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1 V | first made at Basel, in~1170, by a colony of Greek refugees,
2 V | authorities; or~at Padua, in 1301, by an Italian named Pax,
3 VI | de l'Isle~endeavored in 1776 to solve the very problem
4 V | only dates~back as far as 1780.~
5 II | hereditaments; though the year~1789 deprived him of all seignorial
6 V | France, although,~about 1799, Denis Robert d'Essonne
7 II | many another; whereas, in~1805, he thought himself uncommonly
8 III | Sixte Chatelet, but since 1806~had the wit to adopt the
9 I | of land to it, until in 1809 the old "bear" bought the
10 III | Marsac was a hovel bought in 1810 for~fifteen or sixteen thousand
11 VI | know, mademoiselle, that in 1814 Cardon the banker, owner
12 II | for the first time between~1815 and 1821, the great essayists,
13 II | unanimity~in the insurrection of 1830 and destroyed the elements
14 VI | frowned and seemed to be taken aback, but Louise made him a sign,
15 I | generous parent consented to abandon his share of the~business
16 III | overlooked--once let them abdicate, and they shall pay the~
17 III | he kept his own~plan in abeyance, watching the lovers' movements
18 III | should drive him forth~in abhorrence. All unconsciously Lucien
19 IV | belief in M. de Saintot's abilities.~ ~After this pair came
20 II | some faculty or quality abnormally~developed. Pride, untempered
21 VI | suites of rooms will be abolished sooner or later~in Paris,
22 III | put~up with was something abominable. If this kind of folk did
23 II | but in the eyes of the aboriginal race they are still~newcomers
24 I | they tried their~powers in abortive creations, in work laid
25 I | master and foreman, deep in absorbing intellectual interests,
26 IV | India; but in spite of his absurd~pretensions to youth, you
27 VI | to wit, the~silk that is abundant there. They made a bet about
28 VIII | Chardons thought how they had abused David's goodness, and felt~
29 I | solicit the approval of the~Academie des Sciences, he died, and
30 VI | time being as the rightful accessories of~Lucien de Rubempre. He
31 I | the further end~without accident. A couple of glass-windowed
32 III | Montriveau. A strange chapter of~accidents separated him from his traveling
33 II | any kind of genius was accommodated with an aureole,~and she
34 IV | an end~without a wheezing accompaniment from an asthma, to which
35 III | have advanced of his own accord.~ ~"_I_ shall not die for
36 VI | role of incredulity was in accordance with the~plan which he had
37 III | upper town, and took his cue accordingly. He appeared~on the scene
38 VII | whom~the injured gentleman accosted politely.~ ~Chatelet knew
39 I | doors alike were dingy~with accumulated grime. Reams of blank paper
40 V | superior intellect until he has achieved some~signal success. Now
41 V | But Amelie's previous acidulous remark about women who made
42 VIII | and if she vouchsafes to acknowledge the relationship, I intend
43 VII | be very proud to be your acknowledged champion; but, between~ourselves,
44 VII | saying."~ ~Nais bowed in acknowledgment, and looked thoughtful.
45 V | championed, Lucien made his acknowledgments~in a grateful look, not
46 IV | and attenuated, and his acolyte short and fat. Both churchmen'
47 V | their own affairs; by the acoustic law~before mentioned, every
48 IV | in full, and no length of acquaintance~had brought their wives
49 I | and thinks that he has~acted a father's part; old Sechard
50 VI | father), Cardon brought an action against one Proust for an
51 VI | was to prompt~the other actors who were to play in his
52 IV | dark-haired,~was a poor actress; her voice was loud, like
53 VI | company; she is a girl, and acts a~girl's hesitation and
54 V | in the outward world for Adam, it is true again in the~
55 V | our language is eminently adapted for music," said~Adrien.~ ~"
56 III | Mme. de Bargeton began to address~her poet as "dear Lucien,"
57 III | flaming pyres; she spread the adjectives thickly on her~finest tartines,
58 IV | Eve slept in the little adjoining~closet, where there was
59 IV | inquired the~vivacious Baron, adjusting the side curl that had gone
60 II | receivers-general, and various administrations that have~come and gone
61 IV | devotion.~Noble Angouleme, administrative Angouleme, and bourgeois
62 V | nights those verses that you admire have cost! We should~bow
63 IV | upon solfeggi; he began by admiring his appearance while he~
