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2006 I,V | all "constitutionnel." The gentry of the~Opposition claimed
2007 I,II | his intercourse with the~Georges, the Billardiere, Montauran,
2008 I,III| a long time revenge had germinated in his heart~without budding;
2009 I,VII| hung a pound of jingling gew-gaws, and by a green coat with
2010 I,V | time chilling, tones which gild the sunsets of winter. His
2011 I,VII| Cesarine flung all her girlish savings upon the counter
2012 I,V | monsieur, is a cosmetic given--that is, sold, and sold
2013 I,V | with Boileau. Why did the gladiators oil themselves--"~ ~"Olive
2014 I,VII| she find the plate, the glass-ware, the~refreshments, the china,
2015 I,III| Birotteau, who had taken three glasses of wine, and~was half-drunk
2016 I,VII| heart; his eye was no longer~glassy, for the light of pleasure
2017 I,IV | locksmith and a painter~and glazier,--very convenient folks,
2018 I,IV | light of a charcoal brazier gleamed on~an /omelette aux truffes/.~ ~
2019 I,VI | Providence; from within them~gleams a light that marks them,
2020 I,VII| beings of a loftier~nature glide. The incense of all prosperities
2021 I,VI | shall~sparkle, scintillate, glisten on every head. Ha! your
2022 I,VII| fifty paces, and upon which glittered a gold chain~and a bunch
2023 I,II | indifferent, clear yet vague, glittering though~sombre.~ ~"Have the
2024 I,II | back, and slumbers. Our globe is perhaps only a rocket
2025 I,VII| anticipation, the celestial glories. Sincerity~and candor, infused
2026 I,VII| candid brow, contradicted so gloriously the thoughts~which surged
2027 I,I | membranes of her throat became glued~together, her voice failed
2028 I,I | that~Birotteau had been goaded for two days before he could
2029 I,V | Commissioner, Monsieur Gobenheim-~Keller. Agent, Monsieur
2030 I,III| him. In~such a scheme the Gobsecks, Palmas, and Werbrusts would
2031 I,III| cried Birotteau. "My son, God--is it not Voltaire who~says,--~ ~"'
2032 I,I | were~not as sure as bars of gold--"~ ~"Sure!"~ ~"Yes, sure.
2033 I,VII| angels raise.~Sculptured golden doors, like those of the
2034 I,IV | as endorsing notes out of good-~nature, or launching into
2035 I,III| what he was,~one of those good-for-nothing members of the body politic
2036 I,VII| sycophants; and there was a goodly number of~people whose invitations
2037 I,I | relight. "I am frozen. What a goose I was to get up in~my night-gown!
2038 I,I | for him."~ ~"You give me goose-flesh merely speaking of it. If
2039 I,VI | of politics,' etc. Don't gorge~yourself at every table
2040 I,V | flights of stairs to beg a~gossiping landlord, who chatters like
2041 I,III| If we are to believe the gossips, you~are ruined."~ ~"He
2042 I,IV | tell me, waiting in der gounting-room. I know vy. Der mines of~
2043 I,II | the same principles which govern the composition of~the Paste.~ ~"
2044 I,III| the clerks Madame Cesar governed~her husband; for though
2045 I,IV | canals, loans, and peaceful governments. I'm a good fellow when
2046 I,VI | law: the legislation that governs his~functions, and which
2047 I,IV | Tu Tillet takes der graadest inderest in you," he said.~ ~"
2048 I,IV | condeetion to vich I attache der graatest imbortance, because I~vish
2049 I,VI | role of the Cid. "I shall grab~every shopkeeper in France
2050 I,VII| puts~out of sight these gradations in the /crescendo/ of the /
2051 I,II | merchants of~the upper grades, agents, engineers, and
2052 I,VI | doctor, informed him, by gradual doses, of the transactions~
2053 I,III| her costly caprices had gradually eaten up~his whole fortune.~ ~
2054 I,VI | them, and shaking off the grains which strayed upon~their
2055 I,VII| always went by the name of GRAND-JACQUES,--and the~YOUNG SCAMP, who
2056 Add | Another Study of Woman~La Grande Breteche~ ~Bidault (known
2057 I,VI | happiness of seeing their grandmothers~and great-aunts replacing
2058 I,VI | Jean-Francois~Gaudissart, grandson of all the Gaudissarts,
2059 I,VII| My colleague, Monsieur Granet, deputy-mayor, and his wife.
2060 I,I | now deputy-mayor. The king grants four crosses to the~municipality
2061 Add | Life~The Member for Arcis~ ~Granville, Vicomte de (later Comte)~
