Chapter

 1 I       |     the~direst poverty. Lucien Chardon, a young fellow of one-and-twenty
 2 I       |      army. Nature had meant M. Chardon senior for~a chemist; chance
 3 I       |     the family was never made. Chardon~had tried to find a specific
 4 I       |   great Desplein, who attended Chardon in~his last illness, saw
 5 I       |  despair, in all of~which Mme. Chardon had shared with such keen
 6 I       |      to apply to M. Postel,~M. Chardon's successor in the business.
 7 I       |   earnings, together with Mme. Chardon's three~hundred francs of
 8 I       |        needed for Lucien. Mme. Chardon~and her daughter Eve believed
 9 I       |      of his father's ideas. M. Chardon had talked of a~method of
10 I       |        of addressing M. Lucien Chardon?"~ ~"Yes, sir," said the
11 III     |         was no other than Mme. Chardon, "the~mother of the Chateaubriand
12 III     |       Du Chatelet suffered for Chardon. Every one turned the cold
13 III     |    could read--~ ~POSTEL (LATE CHARDON), PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST,~ ~
14 III     |       without some allusion to Chardon senior's~unlucky secretiveness
15 IV      |         the latest thing is M. Chardon," Chatelet said maliciously. "
16 IV      |  formidable audience he was M. Chardon. Lucien's~courage sank under
17 V       |        in, "we came to hear M. Chardon's poetry, and~you are giving
18 V       |      addressed sometimes as M. Chardon,~sometimes as M. de Rubempre,
19 V       |     strong likeness between M. Chardon and M. de Cante-Croix, madame?"~
20 V       |        de Rubempre, and~not M. Chardon, as before; "you should
21 VI      |        penniless girl like Eve Chardon, he~would have seen that
22 VI      |     and sister, and asked~Mme. Chardon's consent to his marriage
23 VI      |        had not asked for Mlle. Chardon earlier.~ ~David, however,
24 VI      |       going to marry Mlle. Eve Chardon."~ ~"Who may she be? What
25 VI      |        daughter of the late M. Chardon, the druggist in~L'Houmeau."~ ~"
26 VI      |        Don't~you see that this Chardon takes the civility of a
27 VI      |  degree of~intimacy between M. Chardon (alias de Rubempre) and
28 VI      |    dormer-window,~where "young Chardon" had lived in L'Houmeau;
29 VI      |     the three friends and Mme. Chardon~arranged picnic parties
30 VII     | anything but a patroness to M.~Chardon. Still, if it is true, I
31 VII     |     equivocal position?"~ ~"M. Chardon," corrected Stanislas, with
32 VIII    |      from Marsac, in came Mme. Chardon with a scared face.~ ~"Well,
33 VIII    |        ready here?" asked Mme. Chardon.~ ~"Come and see," cried
34 VIII    |        way of answer. But Mme. Chardon had touched the sore~spot
35 VIII    |     very hard, too," said Mme.~Chardon. "The wedding clothes and
36 VIII    |       idea of a loan, and Mme. Chardon undertook to ask M.~Postel
37 VIII    |   going away with HER."~ ~Mme. Chardon came in again, and, not
38 VIII    |      to see Postel," said Mme. Chardon, "for you must both give
39 Addendum|      Life~The Middle Classes~ ~Chardon, Madame (nee Rubempre)~Eve