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1506 I,II | wide-awake as an errand-boy~who earns sixty francs a month, he
1507 I,III| nor so supple. She wore~earrings of gold fret-work, and her
1508 I,VI | tremendous earth-works; earth-~works employ the laboring-classes;
1509 I,VI | embankments, tremendous earth-works; earth-~works employ the
1510 I,IV | boiling in a little brown earthenware jug from~which, every now
1511 I,II | views which are of the earth earthy. Cesar, however, lost so
1512 I,V | The daughter at last eased the pain of the poor woman
1513 I,II | nothing was talked of but the East, to name any sort~of cosmetic
1514 I,VII| Cesar a corpse, for which an Easter~morning might yet dawn.
1515 I,II | was rising, radiant in the eastern splendors~of success. By
1516 I,VI | The jovial~scapegrace, easy-going with all the world, and
1517 I,IV | that good little Gigonnet, easy-going--"~ ~"Yes," said Cesar; "
1518 I,III| Tuileries,--certainly the most~eccentric proposal that his august
1519 I,VII| On Sundays, justified by ecclesiastical~permission, he worked like
1520 I,VII| Beethoven's ideal music~echoed, vibrated, in many tones,
1521 I,VII| in the early morning amid~echoes of the fete,--which for
1522 I,VI | court, naturally empty and echoing of~a Sunday, when the workpeople
1523 I,VII| children, the~one at the Ecole Polytechnique, and the lawyer;
1524 I,VII| without remorse, nay, with~ecstasy. Had not Cesarine in all
1525 I,IV | little metal heater on the edge of his fireplace, while
1526 I,VII| among the most imposing edifices in~Paris, and the approach
1527 I,II | Three months later he became editor-in-chief of a little journal~which
1528 I,II | flattered~the self-love of editors-in-chief, and did them base services
1529 I,III| said for his benefit as an educated young man.~ ~"Anselme, I
1530 I,I | The Queen of Roses'; I efface the name,~'Cesar Birotteau,
1531 I,VII| years of happiness had~been effaced by the anguish of three
1532 I,V | morning the removal was effected. Cesar~and his wife slept
1533 I,II | perfume without~special efficacy of any kind; while the Double
1534 I,VI | style of conversation was effluent, gallant,~pretentious, and
1535 I,V | as~if he were walking on eggs, looking nervously at the
1536 I,V | failure, but love is such an egoist! Even~Cesarine felt within
1537 I,VII| creed created by intelligent~egotism.~ ~Bred in religious ideas,
1538 I,IV | elegant de Marsay, smiling.~ ~"Egzactly," said Monsieur de Nucingen,
1539 I,V | you and the Ragons for one eighth. I shall~credit you for
1540 I,VI | At this very moment I am elaborating a memorial to his Highness,~
1541 I,IV | artist a picture of the elasticity, so rare in~Paris, that
1542 I,II | Monsieur," said Cesar, elated by this specimen of tribune
1543 I,I | regretted~that he was not at his elbow. The kick he had given Popinot
1544 I,V | architect must have his~elbows free to-morrow morning--
1545 I,III| of the affair seemed an Eldorado. His~friendship, his devotion,
1546 I,I | the being, and, like all electric accidents, capricious~and
1547 I,VII| have looked at the first electric-eel that was ever brought to
1548 I,I | the shocks, in some~sort electrical, which are produced by terrible
1549 I,I | recognize~the immense part which electricity plays in human thought.~ ~
1550 I,II | by the fervor of youth, electrified by his intercourse with
1551 I,II | marvellous by the fashion and~elegance of Paris. In point of fact,
1552 I,II | out in~the evening very elegantly dressed, came home late,
1553 I,VI | makes~you brusque, so many elements must be brought together
1554 I,II | he mounts the backs of elephants;~seated in a muslin cage,
1555 I,I | These phrases, divided by eloquent pauses and delivered like
1556 I,VI | markets. Markets depend on embankments, tremendous earth-works;
1557 I,II | be willing, so as not to~embarrass you, to take a share of
1558 I,VII| obliterate it. These women, embarrassed by their fine clothes and
1559 I,III| Nevertheless, one~thought embittered his joy. For several days
1560 I,VII| Cesarine and Anselme, who embodied to his eyes the charming
1561 I,II | the other hand, was the embodiment of audacity,~energy, and
1562 I,VII| ball with Popinot.~Popinot, emboldened by his aunt, who told him
1563 I,IV | now lost~however in a vast embonpoint. She lived on the lower
1564 I,V | beings folded together in one~embrace; from the centre of which
1565 I,III| whispering voices within the embrasure of a window,~through whose
1566 I,VI | clever~merchant tries to emerge in fresh shape. Birotteau,
1567 I,III| by~the princes during the emigration. He now offered the profits