64 IV | his armchair, he~watched admiringly while she did her part as
65 III | were~hot, all means were admissible. But--failure is high treason
66 III | as "dear," without more ado. The~poet grew bolder, and
67 III | since 1806~had the wit to adopt the particle--M. du Chatelet
68 I | matter of fact, they~were adopting the tactics of the mail-coach
69 IV | moreover, almost amounted to adoration. And so long as we can adore,~
70 VII | Meanwhile Mme. de Bargeton's adorer found the~silence somewhat
71 II | Angouleme so soon as her adorers~should cease to worship
72 III | had asked for it.~ ~So the adroit Baron was admitted to the
73 III | incontinently in a hothouse of adulation; perhaps he hoped that~when
74 VI | industrial and intellectual advances are made~exceedingly slowly,
75 IV | his antecedents, though advancing years had~already endowed
76 II | about for its~educational advantages, and neighboring towns sent
77 Addendum | and details the further adventures~of Lucien. Part three is
78 III | the kingly~intellect with adverse fate; they shared the spoils
79 VIII | others already. Come, I advise you to take two~thousand
80 V | of jaws sympathetically~affected, the teeth that seemed to
81 I | was of the~sensitive and affectionate type that shrinks from a
82 II | narrow-mindedness and meanness affects the noblest~natures; and
83 III | dense, but left her audience agape at her~eccentricity. And
84 Addendum | Rastignac, Laure-Rose and Agathe de~Father Goriot~The Member
85 II | posthouses, and inns, every~agency for public conveyance, every
86 VI | ends, is in reality a prime agent in bringing~such scandals
87 I | almost destitute, it was an~aggravation of their misfortune that
88 I | s eyes would follow the agile~movements of a compositor,
89 I | tympan, all with as much agility as the youngest of the~tribe.
90 VI | and forehead, and~in the agitation in his face and manner,
91 I | covered with snow, were agleam with the cunning~of avarice
92 VII | that the whole~town was agog, he went off to Mme. de
93 I | the yard the walls were agreeably~decorated by trellised vines,
94 IV | ignore, and~--I am so far agreed with them--this power is
95 I | new-fangled~articles.~ ~"Aha! my boy, Paris is Paris,
96 VII | Stanislas; he was a few paces ahead of me, and he came so far"~(
97 III | and a certain~amount of ailing health. His imagination
98 IV | on his steward's~little ailments, and talk of his wife in
99 I | of natural science, was aiming with hot~enthusiasm at fame
100 I | forget us," returned the alarmed lover, as Eve's fair face~
101 VI | figure after these vain alarums and excursions.~Such mishaps
102 VII | Mme. de Bargeton's, where, alas! there~was but one game
103 III | for the first page of her album,~looking for a pretext for
104 IV | productions, and spoiled all the albums in the department. M.~Alexandre
105 V | Dante's Francesca, Moliere's Alceste,~Beaumarchais' Figaro, Scott'
106 II | Napoleon, and with Mehemet Ali, massacring the foreign
107 VI | intimacy between M. Chardon (alias de Rubempre) and Mme. de
108 II | throne, so did these~last alienate the bourgeoisie from the
109 II | autochthonous nation who suffer no aliens~to come among them. Possibly,
110 V | books, who~seem more really alive to us than men and women
111 III | thirst for social distinction allayed by~David's cool commonsense;
112 VI | loudest in~condemnation of the alleged misconduct of some slandered
113 V | longing. It would be an allegory; many lives are like that."~ ~"
114 I | down at the entrance of the alley, so riven~it was with seams
115 I | a handicraft so closely allied to~intellectual work, close
116 VIII | Lucien, listening to the alluring words, and bewildered by
117 I | sell them a better class of almanac than the~Double Liegeois
118 V | lakes, and the words of the~Almighty, a kind of Christianized
119 VI | old "bear's" face under an almond-tree~that grew out of the hedge.~ ~"
120 III | determined to erect a rival~altar by receiving on Wednesdays.
121 III | this kind of folk did not alter~their behavior, there would
122 VI | the heavy expenses~of the alterations, when there befell one of
123 III | with the~hammer strokes of alternate bliss and anguish. For two
124 III | billiard-player, a passable amateur actor, he danced well, and~
125 V | Biblical!" echoed Fifine in amazement.~ ~Amelie and Fifine went
126 III | pieces; and~balked of his ambassade de famille as he called
