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501 I,VII| courts charged with folly or blundering mistakes, than before the~
502 I,IV | defaced, and~damp as that of a boarding-house. The second room, announced
503 I,I | every corner, and~on all the boards, wherever they are building."~ ~"
504 I,III| work at the~factory, or boasted of his readiness in learning
505 I,I | was in truth like a humble~boatman on the Seine whom the government
506 I,VI | that of a Kalmuc~Tartar, bobbed from right to left, and
507 I,III| enjoyed disentangling the~bobbins of the poor man's thought,
508 I,III| remarkably elegant. The Grecian bodice, crossing~from left to right
509 I,VI | upon the public."~ ~"We'll boil that oil; my feet itch,
510 I,II | depressing days his head had boiled like a saucepan, and that
511 I,V | Do~you know how much the boldest money-lender would give
512 I,I | reasonable,~with which he bolsters himself up to rest his head,
513 I,V | Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First~Consul, and a representation
514 I,VII| incriminate the~Liberals, the Bonapartists, and all other enemies of
515 I,VI | Roguin's clients, a mortgage bond for forty~thousand francs,
516 I,VII| loosened all~conservative bonds by accustoming youth to
517 I,V | Birotteau.~"Ah! he made no bones about it; he guessed our
518 I,VII| morning that there were two book-cases in~Cesar's room, which enclosed
519 I,VII| your own room."~ ~"But this bookcase full of books, all bound!
520 I,VII| cleverly hidden between the two bookcases. "If you or madame should~
521 I,VII| savings upon the counter of~a bookseller's shop, and obtained in
522 I,VII| in an armchair near the bookshelves. He looked at the card-~
523 I,II | required the assumption of boorish manners, the gentle and~
524 I,IV | from the torture of the boot than Birotteau did,~standing
525 I,V | and he~subscribed to a boot-black for that service. His dress
526 I,V | would not let her black his boots, and he~subscribed to a
527 I,III| they choose to give. Havre, Bordeaux,~Marseilles, could tell
528 I,VII| smiles, robed in white tunics bordered with blue, flit lightly~
529 I,I | to my petticoat that he bores me. He loves me better than~
530 I,III| francs which the old rogue borrowed of me just before he~went
531 I,VII| and obtained in return, Bossuet, Racine,~Voltaire, Jean-Jacques
532 I,IV | t trouble the mayor,~or bother his deputies. As for my
533 I,IV | which were covered~with a bottle-green paper, were four engravings
534 I,II | about. While~playing at /bouillote/, Roguin the notary placed
535 I,VII| they were dancing the /boulangere/, which has since been dethroned
536 I,II | was, his ambition knew no bounds. With one~comprehensive
537 I,VII| to watch the oscillating bouquet of flowers formed by the~
538 I,IV | know how to deal with a~bourgeois--ah! excuse me, monsieur,
539 I,VII| and gave him an /ovation boursiere/. He was~overwhelmed with
540 I,I | health was giving way. His bowels~seemed on fire. It is an
541 I,VI | gratis.~Damn it! with a bowl of punch and a few cakes
542 I,II | way.~Like all unprotected boys, he loved the first woman
543 I,I | appearing before~Constance braced his nerves. The young notary
544 I,V | evil-smelling lair, the~handsomest braces to be found in the /article-Paris/
545 I,IV | shabby green bandboxes, on a bracket a number of his deceased~
546 I,VII| now nailing up the last brackets, and three men~were lighting
547 I,II | the Veda, the religion of Brahma and its castes; brushing~
548 I,II | rather than fling the fiery brand into the~soul of his wife.
549 I,VI | thunder-bolt~of an accusation, to brandish the axe of a criminal charge
550 I,VI | peculiar to tipplers of~brandy and other liquors, announced
551 I,V | as a soldier mounts the~breach.~ ~"I know why you have
552 I,V | a gray woollen garment, breakfasted in~his chimney-corner and
553 I,II | occasion, and gave timely~breakfasts,--there was soon not a newspaper
554 I,V | s neck, held him to his breast, and~kissed him.~ ~"You
555 I,IV | white wooden~enclosure, breast-high, within which were tables
556 I,VI | his personal trinkets, his breast-pin, his gold~buckles, his two
557 I,VII| beloved; we are happy as we~breathe a joy we understand not,
558 I,II | in a /chauderie/, as he breathes the odors of~an Indian root.
559 I,VII| by intelligent~egotism.~ ~Bred in religious ideas, Birotteau
560 I,VI | old-fashioned middle-class breeding, the observer~Pillerault,
561 Add | Study of Woman~La Grande Breteche~ ~Bidault (known as Gigonnet)~
562 I,IV | bretty,--as if you could be~brettier!"~ ~"Good God! the Ragons
563 I,VI | he~contents himself with brewing his own malt. As to the
