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1001 IV | received compliments with a deprecating air; but modesty~did not
1002 III | Hugo "a~sublime child." It depressed her that she could only
1003 II | excitement,~indignation, or depression; she soared to heaven, and
1004 II | hereditaments; though the year~1789 deprived him of all seignorial rights
1005 II | for its boldness by its~depth and originality; but in
1006 VIII | orators from the Chamber of Deputies, and~peers and men of influence,
1007 I | approval of the~Academie des Sciences, he died, and lost
1008 III | like a cattle-dealer, and Descartes~might have been taken for
1009 I | front, though they at~once descended three steps, for the floor
1010 II | of steps which Lucien was descending. Youth and ambition had~
1011 III | part of the~inheritance of descent, is only acquired by education,
1012 II | glorious~poem; but if a woman describes it, in high-sounding words,
1013 III | sketch a head in profile, or design a costume and color it.~
1014 II | virtues of the model husband designed for his~daughter, and made
1015 III | flesh or spirit. But for his designs on Mme. de~Bargeton, Chatelet
1016 I | is a monograph which I am desirous of printing," said he,~drawing
1017 III | lying on the corner near~my desk."~ ~Mme. de Bargeton's letter
1018 V | the maid, and for age left desolate brought~Flowers of the springtime
1019 V | partook of ices, Zephirine despatched~Francis to examine the volume,
1020 VIII | ready to kill himself; his desperation was so unfeigned,~that Louise
1021 VI | He tasted the~delights of despotic sway which Nais had acquired
1022 I | when they were left almost destitute, it was an~aggravation of
1023 II | haughtiness of the Court~nobles detached the provincial noblesse
1024 V | stateliness to the least personal~detail; and David felt prodigiously
1025 II | the form and the spirit~deteriorate together.~ ~ ~With no social
1026 VI | left home with a settled~determination to be extravagant in his
1027 IV | as a~rule, in his talk; a detestable kind of conversation which
1028 II | say which of the two camps~detested the other the more cordially.
1029 VI | rooms above the shed?"~ ~"Deuce a bit of it; I have not
1030 I | in~keeping with the full development of his whole frame. With
1031 I | seculorum of the Liturgy is the device taken by~many a sublime
1032 I | market day believed~that the Devil was taking a wash inside
1033 III | the more or less skilfully devised scruples~which women raise
1034 II | bridegroom's epitaph might devolve upon his father-in-law.~ ~
1035 V | should claim the right of devoting my life to him with the
1036 I | handsome profits on their~devotional books; and now they offered
1037 I | against a pearly setting, and dewy and fresh as those~of a
1038 I | the manoeuvre with equal dexterity. The third presenting to~
1039 V | sympathize with him~in the diabolical torture of that reading.
1040 VIII | golden robes and the royal diadem about~her brows, and arms
1041 IV | on~Sugar and Brandy for a Dictionary of Agriculture by wholesale
1042 V | better~myself."~ ~After this dictum, which passed muster as
1043 III | Massillon, a Beaumarchais, or a~Diderot, people must make up their
1044 V | out a ribbon of paper, and Didot-Saint-Leger had since tried to~perfect
1045 V | women who have lived and~died--Richardson's Clarissa, Chenier'
1046 III | delights of this love of theirs differed from the transports of stormy~
1047 III | herself to her dreary lot. Diffident as she seemed, she was in
1048 V | printing-press; but the long digression,~doubtless, had best be
1049 I | puzzled you to find a more dilapidated house in Angouleme;~nothing
1050 V | use was determined by~the dimensions of the impression-stone.
1051 III | wainscoted~drawing-room, beyond a dimly-lit salon. The carved woodwork,
1052 I | about the~thick lips, in the dimple of the chin, in the turn
1053 III | expedient to ask Lucien to dine with M. de Bargeton as a~
1054 I | Windows and doors alike were dingy~with accumulated grime.
1055 I | The first room~did duty as dining-room and lobby; it was exactly
1056 VIII | been said about ordering a dinner-service from Limoges, and the~two
1057 III | conceive.~ ~Those who by dint of mental effort can understand
1058 I | of the prefectorial and diocesan work passed~gradually into
1059 I | printers and publishers to the diocese, and~proprietors of the
1060 I | of the~prefecture and the diocese--three connections which
1061 VII | of whist that night, and diplomatically asked Nais~for a little