1568 Add | Middle Classes~ ~Cochin, Emile-Louis-Lucien-Emmanuel~The Government Clerks~The
1569 I,VII| their~daughter, Mademoiselle Emilie de Fontaine."~ ~"An insolent
1570 I,I | grace of God,~modestly to eminence."~ ~"Where will you get
1571 I,IV | she fought the vermin with eminent~success. Not troubled with
1572 I,II | most active and devoted emissaries of the Bourbons, and where
1573 I,III| fluid, more of the will is emitted than should be spent at
1574 I,I | the~supernatural power of emitting more ideas and bringing
1575 I,II | heavily on his heels, as if to emphasize what he said. In~the midst
1576 I,IV | avarice, or neglect. No employe was to be seen~behind the
1577 I,III| dishonored to screen his employers,--out of such a being du
1578 I,II | Ragon made a practice of employing~him in the business.~ ~When
1579 I,V | and lovers intent on high emprise, Popinot, so gentle and
1580 I,III| had the satisfaction of enabling them to live by~making over
1581 I,VI | history has so often been enacted. In spite of this~disadvantage,
1582 I,VII| all-powerful logic of the enamored~Popinot triumphed in the
1583 I,IV | an unpainted white wooden~enclosure, breast-high, within which
1584 I,IV | just as a first~success encourages them. Cesar no longer had
1585 I,IV | protecting citizens~against the encroachment of illegal proceedings;
1586 I,V | political stability were endangered by the Jesuits, whose~secret
1587 I,IV | a bad business and then endeavor to get it back by niggardly~
1588 I,IV | rules of business, such as endorsing notes out of good-~nature,
1589 I,IV | was doubtless invented~to endow the Saint-Denis quarter
1590 I,VI | to make that terrible day~endurable to his nephew.~ ~The steps
1591 I,II | Frenchmen who could not endure the things of their~own
1592 I,IV | my album."~ ~No culprit enduring the torments of hell in
1593 I,III| eagerness, gentle as a lamb but energetic in his work, devoted~and
1594 I,II | without risk upon the internal energies and~seconds them. Their
1595 I,I | The existing laws are not enforced," cried Cesar, lashing himself
1596 I,VI | him in cash; all that I engage to do~is to see that you
1597 I,V | monstrosities, gigantic engines, flying-machines,~and material
1598 I,II | to him, precisely like an Englishwoman in the humor~for "shopping."
1599 I,III| for the Dresden Madonna, engraved by a man~named Muller. After
1600 I,IV | bottle-green paper, were four engravings bought at auction. In~the
1601 I,II | accustomed to succeed naturally enlarged themselves. The news which~
1602 I,V | broadened its meaning and~ennobled it. The sobriety of Claude
1603 I,V | simple, in her sorrow. Grief ennobles even the plainest people;
1604 I,VII| noble~recovery of credit enraged du Tillet. Cesar's first
1605 I,III| believing that he should~enrich himself by the spoliation
1606 I,VII| for~the banker was now enriched through the forced spoliation
1607 I,VII| we shall have to do is to enshrine~ourselves on the first floor."~ ~
1608 I,VII| A vehement discussion ensued, which Pillerault designedly
1609 I,VI | countermarches which a failure~entails, are asleep at the side
1610 I,VI | trader, had himself become~entangled in the first conspiracy
1611 I,VI | so knowing in the art of entangling that most~wary of human
1612 I,IV | say I'm cogitating a~great enterprise--in champagne."~ ~To make
1613 I,VII| demanded by the splendor of the entertainment.~A diplomatic treaty was
1614 I,VII| understood by~Habeneck, the enthusiastic leader of an orchestra raises
1615 I,VI | prospectus!" cried Popinot, enthusiastically.~ ~"A prospectus which slays
1616 I,VI | of the surrender of your entire property," said~Camusot
1617 I,II | politics and life~in their entirety, and of rising above the
1618 I,IV | and he felt he was legally~entitled to them. On entering his
1619 I,V | Madame Birotteau's earnest~entreaties, Pillerault seemed to approve
1620 I,VII| to the staircase, vainly~entreating them to remain. He succeeded,
1621 I,II | what he had to say with an entreaty that Pillerault would sell
1622 I,III| the enemy is strong, well~entrenched, formidable! Macassar Oil
1623 I,VI | drawing a cheque on fortune to~entrust the launching of the oil
1624 I,IV | are to have no right of entry),~at your own cost, in masonry.
1625 I,IV | send you the writ in an~envelope, with all the consideration
1626 I,VI | matter would have~become envenomed. In this instance, as in
1627 I,V | record. His neighbors,~little envious of such mediocrity, praised
1628 I,VI | successful men~incur jealousy, envy. Ah! you will soon know
1629 I,II | wisdom," thought Birotteau, envying his uncle's life.~ ~"Well!"
1630 I,IV | It was sent to me from Epernay itself, by a man for whom
