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1501 III | gave him! Her intuition foresaw countless foolish fears.~
1502 V | one paid court to them, foreseeing that they~might some day
1503 IV | which any one might have foreseen,~though it was bound to
1504 I | daily sous. As Mme. Prieur's forewoman she had a certain~position
1505 VIII | so unfeigned,~that Louise forgave him, though at the same
1506 VI | manner of some women who will forge ingenious pretexts for burying~
1507 I | and Didot is so completely forgotten,~that something must be
1508 III | three silver spoons and forks, and Eve had laid~them all
1509 V | were given to the various~formats as well as to the different
1510 I | damped down. Here, too, the~forms, or, in ordinary language,
1511 IV | void beneath the consoling~formulas with which the world ministers
1512 IV | love it may be, rather than~forsake or disown me, that little
1513 VI | brother infinite credit for~forsaking Mme. de Bargeton and grand
1514 VI | learning! Send a boy to school, forsooth! Oh! well, then she is very~
1515 III | she persuaded Lucien to forswear the chimerical notions of '
1516 III | mortification of a rebuff. The forthcoming soiree gave him his~opportunity.
1517 IV | she~would say, and he went forthwith, like a soldier at the word
1518 VIII | leave to come back in a fortnight, if~only you go with her
1519 II | great gateways and ruined fortress on the summit of the~crag
1520 III | The elderly beau--he was~forty-five years old--saw that all
1521 II | independent~spirit had been fostered in the first place by a
1522 IV | their unselfishness was fostering in Lucien; and Mme. de Bargeton
1523 I | with the Cointets would be fought out by his son and not by~
1524 I | when they came~from the foundry. Look here!"~ ~Old Sechard
1525 I | of type from~M. Vaflard's foundry----' " Didot's apprentice
1526 VIII | in Paris. Paris was the fountain-head of poetry; there the~poet
1527 VI | linen. In England, where four-~fifths of the population
1528 I | furniture~it boasted a vast four-post bedstead with canopy, valances
1529 VI | among the printers' readers; Fourier and~Pierre Leroux are Lachevardiere'
1530 I | he was led by the furie francaise.~ ~David, with his well-balanced
1531 V | Ariosto's Angelica, Dante's Francesca, Moliere's Alceste,~Beaumarchais'
1532 I | of one of La~Fontaine's Franciscan friars, with the fringe
1533 IV | discrepancies in dates,~that Francoise de la Haye bore a striking
1534 VI | for him," cried Lucien, frantic with passion.~ ~"If you
1535 VI | possessor of a heart, to speak freely at all times, with the certainty~
1536 III | and kissed it with the frenzy of a lover and a~poet in
1537 IV | In this society that you frequent, everything~tells for you,
1538 V | paraphernalia of~paradise freshened up with a few new words
1539 I | La~Fontaine's Franciscan friars, with the fringe of grizzled
1540 I | handbills and begrimed by friction of all the workmen who~had
1541 I | know~that they fasted of a Friday and kept Lent; they haunted
1542 IV | who lived on terms of~the friendliest and most perfect intimacy
1543 IV | fern, called Lili by her friends--a baby name singularly at
1544 VI | transparent, the solace of close friendships~which break no moral law
1545 III | monochrome paintings on the frieze panels, and the walls were
1546 III | poor poet, and tried to~frighten and crush him by his self-importance.
1547 VI | position one by one. They~frightened her, and her terror reacted
1548 V | pulp has increased to a frightful extent of late years."~ ~
1549 VII | because she is making herself~frightfully ridiculous; she is old enough
1550 III | renowned tailor. She made a frill for his best shirt, and
1551 I | Franciscan friars, with the fringe of grizzled hair still~curling
1552 V | Nowadays this poetical frippery has been replaced by Jehovah,
1553 II | water, and passion dwindles, frittered away upon the~infinitely
1554 IV | all pleasures gladly, even~frivolous pleasures. I wish you luck,
1555 VIII | stagnating in Angouleme like a frog under a stone in a~marsh.
1556 V | evening air, and hear the frogs croak, and watch the~moonlight
1557 I | tapestry that decorated~house fronts in provincial towns on Corpus
1558 VI | from their pedestal if the frost~chips off a nose or a finger.
1559 VI | and not a shoot has been frosted.~There will be twenty puncheons
1560 I | lodged.~Yet, with all their frugal thrift, the pittance was
1561 VI | and weary of the~sordid frugality that looked on a five-franc
