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3502 I | avenge itself for lowly station by~viewing the world from
3503 I | round table, and a sideboard stationed between the two doors~of
3504 VI | last to the much-admired~statues which must come down at
3505 III | might grow to their full stature. Perhaps their~families
3506 III | me, my mistress' pencil steals~To tell the secret gladness
3507 II | with a chaperon, Nais~could steer her fortunes as she chose
3508 I | the vice which serves as a stepping-stone. Just now~these tendencies
3509 IV | Jacques would discourse on his steward's~little ailments, and talk
3510 IV | still kept in curl;~then, sticking a finger in his waistcoat
3511 I | his was the~nature that sticks at no crime if there is
3512 II | the great world~becomes stiff and starched by contact
3513 IV | ample,~swelling curves of a stiffly-starched shirt fastened by massive
3514 II | erect. Her dignity became a stilted~manner, her social supremacy
3515 V | likes to shine; society~will stimulate his desires until no money
3516 VIII | produces ever-~new glories and stimulates the intellect--Paris, where
3517 III | heart to his lips at the sting of a reproach that he felt
3518 VIII | booby-squires to invent stinging~gibes and humiliate a man
3519 I | his old kindness for his stock-in-~trade; and when business
3520 I | you might as well sell~the stock-in-trade and the license!"~ ~Old
3521 VII | Rubempre?"~ ~A proud smile stole over her lips, she folded
3522 IV | very fond~of veal, and my stomach has been very uneasy since,"
3523 II | before it was completed, the stones of a heavenly Jerusalem--
3524 VI | proud, too high-born, to stoop to the~apothecary's son.
3525 V | through my heart," said Eve, stopping~as they reached the weir. "
3526 II | banks of the river lay the stores of brandy~and great warehouses
3527 Addendum | personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.~ ~Bargeton,
3528 II | seclusion enforced by~political storms, he taught his pupil Latin
3529 II | principal characters in the story--Mme. de Bargeton.~ ~The
3530 IV | Agricultural~Society, a tall, stout, high-colored personage,
3531 I | study, makes the fat man~stouter, and the lean man leaner
3532 III | extinguisher on the portable stove, where it had~been kept
3533 VI | to a thin pulp, which is strained, exactly as a~cook strains
3534 VI | strained, exactly as a~cook strains sauce through a tamis, through
3535 I | without delay.~ ~In this strait Jerome-Nicolas Sechard had
3536 IV | trousers with~ ~invisible straps that kept them in shape.
3537 III | She went through social strata and showed the poet that
3538 V | covered~with narrow stripes, a straw hat, and a little silk shawl.
3539 IV | There, Lucien, I have had strawberries for you."~ ~But Lucien was
3540 I | wisdom of the thinker, the strenuous melancholy of a spirit that~
3541 II | lived up to his quality so strenuously that he ran through the
3542 IV | unspeakably~pleasant for him. Stretched out at full length in his
3543 V | enough for me?" cried the stricken David.~ ~"But perhaps your
3544 VI | footing, and to buy only~strict necessaries; but what could
3545 IV | and elegance of Paris was strikingly~apparent in his black coat.
3546 IV | walnut wood bedstead, and a strip of cheap green~carpet at
3547 V | cambric covered~with narrow stripes, a straw hat, and a little
3548 VIII | Limoges, and the~two women had striven to make Eve's contributions
3549 II | infinitely small objects which it strives to exalt. Herein lies the~
3550 V | make a box."~ ~The bludgeon stroke stunned Lucien, but he raised
3551 I | hard to say which was the stronger attraction to the old house--~
3552 II | to the importance of this stronghold~during the Religious Wars,
3553 I | first of~all. Lucien was struggling as yet with himself and
3554 IV | airs, he revived again; strutted about, raised himself on
3555 III | about it.~ ~David was a student leading a solitary life;
3556 IV | atmosphere was sedate and studious; and for those who knew
3557 IV | fastened by massive gold~studs. His dress, in fact, was
3558 V | world. He rose like a bull, stung to fury by~a shower of darts,
3559 V | The bludgeon stroke stunned Lucien, but he raised his
3560 IV | daughter had the pinched sub-acid dignity~characteristic of
3561 II | officer of a good family, a sub-lieutenant, to whom~the crafty Napoleon
3562 V | it was she who found the subjects for her~son's verses. Nothing
3563 V | surface again, vowing~to subjugate this little world. He rose
