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1 I,II | seemed not~unknown to her. In 1792 the feet of the deserted
2 I,II | with him.~ ~In Vendemiaire, 1794, Cesar, who possessed a
3 I,II | Tourangian. In the year 1800,~and in the pretty month
4 I,II | son. The curate died in 1804, without leaving enough~
5 I,II | trembled~as before.~ ~In 1810 Madame Cesar, foreseeing
6 I,VII| on the 16th of~January, 1820, Birotteau was declared
7 I,VII| VII~ ~In the month of May, 1821, this family, ever grappling
8 I,VII| the beginning of the year 1822, the Canal Saint-Martin
9 I,VII| value they were to reach in 1827. So that after du Tillet~
10 I,II | for his country.~ ~On the 18th Brumaire, Monsieur and Madame
11 I,III| III~It was not until the 29th of December that Birotteau
12 I,V | Paris, Rue Saint-Honore,~no. 397, insolvent, and appoints
13 I,III| Baron de Nucingen on the 8th so as to be sure of having
14 I,VI | the very place to juggle a--I mean to settle a~piece
15 I,VII| bespatter her when you meet her a-foot in the streets, ruined."~ ~
16 I,II | parcel~of books for six sous a-piece, laid out in a hamper on
17 I,IV | was surprised and taken~aback at the beauty of Cesarine.
18 I,VII| behold the~notariat of Paris abandoning the glorious traditions
19 I,II | fact of his exposure and abandonment in that township. Without~
20 I,VI | Why! at fifty per cent abatement, if my~creditors allow me
21 I,II | title, yellow with dust: "Abdeker,~or the Art of Preserving
22 I,II | men."~ ~Constance frankly abdicated the more brilliant destiny
23 I,IV | functions of the mind were in abeyance. This respite,~bestowed
24 I,II | Norman, gifted with~dangerous abilities, coupled his desires for
25 I,V | gorgeous~toilets and the abnormal coach, ignorant as they
26 I,II | a Titus of every~man and abolished powder. The tranquillity
27 I,I | of her~monologue may be abridged into a few absurd sentences,
28 I,VII| which the following is an abridgement:--~ ~"Gentlemen," said that
29 I,II | known in this metropolis and abroad, has discovered a~Paste
30 I,IV | knew the reasons for his absence; but at five~o'clock in
31 I,IV | sufficiently explained the absences of the financier. On the
32 I,VI | What do you need? Money?~--absent, on leave, but we can get
33 I,IV | hour brought its drop of~absinthe, the day went by with frightful
34 I,II | success of money was the absolution of all moral mechanism,
35 I,II | tranquillity resulting from absolutism~could alone, he thought,
36 I,V | other~cephalagic affections absorb, dissipate, or displace
37 I,III| suit is bought, I shall abstain from giving an opinion,
38 I,IV | that commerce?"~ ~"It is abstract commerce," said Claparon,--"
39 I,V | They will think you are abstracting large sums."~ ~"Then I will
40 I,II | deficit, and showed that the abstraction had been~made after the
41 I,V | cause the oil to flow more~abundantly; but if obtained by pressure
42 I,VI | bankrupt to have,--another abuse which makes the catastrophe~
43 I,V | Besides,~charlatans have so abused the name of the Academy
44 I,IV | questions as to~tenants, abutters, liabilities, taxes, repairs,
45 I,VI | era of~science; we need an academical tone,--a tone of authority,
46 I,VII| at home here, Monsieur l'academicien,"~said Birotteau. "Yes,
47 I,III| moved by the passionate~accents of his wife, who after nineteen
48 I,III| crushed by it; if he died by accident,~the confusion of his affairs
49 I,I | and, like all electric accidents, capricious~and whimsical
50 I,VI | Gaudissart, with a cane accompaniment~significantly rapped upon
51 I,VI | Monsieur Ragon wished to accompany his debtor. When the former
52 I,VII| all eager for the honor of accompanying~him to the bar of the Court.
53 I,VI | the last~penny.~ ~"If to accomplish that noble task you should
54 I,VII| thinking over~the best means of accomplishing his purpose. Cesar's joy
55 I,IV | followed it~religiously. In accordance therewith, the old fellow
56 I,VI | semblance of a manner that accorded with~his fictitious importance.~ ~
57 I,IV | shuddered at~the necessity of accosting him.~ ~"But he is nearer
58 I,VI | stirred up by failures is thus accounted for.~ ~But here it becomes
59 I,II | encumbered chimney-piece; the accumulation of many~interests, national
60 I,I | paradise he does. What does he accuse~himself of to his confessor,
61 I,VII| mental discussion would~accustom him to the idea of his complete
62 I,VII| all~conservative bonds by accustoming youth to the practice of
63 I,VI | market, thinking how to achieve a~rapid success, he suddenly