1062 I | the~lower ground of those diplomatists who hold that success justifies
1063 I | with plain whitewash, the dirty brick floor~had never been
1064 I | put~him still further at a disadvantage in a dispute about money
1065 II | so necessary in a man are~disadvantages in a woman destined for
1066 VI | Offspring of this~sort don't disappoint their parents; you dung
1067 V | uncertain voice that, to prevent disappointment, he~was about to read the
1068 VII | that brought~Zephirine's disapproving glance down on him.~ ~"Do
1069 I | presentiments were too well founded; disaster was hovering over~the house
1070 I | compartments of the cases.~ ~In the disastrous year 1793, Sechard, being
1071 VI | as a good father without~disbursing a penny; and all that David
1072 IV | to youth, you could still discern traces of the Imperial~Highness'
1073 I | melancholy of a spirit that~discerns the horizon on either side,
1074 VII | putting it out.~ ~Lili, disconsolate over the fall of the fairest
1075 V | despair, "or~you would not discourage us in this way."~ ~"Eve!
1076 V | Lucien felt profoundly discouraged; he was damp with chilly~
1077 II | terrible age when a woman first~discovers with dismay that the best
1078 IV | spite of some impossible discrepancies in dates,~that Francoise
1079 III | affairs of the great, and when discretion is the~quality required,
1080 V | they had~come together to discuss questions of practical interest.
1081 VI | Mme. de Bargeton~was not discussed; and though the utmost extent
1082 III | passages of~declamation that disfigure Corinne; but Louise grew
1083 IV | heroic exploits in sepia; he~disfigured the walls of his friends'
1084 VI | our forefathers. What a disgrace for our age if none of its
1085 I | interminable, expensive, and disgraceful~lawsuit could he obtain
1086 I | been~taken for a girl in disguise, and this so much the more
1087 V | ideas.~ ~So far from being disheartened, the fury of repulsed ambition
1088 VI | you are mine," said the disheveled poet.~
1089 VII | see~that it is something dishonoring for both you and me if M.
1090 V | remember the poor creatures disinherited by fate,~whose intellects
1091 II | to have her own way, and~disinterested enough to take her without
1092 II | her~strength on curious dislikes. Her mind ran on the Pasha
1093 III | mellowed by time. It looked dismal~enough from the street,
1094 IV | to say, and~his soul was dismayed by the pause spent by the
1095 IV | rather than~forsake or disown me, that little thing, so
1096 II | inexorable. Ready to scoff and disparage, jealous and niggardly,~
1097 VI | throwing doubts on my love to dispense yourself from~responding
1098 IV | expression.~Satisfied, he smiled; dissatisfied, he smiled again. He smiled
1099 V | obliged to~lower her eyes and dissemble her pleasure as stanza followed
1100 I | their lot in life and the~dissimilarity of their characters. Both
1101 II | shattered by the amorous~dissipations of his youth, was generally
1102 VII | Angoumoisin hierarchy, went, dissolved in tears, to carry the news
1103 II | she lived upon~herself and distant hopes. Then, when she began
1104 II | the market~himself, and distilling his own brandy, laughing
1105 IV | house friend, was rather distinguished-looking. He had~given up his consulship
1106 VIII | Decide for us."~ ~Eve, distracted, sprang to her lover's arms,
1107 I | Stanhope press and the ink-~distributing roller were not as yet in
1108 I | inquisitiveness roused his son's distrust; David remained close~buttoned
1109 I | fallen, day by day, into disuse.~ ~Jerome-Nicolas Sechard,
1110 II | itself to the brain, and the dithyrambs~on her lips were spoken
1111 V | s~ballads, a chivalrous ditty made in the time of the
1112 II | and Royalists, alike must divide the blame among them.~Mme.
1113 III | him most of all. He had divined the way to win Eve. The
1114 V | removed he was from these divinities of~Angouleme when he heard
1115 I | the bishop too. You are a do-nothing that has no~mind to get
1116 IV | life? Anais' husband was as docile as~a child who asks nothing
1117 IV | civil service. Nobody had docketed and~pigeon-holed YOU, in
1118 IV | factotum; she coddled him and doctored him; she~crammed him with
1119 Dedication| like marquises, financiers,~doctors, and lawyers, would have
1120 III | genius, according to~her doctrine, had neither brothers nor
1121 III | See what comes of Liberal~doctrines!" cried others.~ ~Then it
1122 IV | had come to feel an almost dog-like~affection for his wife.
1123 IV | But if they dressed like dolls in tightly-fitting gowns
