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501 VI | vinegrower came up closer with a~cajoling manner; "if you are marrying
502 III | soiree, with ices, tea, and cakes, a great innovation in a
503 III | possible after the dreadful calamity that had befallen her.~ ~
504 VI | moreover, is singularly well calculated to keep~desire unsatisfied
505 I | business.~ ~David made a mental calculation of the value of the license,
506 III | apprentice was scouring a caldron, and M. Postel himself,
507 IV | into Angouleme in their caleche,~and had brought their neighbors,
508 I | than the most sumptuous calendars. David~would soon see the
509 V | downfall of the Empire, calico has come more and more into~
510 I | job-~printing, as it is called--to the Sechard's establishment.
511 III | first kiss~upon his forehead calmed the storm. Decidedly Lucien
512 II | coveted alike of Catholics and Calvinists, but its old-world strength~
513 V | dress for a gown of pink cambric covered~with narrow stripes,
514 IV | with an~Eastern clasp. The cameos on her neck gleamed through
515 II | to be a sister of Saint Camilla and tend the sick and die
516 III | bell.~ ~A strong scent of camomile and peppermint pervaded
517 II | to say which of the two camps~detested the other the more
518 III | convicted of a liking for canaille, Louise would be~driven
519 V | anything," David~answered candidly.~ ~"Then, just now I am
520 VII | his hat and his walking~cane.~ ~"Good, that is how I
521 V | Cicero,~Saint-Augustine, and Canon type, because they were
522 I | sight like one of Boileau's~canons: but on a second glance
523 I | four-post bedstead with canopy, valances and quilt~of crimson
524 III | jealousy Louise showed him Cante-~Croix's picture, and told
525 IV | he was the~mayor of some canton or other, and a fine estate
526 VII | in silence~because their capacity is limited and their outlook
527 IV | consciousness that every least caprice will be gratified by love.~ ~
528 II | between obedience to coarse caprices and a mind without indulgence
529 III | mixture of familiarity and capricious fits of pride arising from
530 III | followed a flash of anger that captivates a boy; she reproached him~
531 III | who sold and resold their captive--his talents being not~of
532 V | couples~slipped away into the card-room. But Louise, and the Bishop,
533 III | conspicuous in this feature. The careless cross-folds of the bodice~
534 VI | using the familiar tu, the caress of speech, since yesterday,~
535 VI | one about him soothed and caressed~the poet's vanity; his mother
536 VI | David's voice and Eve's caresses; and as they went through
537 IV | looked almost like~a living caricature, which no one could behold
538 II | She lived by poetry as the Carmelite lives by religion. All the~
539 IV | He was as ignorant as a carp, but he had compiled the
540 IV | and a strip of cheap green~carpet at the foot. A chest of
541 II | Ruelle, some~six miles away. Carriers, wheelwrights, posthouses,
542 I | Marion unloaded the~paper carts, collected accounts, and
543 III | beyond a dimly-lit salon. The carved woodwork, in the~taste of
544 I | of France. The decrepit~casements were fitted with the heavy,
545 VIII | than they should open their cash-boxes with "How much do you want?"~
546 II | Lamartine and Victor Hugo, Casimir Delavigne and Canalis, Beranger
547 III | like a miniature brandy cask,~embellished by a painter'
548 III | Baron, however, and went to Cassel as envoy-~extraordinary,
549 II | The pain of those days cast a veil of sadness over her
550 Dedication| And why should Comedy, qui castigat ridendo~mores, make an exception
551 III | letters full of boyish casuistry and the~incoherent reasoning
552 IV | movements~like a suspicious cat; the young man's presence
553 III | society was on the eve of cataclysm. "See what comes of Liberal~
554 IV | events of the day might catch his eye, and drag his quotation
555 II | position~coveted alike of Catholics and Calvinists, but its
556 III | looked very much like a cattle-dealer, and Descartes~might have
557 III | her. She brought her most caustic wit into~play. She said
558 II | of~her face. There was a cavalier air about her, a something
559 II | soon as her adorers~should cease to worship eccentricities
560 I | monkeys." Where poverty ceases, avarice begins. From the
561 VIII | whole of his linen, the celebrated coat, and his manuscript
562 I | broad irregular line of central cleavage, and,~above all,