564 I,II | tickets for the theatre, he bribed~the printers who about midnight
565 I,VI | the floors were tiled with brick.~ ~Since early morning Gaudissart
566 I,II | upholsterer, where the bride and bridegroom began a honeymoon that~was
567 I,II | His nose,~broken at the bridge and thick at the end, gave
568 I,VII| there between her and that~brigand? The whole thing is extraordinary."~ ~
569 I,V | carcass, but it is mine! Brigands,~thieves, my money or--"~ ~
570 I,VII| light of pleasure once more brightened in it.~ ~"At last," said
571 I,VII| moment forced, instead of brightening Cesar's face~made it more
572 I,VII| Constance more than the~brightest gaiety. When they reached
573 I,II | always too large, and~his broad-brimmed hat gave him the air of
574 I,V | Pillerault in a tone which broadened its meaning and~ennobled
575 I,VII| ordered a court-dress of gold brocade. If you leave them out we
576 I,III| draped with curtains in~brocatelle, contained portraits of
577 I,IV | running aggont. Ve vill broceed in dis vay--" said~this
578 I,IV | Birotteau went home broken-hearted, not perceiving that the
579 I,I | pot-boiling before you get any broth.~If he has only carried
580 I,II | upsetting the ministry. See~my brother--"~ ~He conducted the perfumer
581 I,V | to some of our scientific~brotherhood, among them Monsieur Blainville,
582 I,V | mere chance that one of my brothers-in-law did not give Birotteau a~
583 I,VI | ignoble relief~a pimpled face, brownish-red in color, inflamed like
584 I,III| originally brought from~Bruges by a client of Roguin, who
585 I,II | pavements of Paris, and his bruised shoulders,~made him suffer
586 I,II | his country.~ ~On the 18th Brumaire, Monsieur and Madame Ragon,
587 I,VI | preliminary cleansing with brush and~comb.~ ~"The oil is
588 I,V | the door. Madame Vaillant brushed and cleaned them while this~
589 I,II | of Brahma and its castes; brushing~against piles of ivory in
590 I,VI | nights; finance makes~you brusque, so many elements must be
591 I,V | mind, or by sentiment or brutality.~Love is an essentially
592 I,VII| Claparon had~debased and brutalized the human being. Faith,
593 I,IV | looked upon any man as~a brute who passed him on the stairway
594 I,III| credit of his relation. The Brutus of~usurers was implacable
595 I,VI | the Rue du Coq, the old buffer who launched me~into travelling
596 I,VII| with a clock in buhl, buffets~of the same, inlaid with
597 I,II | Hundred Days~Birotteau was the bugbear of the liberals of his quarter;
598 I,IV | her cap, who mastered with bugle voice~the wagoners when
599 I,VII| Louis XIV., with a clock in buhl, buffets~of the same, inlaid
600 I,VII| Lourdois, and Chaffaroux, the builder, assured Cesar positively
601 I,IV | in greenish trousers, and~bulbous roots swathed in list shoes--
602 I,I | fantastic appearance of curtains bulged out by the wind,~the flicker
603 I,II | thought him~worthy of it. The bullet which struck him on the
604 I,IV | child, nephew, or niece. He~bullied his servant-of-all-work
605 I,I | who looks for knots in a bulrush. Recollect~what I said when
606 I,II | stricter forms. Forms~are the bulwarks of law. How would you like
607 I,VII| glittered a gold chain~and a bunch of trinkets, was under the
608 I,II | Francois Keller's desk lay bundles of notes~and checks, letters
609 I,VI | Birotteau; "hey! you are not a~bungler. None of the roses you distil
610 I,I | and beginning to find them burdensome. Until~then all had been
611 I,VI | night-stand, an old-~fashioned bureau, one table, two armchairs,
612 I,III| such an occurrence in the burgeoning~time of youth.~ ~"Popinot,"
613 I,I | centre~was like the eye of a burglar, the apparition of a kneeling
614 I,I | mind turned exclusively~to burglars, especially when she thought
615 I,VI | bankruptcy one of the most burlesque dramas to which justice
616 I,VII| Cesar, taking the letter and burning it. "My son,~I am severely
617 I,IV | head?" exclaimed du Tillet,~bursting into a laugh.~ ~Cesar, misled
618 I,II | clamor of importunity, to~bursts of disappointment, to the
619 I,I | you are, you can go and bury~yourself at Chinon? I, thank
620 I,III| You are beating round the bush, old fellow," thought du
621 I,VI | about his monthly payments, busied in pushing the chariot of~
622 I,VI | traveller had invoked, were busily~employed in stretching a
623 I,II | property, outside of my business--"~ ~Francois Keller, who
624 I,II | visit his~brother Cesar. The bustle of Paris so bewildered the
625 I,VI | arrested all the idlers and busybodies in the street; gossip, based
626 I,I | judge said--~The receipt!--but--why do you ask the question?"~ ~"
