Part, Chapter
1 I,I | Does~one ever know what a man has got in his head; or
2 I,I | virtue upon earth, that~man. If any one ever deserved
3 I,I | manner, like those of a man absorbed in~calculations,
4 I,I | had luck; Birotteau is a man~who came from nothing: yet
5 I,I | to~you? You are like the man who looks for knots in a
6 I,I | Is it~Roguin, a notary, a man fifty-seven years old, twenty-five
7 I,I | On the word of an honest man it~lies on my heart. You
8 I,I | your~perpetual fears, no man could have been happier
9 I,I | knows. He seems to~me like a man who has an establishment
10 I,I | t look for any good in a man who has no honor with~respect
11 I,I | nor against delicacy. A man established and~known for
12 I,II | treasure for the~skilful man, an abyss for the feeble.~ ~
13 I,II | to the last, and the poor man did~not long survive her.
14 I,II | imagination of the young man. The horrible fate of those
15 I,II | which made a Titus of every~man and abolished powder. The
16 I,II | was necessary to find a man who had more integrity than~
17 I,II | Ferraille, whom the young man had finally discovered by~
18 I,II | also of being a courageous man,--though he had no military
19 I,II | His connection~with this man lasted only six months,
20 I,II | Parisian lounger is~as often a man filled with despair as an
21 I,II | words in a land where every man hoped to be a sultan as
22 I,II | only have come to a common man or a man of genius. The
23 I,II | come to a common man or a man of genius. The public always~
24 I,II | Birotteau passed for a superior man, commercially~speaking;
25 I,II | Such results demonstrate in~man a perfect equilibrium of
26 I,II | silent approbation of a man held to be sagacious, in
27 I,II | become a merely practical man. He adopted necessarily
28 I,II | regarding~Vauquelin as a great man, he thought him an exception,--
29 I,II | Thus it happened that a man who was both mediocre and
30 I,II | considered as a remarkable man, courageous, and full of
31 I,II | public; she knew him to be a man who, in spite of his~secret
32 I,II | taken as head-clerk a young man~twenty-two years of age,
33 I,II | and owing no duty to any man, he found society a hard~
34 I,II | in after years an honest man. Gifted with passionate
35 I,II | sooner or later.~ ~Such a man, standing between the hulks
36 I,II | was~a tall, slender young man, with a good figure and
37 I,II | hollow sound, like that of a man worn out with much~speaking.
38 I,II | their business. The worthy man was shocked by trifles,~
39 I,II | Ragon named Popinot, a~young man nineteen years old, who
40 I,II | Tillet," said the worthy man, "three thousand francs
41 I,II | a labor which the good man knew to~be useless. In coming
42 I,II | might have become an honest man; his~previous fault might
43 I,II | reprobation of an honest man might~drive one still young,
44 I,II | position where the ideas of a man~accustomed to succeed naturally
45 I,II | open forehead of an honest man. His nose,~broken at the
46 I,II | his mouth, and the good man had to~yield his ground
47 I,II | the bankrupt is an honest man, and recovers himself, he
48 I,II | dress adopted by the worthy man was in keeping with his
49 I,II | Cesar Birotteau; a worthy man, to whom the fates presiding
50 I,II | here below, could enlighten man as to the~moment when he
51 I,II | in volume. It is not one man with whom~we are now to
52 I,III| Popinot," said the worthy man, "is your aunt well?"~ ~"
53 I,III| by, Roguin--a large stout man, with a pimpled face, a~
54 I,III| pursuit of pleasure. When~a man plunges into the mire of
55 I,III| the tissues of a virtuous man and~stamps them, as it were,
56 I,III| had never approached any man but the~king sufficiently
57 I,III| invade the whole being~of a man between fifty and sixty
58 I,III| were gone, the unfortunate man intended~to blow out his
59 I,III| risks as yours," he said, "a man of your calibre should not~
60 I,III| rope thrown to a drowning man, and Roguin did not perceive
61 I,III| capital, which she gave to the man whom her husband confided~
62 I,III| a pretended~adversary, a man of straw, from whom he received
63 I,III| happened to want a clever young man to examine into an affair
64 I,III| when they have no need of~a man, they are wheedling and
65 I,III| secured the friendship of the~man with whom he had examined
66 I,III| in commercial language a~"man of straw." His former tool
67 I,III| Divine right, and~created a man. Out of a former commercial