563 IV | tendency to take himself as the centre of things. Do not all of
564 VIII | us to disregard the petty~ceremonial in which the law entangles
565 III | sight of Eve his face took a~ceremonious and amiable expression,
566 IV | pleasure to be treated without~ceremony.~ ~"Oh! what is it?" she
567 VI | freely at all times, with the certainty~of being understood, is
568 V | Jewess, the Don Quixote of~Cervantes,--do we not owe these deathless
569 I | ink-tables, balls, benches,~et cetera, sixteen hundred francs!'
570 III | dandies of the~upper town, he chafed beyond all reason at the
571 I | acceptance of the situation.~Chaffering in these sorts of bargains
572 VI | them, there fell the~golden chains that suspend the hearts
573 IV | Sultan airs were like a challenge.~ ~Amelie de Chandour, short,
574 VIII | and great orators from the Chamber of Deputies, and~peers and
575 V | Glad to be so generously championed, Lucien made his acknowledgments~
576 VI | to be expected that~the champions should not seek to enlist
577 III | supplemented by~certain gifts of chance--a graceful figure, distinction
578 II | of mankind whom she had~chanced to meet. She wished to rule,
579 VIII | there will be hundreds of chances of making your way, of sinecures,
580 IV | qualms, that the little~chandelier with the old-fashioned cut-glass
581 VIII | people who will side with~the Chandours against us. In our position,
582 I | fellow-worshipers.~ ~The vine-stems were changing color with the spring; covering
583 V | Thence by~the unrecognized channels of commerce the art reached
584 II | and one. Provided with a chaperon, Nais~could steer her fortunes
585 III | de Montriveau. A strange chapter of~accidents separated him
586 III | a hard-working life, her~character--for her life was above reproach--
587 VI | above the shed for Mme. Chardon--he meant to be~a son to
588 III | to endure the songster" (chardonneret) "of~the sacred grove,"
589 V | the religious thought it a charitable deed~to use any means of
590 I | on the one side and~the charlatan on the other, he saw that
591 IV | shapely white arms. Lucien was charmed with this theatrical style
592 V | paper known in the East as Charta~bombycina. The imitation,
593 I | item was omitted; jobbing chases, wetting-boards,~paste-pots,
594 V | break in upon the~quiet chat in the boudoir, "it would
595 III | III~M. de Chatelet--he began life as plain Sixte
596 IV | the weight of awe as to~chatter a good deal with Mlle. de
597 V | in his own affairs; one chattered with the prefect about a
598 III | humble lad was a~second Chatterton, with none of the political
599 V | Glory is not to be had cheaply," Mme. de Bargeton continued,
600 VI | halfpence a~day, and this cheapness of labor enables the Chinese
601 III | patches of color on the cheek-bone were~faded and hardened
602 IV | no pleasure~but in good cheer, saw that he had good dinners;
603 V | fortune. I know something of chemistry,~and a knowledge of commercial
604 V | his star.~ ~Out from the cherubim choir a bright-haired Angel
605 I | dinner and go back to Marsac, chewing the cud of uneasy~reflection.~ ~
606 I | looking into the yard. The chief characteristic of~the apartment
607 VI | strength, were mingled with childish crying for a~plaything.~ ~"
608 IV | mincing affectation~and childishness. He took an interest in
609 IV | fifty-nine years old, and a childless widower.~Mother and daughter
610 V | her."~ ~"You have sent a chill of dread through my heart,"
611 IV | met with a~reception of chilling silence; the respect paid
612 III | persuaded Lucien to forswear the chimerical notions of '89 as to~equality;
613 IV | furniture. The clock~on the chimney-piece told of the old vanished
614 VI | their pedestal if the frost~chips off a nose or a finger.
615 V | Chateaubriand's~ballads, a chivalrous ditty made in the time of
616 V | Out from the cherubim choir a bright-haired Angel springs,~
617 IV | sweetly strung, and every chord vibrating~gives out full
618 I | Lucien came to be David's chosen brother.~As there are ultras
619 I | provincial towns on Corpus Christi Day. For furniture~it boasted
620 III | called~each other by their Christian names, a final shade of
621 V | the~Almighty, a kind of Christianized Pantheism, enriched with
622 III | Louis XI., Fox, Napoleon, Christopher Columbus, and Julius~Caesar,--
623 II | She wore herself out with chronic admiration, and wasted her~
624 V | sing of heaven amid~the chucklings of hell. An intelligent
625 IV | acolyte short and fat. Both churchmen's eyes~were bright; but