627 I,III| anybody; but~there are /buts/ and /ifs/ and /hows/ and /
628 I,IV | bourgeois class, the constant~butt of the witty shafts and
629 I,VI | of the cane~parasol, the butterfly cap, the tight sleeves,
630 I,VII| the Legion of honor to his button-~hole. In a moment he was
631 I,VII| How well it looks in your button-hole," said Cesarine. "When we
632 I,II | of white pique, squarely~buttoned, came down low over his
633 I,V | put on a coat with brass buttons. His habits of~rising, breakfasting,
634 I,II | humbly stepping aside for the buyers and passers-by, and~absorbed
635 I,IV | would you like to~be,--pig, buzzard, clown, or millionaire?
636 I,III| stomach contracted,~his ears buzzed.~ ~"What is the matter,
637 I,III| they~cover the innocent by-play of bourgeois love. The Matifats
638 I,III| bestowed by fate on Lord Byron,~Walter Scott, and Monsieur
639 I,IV | heads initiated into the~cabalistic secrets of these magnificent
640 I,II | his room. He called the cabriolets "half-~coaches," and wondered
641 I,II | swift justice of a Turkish~cadi. During his whole period
642 I,VII| said that, in imitation of Cadot and~the rich Camusot, he
643 I,V | the prayer /Pro meo~fratre Caesare/, my eyes were filled with
644 I,VII| Birotteau, clothed with the caftan of honor which the speech
645 I,II | elephants;~seated in a muslin cage, he makes love like the
646 I,IV | were two sideboards, two cages full of birds, a table~covered
647 I,II | Vendome.~ ~"The price of a cake of Paste is three francs;
648 I,V | and going. The stairs were caked with~a layer of mud, hard
649 I,VI | bowl of punch and a few cakes we'll get it out of him;~
650 I,I | petrified. Every phrase was a calamity, like the blows of a~bludgeon.
651 I,II | the~saint inscribed on the calendar for that day, and fed and
652 I,III| he said, "a man of your calibre should not~behave like a
653 I,IV | not have people of certain~callings,--he was afraid, for instance,
654 I,IV | nor time; his heart was a callus in the~direction of a lease.~ ~"
655 I,VI | said~to Grindot; "if we are calumniated, at least let us give no
656 I,I | injuring him~professionally by calumniating his work were, however,
657 I,V | one~window, screened by a cambric curtain with a red border;
658 I,VI | truce, through the enemy's camp,--not by way of curiosity,
659 I,VI | enter the~office of Monsieur Camusot--which chanced to be the
660 I,VI | said, 'Canaux,~canards, canaille!' But the government has
661 I,VI | Voltaire said, 'Canaux,~canards, canaille!' But the government
662 I,IV | a number of his deceased~canaries stuffed; and, finally, a
663 I,VI | the poor. Voltaire said, 'Canaux,~canards, canaille!' But
664 I,I | thousand~francs; and I can cancel the loan on my property
665 I,V | vases were flanked by two candelabra~of abject shape made of
666 I,IV | already depressed by two candelabras without~candles and the
667 I,VII| eyes, the~innocence of her candid brow, contradicted so gloriously
668 I,VI | whole body of creditors as~candidates from among whom the commissioner,
669 I,VII| recognized at a glance. A lighted candle, and the black and quivering~
670 I,IV | two candelabras without~candles and the sticky dust that
671 I,VII| celestial glories. Sincerity~and candor, infused into his very blood,
672 I,I | write to my brother; he is canon and vicar of the cathedral.
673 I,VII| art~irreproachable, thou canst have pleasure. I alone--
674 I,IV | requires a combination of capacities.~Go in with us; don't potter
675 I,IV | study of the caprices and capers of tenants who persisted,~
676 I,II | some cruel and voluptuous caprice. The~following are the only
677 I,I | all electric accidents, capricious~and whimsical in its course.
678 I,VI | large square meshes; her~caps, old-fashioned in shape,
679 I,II | cosmetics of the sort; and they~captivated ignorant people by the distinctions
680 I,II | ways: tea comes either by caravan, or by Havre." According
681 I,V | lime, a tiny quantity of carbonate of lime, a little~silica,
682 I,V | Pillerault,~playing his last card.~ ~"You are gold by the
683 I,VII| bookshelves. He looked at the card-~players, listened to the
684 I,II | disclosure was one of the~cardinal events in Cesar's life.
685 I,VI | vestige of the perfumer. Even careless minds gained an idea of
686 I,VI | attorney, who in consequence cares~little for him.~ ~The law
687 I,IV | time, as she gave him a caress into which she strove to~
688 I,I | find in getting hold of a caricature which confirms their theories~
689 I,IV | worthy of a man who made caricatures~of the government. And why
690 I,VI | he saw an honorable~one. Caring little for his own gains,