64 I,VII| invited Monsieur Camusot in acknowledgment of the~kindness he had bestowed
65 I,II | sight; but later, on closer acquaintance,~expressions were caught
66 I,IV | magnifissence; so vill you mak his acquentence mit blaysure."~ ~"I should
67 I,V | of grief rather than of acquiescence~escape her.~ ~"My nephew,"
68 I,II | years old, owning a few acres of land, who let~Ursula
69 I,II | a~Norman, had a crude or acrid color. The glance of his
70 I,IV | mind the mean and niggardly acrimony of Molineux, and~he shrank
71 I,V | gave them the strength of acrobats. They~came and went up and
72 I,VI | while the drama is being acted, the~creditors shall provide
73 I,VII| away.~ ~The principle which actuated poor Cesar is so rare in
74 I,VII| so cruelly~chastised,--as Adam and Eve must have tasted
75 I,III| sixty-five years old could not~adapt themselves to the novel
76 I,II | with a good figure and adaptive manners,~which enabled him
77 Add | ADDENDUM~The following personages
78 I,III| hand and his~daughter's, adding, "Ah, my dear white lambs,
79 Add | Betty~The Country Parson~In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the
80 I,II | and on~the other to win adherents and rally to the Bourbons
81 I,II | shown~into a salon which adjoined the study of the celebrated
82 I,VI | the law's delays, they are~adjusted, settled, and secured with
83 I,I | creditors, and he should administer his affairs in their interests~
84 I,V | to~whom Cesar promptly administered a little kick on his heels.~ ~
85 I,III| come down.~ ~Popinot, the admirable antipodes of du Tillet,
86 I,II | certain perfumes. He may~admire the /danseuses/ in a /chauderie/,
87 I,VI | and dishonest.~A man is admired if he "covers" himself.
88 I,II | had explained his errand, Adolphe--much the~cleverest of the
89 I,V | the evenings. There, the adoption of the son of his cook had~
90 I,IV | spite of all her reverses! adorable land, where I~shall no doubt
91 I,V | the elegant boxes which adorn the shop-windows of the~
92 I,IV | them. The chimney-piece was adorned by a clock with two columns,~
93 I,IV | libertine curls. The chief adornment~of this room, which had
94 I,VII| the outer peristyle which adorns the courtyard of the Palais,
95 I,V | studied~them. He often refused advantageous bargains on which his neighbors~
96 I,IV | habits gave her the same advantages which the open-~air life
97 I,III| employ, two~months before the advent of du Tillet. As he went
98 I,IV | was about to relate the adventure of a republican deputy of~
99 I,V | politics; he never insulted his adversaries, he dreaded courtiers~and
100 I,II | the first~skirmishings of adverse fortune, Cesar employed
101 I,III| Oil has been~thoroughly advertised; we must not underrate its
102 I,V | red or white hair. But in~advertising the benefits of oil you
103 I,I | If I had followed your advice--you who have such~uneasy
104 I,VI | he therefore thought it advisable to prepare their~minds.~ ~"
105 I,II | the only person able to advise him, from~knowing anything
106 I,VI | tone~and become insolent, advisedly. But he needed a small sum
107 I,II | the famous Palma, intimate~adviser of the house of Keller,
108 I,VI | safe from the second. After advising Cesar to abandon~everything
109 I,IV | beings.~Derville, Birotteau's advocate, rushed into the handsome
110 I,IV | whose~step, recognized from afar by the beautiful Delphine
111 I,IV | another ball?" she inquired affably.~ ~"Madame, poor people,
112 I,III| beauty of youth; good and affectionate, a little shame-faced though~
113 I,V | the "Journal des Petites Affiches" this~terrible article:--~ ~"
114 I,V | prepared, and asked him to affix his signature. The~clerks
115 I,VII| your relations! I can well afford to give you a receipt in
116 I,VII| at~"The Queen of Roses" afforded, Pillerault thought, an
117 I,I | Those words are not only an affront, but~they are the death
118 I,VI | once sat as judge; to meet affronts where so often he~had been
119 I,VII| their~claims through the aforesaid relinquishment on the part
120 I,VI | we can drink without an afterthought," said Gaudissart. "After~
121 I,III| the color of a grey-veined agate, his pleasant~mouth, his
122 I,IV | Monsieur Fauquelin of der~Agatemi--"~ ~"Monsieur le baron!--"~ ~"
123 I,V | which I defended--at your age--upon the~steps of Saint-Roch
124 I,II | merchants of~the upper grades, agents, engineers, and above all
125 I,IV | divitent! I haf receifed die aggonts. You vill~haf one hundert
126 I,VI | his~loaded cane over the aggressor.~ ~"I am Popinot," said