626 IV | circle as Stanislas, was a~ci-devant young man, slim still at
627 I | the~printing of some trade circular, the old type was still
628 I | sending prospectuses and circulars--job-~printing, as it is
629 VII | limited and their outlook circumscribed,~often behave at great crises
630 I | requisitioned the establishment. Citizen Sechard accepted~the dangerous
631 I | the decrees which forbade citizens to harbor~aristocrats under
632 III | of his~country, of the civilized world.~ ~Her arguments fell
633 VI | love is influenced by the clamor of the~senses, when it is
634 VI | pouring out a flood of~clamorous thoughts into those friendly
635 III | he heard her named by the clan. Like Spanish grandees and
636 VII | gateway had shut with a clang behind him, the tears came
637 V | lived and~died--Richardson's Clarissa, Chenier's Camille, the
638 IV | public as~unfailingly as the clash of cymbals, the trumpet,
639 IV | enriched with an~Eastern clasp. The cameos on her neck
640 I | suggested a huge truffle clasped about by autumn vine~tendrils.
641 I | Suicide,~another elegy in the classic taste, and the last two
642 VI | fibre at first hand. I have classified the guesses made by~those
643 I | coarser and commoner human clay.~ ~"The ox for patient labor
644 I | apprentice, in a paper cap, was~cleaning the ink-balls; there was
645 IV | Eve herself, shone~with cleanliness. On the little round table
646 III | was~afraid to meet those clear-sighted eyes that read the depths
647 VII | of~the house till I had cleared up the matter and exonerated
648 I | and they took alarm at his~clearsighted sagacity. His son was making
649 I | irregular line of central cleavage, and,~above all, in the
650 III | of the head; in fact; the cleverest~practitioner is he who can
651 VI | nothing of the mill. Oh! your~cleverness leads you to imagine that
652 I | shutters necessary in~that climate, and held in place by massive
653 VIII | good!" said David, and he climbed~into the shabby cabriolet
654 V | transported to some cold, western clime, calling for her~beloved
655 I | doing gave them a plank to cling to--the Sechards should
656 VII | loves me!" she thought. "He clings to life, poor, dear man,~
657 III | men had upholsterers and clockmakers and cutlers for their~fathers.
658 III | whole houseful of booby clodpates."~ ~Chatelet talked of his
659 II | marriage and society became a cloister for~Anais. She lived by
660 III | Every evening, when he closed the ugly iron gate and went
661 IV | in the little adjoining~closet, where there was just room
662 III | round~table with a green cloth.~ ~The queen did not attempt
663 I | three persons must be fed, clothed, and lodged.~Yet, with all
664 III | they bring visions fair as cloudless skies~Of happy voyage o'
665 VII | tell the great news at the club,~and thence from house to
666 IV | and out~of season in the clumsiest way. No eligible man had
667 I | round the room. The two clumsy arched windows that gave
668 VIII | said Eve, as a thought clutched at her heart, "you will~
669 VIII | with a feeling of dread~clutching at his heart; he had terrible
670 VIII | many a time seen in the coach-house, appeared~in sight, Lucien
671 I | presses~that go like mail coaches, and are good to last you
672 II | or, worse still, to some coarse-~minded servant-maid. The
673 I | upon himself as one made of coarser and commoner human clay.~ ~"
674 IV | are words that bewitch the~coarsest intellect.~
675 IV | ribbon of his cross. His coat-tails were~violently at strife.
676 V | the secret?" she pleaded coaxingly.~ ~"You have a right to
677 I | them for thirty years; the cobweb of cordage across~the ceiling,
678 VI | pervaded the house like a cockchafer; it never entered his head
679 IV | valetudinarian of her factotum; she coddled him and doctored him; she~
680 III | following a new fashion, wore a coif of slashed~black velvet,
681 II | those days, was consecrated coldly by the~hands of death. On
682 V | Perfect!" with frigid~coldness.~ ~"If you love me, do not
683 VI | paper-~making.~ ~"Rag-pickers collect all the rags and old linen
684 I | unloaded the~paper carts, collected accounts, and cleaned the
685 V | at Basel, in~1170, by a colony of Greek refugees, according
686 IV | walls, and the tiled floor, colored and waxed by Eve herself,
687 II | tragedify, prosify, and colossify--you~must violate the laws
688 V | grand jesus and the double~columbier (this last being scarcely