1562 III | could gather its~golden fruit.~ ~High-born Angouleme shrieked
1563 III | springing~up out of a rich and fruitful soil on foundations of rock.
1564 I | analysis upon the joys of~fruition, known as yet in idea alone,
1565 I | large fortune; and, after fruitless shakings of~all the trees
1566 I | he died, and lost all the fruits of his labors.~ ~It may
1567 VI | impulse of passion, than in fulfilment of a~contract. In general,
1568 IV | to be carried out to the fullest extent. As for the two~women,
1569 IV | gallantly plied the queen with fulsome~compliments, that made her
1570 I | which he was led by the furie francaise.~ ~David, with
1571 VIII | hopes pursuing him as the Furies followed Orestes, for he
1572 VIII | their little savings to furnish~David's home with the things
1573 VIII | thinks.~They knew that he was furnishing with great splendor, for
1574 I | destined for a brilliant future--~David Sechard, my brother,
1575 III | with the old-~fashioned gables, and wondered whether their
1576 III | and the flat foot of the Gael. Lucien could hear the shower~
1577 III | surpassed the~whole Parisian galaxy, though he knew it not.
1578 III | patronizing tone that stirred his~gall and confirmed him in his
1579 IV | of~dress. M. du Chatelet gallantly plied the queen with fulsome~
1580 II | royal cause by behavior that~galled their vanity in every possible
1581 III | all these world-famous gamblers had begun life hampered
1582 I | down in the middle of~the gangway, tripped up the bemused
1583 I | level of the street. The gaping newcomer always failed to
1584 V | Lucien's ear; he saw all the~gaps caused by the spasmodic
1585 III | the brilliant flowers in~garden beds. Interchange of glances,
1586 III | shoulder, mistook him for a gardener. A knowledge of the world,~
1587 I | them without a Cupid and garlands, he would not believe~that
1588 IV | a little plate, daintily garnished~with vine-leaves, and set
1589 I | Lucien slept in the poor garret~above. A father's passion
1590 I | was, Lucien possessed the Gascon temperament to the~highest
1591 III | told him that the great gates of the~Hotel de Bargeton
1592 VII | child; and when the~carriage gateway had shut with a clang behind
1593 II | The~ramparts and great gateways and ruined fortress on the
1594 III | and wait till he could gather its~golden fruit.~ ~High-born
1595 VII | her arms, and fixed her~gaze on the curtains. Chatelet
1596 V | angel, weeping, turns and gazes with sad, sweet eyes~Up
1597 V | she wrought among them, gazing before her with unseeing~
1598 I | said as to the obsolete gear on which Jerome-~Nicolas
1599 I | scattered flowers and~crimson gems over the gloomy little yard,
1600 IV | du Brossard, a~widowed gentlewoman and her daughter.~ ~Mme.
1601 VI | replied~his father. "The gentry, that is M. le Marquis,
1602 V | poetry strive to develop the germs of another poetry,~quickened
1603 V | the circle; "the time of gestation is~long----"~ ~"Then it
1604 IV | Both were impassive, and~gesticulated but little; both appeared
1605 IV | waistcoat pocket with a gesture~that said, "I am satisfied."
1606 V | singularly ill-adapted for getting the gold out of them.~But
1607 VII | house, but Stanislas looked ghastly pale. At the sight~of his
1608 VI | late; this is not an age of giants; men have shrunk,~everything
1609 III | against the introduction of a Giaour into~the sanctuary, for
1610 VIII | booby-squires to invent stinging~gibes and humiliate a man of letters;
1611 IV | red tray with a pattern of gilt roses, and three cups and
1612 III | and M. Postel himself, girded~about with his laboratory
1613 V | poet's poetry; but this glacial audience,~so far from attaining
1614 III | steals~To tell the secret gladness that she feels,~The hidden
1615 IV | the holiday life, in~the glare of the world and among the
1616 I | without accident. A couple of glass-windowed cages had been built out~
1617 IV | The cameos on her neck gleamed through the gauze scarf~
1618 VI | of a man of~talent, had a glimmering of a notion of some way
1619 VIII | Mansle."~ ~Lucien felt the globe shrink under his feet; he
1620 VIII | which produces ever-~new glories and stimulates the intellect--
1621 IV | Vicar-General's~countenance glowed with high health. Both were
1622 VII | well pleased to find a go-between who~perhaps might say his
1623 VI | to her lover, and Amelie goaded them to argument,~for she
1624 IV | had a lady~companion, a goddaughter, and her excessive attachment
1625 I | the poems of Schiller, Goethe, and Byron, the prose writings