127 VIII | house, Cabinet ministers~and ambassadors, and great orators from
128 V | vellum paper invented by Ambroise Didot only dates~back as
129 V | the Bishop wished to make amends. Mlle. de~Rastignac, fascinated
130 I | another plan for employing~an American vegetable fibre for making
131 III | reason for their specious amiability. It~was not long before
132 III | too thin, Mme. de~Bargeton amiably pointed to a seat by her
133 II | considerably shattered by the amorous~dissipations of his youth,
134 IV | waistcoat displayed the ample,~swelling curves of a stiffly-starched
135 III | a young imagination, to amplify, as it were, the dignity
136 III | fallen conqueror has run amuck through bourgeois~virtues,
137 III | coquetry to a woman who amused herself by~playing with
138 II | Arlincourt's Ipsiboe,~ ~Lewis' Anaconda, or the escape of La Valette,
139 V | proceed to~love by way of analogy. "Those who love find infinite
140 I | turning the clear light of analysis upon the joys of~fruition,
141 I | of character; for when he analyzed the~society of to-day, his
142 III | crying Raca! with mutual anathemas--you, and you alone,~will
143 VI | day!" she said, with an angelic~smile which belied her words. "
144 V | Delia of Tibullus,~Ariosto's Angelica, Dante's Francesca, Moliere'
145 II | superiorize, analyze,~poetize, angelize, neologize, tragedify, prosify,
146 III | there~followed a flash of anger that captivates a boy; she
147 III | Angouleme. Was the great lady angry with him? Would~she receive
148 IV | has always been fond of animals," said the mother. "And~
149 IV | become a monomania; he grew~animated only on the one subject
150 V | across~the Bridge of Saint Anne, and followed the left bank
151 I | profound sense of the social annihilation to which lowly birth and~
152 V | Chatelet.~ ~"If I were to announce such conceptions, I should
153 VI | now on the verge of this anomalous~position.~ ~The obstacles
154 III | spoils of victory. Genius~was answerable to no man. Genius alone
155 I | his son, therefore, was an antagonist, and it~was his duty to
156 V | thinking and emotion, two~antagonistic powers, beneath the most
157 IV | might be expected from his antecedents, though advancing years
158 III | floor), crossed a shabby~antechamber, and came into the presence
159 IV | their lips, and hear the anticipatory~criticisms made in the blunt,
160 III | vowed to expel with the antidote of insolence.~ ~Nais had
161 III | old-fashioned silver~plate, antiquated and tarnished, but weighty;
162 I | pouch it. Not seldom his anxieties sent him hurrying from Marsac
163 I | chief characteristic of~the apartment was a cynic simplicity,
164 VI | he went~to and fro in his apartments, the pretty sitting-room,
165 IV | nothing can arouse from his apathy, and his~jaded Sultan airs
166 IV | but little familiar with apocalyptic~poetry. Lucien, making his
167 I | unswerving virtue of an apostle was softened by pity that
168 VIII | difficulties, all summed up in the appalling~words, "Where is the money
169 IV | of Paris was strikingly~apparent in his black coat. He was
170 VI | alms to a beggar, if he appeals to the feelings and~awakens
171 III | about her duty, regard for appearances or religion, the~objections
172 III | stream of events which he appears to control, a man's~fitness
173 III | angel youth that one of her~appellations which was unsoiled by use;
174 II | greatness, was still a~mere appendage of the city above. The noblesse
175 III | moreover, sing a ballad~and applaud a witticism. Supple, envious,
176 V | received with a murmur~of applause; but he followed it with
177 III | Lucien set his teeth in the apple of~desire of rank, luxury,
178 IV | Cicero to see if anything applicable to~the events of the day
179 I | farsighted views of the application of science to manufacture,
180 I | Brothers, paper manufacturers, applied to~the authorities for the
181 I | services were requested to apply to M. Postel,~M. Chardon'
182 V | where his talents will be~appreciated and rewarded. Living in
183 IV | to equal."~ ~The power of appreciating poetry is rare, generally
184 IV | already begun to serve his apprenticeship in the~practice of the small
185 VI | earnings; for he saw the day approaching~when An Archer of Charles
186 IV | was something touchingly appropriate in~their surroundings.~ ~
187 V | great artist of those times~appropriated paper to the uses of typography.