1631 I,VII| which contains the germs of epigram, nor the tranquil attitude
1632 I,VI | commercially,--Andoche makes epigrams~for the 'Fidele Berger,'
1633 I,II | following assertion as an epigraph: "The peoples of~antiquity
1634 Add | Ragon, M. and Mme.~An Episode Under the Terror~ ~Roguin~
1635 I,III| joy of this deliverance equalled in its intensity the~tortures
1636 I,V | Madame~Roguin in a brilliant equipage, apparently making purchases.
1637 I,VI | to my order."~ ~"That is equitable," said Pillerault.~ ~"Well,
1638 I,V | day~of prosperity which ere long will dawn for you if
1639 I,I | her. She remained sitting erect in the same~posture in the
1640 I,III| of white satin; a rug of ermine lay at the~bedside, and
1641 I,II | Birotteau had explained his errand, Adolphe--much the~cleverest
1642 I,II | actor, wide-awake as an errand-boy~who earns sixty francs a
1643 I,VII| necessary expenses, but eschewing all~follies,--follies that
1644 I,VII| daughter, and Popinot who escorted them,~Constance cast many
1645 I,II | before from a bride, Madame d'Espart.~ ~"Have you been robbing
1646 I,VII| common~fund, for they too espoused the noble hope of Birotteau.
1647 I,VI | which~seems to us the finest essay in the literature of wigs."
1648 I,II | intentions,--~qualities essential to the understanding of
1649 I,VI | in him,--by thought! /N'est pas~detruit qui veut/. Light-minded
1650 I,III| financial~difficulties. His own estate was tied up and legally
1651 I,II | was the sum at~which he estimated their happiness. He then
1652 I,III| and the end of the month~eternity, even if she had bills to
1653 I,IV | Arrest whoever~hissed her! Eugh! If it's a woman, I'll kiss
1654 I,III| by a thoughtless word, a eulogy, a virtuous~recognition,--
1655 I,VI | precise, formal, and not to be evaded. The~merchant who refused
1656 I,III| they are wholly without evasions or mental~reservations of
1657 I,II | were lined with silver, was~evasive yet terrible when he fixed
1658 I,VII| signs of her tenderness, ever-~present yet at the moment
1659 I,V | for whom she waited with ever-growing anxiety, return at eleven~
1660 I,VII| so as not to strip you of everything--"~ ~"I should have seemed
1661 I,V | to and fro, which are~the evidence of my complete devotion.
1662 I,VI | misdeeds were still further evidenced by the badness of the~man'
1663 I,VI | Neither calumny nor evil-speaking can touch you," said Lourdois;~"
1664 I,VI | his humble dinner. If the ex-perfumer had gone alone, he~would
1665 I,VI | his little dry~voice, his ex-successor turned pale; but the good
1666 I,II | the demands of the most exacting~of the creditors. The demonstrative
1667 I,VII| man to accept my absurd exactions; any man would~explain it
1668 I,VII| not, for the sake of your exaggerated ideas of~honor, to make
1669 I,VI | unable to resist. Cesar's exaltation of spirit had a result not~
1670 I,II | with which husband and wife exalted the memory of the queen,~
1671 I,II | commercial houses offer signal examples. Why are there no modern~
1672 I,II | to which he had~become exceedingly indifferent since his wound,
1673 I,II | public saw results only. Excepting Pillerault and Popinot the~
1674 I,VII| beat their hands together excitedly at~the words of command.~ ~"
1675 I,VII| grotesque expression which excites laughter; the young women
1676 I,VI | something important."~ ~"Exciting, hey? Proceed."~ ~In ten
1677 I,IV | touched him with the spur exclaiming, "Go on! go on! I am~listening
1678 I,V | God!" cried Cesar, whose exclamations were not~understood by his
1679 I,I | Won't it seem strange if I exclude him from my house,--a clerk
1680 I,V | love your country was the exclusive privilege of the~Left; the
1681 I,VI | were found without this /exeat/ he~would be put in prison,
1682 I,I | have to make a payment and execute the deeds~before a notary.
1683 I,VII| many sentences have been executed. The~staircase opens above
1684 I,IV | enter into~the details of executing it.~ ~"I neet not tell you
1685 I,III| never deceived as to who exercises the real~authority. Birotteau
1686 I,VI | oil, which counteracts the~exfoliation of pellicular atoms, which
1687 I,VI | pellicular atoms, which exhales a soothing perfume,~and
1688 I,II | This precious Paste, exhaling as it does the sweetest
1689 I,IV | the~last depths of agony, exhaust the vital strength of feeble
1690 I,VI | never ridicule; and this was exhibited in her dress and~habits.
1691 I,VII| lying by in a cupboard, and exhibiting to the eye a shirt-~frill
1692 I,VII| are doing justice. Such exhibitions of character are so~rare
1693 I,IV | privade fortune."~ ~The exhilarating balm infused into the water
