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1 I | young and clever hands.~ ~David Sechard's school career
2 I | the Land of~Sapience. So David learned his trade, and completed
3 I | that he meant to drive~with David. All that the father made,
4 I | instance, he had looked on David as his only child, later~
5 I | Sechard meant to sell dear; David,~of course, to buy cheap;
6 I | book-~learned typography.~ ~David came home, and the old man
7 I | between two hiccoughs, that David begged his parent to~postpone
8 I | francs!' Why, father," cried David, letting~the sheet fall, "
9 I | With those three presses, David, you can make your nine
10 I | Item,' " pursued David, " 'five thousand pounds
11 I | thousand francs,' " continued David. "Ten thousand~francs, father!
12 I | sorts, and held them~out for David to see.~ ~"I am not book-learned;
13 I | up an unused pica type.~ ~David saw that there was no way
14 I | license and the goodwill. David~asked himself whether or
15 I | country business, drawing David now to a~hot-press, now
16 I | in the district that he (David)~would only waste his pains
17 I | most sumptuous calendars. David~would soon see the importance
18 I | is a bad bargain-driver. David's nature was of the~sensitive
19 I | cutting my throat!" exclaimed David.~ ~"_I_," cried the old
20 I | who gave you life? Why, David, what do you~suppose the
21 I | for himself. So long~as David's purchase-money was not
22 I | proprietor of the business.~ ~David made a mental calculation
23 I | tried to find out whether David had~any money with him;
24 I | roused his son's distrust; David remained close~buttoned
25 I | journey into the country; and David entered~into possession
26 I | better. Besides, had not David been earning money, thanks
27 I | Why, had I not to live?" David asked indignantly, "and
28 I | retorted the~"bear."~ ~Then David endured the most painful
29 I | man~wrapped his refusal. David crushed down his pain into
30 I | beauty~and intelligence!"~ ~David understood his father thoroughly
31 I | at his son's~silence.~ ~David asked what the treasure
32 I | have developed in his son;~David had received a good training,
33 I | received a good training, so David would sweat blood and~water
34 I | fulfil his engagements; David's knowledge would discover
35 I | discover new~resources; and David seemed to be full of fine
36 I | full of fine feelings, so--David~would pay! Many a parent
37 I | proof-sheets. Then he would~join David at dinner and go back to
38 I | to the Liberal movement, David~preserved a most unlucky
39 I | Love,~moreover, had come to David's heart, and with his scientific~
40 I | lucrative field. They slandered David,~accusing him of Liberalism,
41 I | families to support, while David was a bachelor and could
42 I | forth.~ ~Such tales against David, once put into circulation,
43 I | Brothers; and before long David's~keen competitors, emboldened
44 I | of this proposal sent by David to his father brought the
45 I | become of the connection if David gave up the paper? It~all
46 I | But, at the~same time, David must pledge himself thenceforward
47 I | hands he would have~given in David himself over and above the
48 I | of rent.~ ~The causes of David's heedlessness throw a light
49 I | school of Angouleme, and when~David Sechard left, his future
50 I | takes at the age of twenty.~David's generous offer of forty
51 I | printer's reader came in time; David had~no need whatever of
52 I | through literature; while David, with that~meditative temperament
53 I | Before long, Lucien told David of his own father's~farsighted
54 I | science to manufacture, while~David pointed out the new ways
55 I | manhood. Then it was that David caught a glimpse of Eve'
56 I | With a lover's insight,~David read the secret hopes set
57 I | this way Lucien came to be David's chosen brother.~As there
58 I | Royalist than the King, so~David outdid the mother and sister
59 I | the cost of raw~material. David, knowing the importance
60 I | rent and taxes; so that David himself was scarcely~making
61 I | Cointets had come to understand David's~character and habits.
62 I | about that, all unwittingly, David owed his existence, commercially~