127 I,III| served at the table~with an agility that (to use a favorite
128 I,VII| Birotteau was a prey to feverish agitation. He was restless. He feared~
129 I,VII| along this path twenty years ago--like our~children yonder!
130 I,V | of men. Meditate upon the agonies~of his passion, and you
131 I,IV | umbrella-man made him~smile agreeably, and he bowed to him with
132 I,IV | only der blaysure to be~agreeaple to you. But I mak one condeetion,"
133 I,VI | render void such fraudulent agreements; and~as the bankrupts have
134 I,V | If your~chief creditor agrees to help you, I shall not
135 I,V | iron, hoes, and all the agricultural~implements of the peasantry.
136 I,IV | had no disputes with the~agriculturists who consigned her the fruit,
137 I,III| intimate~with them to ask their aid; besides, he wanted to hide
138 I,II | of that attempt. If the aide-de-camp of~Barras then issued from
139 I,VII| Ronquerolles, Monsieur d'Aiglemont, in~short, all your customers?
140 I,V | nevertheless,~a modest air--"as much to celebrate the
141 I,II | satisfaction, and took on airs of importance.~Time passed;
142 I,IV | can't stand his impudent airs--all~because he has got a
143 I,VII| on this occasion by the airy graces of the three other
144 I,IV | of all, graat and small~alaike, dree zignatures. So denn,
145 I,IV | delicious~drawings in my album."~ ~No culprit enduring
146 I,VII| himself; for his eye was alert to avoid those he knew~as
147 I,VI | Behold a lieutenant of Alexander," said Cesar, with the gaiety
148 I,III| signifies 'hair,' as Monsieur Alibert,~the King's physician, says.
149 I,IV | infinite~tenderness with an all-embracing compassion; a secret belonging
150 I,I | him deputy-mayor, he is /all-I-don't-~know-how/. To put him
151 I,VII| receive their money. The all-powerful logic of the enamored~Popinot
152 I,I | the cook and the man-of-~all-work. The fourth shall be a general
153 I,III| and thus~verify the facts alleged by Derville, who made the
154 I,VII| On this text followed an allocution, in which the Comte de Grandville,~
155 I,II | the last phrase of all his allocutions. He begged for the~bottom
156 I,III| part which du Tillet~had allotted to Roguin, he develops the
157 I,V | grouped behind~him. "Is it allowable to congratulate monsieur
158 I,VI | Pillerault, "the law only allows you to take furniture as~
159 I,II | hundred perfumers of France, allured by the~discount, each bought
160 I,VI | druggists: lavender, oil of almonds, sweet and~bitter, orange
161 I,I | counter. She was asking alms of herself, and~heard herself
162 I,II | According to~Birotteau aloes and opium were only to be
163 I,VII| thou canst have pleasure. I alone--of us three--am~guilty.
164 Add | History~ ~Montauran, Marquis Alphonse de~The Chouans~ ~Nucingen,
165 I,IV | veritable white hazel-nut of the Alps.~ ~The Rue Perrin-Gasselin
166 I,IV | venerable financier, with Alsatian good-humor.~ ~Birotteau
167 I,VII| sends up its smoke, the~altar of all joy flames, the perfumed
168 I,IV | superintend our /little/ alteration."~ ~The perfumer slipped
169 I,V | resumed Vauquelin, "that alterations in the color of~the hair
170 I,II | suggested by the~friendly altercation of the two personages in
171 I,IV | one of those~frightful alternations of hope and despair which,
172 I,IV | above the ground. At this altitude the worthy proprietor enjoyed~
173 I,IV | came on business, and I am--"~ ~"Yes, matame, vill you
174 I,VII| appartement which really~amazes me," remarked that impertinent
175 I,III| vagabond~life, led him to say /amen/ to everything. Having sold
176 I,VII| criminal courts. A merchant is amenable to the laws if, in~the event
177 I,V | otherwise decorated with the~American Declaration of Independence,
178 I,II | together with~his general amiability, won him enormous credit.
179 I,II | Gaudissart, who used them as~ammunition to destroy prejudices, bringing
180 | amongst
181 I,IV | studied and remodelled /con amore/. Yes, monsieur, I~look
182 I,VII| the schedule, giving~the amounts which had remained unpaid
183 I,VII| their vulgar attitudes, and amused themselves too heartily;
184 I,I | talk better in bed, if it amuses you. Oh! that horrid dream!
185 I,VII| of December the 17th,~an amusing conference took place, in
186 I,V | was flung at him like an~anathema, little Popinot had not
187 I,VII| dot/. I threw~out that anchor to windward for you. If
188 I,VII| well, angel of my life, and--"~ ~"What power have you
189 I,VII| relate some questionable anecdote, would hasten to~interrupt
190 I,V | replaced, and daily cut off anew,--~that is agony I could
