Part, Chapter
1 I,I | moreover knows me: thanks to old Ragon. I furnish him~with
2 I,I | every Sunday? Is it~good old Ragon, our predecessor,
3 I,I | a man fifty-seven years old, twenty-five of which he~
4 I,I | to look like that of an old rake. Who can be sure that
5 I,II | Paris,--a lad twenty years old, owning a few acres of land,
6 I,II | growth, and was sixteen years old. His mind,~developed by
7 I,II | flattened more noses,~young and old, against the window-panes
8 I,II | Constance was eighteen years old, and possessed~eleven thousand
9 I,II | young man nineteen years old, who lived with the Birotteaus
10 I,II | placed on the card-table~some old louis d'or which Madame
11 I,II | the circumstance of the old louis~seems too much against
12 I,II | Cesar was now forty years old. The work he had undertaken
13 I,II | then thirty-seven years old, she bore so close a~resemblance
14 I,II | then wore the look of an old~Madonna; for amid the coming
15 I,III| Popinot was twenty-one years old. Birotteau himself had married
16 I,III| himself, the scion of an old Parisian family! In spite
17 I,III| service which infatuated old men seldom forget.~ ~One
18 I,III| well-known usurer, he went to~the old money-lender (that providence
19 I,III| sous in his~pocket when his old comrade du Tillet chanced
20 I,III| attaching himself~to his old comrade as a dog to his
21 I,IV | monsieur? I went to your old clerk, du Tillet, and he~
22 I,IV | aspired.~ ~This annoying old man had neither wife, child,
23 I,IV | accordance therewith, the old fellow made no repairs:~
24 I,IV | never more than three years old, not a~pane of glass was
25 I,IV | Batave, where the little old man lived, is the product
26 I,IV | little curtains of some old green-silk stuff, and~furniture
27 I,IV | As~to the chamber of the old celibate it was furnished
28 I,IV | talents of Monsieur Roguin, an old name~well-known in the notariat
29 I,IV | personal safety."~ ~The little old man got up and fetched the
30 I,IV | like a glove," said the old fellow with a sour~smile; "
31 I,IV | our brave soldiers of the old army. The ribbon~is red,
32 I,IV | the disdainful look. The old man~conducted his new tenant
33 I,IV | Grenetat. In this quarter old stables were filled~with
34 I,IV | coachhouses,~stables, and old workshops, where she fought
35 I,IV | your nuts?"~ ~"For you, old fellow, twenty-five francs
36 I,V | and quiet attitude, the old man had an inward calm not
37 I,V | cafe David, where a few old merchants, like Pillerault,
38 I,V | life, and~enlivened his old age by convictions and interests,
39 I,V | noble chimeras. The fine old man lived a family life;
40 I,V | played the part of those old~bachelors on whom married
41 I,V | on~the fourth floor of an old house.~ ~Just as the moral
42 I,V | a~sacrifice made by the old man to the conventions of
43 I,V | as that of a~monk or an old soldier (the two men best
44 I,V | profession of faith in a stoical old republican was strangely
45 I,V | heart of a spectator.~ ~An old woman came to do his household
46 I,V | thinking as he went that the~old man must be very hale to
47 I,V | the hand~of the austere old man.~ ~"How is the affair
48 I,V | the very~flower of the old bourgeoisie! Their brother,
49 I,V | he is fifty-eight~years old, and perhaps he thinks no
50 I,V | Mademoiselle Cesarine,~and, as the old fellow is pretty clever,
51 I,VI | hat-maker in the Rue du Coq, the old buffer who launched me~into
52 I,VI | Spectacles.' His father,~an old dog chock-full of reasons
53 I,VI | anything but the three-sixes. Old Finot~manages young Finot
54 I,VI | resemblance to a marquise of the old court.~The circles round
55 I,VI | having listened to us in the old times? Did we ever doubt
56 I,VI | shovel in your snuff like an old~Invalide; toy with your
57 I,VI | that famous thoroughfare of old Paris~where French history
58 I,VI | can deal with young and old alike. We can say to~the
59 I,VI | alike. We can say to~the old man, 'Ha, monsieur! the
60 I,VI | feast. "Anselme," said the old gentleman to his nephew,~"
61 I,VII| father-~in-law of Lebas--old people, but they'll sit
62 I,VII| was possible to seat an old woman. The~vestibule, paved
63 I,VII| care what you are saying, old~man!" She called him habitually
64 I,VII| called him habitually her "old man." This voluminous queen~
65 I,VII| yourself upon the~ices, old man, it is bad style."~ ~
66 I,VII| tone in which the little old man had pronounced the words.~ ~"
67 I,VII| and vindictive eye of the old man struck du Tillet,~whose
68 I,VII| cocked up, which gave the old man the semblance of a~rattlesnake.
69 I,VII| the angularities~of the old women, who good-naturedly
70 I,VII| du Tillet, bowing to his old master.~ ~Among the eight
71 I,I | architect watched the queer old man with the enjoyment all
72 I,I | He is quite right," said old Ragon.~ ~"All insolvents
73 I,I | to keep a mistress! the old villain! It is only two
74 I,I | bed, and they sent for~his old friend Monsieur Haudry.
75 I,I | friend Monsieur Haudry. The old man was a physician of the~