1694 I,II | the skin according to the exigencies of~the individual temperament.
1695 I,VI | they have lost, like the exiled angel weeping at the gates
1696 I,VII| knows nothing about, or the Exiles until none remained; duped
1697 I,IV | did not think there could exist such--weak beings!" he said,
1698 I,VII| untiring travail.~ ~Feeble existences, like that of Birotteau,
1699 I,VII| agreed to pay the banker an exorbitant sum, provided they could
1700 I,I | shop, thinking over the~expansion of his affairs, and beginning
1701 I,II | to declare~itself as the expansive flow of confidence is slow
1702 I,V | who allowed himself to~expatiate in phrases which certainly
1703 I,III| her own, to say nothing of expectations, entreated her not to~institute
1704 I,V | is really a dead~matter expelled from that pouch, or crypt,
1705 I,II | Vendemiaire against the expiring Convention.~ ~On that day
1706 I,II | Racine, father and son, and explaining their beauties, or~sketching
1707 I,II | asked in leisure moments for~explanations about the merchandise, whose
1708 I,I | are produced by terrible explosions of the will~forced out,
1709 I,I | Place de la Bourse, and exposed for two hours, wearing a
1710 I,VI | justificative/):--~ ~ ~GOLD MEDAL EXPOSITION OF 1819~CEPHALIC OIL~Patents
1711 I,II | through~the fact of his exposure and abandonment in that
1712 I,V | you set him up in business expressly as a last resource.~In short,
1713 I,I | us imitate them; let us extend~our business, and at the
1714 I,VI | millionaires!"~cried the perfumer, extending his hand to his cashier
1715 I,V | concerns physicians. As for~the exterior, bring on your cosmetics."~ ~"
1716 I,II | Plaintiffs and defendants extolled his kindness, his~conciliatory
1717 I,III| were to be considered as extorted by necessity; he could~not
1718 I,VI | reason to complain of the extortion, the judges~had some hope
1719 I,V | gathers, Monsieur Vauquelin extracts, we sell an~essence. Nuts
1720 I,VII| colors are sober, and not~extravagant in tone."~ ~"It is a science,"
1721 I,V | Proverbs are no~fools; extremes meet. Now see, my boy, commerce
1722 I,V | pocket, or sack, open at both extremities. By one end it~is fastened
1723 I,II | are, Cesar. /You cannot extricate~yourself./ With five thousand
1724 I,VII| in the first moments of exultation he was not~satisfied with
1725 I,II | simplicity of his life. The heavy~eyebrows were not alarming because
1726 I,IV | De Marsay lifted his eyeglass, and said, "Ah! true, I
1727 I,V | the tears fell from his eyes--"that I will wait here~till
1728 I,V | waistcoat of some printed cotton fabric, a white cravat, high shoes,~
1729 I,II | together with the Lotion,~fabricated on the same principles which
1730 I,II | his reflections that his face--~like the image on a medal
1731 I,IV | harmonized with the grim /facetiae/~of its neighbor. In one
1732 I,VI | think your oil is meant to facilitate childbirth. To drag~them
1733 I,II | prevent~cutaneous diseases by facilitating the transpiration of the~
1734 I,II | of Roses," whose methods, facilities, and customs were~well known
1735 Add | Humorists~ ~Vaillant, Madame~Facino Cane~ ~Vandenesse, Marquise
1736 I,IV | in the matter of leases. Factious and~fond of scribbling,
1737 I,III| preparing the work at the~factory, or boasted of his readiness
1738 I,II | birth of men had denied the faculty of judging politics and
1739 I,IV | had an aggont mit us; I fafored dem, and dey could~haf made
1740 I,VI | before the fireplace where a fagot of wood was~blazing, were
1741 I,I | cannot refuse it~without failing in my duty to him. Did I
1742 I,I | the weak, and given the fainting heart time and patience~
1743 I,I | house he felt that inward faintness~which a child feels when
1744 I,II | yellowing tints that dazzling~fairness, to hollow and blacken the
1745 I,VII| glorious sisters. A~radiant fairy springs forward, lifting
1746 I,V | to~face the blow without faltering."~ ~The abbe coughed, to
1747 I,IV | all things I do not want fame~before I have earned it.
1748 I,IV | banter of~Nucingen. The familiarity of the man, and his grotesque
1749 I,VI | for the right~moment to familiarize Cesar's mind with the thought
1750 I,VI | Finot~manages young Finot by famine. Andoche, a capable man,
1751 I,II | opinion, thanks to Finot's famishing assault~upon the newspapers,
1752 I,II | accounts regulated, made a~fanatic of the Tourangian, who in
1753 I,II | excessive love of order, by a fanaticism for work, and by her genius~
1754 I,V | told all your fears and fancies about Roguin to your uncle,
1755 I,V | satin trumpery,~and the fans, and everything you've got
