI | bargain. Great~mansions and great suites of rooms will be
93 VI | will afford to live in the great houses built by~our forefathers.
94 VI | to-night in her eyes a love as great as mine for her. Yes, she~
95 VI | comforted me; she is as great and noble as~she is gracious
96 VI | lover had been~dreaming of a great match for his sister; he
97 VI | Lucien in the world? Be great, find the way~to win fame,
98 VI | Lucien, so as~not to put too great a strain on the old rifted
99 VI | head, he had dreams of a great time to~come, and built
100 VI | would~be one day among the great names of France; and, in
101 VI | sister and~David. So, grown great in his own eyes, and giving
102 VI | between home~pleasures and the great world, and saw that Lucien
103 VI | not cost three francs. On great~occasion, when they dined
104 VI | whole party made much of the great man of Angouleme.~ ~Matters
105 VI | the Platonic stage, to the great despair of~Louise and Lucien.~ ~
106 VII | went first to tell the great news at the club,~and thence
107 VII | maternal affection for the great child; and when the~carriage
108 VII | circumscribed,~often behave at great crises with a ready-made
109 VII | ironical. There followed a great silence, like the pause~
110 VII | thing~quiet, and make a great show of politeness, behave
111 VIII | that he was furnishing with great splendor, for something~
112 VIII | before her marriage) has~great influence herself, and influential
113 VIII | communication at once with the great men who represent the nineteenth~
114 VIII | you can, the name of any~great work of art executed in
115 VIII | ministers~and ambassadors, and great orators from the Chamber
116 VIII | about those who are truly great; they will lend~you their
117 VIII | immensely in public opinion. The great problem for the~artist is
118 VIII | to talent of every kind. Great men~would greet him there
119 VIII | had dealt him a blow.~ ~"Great heavens!" he cried, "my
120 VIII | exalted joys for my sake? A~great sacrifice, indeed!" she
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