689 III | Fox, Napoleon, Christopher Columbus, and Julius~Caesar,--all
690 IV | and exhibited outrageous combinations of crude~colors upon their
691 IV | conciliate him.~ ~"I am the first comer," he said, bowing with more
692 VI | felt all that I felt; she comforted me; she is as great and
693 V | angel," Lolotte~laid her commands on her dear Adrien in imperious
694 V | unrecognized channels of commerce the art reached Asia Minor,~
695 I | David owed his existence, commercially~speaking, to the cunning
696 IV | different. A foreman is not committed to anything. You are~busy
697 VII | and~formed a small, secret committee in a corner of the salon.~ ~
698 II | furnishes~a daily supply of the commodity for a public that daily
699 I | one made of coarser and commoner human clay.~ ~"The ox for
700 IV | before~making the simplest commonplace remark.~ ~The largest landowner
701 II | The heat~of her language communicated itself to the brain, and
702 II | these two sections of the community all the world over, and
703 V | me. Your sweet and~dear companionship will be consolation in itself
704 III | emphasis; the Quotidienne was comparatively Laodicean in its~loyalty,
705 I | Lucien had read much and compared; David had thought much
706 VI | Rubempre, housed sumptuously in comparison with~his late quarters in
707 II | high degree, a temperament compatible with~many estimable qualities,
708 VI | pleasures sweet~enough to compensate for the heaviness of the
709 I | of some more formidable competitor;~they made a practice of
710 IV | ignorant as a carp, but he had compiled the articles on~Sugar and
711 IV | his personal~approval, a complacent laugh reinforced the smile;
712 IV | you. If you~have reason to complain of the treachery of others,
713 V | card-tables had claimed their~complement of players, who returned
714 I | of uncertainty as to~the completion of the purchase inevitably
715 V | This piece of stupidity complicated the question, until Sixte
716 III | after mass, Mme. de Bargeton complimented him, regretting~that she
717 IV | difficulties or~extolling the composer.~ ~M. Alexandre de Brebian
718 II | her the music of the great composers.~Finally, as time hung heavy
719 I | verifying the~words in the composing-stick, and leading the lines,
720 VI | spice of stupidity in his~composition, vowed that he would cross
721 II | him his baggage of musical compositions. The old country~gentleman'
722 II | regard to the lady is to be~comprehensible. Lucien's introduction came
723 V | The was beyond Zephirine's comprehension; she thought her consul
724 IV | him; the young man and the~comrade felt all his heart go out
725 I | beginning of an intellectual~comradeship. Before long, Lucien told
726 VI | phrases that filled~him with conceit.~ ~"There is a lucky young
727 IV | s~mother and sister had concentrated all their tenderness on
728 VI | partly~also by an exalted conception of love. Being given to
729 V | I were to announce such conceptions, I should give myself out
730 IV | already. Have no remorse, no concern over seeming to take the~
731 IV | you into his~confidence concerning the smallest details of
732 VII | right to interfere in family concerns. He rose to his~feet and
733 III | de Bargeton would go to concerts and "at homes" at his~house,
734 VI | of Europe," the~printer concluded, "and buy any kind of tissue.
735 I | amazed at such a~prompt conclusion.~ ~"Can he have been putting
736 III | royal temper of the House of Conde shone~conspicuous in this
737 V | did you not~unthinkingly condemn him to a hard struggle?
738 VI | whose voices are loudest in~condemnation of the alleged misconduct
739 I | birth and~lack of fortune condemns so many a loftier mind.
740 V | doubtless, had best be condensed at first.~ ~Paper, an invention
741 V | until Sixte du~Chatelet condescended to inform these unlettered
742 VI | Beatrice, a~Beatrice who condescends to be loved?"~ ~Louise raised
743 III | grew accustomed to the vast condescension, as it~had seemed to him
744 VII | guessed the nature of~the conference, and the whisper, "They
745 VI | ways was tantamount to a confession, and Angouleme~still hung
746 VI | Mme. de Bargeton's humble~confidant, admired Lucien in the Rue
747 VI | in fear and trembling, confided to his beloved that David
748 III | of provincial life that~confined the heart and brain of her
749 III | sister-in-law through her confinement two months ago."~ ~"What
750 I | for excess of any sort confirms the~habit of body, and drunkenness,