1124 VII | Dear Nais, do not let that dolt trifle with~your life, your
1125 III | insolent that this pack of dolts in Angouleme. You were~expected
1126 V | Francis appeared in the doorway with Mme.~de Rastignac,
1127 III | saw that all her youth lay dormant and ready to~revive, saw
1128 VI | tumbledown attic with the dormer-window,~where "young Chardon" had
1129 VI | M. de Bargeton is an old dotard. The indigestion will carry
1130 V | time gave the name to the~"double-eagle" size. And in the same way
1131 V | at him.~ ~When, like the dove in the deluge, he looked
1132 IV | was to~see the provincial dowdiness of the pair. In their threadbare
1133 VI | the fine eyes, hitherto down-dropped.~ ~"If you show yourself
1134 V | for this reason.~Since the downfall of the Empire, calico has
1135 I | inventory and~let us go downstairs. You will soon see whether
1136 IV | right ear, the other~pointed downwards to the red ribbon of his
1137 II | enough to take her without a dowry. But where to look~for a
1138 IV | might catch his eye, and drag his quotation by~the heels
1139 I | to good account. He had dragged the~chain these fifty years,
1140 II | else with a picturesque or~dramatic career. Her tears were ready
1141 II | individualize, synthesize, dramatize, superiorize, analyze,~poetize,
1142 VIII | with the~blue-and-white draperies and neat furniture that
1143 II | short, she thirsted for any draught but the clear spring~water
1144 I | self-sustained,~drinking deep draughts from the cup of knowledge
1145 II | Isolation is one of the greatest drawbacks of a country life. We lose~
1146 IV | at the foot. A chest of drawers with a wooden top, a looking-~
1147 VII | The men stopped in the drawing-~room, and declared, with
1148 III | thought possible after the dreadful calamity that had befallen
1149 IV | in~France; esprit soon dries up the source of the sacred
1150 IV | view. Mme. de Bargeton had drilled him~into military subordination;
1151 V | the plant that revives or droops under~favorable or unfavorable
1152 VI | society; and it was painful to drop so suddenly~down to hard
1153 I | dread; he saw Sechard & Son~dropping into the second place. In
1154 VI | teacup raged on high, a few drops fell among the~bourgeoisie;
1155 VIII | the shabby cabriolet and drove away with a feeling of dread~
1156 V | for one we love; it is not drudgery. It makes me happy to think~
1157 III | as yet, was sold only by druggists as a remedy for indigestion.~
1158 IV | or the mountebank's~big drum; "beauty," "glory," "poetry,"
1159 I | Septembrist, a~Bonapartist, and a drunkard to boot? The old man was
1160 I | Jerome-Nicolas, rolling a drunken eye from~the paper to his
1161 I | confirms the~habit of body, and drunkenness, like much study, makes
1162 VI | on~all sides, solidity is drying out. So this problem is
1163 II | Bargeton V. (who may be~dubbed Bargeton the Mute by way
1164 II | time he would~have been a duke and a peer of France, like
1165 VI | mind to play the part of Dulcinea in~Lucien's life for seven
1166 III | nobles admitted men like Dulcos and Grimm and~Crebillon
1167 I | printed the copies and duly posted them, and the pair
1168 II | destroyed the elements of a durable~social system in France.
1169 III | yard and the~poor little dwelling at the side, which you reached
1170 V | Veiling the glory of God that dwells on a dazzling brow,~Leaving
1171 II | stagnant water, and passion dwindles, frittered away upon the~
1172 IV | limits of elegance. He had dyed the hair and whiskers grizzled
1173 IV | grave by turns, laughing eagerly at every~joke, listening
1174 VI | to his marriage with the eagerness of a man who~would fain
1175 II | M. de Maistre~(those two eagles of thought)--all the lighter
1176 VI | in China, where a workman earns three halfpence a~day, and
1177 IV | empty plate and the brown earthen soup-tureen, and brought
1178 V | it somehow."~ ~"Nothing easier," said the Baron.~ ~The
1179 IV | turban, enriched with an~Eastern clasp. The cameos on her
1180 III | ensconced himself in an easy-chair, and Lucien then became
1181 I | foreman's~wages. The once easy-going journeyman was a terror
1182 VI | kind of victual does she eat?"~ ~"She is the daughter
1183 VI | of all kinds; Government eats up everything,~nearly all
1184 II | Bargeton loved art and letters, eccentric taste on her part, a~craze
1185 III | her audience agape at her~eccentricity. And in these ways she conjured
1186 IV | powers.~ ~Close upon the two ecclesiastics followed Mme. de Chandour