68 I,III| his copartners; but~the man in whose power he had placed
69 I,III| very easily assassinate the man who knew him to be~guilty
70 I,III| From the moment when a man consents to play the part
71 I,III| a great undertaking;~no man is master of himself at
72 I,III| said these words the worthy man swelled in his own eyes
73 I,III| Popinot, are you a loyal man?" he said, looking~fixedly
74 I,III| benefit as an educated young man.~ ~"Anselme, I have cast
75 I,III| them raw.~Ambitious young man, are you satisfied?"~ ~Anselme
76 I,III| Dresden Madonna, engraved by a man~named Muller. After two
77 I,III| consolation~for not being a great man. Look at those gentlemen
78 I,IV | canes, named Cayron,--a man from Languedoc, doing a
79 I,IV | familiarly, as he entered the man's~shop, "my wife consents
80 I,IV | catching sight of the young man, with whom he had~made an
81 I,IV | the words of our king,--a man of wit as well as a statesman,--
82 I,IV | State. In Italy the young man had~dreamed of art; in Paris
83 I,IV | persons. When a~/grand prix/ man behaves thus, his comrades
84 I,IV | fine~neighborhood, was a man to keep on good terms with.
85 I,IV | explained~everything, the young man proceeded to sum up for
86 I,IV | farthing,"~answered the young man; "but as I don't know how
87 I,IV | With such ideas, young man," said Birotteau in a patronizing
88 I,IV | you~will meet a scientific man of the first order, Monsieur
89 I,IV | Monsieur /de/ Grindot, a young man~distinguished in his own
90 I,IV | dared not question~the young man on the effects of his sorcery.~ ~"
91 I,IV | tit-for-tat of the young man, "consider economy, and
92 I,IV | inductions by which a superior man~reaches a conclusion, all
93 I,IV | Molineux was a grotesque little man, living on his rents,--a~
94 I,IV | aspired.~ ~This annoying old man had neither wife, child,
95 I,IV | subservience, and looked upon any man as~a brute who passed him
96 I,IV | want it," he would say to a man he~thought solvent, "but
97 I,IV | improvements; but if the unhappy man did so, little~Molineux
98 I,IV | Batave, where the little old man lived, is the product of
99 I,IV | speculations of which no man can explain the~meaning
100 I,IV | intolerable,--conduct worthy of a man who made caricatures~of
101 I,IV | safety."~ ~The little old man got up and fetched the pistols.~ ~"
102 I,IV | express pity for such a man.~ ~Molineux detected it;
103 I,IV | disdainful look. The old man~conducted his new tenant
104 I,IV | Paris knows as little as a man knows of what~is going on
105 I,IV | no empty ones,~my dear man. Just think! grocers sell
106 I,V | losses had driven the good man into a kind~of Christian
107 I,V | quiet attitude, the old man had an inward calm not expressed~
108 I,V | might be addressed to a man~much respected, for the
109 I,V | So when he~lost the young man, two hundred friends followed
110 I,V | neighborhood for the "worthy man,"--a term~applied to Pillerault
111 I,V | he thought Manuel a pure man,~General Foy a great one,
112 I,V | noble chimeras. The fine old man lived a family life; he
113 I,V | sacrifice made by the old man to the conventions of the
114 I,V | as he went that the~old man must be very hale to mount
115 I,V | hand~of the austere old man.~ ~"How is the affair arranged?"
116 I,V | God was~put to death by man can be a fortunate day.
117 I,V | there~can't be a perfect man."~ ~"Three o'clock already!"
118 I,V | naively. "Popinot, this man has a chemical~effect upon
119 I,V | genius and the plainness of a man like me~there is infinity.
120 I,V | No, monsieur, but a young man whom I love, and who comes
121 I,V | Unless I heard it from you, a man I venerate, I could not~
122 I,V | have~coincided with a great man. Macassar is overthrown!
123 I,V | before you, monsieur, a young man~who will count this day
124 I,V | nothing in return."~ ~The man of science smiled and rose;
125 I,V | still."~ ~"What a great man! what a glance, what penetration!"
126 I,V | Batave, a very singular man,"--and he told the tale~
127 I,V | and handsome men. Every man~who is cursed with some
128 I,V | or strength of will; a man inspires terror only by
129 I,V | a woman than a~handsome man could ever have. If she
130 I,V | poor Roguin may be the best man in the world; he is fifty-eight~
131 I,V | recompense comes to~every man. Behold, my sons! misfortunes
132 I,VI | Deux-Ecus to seize upon a young man whom his commercial~/second-sight/