191 I,III| and for certain of~Madame Anfoux's liqueurs, which certain
192 I,IV | without counting the~precious /anglaises/ on the floor above him
193 I,II | the door of a shop at the angle of the Quai d'Anjou. Constance~
194 I,IV | Molineux lived in one of the angles, on the sixth floor for~
195 I,VII| drinks, have mellowed the angularities~of the old women, who good-naturedly
196 I,VII| greatest~curiosity of the animal kingdom. After inhaling
197 I,IV | to a mixed nature, to an animal-vegetable~kingdom which some modern
198 I,VII| balls, a moment when the animation of~the scene, the torrents
199 I,II | the angle of the Quai d'Anjou. Constance~Pillerault was
200 I,III| belle Hollandaise/ in the annals of~prostitution, for into
201 I,V | has given us the means of annihilating Macassar oil. Yes!~nothing
202 I,VII| Sunday of that month was the anniversary of the day on which Constance~
203 I,VI | were in a~flutter at the announcement of Birotteau's ball. Everybody
204 I,IV | which they aspired.~ ~This annoying old man had neither wife,
205 I,II | the~discount, each bought annually from Birotteau more than
206 I,II | such a~judgment as would annul the agreement.~ ~"Three
207 I,II | taking an old hair-~broom, anointed it with Macassar Oil, and
208 I,VII| offered to the eye that anomalous air of richness~which gives
209 I,I | you know, of one kind or another--"~ ~"He has seen," said
210 I,VII| as a whole. Thus the two antagonists~met once more, all unknown
211 I,VII| first floor and entered an ante-chamber in~excellent taste, spacious,
212 I,IV | saved by this sight; but the~antecedents of Birotteau, the incapacity
213 I,VI | everybody,--clerks, chambers, antechambers, ministers--"~ ~"Ministers?"
214 I,VII| to my father-in-law, by anticipating our profits of next year,~
215 I,VII| it~shone, as it were by anticipation, the celestial glories.
216 I,III| Popinot, the admirable antipodes of du Tillet, apprenticed
217 I,VII| marble, was lighted by an antique lamp with four jets. The~
218 I,II | passed; Birotteau looked anxiously at the clock. No one paid
219 | anywhere
220 I,VII| utterance of the will of all, apart from the particular form
221 I,VII| without seeing the various~apartments, which the perfumer and
222 I,VI | six~months. I'll attack apothecaries, grocers, perfumers! Give '
223 I,II | The recommendation of an apothecary at Tours got him a place~
224 I,VII| vulgar aspect, made cruelly~apparent on this occasion by the
225 I,IV | great many grocers. The appartements in this~merchant-place have,
226 I,IV | architect with an anxious and appealing~eye, watching with terror,
227 I,II | fatalism. Yet in spite of~these appearances the husband often quaked,
228 I,VI | supplies all oils and essences~appertaining to druggists: lavender,
229 I,IV | keeping out~of his way. His appetite for tyranny was thus balked;
230 I,VII| petitioner how heartily we applaud his conduct, which an august~
231 I,I | Pillerault, who loves~us like the apple of his eye, and dines with
232 I,VI | manufactories, whose various~appliances were also sold to him. The
233 I,II | served to fool unskilful applicants. As Cesar entered, the~banker'
234 I,VI | dregs the humiliation~of applications and appeals which constantly
235 I,II | law of growth and decay~applies itself to all organized
236 I,II | obtain~a civil standing by applying to the courts at Andelys
237 I,II | with."~ ~Cesar came to all appointments at the expected hour; but
238 I,VII| of the wines were fully appreciated. It was half-past nine~o'
239 I,VII| that he had reason for his apprehension.~ ~"The flight of a notary
240 I,III| antipodes of du Tillet, apprenticed to Cesar by~one of those
241 I,V | between the masters and the apprentices. Cesarine or~Constance then
242 I,VII| The splendors of the approaching ball were announced by the
243 I,II | only way of winning and appropriating a woman. Cesar Birotteau
244 I,I | seeing what they were, and in approving the action~of the government.
245 I,IV | before I can give even an~approximate idea of them. Trust yourself
246 I,IV | draw kings at play,~invent April-fools, stroll on the boulevards
247 I,III| might be seen~in a serge apron and long sleeves of green
248 I,III| Birotteau. "Such is life.~Apropos, when do we marry the Madeleine?
249 I,II | des Lombards may dream of Araby as he inhales certain perfumes.
250 I,IV | kind talked about,--the arbitrary powers of~bakers who nefariously
251 I,IV | cloistral structure, with~arcades and interior galleries built
252 I,VII| said Cesarine, with an arch smile.~ ~"Gaudissart! Gaudissart!"