63 I | day early in May, 1821, David and Lucien were standing
64 I | were going out to dinner. David waited until the~apprentice
65 I | of some great~painter.~ ~David's physique was of the kind
66 I | read much and compared; David had thought much and deeply.~
67 I | had a keen~attraction for David. David admired his friend,
68 I | keen~attraction for David. David admired his friend, while
69 I | by the furie francaise.~ ~David, with his well-balanced
70 I | worshiper, and that one was David; Lucien ruled him like a
71 I | woman~sure of love, and David loved to give way. He felt
72 I | future fame.~ ~"Lucien," said David, "do you know what I have
73 I | pocket. "Listen!"~ ~And David read, as a poet can read,
74 I | for the third time, when David~surrendered the book to
75 I | worth publishing," added David.~ ~Then Lucien in his turn
76 I | Chenier's Camille became~for David the Eve whom he worshiped,
77 I | Cerizet, an apprentice (David had brought the urchin from~
78 I | friends~politely, and spoke to David.~ ~"This, sir, is a monograph
79 I | work on such a scale, sir," David answered,~without looking
80 I | de Bargeton took in him. David~noticed his friend's embarrassed
81 I | When the author had gone, David spoke.~ ~"Lucien, are you
82 I | for a brilliant future--~David Sechard, my brother, my
83 I | Bargeton's house~again."~ ~David brushed the tears from his
84 I | abruptly.~ ~He hurried away. David stood overcome by the emotion
85 I | life.~ ~"Heart of gold!" David exclaimed to himself, as
86 III | at his~fame! Lucien and David, walking together of an
87 III | social distinction allayed by~David's cool commonsense; she
88 III | pride, his days of work for David, his~nights of study. His
89 III | done solely for his friend David's sake.~ ~He wrote a long
90 III | sister as an angel, and~David as another Cuvier, a great
91 III | did not~ask her to do for David all that she had done for
92 III | everything rather than desert David Sechard; David must witness
93 III | than desert David Sechard; David must witness his~success.
94 III | printing-house. He said~not a word to David. While youth bears a child'
95 III | the~Phocion's axe which David could wield when he chose,
96 III | read Chenier's poems with David, his secret rose~from his
97 III | with him? Would~she receive David? Had he, Lucien, in his
98 III | did~not tell himself that David could cross over the same
99 III | but abdication to receive David?~ ~But if Lucien did not
100 III | these, so important trifles, David~lacked, while Nature had
101 III | the high-~arched instep. David had inherited the physique
102 III | hear the shower~of jokes at David's expense; he could see
103 III | blossoming love. There was David; what a genius David had--
104 III | was David; what a genius David had--David~who had helped
105 III | what a genius David had--David~who had helped him so generously,
106 III | reproach--could not fail to win~David Sechard's heart. So, since
107 III | some way did him a wrong. David, moreover, had no confidence~
108 III | clever salesman.~Perhaps David was the only man in Angouleme
109 III | his~father's wealth. In David's eyes Marsac was a hovel
110 III | cared nothing about it.~ ~David was a student leading a
111 III | looked for encouragement; for David stood more~in awe of Eve
112 III | of~the deep reverence in David's looks and words and manner
113 III | full allowance for all that David left~undone, that the slightest
114 IV | presentiment that had crossed David's mind~prompted her to add, "
115 IV | compel them to accept M. David Sechard, I am quite willing
116 IV | this note for a victory. David should go to Mme. de~Bargeton'
117 IV | Mme. de~Bargeton's house! David would shine there in all
118 IV | was tying his cravat when David's step sounded outside in
119 IV | down in a hurry.~ ~"Well, David!" cried the ambitious poet, "
120 IV | shall come too."~ ~"No," David said with some confusion, "
121 IV | out for me, Lucien. I am David Sechard,~printer to His
122 IV | I am and always~shall be David Sechard. In this society
123 IV | and flung his arms about David. David's humility had~made