1187 VI | eyes, and giving ear to the echoes~of his name in the future,
1188 VI | prowess in the field; he must eclipse "the sublime~child," and
1189 IV | satisfied." And Lucien, eclipsed at this moment by~the elegance
1190 VI | little household on the most economical footing, and to buy only~
1191 III | she said, shaking off the ecstatic torpor.~ ~In the course
1192 V | bushes and the reeds~by the edge of the Charente, let me
1193 VIII | rose-colored~piping at the edges. So pretty! It makes one
1194 II | fragments of a magnificent edifice that had crumbled into ruin~
1195 II | provinces round about for its~educational advantages, and neighboring
1196 III | pluming himself on having effected the~introduction, and proceeding
1197 I | the~Chinese fashion, and effecting an enormous saving in the
1198 II | might have modified the~effects of a man's education upon
1199 I | from his feminine, almost effeminate, figure,~graceful though
1200 V | talk ceased after~repeated efforts on the part of M. de Bargeton,
1201 VII | himself out of court, he egged Stanislas~on to talk, he
1202 I | salt enough to cook your eggs with--sabots that your father~
1203 II | The story of the first eighteen years of Mme. de Bargeton'
1204 III | Marsac was worth more than eighty thousand~francs, to say
1205 VII | Nais feet. M. de Chandour, elated by the important part he~
1206 III | had a habit of resting his elbows on the table when he was
1207 II | Louis.~The head of the elder branch, however, had borne
1208 VIII | rose before him; Paris, the Eldorado of~provincial imaginings,
1209 VIII | would be a step towards his~election here. If he were a deputy,
1210 I | and two or three of the Elegies, till, when he came upon
1211 II | of 1830 and destroyed the elements of a durable~social system
1212 VI | puncheons have gone up to eleven~francs already. We work
1213 IV | in~the wake of his wife, Elisa, a lady with a countenance
1214 I | such beautiful work for~the Elzevirs, Plantin, Aldus, and Didot
1215 VI | Monsieur What-do-you-call-'em, say that I am letting down
1216 V | give embarrassed~answers to embarrassing questions. He knew neither
1217 I | David's~keen competitors, emboldened by his inaction, started
1218 III | obscurity from which he had emerged. Pending the decease of
1219 IV | which he kept for desperate emergencies,~laid up in his mind, as
1220 I | Marseillais who had no mind to emigrate and lose his lands, nor
1221 V | proves that our language is eminently adapted for music," said~
1222 II | trifle, and publishing her emotions indiscriminately to her
1223 III | commonplaces vociferated~with emphasis; the Quotidienne was comparatively
1224 I | asked they,~could any one employ a man whose father had been
1225 I | he had another plan for employing~an American vegetable fibre
1226 V | mother must give up her employment as well. If you would~consent
1227 VI | midnight after the rooms were emptied. Within as without her house,~
1228 VIII | of David's. This little emulation in love and generosity could~
1229 VI | this cheapness of labor enables the Chinese to manipulate~
1230 III | pair of bright gray eyes~encircled by a margin of mother-of-pearl,
1231 III | was timid, and looked for encouragement; for David stood more~in
1232 I | or printed matter usually~encumbered the floor, and more frequently
1233 IV | delicate~interest which so endeared him to the species that
1234 V | position of an angel who should endeavor to sing of heaven amid~the
1235 | ending
1236 VIII | for he had~glimmerings of endless difficulties, all summed
1237 VIII | you to let him have a~bill endorsed by your brother-in-law,
1238 IV | young people, the pair were endowing the rest of the world with~
1239 VI | kindness and the fury of his~enemies combined to establish him
1240 V | God preserve you~from the enervating life without battles, in
1241 II | his hands in the seclusion enforced by~political storms, he
1242 V | being far from anxious to engage in a duel with a young poet
1243 VI | her consent to my sister's~engagement to David Sechard."~ ~For
1244 VI | devotion. Lucien~was so engaging, he had such winning ways,
1245 VI | a scarcity of linen. In England, where four-~fifths of the
1246 I | a to-do~over that damned Englishman's invention--a foreigner,
1247 I | a pound! masterpieces of engraving, bought~only five years
1248 V | now except for atlases or~engravings), and the size of paper
1249 III | a certain elevation, and enhanced their~value. Each noble
1250 IV | the agony of modesty, was enjoying~the pause; but when David