253 I,V | a set of furniture with~arched tops covered in yellow,
254 I,III| the~trade, or recalled his arduous labors when shipments had
255 I,IV | handle those nuts; heavy,~aren't they? Less than fifty
256 I,II | crowded battalions into the arena of~journalism, for which
257 I,II | shop-~front of the Cloche d'Argent.~ ~"Then you have not seen,"
258 I,IV | when offered to him, and~argued that he was therefore safe
259 I,I | for himself by a series of arguments, more or less reasonable,~
260 I,VI | they call an impediment has arisen. The~tenant is the chief
261 I,VI | we hereby declare him an~Aristides; we vote him a premium and
262 I,VII| de Fontaine to lose her aristocratic~countenance, for the impertinent
263 I,V | completely in~harmony with the arithmetic of middle-class sentiments.
264 I,II | of the~language to say /armoires/. Potier, Talma, and Mademoiselle
265 I,IV | agreet. See tu Tillet, and arranche it mit him."~ ~Birotteau,
266 I,VII| tyrant of the Cour Batave, arrayed with linen~yellowed by lying
267 I,II | already for its~effect in arresting the ravages of time that
268 I,VI | a soothing perfume,~and arrests, by means of the substances
269 I,VI | that of the bankrupt, is to arrive at the /concordat/ as fast
270 I,IV | playing the part of la~belle Arsene, who, on one occasion, was
271 I,III| his heart swelled, his arteries throbbed violently.~However,
272 I,VI | to the hat-trade and the /article-~Paris/, this prince of travellers
273 I,III| custody of the court, so as to ascertain the exact~time when Roguin
274 I,IV | said Birotteau, with an Asiatic gesture worthy of the~Arabian
275 I,VI | After~dinner one reads askew; the tongue digests."~ ~"
276 I,VII| take society in its serious aspects, the~paraphernalia of justice
277 I,I | Napoleon slept.~Before assailing the confidence of a life-long
278 I,III| Tillet could not very easily assassinate the man who knew him to
279 I,I | Palais-~Royal, where she was assassinated last night by a captain
280 I,I | really thought they were assassinating you."~ ~The shopkeeper put
281 I,I | supposed to be in the grasp of assassins.~ ~"Birotteau! Birotteau!"
282 I,II | size, with the following assertion as an epigraph: "The peoples
283 I,II | for six thousand francs in assignats, with which he~bought into
284 I,III| assuredly never~played the part assigned to the sofa of Crebillon.~ ~
285 I,IV | to write and tell him to assist an old friend whom~he has
286 I,III| possible that you have asked assistance from these Bedouins?"~said
287 I,IV | tenderest consolation, and assuring him that everything would
288 I,II | confidence. In Paris the~astringent stage of suspicion and mistrust
289 I,II | the painter~Sommervieux. Astronomers lived on spiders.~ ~These
290 I,II | beings; the~great tragedian ate raw meat, and Mademoiselle
291 Add | Pierrette~ ~La Billardiere, Athanase-Jean-Francois-Michel, Baron Flamet de~The Chouans~
292 Add | Horace~Father Goriot~The Atheist's Mass~The Commission in
293 I,VI | its vitality, and rises, athirst for payment,~in three months.
294 I,V | changes in the circumjacent atmosphere--"~ ~"Circumjacent, Popinot!
295 I,VI | issues from all deteriorating atmospheric~influences, and to maintain
296 I,IV | capital doesn't concern~me one atom; pay or don't pay, I sha'
297 I,I | said the little man, in his atrociously hypocritical~voice, "we
298 I,IV | A condeetion to vich I attache der graatest imbortance,
299 I,III| caution that he ended by attaching himself~to his old comrade
300 I,VI | of his desultory ways he attains his object, as I can~testify.
301 I,V | them in the fire, without~attempting to interfere.~ ~"Uncle!"~ ~"
302 I,III| beside~Cesarine? So, while attending to the business of the house,
303 I,II | nails, would alone have attested his origin if other~vestiges
304 I,VII| Chevet~and his people. No attire ever suited Madame Cesar
305 I,VII| and all, gazed at Cesar, attired in black silk knee-breeches,
306 I,VII| toil, retained~their vulgar attitudes, and amused themselves too
307 I,VI | to the assignees and the attorneys,--except, possibly, in a~
308 I,IV | shop-women, whose~desire to attract attention inspires the truly
309 I,II | In short, they offer one~attraction the more to women, and to
310 I,V | by these tendencies, so~attractive in youth, had repeatedly
311 I,II | in England the druggists attribute~theirs to France.~ ~Nevertheless,
312 I,IV | vulgar kidneys, /sautes au vin de champagne/,~sodden
313 I,VI | the royal bust in a public~audience-chamber, may be found early in the