3564 III | his~sister so gracious in submission to her fate, of his own
3565 II | thereto. She shrank from submitting herself, body~and soul,
3566 IV | drilled him~into military subordination; he yielded a passive obedience
3567 Dedication| in this opportunity of~subscribing myself your sincere admirer
3568 IV | in it?~ ~When emotion had subsided, David had a suggestion
3569 Dedication| newspaper, or~crouching in the subterranean places of journalism. For
3570 V | his audience, or swift and subtle~communication of the poet'
3571 VIII | to take your place in~the succession of pleiades that rise from
3572 IV | Monsieur So-and-So or Madame Such-an-One," she~would say, and he
3573 III | the world,~when it is not sucked in with mother's milk and
3574 II | perched aloft on a crag like a sugar-~loaf, overlooking the plain
3575 IV | roses, and three cups and a~sugar-basin of Limoges porcelain. Eve
3576 II | positive mischief, by suggesting wanderings from the beaten
3577 VII | story full of~facetious suggestions, and accompanied it with
3578 II | first original, but only suited to women of adventurous
3579 VI | Great~mansions and great suites of rooms will be abolished
3580 II | if by chance~she had been sullied by contact with those men
3581 IV | his apathy, and his~jaded Sultan airs were like a challenge.~ ~
3582 VIII | comes when I can spend~my summers at the Escarbas and the
3583 II | and ruined fortress on the summit of the~crag still remain
3584 III | life to fight. Society, summoning all her~children to one
3585 VI | was M. de Rubempre, housed sumptuously in comparison with~his late
3586 I | the rich will pay large sums to recover health when they
3587 I | and the door in~view. The sunbeams, playing among the trellised
3588 IV | mighty hunter, lean and~sunburned, a haughty gentleman, about
3589 III | the piano; and one fine Sunday when all Angouleme went
3590 III | the cathedral for~several Sundays, he saw that Mme. de. Bargeton
3591 V | will learn the magical word~Sung at the close of the day.~ ~
3592 V | outset of life. Lucien had sunk to the depths at the blow,
3593 III | frigid, polite, and~slightly supercilious, like a man out of his proper
3594 III | she knew about the illegal superfetation of the particle. Lucien
3595 VI | blames and~criticises with a superficial knowledge of the patent
3596 IV | household in charge, he superintended the children's~education,
3597 VI | Marcel, who used to be~superintendent of the Royal Printing Establishment,
3598 III | the day in reading proofs, superintending the execution of~orders,
3599 II | synthesize, dramatize, superiorize, analyze,~poetize, angelize,
3600 II | swallowing it. She squandered superlatives~recklessly in her talk,
3601 IV | clothes~they looked like the supernumeraries that represent rank and
3602 I | Nicolas Sechard set an almost superstitious affection, for it plays
3603 III | and applaud a witticism. Supple, envious, never at a loss,
3604 III | only acquired by education, supplemented by~certain gifts of chance--
3605 I | high-colored, swarthy face, supported~by a thick neck, he looked
3606 VII | followed more comments, and suppositions without end. Chatelet~took
3607 III | in all sincerity, he with suppressed~yawns; but he bore with
3608 I | The secret of the army surgeon's ambition lay in his passionate
3609 I | thereabouts, was the son of a surgeon-major who had retired with a~wound
3610 IV | Haye was beginning to raise surmises of disquieting mysteries;~
3611 II | other barriers~harder to surmount than the mere physical difficulty
3612 V | taking Lili for a man's surname, he addressed the coarse~
3613 III | rising star whose glory surpassed the~whole Parisian galaxy,
3614 VI | delicacy; they would~rather surrender upon the impulse of passion,
3615 I | the third time, when David~surrendered the book to him, unable
3616 III | strangers were never received.~Surreptitiously he procured one of Miroir'
3617 IV | touchingly appropriate in~their surroundings.~ ~Lucien was tying his
3618 IV | by the rivals in mutual~survey; he had a question which
3619 I | love~for his wife, the last survivor of the family of Rubempre,
3620 IV | character was peculiarly susceptible to~first impressions. Like
3621 VI | fell the~golden chains that suspend the hearts of men upon the
3622 IV | circulated all over the town, and~sustained the general belief in M.
3623 III | well did Louise loosen the swaddling-bands of provincial life that~
3624 IV | and~mute, planted like a swan on both feet, listening,
3625 I | friends were like two young swans with wings unclipped as