188 VI | eager that Lucien should approve~their happiness, that neither
189 III | No sooner was her conduct~approved than she tried to win a
190 VIII | he~could not repress an approving glance; but at the same
191 III | about with his laboratory apron, was standing with a retort
192 III | wandering life among the Arab tribes of~the desert, who
193 V | he was acting~his part of arbiter of taste who has seen everything. "
194 VI | sister's marriage to the~arbitress of his destinies. Perhaps
195 I | I know not what order of~architecture, erected by fairy hands.
196 II | barry of six, azure and argent, in the first,~six shells
197 IV | silence~through pride, and argued that M. de Bargeton must
198 V | the Delia of Tibullus,~Ariosto's Angelica, Dante's Francesca,
199 III | capricious fits of pride arising from her~fears and scruples.
200 II | brothers Fauchet, over M. d'Arlincourt's Ipsiboe,~ ~Lewis' Anaconda,
201 Addendum | Montriveau, General Marquis Armand de~The Thirteen~Father Goriot~
202 IV | out at full length in his armchair, he~watched admiringly while
203 I | a couple of worm-eaten armchairs, two tapestry-~covered chairs
204 IV | misgivings about his costume arose~in his mind. Grown stupid
205 | around
206 IV | the man whom nothing can arouse from his apathy, and his~
207 III | children to one banquet, arouses ambition in the very morning
208 V | And in that way we would arrange a~free and independent life
209 IV | his arm, a cross-cornered arrangement which gossip~declared to
210 VII | may as~well make our final arrangements, for the only way out of
211 VI | taken the field in gorgeous array, with~colors flying and
212 I | privileged creditor for~arrears of rent.~ ~The causes of
213 IV | smiled, and~brought the new arrivals to his wife; he lay in wait
214 IV | time the guests began to arrive. First and foremost appeared~
215 V | circle. Her glances~went like arrows to the depths of her rivals'
216 VI | Grozier, Librarian at the Arsenal.~By the Abbe's decision
217 I | flew to the nearest press (artfully oiled~and cleaned for the
218 V | how to make a commercial~article at last. Others are busy
219 VI | herself~proceeds. Perhaps articulate speech and the art of writing
220 III | the storm with her~heavy artillery.~ ~When Lucien, obedient
221 IV | people of that class, I am an artisan,~or I am in business, if
222 V | average intellect. None but artists or those endowed~with the
223 VIII | encouraging~letters and the arts, and you therefore must
224 IV | belief in himself and his ascendency over others,~his face was
225 II | avoid the~difficulty of the ascent of the hill. Naturally,
226 I | you~could not miss the ashes of the volcano; hopes extinguished
227 V | commerce the art reached Asia Minor,~where paper was made
228 IV | Angouleme~alike had looked askance for a long while at this
229 V | Never mind," said David; "if asking my father is all that is~
230 III | Lucien did not see these aspects of the question, his~aristocratic
231 II | education, and the consequent asperities of character, which~would
232 IV | reached through ambition? The aspirant for love and honors felt~
233 III | many ordinary persons~with aspirations after extraordinary destinies,--
234 VII | make; and, like Balaam's ass,~they speak marvelously
235 IV | behind them. It was a quaint~assemblage of wrinkled countenances
236 VI | interrupted David's generous~assertion.~ ~"I do not know whether
237 VII | you do not withdraw your~assertions at once before the company
238 I | thousand~francs, paid in assignats, it stood to reason that
239 I | themselves deliberately to~assimilate all shades of monarchical
240 V | Your excellent mother might assist you," suggested the Bishop.~ ~
241 IV | his visitor to come to his~assistance. Turning westward his old
242 I | method was the~one road to assured success, and had studied
243 IV | wheezing accompaniment from an asthma, to which she would~not
244 IV | Turning westward his old asthmatic pug-dog countenance, he~
245 IV | came his phrase, to the astonishment of his audience.~"Really,"
246 I | accusing him of Liberalism, Atheism, and what not. How, asked
247 Addendum | and David~ ~Desplein~The Atheist's Mass~Cousin Pons~The Thirteen~
248 V | scarcely used now except for atlases or~engravings), and the
249 I | the Empire, and consequent atrophy~of commercial enterprise;
250 III | was conscious that he was attacked. When Mme.~de Bargeton called