314 I,I | account has been examined, audited, and certified; I~must ask
315 I,VI | three months employed in auditing the debtor and creditor
316 I,III| country. It chanced that an auditor of the Council of State,~
317 I,VI | appoints~his assignees, audits his own accounts, and draws
318 I,III| of making a fortune than~augmented the fortune itself. He was
319 I,II | coveted, which he~dreamed of augmenting, where he could make a thousand
320 I,VII| upon him seemed of~good augury, and the astonishment he
321 I,V | pressing the hand~of the austere old man.~ ~"How is the affair
322 I,V | green boxes and the monastic austerity of the room, whose~atmosphere
323 I,V | representation of the battle of Austerlitz. The salon,~decorated undoubtedly
324 I,IV | fallen into those intelligent Austrian~hands that know nothing
325 I,VII| before a~notary, properly authenticated; and according to the inflexible~
326 I,I | each other very much what authors and actors are,--~mutually
327 I,IV | gleamed on~an /omelette aux truffes/.~ ~Two covers and
328 I,VI | to~pass judgment on the avalanche of commercial suits incessantly
329 I,IV | you may depend upon~it my aversion to him is well-founded;
330 I,VI | absolutely necessary, in order to avert legitimate~suspicion, to
331 I,VI | this way many things are avoided,--dishonor,~judicial delays,
332 I,I | out with his fortune and~avoids me at the Bourse. He knows
333 I,III| together.~ ~The well-known and avowed intentions of Alexandre
334 I,VII| Birotteau found more friends~awaiting him in the solemn audience
335 I,II | asleep and snore. Du Tillet awoke him triumphantly, with an~
336 I,IV | bandanna~handkerchief twisted awry, seemed all the more hideous
337 I,VI | accusation, to brandish the axe of a criminal charge over
338 I,IV | arrondissement, and gifs palls of Aziatigue~magnifissence; so vill you
339 I,IV | of a magnifissence druly~Aziatique, and whom der king has decoraded."~ ~
340 I,III| it about as if he were a baby. "I~found it out."~ ~Several
341 I,IV | hanging gardens of our modern Babylon.~His appartement was made
342 I,V | played the part of those old~bachelors on whom married women draw
343 I,VII| so that there may be no backing out of it. We will arrange
344 I,V | taken out of a corner of the backshop, opened up, was on the~/
345 I,IV | but we all agreed like bacon in~a frying-pan. The devil!
346 I,VI | working~himself to death. That bad-smelling Rue des Cinq-Diamants, without
347 I,VI | further evidenced by the badness of the~man's teeth, and
348 I,VI | through a hole, and seize a bag to swell his share! In the~
349 I,II | opposition was kneaded and baked, and the scenes of the~grand
350 I,II | time du Tillet held his balance-pole so well as he danced~the
351 I,IV | beyond a doubt. With the balance-sheet written in~her head, she
352 I,I | women, and~women don't like bald-heads; hey! hey! Mimi? The demand
353 I,VI | or whitening. To~prevent Baldness and Dandruff, it is necessary
354 I,IV | appetite for tyranny was thus balked; and to satisfy~it in some
355 I,VII| guests and the women in their~ball-dresses, who stopped short, a frightened
356 I,VII| to the conversations of a~ball-room; above all, they had none
357 I,II | the piano, and singing a~ballad; or when he found her writing
358 I,II | Their perfumes (essentially balsamic, and of a~stimulating character
359 I,IV | space screened off by an~oak balustrade, trellised with copper wire
360 I,VI | forty~per cent, and they'll bamboozle the public."~ ~The three
361 I,I | and loosening the iron band~which bound his brow,--"
362 I,IV | his head wrapped up in a bandanna~handkerchief twisted awry,
363 I,IV | covered~with shabby green bandboxes, on a bracket a number of
364 I,III| answered, pulling out the bank-bills, and signing to~Celestin
365 I,IV | went up a~superb staircase banked with flowers, and crossed
366 I,II | look which we must call the~banker-look,--a cross between that of
367 I,V | you have just seen the banking-business~unmasked, without its cloak
368 I,IV | it was converted into a banking-office, was a round table~covered
369 I,IV | the rest of us wallow in banknotes. There it all is, my~good
370 I,VI | now more liquidations than bankruptcies in~Paris.~ ~The assignee'
371 I,II | painted signs, floating~banners, show-cases filled with
372 I,VII| a turnspit that~deserves baptism."~ ~"But, madame--"~ ~"Never
373 I,VII| doors, like those of the baptistery at Florence,~turn on their
374 I,IV | report which the daily press baptizes with ink, and is~content,
375 I,V | of wrought-iron, and the barbarous contrast~recalled the circumstances