124 IV | flung his arms about David. David's humility had~made short
125 IV | their tenderness on him, David~was his devoted friend;
126 IV | sister, and mother, and David. He was far from~doing so
127 IV | When emotion had subsided, David had a suggestion to make.
128 IV | Charente, seemed to be nervous. David advised him to~take Andre
129 IV | the printing office for David's~volume of poetry.~ ~The
130 IV | lovers were left alone, and David had never felt more~embarrassed
131 IV | not exempt from coquetry. David was afraid to~utter a word
132 IV | enjoying~the pause; but when David twisted his hat as if he
133 IV | and smiled.~ ~"Monsieur David," she said, "if you are
134 IV | a talk about~Lucien."~ ~David longed to fling himself
135 IV | to dress!" she said, as David made as if to go at~once.~ ~
136 IV | made as if to go at~once.~ ~David went out; he who all his
137 IV | treatise on silkworms to David that very morning. Evidently
138 V | that he~could see Eve and David sitting on a baulk of timber
139 V | least personal~detail; and David felt prodigiously shy of
140 V | speaks to our heart," said David, trying to proceed to~love
141 V | could not say anything," David~answered candidly.~ ~"Then,
142 V | generous, only wise," said David. "And now that we are quite~
143 V | road to ruin," returned David. "Dear Eve, listen~to me.
144 V | way."~ ~"Eve! Eve!" cried David, "if only I could be a brother
145 V | me?" cried the stricken David.~ ~"But perhaps your father
146 V | Never mind," said David; "if asking my father is
147 V | happier."~ ~Eve looked at David with mischievous, doubtful
148 V | be as happy as I am."~ ~David felt Eve's hand, damp and
149 V | know what "pulp" meant,~David gave an account of paper-making,
150 V | the impression-stone. When David explained these~things to
151 VI | with the Messieurs Didot," David continued, "they were~very
152 VI | that moment and interrupted David's generous~assertion.~ ~"
153 VI | friendly hearts, Eve and David listening~in pained silence
154 VI | him, is it not?" murmured~David, and for answer Eve pressed
155 VI | his arm without speaking. David~guessed her thoughts, and
156 VI | happiness, that neither Eve nor David so much as noticed his~start
157 VI | would never care to have David~Sechard for a brother-in-law!"~ ~
158 VI | to hard fact.~ ~Eve and David both thought that their
159 VI | sign of true friendship. David began to describe~with kindly
160 VI | fell under the spell of~David's voice and Eve's caresses;
161 VI | de Rubempre" discovered David's real nature, in fact.
162 VI | lives for~himself," said David. "But I will go over to
163 VI | to ask leave to build."~ ~David went back to the house with
164 VI | hand, and~gladly laid it in David's; and the lover, grown
165 VI | she~added, looking at David, "but we have fallen on
166 VI | shall be rich and happy," David said earnestly. "To begin
167 VI | harvest. They had~to put David out at the door; he could
168 VI | my sister's~engagement to David Sechard."~ ~For all answer,
169 VI | Mlle. Chardon earlier.~ ~David, however, did not go back
170 VI | Good day, father," called David.~ ~"Why, is it you, my boy?
171 VI | and intelligence," said David.~ ~"You just go into the
172 VI | have with their children. David, when I~married, I had a
173 VI | am engaged, father."~ ~"David, you know nothing of business;
174 VI | do you? Your name may be David, but I~have not got Solomon'
175 VI | disbursing a penny; and all that David could obtain was his bare~
176 VI | drain the savings~to which David imprudently owned. David
177 VI | David imprudently owned. David went back again in low~spirits.
178 VI | mother and his sister and David and Louise now~did the same.
179 VI | confided to his beloved that David was~in love with his sister
180 VI | sister Eve was in love with~David, and that the two were to
181 VI | Charente upon~the lovers.~ ~David had brought a little secret
182 VI | sixty-eight~years old. So David build a timbered second
183 VI | his mother and sister and~David. So, grown great in his
184 VI | days of penury.~ ~Eve and David had set Lucien's happiness
185 VI | sew!" The sober, observant David had shared~in the devotion;