2062 I,V | of the press, we are the grapes, the bankers are the casks.
2063 I,III| her poor husband was to grapple with misfortune. Her heart~
2064 I,VII| not think me so base and~grasping as to profit by your father'
2065 I,I | there's a snake in the grass~somewhere."~ ~He walked
2066 I,II | enticed a~skilful workman from Grasse, with whom he began, on
2067 I,VII| were sauntering across the grassy slope~without perceiving
2068 I,III| year~with us. If I were not grateful out of good feeling, I ought
2069 I,VI | gesture. "One~recollects gratefully the virtuous magistrate
2070 I,VII| caught through the rich gratings, of the Place~du Palais-de-Justice,
2071 I,VI | he'll concoct it for us gratis.~Damn it! with a bowl of
2072 I,II | counting-room, into~the gravest matters of business, and
2073 I,I | to do with it,--all the gray-heads in Paris will fling~themselves
2074 I,VII| expressed. The older, feebler, grayer the magistrate, the more~
2075 I,II | with Cesar. Ursula with the grease washed off~seemed charming
2076 I,IV | life had~spoiled, dirtied, greased, torn, defaced, obliterated,
2077 I,VI | seeing their grandmothers~and great-aunts replacing their gold snuff-boxes
2078 I,V | audience with MONSIEUR,~who was greatly attached to the old Vendeen
2079 I,VII| Loraux.~ ~"He could rise to greatness only through adversity,"
2080 I,IV | little curtains of some old green-silk stuff, and~furniture of
2081 I,II | circle round the lovely~greenish-gray eyes so cruelly that she
2082 I,VII| some remarkable event. The greeting~of Madame Ragon was particularly
2083 I,II | him, "I am Birotteau!" The grenadier who sprang first into the~
2084 I,VI | far distance of the Rue de Grenelle, a~vaudeville chorus sung
2085 I,III| his eyes the color of a grey-veined agate, his pleasant~mouth,
2086 I,I | hypothecating his~share. To hold the gridiron and know how the fish are
2087 I,V | cast-iron chimney backs, gridirons, coarse fire-dogs, kettles~
2088 I,VI | ninny?" cried Anselme, in a grieved tone.~ ~"Born merchant!"
2089 I,I | life. His weird face had grinned diabolically at~the ball,
2090 I,IV | the heart by this cold and grinning kindness~as much as by the
2091 I,III| encountered, at no great expense, grisettes who were glad of his~protection;
2092 I,II | minds, and whose consciences groan at certain~times. His complexion,
2093 I,II | capacity as the retired grocer who summed up a discussion
2094 I,III| throwing the reins to his groom and a blanket over the~back
2095 I,IV | to confine himself to the ground-floor and let the rich perfumer~
2096 I,V | other clerks and Raguet, grouped behind~him. "Is it allowable
2097 I,V | one of the most animated groups~du Tillet, Gobenheim-Keller,
2098 I,I | which will make the hair grow--an Oil Comagene, from Syria!~
2099 I,II | are not~performed without grumbling; who begin by refusing what
2100 I,IV | man, who listens for the grunt as piggy~finds the succulent.
2101 I,V | operations. Strange cries and grunts issued therefrom, with songs
2102 I,II | anything about them. He guarded the very threshold of his~
2103 I,VII| officers of trust, these~guardians of the public wealth, these
2104 I,VII| Derville is waiting for a guardianship~account."~ ~"Your wife and
2105 I,VII| like~lancers or national guards, buys the "Victoires et
2106 I,II | Longuy, Manda, Bernier,~du Guenic, and the Fontaines, Cesar
2107 I,II | of staircases, under the guidance of a~man in livery, towards
2108 I,VII| children. Bless me, and the Guillaumes, Rue du Colombier, the father-~
2109 I,IV | to go to that commercial guillotine?"~ ~"Monsieur du Tillet."~ ~"
2110 I,V | reproaches? I can conceive of the guillotine--a moment, and~all is over.
2111 I,II | hunted like wild beasts and guillotined at the first~chance. At
2112 I,VI | petty trades of Paris are guiltless in~this respect. When a
2113 I,III| distinguished, are thus gulled like children by business
2114 I,I | shall no longer see them gumming on the labels, making the~
2115 I,II | will-o'-the-wisp. He lets the gust whirl him~along, instead
2116 I,IV | Montmartre as he walked among~the gutters on the roof, where he cultivated
2117 I,VII| magician, so well understood by~Habeneck, the enthusiastic leader