376 I,IV | in his shirt-sleeves and bareheaded, to listen as they~walked
377 I,I | should, like them, have barely enough~to live on. (Day
378 I,VI | wax Jesus; and while I was~bargaining about them I found fault
379 I,IV | covered with oil-cloth, a barometer, a window-door which opened
380 I,II | If the aide-de-camp of~Barras then issued from his obscurity,
381 I,IV | appartement, a repulsive barrenness~plainly showed the avarice
382 I,II | the law's delays, and~the barristers are seldom ready. Perhaps
383 I,III| property of their neighbors,~basely, meanly; as, for example,
384 I,V | life), a~crucifix with a basin of holy-water first caught
385 I,VI | scullions bearing in~three baskets a dinner, and six bottles
386 I,VII| chiefly distinguished for his bass voice~and the richness of
387 I,VII| mysterious transition of the~basses, flings us back into the
388 I,VII| we understand not, as we bathe in the waves of a harmony~
389 I,II | have poured their crowded battalions into the arena of~journalism,
390 I,II | for volunteers~to carry a battery. Captain Jean Birotteau
391 I,II | Billardiere, Montauran, Bauvan, Longuy, Manda, Bernier,~
392 I,IV | Der mines of~Wortschin bay a graat divitent! I haf
393 I,IV | his head high and his~eye beaming with confidence, now, unstrung
394 I,III| wealth makes~everything bearable, and there is no happiness
395 I,V | soon~as he had trimmed his beard and seen little Popinot
396 I,III| My dear Baron,--The bearer of this letter is Monsieur
397 I,II | science, will explain the~bearings of the bourgeois intellect.
398 I,II | Republic, hunted like wild beasts and guillotined at the first~
399 I,II | son, and explaining their beauties, or~sketching a landscape,
400 I,II | it means.~Like the hunted beaver, I am to give up a part
401 I,IV | first gentleman of the bed-chamber to the king. I assemble~
402 I,V | antechamber, a~sitting-room, and a bed-room. Judged by dimensions, it
403 I,VII| how and why~he had thus bedizened himself.~ ~"There, monsieur,"
404 I,III| asked assistance from these Bedouins?"~said du Tillet, "these
405 I,VI | occupied it. Only one of the bedrooms had a chimney, all the~walls
406 I,II | wormed himself to the very bedsides of~editors in the morning,
407 I,VI | collegian's~mattress on a bedstead of red wood, a shabby night-stand,
408 I,V | between the various oils, beech-nut, colza, olive, and~hazel,
409 | beforehand
410 I,IV | Cesar had several times befriended. Cayron wished nothing better~
411 I,IV | think! grocers sell their beggarly trash at twenty-~four sous
412 I,VII| people take to importunate beggars.~ ~"Monsieur, has not your
413 I,IV | who have risen~from small beginnings, and who cultivate the ingratitude
414 I,II | thus carried by storm, begot three successes, three fortunes,~
415 I,IV | When a~/grand prix/ man behaves thus, his comrades call
416 I,VI | most~marked feature of his behavior was his habit of going through
417 I,VII| Collinet's orchestra, often beheld that~festive company, and
418 I,IV | due. The debtor who was behindhand in his payment received
419 I,VII| fetch him in a carriage.~On beholding the resplendent mistress
420 I,III| of the rich products of Belgium, was as~pleasant to the
421 I,VII| will not say religion, but~belief among the people, whenever
422 I,I | Birotteau, smiling, "would you believe--"~ ~The poor man stopped
423 I,V | s hoof hanging from~the bell-rope of Gigonnet's clean gray
424 I,II | few friends carried the belligerent perfumer~to "The Queen of
425 I,II | colors of the commercial~Bellona, and reach a state of peaceful
426 I,IV | who was~looking for the bellows and scolding his valet for
427 I,II | bewildered by the clash of bells which misery jangles in~
428 I,I | that of his~wife; all his belongings and his inherited property
429 I,IV | striped calico, without a belt.~ ~The perfumer, lost in
430 I,VII| favor by my~services on the Bench--oh! of commerce,--and by
431 I,V | good cosmetic becomes a benefaction."~ ~The religious admiration
432 I,VII| to induce~him to accept a benefice in Paris, humble as it was.
433 I,III| friends, and those they have benefited. As for us plain people,
434 I,V | But in~advertising the benefits of oil you commit no mistake,
435 I,II | philanthropist, celebrated for~his benevolence and for his desire to serve
436 I,V | whom the preceding century~bequeathed to ours, encouraged Madame
437 I,VI | Don't sing those songs of Beranger at table;~and don't get
438 I,III| found in the tragedy of~Berenice, where Racine introduces
439 I,VI | the /sauve qui peut/ of Beresina is passed from mouth to~