691 I,IV | formerly have~belonged to a Carmelite.~ ~*****~ ~Cesar Birotteau
692 I,VII| Madame Madou, the mason, carpenter, and the other most~pressing
693 I,I | Chaffaroux,~and Thorein the carpenter--proclaimed him "one of those
694 I,IV | masons, painters,~locksmiths, carpenters, and upholsterers yourself.
695 I,IV | with oil-casks, and the carriage-houses were packed with bales of~
696 I,V | maternal love. This opinion carries with it a vulgar error.
697 I,IV | own appartement, give me carte-blanche to arrange and~decorate
698 I,VI | rubbish was~thrown into the carts stationed in the street.
699 I,III| gold, the paper-weights of~carved malachite, and all the costly
700 I,I | I cannot get your paper cashed, and I am~obliged to ask
701 I,II | National Guard; but he was cashiered by Napoleon, who,~according
702 I,V | would be the~most upright of cashiers,--if there could be degrees
703 I,VII| francs,--the price of that cashmere shawl which I did not~receive
704 I,V | General Foy a great one, Casimir Perier without ambition,
705 I,VII| the furniture was in white cassimere touched with blue. On~the
706 I,II | religion of Brahma and its castes; brushing~against piles
707 I,IV | Vendome is looking up, the Rue Castiglione is to be built upon. I am~
708 I,II | Cesar and his wife, who casting their eyes along the past
709 I,VI | orange oil, cocoa-nut oil, castor oil, and others."~ ~"My
710 I,VII| of its~ardent fires, and casts the superabundance of its
711 I,IV | furnished with a~sliding cat-hole, within which was an enormous
712 I,IV | rouse~him,--a species of catalepsy, in which the body lived
713 I,I | Claparon, on the day when his catchpenny~banker reproached him for
714 I,VII| was under the yoke of this Catherine II. of~commerce. Short and
715 I,II | many journalists were like cattle; they~were unaware of their
716 I,III| Roguin for the costs and the caution-money; but it sometimes~happens
717 I,VI | Happily, Joseph Lebas,~cautioned by Pillerault, had already
718 I,IV | Rue des Bourdonnais."~ ~A cautious observer, or a merchant
719 I,II | modern~pyramids to recall ceaselessly the one principle which
720 I,I | winter nights noise never ceases in the Rue Saint-Honore
721 I,IV | the stairs were clean, the ceilings white, the~cornices irreproachable,
722 I,VII| you~will see no harm in celebrating the deliverance of our territory.~
723 I,VII| corner; Alexandre~Crottat; Celestin--"~ ~"Papa, don't forget
724 I,IV | to the chamber of the old celibate it was furnished with Louis
725 I,V | by dimensions, it was the cell of~a Trappist. The antechamber,
726 I,V | followed the body to the~cemetery. In those days he was heroic.
727 I,IV | in the daytime; it is a central~spot where dark passages
728 I,V | Madame Birotteau, and had centred all his affections upon~
729 I,V | Probably headaches and other~cephalagic affections absorb, dissipate,
730 I,II | was quite ignorant of the ceremonial, half~regal, which attended
731 I,VI | act, the /concordat/, or certificate-of-bankruptcy~act. Like all theatrical
732 I,I | been examined, audited, and certified; I~must ask you to have
733 I,I | Birotteau's cheque, "will you certify my account? You need~only
734 I,VII| good night to you,~Madame Cesar--Now, then," he added, "about
735 I,VI | I should prefer /Oil Cesarienne/," said Popinot.~ ~"My friend,"
736 I,III| still, I~don't think that Cesarine--And then her mother wants
737 I,VI | be it; Oil Cesarine! The Cesars owned the whole world.~They
738 Add | Crottat, Alexandre~Colonel Chabert~A Start in Life~A Woman
739 I,II | of shop-keeping, in which chaff is a principal~element of
740 I,II | Monsieur le baron~Thibon, chairman of the committee on discounts;
741 I,III| his philter from a~broken chalice. He went every day to the
742 I,IV | the Madonna~della Sedia in chalk, and read the works of Mmes.
743 I,II | bills~passed through the chameleon phases that are customary
744 I,III| leather~shoes, gloves of chamois-skin with a border of green plush,
745 I,III| bought a house for her in the Champs-Elysees, furnished it handsomely,~
746 I,IV | his arm-chair, like the Chancelier de l'Hopital on the~peristyle
747 I,VII| came to take Cesar to the Chancellerie of the Legion of honor,
748 I,VII| with its results. A glass chandelier, with twenty-~four wax-candles,
749 I,V | pain of the poor woman by changing~places and playing the mother
750 I,II | minutes. Some went away chap-~fallen; others affected
751 I,V | subject, suitable for a chapel; but Hero and Leander, ah!
752 I,V | tenderly.~ ~Our excellent Abbe Chapeloud, to whom I have not revealed
753 I,II | will protect the lips from chapping, and~restore their color;
754 I,II | medal and of the same stern character--took a deep~bronze tone,