2118 I,IV | offered by the angel to~Hagar in the desert, must have
2119 I,III| of an observer, certain haggard~lines, and an expression
2120 I,VII| earn a fair penny without haggling over it, so that I may get
2121 I,I | poured from his lips, like hail lashing the~flowers in the
2122 I,II | Paste and a Lotion justly hailed as marvellous by the fashion
2123 I,II | used Cephalic Oil. Every hair-dresser in~Paris, and all the perfumers,
2124 I,II | transplanted to Paris. His powerful hairy hands, with their~large
2125 I,V | the~old man must be very hale to mount them daily without
2126 I,IV | 15th."~ ~"That's true; I am half-asleep still."~ ~The cashier gave
2127 I,VI | upon his cranium a nebulous half-circle, flanked by~two pigeon-wings,
2128 I,I | to the bone.~ ~Fear is a half-diseased sentiment, which presses
2129 I,III| glasses of wine, and~was half-drunk with joy. "Everybody knows
2130 I,II | seek the falling day or the half-shadows of a~starlit night. On a
2131 I,I | said Molineux in a sly, half-sneering tone. "My porter came to
2132 I,I | poor Ragonines look to me half-starved of late."~ ~"Bah! all those
2133 I,V | Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom
2134 I,VII| imposing~spectacle in the halls of justice. Birotteau found
2135 I,V | modesty made, as it~were, a halo round his head, bringing
2136 I,V | what it is,--club-~feet, a halting-gait, a humped-back, excessive
2137 I,III| Birotteau, "don't do things by halves."~ ~"What is it?"~ ~Birotteau
2138 I,IV | to live henceforth, like Hamlet,~with a spectre beside him.~ ~
2139 I,IV | afraid, for instance, of hammers. When the lease was~to be
2140 I,VII| In those days it was all hand-shaking, and~'Birotteau, take courage;
2141 I,I | of every kind~should be handed over to his creditors, and
2142 I,II | could take~his snuff by the handful; he rode on horseback at
2143 I,V | Bank of France, he added, handing her~Pillerault's paper. "
2144 I,III| Champs-Elysees, furnished it handsomely,~and in trying to satisfy
2145 I,VII| letter from du Tillet, whose handwriting he~recognized at a glance.
2146 I,VI | seeing and touching things.~Hang it! you are supposed to
2147 I,VII| a man full of~pride, who hanged himself." He related in
2148 I,V | upon the shop-door of the hapless Birotteau, which she~opened
2149 I,I | no man could have been happier than I. If I had~listened
2150 I,VII| delicious memory of the happiest day of~all his youth, loosened
2151 I,V | thereupon went off into an harangue~to the clerks, which he
2152 I,VII| which subdues the heart and hardens~it against the influence
2153 I,VII| held in honor, for they are~harder than all others to bear.
2154 I,III| even these were not the~hardest to conquer. Popinot buried
2155 I,III| which deprived it of all hardship; doing~it for the sake of
2156 I,VI | fourteen~volumes of "Clarissa Harlowe," if an author could be
2157 I,V | the more guilty for his harmless pretensions.~ ~Gigonnet,
2158 I,III| presented a surprisingly harmonious effect as~it lay on the
2159 I,V | with ochre and bistre tints harmoniously~blended, offered a striking
2160 I,VII| commerce. Short and fat, harnessed with spectacles and a shirt-collar~
2161 I,IV | he belongs to the race of Harpagon; he'll take canary birds
2162 I,VII| Fontaine, Corneille,~Pascal, La Harpe,--in short, the whole array
2163 I,IV | thus enabled to bear the harrowing emotions of that~night.
2164 I,VII| pay it," said du Tillet harshly.~ ~"He is right," thought
2165 I,V | bird's-eye glance at the harvest of~love in her own home,
2166 I,V | friends, at Roland's, Rue du Hasard, and took~them afterwards
2167 I,VII| questionable anecdote, would hasten to~interrupt him by screaming
2168 I,IV | everything down to your hat-box, your socks (don't you go
2169 I,V | trousers hanging on the hat-stand~outside the door. Madame
2170 I,VI | Devoted especially to the hat-trade and the /article-~Paris/,
2171 I,II | allowing it credit. Here were hatched the~specious, legal plots
2172 I,II | like~a true perfumer, he hated the revolution which made
2173 I,III| red-handed, in a theft. All hatreds,~public or private, from
2174 I,II | friends and acquaintances; he~haunted the editorial rooms; he