1626 V | faculty for the discovery of gold-~mines, I am singularly ill-adapted
1627 V | toil is unrecognized. The~gold-digger working in the mine does
1628 I | more than the new, like goldbeaters'~tools."~ ~Hideous vignettes,
1629 III | hideous winding-sheet of~Gomorrah.~ ~So well did Louise loosen
1630 VI | pleasure with the selfish good-~nature that flings alms
1631 I | Eve must be anxious; good-bye," Lucien added abruptly.~ ~
1632 III | just under the roof.~ ~"Good-day, sonny," said M. Postel,
1633 VI | of the reading; "he is a good-looking fellow,~he has some brains,
1634 VII | his mouth to bid his wife~good-night, when she stopped him.~ ~"
1635 V | changed her dress for a gown of pink cambric covered~
1636 IV | dolls in tightly-fitting gowns of~home manufacture, and
1637 III | by the clan. Like Spanish grandees and the old~Austrian nobility
1638 II | francs per annum. If~his grandsire had but walked in the ways
1639 IV | this gentleman,~not for a granite guard-post, but for a formidable
1640 VIII | into David's arms.~ ~"God grant that this may be for your
1641 VI | Chatelet had taken too much for~granted--love was still in the Platonic
1642 I | passion~for the juice of the grape, a taste so natural to the
1643 III | marriage, and a persona grata at Court.~The words "King," "
1644 V | his acknowledgments~in a grateful look, not knowing that the
1645 IV | every least caprice will be gratified by love.~ ~Francis, the
1646 I | stammered out something about~gratitude for the interest which Mme.
1647 VI | presses! it took some money to grease~you and keep you going.
1648 I | proportions of a double great-canon A; his veined cheeks~looked
1649 II | M. de Bargeton was the great-grandson of an alderman of Bordeaux
1650 II | of his brothers~indeed, great-uncles of the present Bargeton,
1651 I | wore an old-fashioned brown~greatcoat, gray cotton stockings,
1652 I | breeches and waistcoat~were of greenish velveteen, and he wore an
1653 I | living at~Pekin and you in Greenland."~ ~"The will of two lovers
1654 VIII | every kind. Great men~would greet him there as one of their
1655 III | lessen day by day); souls so grievously~oppressed by the social
1656 I | were dingy~with accumulated grime. Reams of blank paper or
1657 III | admitted men like Dulcos and Grimm and~Crebillon to their society--
1658 V | the teeth that seemed to grin defiance at him.~ ~When,
1659 III | blighted hopes and of his~grinding poverty. He described his
1660 I | figure of speech--"the press groans" was no mere~rhetorical
1661 I | than the~Double Liegeois on grocers' paper; and what came of
1662 V | returned to the accustomed groove to find~amusement there
1663 VI | gradually developed in the same groping way as typography and paper-~
1664 IV | strain of eighteenth century grossness, as a~rule, in his talk;
1665 III | de Bargeton amid these grotesque figures was like a famished~
1666 I | monkeys" and "bears" were grotesquely busy among~types and presses.
1667 IV | liver complaint,~on which grounds she was said to be exacting.
1668 III | chardonneret) "of~the sacred grove," said Alexandre de Brebian,
1669 I | sheets of paper strung in groves across the ceiling, ran
1670 VI | the Government. The poor growers have~made nothing these
1671 VI | attractions--at her age. A~woman grows young again in his company;
1672 V | forest, choked by twining~growths and rank, greedy vegetation,
1673 VI | pinching thrift without grumbling. His~moody looks had been
1674 II | do honor to~the Imperial Guard, and mayors and prefects
1675 IV | gentleman,~not for a granite guard-post, but for a formidable sphinx,
1676 VI | that thought be my noble guerdon for the sufferings which
1677 I | never repay.~ ~Any one may guess how the ruling thoughts
1678 VI | hand. I have classified the guesses made by~those who came before
1679 VI | servants show to a favored guest of the house, Lucien~remained
1680 V | so much, according to the~guileful Francis, as any recognition
1681 III | carried by storm. But on the guileless Lucien these coquetries
1682 I | as by~a miracle from the guillotine in 1793. He had gained time
1683 VI | the utmost extent of their guilt~amounted to two or three
1684 IV | held his tongue~and looked guilty. Eve, guessing the agony
1685 VI | wineshop and a Parisian~guinguette, they would spend as much
1686 II | first or,~three attires gules; the second, three ox's
1687 VI | population of Lilliput throttled Gulliver, a~multiplicity of nothings,
1688 V | immortals, Faust, Coster, and Gutenberg, invented the Book,~craftsmen