755 I,VII| tranquil attitude which~characterizes those who are accustomed
756 I,IV | own sauce. The light of a charcoal brazier gleamed on~an /omelette
757 I,III| accompanied Monsieur Clement Chardin des Lupeaulx to Germany~
758 I,IV | your~share in all the other charges. If everything is clearly
759 I,VI | payments, busied in pushing the chariot of~his little fortunes,
760 I,II | called, perhaps unjustly,~charlatanism.~ ~The Paste of Sultans
761 I,V | said Vauquelin. "Besides,~charlatans have so abused the name
762 I,IV | predecessors, he had drawn up a charter of his own and followed
763 I,IV | he related his wild-goose chase to his wife and~daughter
764 I,III| on foot."~ ~These words chased away the slight shade of
765 I,VII| so swiftly and so cruelly~chastised,--as Adam and Eve must have
766 I,VII| Napoleon at Compiegne,~when the chateau was re-decorated for his
767 I,I | said the irrepressible chatterbox,~whose floodgates du Tillet
768 I,V | gossiping landlord, who chatters like a magpie, to renew
769 I,II | admire the /danseuses/ in a /chauderie/, as he breathes the odors
770 I,III| Here we are at Rue de la Chaussee-d'Antin; come~home with me."~ ~
771 I,II | wishing on the one hand to cheapen~Napoleon's order by lavishing
772 I,IV | but to get at good~effects cheaply."~ ~"With such ideas, young
773 I,VI | only two eyes, two sharp~cheek-bones, a nose and a chin. Having
774 I,II | butter, a plate of Brie cheese, and a cup of coffee.~ ~"
775 I,VI | lemon, and~the rest drugs, chemicals."~ ~Pillerault tried throughout
776 I,II | with her bare feet, in her chemise, and a shawl~over her white
777 I,VII| in her room the gown of cherry velvet in which she had~
778 I,IV | sacks of filberts, nuts,~and chestnuts.~ ~"Good-morning, my dear
779 I,VII| Lacepede, and about a~dozen chevaliers of the order. Tears were
780 I,III| only daughter of the~banker Chevrel conceived for the unhappy
781 I,IV | Nucingen, so you can buy~chewels and oder tings to make you
782 I,IV | question, yet giving fresh chickweed to his~bird and fish-bones
783 I,VII| worn above his ears, he was chiefly distinguished for his bass
784 I,VI | oil is meant to facilitate childbirth. To drag~them back from
785 I,VI | I've got a friend--early childhood--Andoche Finot, son~of the
786 I,VII| delight that was almost childish.~ ~Following close upon
787 I,V | warm, and at the same~time chilling, tones which gild the sunsets
788 I,V | He had indeed some~noble chimeras. The fine old man lived
789 I,V | without gilding, a painted chimney-board, a console bearing a vase
790 I,IV | thousand francs."~ ~"Are the chimney-bricks coming down on my head?"
791 I,I | mustachios and the little chin-tuft of the artist~much more
792 I,VII| thinks she will wear her~china-crape like mine. The dressmaker
793 I,III| has~at last found one on Chinese paper before lettering.
794 I,III| a window,~through whose chinks the north wind blew its
795 I,III| hair, gathered up /a la chinoise/,~let the eye take in the
796 I,VII| coquettishly hung with Persian chintz. A piano, a~pretty wardrobe
797 I,III| fortune, the paper-knife in chiselled gold, the paper-weights
798 I,VI | His father,~an old dog chock-full of reasons for not liking
799 I,I | cotton dressing-gown with chocolate-colored spots that the cold had~
800 I,II | hair was cut~like that of a choir-boy, he at least had the sturdy
801 I,I | the perfumer, in a voice choked with tears,--for the~tears
802 I,VI | answered~Claparon, who was choking.~ ~"Monsieur," said Cesar,
803 I,II | a tone of insolence, a choleric~tyranny, a brutal desire
804 I,I | noddle for~two months without choosing to tell me? I have just
805 I,VII| youth, loosened the tight chords in Cesar's soul; he pressed~
806 I,VI | de Grenelle, a~vaudeville chorus sung by Gaudissart, with
807 I,III| compared like~that of a chorus-singer's on a fourth floor with
808 I,VII| which Rembrandt gave to~Christ in his picture of the Raising
809 I,IV | choice between~deism and Christianity, but he took the wafer when
810 I,II | genius, the baptismal font of Christians, a treasure for the~skilful
811 I,IV | bourgeois~who solemnly put Christmas logs on their fire, draw
812 I,II | defects of legislation were chronicled; and bargains driven,~without
813 I,VII| mind, among whom the~worthy Chrysale would have chosen his wife,--
814 I,VI | which the bankrupt remains a chrysalis~lasts for about three months,--
815 I,VI | shouted Gaudissart.~ ~A stout, chubby-faced fellow of medium height,
816 I,VI | in villages, on doors of churches,~all the best spots I can
817 I,VI | Lafon in the role of the Cid. "I shall grab~every shopkeeper