1251 V | will develop his love of enjoyment,~his inclination for idleness,
1252 V | deed~to use any means of enlightening Nais, and Nais was on the
1253 VI | champions should not seek to enlist partisans. "What do you~
1254 II | Bordeaux named~Mirault, ennobled under Louis XIII. for long
1255 IV | understand~that intellect ennobles. If I have not sufficient
1256 I | fashion, and effecting an enormous saving in the cost of raw~
1257 VI | the law of Vae~victis! pay enormously more before they have done.
1258 III | her side, M. du Chatelet~ensconced himself in an easy-chair,
1259 II | of Rochefoucauld, being entailed, and the house in~Angouleme,
1260 VIII | ceremonial in which the law entangles our affections? Shall I
1261 VIII | have waited too long before~entering upon it. The one day will
1262 II | life. The~Abbe Niollant, an enthusiast and a poet, possessed the
1263 V | continually range~through the entire scale of human intellects,
1264 VI | years, and a volume of verse entitled~Marguerites, should spread
1265 V | epigram into which he~had been entrapped, and the Bishop wished to
1266 VIII | sofa. Lucien went to her, entreating her~pardon, calling execrations
1267 V | the~fore. At the Bishop's entreaty, Nais had no choice but
1268 VI | gradually given him les petites~entrees, in the language of the
1269 III | she opened the campaign by~entrenching herself behind the more
1270 VI | bourgeoisie; young men looked enviously after Lucien as he passed
1271 III | however, and went to Cassel as envoy-~extraordinary, no empty
1272 V | to spread themselves. I envy you; for if you suffer,
1273 VI | shall always be a mark for envy--did you not see that~last
1274 IV | comes to that. So far from envying you, I will dedicate my
1275 I | aloud the fragment of an epic called~L'Aveugle and two
1276 I | works consist in magnificent epics~conceived and lost between
1277 IV | without the music, and my long Epistle to a Sister~of Bonaparte (
1278 II | writing the bridegroom's epitaph might devolve upon his father-in-law.~ ~
1279 III | variety of her most pompous~epithets. It was an infringement
1280 III | chimerical notions of '89 as to~equality; she roused a thirst for
1281 VI | coming when legislation will equalize our fortunes,~and we shall
1282 VIII | only at our ease among our~equals; we are uncomfortable in
1283 I | what order of~architecture, erected by fairy hands. Fancy had
1284 II | have died of grief like the ermine if by chance~she had been
1285 VI | have you~never noticed its erratic judgments and the unaccountable
1286 VI | against one Proust for an error in~weights of two millions
1287 III | womanhood. Her red-gold hair, escaping from under her cap, hung
1288 VIII | influential relations. The d'Espards are~connections of ours;
1289 VI | extreme measures. A system of~espionage of the most minute and intricate
1290 II | tradespeople in Angouleme espouse the quarrel. "He is a man~
1291 III | that he had~thoughts of espousing the daughter of his predecessor,
1292 IV | generally speaking, in~France; esprit soon dries up the source
1293 V | asked, smiling.~ ~Lucien had essayed to deify his beloved in
1294 II | 1815 and 1821, the great essayists, M. de Bonald and M. de
1295 V | most devout attention is essential; there should be an intimate~
1296 I | Passion of every~sort is essentially Jesuitical. Here was a man
1297 V | about 1799, Denis Robert d'Essonne had invented a machine for
1298 IV | more or less, "L'Etat, c'est moi!" with Louis Quatorze?
1299 I | small provincial~printing establishments. Even at Angouleme, so closely
1300 II | Negrepelisse~would leave him the estates which he was rounding out
1301 Addendum | and David~ ~Stanhope, Lady Esther~The Lily of the Valley~
1302 II | temperament compatible with~many estimable qualities, but prone to
1303 IV | us say~more or less, "L'Etat, c'est moi!" with Louis
1304 IV | leave of them with~that eternal smile. When conversation
1305 I | Sechard, bound by the laws of etymology to be a dry~subject, suffered
1306 Addendum | Rastignac, Baron and Baronne de (Eugene's parents)~Father Goriot~ ~
1307 IV | sure beforehand of his eulogistic~smile. Madame de Bargeton'
1308 III | courier in the thick~of a European crisis. Just as he had been
1309 IV | the~copper-red color of Europeans from India; but in spite
1310 V | give us poetry often in the evenings," said~Francis. "If I am
1311 VIII | has~been changed by this event, who has a thousand things
1312 VIII | intellectual world, which produces ever-~new glories and stimulates
1313 V | Heaven and a beacon for evermore.~ ~"Do you read the riddle?"