3626 IV | his friends' rooms with a swarm of crude~productions, and
3627 I | his fleshy, high-colored, swarthy face, supported~by a thick
3628 VI | the~delights of despotic sway which Nais had acquired
3629 IV | all the forces in us are sweetly strung, and every chord
3630 I | Place du Murier with the swiftness of~the raven that scents
3631 III | practitioner is he who can swim with the current and keep
3632 VIII | recover himself, his~head was swimming in this new position. So
3633 II | her heart. She~palpitated, swooned, and went into ecstasies
3634 V | without fear to me, who saw a symbol of~my love for you in your
3635 I | with no pretensions to symmetry, seemed to~be bending beneath
3636 IV | did the mayor~meet with sympathetic listeners in Mme. and Mlle.
3637 V | spasmodic workings of jaws sympathetically~affected, the teeth that
3638 V | temperament can understand and sympathize with him~in the diabolical
3639 II | paeans for every victory. She sympathized with the fallen~Napoleon,
3640 I | that there~were disquieting symptoms of inactivity in his son.
3641 II | type-ize, individualize, synthesize, dramatize, superiorize,
3642 V | give the results~of whole systems of philosophy in a few picturesque
3643 III | X-shaped trestle. There was no tablecloth; the poor little~household
3644 III | accustomed to meet about the same tables, to play the~familiar game
3645 VI | press it between heated tablets of white porcelain, that
3646 V | indifference; so they~showed their tacit disdain for the native product
3647 V | you cannot make head or tail of."~ ~Amelie, Fifine, Adrien,
3648 VII | witty, added a little to the tale every time~that he told
3649 V | as any recognition of her talents--he worshiped his~mother.
3650 I | forth and so forth.~ ~Such tales against David, once put
3651 III | self-importance. He grew taller as he~gave an embellished
3652 II | forty years, have tried to tame the~ancient families perched
3653 III | his predecessors; they had tamed society. Women would love
3654 VI | strains sauce through a tamis, through an iron frame with
3655 III | that Montriveau reached Tangier, Chatelet found himself
3656 IV | been so delicate had been tanned to the~copper-red color
3657 II | the hill. Naturally, too, tanneries,~laundries, and all such
3658 VI | in her household ways was tantamount to a confession, and Angouleme~
3659 III | beneath.~ ~With fingers tapering and well-kept, though somewhat
3660 I | hung with the old-world tapestry that decorated~house fronts
3661 I | worm-eaten armchairs, two tapestry-~covered chairs in walnut
3662 V | the circle of the~church, tapping the pavement with his wand;
3663 III | pretext for a quarrel in his tardiness. But what became~of her
3664 V | Hearkening unto the voice of the tardy repentant cry,~Glad as angels
3665 III | silver~plate, antiquated and tarnished, but weighty; their attachment
3666 V | work for religion."~ ~"That task will be his," said Mme.
3667 III | father nor mother;~the great tasks laid upon them required
3668 VI | fair lady encouraged. He tasted the~delights of despotic
3669 VI | charming~bedroom, and the tastefully furnished study, he might
3670 III | all, Chatelet is only a tax-collector."~ ~Du Chatelet suffered
3671 III | did, they never received~tax-collectors, and, after all, Chatelet
3672 III | form him; she thought of teaching him Italian and~German and
3673 VI | hour. While~this storm in a teacup raged on high, a few drops
3674 VI | provincial has a natural bent for teasing, and~delights to thwart
3675 VI | book, an iconographical and technological work, with a great~many
3676 IV | you frequent, everything~tells for you, everything would
3677 I | in practice for varying temperaments.~Then, on a visit to Paris
3678 I | persecution of societies yclept of Temperance,~the cult has fallen, day
3679 IV | that had gone astray on his~temple.~ ~"I should have asked
3680 I | graciousness transfused~the white temples that caught that golden
3681 II | the lords spiritual and temporal of Angouleme; though~L'Houmeau,
3682 I | decorated by trellised vines, a tempting bit of color, considering
3683 I | Angouleme;~nothing but sheer tenacity of mortar kept it together.
3684 V | give me persistence and tenacity----"~ ~"I had guessed this
3685 II | to the rents paid by~his tenants, which amounted to some
3686 II | sister of Saint Camilla and tend the sick and die of~yellow
3687 I | stepping-stone. Just now~these tendencies of ambition were held in
3688 IV | increased Lucien's human~tendency to take himself as the centre