133 I,VI | famine. Andoche, a capable man, no fool,--I~don't consort
134 I,VI | My reward is to be best man at your wedding! I shall
135 I,VI | to another, I trapped the man into admitting that~Faille
136 I,VI | Moreover, as long as a man is in business he should
137 I,VI | will soon know that, young man," he said~to Grindot; "if
138 I,VI | Sieur Ragon was a little man, not over five feet high,
139 I,VI | of it. But when a young man has~something in his head--"
140 I,VI | evidenced by the badness of the~man's teeth, and the black speckles
141 I,VI | statu quo/ of the great man who guides the destinies~
142 I,VI | up?" said Popinot.~ ~"The man of letters!" cried Gaudissart, "
143 I,VI | goodness; interest her, young man, in the warmth~of these
144 I,VI | melancholy, like that of a man weary of poverty,~lighted
145 I,VI | but was~rather that of a man who feels he is not in his
146 I,VI | product,~priceless alike to man and woman, will be preserved
147 I,VI | alike. We can say to~the old man, 'Ha, monsieur! the ancients,
148 I,VI | we can say to the young man, 'My dear boy, here's another~
149 I,VI | Monsieur Andoche~Finot, a young man distinguished in literature,
150 I,VI | Popinot is a~virtuous young man; he is going with his uncle;
151 I,VII| Sunday in the house of a man so religious as~Birotteau,
152 I,VII| says he will be a great man; he has a mind like~Voltaire."~ ~"
153 I,VII| chancellor is a charming man.~On a hint from La Billardiere
154 I,VII| Monsieur de Lacepede is a great man,--yes, as~great as Monsieur
155 I,VII| genius, but~nevertheless a man of genius"; Rousseau, "a
156 I,VII| Rousseau, "a gloomy mind, a man full of~pride, who hanged
157 I,VII| what you are saying, old~man!" She called him habitually
158 I,VII| him habitually her "old man." This voluminous queen~
159 I,VII| yourself upon the~ices, old man, it is bad style."~ ~It
160 I,VII| in which the little old man had pronounced the words.~ ~"
161 I,VII| first floor back again; the man will ruin~himself." Such
162 I,VII| vindictive eye of the old man struck du Tillet,~whose
163 I,VII| cocked up, which gave the old man the semblance of a~rattlesnake.
164 I,VII| and the most~suspicious man could have detected nothing
165 I,I | Oil, all~fretted the poor man by the multiplicity of ideas
166 I,I | Monsieur," said the little man, in his atrociously hypocritical~
167 I,I | architect watched the queer old man with the enjoyment all artists~
168 I,I | cried Ragon; "a drowning man~will catch at his father'
169 I,I | frightened. The more illegal a man's gains the more~he clings
170 I,I | you believe--"~ ~The poor man stopped short; he was about
171 I,I | thousand francs, and when a man is starting in life he must
172 I,I | to get such a set-back! A man fifty-nine~years of age
173 I,I | perfumer a strong and able man, was~alarmed at his paleness
174 I,I | it is not the death of a man. Besides, you will get back
175 I,I | instructions of the poor man, whom Celestin and Cesarine
176 I,I | Monsieur Haudry. The old man was a physician of the~school
177 I,I | courage! you are so superior a man that you will~triumph in
178 I,I | not to~tell you that a man named Bidault, called Gigonnet,
179 I,I | they are~in the hands of a man with whom I do a great deal
180 I,I | cry of anguish which no man~ever mistakes.~ ~"A trifle!
181 I,I | Claparon. "Where's the old man who can answer for himself
182 I,I | out all right."~ ~The poor man took courage, as he heard
183 I,I | their full value."~ ~When a man crushed by misfortune is
184 I,I | is really saved. Many a man has derived energy from
185 I,I | self-assurance, an~honorable man must needs feel in his heart--
186 I,II | II~The old man was reading the "Constitutionnel"
187 I,II | whole of life to the poor man. After going down~a few
188 I,II | horrible commercial straits~a man, unless his soul is tempered
189 I,II | a chill to the soul of a man~grasped by the fever of
190 I,II | exclaimed Cesar.~ ~The poor man, bewildered by the clash
191 I,II | not to say, to a leading man in banking~circles. Horrible
192 I,II | impromptu speech of the great man. In the course of two long~
193 I,II | his own people, as~this man was a king daily; and he
194 I,II | not pray to God~that this man might be favorable to him!
195 I,II | memoranda brought to bear upon a~man into whose funds so many
196 I,II | which encouraged the poor man. He thought~the matter was
197 I,II | under the guidance of a~man in livery, towards an office