1756 Add | Mystery~Honorine~A Second Home~Farewell (Adieu)~Scenes from a Courtesan'
1757 I,I | your nonsense," she cried,~fastening the petticoat beneath her
1758 I,II | inexpressible delights of fatalism. Yet in spite of~these appearances
1759 I,VII| When, a week before the fateful day, Braschon, Grindot,~
1760 I,II | worthy man, to whom the fates presiding at~the birth of
1761 I,VII| Guillaumes, Rue du Colombier, the father-~in-law of Lebas--old people,
1762 I,III| seemed prompted by indulgent~fatherhood, saying to him: "Deserve
1763 I,IV | rentals and~party-walls; he fathomed the jurisprudence which
1764 I,II | he pretended to be much fatigued and to~fall asleep and snore.
1765 I,III| dinner had make various fatuous remarks, which caused the~
1766 I,IV | to my manufactory, Rue du Faubourg-du-Temple,~to-morrow morning early."~ ~"
1767 I,IV | Monsieur de Lazabed, Monsieur Fauquelin of der~Agatemi--"~ ~"Monsieur
1768 I,II | Sieur Birotteau, perfumer,~favorably known in this metropolis
1769 I,II | very first town which he~favored with his tongue. Every shopkeeper
1770 I,V | was entered from~the Rue Faydeau. The failure, already known,
1771 I,IV | Billardiere;~and if you fear--"~ ~Here he made a movement
1772 I,I | to see one's self! it was fearful! Cesarine and I will have
1773 I,VI | hides his methods under a fearfully bad style~of manners; from
1774 I,V | too-familiar~wagoner and gone fearlessly to the assault of the Tuileries
1775 I,II | propose nothing that is not~feasible, and you can depend on our
1776 I,VI | tokens of a~very excusable feast. "Anselme," said the old
1777 I,V | Gentlemen, lend a hand!~a great feat! We must move, during the
1778 I,VII| disfigured by a bonnet with feathers,~and his last gift, a shawl
1779 I,VII| the same effect that~this fecund harmony wrought in theirs,--
1780 I,V | centre of which Birotteau, feeblest of the three and~the most
1781 I,III| Love, in a youth of~twenty, feeds on devotion.~ ~"He is a
1782 I,VII| with him."~ ~Pillerault feigned to be defeated by this argument.
1783 I,VII| meet~the sudden shock of felicity that awaited him in his
1784 I,I | something unmistakably feline.~ ~Just at this moment Ragon
1785 I,VII| which by chance had~not been felled. Husband and wife sat down
1786 I,VI | by the suffrages of his fellow-~citizens"; happy in the
1787 I,II | interest in it--bit of~good fellowship, you know!" "Gaudissart,
1788 I,III| revive the color of male and female tresses.~This cosmetic will
1789 I,IV | from Madame Birotteau, for~Ferdinand--"~ ~"She calls him Ferdinand!"
1790 I,III| the /Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes/, even if she does not~know
1791 I,I | put an end to the chill~ferment of her nightmare. She sprang
1792 I,II | ironmonger on the~Quai de la Ferraille, whom the young man had
1793 I,IV | Saint-Denis, the Rue de la~Ferronnerie, and the Rue de la Monnaie;
1794 I,II | ancient comedy; he had their fertility of resource, their cleverness~
1795 I,II | wine of his favor and his fervid~speech, as he made plain
1796 I,II | on. Carried~away by the fervor of youth, electrified by
1797 I,VII| degrees for the~joys of this festal day. Just as Cesar finished
1798 I,IV | sweepings, decorations~for the Fete-Dieu, waste-pipes, lighting,
1799 I,VI | of our territory will be feted with~enthusiasm throughout
1800 I,VI | brilliant one. Among the fetes now preparing, the one most~
1801 I,VII| Birotteau was a prey to feverish agitation. He was restless.
1802 I,VII| Birotteau ventured on a fib, and allowed her to suppose
1803 I,VI | ironmonger had too tough a~fibre of integrity not to approve
1804 I,I | He must tell him a lot of~fiddle-faddle. Royalist as he is, though
1805 I,VI | makes epigrams~for the 'Fidele Berger,' which pays; while
1806 I,III| great recompense for your fidelity to my interests."~ ~As he
1807 I,VII| to themselves, not on the field of battle,~but on the peaceful
1808 I,I | where there are woods and~fields, and ponds and vineyards,
1809 I,V | vy he tid not~ask me for fifdy tousand francs. I should
1810 I,VI | employed in stretching a fifteen-sous paper on the walls of these~
1811 I,II | end of December and the fifteenth of January, a sum of~sixty
1812 I,IV | who~wished to sleep on the fifth floor,--"that I may not
1813 I,V | man in the world; he is fifty-eight~years old, and perhaps he
1814 I,VI | creditors was two hundred and fifty-five thousand~francs. The debts
1815 I,I | get such a set-back! A man fifty-nine~years of age to keep a mistress!
1816 I,II | Bench of~commerce, and by fighting--"~ ~"Yes, yes," interrupted
1817 I,I | sure. For two months I have figured at it. Without seeming to