3689 III | character, she was gentle,~tender-hearted, and devoted to those she
3690 IV | had concentrated all their tenderness on him, David~was his devoted
3691 I | clasped about by autumn vine~tendrils. The little gray eyes, peering
3692 II | under Louis XIII. for long tenure of office. His~son, bearing
3693 VI | he had come to the last~term with the lady. Amelie, who
3694 II | low ridge of hill, which terminates abruptly just above the
3695 V | a blossom. It~would be a terribly gloomy poem, would it not,
3696 III | Chatelet found himself in the~territory of the Imam of Muscat, had
3697 IV | embarrassed in his life. Countless terrors seized upon him; he half~
3698 III | inquired, putting down~his test tube on the laboratory table.~ ~"
3699 I | printing~establishment bore testimony to the sordid avarice of
3700 IV | to the last extremity. A tete-a-tete~put him in the one embarrassment
3701 VI | it is light and~thin, the texture is close, there are no transparent
3702 V | this walk alone~with you, that----" he stopped short in
3703 IV | stage weddings in third-rate theatres.~ ~One of the queerest figures
3704 | Thee
3705 III | delights of this love of theirs differed from the transports
3706 VII | every key upon the painful theme.~ ~"Well, well," said one
3707 IV | something from me."~ ~"Well, then--she loves me."~ ~"I knew
3708 I | David must pledge himself thenceforward to print no~newspaper whatsoever,
3709 V | treatises of Cicero and theological and liturgical works. Italics~
3710 III | very extraordinary~figure there--Napoleon used him as a diplomatic
3711 I | fellow of one-and-twenty or~thereabouts, was the son of a surgeon-major
3712 III | me,~Oh Love, when swift, thick-coming memories rise,~I pray of
3713 II | society, suffering from thick-headed~Royalism, infected with
3714 III | she spread the adjectives thickly on her~finest tartines,
3715 VI | quality, the weight and thickness of printed books would be
3716 I | the man--the~wisdom of the thinker, the strenuous melancholy
3717 IV | fashion~at stage weddings in third-rate theatres.~ ~One of the queerest
3718 II | noble~destiny! In short, she thirsted for any draught but the
3719 VIII | man of sixty and a man of thirty-five, all the advantage lay with
3720 VI | away, a miller's widow, thirty-two years old, with a~hundred
3721 VI | forgot the sharp crown of thorns that had been pressed upon
3722 VII | acknowledgment, and looked thoughtful. She was weary to~disgust
3723 IV | shape. He wore pumps and thread~stockings; the black ribbon
3724 IV | dowdiness of the pair. In their threadbare clothes~they looked like
3725 III | coxcomb, and regardless of his threats and~airs of a bourgeois
3726 I | worn the famous municipal~three-cornered hat, which you may still
3727 IV | flinging his head back in three-quarters~profile with all the airs
3728 VII | misinterpreted. This morning Lucien threw himself here at my~feet
3729 III | prefect was admitted~twice or thrice in a year, the receiver-general
3730 V | Mme. de Bargeton.~A fierce thrill of excitement ran through
3731 VI | the population of Lilliput throttled Gulliver, a~multiplicity
3732 VI | the hand drew down all the thunders of the Charente upon~the
3733 III | and left that gentleman thunderstruck by the discovery that~she
3734 VI | teasing, and~delights to thwart a growing passion. The servants
3735 V | s Camille, the Delia of Tibullus,~Ariosto's Angelica, Dante'
3736 V | vociferation, as a coarse palate~is ticked by strong spirits.~ ~During
3737 IV | coxcomb superciliousness tickled their curiosity; he~posed
3738 I | worthy printer thought to tide over the time until his
3739 VIII | last year's trousers are tight for you; you will be~obliged
3740 IV | curving outlines of his tight-fitting trousers with fond~glances
3741 IV | they dressed like dolls in tightly-fitting gowns of~home manufacture,
3742 IV | covered the~walls, and the tiled floor, colored and waxed
3743 VI | years old. So David build a timbered second story for Lucien,
3744 I | wood, an aged bureau, and a timepiece on the~mantel-shelf. The
3745 IV | life long?"~ ~He looked timidly towards Eve as he spoke;
3746 IV | dress there was just that tinge~of pretension which betrayed
3747 I | Oriental scenes in sepia tint--and for all furniture, half-a-dozen~
3748 IV | standstill at last on the pointed tips of his~shoes. When he ceased
3749 I | well~prepared to turn his tipsiness to good account. He had
3750 VI | would cross the room on tiptoe the next~day, and the perfidious
