Part, Chapter
1 I,I | have waked~me. For nineteen years that we have slept together
2 I,I | went on. "For the~last two years, since they made him deputy-mayor,
3 I,I | for my sake. For nineteen years he~has never said to me
4 I,I | selling perfumery for twenty years to those who came to buy
5 I,I | place. Why! for~fifteen years you have talked of nothing
6 I,I | perfumers.~If sixteen years before you invented the
7 I,I | which it will bring three years from now, at~which time,
8 I,I | cross our arms and in three~years we shall be rich by a million.
9 I,I | predecessor, who has forty upright years in~business to boast of,
10 I,I | notary, a man fifty-seven years old, twenty-five of which
11 I,I | perfumery like him for forty years, we should be worth~three
12 I,I | think that at thirty-~seven years of age, fresh and pretty
13 I,I | His face has grown in five~years to look like that of an
14 I,I | been a~friend for fifteen years, and I wouldn't put my hand
15 I,I | sixty thousand, in twenty~years they will get to the end
16 I,I | at to-day's price. In two years it will be~another thing;
17 I,I | established and~known for eighteen years, to be suspected in his
18 I,I | found in Germany, after two years'~search. He is now engaged
19 I,II | When Cesar at fourteen years~of age could read, write,
20 I,II | laughed at~pitilessly. Two years later, the cook happily
21 I,II | in~Paris,--a lad twenty years old, owning a few acres
22 I,II | him.~ ~During those two years the cook had fed her little
23 I,II | growth, and was sixteen years old. His mind,~developed
24 I,II | Birotteau, now master at twenty years of age~of a thousand francs
25 I,II | Constance was eighteen years old, and possessed~eleven
26 I,II | able in less than twenty years to make a~modest capital
27 I,II | Institute of France.~ ~"For many years a paste for the hands and
28 I,II | Cesar during the first three years of their married~life, she
29 I,II | head-clerk a young man~twenty-two years of age, named Ferdinand
30 I,II | loophole to become~in after years an honest man. Gifted with
31 I,II | Popinot, a~young man nineteen years old, who lived with the
32 I,II | Paris.~ ~Cesar was now forty years old. The work he had undertaken
33 I,II | Cesar, then thirty-seven years old, she bore so close a~
34 I,III| Popinot was twenty-one years old. Birotteau himself had
35 I,III| uncle Ragon thirty-five years. I went to~him in hob-nailed
36 I,III| but for the past three years he had fallen a prey to
37 I,III| between fifty and sixty years of age. It was roused by
38 I,III| named Muller. After two years correspondence with Germany,
39 I,III| for him~daily for sixteen years. I can never forget him;
40 I,IV | door of his house.~ ~Four years earlier Monsieur Grindot
41 I,IV | where he had spent~three years at the cost of the State.
42 I,IV | were never more than three years old, not a~pane of glass
43 I,IV | own~lease run?"~ ~"Seven years," answered Birotteau.~ ~"
44 I,IV | floor will be worth in seven years!" said~Molineux. "Why, what
45 I,IV | them for seven~consecutive years. The costs of piercing the
46 I,IV | fish-woman, but thrown, some ten years since,~into the dried-fruit
47 I,V | healthful existence.~ ~For sixty years he had led the hard and
48 I,V | happiness. A clerk~till thirty years of age, his property was
49 I,V | full at~the end of five years, without interest. Engaged
50 I,V | interest. Engaged for thirty years in a~business which amounted
51 I,V | Suppose we do have to wait six years, there will~always be some
52 I,V | worked,~like me, for forty years!"~ ~"God grant that the
53 I,V | take a lease of eighteen years," said Birotteau. "But let
54 I,V | Yes, monsieur; and twenty years hence I shall remember it
55 I,V | be worth a million in six years. How shall I ever pay that
56 I,V | world; he is fifty-eight~years old, and perhaps he thinks
57 I,VI | were to win him, in coming years, the title of~The Illustrious.
58 I,VI | thought it superb sixteen years ago," murmured Constance.~ ~"--
59 I,VI | took the place for~eighteen years, but they exacted six months'
60 I,VI | finance.~ ~About twenty-eight years of age at the time of which
61 I,VI | hundred comrades, when ten years supervene between the time
62 I,VII| magistrate. A lease of eighteen years was~agreed upon, so that
63 I,VII| and trembling for nineteen years~it was so sweet to give
64 I,VII| orphan girl who eighteen years earlier was~saleswoman at
65 I,VII| Roses" for more than~sixty years.~ ~Madame Matifat, wishing
66 I,I | a prosperity of~eighteen years now about to be extinguished,
67 I,I | with his clients' money for years; and why? for a mistress,--
68 I,I | set-back! A man fifty-nine~years of age to keep a mistress!
69 I,I | him at the end of twenty~years one hundred thousand francs.
70 I,I | affair which needs five years' pot-boiling before you
71 I,II | ingratiating manner which for ten years past the banker~had seen
72 I,III| sound~one. To wait five years to double our capital won'
73 I,III| wife, who after nineteen years of married life was not~
74 I,III| pleasure~of the nineteen happy years of the Birotteau household,--
75 I,III| the Birotteau household,--years of~happiness that were full
76 I,III| guests, she was, despite her years, active in~the kitchen to
77 I,III| stomachs which were sixty-five years old could not~adapt themselves
78 I,IV | he has known for twenty years?"~ ~"Roguin? A fool! his
79 I,IV | won't be~developed for ten years to come, according to Nucingen,
80 I,IV | honorable men who have forty years of~integrity to boast of,
81 I,V | Listomere has lent me in three~years; so do not make yourself
82 I,V | received your last~letter, two years ago, I thought you so rich
83 I,V | the walls for twenty-five years; and then his anxious~glance
84 I,V | dreamed a dream for twenty-two years; to-day I awake with my~
85 I,V | thousand francs a year. In ten years you can pay off a~hundred
86 I,VI | by misfortune.~For some years past the best judges have
87 I,VI | giving him ten or~twelve years in which to pay us the fifty
88 I,VI | time to time for fifteen years past at the cafe~David,
89 I,VI | Carminative~Balm, with twelve years' lease of the manufactories,
90 I,VI | been in~business for twenty years, and this is only the second
91 I,VI | in spite of his seventy years. Cesar saw~his wife passing
92 I,VII| gone over this road twenty years before, young,~prosperous,
93 I,VII| followed along this path twenty years ago--like our~children yonder!
94 I,VII| said, "that after twenty years of married life~the love
95 I,VII| shop.~ ~"I have fifteen years' lease still to run; it
96 I,VII| did not~receive till three years later. All this explains
97 I,VII| the house where eighteen years of happiness had~been effaced
98 I,VII| the first time in three years, a genuine smile on the
99 I,VII| than one is granted in ten years.~ ~To those persons who
100 I,VII| and producing in a few years as many failures as two~
101 I,VII| and Cesar through~their years of trial had often, though
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