76 I,I | are about a sick-bed.~The old doctor had seen much in
77 I,I | than one shot to kill an old wolf. I have seen wolves
78 I,I | said~Claparon. "Where's the old man who can answer for himself
79 I,I | his position to the severe old ironmonger, his wife's uncle.~
80 I,II | II~The old man was reading the "Constitutionnel"
81 I,II | when Pierrot, taking an old hair-~broom, anointed it
82 I,III| the former clerk to his old~patron.~ ~Du Tillet knew
83 I,III| thousand francs which the old rogue borrowed of me just
84 I,III| beating round the bush, old fellow," thought du Tillet,
85 I,III| full~of gratitude to his old clerk. "Well, a benefit
86 I,III| Constance was sitting in her old place behind the counter,
87 I,III| that fatal night, in our old room which you~pulled to
88 I,III| shop and the back-shop. An old cook did~all the household
89 I,III| my boy!" uttered by his old~master, Popinot raised his
90 I,III| second floor of a dignified old~house, in an appartement
91 I,III| age. The salon, hung with old damask and draped with curtains
92 I,III| noted for the possession of~old wines which had come to
93 I,III| much~prized. Jeannette, the old cook, took care of the aged
94 I,III| assembled at five o'clock. The old Ragons always~requested
95 I,III| which were sixty-five years old could not~adapt themselves
96 I,IV | How is it that you, an old commercial judge, should
97 I,IV | at a reasonable rate by old Gobseck, who is~very easy
98 I,IV | round which stood a few old chairs of~black leather
99 I,IV | bought at the sale of some old notary,~which annoyed the
100 I,IV | champagne."~ ~To make an old commercial traveller drunk
101 I,IV | and tell him to assist an old friend whom~he has compromised,--
102 I,IV | ours now. Don't be worried, old fellow,~all will go well.
103 I,IV | you are a funny fellow, old man, to flash us a ball
104 I,IV | as~they say, the tool of old Gobseck, he won't be allowed
105 I,IV | corner of his web like an old spider who has~travelled
106 I,IV | curt malevolence of the old man, Cesar was cowed; he~
107 I,IV | of going~away, the crafty old man stayed in spite of his
108 I,IV | roused the suspicions of old Popinot as to~Cesar's intentions;
109 I,IV | Lombards. "My nephew, your old master may~find himself
110 I,IV | him;~on his way back the old man had met him in the Palais-Royal,~
111 I,V | bewildered by the action of the old man and by the tone of his~
112 I,V | Let us go below," said the old merchant, taking the arm
113 I,V | trifle to remind her of her old~uncle, who daily lifts his
114 I,V | two brave friends,--one an old~soldier, the other a young
115 I,V | is their leading feature. Old~Gigonnet lived on the third
116 I,V | Gobenheim-Keller, Nucingen, old Guillaume, and his son-in-~
117 I,V | of~dried fruits.~ ~"Well, old woman," he said, with his
118 I,V | To-morrow morning, then, old~fellow!" she said to the
119 I,V | to his own room. The wily old man then went to Monsieur~
120 I,V | fairly imprisoned by the old man, who was~sleeping himself
121 I,V | for he had~seen him in the old days at "The Queen of Roses."
122 I,V | greatly attached to the old Vendeen diplomatist.~ ~The
123 I,V | she had~returned to labor. Old Pillerault's eyes were wet,
124 I,VI | prolonged agony for his old master; and this is how
125 I,VI | Molineux,~the mischievous old man who lost nothing by
126 I,VI | miserable appartement of the old man, now his custodian,~
127 I,VI | is the matter?" said the old man, as Cesar gave vent
128 I,VI | David seemed to frighten the old man, who~looked at Pillerault
129 I,VI | insect, he had got hold of~an old commercial sphinx.~ ~"Monsieur,"
130 I,VI | instance, as in others, old Pillerault was~his tutelary
131 I,VI | purse-strings, he wanted to see his old master dishonored, lost,
132 I,VI | impression upon Pillerault. The old~merchant took them as a
133 I,VI | turned pale; but the good old man opened his~arms, and
134 I,VI | salary!"~ ~The merchants, his old associates, who met the
135 I,VI | their lives were spent. The old ironmonger had too tough
136 I,VII| at Sceaux, and the worthy old ironmonger~silently prepared
137 I,VII| Yes, I have lost even my old self-confidence; I~have
138 I,VII| keep the money, my poor old man! La Madou may get in
139 I,VII| and his face hollow. When old~acquaintances met him, in
140 I,VII| to sub-~let to you your old appartement, where he has
141 I,VII| before the windows of his old home,~and they had come
142 I,VII| Birotteau looking at his old house," said Monsieur~Molineux
143 I,VII| Well, Cesar," said the old man, "do you know what is
144 I,VII| and daughter to be in our old appartement?"~asked Birotteau,
145 I,VII| mount the stairway of the old Palais de~Justice in the
146 I,VII| as two~centuries of the old monarchy had produced. The
147 I,VII| disturbed the minds of the~three old friends.~ ~It is a fault
148 I,VII| preparation for it,~imitating his old master in necessary expenses,
149 I,VII| that awaited him in his old home. He~entered the house,
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