3751 III | under the very eyes of her tiresome~courtiers. What an interest
3752 V | is strong enough for~her tiring life, so long as I live,
3753 Addendum | of Lucien. Part three is titled Eve and David and continues
3754 I | this point.~ ~Hither, pede titubante, Jerome-Nicolas Sechard
3755 I | have been making such a to-do~over that damned Englishman'
3756 V | secret sign,~Nor read the token sent on a white and dazzling
3757 VI | fortune on M. de Bargeton's~tomb. M. de Bargeton, troubled
3758 IV | position, so he held his tongue~and looked guilty. Eve,
3759 VI | money out of pocket for top-dressing, and~taxes, and expenses
3760 IV | used to draw him out on the topic for the amusement of others~
3761 IV | most intimate and personal~topics.~ ~"I took veal this morning
3762 II | to enter here upon some topographical details, and this so~much
3763 II | by a complete and general topsy-turvydom, the distance~between Angouleme
3764 IV | put an end to his mental torments; but Jacques was giving~
3765 III | shaking off the ecstatic torpor.~ ~In the course of that
3766 VI | bring all the resources~of torrid eloquence into play; he
3767 I | self-seeking, ordinarily slow, tortuous, and veiled by hypocrisy~
3768 VI | precisely was the thought that tortured~Lucien's inmost mind. "Louise
3769 VI | anything; they may behave totally~irrationally, anything becomes
3770 IV | Eve as he~spoke. "If you totter, you shall have my arm to
3771 I | way at once if an opponent touches his feelings. His loftiness
3772 IV | children, there was something touchingly appropriate in~their surroundings.~ ~
3773 VI | dais, looking down upon the~tourney of literature, and meant
3774 IV | way; go forward, you can tow me after you~if it comes
3775 I | there on the head~of the towncrier in out-of-the-way places.
3776 III | a certain price for the townsmen, as~Bambara Negroes, we
3777 VI | she continued, her fingers toying with Lucien's~hair. "What
3778 VI | there was not a sign nor a trace of anything suspicious;
3779 I | eyebrows that might have been traced by a~Chinese pencil. The
3780 II | and all such waterside trades stood within reach of the~
3781 II | maintained sufficient of the tradition of birth to~dread a mesalliance.
3782 III | francs, to say nothing of the traditional bits of land which old~Sechard
3783 III | manor-house, the~knowledge of the traditions of good breeding,--these
3784 II | poetize, angelize, neologize, tragedify, prosify, and colossify--
3785 I | David had received a good training, so David would sweat blood
3786 I | astute, men. This is a trait which seldom misleads, and
3787 VII | know that he is the man to trample this puppet under foot that~
3788 I | francs for~damages.~ ~That transaction dealt the deathblow to the
3789 VI | that he knew; he saw it transfigured and free from care.~The
3790 II | her~nothing, underwent the transforming operation of Time and changed
3791 I | sunlight. A divine graciousness transfused~the white temples that caught
3792 III | dubious nothings more or less~transparently veiled. He was ignorant
3793 III | theirs differed from the transports of stormy~passion, as wildflowers
3794 IV | of the room~stood a red tray with a pattern of gilt roses,
3795 IV | reason to complain of the treachery of others, you will find
3796 III | just been experimenting on treacle,~but it would take a man
3797 I | staircase that shook under his tread. In the passage he opened~
3798 III | admissible. But--failure is high treason against~society; and when
3799 V | His~heart shall be our treasure-house, we will lay up all our
3800 VI | I~have not got Solomon's treasury. Why, you are mad! or they
3801 V | first used to print~the treatises of Cicero and theological
3802 V | poetic soul. Yes, it~makes me tremble to think that this great
3803 I | became in turn objects of tremendous~value through old Jerome-Nicolas'
3804 III | there, poor~girl! in a great tremor of emotion, as though some
3805 III | little~table on an X-shaped trestle. There was no tablecloth;
3806 VI | of prolonged service,~a trial of constancy which should
3807 I | agility as the youngest of the~tribe. The press, handled in this
3808 II | heart and heart. She had a trick of using high-sounding~phrases,
3809 IV | sons; shy, mute young men tricked out in gorgeous jewelry,
3810 I | every man in love with glory tries first of~all. Lucien was
3811 Addendum | Two Poets is part one of a trilogy. The second part is A~Distinguished
3812 I | the back, the paper was trimmed and damped down. Here, too,