198 I,II | flatteries of the great man. He regretted that an enemy
199 I,II | Francois, the brilliant man of the world and of politics,
200 I,II | partner, the careful business man.~Two words, two speeches,
201 I,III| were killing to the poor man. But~Friday came at last.
202 I,III| the~bobbins of the poor man's thought, and who knew
203 I,III| Cesar revealed his~inner man; he gave his measure when
204 I,III| his last stake. The worthy~man, led on by false hopes,
205 I,III| official just decorated, and a~man in power, Keller now curtly
206 I,III| past reputation of the poor man. Though quickly~checked,
207 I,III| hatred towards~the only man who had it in his power
208 I,III| urged Cesar~to eat. The poor man felt he was saved, and gave
209 I,III| peril. The eyes of the poor man moistened, in spite of~himself.~ ~"
210 I,III| Tillet," said the worthy man, with gravity and emphasis,
211 I,III| from woman to woman, from man to man, have no other~cause
212 I,III| woman to woman, from man to man, have no other~cause then
213 I,III| that a~feather in a young man's cap? I understand you,
214 I,III| to the heart of the poor man.~"I do wrong. Misfortune
215 I,III| weight, walked away like a man suddenly~set at liberty,
216 I,III| irretrievably any other man~than little Popinot.~ ~*****~ ~
217 I,III| Ragon, a worthy, excellent man, in a~picture out of which
218 I,III| daughter will be the wife of a man of sense and energy. Talent
219 I,III| Talent is the~best dower a man can offer."~ ~She left the
220 I,IV | the luck to~interest this man in his affairs, and remained
221 I,IV | with carriages. The poor man's heart sank~within him
222 I,IV | last," thought the poor man, "we are coming to the point."~ ~"
223 I,IV | at this moment, a young man entered the room familiarly,
224 I,IV | Birotteau.~ ~The worthy man thought his own prospects
225 I,IV | the baronne and the young man, and~where Delphine was
226 I,IV | astonishment of the worthy man,~who slowly re-descended
227 I,IV | listening to you."~ ~The poor man's shirt was wet; his perspiration
228 I,IV | fancied it was the laugh of a~man to whom the sum was a mere
229 I,IV | other about so prominent a man as a deputy-mayor; and there
230 I,IV | sewing beside him. The poor man laid his head on a~cushion,
231 I,IV | he fell asleep.~ ~"Poor man!" said Constance; "what
232 I,IV | jollity,~and he had felt the man's vulgarity so keenly, that
233 I,IV | mistook the elation of the man's vulgarity when he attempted
234 I,IV | whom~he has compromised,--a man with whom he dined every
235 I,IV | finance; commerce by which a man can grasp the totality of~
236 I,IV | master-strokes need men.~There's the man of genius who hasn't a sou--
237 I,IV | jolly fellow, a moneyed man, who listens for the grunt
238 I,IV | succulent. Now, when the man of genius has found a good~
239 I,IV | good~thing, the moneyed man taps him on the shoulder
240 I,IV | from Epernay itself, by a man for whom I~once sold quantities
241 I,IV | frivolity and heedlessness of a man to whom~the world attributed
242 I,IV | are a funny fellow, old man, to flash us a ball like
243 I,IV | I'll kiss her; if it's a man, we'll~see about it; if
244 I,IV | The familiarity of the man, and his grotesque gabble
245 I,IV | curt malevolence of the old man, Cesar was cowed; he~heard
246 I,IV | going~away, the crafty old man stayed in spite of his nephew'
247 I,IV | life," exclaimed the poor man, comforted by this~warmth
248 I,IV | Roguin's respectability,--a man to whom they would~have
249 I,IV | believe him to~be an honest man; but if he asks you to do
250 I,IV | the anxiety a condemned man goes~through from the moment
251 I,IV | neighborhood like a~drunken man. At last he found himself
252 I,IV | on his way back the old man had met him in the Palais-Royal,~
253 I,IV | were terrible.~The shaken man went through, for the hundredth
254 I,V | by the action of the old man and by the tone of his~voice,
255 I,V | gravely,~addressing the poor man,--"my nephew, away with
256 I,V | calumny or slander which a man brings upon himself~when
257 I,V | taking the arm of the young~man.~ ~It was half-past eleven
258 I,V | You speak like the wise man that you are," answered
259 I,V | under him.~ ~"Is that a man?" he said to Pillerault.~ ~"
260 I,V | The firm voice of the poor man and his whole manner surprised
261 I,V | his assignment, the poor man could not~repress a horrible