818 I,VI | my eyes out~reading and ciphering."~ ~"To go back to the ministers,"
819 I,II | his eye, whose iris~was circled with a whitish rim as if
820 I,VII| of flowers formed by the~circling heads of the dancers in
821 I,VII| in the habit of making a circuit to avoid~seeing his shop
822 I,V | provisional wooden building of a circular shape, and was entered from~
823 I,II | of credit, and commercial circulars. Keller sat~down and began
824 I,III| chances! You are~trying to circulate paper to pay your notes
825 I,VII| flames, the perfumed air circulates! Beings with~divine smiles,
826 I,VI | eyes had spread to a wide circumference, like~those of elderly women
827 I,VII| in declaring~that he was circumventing the law by a substitution.
828 I,II | counting-~room. The dignified citoyenne Ragon herself looked after
829 I,VII| fifteen years--on~a round of civilities. In their best array, these
830 I,V | gentry of the~Opposition claimed a monopoly of patriotism.
831 I,VI | jaded by excesses, his lips clammy,~though his tongue was forever
832 I,IV | mines!' In short, all the clap-trap of commerce. We buy up men
833 I,VI | introducing a~certain quantity of Claparons under whose skin the bankrupt
834 I,I | cafe Foy, and~Collinet's clarionet, each with a bill.~ ~"Rabelais'
835 I,VII| many tones, sounding its clarions through the~membranes of
836 I,VI | the fourteen~volumes of "Clarissa Harlowe," if an author could
837 I,V | to his when she saw him clasp his~hands and lift his eyes,
838 I,V | My uncle!" said Cesar, clasping his hands.~ ~"Cesar, would
839 I,V | ennobled it. The sobriety of Claude Pillerault, long become
840 I,I | rose~up in bed and recited clauses of the commercial Code in
841 I,VII| delivered like the scratch of a claw.~ ~The sallow face and vindictive
842 I,V | Madame Vaillant brushed and cleaned them while this~genuine
843 I,VI | has received a preliminary cleansing with brush and~comb.~ ~"
844 I,II | opinion, and recognizing its clear-~sightedness, Cesar tumbled
845 I,IV | perceived a round table, hastily cleared of its litter,~which bore
846 I,V | remarkable for its unalterable~clearness. His forehead, wrinkled
847 I,III| Tillet accompanied Monsieur Clement Chardin des Lupeaulx to
848 I,IV | interfering claims of the~clergy. The indefatigable litigant
849 I,II | prodigalities~peculiar to clerkdom, such as melons in their
850 I,I | associates who may be much cleverer than you. Give your ball,
851 I,V | explains why in certain cold climates the fur of animals loses~
852 I,II | remembered.~ ~Every life has its climax,--a period when causes are
853 I,I | man's gains the more~he clings to them: the human heart
854 I,IV | are various industrial /cloaca/,~very few Dutchmen, but
855 I,II | province. A wheedling manner cloaked a quibbling mind, for he
856 I,V | painters, sculptors,~and clock-makers exaggerate. Of medium height,
857 I,III| himself. The furniture, the clocks, linen,~dinner-service,
858 I,V | Marie-Jeanne, bring~my clogs and my rabbit-skin cloak;
859 I,VI | clock the three reached the cloister Saint-Merri, where the Court
860 I,III| Poissonniere,--all of whom were closely connected with Gobseck.
861 I,II | articles of furniture, the clothing he had little by~little
862 I,I | own standing; but he saw a cloud upon~Lourdois' brow, and
863 I,III| shade of suspicion which clouded~the face of the perfumer,
864 I,I | His ideas are rather cloudy," he said, with a gesture
865 I,V | no matter what it is,--club-~feet, a halting-gait, a
866 I,III| was a little~fellow and club-footed,--an infirmity bestowed
867 I,IV | scolding his valet for the clumsy manner~in which he had lighted
868 I,IV | houses where they prefer to cluster. The first~aspect of this
869 | Co
870 I,VI | get to the bottom of this~co-associate.~ ~"Yes, monsieur, ministers."~ ~"
871 I,II | and you can depend on our co-operation."~ ~A lady, Madame Keller,
872 I,I | we are really owners and co-partners."~ ~"Ah! you are talking
873 I,I | Monsieur Charles Claparon,~co-proprietor with me, and will give a
874 I,II | called the cabriolets "half-~coaches," and wondered at all he
875 I,IV | her stores, which were in coachhouses,~stables, and old workshops,
876 I,VII| said Pillerault to the coachman, making an expressive~sign
877 I,IV | thousand francs! gold mines!~coal mines!' In short, all the
878 I,VI | pulled Gaudissart by the coat-tails.~ ~"Well, well, my sons,"
879 I,IV | stretching, and shaking off the cobwebs of sleep,~Birotteau came
880 I,II | Dazzled by the blaze of cochineal, he recalls the~poems of
881 I,VII| with a collar~whimsically cocked up, which gave the old man
882 I,VI | and~bitter, orange oil, cocoa-nut oil, castor oil, and others."~ ~"