3813 IV | interest~in a scarf, or the trimming of a dress, or the reconciliation
3814 IV | the mysterious conjugal~trinity appeared to them so rare
3815 I | the middle of~the gangway, tripped up the bemused spectator,
3816 VI | the pulp proved to be the~triturated fibre of some kind of bamboo.
3817 VI | have given you very little~trouble----"~ ~"And paid mighty little
3818 VI | banker, owner of the~pulping troughs of Bruges and Langlee (where
3819 I | countenance suggested a huge truffle clasped about by autumn
3820 VIII | pettiness about those who are truly great; they will lend~you
3821 IV | the clash of cymbals, the trumpet, or the mountebank's~big
3822 I | like some~venerable tree trunk set down at the entrance
3823 II | over the account of the trust; stupid~enough and easy
3824 I | solid old tools, tried and trusty.~You will not have the heart
3825 VI | Louise, using the familiar tu, the caress of speech, since
3826 III | inquired, putting down~his test tube on the laboratory table.~ ~"
3827 VIII | making puns on the name. (Tue Poie.) It seems that M.
3828 VI | day on which a young man tugs out some~of the hairs of
3829 VIII | Chandour this morning in M. Tulloy's meadow; people are~making
3830 I | extortionate bargain~was to be tumbled after all into the old toper'
3831 VI | his late quarters in the tumbledown attic with the dormer-window,~
3832 IV | life long had not known one tune from~another, was humming
3833 IV | toilette. She wore a Jewess' turban, enriched with an~Eastern
3834 II | it never~occurred to her tutor that qualities so necessary
3835 IV | the species that all the twaddlers~of Angouleme credited M.
3836 II | hospital at Barcelona; 'twas a high, a noble~destiny!
3837 VIII | a thousand francs for a twelve-month.~ ~"But, Lucien," said Eve,
3838 I | it."~ ~During the first twelvemonth of rural retirement, Sechard
3839 VIII | The seconds put them at twenty-five paces. M. de~Bargeton looked
3840 VIII | the mattresses with white twill and a rose-colored~piping
3841 V | of the forest, choked by twining~growths and rank, greedy
3842 III | anybody but a young man~of two-and-twenty would have shrewdly suspected
3843 IV | surroundings.~ ~Lucien was tying his cravat when David's
3844 II | career that she began to~type-ize, individualize, synthesize,
3845 III | sonny," said M. Postel, that typical, provincial tradesman.~"
3846 VI | pushed to extremities by a tyranny which afforded no pleasures
3847 I | chosen brother.~As there are ultras who would fain be more Royalist
3848 VI | Printing Establishment, was umpire, and he~sent the two readers
3849 VI | erratic judgments and the unaccountable differences~in the standard
3850 VI | those on~whom the world is unaccountably severe, they must do everything
3851 II | everywhere with such ugly unanimity~in the insurrection of 1830
3852 V | being a total stranger, and unaware of the manners and customs
3853 II | after two hundred years of unbroken~residence, and it may be
3854 V | did so. He~announced in an uncertain voice that, to prevent disappointment,
3855 I | the vendor, the agony of uncertainty as to~the completion of
3856 I | the old type was still unchanged, and~in the dens at the
3857 VI | fortunes in store for them~all. Unchecked by protests put in by Eve,
3858 I | two young swans with wings unclipped as yet by~the experiences
3859 V | Do you know, I felt quite~uncomfortable----"~ ~"You looked so beautiful,
3860 VIII | he~was breakfasting quite unconcernedly after all that had passed.
3861 III | that women love so~well--unconscious revelations of the writer'
3862 III | forth~in abhorrence. All unconsciously Lucien stood with the palm
3863 I | knots and bas-~reliefs and uncounted masterpieces of I know not
3864 VI | minute and intricate kind underlies provincial~life; every house
3865 VI | feel all the sincere love underlying my ideas, you will~never
3866 IV | the opinion that he was underrated. So it~happened that when
3867 V | all the world can see and understand--the poet must continually
3868 I | estimate?"~ ~"We do not undertake work on such a scale, sir,"
3869 I | Then, on a visit to Paris undertaken to solicit the approval
3870 VII | and~Chatelet began in an undertone--~ ~"You know what Angouleme
3871 II | nature, profited her~nothing, underwent the transforming operation
3872 III | unstained, of budding hopes~undespoiled by rough winds, and at these
3873 II | and soul, to the feeble, undignified specimens of mankind whom
3874 II | the~wealth that lay like undiscovered ore in her nature, profited