751 V | If you love me, do not congratulate the poet or his angel,"
752 III | social talents he left to conjecture, nor did~they lose anything
753 IV | but finally the mysterious conjugal~trinity appeared to them
754 II | see the heroes who were conquering Europe in obedience to a~
755 II | with~set speeches as if the conquerors had been crowned kings.
756 III | own innocent~childhood and conscience as yet unstained, of budding
757 III | upon him; and Chatelet was conscious that he was attacked. When
758 I | of~manifold success; both consciously possessed the high order
759 IV | revealing passion and~the consciousness that every least caprice
760 II | easily in those days, was consecrated coldly by the~hands of death.
761 VI | a thrifty~parent, kindly consenting not to demand the rent and
762 VI | ground. "If Mme. de Bargeton~consents to be Mme. de Rubempre,
763 I | education, entertained a~very considerable contempt for attainments
764 II | de~Bargeton, aged forty, considerably shattered by the amorous~
765 I | windfall. Taking this fact into consideration,~therefore, the generous
766 V | hope in him."~ ~"Worldly considerations keep us apart," said Eve,
767 III | stanzas, which, naturally, she~considered finer than the finest work
768 I | a tempting bit of color, considering the~owner's reputation.
769 III | impertinence that would promptly consign him to the~obscurity from
770 I | level with lofty heights, consigned~though they were socially
771 I | unknown poet, whose works consist in magnificent epics~conceived
772 VI | secret~of the surface and consistence, the lightness and satin
773 V | dear companionship will be consolation in itself during the long
774 IV | the empty void beneath the consoling~formulas with which the
775 III | the House of Conde shone~conspicuous in this feature. The careless
776 V | the direction of the~silly conspiracy; every one was interested
777 VI | prolonged service,~a trial of constancy which should give her time
778 I | at variance with a~strong constitution, was by no means wanting
779 VI | outrageously~scandalous constructions are put upon the most innocent
780 IV | distinguished-looking. He had~given up his consulship in Valence, and sacrificed
781 IV | and out of season Zizine consulted Francis with a look, and~
782 III | evening, on some pretext of consulting Lucien, he~would leave the
783 I | poverty, comrades in the~consuming love of art and science,
784 II | poison provincial life.~The contagion of narrow-mindedness and
785 II | were~therefore the more contagious for this high-spirited girl,
786 IV | shoes. When he ceased to contemplate himself in this way, he
787 I | reasons--sordid, whining,~contemptible, money-getting reasons--
788 V | unless it were followed up by contemptuous indifference; so they~showed
789 I | instinctively~guessing at future contingencies, and hugging its presentiments.~
790 V | understand--the poet must continually range~through the entire
791 V | Rastignac besought Lucien to continue, and this time~he caught
792 Addendum | titled Eve and David and continues their~story. In other addendum
793 V | son take them."~ ~"He is continuing in his father's line of
794 I | easily from~the feminine contour of the hips, a characteristic
795 III | and shapely, well placed contours beneath.~ ~With fingers
796 VI | than in fulfilment of a~contract. In general, prescribed
797 VI | thereto partly by a spirit of contradiction, partly~also by an exalted
798 I | father, as a partner, to contribute~his share towards the working
799 VIII | You have no idea how it contributes to the success of a clever
800 VIII | had striven to make Eve's contributions to the housekeeping~ ~worthy
801 I | whether your paltry iron-work~contrivances will work like these solid
802 III | department~until such time as a controllership should fall vacant. So the
803 VI | late to open up a stock controversy on the point with M. de~
804 VIII | departure would be, in fact, a convenience to the family. He~discovered
805 III | itself was sober, almost convent-like, but in good repair.~ ~Lucien
806 I | publish the~Decrees of the Convention, bestowed a master printer'
807 II | its boarding schools and convents.~ ~It is easy to imagine
808 IV | ordinary commonplaces of conversation--the way of escape provided
809 V | spoil everything; he~would convert my hopes into realities,
810 II | every~agency for public conveyance, every industry that lives
811 I | illness, saw him die in convulsions of rage.~ ~The secret of
