Part, Chapter
1 I,I | considered before me. But Cesarine is here--Cesarine! Cesarine!~--
2 I,I | me. But Cesarine is here--Cesarine! Cesarine!~--Birotteau has
3 I,I | Cesarine is here--Cesarine! Cesarine!~--Birotteau has never had
4 I,I | daughter was in bed.~ ~"Cesarine is asleep," she said, "she
5 I,I | and a pretty chamber for Cesarine. The~shop-girl whom you
6 I,I | he negotiate the affair?~Cesarine must have two hundred thousand
7 I,I | shall be rich by a million. Cesarine will then be twenty, our~
8 I,I | sell the business, marry Cesarine, and give up~your visions.
9 I,I | fortune~solidly secure and Cesarine well married. God grant
10 I,I | s self! it was fearful! Cesarine and I will have to make
11 I,II | year, and the education of~Cesarine, an only daughter, idolized
12 I,II | listened to his charming~Cesarine playing a sonata of Steibelt'
13 I,III| He thought suddenly of Cesarine,~the true queen of roses,
14 I,III| hindrance to his marriage~with Cesarine, though the wealth of the
15 I,III| not dine every day beside~Cesarine? So, while attending to
16 I,III| doing~it for the sake of Cesarine, nothing tired him. Love,
17 I,III| widened the distance between Cesarine and himself. The~property
18 I,III| dignified~approval from Cesarine; in the depths of her blue
19 I,III| master.~ ~"For Mademoiselle Cesarine."~ ~"Ah, boy, you are bold
20 I,III| to be settled in a day. Cesarine is~her own mistress, and
21 I,III| saying to him: "Deserve Cesarine by becoming rich and~respected."~ ~"
22 I,III| the~Tuileries. "Suppose Cesarine should love him? But he
23 I,IV | where she threw her head on Cesarine's shoulder.~ ~"Ah, my daughter!"
24 I,IV | taken care of him," said Cesarine, kissing her mother and
25 I,IV | taken~aback at the beauty of Cesarine. Just out of her dressing-room
26 I,IV | slender, with blue eyes, Cesarine~seemed to the young artist
27 I,IV | beauty of a Flemish Rubens. Cesarine had the turned-up nose of
28 I,IV | have no other wife than Cesarine. The~liquid brightness of
29 I,IV | In her moral qualities Cesarine was like her mother, somewhat
30 I,IV | themselves, delighted in deifying~Cesarine, who happily had the virtues
31 I,IV | said the~artist, smiling.~ ~Cesarine could not help smiling.~ ~"
32 I,V | affections upon~her and upon Cesarine, having lost, in the course
33 I,V | his foot timidly because Cesarine was there.~ ~The lover had
34 I,V | listened to the father of~Cesarine stimulated Birotteau's eloquence,
35 I,V | Popinot cast now and then at Cesarine,~proclaimed some great event
36 I,V | masters and the apprentices. Cesarine or~Constance then prepared
37 I,V | fingers to Constance and Cesarine. His~wife was silent, but
38 I,V | His~wife was silent, but Cesarine, much puzzled, said to her
39 I,V | which Popinot had cast at Cesarine, and he resolved to clear~
40 I,V | the less under my~roof."~ ~Cesarine looked at her father with
41 I,V | confused feelings which rose in~Cesarine's heart, blossomed in roses
42 I,V | must have passed between Cesarine and Popinot. He was mistaken;~
43 I,V | that a beautiful girl like Cesarine should love~a poor lame
44 I,V | sung his praises before Cesarine.~Petty as they might be
45 I,V | accept her sway. Thus thought Cesarine, involuntarily perhaps,
46 I,V | half~silly, which revolted Cesarine, already disgusted by the
47 I,V | indefatigable~ardor in it pleased Cesarine, for she guessed that when
48 I,V | shop said, "Mademoiselle Cesarine will marry Roguin's head-~
49 I,V | Where is he going?" asked Cesarine of her father, trying to
50 I,V | resolving to~talk over Cesarine with his wife.~ ~"I told
51 I,V | stopped short, seeing that Cesarine was listening attentively,
52 I,V | making eyes at Mademoiselle Cesarine,~and, as the old fellow
53 I,VI | flying! You shall have~your Cesarine, or my name shall not be
54 I,VI | on which was written "Oil Cesarine." He woke,~recollected the
55 I,VI | discount to retailers?"~ ~"Oil Cesarine!" cried Popinot.~ ~"Oil
56 I,VI | cried Popinot.~ ~"Oil Cesarine?--Ah, lover! would you flatter
57 I,VI | Well, well, so be it; Oil Cesarine! The Cesars owned the whole
58 I,VI | Three francs for the Oil Cesarine,~while Macassar Oil costs
59 I,VI | which Madame Ragon wore.~ ~"Cesarine is charming. Come here,
60 I,VI | Shall we not see him?" asked Cesarine.~ ~"No, my love," said Madame