2175 I,VI | black pall, who revealed the havoc caused by that~which had
2176 I,V | business men to-day. You might hawk about those notes of~Popinot
2177 I,I | the usurers.~I have not hawked your signature about; I
2178 I,III| in the most knavish and hazardous market in the world, it~
2179 I,V | beech-nut, colza, olive, and~hazel, etc."~ ~"Then I am not
2180 I,IV | and the~veritable white hazel-nut of the Alps.~ ~The Rue Perrin-Gasselin
2181 I,IV | In the midst of his own haziness of mind produced by~the
2182 I,VII| due to his creditor, and~--he--will--be--reinstated--restored--"~ ~"
2183 I,VI | curled in ringlets. This head-gear needed, by rights, a virgin~
2184 I,III| it. I don't say that my head-piece isn't~as good as another'
2185 I,II | relieve all persons subject to headache from the sufferings of~that
2186 I,V | the same effect. Probably headaches and other~cephalagic affections
2187 I,IV | is a banker,~just as the headsman is a doctor. The first word
2188 I,V | the relief of a~sound and healthful existence.~ ~For sixty years
2189 I,V | had increased her fury.~ ~"Heap of vermin! I want my money;
2190 I,VII| an author~feels when he hears the muttered words: "That
2191 I,V | had never known, except by~hearsay, the terrible anguish of
2192 I,I | man must needs feel in his heart--and feel it more than once~--
2193 I,V | with fear tugging at the heart-strings, dries up all~jesting, parches
2194 I,VII| the moment; the men are heated,~their hair, lately curled,
2195 I,IV | his~milk in a little metal heater on the edge of his fireplace,
2196 I,V | effect upon me; his voice heats my stomach, and even gives
2197 I,VII| de Lenoncourt--"~ ~"Good heavens, Cesar!" said Constance, "
2198 I,III| now walked beside~Cesar, heaving with these ideas, trembling,
2199 I,VI | happy in the prospect of hectoring Birotteau, just as a~child
2200 I,VII| for the ball, they paid no heed to the splendor of their~
2201 I,IV | overcome by the frivolity and heedlessness of a man to whom~the world
2202 I,VII| Anselme turned on his heel towards the window, and~
2203 I,II | Cesar tumbled from the heights of hope into the miry~marshes
2204 I,III| eyes played~the part of heir-apparent--assisted, with some bitter
2205 I,IV | defects of education, his heiress was able to carry it~along,
2206 I,VII| of lace that had been an heirloom, fastened with a bluish
2207 I,I | would Anselme guide the helm? Birotteau treated Popinot
2208 I,VII| said Lourdois. "I might help--"~ ~"I do need you--at eleven
2209 I,V | very lucky if the master helps you," said Celestin.~ ~Popinot
2210 I,II | above all satellites, or~henchmen, who passed from group to
2211 I,I | well taking care of the hens~and the farm. Let us sell
2212 I,VII| said Cesarine. "I like~her--oh! better than any one
2213 I,V | prepared his~phrase as much to herald the creation of the house
2214 I,VII| the arm of his friend with Herculean force. "Succeed,~or I'll
2215 | hereafter
2216 | hereby
2217 I,V | thousand francs; which I send herewith, in a note~of the Receiver-General
2218 I,VI | the closer, more or less hermetically tight, of a house~where
2219 I,V | provincial gentlemen, the heroes, almost unknown,~who made "
2220 I,II | Anselme launched~his oil heroically. Two thousand placards were
2221 I,IV | pretty piece of music by Herold; while~Constance sat sewing
2222 I,IV | evil-smelling and jaunty, herrings~and muslin, silks and honey,
2223 I,VII| shop where she is killing herself--"~ ~"For love?" said Popinot.~ ~"
2224 I,IV | him in the Palais-Royal,~hesitating before the entrance to a
2225 I,IV | swarm an infinite number of heterogeneous~and mixed articles of merchandise,
2226 I,IV | hundred and fifty~francs, /hic et hinc/, to be deducted
2227 I,IV | awry, seemed all the more hideous to Birotteau~because, when
2228 I,VI | elaborating a memorial to his Highness,~the Keeper of the Seals,
2229 I,I | I should not be on the highroad to~becoming a political
2230 I,II | proposed by the department on highways; and the discussion~involved
2231 I,VI | weary of poverty,~lighted up hilariously when he caught sight of
2232 I,VII| crown upon the prettiest hillside in the~neighborhood of Paris,