1314 | Everyone
1315 VIII | problem of putting himself in evidence. In these ways~there will
1316 V | talk about to-morrow. The ex-consul,~being far from anxious
1317 III | first from the all-absorbing exactions of a~giant brain, but at
1318 I | separately with miserly exactitude. The total amounted to~thirty
1319 III | she was. Her feminine~ ~exaltation had carried him away, the
1320 VI | turns it to worthy uses; it exalts and reverences love. Mme.
1321 V | Zephirine despatched~Francis to examine the volume, and informed
1322 II | to the~highest pitch of exasperation.~ ~Nearly every house in
1323 II | Although their income did not exceed~twelve thousand francs,
1324 III | actor, he danced well, and~excelled in most physical exercises;
1325 II | merchants and officials excepted; for M. and~Mme. de Bargeton
1326 V | practical interest. With the~exceptions of Laure de Rastignac, the
1327 I | whole, and~went thither, exchanging the toil of the printing
1328 VI | as she saw her~brother's excited face.~ ~The poet told the
1329 VIII | after to-morrow!"~ ~ ~ ~That exclamation was the last expiring cry
1330 III | completely the lower orders were~excluded from this upper world; he
1331 VI | population use cotton to the exclusion of linen, they~make nothing
1332 II | the Government, grew more~exclusive here than in any other part
1333 III | bourgeoisie, their~very exclusiveness, gave them a certain elevation,
1334 VI | somewhat, but the whole excursion had not cost three francs.
1335 VI | after these vain alarums and excursions.~Such mishaps are sometimes
1336 VIII | David, "and you will have an excuse for not going to see Mme.
1337 V | pleaded a defective memory and~excused himself. When he reappeared,
1338 VIII | entreating her~pardon, calling execrations upon his family, his sister,
1339 VIII | of any~great work of art executed in the provinces! On the
1340 I | of other men, that fatal exemplar for~impressionable minds.
1341 IV | for even modesty is not exempt from coquetry. David was
1342 V | longest way, that the physical exercise of walking may~promote the
1343 III | account in times when women exercised more influence in public~
1344 III | excelled in most physical exercises; he could, moreover, sing
1345 VIII | cried David, delighted to exhibit the transformation~of the
1346 I | impossible for even one woman to exist on the three hundred francs~
1347 VII | cleared up the matter and exonerated you, but it~would have proved
1348 I | at the present day was an exorbitant demand.~ ~"Father, you are
1349 III | about.~ ~Political opinion expanded itself in wordy commonplaces
1350 II | to look for, nothing~to expect from chance, for there are
1351 III | that Louise had~judged it expedient to ask Lucien to dine with
1352 III | every person in it vowed to expel with the antidote of insolence.~ ~
1353 VI | grow tired of one another, expend their longings in empty
1354 III | overawed by her~rank, Lucien experienced the extremes of dread, hope,
1355 I | unclipped as yet by~the experiences of provincial life.~ ~"Heart
1356 I | midst of his incompleted experiments, and the great discovery~
1357 VIII | exclamation was the last expiring cry of noble and single-hearted~
1358 V | Vicar-General had~just been explaining the profound irony of the
1359 IV | after a delay, like the explosion of a shell which has~entered
1360 V | said the Baron with a bored expression--he was acting~his part of
1361 III | ingenuous feeling ends.~ ~Externals in the Rue du Minage gave
1362 I | seemed to be on~the verge of extinction; for the solitary "bear"
1363 III | on the~table, and put the extinguisher on the portable stove, where
1364 V | poets in~their train to extol them as angels, rose, looked
1365 IV | discussing its difficulties or~extolling the composer.~ ~M. Alexandre
1366 I | the purchase-money of his extortionate bargain~was to be tumbled
1367 IV | discussion; a "Yes" or~"No," extracted from his interlocutor, the
1368 V | poetry out of a book. The extracts are very nice,~but the ladies
1369 II | harmless lunatic, but in these~extravagances of hers a keener observer
1370 VI | settled~determination to be extravagant in his behavior; he would
1371 III | Lucien experienced the extremes of dread, hope, and despair,
1372 VI | in public, and~pushed to extremities by a tyranny which afforded
1373 IV | until driven to the last extremity. A tete-a-tete~put him in
1374 VI | time to~come, and built the fabric of his good fortune on M.
1375 VII | together a little story full of~facetious suggestions, and accompanied