883 I,IV | his fireplace, while his~coffee-grounds were boiling in a little
884 I,IV | poured a few drops into his coffee-pot.~The umbrella-man, anxious
885 I,I | reckoning. Birotteau saw his coffers~empty, and terror seized
886 I,IV | room. They are to say I'm cogitating a~great enterprise--in champagne."~ ~
887 I,III| Seine,--courts which take~cognizance of all civil contests involving
888 I,VII| of du Tillet.~The words coincide in a singular manner with
889 I,V | Birotteau, triumphantly. "I have~coincided with a great man. Macassar
890 I,III| Sarah Gobseck. Struck by the~coincidence of the name with that of
891 I,II | the oscillating tool~of a coiner; he remained motionless,
892 I,VII| papers. Du Tillet bowed coldly to Popinot,~and went away.~ ~"
893 I,VI | also prevents influenzas, colds in the~head, and other painful
894 I,VII| and by a green coat with a collar~whimsically cocked up, which
895 I,II | own views to those of his~colleagues, who were flattered in being
896 I,II | or thirty friends he~had collected about him talked the same
897 I,VI | workman pasting the lengths. A collegian's~mattress on a bedstead
898 I,VII| for~Monsieur and Madame Colleville, and Monsieur and Madame
899 I,VII| and the Guillaumes, Rue du Colombier, the father-~in-law of Lebas--
900 I,II | of the cafe of the Milles~Colonnnes, and several other poor
901 I,V | various oils, beech-nut, colza, olive, and~hazel, etc."~ ~"
902 I,III| Comagene,--from~the latin word /coma/, which signifies 'hair,'
903 I,V | boldness with which Cesar had combated his wife's presentiments.~ ~
904 I,IV | single enterprise requires a combination of capacities.~Go in with
905 I,V | eyes to heaven; there is comfort for~the weak, there are
906 I,IV | exclaimed the poor man, comforted by this~warmth of heart
907 I,VII| Raising of Lazarus.~ ~Jesus commanded the earth to give up its
908 I,V | places, trying to obey~the commandment of our divine Saviour, and
909 I,V | envied, excited general comment in the upper commercial
910 I,I | reappears some~wayward being, commissioned to play the mischief and
911 I,II | attentions, and even then without committing herself to an answer,--a~
912 I,V | the quintessence of that commodity. Proverbs are no~fools;
913 I,II | principle which dominates the~common-weal of nations and of individual
914 I,V | proudest look, and makes the~commonest market women respectful.~ ~"
915 I,V | terrible anguish of those who commonly went up the~staircase of
916 I,II | purchase~handkerchiefs than to communicate to her a luminous idea.~ ~"
917 I,II | transpiration of the~tissues, and communicating to them a permanent texture
918 I,II | bestowed upon the perfumer in a community where~women are much inclined
919 I,III| rich, was in point of fact~comparatively poor. He set a watch on
920 I,V | dozen,~to another who was comparing prices on the tickets. "
921 I,IV | grows only in Iceland. This comparison is all the more~apt because
922 I,VI | Warsaw."~ ~Du Tillet meant to compass Cesar's commercial death.
923 I,VII| obliging, devoted, feeling, compassionate, ready to subscribe~for
924 I,I | me!"~ ~The young notary compassionately put the inert mechanism
925 I,II | moreover were more than~compensated by a delicate sense of honor
926 I,II | without offering him any compensating perspective.~Sometimes the
927 I,II | taste the little joys of competence, and his wife no longer
928 I,VI | declares him a minor, and not competent for any legal~action as
929 I,I | distinguished~merchant, competing in the election of judges
930 I,VII| the Emperor Napoleon at Compiegne,~when the chateau was re-decorated
931 I,II | all the more because he compiled a prospectus whose~ridiculous
932 I,III| heels with native self-~complacency, and talked his usual platitudes.~ ~"
933 I,I | world, in short.~Nobody complains; we are all to blame."~ ~"
934 I,VI | insist on punctuality in the completion of~the work, it is--"~ ~"
935 I,III| open his eyes wide, and complimented the perfumer on his~perspicacity
936 I,V | differing proportions of these~component parts cause the differences
937 I,IV | endeavoring to understand this~composite phraseology.~ ~"Listen,"
938 I,II | Carminative Balm are two operative compounds, of a motive~power which
939 I,V | mistaken;~the two children comprehended each other, like all timid
940 I,II | knew no bounds. With one~comprehensive glance of hatred he had
941 I,IV | an old friend whom~he has compromised,--a man with whom he dined
942 I,II | dividends obtained by such compromises as fully counterbalanced
943 I,I | upon their friends without compunction. Charity begins at~home.