1818 I,IV | establishment which kept the true filbert of Provence, and the~veritable
1819 I,VI | insolvent's schedule is filed, the Court of commerce~appoints
1820 I,II | thrown~upon Paris, led a filibustering life whose chances might
1821 I,VI | admitting his insolvency and filing his schedule, a merchant~
1822 I,VII| Roguin will wear her diamond fillet and all her other~diamonds,
1823 I,II | seductions, such as~fixed prices, fillets of suspended objects, placards,
1824 I,IV | so rare in~Paris, that fills and rounds the delicate
1825 I,VII| illustrious Vauquelin. A light film dimmed his eyes, and his
1826 I,II | as I am,--for I have the~finances of Europe on my shoulders,
1827 I,VII| the street-door, but~of finer work by a cabinet-maker.~ ~
1828 I,II | printers who about midnight are finishing up the columns of a~newspaper
1829 I,V | backs, gridirons, coarse fire-dogs, kettles~and boilers in
1830 I,IV | clock on the days of the fireworks, with~a roll in their pockets
1831 I,VI | Gaudissart, to whom the open firmament of heaven was~indispensable,
1832 I,VI | and courted by the~richest firms? Popinot had reason to feel
1833 I,II | francs for every puff in a~first-class newspaper, and already there
1834 I,VI | working~for yours only. A first-rate traveller's trick! Ha! ha!
1835 I,IV | chickweed to his~bird and fish-bones to his cat, interrupting
1836 I,VII| Matifats," said Cesarine, "are fishing for invitations for~Monsieur
1837 I,IV | letter with a blow of her fist, considering~it an insult.
1838 I,IV | perfumery,~where everything fits like a glove," said the
1839 I,VI | taxation."~ ~"You are well fitted to enlighten the government,"
1840 I,II | committed~for her sake in fitting up the new appartement.
1841 I,VII| particularly washed-out, like a five-franc piece of the~Republic, and
1842 I,VI | francs, with the lease, the fixtures, the merchandise,~furniture,
1843 I,VI | passes safely, as with a flag~of truce, through the enemy'
1844 I,III| But to have been seized, /flagrante delicto/, in a~base act!
1845 I,IV | this~warmth of heart which flamed upon the sea of ice he had
1846 I,I | went mechanically to find a~flannel petticoat for his wife.~ ~"
1847 I,II | of maroon~cloth, had wide flaps and long skirts. Up to the
1848 I,V | dejected brow a luminous~light flashed suddenly, "madame, do me
1849 I,I | making the~bags, sorting the flasks, and corking the phials.
1850 I,II | other poor creatures who flattened more noses,~young and old,
1851 I,VI | Cesarine?--Ah, lover! would you flatter both father and daughter?~
1852 I,VII| Birotteau whispered to himself, "Flatterers already! The Abbe Loraux~
1853 I,II | and augured well from the~flatteries of the great man. He regretted
1854 I,II | whose good-will is always~flattering--"~ ~"Monsieur," said Cesar,
1855 I,III| not a too-prolonged social flattery to paint men forever under~
1856 I,III| king--no doubt as~a delicate flattery--gave the name to his country.
1857 I,VI | Seals, relating to this flaw in our statutes. It is~desirable
1858 I,VII| the assignee."~ ~Birotteau fled, trembling in every limb,
1859 I,II | intoxicated new recruits and~fledgling speculators with the wine
1860 I,VII| for a single night with fleeting splendor. Cesarine cherished
1861 I,IV | and glowing~beauty of a Flemish Rubens. Cesarine had the
1862 I,I | bulged out by the wind,~the flicker of uncertain light thrown
1863 I,VII| amuse himself by catching flies, like Domitian."~ ~Du Tillet
1864 I,VI | modestly, "that the epoch of flimsy and~frivolous prospectuses
1865 I,VII| transition of the~basses, flings us back into the marshes
1866 I,VII| tunics bordered with blue, flit lightly~before the eyes
1867 I,V | he is not permitted~to float in the middle currents of
1868 I,I | irrepressible chatterbox,~whose floodgates du Tillet had set wide open
1869 I,V | Mother Madou, who would have floored a recalcitrant or too-familiar~
1870 I,VII| those of the baptistery at Florence,~turn on their diamond hinges.
1871 I,II | were full of~actresses,--Florine, Tullia, Mariette, etc.
1872 I,III| listened to this absurd~flourish, evidently said for his
1873 I,II | breeches, blue~stockings, a flowered waistcoat, a peasant's jacket,
1874 I,VII| Madame Cesar listened with fluctuations of joy which made her tremble~
1875 I,III| given them. But the first flush of~happiness over, Madame
1876 I,VI | compromising. Such a face,~flushed with the jovial features
1877 I,IV | umbelliferous, judging by the fluted blue~cap which crowned it,
1878 I,VI | of the quarter were in a~flutter at the announcement of Birotteau'
1879 I,IV | the mirror, covered with fly-specks, had a paltry air, in~keeping
1880 I,V | monstrosities, gigantic engines, flying-machines,~and material substances