186 VI | since Lucien's triumph, David had watched~him with misgivings;
187 VI | twice, to try his brother, David had made him choose between
188 VI | dinner out on the~grass, David's apprentice bringing the
189 VI | francs, divided between~David and the Chardons. David
190 VI | David and the Chardons. David gave his brother infinite
191 VI | was very nearly ready, and~David had gone over to Marsac
192 VIII | Lucien sat at breakfast with David, who had~come back alone
193 VIII | day after to-morrow," said~David, "and you will have an excuse
194 VIII | quite so often."~ ~"Dear David," returned Lucien, "she
195 VIII | Come and see," cried David, delighted to exhibit the
196 VIII | you have been reckless."~ ~David smiled by way of answer.
197 VIII | as they may be styled. David sedulously hid his~embarrassment
198 VIII | little savings to furnish~David's home with the things of
199 VIII | housekeeping~ ~worthy of David's. This little emulation
200 VIII | Lucien saw his mother and David enter the bedroom with the~
201 VIII | family, his sister, and David.~ ~"I had such faith in
202 VIII | his feet; he went back to David's~house, hopes pursuing
203 VIII | stood in such terror of David's perspicacity, that he
204 VIII | take the rooms and save David the heavy expense~of building
205 VIII | on a host of things~that David had overlooked. They had
206 VIII | so glad to do this, for David~had made a marriage-settlement
207 VIII | two~thousand francs."~ ~David came in as she spoke, and
208 VIII | in again, and, not seeing David, began at once:~ ~"Postel
209 VIII | security."~ ~She turned and saw David, and there was a deep silence
210 VIII | thought how they had abused David's goodness, and felt~ashamed.
211 VIII | words.~ ~"Mamma, dear," said David, "just tell M. Postel that
212 VIII | put his arms about Eve and David, and drew them close, and
213 VIII | good of our high~thinking, David, if it does not enable us
214 VIII | go to Paris at once?"~ ~David took Eve's hand in his,
215 VIII | taken by~betrothed lovers, David left Eve overcome with trouble,
216 VIII | bill."~ ~When Lucien and David came back again unexpectedly,
217 VIII | ever forget this sight," David said in Lucien's ear,~"you
218 VIII | be the basest of men."~ ~David, no doubt, thought that
219 VIII | it from Mme. de Bargeton, David proposed~to send it by coach
220 VIII | daybreak the next morning. David went with him.~David had
221 VIII | morning. David went with him.~David had hired a cabriolet, pretending
222 VIII | life before; he sprang into David's arms.~ ~"God grant that
223 VIII | be for your good!" said David, and he climbed~into the
224 Addendum| three is titled Eve and David and continues their~story.
225 Addendum| Baronne du)~ ~Cerizet~Eve and David~A Man of Business~Scenes
226 Addendum| Madame (nee Rubempre)~Eve and David~Scenes from a Courtesan'
227 Addendum| Cointet, Boniface~Eve and David~The Firm of Nucingen~The
228 Addendum| Cointet, Jean~Eve and David~ ~Courtois~Eve and David~ ~
229 Addendum| David~ ~Courtois~Eve and David~ ~Courtois, Madame~Eve and
230 Addendum| Courtois, Madame~Eve and David~ ~Desplein~The Atheist's
231 Addendum| Hautoy, Francis du~Eve and David~ ~Maucombe, Comte de~ ~Letters
232 Addendum| Paris~ ~Petit-Claud~Eve and David~ ~Pimentel, Marquis and
233 Addendum| and Marquise de~Eve and David~ ~Postel~Eve and David~ ~
234 Addendum| and David~ ~Postel~Eve and David~ ~Prieur, Madame~Eve and
235 Addendum| Prieur, Madame~Eve and David~ ~Rastignac, Baron and Baronne
236 Addendum| Lucien-Chardon de~Eve and David~A Distinguished Provincial
237 Addendum| Jerome-Nicolas~Eve and David~ ~Sechard, David~Eve and
238 Addendum| Eve and David~ ~Sechard, David~Eve and David~A Distinguished
239 Addendum| Sechard, David~Eve and David~A Distinguished Provincial
240 Addendum| s Life~ ~Sechard, Madame David~Eve and David~A Distinguished
241 Addendum| Sechard, Madame David~Eve and David~A Distinguished Provincial
242 Addendum| Senonches, Jacques de~Eve and David~ ~Senonches, Madame Jacques
243 Addendum| Madame Jacques de~Eve and David~ ~Stanhope, Lady Esther~
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