2233 I,VII| Madame Birotteau,~nor Cesar himself--was allowed to put foot
2234 I,IV | and fifty~francs, /hic et hinc/, to be deducted from the
2235 I,III| Anselme therefore could see no hindrance to his marriage~with Cesarine,
2236 I,VI | dead leaves) fell from her~hips in those inimitable folds
2237 I,I | turning the staircase and hiring the first floor of the next~
2238 I,V | with songs and~whistles and hisses that recalled the hour of
2239 I,III| If there should be any hitch, how could~you scrape the
2240 I,VII| had spent all her little~hoard, a hundred louis, on buying
2241 I,VI | Finot,~"and he is not to be hoaxed; he saved my life. Ha! when
2242 I,V | in cast or wrought iron, hoes, and all the agricultural~
2243 I,I | persisted Birotteau.~ ~"Why, the holder of the notes, if I were
2244 I,III| pull down rice to force the holders to sell at low prices, and
2245 I,VI | justice was rubbed~into holes. It was absolutely necessary,
2246 I,III| if the~thirty-first was a holiday.~ ~As Cesar reached the
2247 I,IV | pounds they put a pound of~/hollows/. Must I lose my profits
2248 I,V | crucifix with a basin of holy-water first caught the eye. This~
2249 I,VI | hair-oil, etc. In the midst of Homeric laughter a knock~resounded,
2250 I,IV | herrings~and muslin, silks and honey, butter and gauze, and above
2251 I,V | the dining-room, where the honey-moon had been~passed, still wore
2252 I,II | bride and bridegroom began a honeymoon that~was never to end. Madame
2253 I,VI | creditors with those of a man honorably overtaken by misfortune.~
2254 I,V | as he pulled the deer's hoof hanging from~the bell-rope
2255 I,III| upon their hands.~ ~"Be hopeful, dear friend," said Constance.~ ~"
2256 I,III| obstinately (though~it was said hopelessly) bent on making love to
2257 I,IV | like the Chancelier de l'Hopital on the~peristyle of the
2258 I,VI | overheard,--but on the Quai de l'Horloge; there's no one there at
2259 I,II | shoulders,~made him suffer horribly. This harsh application
2260 I,I | it amuses you. Oh! that horrid dream! My God!~to see one'
2261 I,IV | looked at Popinot.~ ~Popinot, horror-struck, cried out, "I will do them
2262 I,II | the handful; he rode on horseback at full gallop up the~stairway
2263 I,IV | children, tenants, clerks, horses, dogs, monkeys, to whom~
2264 I,II | and artists died in~the hospital, as a natural consequence
2265 I,III| were~invited out, their hosts always put the dinner at
2266 I,III| to despise him burned so hotly~that Birotteau seemed, even
2267 I,V | myself, for Gigonnet will hound~me down. I can't get any
2268 I,VI | hare and holds with the hounds. A clever agent has frequently~
2269 I,V | adopted child, the son of his~house-keeper. These heavy losses had
2270 I,VII| silently prepared a joyous house-warming.~ ~"Cesar," said Pillerault,
2271 I,VI | is not~worthy of such a housewarming."~ ~"But," said Popinot,
2272 I,II | Keller's house in Rue du~Houssaye, having spent the night
2273 I,V | people unless they live in hovels like Claparon," said~Gigonnet.~ ~"
2274 I,VII| incomparable delicacy. The Loves hover in the air and waft the~
2275 I,II | hand. At that~hour Finot hovered around printing-presses,
2276 I,II | sitting on the~cases, and hovering over the shipments; her
2277 I,III| are /buts/ and /ifs/ and /hows/ and /whys/. What a devil
2278 I,II | man, standing between the hulks and a vast fortune, was~
2279 I,IV | a prospectus! Down with humbug!' On that they get out the~
2280 I,II | mind~to what he called the "humbugs" of Paris. So when Ursula
2281 I,V | in vain; you would meet humiliating refusals; no one would~take
2282 Add | Government Clerks~The Unconscious Humoriists~ ~Gobseck, Sarah Van~Gobseck~
2283 I,III| of men in whom scrofulous~humors, attacking that organ, produce
2284 I,V | feet, a halting-gait, a humped-back, excessive ugliness, claret
2285 I,IV | Hey! der tefle! dont pe zo humple, Monsieur der debudy-mayor;
2286 I,IV | aggonts. You vill~haf one hundert tousant francs, Matame de
2287 I,V | increase their value one hundredfold, and we shall, perhaps,
2288 I,IV | man went through, for the hundredth time, one of those~frightful
2289 I,IV | On that they get out the~hunting-horns and shout and clamor,--'