1376 VI | real nature, in fact. His facile~character returned almost
1377 III | good to evil, with the same~facility.~ ~Lucien had none of the
1378 II | water. The largest State~factory of marine ordnance in France
1379 IV | a~valetudinarian of her factotum; she coddled him and doctored
1380 V | most~stimulating to his faculties can see in every direction,
1381 V | listening in admiration or fails~to follow him, and feels
1382 VIII | mistaken in you."~ ~She sank fainting upon the sofa. Lucien went
1383 IV | Chandour, short, plump, fair-complexioned, and dark-haired,~was a
1384 III | with light, on the dazzling~fairness of her skin, and hovered
1385 I | architecture, erected by fairy hands. Fancy had scattered
1386 VII | will watch over you~like a faithful servant, for no reward,
1387 III | political opinions was a sort of faithfulness. The~distance that they
1388 VI | young imagination readily falls in with the flattering estimates
1389 III | a bewildering~mixture of familiarity and capricious fits of pride
1390 IV | few habitues slipped in familiarly among the rest, so did one
1391 III | balked of his ambassade de famille as he called it, he went
1392 III | grotesque figures was like a famished~actor set down to a stage
1393 V | gloomy poem, would it not, a fanciful subject?~What a sublime
1394 II | words to express the new-~fangled whimsies in which even women
1395 VI | But in the~middle of the fantastic reasonings, with which Louise
1396 IV | crammed him with delicate fare, as if he had been a fine
1397 IV | Camille liked a quiet country farmhouse existence of all~things.
1398 II | neighborhood of Barbezieux,~farming the land to admiration,
1399 I | David of his own father's~farsighted views of the application
1400 II | would not have given her two farthings over and above the allowance~
1401 I | machinery which possessed such a fascination for him, reminding him,~
1402 VI | picnic parties in provincial fashion--a walk in the woods~along
1403 III | commonsense; she pointed out fashionable society as the~goal and
1404 III | the house with the old-~fashioned gables, and wondered whether
1405 I | every one know~that they fasted of a Friday and kept Lent;
1406 VI | of going to see her aged father--so much irritated~was she
1407 I | to~the very instinct of fatherhood. Those eyes never lost their
1408 I | knew exactly how much this fatherly generosity was worth; the
1409 V | verse;~and with a tolerably fatuous glance at Mme. de Bargeton,
1410 II | with~buildings.~ ~So the Faubourg of L'Houmeau grew into a
1411 II | execution of the brothers Fauchet, over M. d'Arlincourt's
1412 IV | best to develop the same fault by inciting him to forget
1413 V | When those immortals, Faust, Coster, and Gutenberg,
1414 V | revives or droops under~favorable or unfavorable conditions.
1415 III | proper place awaiting the~favors of power. His social talents
1416 I | adorned with a wainscot, fearful to behold, painted the~color
1417 II | Niollant's pupil~learned to be fearless in criticism and ready in
1418 I | whether or not this thing was feasible.~ ~Old Sechard grew uneasy
1419 V | for us,~or Belshazzar's Feast, so that his lordship may
1420 IV | her head, with its load of feathers in winter and flowers in~
1421 II | who outdid the mythical feats of paladins of old. The
1422 I | sum three persons must be fed, clothed, and lodged.~Yet,
1423 VI | to the full the forbidden~felicity for which she is suffering.
1424 I | effort for the benefit of~fellow-members of the local agricultural
1425 I | friends were lovers and fellow-worshipers.~ ~The vine-stems were changing
1426 III | will fully comprehend the ferment in Lucien's heart and brain,
1427 IV | countenance like a withered~fern, called Lili by her friends--
1428 VIII | packed Lucien's clothes; the Fernando Cortez of~literature carried
1429 III | the political baseness and ferocious~hatred of the great ones
1430 III | Her arguments fell upon fertile soil in the worst of Lucien'
1431 III | fashion, quietly, with no fervid protestations. In their~
1432 III | The poet, poor fellow, was~feted so magnificently, and so
1433 II | the sick and die of~yellow fever in a hospital at Barcelona; '
1434 VI | this game~seldom end in a fiasco of this kind.~ ~Provincial
1435 III | bass voice that rendered Se fiato in corpo like a war whoop--~
1436 III | often gives the lie to the fiction which we should~like to
1437 III | because this one scraped a fiddle, and~that splashed sheets
1438 I | opposition coach to keep bona fide rivals out of the field.~ ~ ~ ~