61 I,VI | head--" and she looked at Cesarine with a gesture~which explained
62 I,VI | the observer~Pillerault, Cesarine, and her mother were disagreeably
63 I,VI | whispered Madame Ragon to~Cesarine.~ ~Monsieur Roguin overheard
64 I,VI | alone."~ ~Madame Ragon, Cesarine, and Constance left the
65 I,VII| were~playing at boston, and Cesarine was embroidering a handkerchief,
66 I,VII| Madame~Ragon, near whom Cesarine was sitting, noticed the
67 I,VII| all thoughts of marrying Cesarine; six weeks hence you will
68 I,VII| She is very pretty," said Cesarine. "I liked her."~ ~"And yet
69 I,VII| the upper-~crust people. Cesarine, write down Monsieur le
70 I,VII| somebody to speak to."~ ~"Cesarine, write," said Birotteau. "/
71 I,VII| getting everybody.~"Go on, Cesarine. Monsieur le Comte and Madame
72 I,VII| for ball and dinner both, Cesarine. And (so as~not to forget
73 I,VII| said Constance.~ ~"Whew! Cesarine has written a four after
74 I,VII| The Matifats," said Cesarine, "are fishing for invitations
75 I,VII| woman in the room," said Cesarine. "I like~her--oh! better
76 I,VII| enemies."~ ~"Put them down, Cesarine; all honor to commerce,
77 I,VII| down all my proteges," said Cesarine.~ ~"Put Monsieur Mitral,
78 I,VII| Augustine Sommervieux," said Cesarine. "Poor little woman, she
79 I,VII| her,~private "surprise." Cesarine, dear child, had spent all
80 I,VII| surprise to~her father. Cesarine flung all her girlish savings
81 I,VII| the morning of the 16th. Cesarine~confided her anxiety to
82 I,VII| spoke to his~accomplice, Cesarine. The "surprise" of Madame
83 I,VII| the assembled clerks, and Cesarine, and Constance. They,~one
84 I,VII| child," added Constance to Cesarine.~ ~"How well it looks in
85 I,VII| your button-hole," said Cesarine. "When we walk~out together,
86 I,VII| began. Cesar, his wife, and Cesarine went out by the~shop-door
87 I,VII| enticing look, which tempted Cesarine to dance.~ ~"How charming!"
88 I,VII| It is a science," said Cesarine.~ ~A boudoir in green and
89 I,VII| cried Cesar.~ ~"No; that is Cesarine's surprise."~ ~"Pardon the
90 I,VII| Monsieur Anselme," said~Cesarine.~ ~(Anselme, too, had allowed
91 I,VII| harmonized this room with that of Cesarine, which opened out~of it,
92 I,VII| had severally wished for. Cesarine undressed her mother before
93 I,VII| morrow.~ ~On that morrow Cesarine and her mother, having been
94 I,VII| the~delicacy of a cameo. Cesarine, dressed in white crape,
95 I,VII| Madame Roguin, Constance,~and Cesarine formed, as it were, a link
96 I,VII| that he had~designed it.~ ~Cesarine, who was asked, of course,
97 I,VII| our mutual self-~love."~ ~Cesarine, who thought all men walked
98 I,VII| Hope for fortune," said Cesarine, with an arch smile.~ ~"
99 I,VII| Success, and I shall marry Cesarine! she~has told me so: see
100 I,VII| and the library (repaid to Cesarine), cost not less, though~
101 I,I | he told me not to marry Cesarine; he said you would soon
102 I,I | about Roguin's flight. Tell~Cesarine to come down to me, and
103 I,I | poor man, whom Celestin and Cesarine were~horrified to find pale
104 I,I | said the doctor, to whom Cesarine had given a~hint.~ ~It often
105 I,I | meaning of~half a word. Cesarine followed him to the staircase,
106 I,I | mind," she whispered to Cesarine, as Cesar rose~up in bed
107 I,I | Anselme will~help you."~ ~Cesarine said these vague words in
108 I,I | priests lay up~money."~ ~Cesarine hastened to bring her father
109 I,I | Cesar.~ ~ ~Your niece, Cesarine, who is watching me as I
110 I,I | postscript was added at Cesarine's urgent request; she then
111 I,II | and to succor my niece and Cesarine.~You may all want bread,
112 I,II | which to~lean and moan. Cesarine, to whom from the first
113 I,II | think over his troubles. Cesarine would~sometimes creep in
114 I,II | talking with Constance and Cesarine, who told him that~Cesar
115 I,II | premises. His fancy pictured Cesarine sitting on the~cases, and
116 I,II | I am saved," he said to Cesarine. "I am to have a credit
117 I,III| had made sure no one but Cesarine was~with them,--"du Tillet,
118 I,III| Constance.~ ~"Yes, mamma," cried Cesarine, "and papa has been so courageous!
119 I,III| eyes to~weep with. My poor Cesarine, I--"~ ~"Now, there you
120 I,III| will help my father," said Cesarine.~ ~"I'll go and see him,"