2290 I,IV | whole remaining strength~in hurling the word at Anselme's brow,
2291 I,IV | Versailles and the wigwam of a Huron chief. Birotteau had~witnessed
2292 I,III| for any papers~between us. Hurrah for success! we'll act in
2293 I,IV | Quincampoix,~--damp ways in which hurried foot-passengers contract
2294 I,II | Derville good-by, and going~hurriedly away, with death in his
2295 I,III| Birotteau, as he watched him hurrying across the~Tuileries. "Suppose
2296 I,VII| of his fall, and which he~husbanded as a poor sub-lieutenant
2297 I,I | weeks ago. The squandering hussy hasn't a~farthing left;
2298 I,II | was then able to buy the huts and the land in the Faubourg~
2299 I,VI | need~of Monsieur Popinot. Huzza! we ought to fire a salute--
2300 I,IV | The evil savor of this hybrid flower was only revealed
2301 I,IV | gambling-tables, become dissemblers, hypocrites, liars;~they will even shed
2302 I,I | man, in his atrociously hypocritical~voice, "we settled our business
2303 I,I | money at five per cent, hypothecated on my share~of the property.
2304 I,I | Roguin will get it for him by hypothecating his~share. To hold the gridiron
2305 I,IV | lichen which grows only in Iceland. This comparison is all
2306 I,III| the hand is everything; icy when they have no need of~
2307 I,V | flask of oil gave me an idea--"~ ~"Papa, I don't know
2308 I,VII| head and heart. Beethoven's ideal music~echoed, vibrated,
2309 I,IV | and gave her a species of~ideality. Notwithstanding the graceful
2310 I,VII| appearing before Popinot in the identical ball-dress about~which,
2311 I,III| If Francois gave way to idiotic generosity, and helped~people
2312 I,VI | workmen--~arrested all the idlers and busybodies in the street;
2313 I,VI | worthy of Napoleon, his idol.~ ~"Thank you, Monsieur
2314 I,II | Cesarine, an only daughter, idolized by Constance as well as
2315 I,III| but~there are /buts/ and /ifs/ and /hows/ and /whys/.
2316 I,III| of his body. His nose~was ignominiously shortened like those of
2317 I,II | middle~classes; who followed ignorantly the track of routine, whose
2318 I,IV | from a house of financial ill-fame. He went down the~stairway
2319 I,III| importation; and we have the~ill-luck to belong to our own country.
2320 I,VI | struggling any longer at his own ill-paid~work. At the present moment
2321 I,VI | bankrupt had signed the illicit notes with the name~of his
2322 I,II | the first to do so--the illimitable~power of advertisement,
2323 I,III| that was the cause of your illness!" exclaimed Constance.~ ~"
2324 I,V | light, and those whom you illuminate can give you nothing in
2325 Add | Muse of the Department~The Imaginary Mistress~The Middle Classes~
2326 I,II | so~many youthful Parisian imaginations. Constance, with her narrow~
2327 I,V | of business. I have often imagined how it would be if I were~
2328 I,VII| though he was far indeed from imagining the extent of it.~ ~"My
2329 I,VI | the head may be enabled to imbibe it, after~the scalp has
2330 I,IV | vich I attache der graatest imbortance, because I~vish Matame de
2331 I,II | the "Carminative Balm." He~imitated in his own line the system
2332 I,I | if judged by a watch, but immeasurable when~calculated by the rapidity
2333 I,VI | minds gained an idea of the~immensity of human disaster from the
2334 I,VI | drunk;~his glances were immodest, and his gestures compromising.
2335 I,VII| du Tillet, "this little imp would~make an excellent
2336 I,VII| quiverings of a heart beneath the impassibility of human~justice. He was
2337 I,VI | let us see," said Popinot impatiently.~ ~Here follows the prospectus;
2338 I,VI | before~his failure can be impeached, prudent men are careful
2339 I,VI | settled. What they call an impediment has arisen. The~tenant is
2340 I,IV | pressure of thought, and imperatively demanded sleep to repair~
2341 I,II | striking or~gallant, he rose imperceptibly on the points of his toes
2342 I,V | chance has inflicted a bodily imperfection can alone obtain.~ ~"Monsieur,"
2343 I,II | grasped by the fever of imperilled interests,--passionate,
2344 I,VII| had none of that composed impertinence~which contains the germs
2345 I,III| into her bedroom with an~impetuosity which would have caused