1881 I,V | looked at these three beings folded together in one~embrace;
1882 I,I | flower of the~lot, if honest folk were not all worth the same
1883 I,V | Hair is produced by a follicular organ," resumed the great
1884 I,V | madly to her dying day; his fondness would inspire him with ambition;~
1885 I,II | for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, a treasure
1886 I,II | Bernier,~du Guenic, and the Fontaines, Cesar flung himself into
1887 I,IV | finance; he was now to see its fooleries.~Lying in bed, in a sort
1888 I,IV | damp ways in which hurried foot-passengers contract rheumatism. But~
1889 I,I | to put the household on a~footing in conformity with our high
1890 I,VI | double! Gaudissart to the fore! We shall make~a hundred
1891 I,II | union the sagacious and fore-casting side,--doubt, opposition,
1892 I,VI | proletaries of~ancient birth, his forefathers. March! and mind that everything
1893 I,VII| appartement;~Braschon's foreman was now nailing up the last
1894 I,IV | blunders? I am, first and foremost, a banker. I will give you
1895 I,III| pale, livid, terrified. "I foresaw it~all. I warned you on
1896 I,II | In 1810 Madame Cesar, foreseeing a rise in rents, pushed
1897 I,V | what I tell you. Every one foresees that Popinot will issue
1898 I,VII| to rise in price, and to foreshadow~the enormous value they
1899 I,V | delicacy, and I~wish to forestall your objections. Do not
1900 I,I | a real misfortune,--they foretell it: known losses are~definite,
1901 I,III| protecting itself against forgeries and false~circulations of
1902 I,III| doing there!" thought Cesar,~forgetting all about Anselme and the
1903 I,VI | ear.~ ~"Something may be forgiven in consideration of such
1904 I,IV | profusely and felt like forgiving the disdainful look. The
1905 I,VI | up, the meeting is a mere~formality. Pillerault went to each
1906 I,I | speculations near the Madeleine, I formally~object. You are perfumer:
1907 I,IV | just as he was about to formulate in flowing phrase, though~
1908 I,VI | proclaimed a sumptuous forthcoming event.~ ~On Sunday, the
1909 I,V | or trebly acute,--and she forthwith applied to~Celestin's ear
1910 I,II | Delays may be called judicial fortifications."~ ~"You are right," said
1911 I,II | rise, we shall show that~fortuitous commercial events which
1912 I,VI | cried Gaudissart, sticking a forty-franc piece in his own eye.~ ~
1913 I,VII| mount up to two hundred~and forty-two thousand francs; half of
1914 I,IV | old workshops, where she fought the vermin with eminent~
1915 I,V | like sailors ready to face foul weather, but not deceived
1916 I,II | bought, and which laid the foundation of his ultimate~success.
1917 I,V | Comagene Essence~we need a good foundation--"~ ~"'Comagene' and 'Essence'
1918 I,VI | Macassar trembles to its foundations!~Was I not right to seize
1919 I,IV | fantastic movements of the four-foot rule, that wand of architects
1920 I,II | with pleasure, and make the foyer of the~opera-house a branch
1921 I,IV | can grasp the totality of~fractions, and skim the profits before
1922 I,IV | For the want of a thousand francs--sure to be repaid in four
1923 I,II | the limpid glance of his frank blue~eyes harmonized with
1924 I,II | king of men."~ ~Constance frankly abdicated the more brilliant
1925 I,V | sorely need the support of fraternal friendship. I have~thought
1926 I,V | offered the prayer /Pro meo~fratre Caesare/, my eyes were filled
1927 Add | Chouans~ ~Nucingen, Baron Frederic de~The Firm of Nucingen~
1928 I,IV | interior galleries built of free-stone, with a fountain at~one
1929 I,III| the nonce the tone of a~free-thinker.~ ~"Listen to me, Birotteau!
1930 I,III| supper where the wine flowed freely, Roguin~unbosomed himself
1931 I,VI | instead of our going to~freeze in the Hall." He did not
1932 I,V | said~Gigonnet.~ ~"Hey! mein freint," said the fat Nucingen
1933 I,II | shams,~invented to please Frenchmen who could not endure the
1934 I,V | Then~he stretched out a frenzied hand to seize the fifty
1935 I,VI | the opinion~of those who frequented the cafe David. He ended
1936 I,VI | best cafes.--Very, and the~Freres Provencaux,--pot-houses
1937 I,II | calculate everything, and fret~perpetually over the future.
1938 I,III| She wore~earrings of gold fret-work, and her hair, gathered
1939 I,I | success in Cephalic Oil, all~fretted the poor man by the multiplicity
1940 I,I | and know how the fish are fried, I have~chosen to be nominally
1941 I,VI | without sun~and without air, frightens me. The gutter is always
1942 I,VII| after receiving a solemnly frigid~glance from the promoted