812 I | to size;~Marion did the cooking, washing, and marketing;
813 III | distinction allayed by~David's cool commonsense; she pointed
814 VI | nick of time to pay the cooper. If it was anybody else,
815 VI | work to put money into the coopers' pockets. Why,~are you going
816 III | face. In a dozen sheets, copied out three several times,~
817 I | a "gaffer,"~printed the copies and duly posted them, and
818 I | Jerome-Nicolas Sechard, after copious~potations, began with a "
819 IV | delicate had been tanned to the~copper-red color of Europeans from
820 III | was an infringement of the copyright of the passages of~declamation
821 VI | or worth, like an elderly coquette by the door of a~salon,
822 V | giving M. du Chatelet a~coquettish glance.~ ~"It is the sort
823 I | smile~that hovered about the coral lips, yet redder as they
824 I | his hand to the lines of cord~across the ceiling, "I who
825 I | thirty years; the cobweb of cordage across~the ceiling, the
826 VI | describe~with kindly and cordial eloquence the happy fortunes
827 I | received him with all the cordiality~which cunning folk can assume
828 II | detested the other the more cordially. Under the Empire the machinery~
829 III | declamation that disfigure Corinne; but Louise grew so much
830 IV | cutting figures out of corks with~his penknife, and drawing
831 II | admiration, selling his corn in the market~himself, and
832 III | nobler air than~Racine, Corneille looked very much like a
833 I | the two~dens in the far corners where the master printer
834 III | that rendered Se fiato in corpo like a war whoop--~Mme.
835 I | the raven that scents the corpses on a battlefield.~ ~"Leave
836 I | bald pate. He was short and corpulent, like one of~the old-fashioned
837 I | fronts in provincial towns on Corpus Christi Day. For furniture~
838 VI | Saint-Simon, who happened to be correcting proofs for us,~came in in
839 III | overshoes and hats in the old corridor, that they were quite as~
840 III | Lucien's nature,~and spread corruption in his heart; for him, when
841 VIII | s clothes; the Fernando Cortez of~literature carried but
842 V | those immortals, Faust, Coster, and Gutenberg, invented
843 I | for them than for the most costly new-fangled~articles.~ ~"
844 IV | countenances and heterogeneous costumes, but~none the less it seemed
845 IV | daughters into the select coterie of~Angouleme; both families
846 IV | took an interest in his cough, his appetite, his~digestion,
847 III | eloquence the more for it. She counseled him to take a~bold step
848 III | harkening to "M. Chatelet's" counsels, determined to erect a rival~
849 IV | poverty. M. de Bargeton had counted on having no more to say,
850 IV | quaint~assemblage of wrinkled countenances and heterogeneous costumes,
851 II | those tongues, as well as in counterpoint. He~explained the great
852 I | printer's look of robust, country-bred health,~his turn of mind
853 VIII | heard about the duel from a countryman, who saw it all from his~
854 V | this pretext one or two couples~slipped away into the card-room.
855 V | dazzling brow,~Leaving the courts of heaven to sink upon silver
856 III | was~the usual provincial courtyard--chilly, prim, and neat;
857 V | s head like grass in~our courtyards."~ ~"Madame, we cannot feel
858 II | was a military position~coveted alike of Catholics and Calvinists,
859 I | intentions, and took his covetous greed for a printer's~attachment
860 I | making a fortune,~a growing covetousness developed and sharpened
861 III | attach a money value to cowrie shells.~ ~Some of the women,
862 VII | Saintot.~ ~"But he was a crack shot when he was young,"
863 IV | like it better, but I am a craftsman who~lives over a shop in
864 V | Gutenberg, invented the Book,~craftsmen as obscure as many a great
865 II | sub-lieutenant, to whom~the crafty Napoleon had given a glimpse
866 IV | him and doctored him; she~crammed him with delicate fare,
867 III | brother of yours has gone crazy, mademoiselle," said Postel,~
868 I | press, handled in this sort, creaked aloud in such fine~style
869 I | the ink-balls; there was a creaking of a press over the~printing
870 IV | table with a jug full of cream.~ ~"There, Lucien, I have
871 VI | is very soft and~easily creased to begin with, and it has
872 V | And what are you going to create for us?" asked Chatelet.~ ~"
873 I | when in a manner he had created a claim to call her his~
874 III | like Dulcos and Grimm and~Crebillon to their society--men who
875 I | bankruptcy as a privileged creditor for~arrears of rent.~ ~The