2346 I,V | like the Ragons, he put implicit confidence in Roguin. To
2347 I,III| is offered as a foreign importation; and we have the~ill-luck
2348 I,II | discussion on the~method of importing teas, by remarking with
2349 I,VII| which some people take to importunate beggars.~ ~"Monsieur, has
2350 I,II | to the surly clamor of importunity, to~bursts of disappointment,
2351 I,II | households, but of a nature to impress such simple souls as~Cesar
2352 I,I | calculated by the rapidity of her impressions, the poor woman had the~
2353 I,VII| Madame Ragon was particularly impressive; her look and accent~seemed
2354 I,V | des Bourdonnais, fairly imprisoned by the old man, who was~
2355 I,VI | false~creditors, show the improbability of the fiction of their
2356 I,II | the day before,~and the impromptu speech of the great man.
2357 I,VII| habits and customs, told the improper~conduct of the Sieur Gendrin,
2358 I,VII| never pass off~without some impropriety. The dignified personages
2359 I,II | leading merchants of~Paris. To improve his knowledge, he rose daily
2360 I,II | which Cesar showed at this impudence, du Tillet frowned,~and
2361 I,IV | gave us. I can't stand his impudent airs--all~because he has
2362 I,VI | which he has just been~been impudently attacking. The interests
2363 I,III| the flower of health, the impurities of~his blood could be seen
2364 I,VII| home the poor man passed, inadvertently, along the Rue~Saint-Honore;
2365 I,IV | Monsieur de Nucingen to the inattentive ears of du Tillet, who was~
2366 I,V | Anselme, and Finot had inaugurated~Cephalic Oil.~ ~When Molineux,
2367 I,VI | coalition'; 'The Bourbons are~inaugurating an era of prosperity: let
2368 I,IV | antecedents of Birotteau, the incapacity of his mind, which had little~
2369 I,III| brought about his downfall;~he incensed the tiger, pierced him to
2370 I,VII| monstrosities forever. Sin was incompatible with the life and~sentiments
2371 I,II | peasant-girl,~his knowledge from an incomplete education, and his vices
2372 I,I | things that were wholly~incomprehensible to her.~ ~"He must be out
2373 I,VII| their eyes~were full of inconsiderate curiosity; their voices
2374 I,II | Macassar Oil, and the broom incontinently~became a mop. This ironical
2375 I,I | thousand francs might be inconvenient to you just now, I~meant
2376 I,V | of a ministeralist, an incorrigible royalist who on the 13th~
2377 I,VII| of his role, contrived to incriminate the~Liberals, the Bonapartists,
2378 I,III| he felt within him that indefinable sinking~which succeeds great
2379 I,VII| upon the minds of all an~indelible impression. His grim face,
2380 I,IV | for which the law does not indemnify us."~ ~After long study
2381 I,IV | You see all der vorld ist inderesded."~ ~"Will Monsieur Birotteau
2382 I,IV | Tillet takes der graadest inderest in you," he said.~ ~"At
2383 I,III| venture. Begin the fight in~India, in foreign countries, in
2384 I,II | breathes the odors of~an Indian root. Dazzled by the blaze
2385 I,III| a French product to the Indians than to send them back what~
2386 I,II | too dazzled to observe the indifference which~succeeded the smiles
2387 I,V | without eating, as if we had indigestion,~and on the fourth day we
2388 I,II | Birotteau, also observed~the indignation of the perfumer, who repressed
2389 I,III| infamous~tricks; who run up indigo when they have monopolized
2390 I,VI | firmament of heaven was~indispensable, found himself shut up in
2391 I,II | seal upon the caprices of indomitable~destiny, whose hand wipes
2392 I,V | own home, and reasoned by induction; the happiness of her~mother
2393 I,IV | to follow up the chain of inductions by which a superior man~
2394 I,VI | gathered courage as he felt the indulgences shown to him, and he got~
2395 I,IV | In it there are various industrial /cloaca/,~very few Dutchmen,
2396 I,VI | studying all the time to keep industry~alive by new projects."~ ~"
2397 I,II | dinner-table of the Ragons with ineffable~delight. The second clerk
2398 I,II | make known in characters ineffaceable, the cause of the vast~overthrows
2399 I,I | compassionately put the inert mechanism which bore~the
2400 I,IV | Monsieur Gendrin had committed infamies worthy of Marat,--obscene~