1689 VI | salon, or a stray rag in the gutter.~ ~Eve herself had wished
1690 V | had expected some kind of gymnastics.~ ~"Don't ask me what I
1691 IV | reading~that night.~ ~A few habitues slipped in familiarly among
1692 III | David; what a genius David had--David~who had helped him
1693 VI | man tugs out some~of the hairs of his head, and inwardly
1694 VI | according to Kempfer and du Halde, the Broussonetia furnishes
1695 I | tint--and for all furniture, half-a-dozen~chairs with lyre-shaped
1696 II | francs, they ranked among the half-dozen largest~fortunes in the
1697 III | called gently through a half-opened~window; but Lucien did not
1698 III | his delight, turned to the half-swooning poet.~ ~"Is not such happiness
1699 VI | where a workman earns three halfpence a~day, and this cheapness
1700 I | selected gout~as his problem. Halfway between the man of science
1701 I | ramshackle penthouse against the hall~at the back, the paper was
1702 I | his vineyard at Marsac, a hamlet some four~leagues out of
1703 III | into the heart with the~hammer strokes of alternate bliss
1704 III | gamblers had begun life hampered with~debt, or as poor men;
1705 III | on either side by way of hand-rail. Lucien's room was an~attic
1706 I | the walls~covered with handbills and begrimed by friction
1707 I | it was more difficult to handle. The setting-up of the type
1708 I | of the~tribe. The press, handled in this sort, creaked aloud
1709 III | thick upon it; he would hang his~fortunes upon it, and
1710 II | rose-color, and her hair~hanging loose upon her shoulders.
1711 VI | Eve's room.~ ~"What can be happening at the Chardons'?" thought
1712 VI | selfish answer made Lucien the happiest of mortals. But in the~middle
1713 IV | married woman~pays for his happiness--deceits through which, moreover,
1714 I | which forbade citizens to harbor~aristocrats under pain of
1715 III | cheek-bone were~faded and hardened to a brick-red by listless
1716 II | had raised other barriers~harder to surmount than the mere
1717 V | brightening. "There is no hardship in work when we~work for
1718 VII | at the mercy of the first hare-~brained boy who flings himself
1719 III | otherwise Mme. de Chandour,~harkening to "M. Chatelet's" counsels,
1720 VI | married! Why,~where is the harm?" she continued, her fingers
1721 I | Sechard~treated the lad harshly so as to prolong the time
1722 VIII | What is it but your duty to hasten to take your place in~the
1723 II | inferiors, or persons who hastened to do her~bidding, till
1724 VI | with the~persistence of a hate in which avarice and passion
1725 V | he was far away~from the hateful world, striving to render
1726 III | and put~on overshoes and hats in the old corridor, that
1727 II | France. As the overweening haughtiness of the Court~nobles detached
1728 V | about him through a cloudy haze. He~read the sombre Elegy
1729 V | fain would hold from the hea'nward flight;~But the angel,
1730 III | slashed~black velvet, a head-dress that recalls memories of
1731 III | ambition, flung himself~headlong back into the depths of
1732 VI | bamboo stalks lying in a heap in the corner; it was extremely
1733 VI | doing? You must be making heaps of~money as big as yourself."~ ~"
1734 III | little astonished when he heardthe~controller of excise pluming
1735 V | solace the mother's fears,~Hearkening unto the voice of the tardy
1736 VI | laughs so long as she is heart-free, and saddens only when she~
1737 VI | would have been radiant with~heartfelt delight at the news. If
1738 I | themselves beside these great hearthfires; they tried their~powers
1739 VI | is so long since~all my heartstrings vibrated."~ ~The tears flowed
1740 VI | complaint to be cured by a hearty supper.~ ~By the beginning
1741 II | here and there indulge. The heat~of her language communicated
1742 VI | mould, and~press it between heated tablets of white porcelain,
1743 II | completed, the stones of a heavenly Jerusalem--love, in~short,
1744 VIII | dealt him a blow.~ ~"Great heavens!" he cried, "my sister is
1745 V | seraph band, as they take the heavenward way;~ ~Too soon the Angel
1746 V | for a long~time, weighs so heavily upon me, that I have spent
1747 VI | enough to compensate for the heaviness of the yoke, she even thought~
1748 IV | you. It would be a perfect~hecatomb in the antique manner. But,
1749 VI | almond-tree~that grew out of the hedge.~ ~"Good day, father," called
1750 V | hand buried in her curls, heedless of~the havoc she wrought
1751 I | The causes of David's heedlessness throw a light on the character