251 I | own bent of mind, they had attained to poesy. Lucien, destined
252 V | glacial audience,~so far from attaining to the spirit of the poet,
253 V | Francis. "If I am obliged to attend while somebody reads aloud
254 I | is one of the misfortunes attendant~upon great intellects that
255 III | to slip out through the attendants. As he~came out after mass,
256 I | The great Desplein, who attended Chardon in~his last illness,
257 IV | he feel suspicious of my attentions?" thought Lucien; "he seems~
258 II | Meanwhile they were bound to be attentive to old M. de~Negrepelisse (
259 IV | lordship being tall~ ~and attenuated, and his acolyte short and
260 I | first floor and a couple of attics in the roof. The first room~
261 II | thus: the first or,~three attires gules; the second, three
262 V | one of his most killing attitudes. "Drug for~drug, I would
263 VI | lucky young fellow!" said an attorney's clerk, named~Petit-Claud,
264 I | upon the paper. All the attorneys and solicitors and men~of
265 V | Some women are as much~attracted by greatness as others by
266 VI | young man's love has so many attractions--at her age. A~woman grows
267 III | is something irresistibly attractive about well-doing when~persisted
268 III | live for you," he cried audaciously~one evening; he meant to
269 VII | who has the overweening audacity to regard herself~as your
270 V | asked in a low but quite audible voice.~ ~"The likeness is
271 V | be wary, take heed, lest aught should be seen or heard~
272 IV | their party, the Baroness' aunt and daughters, two charming
273 III | Spanish grandees and the old~Austrian nobility at Vienna, these
274 IV | not share on her mother's authoritative statement. Mme. du~Brossard,
275 III | visiting terms with the~authorities--the general in command,
276 III | of precedence for~snubbed authority; such a thing it had never
277 III | for that matter, would authorize. Mme. de Bargeton undertook
278 II | their incomes--a sort of autochthonous nation who suffer no aliens~
279 I | truffle clasped about by autumn vine~tendrils. The little
280 IV | persons, their husbands availed themselves of the~artist'
281 II | cities of~France, however avaricious or refractory, must perforce
282 VI | spared you; the world is avenged on all happiness in which
283 V | great~a strain upon the average intellect. None but artists
284 VI | intrigue is either~openly avoided or impossible anywhere.~ ~
285 V | Believe me, glory and success await the man of talent who~shall
286 III | travels and sufferings, all awakened the interest of the ladies
287 VI | appeals to the feelings and~awakens emotion; and in this favor
288 III | and Lucien then became aware that~there was no one else
289 VIII | mother-in-law must wait~awhile for the home he had meant
290 III | began to dread the~Phocion's axe which David could wield
291 IV | called Lili by her friends--a baby name singularly at variance~
292 I | as some sculptured Indian Bacchus.~ ~For in Lucien's face
293 II | pondering over the eligible bachelors of the~province with these
294 III | play the~familiar game of backgammon, to see the same faces and
295 VI | vied with each other in backing up their opinions by~observations
296 I | chairs with lyre-shaped backs and blue leather cushions
297 V | Nais is treating us very badly," said Fifine; "what can
298 VII | obliged to make; and, like Balaam's ass,~they speak marvelously
299 VI | with Francis in the social balance; and a~squeeze of the hand
300 VIII | was the~first to fire; the ball lodged in M. de Chandour'
301 V | sang one of Chateaubriand's~ballads, a chivalrous ditty made
302 I | implements, ink-tables, balls, benches,~et cetera, sixteen
303 III | letter that smells like balm! it is lying on the corner
304 III | the old staircase with the balustrade of chestnut wood~(the stone
305 Dedication| sincere admirer and friend,~DE BALZAC.~ ~ ~
306 III | price for the townsmen, as~Bambara Negroes, we are told, attach
307 V | heard~Of the shining seraph band, as they take the heavenward
308 VI | Postel shut the window with a bang, in despair that he~had
309 V | Anne, and followed the left bank of the Charente.~Eve felt
310 VI | that in 1814 Cardon the banker, owner of the~pulping troughs
311 I | taken care to appear in the bankruptcy as a privileged creditor
312 II | Charente; and along the banks of the river lay the stores
313 III | all her~children to one banquet, arouses ambition in the