876 VI | victory, inglorious and crestfallen,~cutting but a foolish figure
877 VII | circumscribed,~often behave at great crises with a ready-made solemnity.
878 III | lovers' movements with keenly critical~eyes, and waiting for the
879 VI | world, which blames and~criticises with a superficial knowledge
880 II | learned to be fearless in criticism and ready in judgement;
881 IV | and hear the anticipatory~criticisms made in the blunt, provincial
882 V | air, and hear the frogs croak, and watch the~moonlight
883 VI | along by the side of the croft just as the sun~rose, and
884 III | Louise showed him Cante-~Croix's picture, and told with
885 I | whole frame. With his thick~crop of black hair, his fleshy,
886 IV | friend's wife on his arm, a cross-cornered arrangement which gossip~
887 III | this feature. The careless cross-folds of the bodice~left a white
888 V | the prefect about a new~crossroad, another proposed to vary
889 Dedication| columns of a newspaper, or~crouching in the subterranean places
890 III | a love so~stainless, so cruelly cut short. Was she experimenting
891 II | magnificent edifice that had crumbled into ruin~before it was
892 III | and tried to~frighten and crush him by his self-importance.
893 I | wrapped his refusal. David crushed down his pain into the depths
894 I | back to Marsac, chewing the cud of uneasy~reflection.~ ~
895 III | upper town, and took his cue accordingly. He appeared~
896 I | yclept of Temperance,~the cult has fallen, day by day,
897 I | haunted the~cathedral; they cultivated the society of the clergy;
898 III | but he~held his ground by cultivating the clergy. He encouraged
899 I | a monograph on silkwork~cultivation, prompted by vanity to print
900 I | to print them without a Cupid and garlands, he would not
901 I | representing Hymen and Cupids, skeletons raising~the lids
902 IV | of gilt roses, and three cups and a~sugar-basin of Limoges
903 VI | dinner was a~complaint to be cured by a hearty supper.~ ~By
904 III | he who can swim with the current and keep his head~well above
905 I | blurred and lost in the great currents of Parisian~business life.
906 I | replacing these presses by your cursed cast-iron machinery,~that
907 I | the Place~du Murier were curtainless; there was neither clock
908 III | great pity," Lucien answered curtly. He was beginning to~think
909 III | delicate setting. The~Bourbon curve of the nose added to the
910 I | worm-eaten roof covered with the~curved pantiles in common use in
911 IV | displayed the ample,~swelling curves of a stiffly-starched shirt
912 IV | buttons, and~followed the curving outlines of his tight-fitting
913 I | presses in position. Or the customer's eyes would follow the
914 IV | were~violently at strife. A cut-away waistcoat displayed the
915 IV | chandelier with the old-fashioned cut-glass pendants had been stripped~
916 III | upholsterers and clockmakers and cutlers for their~fathers. She said
917 I | to a~hot-press, now to a cutting-press, bragging of its usefulness
918 IV | unfailingly as the clash of cymbals, the trumpet, or the mountebank'
919 I | characteristic of~the apartment was a cynic simplicity, due to money-making
920 V | fortune, or the sublime cynicism of~poverty, for the slow
921 I | printing houses; the pressman dabbed the ink by hand~on the characters,
922 IV | took up a little plate, daintily garnished~with vine-leaves,
923 III | the~glowing eyes, on the dainty curls rippling with light,
924 VI | the Middle Ages, upon a dais, looking down upon the~tourney
925 I | thirty thousand francs for~damages.~ ~That transaction dealt
926 VI | enthroned herself, like~some dame of the Middle Ages, upon
927 I | making such a to-do~over that damned Englishman's invention--
928 III | passable amateur actor, he danced well, and~excelled in most
929 IV | adopted~the smile of an opera dancer as his sole method of expression.~
930 II | invitations to dinners and~dances; but as to admitting the
931 III | Mme. de Bargeton among the dandies of the~upper town, he chafed
932 IV | du Hautoy was a finical dandy~whose minute care of himself
933 V | to belong, and I did not dare to hope so great a~thing
934 V | stung to fury by~a shower of darts, and prepared to obey Louise
935 II | Beranger and~Chateaubriand. Davrigny, Benjamin Constant and Lamennais,
936 I | Scott,~Jean-Paul, Berzelius, Davy, Cuvier, Lamartine, and
937 VIII | Lucien set out before daybreak the next morning. David
938 V | was Love grown blind and dazed with excess of light,~Striving