944 I,IV | studied and remodelled /con amore/. Yes, monsieur, I~
945 I,VII| at Madame Cesar without concealing his astonishment; he~thought
946 I,II | of comical assurance and conceit mingled with good nature,~
947 I,III| daughter of the~banker Chevrel conceived for the unhappy notary an
948 I,III| vigorously launched. The~conception was strong. The square bottles
949 I,VI | right place and will~make no concessions. He was just beginning to
950 I,VII| with his blood, as for~his conciliating spirit, his estimable qualities
951 I,II | extolled his kindness, his~conciliatory spirit; and he was often
952 I,VI | day Cesar had appointed to conclude the affair of the~lands
953 I,V | Not seeing Popinot, he~concluded that his future partner
954 I,IV | He told me that before~concluding my arrangements I must know
955 I,VI | and he's not proud, he'll concoct it for us gratis.~Damn it!
956 I,II | attention to its remarkable concurrence~with the principles of Vauquelin'
957 I,VI | methods, which~the judges will condemn as judges, but by which
958 I,V | are always finding out and condemning."~ ~"Don't trust people
959 I,II | inextinguishable love, that she condescended to receive his~attentions,
960 I,III| intellect there is in genius! it condescends to the minutest details."~ ~
961 I,VI | Pillerault, and much~disdainful condescension to the bankrupt; he had
962 I,III| to hide his own hand in~conducting the affair, that he might
963 I,VI | inflamed like that of the~conductor of a diligence, and seamed
964 I,II | window-panes of milliners, confectioners,~and linen-drapers, than
965 I,II | him, into the sanctum. The~conferences lasted five, ten, or fifteen
966 I,IV | given the sacraments without confession. I do not apply these~remarks
967 I,II | Saint-Roch, and took God for his confidant.~ ~"If I do not meet a soldier
968 I,I | life? Cesar resolved to confide~his situation to his wife'
969 I,II | used to receiving~terrible confidences. Birotteau noticed for the
970 I,III| situation with Birotteau, confident of~future success. He found
971 I,III| with your house. You can confidently do~all that he asks of you;
972 I,IV | wished nothing better~than to confine himself to the ground-floor
973 I,II | banker,~from du Tillet, who confirmed the answer without blushing.
974 I,VI | the~Academy of Sciences, confirming our statement, hein? Famous!
975 I,VI | The Bourbons must avoid a conflict';~'Liberalism is the cloak
976 I,I | household on a~footing in conformity with our high position.
977 I,III| he died by accident,~the confusion of his affairs would be
978 I,I | observing symptoms of cerebral~congestion, ordered an immediate application
979 I,III| miss~its vocation when it congratulates itself, as it does in presenting~
980 I,VI | of toasts and~reciprocal congratulations.~ ~"It is my uncle!" cried
981 I,VI | of this~disadvantage, the congregation of druggists in that neighborhood
982 I,I | still retained the almost conical shape of his head.~ ~"Can
983 I,V | event and gave color to the conjectures of the~clerks. In their
984 I,I | be mentally incapable of conjecturing them.~ ~"If our first friend
985 I,IV | those~mysterious weavings a conjuring spirit that augured evil;
986 I,IV | dark passages meet, and connect the quarter of the markets~
987 I,II | and eau-de-cologne. His connection~with this man lasted only
988 I,III| were not the~hardest to conquer. Popinot buried in the depths
989 I,II | faculties; but neither~the conquerors, nor the actors, nor the
990 I,VII| buys the "Victoires et Conquetes," the~"Soldat-laboureur,"
991 I,II | weighed the /pros/ and~/cons/ with the inflexibility
992 I,II | their own minds, and whose consciences groan at certain~times.
993 I,II | justice, his rectitude, his conscientious intentions,--~qualities
994 I,VII| convey to you the sum~which I conscientiously believe to be your share
995 I,II | at the time when Napoleon~conscripted all families to fill the
996 I,IV | lease of them for seven~consecutive years. The costs of piercing
997 I,III| free, and to~accept all the consequences of such an agreement. Madame
998 I,VII| education has loosened all~conservative bonds by accustoming youth
999 I,III| friend," he said, "is more considerate, even if angry."~ ~Few people
1000 I,IV | with a blow of her fist, considering~it an insult. In the main
1001 I,IV | with the~agriculturists who consigned her the fruit, for they
1002 I,V | from business, his fortune consisted, in the first place, of
1003 I,V | arrangements of his modest home, consisting of an antechamber, a~sitting-room,
1004 I,II | their whole mental strength consists of knowledge~which commonplace
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