314 V | is so great, the savor of banquets, the incense of~success
315 III | and the necessity of the baptism was plain~to him.~ ~"Dear
316 II | estate in the neighborhood of Barbezieux,~farming the land to admiration,
317 II | yellow fever in a hospital at Barcelona; 'twas a high, a noble~destiny!
318 I | A generous man is a bad bargain-driver. David's nature was of the~
319 I | Chaffering in these sorts of bargains means that a man can look
320 V | recognize the Emperor's barons?" she~asked, smiling.~ ~
321 II | Bargeton, in Angoumois in~the barony of Rochefoucauld, being
322 II | Prefecture, a Naval School, and barracks~along the hillside, and
323 II | and~one, sable; the third, barry of six, azure and argent,
324 I | place by massive iron cross bars. It would~have puzzled you
325 I | fluted columns and knots and bas-~reliefs and uncounted masterpieces
326 I | use of any means however base. It is one of the misfortunes
327 V | rags, was first made at Basel, in~1170, by a colony of
328 VIII | s ear,~"you would be the basest of men."~ ~David, no doubt,
329 VI | who had seated himself so bashfully in the boudoir-sanctuary
330 VI | grown child is content to~bask instead of putting it to
331 VI | apprentice bringing the basket of provisions to some~place
332 II | had given a glimpse of the baton of a Marshal of~France.
333 V | enervating life without battles, in which the eagle's wings~
334 III | should be blood-stains on the bays. He~would conquer at any
335 V | pathway in Heaven and a beacon for evermore.~ ~"Do you
336 V | round the room much as the beadle makes the circle of the~
337 II | happiness. So Nais married the bearer of arms, two hundred years~
338 II | tenure of office. His~son, bearing the name of Mirault de Bargeton,
339 III | marked attention. The elderly beau--he was~forty-five years
340 V | so fondly cherished, so beautiful--since it was the~outpouring
341 VIII | de Bargeton together; she beckoned Lucien to follow her as
342 III | brilliant flowers in~garden beds. Interchange of glances,
343 III | playing grand~fragments of Beethoven till she sent him into ecstasy;
344 III | dreadful calamity that had befallen her.~ ~She was very cruel
345 VI | alterations, when there befell one of those events which~
346 VI | to some~place appointed before-hand; and at night they would
347 IV | word that might seem to beg for thanks; everything that
348 IV | Japanese jar standing on a begarlanded console table of the time
349 VI | nature that flings alms to a beggar, if he appeals to the feelings
350 VI | bad; and, of course, the beggarly puncheons have gone up to
351 V | Do you~not see the first beginnings of the vision of the poem,
352 I | covered with handbills and begrimed by friction of all the workmen
353 V | as redeemed souls know on~beholding the glory of God. So, in
354 II | it upon his pupil~that it behoved her to be the more modest
355 III | so magnificently, and so belauded, that anybody but a young
356 IV | him to sing. When he had bellowed one of~his airs, he revived
357 V | to shoot over the lands belonging to the~Pimentel family.~ ~"
358 V | John in Patmos for us,~or Belshazzar's Feast, so that his lordship
359 I | gangway, tripped up the bemused spectator, or he caught
360 I | implements, ink-tables, balls, benches,~et cetera, sixteen hundred
361 I | to symmetry, seemed to~be bending beneath the weight of a
362 I | looked upon Lucien as the benefactor whom he could never repay.~ ~
363 IV | been the objects of the benevolent interest~of egoism; they
364 II | Casimir Delavigne and Canalis, Beranger and~Chateaubriand. Davrigny,
365 III | his. She quoted instances. Bernard~Palissy, Louis XI., Fox,
366 I | writings of Scott,~Jean-Paul, Berzelius, Davy, Cuvier, Lamartine,
367 III | him ignorant of the perils besetting~his career as a man of genius,
368 VI | abundant there. They made a bet about it in my presence.~
369 VI | was nothing~mysterious to betray the sweet crime of love,
370 VI | and smiled at~him.~ ~"The betrothal of the poor," the mother
371 III | her behavior to him was a bewildering~mixture of familiarity and
372 IV | poetry," are words that bewitch the~coarsest intellect.~
373 V | A poet who~looks to the Bible for his inspiration has
374 II | persons who hastened to do her~bidding, till she grew to be as
375 II | Royalism, infected with bigotry rather than zeal, all stagnating~
376 III | a good figure, a~clever billiard-player, a passable amateur actor,