262 I,V | the worn face of the poor man.~ ~"Yes," he said, at last.~ ~
263 I,V | failure, already known, of a man lately noted and~envied,
264 I,V | but it is amazing that a man who~passed for as honest
265 I,V | affair of this unfortunate man, for whom I~still feel the
266 I,V | respected as that of the man who controls the~flow of
267 I,V | notes of Birotteau; the man has failed, and claims must
268 I,V | a broken leg. He isn't a man, he has got no force."~ ~
269 I,V | Come, you are a good man," said the market-woman. "
270 I,V | his own room. The wily old man then went to Monsieur~Haudry,
271 I,V | fairly imprisoned by the old man, who was~sleeping himself
272 I,V | not unknown to this young man, who had been to~her shop
273 I,V | Resignation is the last stage of man's misfortune. From this
274 I,VI | agent is decisive. This man, together with the bankrupt'
275 I,VI | they proposed to him,~--a man, as they said, to whom the
276 I,VI | creditors with those of a man honorably overtaken by misfortune.~
277 I,VI | an assignment,~the worthy man has usually sold his wife'
278 I,VI | laying up for the honest man a store for the future;
279 I,VI | bags of silver. Lucky the man~who can get in at a window,
280 I,VI | honest and dishonest.~A man is admired if he "covers"
281 I,VI | We have dismantled our man like a condemned frigate.
282 I,VI | Molineux,~the mischievous old man who lost nothing by the
283 I,VI | which~Pillerault lived; a man counted honorable.~ ~*****~ ~
284 I,VI | miserable appartement of the old man, now his custodian,~his /
285 I,VI | the matter?" said the old man, as Cesar gave vent to an~
286 I,VI | do not know the sort of man this Molineux is!"~ ~"I
287 I,VI | seemed to frighten the old man, who~looked at Pillerault
288 I,VI | upon his future fate. For a man who can hold himself above~
289 I,VI | little feared. But to a man like Cesar Birotteau it
290 I,VI | undoubtedly show~the poor man that they respected him.~ ~
291 I,VI | told him petrified the poor man.~ ~"Fifty-seven thousand
292 I,VI | martyrdom it was for~this poor man to enter as a bankrupt the
293 I,VI | known; he who had~said, "A man may be honest till he fails,
294 I,VI | Pillerault, a strong man,--strong through the simplicity
295 I,VI | house everything~the poor man owned, even the engraving
296 I,VI | things which an honest man might have taken~without
297 I,VI | creditors employed~the same man, giving him their proxies.
298 I,VI | turned pale; but the good old man opened his~arms, and Birotteau
299 I,VI | Birotteau; yet the poor man could not enter the~office
300 I,VI | hand in it," said the poor man, much affected.~ ~"Now,
301 I,VI | from the aspect of this man, on whose face~sorrow had
302 I,VII| tears into his~eyes. Poor man! he had gone over this road
303 I,VII| Ought I?" said the poor man. "Ah! Constance, thy affection
304 I,VII| keep the money, my poor old man! La Madou may get in a~fury,
305 I,VII| rare, rare!"~ ~The worthy man had much the same scene,
306 I,VII| gras/,~"you are truly a man of honor."~ ~"What is Madame
307 I,VII| voice cried to him,~"The man is an unpunished rascal."
308 I,VII| his happiness. The young man~was prodigiously surprised
309 I,VII| behave like an honorable man?"~ ~"What is the matter,
310 I,VII| just~shown in forcing that man to accept my absurd exactions;
311 I,VII| my absurd exactions; any man would~explain it as the
312 I,VII| might~have destroyed the man for life, no doubt placed
313 I,VII| skies.~ ~"He is indeed a man of honor!" The phrase even
314 I,VII| former clerk. The worthy man went to the Rue~de la Chaussee
315 I,VII| aloud within his soul, "The~man is sublime!"~ ~"Pay me?"
316 I,VII| As he went home the poor man passed, inadvertently, along
317 I,VII| Queen of Roses."~ ~"Poor man!" said the perfumer's former
318 I,VII| moral struggles of the~poor man, whose mind stood always
319 I,VII| Well, Cesar," said the old man, "do you know what is at
320 I,VII| retinue roused the~honest man to an elation which gave
321 I,VII| appeal; for a condemned man can~only be pardoned. Men
322 I,VII| articles that the unfortunate man possessed. They~received,
323 I,VII| sovereign granted to the man who shed his blood on the~
324 I,VII| real truth, considered the man~a scoundrel.~ ~Matifat caught
325 I,VII| a corner,~looked at the man of commercial honor very
326 Add | Reconciled~The Firm of Nucingen~A Man of Business~The Middle Classes~ ~
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