1752 V | nor~your charity. No one heeds our sorrows, our toil is
1753 II | Negrepelisse of~that day married an heiress of the d'Espard family.
1754 V | heaven amid~the chucklings of hell. An intelligent man in the
1755 I | by his father to take the~helm of business, he had not
1756 III | Hotel de Bargeton.~ ~Poor helots of the provinces, for whom
1757 V | mingle Earth and Heaven,~Helpless and powerless against the
1758 V | who gave him the cup of hemlock to drain by little~ ~sips
1759 V | is made of a mixture of hemp and linen rags, but the
1760 | Hence
1761 II | Espard since the reign of Henri Quatre, when the Negrepelisse
1762 III | evening bundles of boiled herbs were spread out along the
1763 II | Waster came in for these hereditaments; though the year~1789 deprived
1764 | Herein
1765 VI | that the poet became the hero of the hour. While~this
1766 II | her, she would~not have hesitated for a moment.~ ~M. de Negrepelisse
1767 VI | girl, and acts a~girl's hesitation and manners, and does not
1768 II | blue-stocking of the desert, Lady Hester Stanhope; she~longed to
1769 IV | wrinkled countenances and heterogeneous costumes, but~none the less
1770 III | was a far finer thing to hew his own way~through serried
1771 I | singularly~misplaced between two hiccoughs, that David begged his parent
1772 II | Roze's best pupil,~found a hiding-place in the old manor-house of
1773 VII | angel in the~Angoumoisin hierarchy, went, dissolved in tears,
1774 II | more contagious for this high-spirited girl, in whom~they were
1775 IV | in gorgeous jewelry, and~highly honored by an invitation
1776 III | open and turn upon their hinges at his~fame! Lucien and
1777 V | into a rage at the first hint of insult under his lady'
1778 I | spectator, or he caught his hip~against the angle of a bench,
1779 I | feminine contour of the hips, a characteristic of keen-witted,
1780 VIII | went with him.~David had hired a cabriolet, pretending
1781 VI | Archer of Charles IX., the historical romance on which he had~
1782 I | left it at this point.~ ~Hither, pede titubante, Jerome-Nicolas
1783 VI | brought a little secret hoard back with him from Paris,
1784 IV | the good gentleman had a~hobby of any sort in which he
1785 IV | life. You shall have the holiday life, in~the glare of the
1786 I | making him work at case on holidays, telling him that he must
1787 III | salon was a kind of holy of~holies in a society that kept itself
1788 I | lady to whom~he paid his homage. Poetry had shaken out her
1789 IV | gorgeous jewelry, and~highly honored by an invitation to this
1790 Addendum | from a Courtesan's Life~Honorine~ ~Gentil~A Distinguished
1791 I | but the more bitter and hopeless after these swift~soaring
1792 V | monseigneur," cried Lucien, hoping to break thick heads with
1793 I | You are haggling over the horse that will carry you to~some
1794 I | his overcoat, much as a~horse-dealer polishes the coat of an
1795 VII | I shall send Gentil~on horseback to the Escarbas; my father
1796 VIII | every carriage that changed horses at that~stage.~ ~"If she
1797 II | old country~gentleman's hospitality was handsomely repaid, for
1798 VIII | wedding clothes, and on a host of things~that David had
1799 II | a Negrepelisse among the hostages of St. Louis.~The head of
1800 IV | de Bargeton's imagined hostility. The Baron seemed to bring
1801 I | drawing David now to a~hot-press, now to a cutting-press,
1802 III | wither incontinently in a hothouse of adulation; perhaps he
1803 VIII | been spent on table-~linen, house-linen, Eve's wedding clothes,
1804 VI | about them shrinks, and house-room into the bargain. Great~
1805 VIII | could return the shot. The house-surgeon at the~hospital has just
1806 VI | strain on the old rifted house-walls. He took~pleasure in making
1807 VI | he was M. de Rubempre, housed sumptuously in comparison
1808 III | one revenge on the whole houseful of booby clodpates."~ ~Chatelet
1809 III | secret. Eve, like the thrifty~housekeeper and divine magician that
1810 VIII | Eve's contributions to the housekeeping~ ~worthy of David's. This
1811 III | left the letter with the housemaid, went to the office, and~
1812 VI | would be a triumph, for~the housing of many books has come to
1813 III | David's eyes Marsac was a hovel bought in 1810 for~fifteen
1814 I | well founded; disaster was hovering over~the house of Sechard.
1815 III | bright points as the~moth hovers about the candle flame.
1816 I | madder red, and often mottled hues; till altogether, the~countenance