377 IV | name at the bottom of the~bills posted on every wall. For
378 VI | sweet intercourse which binds lovers so closely each~to
379 V | only increases with the birth-rate. To make any~perceptible
380 Dedication| Victor Hugo,~It was your birthright to be, like a Rafael or
381 V | If his father sold biscuits for worms" (vers), said
382 VI | Louise is right!" he thought bitterly. "A man~with a career before
383 V | beginning," he added, with bitterness in his tone, as he~took
384 II | Royalists, alike must divide the blame among them.~Mme. de Bargeton
385 VII | myself; she has a whole blameless record~behind her; she is
386 VI | suffering. The world, which blames and~criticises with a superficial
387 II | with none of~the charming blandness and urbanity of a great
388 II | him to avoid blunders or blatant follies in~society in Angouleme.
389 III | Court" dazzled Lucien~like a blaze of fireworks, and the necessity
390 II | for the Bargeton arms are blazoned thus: the first or,~three
391 V | but this poet's heart was~bleeding from countless wounds.~ ~"
392 III | prodigiously vulgar, though he had~blessed the man for his kindness,
393 VI | if~to pray for heaven's blessing upon them.--"You are brave,
394 III | his father's genius and blighted hopes and of his~grinding
395 IV | easily friendship can be blinded. Will~you think the worse
396 IV | place. So curious~did this blindness seem in a man of jealous
397 VI | might be.~ ~It was a time of blithe and unmixed happiness for
398 I | covered, as they were, with bloated patches~of purple, madder
399 III | even if there should be blood-stains on the bays. He~would conquer
400 VI | see that~last night? The bloodthirsty insects are quick enough
401 VIII | spotless and has not lost its bloom.~ ~"Eve's home will be fit
402 III | the brightest colors~of blossoming love. There was David; what
403 IV | drawing patterns on his blotting-paper. He would~turn over the
404 V | long to make a box."~ ~The bludgeon stroke stunned Lucien, but
405 VIII | enter the bedroom with the~blue-and-white draperies and neat furniture
406 III | dark of complexion, and blue-eyed; but~notwithstanding these
407 II | the water. She~envied that blue-stocking of the desert, Lady Hester
408 I | sagacity. His son was making a blunder, he said, and he,~Sechard,
409 II | sufficient to enable him to avoid blunders or blatant follies in~society
410 IV | anticipatory~criticisms made in the blunt, provincial fashion that
411 II | society in Angouleme. In the bluntest manner M. de Negrepelisse~
412 I | defined in the~country are blurred and lost in the great currents
413 IV | about as amiable as a wild boar, as~suspicious as a Venetian,
414 II | sent their daughters to~its boarding schools and convents.~ ~
415 V | the kind usually left to boarding-school misses, and~rescued from
416 III | careless cross-folds of the bodice~left a white throat bare,
417 I | first sight like one of Boileau's~canons: but on a second
418 IV | literary solemnity, the~boldest men among them so far shook
419 III | feeling for poetry, he would~boldly ask permission to retire
420 V | known in the East as Charta~bombycina. The imitation, made from
421 I | opposition coach to keep bona fide rivals out of the field.~ ~ ~ ~
422 II | the great essayists, M. de Bonald and M. de Maistre~(those
423 IV | long Epistle to a Sister~of Bonaparte (ungrateful that he was),
424 I | had been a Septembrist, a~Bonapartist, and a drunkard to boot?
425 I | s injustice was a~strong bond between them. And then,
426 VI | lovers were very like~the bonds by which the population
427 Addendum | Government Clerks~ ~Cointet, Boniface~Eve and David~The Firm of
428 III | on the whole houseful of booby clodpates."~ ~Chatelet talked
429 VIII | There, there were no jealous booby-squires to invent stinging~gibes
430 I | David to see.~ ~"I am not book-learned; I don't know how to read
431 IV | It was M. de Bartas who boomed out his song in a bass voice,
432 III | always noble. She railed at boorish~squires for understanding
433 IV | whom he loved best were bores anxious to talk about~themselves;
434 VIII | other means failed, he could borrow enough to live upon~for
435 VI | himself so bashfully in the boudoir-sanctuary of~the queen of Angouleme,
436 III | prophesied great things and boundless fame for Lucien.~She used
437 VIII | from the civil list. The Bourbons are so fond of encouraging~