1439 V | near Mme. de Bargeton.~A fierce thrill of excitement ran
1440 V | uses of typography. In the fifteenth~century, that naive and
1441 VI | In England, where four-~fifths of the population use cotton
1442 II | years old and her husband~fifty-eight. The disparity in age was
1443 IV | unfortunate.~ ~M. de Severac was fifty-nine years old, and a childless
1444 I | that Nature gives to the fighter, the~man born to struggle
1445 VIII | life together, and would fill the coming days with innumerable~
1446 III | a very pretty~talent for filling in the ground of the Princess'
1447 Dedication| that they, like marquises, financiers,~doctors, and lawyers, would
1448 IV | Zephirine) was a tall, fine-looking woman, though~her complexion
1449 IV | became so used to wearing finery that she transformed~him
1450 V | Ossianic mists, Malvinas and Fingals and cloudy shapes, and~warriors
1451 I | already in imagination he fingered~the coin. The less the claim
1452 IV | mystery. M. du Hautoy was a finical dandy~whose minute care
1453 I | crowns; they are only fit for firewood."~ ~"Sabots?" cried old
1454 III | dazzled Lucien~like a blaze of fireworks, and the necessity of the
1455 VI | combined to establish him more firmly in an ureal world. A~young
1456 III | appears to control, a man's~fitness for this business varying
1457 III | familiarity and capricious fits of pride arising from her~
1458 IV | young man, slim still at five-and-forty, with a countenance~like
1459 VI | frugality that looked on a five-franc piece as a fortune, but~
1460 III | did them honor. The very~fixity of their political opinions
1461 III | she spoke~of stakes and flaming pyres; she spread the adjectives
1462 IV | please me. I know~from your flatteries how easily friendship can
1463 VI | readily falls in with the flattering estimates of~others, a handsome
1464 III | loves the first woman who flatters~him, for Nais prophesied
1465 VI | that is, paper made from flax--will be quite~unobtainable
1466 III | complete,~toilette or talk, flesh or spirit. But for his designs
1467 I | crop of black hair, his fleshy, high-colored, swarthy face,
1468 I | the door of the workshop, flew to the nearest press (artfully
1469 II | her solitary life, but not flexibility~of mind or body. She stood
1470 I | should allow the business to flicker~on; it was to their interest
1471 IV | Lucien."~ ~David longed to fling himself at the feet of this
1472 IV | the women with happy eyes, flinging his head back in three-quarters~
1473 VIII | to regard the affair as a flirtation, a mere passing fancy on
1474 V | announcement was no oratorical flourish, but a statement of~fact,
1475 V | said Stanislas. "She is flourishing away, using big~words that
1476 VI | heartstrings vibrated."~ ~The tears flowed fast, and for all answer
1477 V | crown, the shield, or the flower-pot, just~as at a later day,
1478 II | spring~water of her own life, flowing hidden among green pastures.
1479 I | against~the window pane and flown away again.~ ~"Where is
1480 I | his friend's embarrassed flush, and left him in conversation~
1481 IV | the poor~sister pouted, flushing red.~ ~"We shall all be
1482 I | he had done his best to fluster his son's wits~over a sumptuous
1483 I | in every direction, with fluted columns and knots and bas-~
1484 III | poet, who was not a little fluttered by the~serpentine quiverings;
1485 V | with a young poet who would~fly into a rage at the first
1486 II | ambition had~thrown the flying-bridge of glory across the gulf
1487 VII | you have thought the old fogy capable of acting like this?"~
1488 V | leaving~school. This ode, so fondly cherished, so beautiful--
1489 I | you in mind of one of La~Fontaine's Franciscan friars, with
1490 V | the word back~with them as food for laughter. Lucien pleaded
1491 VII | young Rubempre had behaved foolishly,~a woman's character ought
1492 V | moonlight, and went down the footpath towards them.~ ~ ~ ~While
1493 VI | and I have come to ask for----"~ ~"Ask me for what?
1494 I | corrected the decrees which forbade citizens to harbor~aristocrats
1495 IV | our lives, when~all the forces in us are sweetly strung,
1496 I | that~education was useless, forcing himself to believe in the
1497 V | contrived to bring him to the~fore. At the Bishop's entreaty,
1498 VI | great houses built by~our forefathers. What a disgrace for our
1499 I | Englishman's invention--a foreigner, an enemy of~France who
1500 IV | began to arrive. First and foremost appeared~the Bishop and
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