440 I,IV | is Monsieur~Pirodot, your berfumer, who gifs palls of a magnifissence
441 I,VI | epigrams~for the 'Fidele Berger,' which pays; while the
442 I,IV | Yes, matame, vill you bermit us to speak of business?"~ ~
443 I,IV | Cottin and~Riccoboni, of Bernadin de Saint-Pierre, Fenelon,
444 I,VII| Buffon,~Fenelon, Delille, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, La Fontaine,
445 I,II | Bauvan, Longuy, Manda, Bernier,~du Guenic, and the Fontaines,
446 I,VII| be ground for contention; besides--"~ ~"Besides," exclaimed
447 I,VII| last long; you will~soon bespatter her when you meet her a-foot
448 I,IV | of a firm full texture, bespoke~the vitality of a virgin;
449 I,VI | ball. The agent~chooses the best-stocked crib, whether it leads him
450 I,II | Birotteau when the question of bestowing~the crosses given to the
451 I,IV | Pillartiere, shentelman of der betchamber; goot royalist like~you,
452 I,II | midst of his pain Birotteau~bethought him of the steps he ought
453 I,III| knew how to make a criminal~betray himself,--Cesar recounted
454 I,III| to let him know she was~betrothed to Anselme.~ ~ ~
455 I,IV | like her mother, somewhat bettered~by the superfluities of
456 I,VI | cafe tippling,~disorderly, betting at billiards, and think
457 I,I | word to her~mother. We must beware of our best friends, of
458 I,III| daughter~had the one purpose of bewitching Anselme.~ ~Neither Birotteau,
459 I,IV | intimate frient of tu Tillet. Bezides, monsieur is~debudy-mayor
460 I,VI | Messageries-Royales. To bid adieu to his beloved capital,~
461 I,II | right," said Birotteau, bidding Derville good-by, and going~
462 I,II | life to money, and he grew bigoted on~behalf of royalty. When
463 I,II | very much what his printed bill-~heads were,--a necessity
464 I,VI | disorderly, betting at billiards, and think him a mere idler;
465 I,VII| celebrated and dilatory binder, Thouvenin, had promised
466 I,IV | calculations for his~famous binomial than Birotteau made for
467 I,IV | ah! excuse me, Monsieur Birotteau--Anselme, I forget to tell~
468 I,II | the native idleness of his~birthplace, it was counterbalanced
469 I,V | swarthy, with ochre and bistre tints harmoniously~blended,
470 I,II | him like dogs pursuing a~bitch. A few bold curs slipped,
471 I,II | from Picardy, took the best bits for herself,~and only spoke
472 I,VI | gives opportunity for the bitterest action on the part of creditors~
473 I,VI | friends reminded him the more bitterly of his position.~Constance
474 I,IV | my tear te Marsay; tak my blace. Dere is a crowd, zey~tell
475 I,VII| as a pin; he wore short black-silk breeches which revealed
476 I,II | fairness, to hollow and blacken the bluish circle round
477 I,V | brotherhood, among them Monsieur Blainville, the hair is really a dead~
478 I,VII| hand, Cesar was severely blamed for his~ambition, and laughed
479 I,VII| longer of costs, nor of blaming her~husband; and for the
480 I,VII| invite the~Princesse de Blamont-Chavry, who is more nearly related
481 I,III| reins to his groom and a blanket over the~back of his smoking
482 I,V | might be tempted to~utter blasphemies in the midst of their adversity,--
483 I,IV | other, may God's~lightning blast it!' Guess how it ended."~ ~"
484 I,VII| In eighteen months I have blasted that beauty,--my~pride,
485 I,V | Tillet, "you haf joust~missed blaying me a bretty drick in zenting
486 I,II | Indian root. Dazzled by the blaze of cochineal, he recalls
487 I,VI | where a fagot of wood was~blazing, were about to attack the
488 I,I | brain. "Perhaps he should be bled, or leeches~applied."~ ~"
489 I,VI | dishes. Tell her she shall be blessed, and above all,~respected,
490 I,III| whose chinks the north wind blew its chilly whistle. The~
491 I,VI | sight of this flask; it blinded my eyes like a sudden light;
492 I,II | though many a night his~feet, blistered by the pavements of Paris,
493 I,VII| Venus~crouching, on a fine block of marble; a moquette carpet,
494 I,VI | and thought him a bit of a blockhead.~ ~"You have not much luxury
495 I,IV | the present moment, had a~blood-sucker named Bidault, otherwise
496 I,IV | me into the hands of the blood-suckers who get the best of~our
497 I,V | rose in~Cesarine's heart, blossomed in roses on her cheek, suffused
498 I,V | the bourgeoisie. The~only blot upon his character was the
499 I,I | calamity, like the blows of a~bludgeon. He heard the death-bells
500 I,V | wondering eye~at the miserable blueish paper sprinkled with tricolor
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