1943 I,VII| exhibiting to the eye a shirt-~frill of lace that had been an
1944 I,IV | Birotteau, overcome by the frivolity and heedlessness of a man
1945 I,VI | the epoch of flimsy and~frivolous prospectuses had gone by;
1946 I,V | anxieties, despatches to and fro, which are~the evidence
1947 I,II | striking the~attitude of the frog who imitates an ox.~ ~"How
1948 I,II | upon the provinces and~the frontiers, made the house of A. Popinot
1949 I,VI | to imagine the devices of Frontin,~the trickeries of Sganarelle,
1950 I,I | doesn't know why, he can't~froth up his religion. Poor dear
1951 I,II | this impudence, du Tillet frowned,~and asked if he had no
1952 I,I | hastened to relight. "I am frozen. What a goose I was to get
1953 I,II | table on which stood his frugal breakfast,--a~roll, some
1954 I,III| way of compensation for frustrated hopes, and he~found little
1955 I,VI | at table;~and don't get fuddled. If you are drunk, your
1956 I,I | to come,~--it was not the fugitive pain of a moment. He went
1957 I,I | during which the judge should~fulfil the functions of agent,
1958 I,IV | border, revealed, by certain fuliginous stains, the~unwholesome
1959 I,VII| eating dry bread with the fumes of a~good dinner under his
1960 I,II | made~people so merry at the Funambules, when Pierrot, taking an
1961 I,I | Monsieur de la Billardiere, the~functionaries who represent the city of
1962 I,VI | staircase, the square wooden funnels down which the rubbish was~
1963 I,IV | he. But, I~say, you are a funny fellow, old man, to flash
1964 I,III| merino dress with green furbelows defined the pretty~waist,
1965 I,II | Constance~that he rushed furiously into the shop to buy six
1966 I,IV | are rushing into the fiery furnace, my good fellow,~and you
1967 I,VII| which for building, repairs, furnishing, suppers,~toilets, and the
1968 I,I | with difficulty and glanced furtively about the~room, then filled
1969 I,V | which the Revolution had fused with the bourgeoisie. The~
1970 I,I | folding up his document~with fussy precision.~ ~The architect
1971 I,I | for the Rue Saint-Honore--fy! bad style! Our shop~must
1972 I,IV | the man, and his grotesque gabble excited~by champagne, seemed
1973 I,I | said Birotteau, cutting the gabbler short, "the notes~which
1974 I,VI | to him. "No banker ever gabbles; he acts, thinks,~reflects,
1975 I,II | the wondering look~of a gaby in the streets of Paris.
1976 I,VII| life is not to share in gaieties,~but to visit the afflicted.
1977 I,I | the love she inspired to gain~her end.~ ~"Well! Birotteau,"
1978 I,VI | he had to take it to the~Gaite. Andoche understands prospectuses,
1979 I,V | cravat, high shoes,~and on gala days he put on a coat with
1980 I,IV | with~arcades and interior galleries built of free-stone, with
1981 I,I | has been working like a galley slave,--~just as if his
1982 I,II | rode on horseback at full gallop up the~stairway of the orangery
1983 I,VII| cotillon and the English galop. Du Tillet, Roguin, Cardot
1984 I,III| dead~thing, which he might galvanize back to life when it suited
1985 I,IV | play the part of reckless gamblers; they become capable of~
1986 I,IV | before the entrance to a gambling-house.~ ~This was the 14th. At
1987 I,IV | them; they~will frequent gambling-tables, become dissemblers, hypocrites,
1988 I,IV | when the dressing-gown gaped open, he saw an undershirt
1989 I,VII| flowers drop from their garlands. The bourgeois~Momus appears,
1990 I,V | wrapped in a gray woollen garment, breakfasted in~his chimney-corner
1991 I,II | passionate, wounded,~and cruelly gashed in his life, his honor,
1992 I,V | round by the Rue Perrin-~Gasselin on his way home, in search
1993 I,III| Cesar reached the outer gate, his eyes bathed in tears,
1994 I,V | science.~Angelique Madou gathers, Monsieur Vauquelin extracts,
1995 I,VI | Gaudissart, grandson of all the Gaudissarts, vile proletaries of~ancient
1996 I,VII| design which had nothing gaudy about them. On a~chimney-piece
1997 I,IV | silks and honey, butter and gauze, and above all a number~
1998 I,III| forethought lowered the modest gauzy neckerchief to~show a little
1999 I,VI | government, but keep to generalities. For instance: 'The~budget
2000 I,VI | a~failure which did not generate enough matter to fill the
2001 I,II | and who was reckoned a genius--had made great efforts to
2002 I,I | exclusively to the painters of genre.~What words can picture
2003 I,VII| Monsieur and Madame Thirion, gentleman-usher of the bedchamber to the~
2004 I,II | charmed with his modesty and gentleness, praised~him publicly. Plaintiffs
2005 I,VI | insensibly got~back to gentler ways, which only showed
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