121 I,III| adopted in the great~world.~ ~Cesarine was sure that Madame Ragon
122 I,III| neckerchief to~show a little of Cesarine's shoulders and the spring
123 I,III| on the pure white tones.~Cesarine was so coquettishly lovely
124 I,III| shed my blood for him--"~ ~Cesarine fully understood that the
125 I,III| not injure yourself," said Cesarine, with an inexpressible accent~
126 I,III| as~well. Isn't it so?"~ ~Cesarine pressed her father's hand,
127 I,IV | demanded sleep to repair~it. Cesarine took her father into the
128 I,IV | troubles you, mamma?" said Cesarine, seeing that her mother~
129 I,IV | bound to any sacrifice."~ ~Cesarine was seized with a terror
130 I,IV | before the father of~his Cesarine. The empty phrases which
131 I,IV | Birotteau was out of~sight. Cesarine's lover heard that dreadful
132 I,IV | and weep by~themselves in Cesarine's chamber.~ ~"Now I can
133 I,IV | looked upon by Constance, Cesarine,~Pillerault, and Derville
134 I,IV | the history of human life. Cesarine, sitting on a little stool~
135 I,IV | door.~ ~"Poor father!" said Cesarine, who rose softly to lay
136 I,V | thousand francs~than lose Cesarine. At this very moment while
137 I,V | added. "I know you love Cesarine devotedly, and I think~you
138 I,V | Vendome, so that just as Cesarine, her mother, and~Pillerault
139 I,V | was sure of him!" cried Cesarine, seizing Popinot's hand,
140 I,V | present,--Cesar, his wife, Cesarine, and Popinot,~--bewildered
141 I,V | of the stoic Pillerault; Cesarine, overcome~and weeping, leaned
142 I,V | salon. Hearing his step,~Cesarine ran to meet him, that he
143 I,V | open it."~ ~"Father!" cried Cesarine; "a letter from my uncle
144 I,V | said Constance, looking at Cesarine.~ ~By retrenching a few
145 I,V | I now send for my niece Cesarine; so that~when she marries
146 I,V | his whole manner surprised Cesarine~and the priest. Yet nothing
147 I,V | the hand~of Mademoiselle Cesarine."~ ~At these words tears
148 I,V | as he took the hand which~Cesarine held out to him, and kissed
149 I,V | is such an egoist! Even~Cesarine felt within her heart an
150 I,V | with the family. Aided by Cesarine he induced her~father to
151 I,V | Cesar dead.~ ~"Mamma," said Cesarine, sitting on her mother's
152 I,V | Sorry has one good," said Cesarine, kissing her mother; "it
153 I,V | him to obtain a place~for Cesarine in some respectable commercial
154 I,V | promises; but eight days later Cesarine had board, lodging, and
155 I,V | the quartier~des Italiens. Cesarine was put in charge of the
156 I,VI | Out of sheer calculation Cesarine threw~herself into her business
157 I,VI | position.~Constance and Cesarine went nowhere. On Sundays
158 I,VII| as beautiful as their~own Cesarine; he was dreaming then of
159 I,VII| welled up in the hearts of~Cesarine and Anselme, who embodied
160 I,VII| Constance; "go with Anselme and Cesarine!~but come back by four o'
161 I,VII| it, watching~Anselme and Cesarine, who were sauntering across
162 I,VII| certain that the lover of Cesarine felt an instinctive~hatred
163 I,VII| affair, I shall have my Cesarine. My~poor little wife shall
164 I,VII| moment beside herself.~"Cesarine is thine! My daughter will
165 I,VII| where I shall live with Cesarine, who shall never leave you.
166 I,VII| the important~house where Cesarine was employed, Lourdois,
167 I,VII| I going blind? Was that Cesarine?" he cried,~recollecting
168 I,VII| astonishment he expressed at seeing Cesarine at~"The Queen of Roses"
169 I,VII| hurry Popinot is in to marry Cesarine. He cannot wait any~longer;
170 I,VII| it, and live there with Cesarine. Your wife is~on his side.
171 I,VII| much less merit in marrying Cesarine after you are reinstated.
172 I,VII| wish to be bought!" cried Cesarine, entering with Popinot.~ ~
173 I,VII| banns of marriage between Cesarine and Anselme,~Birotteau was
174 I,VII| marriage contract of his dear Cesarine and the devoted Popinot
175 I,VII| nay, with~ecstasy. Had not Cesarine in all her glory then promised
176 I,VII| of Roguin and his wife. Cesarine~and Popinot distributed
177 I,VII| with fleeting splendor. Cesarine cherished a~dream of appearing
178 I,VII| Neither Constance, nor Cesarine,~nor Popinot perceived the
179 I,VII| wife in her velvet robe, Cesarine, the Comte de~Fontaine,
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