3875 III | for all that David left~undone, that the slightest word
3876 V | Eve, web-paper was almost undreamed of in France, although,~
3877 IV | she was, she had taken no undue advantage~of his weaknesses.
3878 IV | give this gentleman some uneasiness; and, as a matter of~fact,
3879 II | niggardliness, and he felt quite unequal to the~struggle. Like all
3880 I | could claim one-half~of the unexpected windfall. Taking this fact
3881 IV | words that draw a public as~unfailingly as the clash of cymbals,
3882 III | Was she trying a first unfaithfulness to the memory of the dead?
3883 IV | extraordinary that those who are unfamiliar with~provincial life might
3884 V | droops under~favorable or unfavorable conditions. The men who
3885 V | favorite occupations all unfit me~for business and money-getting,
3886 I | of this pair~of friends unfitted them for carrying on the
3887 I | misers, and by~a chain of unforeseen circumstances that tutelary
3888 IV | to the necessities of the~unfortunate.~ ~M. de Severac was fifty-nine
3889 VI | stated his case, and (as not~unfrequently happens in small country
3890 I | possession of three bare, unfurnished rooms on the day that saw~
3891 VII | moment Stanislas came up unheard by either of the pair.~He
3892 V | the most~extraordinary and unheard-of rhymes. We are in quite
3893 VI | marriage was a piece of unhoped-for good~fortune. But he was
3894 IV | the veil which hid such an~unimaginable character; indeed, he had
3895 VIII | between us? Shall we not~be united in thought? Have I not a
3896 VI | takes after she has been unjustly accused and~condemned, and
3897 I | taken by~many a sublime unknown poet, whose works consist
3898 | unlike
3899 I | washing, and marketing; Marion unloaded the~paper carts, collected
3900 III | example of Napoleon, which, unluckily for this~nineteenth century
3901 II | ties that were~made and unmade so easily in those days,
3902 VI | there, weighed down by her unmerited punishment,~will regret
3903 III | rise, a double desire not unnatural in young men with a heart
3904 VI | from flax--will be quite~unobtainable in ten years' time. Well,
3905 IV | was bound to come as an unpleasant shock to a young man with~
3906 V | nature. Judge, therefore, how unpleasantly she~was disturbed by Amelie,
3907 II | out so lovingly; but~to an unprejudiced spectator it certainly seemed
3908 II | a life become stale and unprofitable in the present, and~with
3909 I | problem which his son left~unresolved the day before.~ ~"Why,
3910 VI | calculated to keep~desire unsatisfied and maintain a lover's arguments
3911 V | gazing before her with unseeing~eyes, alone in her drawing-room,
3912 IV | with the egoism which~their unselfishness was fostering in Lucien;
3913 III | spite of the ill-omened,~unsightly mistletoe that grew thick
3914 III | her~appellations which was unsoiled by use; for him she would
3915 VI | happiness, and to store the unsown harvest. They had~to put
3916 IV | of his life; she made it unspeakably~pleasant for him. Stretched
3917 III | society that kept itself unspotted from the world. The~only
3918 III | childhood and conscience as yet unstained, of budding hopes~undespoiled
3919 I | to give way. In him the~unswerving virtue of an apostle was
3920 II | abnormally~developed. Pride, untempered by intercourse with the
3921 V | his ambition, did you not~unthinkingly condemn him to a hard struggle?
3922 | unto
3923 II | of land.~ ~Circumstances unusual enough in out-of-the-way
3924 I | Incessantly they worked with the~unwearied vitality of youth; comrades
3925 I | were fitted with the heavy, unwieldy shutters necessary in~that
3926 I | his wife.~ ~His son was unwilling to do this, that, or the
3927 I | it came~about that, all unwittingly, David owed his existence,
3928 VI | reached the Palet Gate. The unwonted movement~made honest Postel
3929 III | He should feel himself~unworthy of his Louise's love (his
3930 V | poem of France is still unwritten," remarked the~Bishop. "
3931 III | fact~that great men had upholsterers and clockmakers and cutlers
3932 V | reads aloud after~dinner, it upsets my digestion."~ ~"Poor dearie,"
3933 VI | ardor fit to turn the world upside down, has~turned home again
3934 II | the charming blandness and urbanity of a great lady. The instincts
3935 I | apprentice (David had brought the urchin from~Paris). This youth
3936 VI | establish him more firmly in an ureal world. A~young imagination
3937 VI | to herself to~baffle him, urged thereto partly by a spirit
3938 Addendum | Paris~The Government Clerks~Ursule Mirouet~Scenes from a Courtesan'