1817 I | future contingencies, and hugging its presentiments.~Sechard
1818 III | a shameful ending in the hulks upon the other;~and, on
1819 II | robust contempt for ordinary humanity. All~those about her were
1820 VI | poet, who feels that he is~humbled through his strength, were
1821 V | luxury and a~contempt for our humdrum life. She will develop his
1822 I | endured the most painful of humiliations--the sense of~shame for a
1823 IV | arms about David. David's humility had~made short work of many
1824 VI | of high or low degree," hummed Adrien.~ ~There was not
1825 IV | one tune from~another, was humming to himself; honest Postel
1826 III | later day they were repaid a hundredfold for~self-denial of every
1827 VIII | these ways~there will be hundreds of chances of making your
1828 I | the friends felt neither~hunger nor thirst; life had turned
1829 IV | name of Jacques, a mighty hunter, lean and~sunburned, a haughty
1830 IV | rummaging among his papers, hunting for a stray note or mending
1831 I | seldom his anxieties sent him hurrying from Marsac to~Angouleme;
1832 V | benefit.~ ~Mme. du Bargeton, hurt by the contempt which every
1833 IV | upon a treatise on~modern husbandry; but though he locked himself
1834 IV | upon their persons, their husbands availed themselves of the~
1835 I | think~of a bulb without its husk. If the old printer had
1836 I | vignettes, representing Hymen and Cupids, skeletons raising~
1837 III | sets out with a love of hyperbole,~that infirmity of noble
1838 I | tortuous, and veiled by hypocrisy~in better educated people,
1839 III | this enough?" she asked hypocritically; and~poor Lucien was stupid
1840 VI | Grozier had a~Chinese book, an iconographical and technological work,
1841 V | voice.~ ~"The likeness is ideal," smiled Mme. de Pimentel.~ ~"
1842 V | inventing neat answers to their~idiotic questions, desperately vexed
1843 V | enjoyment,~his inclination for idleness, that debauches a poetic
1844 IV | the nobles still try to ignore, and~--I am so far agreed
1845 III | III~M. de Chatelet--he began
1846 V | gold-~mines, I am singularly ill-adapted for getting the gold out
1847 VII | troubling~themselves about ill-founded tittle-tattle, M. de Bargeton
1848 III | cultivate in spite of the ill-omened,~unsightly mistletoe that
1849 III | that~she knew about the illegal superfetation of the particle.
1850 VII | less heavy~indictments of illicit love laid to their charge.
1851 I | attended Chardon in~his last illness, saw him die in convulsions
1852 I | old-fashioned lamps for illumination, that burn a vast deal of
1853 VI | great~many pictures in it, illustrating all the different processes
1854 IV | prodigious~awe. It is the wont of imaginative natures to magnify everything,
1855 IV | servility; and occasionally, imagining that~people were laughing
1856 VIII | the Eldorado of~provincial imaginings, with golden robes and the
1857 III | in the~territory of the Imam of Muscat, had the luck
1858 V | aggravated by M.~de Bargeton's imbecility; he burst into a laugh,
1859 II | put burglars to flight by imitating a man's~voice. Everything
1860 VI | never~give a thought to the immediate provocation of the overt
1861 VI | marriage had not been announced immediately after Lucien's~fancy had
1862 I | printing office from time~immemorial.~ ~He had every sort of
1863 V | a few new words such as 'immense, infinite,~solitude, intelligence';
1864 VIII | position, your~work will rise immensely in public opinion. The great
1865 IV | Bargeton, relapsing into immobility.~ ~"You have not cared to
1866 IV | been~thought monstrously immoral. Mme. de Senonches, however,
1867 V | these deathless creations to immortal~throes?"~ ~"And what are
1868 V | pain is the price of your~immortality. If only I had a hard struggle
1869 IV | with high health. Both were impassive, and~gesticulated but little;
1870 VI | had such winning ways, his impatience and his~desires were so
1871 VI | him."~ ~Lucien had waited impatiently until he could be sure of
1872 VI | ever divine and for ever impeccable. So one~glance exchanged
1873 I | press~which, with all its imperfections, turned out such beautiful
1874 III | their real interests so imperfectly. In~short, she talked a
1875 V | commands on her dear Adrien in imperious tones, and Adrien~was fain
1876 I | Together with all the implements, ink-tables, balls, benches,~
1877 I | friend's~physical beauty implied a real superiority, which
1878 V | is something holy. Poetry implies suffering. How~many silent
1879 IV | Then M. de Bargeton mutely implored his visitor to come to his~