939 III | Espard," and "the Court" dazzled Lucien~like a blaze of fireworks,
940 V | lifetime~of happiness that dazzles me, as it were; it is overwhelming.
941 III | were~expected to endure deadly insults; the superciliousness
942 III | as reach ears inexorably deaf to knowledge that came from
943 V | see that the only way of dealing Lucien his deathblow~was
944 VIII | merchant with whom he had dealings, and~wrote and advised him
945 V | grown fair through you. Eve, dearest, this is the~first moment
946 V | upsets my digestion."~ ~"Poor dearie," whispered Zephirine, "
947 V | Cervantes,--do we not owe these deathless creations to immortal~throes?"~ ~"
948 V | inclination for idleness, that debauches a poetic soul. Yes, it~makes
949 IV | shall not still be your debtor all my life long?"~ ~He
950 III | intellectual poverty, all the decayed~gentility from twenty leagues
951 III | had emerged. Pending the decease of genius,~Chatelet appeared
952 VII | whether Stanislas' eyes deceived him, or whether he is right,
953 I | worked for a~laundress, a decent woman much respected in
954 VIII | business, a little piece of deception which seemed probable under
955 VI | they shall always meet with deceptive smiles; and so at last the~
956 II | Italian~literatures, and deciphered with her the music of the
957 IV | to be at the trouble of deciphering the sublime,~of plumbing
958 I | ready for any of~the rash, decisive steps that youth takes at
959 V | sucree."~ ~"It was very well declaimed," said Alexandre, "but I
960 V | prepared to obey Louise by declaiming Saint~John in Patmos; but
961 III | copyright of the passages of~declamation that disfigure Corinne;
962 I | 1793. He had gained time by declaring~that she was pregnant, a
963 I | beautiful face, just as the slow decline of a scanty~income had changed
964 V | but the world at large declines to~believe in any man's
965 I | carried out her scheme of decoration; and the "bear," unable
966 I | the South of France. The decrepit~casements were fitted with
967 IV | from envying you, I will dedicate my life~to yours. The thing
968 V | deify his beloved in an ode, dedicated to her~under a title in
969 Dedication| DEDICATION~To Monsieur Victor Hugo,~
970 V | found for cheap paper. This deduction is based~on facts that came
971 VI | with, and it has a further defect: it is so~soluble that if
972 V | laughter. Lucien pleaded a defective memory and~excused himself.
973 I | with the man's character, defects, and~way of life, that he
974 VII | and me if M. de Rubempre~defends her. Go at once to Stanislas
975 V | teeth that seemed to grin defiance at him.~ ~When, like the
976 III | things covered a~multitude of deficiencies. Nobility of feeling was
977 V | poetry--to give ideas such definite and clear expressions that~
978 IV | minute care of himself had degenerated into mincing affectation~
979 I | temperament to the~highest degree--rash, brave, and adventurous,
980 V | Lucien had essayed to deify his beloved in an ode, dedicated
981 VIII | go."~ ~Lucien's head sank dejectedly; there was a little pause,
982 II | and Victor Hugo, Casimir Delavigne and Canalis, Beranger and~
983 V | Chenier's Camille, the Delia of Tibullus,~Ariosto's Angelica,
984 III | he would not have made a delightful Master of~Requests, like
985 V | When, like the dove in the deluge, he looked round for any
986 VI | time,~ ~cherished the happy delusion that indigestion after dinner
987 V | that he can satisfy~the demands of all; he must conceal
988 I | direct in the old "bear," who~demonstrated the superiority of shrewd
989 VI | youth, sometimes~to the demurs of an inexperienced woman,
990 VI | always be visible. If she had denied herself to visitors when
991 V | France, although,~about 1799, Denis Robert d'Essonne had invented
992 I | sorrowing~angel. Lucien's hands denoted race; they were shapely
993 III | the~light into heads less dense, but left her audience agape
994 IV | wife; he lay in wait for departing~visitors, and went with
995 VIII | he had meant to do; his~departure would be, in fact, a convenience
996 VIII | not my success entirely depend upon my~entrance on life
997 I | gave up the paper? It~all depended upon the paper. All the
998 V | marvelous than the other dependent~invention of printing, was
999 VI | Chatelet, was sure~of the deplorable fact, in a corner of the
1000 II | her part, a~craze deeply deplored in Angouleme. In justice
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