438 V | admire have cost! We should~bow in love and reverence before
439 IV | the first comer," he said, bowing with more respect than people~
440 V | if it took long to make a box."~ ~The bludgeon stroke
441 VIII | the tiny morocco-covered boxes on the table in front of~
442 VIII | noble and single-hearted~boyhood. The so-powerful ties that
443 I | to the huge delight of boys, "bears,"~and "monkeys."
444 IV | as to display a series of bracelets on her~shapely white arms.
445 I | now to a cutting-press, bragging of its usefulness and~sound
446 VII | mercy of the first hare-~brained boy who flings himself at
447 I | children~confronted evil days bravely enough. She sold the druggist'
448 V | at the Latin words.~ ~The bravest and highest spirits know
449 III | and~airs of a bourgeois bravo, Lucien went back again
450 III | through thick and then; but a breach of~another law, the offence
451 VIII | that we are giving~away our bread, that we shall live in anxiety.
452 II | liberty of its judgments and breadth of view. In~society an intellect
453 VIII | his appetite, and he~was breakfasting quite unconcernedly after
454 III | merchant; and visitors to La~Brede, meeting Montesquieu in
455 I | out-of-the-way places. His breeches and waistcoat~were of greenish
456 III | swiftly as the scent of briar-rose; melancholy, tender as the~
457 III | faded and hardened to a brick-red by listless days and a certain~
458 VIII | orange blossoms and the bridal veil; days when the~springtide
459 II | the duty of~writing the bridegroom's epitaph might devolve
460 Addendum | Comte de~ ~Letters of Two Brides~ ~Montriveau, General Marquis
461 V | from the cherubim choir a bright-haired Angel springs,~Veiling the
462 V | poetry was in print.~ ~Amelie brightened visibly.~ ~"Why, that is
463 V | will never~fail," said Eve, brightening. "There is no hardship in
464 III | pictures fair with the brightest colors~of blossoming love.
465 IV | was so radiant with the brightness of many hopes, that his~
466 I | impressionable minds. The brilliancy of his intellect had a keen~
467 I | his point, as a peasant brings in his wife.~ ~His son was
468 V | Nais, and Nais was on the brink of a~piece of folly. Francis
469 VII | behave with phlegmatic~British dignity, in short."~ ~In
470 VI | of the~pulping troughs of Bruges and Langlee (where Leorier
471 I | and~rain, and borne the brunt of the weather, till it
472 I | stockings, and shoes with silver buckles to~them. This costume, in
473 III | conscience as yet unstained, of budding hopes~undespoiled by rough
474 II | had lined the quays with~buildings.~ ~So the Faubourg of L'
475 I | than you could think~of a bulb without its husk. If the
476 I | Requisition which swept the bulk of~French workmen into the
477 II | save the life of a sick bullock; and so miserly was he,
478 III | behind the shop.~This evening bundles of boiled herbs were spread
479 I | heart accepted the heavy burden laid upon it, seeing~clearly
480 V | to~add anything to your burdens, for we shall have some
481 I | in walnut wood, an aged bureau, and a timepiece on the~
482 II | of a lady friend who put burglars to flight by imitating a
483 V | Bargeton sat with one hand buried in her curls, heedless of~
484 I | lamps for illumination, that burn a vast deal of oil~to a
485 I | all-absorbing love~that burned in them, which revealed
486 V | Bargeton's imbecility; he burst into a laugh, as usual,
487 VI | forge ingenious pretexts for burying~themselves in the wilderness;
488 I | certain~practical faculty for business--greedy, suspicious, and
489 III | all means were admissible. But--failure is high treason
490 III | crossed his path. The elderly butterfly of the~Empire came down
491 I | distrust; David remained close~buttoned up to the chin.~ ~Next day,
492 I | of business.~A man that buys books is hardly fit to print
493 V | lines in the taste of a by-gone~day, pervaded by sublime
494 IV | say~more or less, "L'Etat, c'est moi!" with Louis Quatorze?
495 III | words touching the social cabal formed~against him; she
496 IV | as there is in a ship's cabin, and the door always stood
497 VIII | greatest people at her house, Cabinet ministers~and ambassadors,
498 II | second, three ox's heads cabossed, two and~one, sable; the
499 III | Christopher Columbus, and Julius~Caesar,--all these world-famous
500 I | couple of glass-windowed cages had been built out~into
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