1880 V | type, names that bear the~impress of the naivete of the times;
1881 I | that fatal exemplar for~impressionable minds. The brilliancy of
1882 IV | peculiarly susceptible to~first impressions. Like all inexperienced
1883 III | ten minutes to compose an~impromptu, and return with a quatrain,
1884 VI | floor myself; the son will~improve his father's property. It
1885 I | unable to~conceive the use of improvements that brought in no return
1886 VI | the savings~to which David imprudently owned. David went back again
1887 I | competitors, emboldened by his inaction, started a second local~
1888 I | disquieting symptoms of inactivity in his son. The name of~
1889 III | poet already~was poetry incarnate. Lucien scrutinized his
1890 I | new glow of enthusiasm. Incessantly they worked with the~unwearied
1891 IV | develop the same fault by inciting him to forget all~ ~that
1892 V | society to which his tastes incline him? I know Lucien;~he likes
1893 I | old "bear" was by~no means inclined to put off the long-expected
1894 I | meditative temperament which inclines to poetry, was drawn by
1895 I | thirty thousand francs, including the license and the goodwill.
1896 III | nature discerned through the incognito. He described that life,
1897 III | boyish casuistry and the~incoherent reasoning of an idealist;
1898 II | live independently~on their incomes--a sort of autochthonous
1899 V | outraged vanities would be incomplete~unless it were followed
1900 I | off~in the midst of his incompleted experiments, and the great
1901 VI | history of the invention shows~incontestably that great industrial and
1902 III | a rhymster would~wither incontinently in a hothouse of adulation;
1903 II | putting ourselves to any inconvenience for the sake of~others when
1904 V | constant~result, and it only increases with the birth-rate. To
1905 II | with all its business and increasing greatness, was still a~mere
1906 VII | prodigiously worse.~ ~"It is incredible!"~ ~"At midday?"~ ~"Nais
1907 VI | apothecary's son. The role of incredulity was in accordance with the~
1908 V | his~mother. Then, having inculcated these notions, he left the
1909 III | hardships, for there is an indefinable pudency inseparable from
1910 II | burgher, families, who live independently~on their incomes--a sort
1911 IV | color of Europeans from India; but in spite of his absurd~
1912 I | graceful as some sculptured Indian Bacchus.~ ~For in Lucien'
1913 VII | affair~is the one that I have indicated. I choose pistols, as the
1914 I | in~Lucien it was a true indication of character; for when he
1915 VII | with more or less heavy~indictments of illicit love laid to
1916 I | not to live?" David asked indignantly, "and books to buy~besides?"~ ~"
1917 II | into a state of excitement,~indignation, or depression; she soared
1918 VI | M. de Chandour, the most indiscreet person in the~clique, along
1919 II | publishing her emotions indiscriminately to her circle. As~a matter
1920 II | that she began to~type-ize, individualize, synthesize, dramatize,
1921 VI | busy, sometimes languid; indolent, full of~work, and musing
1922 I | stimulated the boy,~and at first induced him to follow in the same
1923 VI | incontestably that great industrial and intellectual advances
1924 I | francs per annum. Active and industrious men of~business would have
1925 I | completion of the purchase inevitably succeeds. Passion of every~
1926 I | by pity that sprang from~inexhaustible indulgence. In the friendship
1927 III | ever so much~as reach ears inexorably deaf to knowledge that came
1928 VI | this kind are alarming to~inexperience, and those in the way of
1929 I | subject, suffered from an inextinguishable thirst. His wife, during~
1930 II | from thick-headed~Royalism, infected with bigotry rather than
1931 VI | lest our bad luck should be infectious."~ ~"We shall be rich and
1932 II | frittered away upon the~infinitely small objects which it strives
1933 III | love of hyperbole,~that infirmity of noble souls. He did not
1934 VI | it be that your love is influenced by the clamor of the~senses,
1935 VIII | was~pervaded by the sweet influences of early married days, still
1936 VIII | great influence herself, and influential relations. The d'Espards
1937 III | pompous~epithets. It was an infringement of the copyright of the
1938 VI | some women who will forge ingenious pretexts for burying~themselves
1939 II | expressions, the kind of stuff~ingeniously nicknamed tartines by the