3939 I | cutting-press, bragging of its usefulness and~sound condition.~ ~"
3940 I | thought that~education was useless, forcing himself to believe
3941 II | massacring the foreign usurpers of~Egypt. In short, any
3942 III | here and there by the naive utterances that women love so~well--
3943 IV | upon~him, she had never uttered a word of complaint; indeed,
3944 IV | border line between harmless vacancy, with some glimmerings of~
3945 VI | by virtue of the law of Vae~victis! pay enormously more
3946 III | From this time forward, vague rumors reported the existence
3947 IV | looked up at the ceiling and vainly tried to think of something~
3948 I | four-post bedstead with canopy, valances and quilt~of crimson serge,
3949 IV | given up his consulship in Valence, and sacrificed his diplomatic~
3950 II | Anaconda, or the escape of La Valette, or the presence of mind~
3951 IV | had succeeded in making a~valetudinarian of her factotum; she coddled
3952 Addendum | Lady Esther~The Lily of the Valley~
3953 II | line of three picturesque valleys. The~ramparts and great
3954 I | had all been put down and~valued separately with miserly
3955 III | a look in either face, vanishing~as swiftly as the scent
3956 VII | their charge. There were~variations in every key upon the painful
3957 I | that, or the other; it varied~according to the offers
3958 III | and decorated them with a variety of her most pompous~epithets.
3959 V | crossroad, another proposed to vary the pleasures of the evening
3960 IV | said the other, "a few vaudevilles, well enough in their way,~
3961 V | growths and rank, greedy vegetation, plants that have never
3962 IV | one embarrassment of his vegetative existence, for then~he was
3963 V | bright-haired Angel springs,~Veiling the glory of God that dwells
3964 I | double great-canon A; his veined cheeks~looked like vine-leaves,
3965 III | mother-of-pearl, two blue veins on each side~of the nose
3966 V | tried to~perfect it. The vellum paper invented by Ambroise
3967 I | waistcoat~were of greenish velveteen, and he wore an old-fashioned
3968 I | payment. To the throes of the vendor, the agony of uncertainty
3969 I | till it looked like some~venerable tree trunk set down at the
3970 V | arm which was safe from vengeance. He therefore~followed the
3971 V | in his tone, as he~took a vengeful glance round the circle; "
3972 V | invented in Italy by Aldus of Venice.~ ~Before the invention
3973 Dedication| of courage as well as a~veracious history. If there had been
3974 V | first place, to hear the~verdict of the Pimentels and the
3975 IV | kind of~satisfaction; he verified the number of his waistcoat
3976 I | case, reading his copy, verifying the~words in the composing-stick,
3977 V | sold biscuits for worms" (vers), said Jacques, "he~ought
3978 VII | time the most exaggerated versions of the story were in~circulation
3979 III | luck to find an English~vessel just about to set sail,
3980 VI | with a lover's pout of vexation.~ ~"Child!" she exclaimed,
3981 V | the demand at the risk of vexing her."~ ~"No, not generous,
3982 VI | since~all my heartstrings vibrated."~ ~The tears flowed fast,
3983 IV | strung, and every chord vibrating~gives out full resonance.~ ~
3984 I | by~it, and laughs at the vice which serves as a stepping-stone.
3985 VI | another thing. And who is the victim, if one may ask?"~ ~"I am
3986 VI | virtue of the law of Vae~victis! pay enormously more before
3987 VI | may she be? What kind of victual does she eat?"~ ~"She is
3988 VI | Stanislas and~Chatelet vied with each other in backing
3989 III | old~Austrian nobility at Vienna, these folk, men and women
3990 I | itself for lowly station by~viewing the world from a lofty standpoint.
3991 I | goldbeaters'~tools."~ ~Hideous vignettes, representing Hymen and
3992 VII | VII~Just at that moment Stanislas
3993 VIII | VIII~Chatelet stayed after the
3994 III | at any cost, quibuscumque viis. To prove his courage, he~
3995 I | playing among the trellised vine-shoots, hovered~over the two poets,
3996 I | fellow-worshipers.~ ~The vine-stems were changing color with
3997 I | through old Jerome-Nicolas' vinous eloquence. Old custom, he~
3998 III | savings--he was lucky with his vintages, and a clever salesman.~
3999 II | and colossify--you~must violate the laws of language to
4000 VI | answered, flattered by his~violence.~ ~"Then give me proof that
4001 IV | cross. His coat-tails were~violently at strife. A cut-away waistcoat
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