1940 III | Bargeton's feet; but with the ingenuity of a rake, he kept his own~
1941 III | that~where ambition begins, ingenuous feeling ends.~ ~Externals
1942 VI | again without a victory, inglorious and crestfallen,~cutting
1943 IV | everything, or~to find a soul to inhabit every shape; and Lucien
1944 III | the Hotel de Bargeton. The inhabitant of L'Houmeau beheld the
1945 II | upper town of Angouleme is inhabited by~noble, or at any rate
1946 I | the lowest level. Fate's injustice was a~strong bond between
1947 I | the Stanhope press and the ink-~distributing roller were
1948 I | with all the implements, ink-tables, balls, benches,~et cetera,
1949 I | set-up type, were~washed. Inky streams issuing thence blended
1950 IV | moment by~the elegance of the inland revenue department, thought
1951 VI | called, a sort of a~country inn, a compromise between a
1952 V | the Bishop.~ ~The epigram, innocently made by the good prelate,
1953 III | tea, and cakes, a great innovation in a city where~tea, as
1954 II | wheelwrights, posthouses, and inns, every~agency for public
1955 VIII | fill the coming days with innumerable~fears for Lucien.~ ~"If
1956 IV | neighborhood, people used to~inquire after Francis, and Jacques
1957 I | had never as yet made any inquiry as to his mother's~fortune;
1958 IV | courage sank under their inquisitive eyes. He could read his
1959 I | on account. The old~man's inquisitiveness roused his son's distrust;
1960 Dedication| victory for this work that I inscribe to you, a work which, if~
1961 VI | night? The bloodthirsty insects are quick enough to drain
1962 III | is an indefinable pudency inseparable from strong~feeling in youth,
1963 I | and heart. With a lover's insight,~David read the secret hopes
1964 III | druggist's son was a completely insignificant being. If any of the~noblesse,
1965 III | part,~were awkward, silly, insipid, and ill dressed; there
1966 III | discourse. "The Court~was less insolent that this pack of dolts
1967 III | with a retort in his~hand, inspecting some chemical product while
1968 V | looks to the Bible for his inspiration has a mother indeed in the~
1969 II | virtue, forming the saint, inspiring the devotion~hidden from
1970 VIII | than his friend's~unlucky instability of character, Lucien was
1971 I | on the day that saw~him installed in the printing-house, without
1972 III | for all is his. She quoted instances. Bernard~Palissy, Louis
1973 III | down to the high-~arched instep. David had inherited the
1974 I | the gift of second sight, instinctively~guessing at future contingencies,
1975 VI | Didot are printers to the Institute, so naturally they~referred
1976 II | de Negrepelise~received instruction in those tongues, as well
1977 VIII | sent his man to Ruffec with~instructions to watch every carriage
1978 VII | I choose pistols, as the insulted~party."~ ~This was the speech
1979 III | expected to endure deadly insults; the superciliousness you
1980 III | genius, nor of the obstacles insurmountable to~weaklings. She drew a
1981 VIII | glories and stimulates the intellect--Paris, where men rub against~
1982 VIII | acknowledge the relationship, I intend to~cultivate her a good
1983 I | robbery. Our worthy friend intended to pay himself~with the
1984 IV | du Hautoy had shown any intention of marrying, he would have
1985 I | that father with the~best intentions, and took his covetous greed
1986 III | flowers in~garden beds. Interchange of glances, delicate and
1987 IV | vast blank of his~vacant interior. He usually got out of the
1988 IV | No," extracted from his interlocutor, the conversation dropped
1989 II | residence, and it may be an intermarriage or two with one of the~primordial
1990 I | understood that only after an interminable, expensive, and disgraceful~
1991 V | heard of him). Everybody interpreted~this announcement in one
1992 V | strong spirits.~ ~During the interval, as they partook of ices,
1993 III | and~naturally, during an interview of her own seeking, he received
1994 I | and old woodwork had grown intolerable to him, and together~they
1995 III | Mme. de Bargeton's words intoxicated the young poet from L'Houmeau.~
1996 I | thousand francs was even~more intoxicating than sweet wine; already
1997 VI | espionage of the most minute and intricate kind underlies provincial~
1998 II | her from the shabby love intrigues of the provinces. A woman
1999 VIII | socially speaking. I will~introduce you to Mme. d'Espard; it
2000 I | from~Paris). This youth introduced a stranger, who saluted
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