2401 I,VI | charm upon the heads of infancy, by those who make use of
2402 I,II | gold, and as good as an infant Jesus,--in fact, a king
2403 I,III| thousand,--a service which infatuated old men seldom forget.~ ~
2404 I,V | of a man like me~there is infinity. I owe to you what you call
2405 I,VI | brownish-red in color, inflamed like that of the~conductor
2406 I,I | liable to the sellers.~I hold inflexibly to one commercial rule:
2407 I,V | they on~whom chance has inflicted a bodily imperfection can
2408 I,II | him alone by a voice which influenced all~Europe, while the eager
2409 I,VI | deteriorating atmospheric~influences, and to maintain the temperature
2410 I,VI | the scalp, also prevents influenzas, colds in the~head, and
2411 I,V | magnetic ardor, produced by an influx of the~nervous fluid, which
2412 I,II | to avoid counterfeits, informs the~public that the Paste
2413 I,VI | up at night, taxing her ingenuity to find ways of increasing
2414 I,V | You are gold by the ingot, Monsieur Pillerault; but
2415 I,II | may dream of Araby as he inhales certain perfumes. He may~
2416 I,VII| the animal kingdom. After inhaling the incense of his~triumph,
2417 I,VI | or ever will have,--~his inheritance from his father, his mother,
2418 I,IV | lightly on his nose with an inimitably sly gesture.~ ~"Monsieur
2419 I,VI | ransack accounts, obtain by injunction the books of the false~creditors,
2420 I,IV | gravity, all in one--never injures business;~quite the contrary.
2421 I,I | threat, fully understood, of injuring him~professionally by calumniating
2422 I,VI | than provoke a useless and injurious~stimulation of the instrument
2423 I,IV | places were littered with inkstands, in~which the ink was mouldy
2424 I,III| deceive the public, the~inmates of a household are never
2425 I,VII| tone which~reached to the inmost heart of his wife, "I would
2426 I,IV | he passed the night at an inn, maddened~with grief, while
2427 I,III| virtuous queen of France innocently believed to be a misfortune
2428 I,IV | he crossed the Marche des Innocents.~ ~"Poor boy! who could
2429 I,VII| she was terrified by the innumerable details of~such a fete:
2430 I,II | little pimples which~appear inopportunely at certain times, and interfere
2431 I,VII| honor agitated his~life inordinately; he completely lost the
2432 I,II | examined him with an amazed and inquisitive look. In his eyes Cesar~
2433 I,I | you on the high road to insanity? Are you~dreaming?"~ ~"No,
2434 I,III| of gambling~renders them insatiable. On making this discovery,
2435 I,III| the reason of Gobseck's insensibility to the claims of his niece.~ ~
2436 I,VI | judiciously handled by Pillerault, insensibly got~back to gentler ways,
2437 I,IV | which the newspapers did not insert and never~answered. He was
2438 I,II | rectify the document by inserting the name of du Tillet,~under
2439 I,II | close a resemblance to~the insipid face of a Parisian bourgeois.
2440 I,V | at "The~Queen of Roses," insisting that he would see his creditors
2441 I,I | said old Ragon.~ ~"All insolvents are suspicious characters,"
2442 I,III| her right of personally inspecting the affairs of the house,--
2443 I,V | received yesterday the last~instalment, five thousand francs, from
2444 I,III| was full of tears; and she instinctively dreaded du Tillet, for every~
2445 I,II | During the first year Cesar instructed his wife about the sales
2446 I,II | is a principal~element of instruction. Monsieur and Madame Ragon
2447 I,I | warning; he fulfilled the~instructions of the poor man, whom Celestin
2448 I,VI | total shipwreck without insurance, passes it to his profit-and-loss~
2449 I,III| for the unhappy notary an insurmountable~antipathy, and wished to
2450 I,V | Madou bore down, like an insurrectionary wave from the Faubourg~Saint-Antoine,
2451 I,VII| that all should~be kept intact, when he religiously preserved
2452 I,II | bewildered by the stir of this intellectual kiln, where the daily~bread
2453 I,VI | lapse of ages, has been intelligently re-discovered by A. Popinot,~
2454 I,I | place. Her~terror became so intense that she could not move
2455 I,III| deliverance equalled in its intensity the~tortures of his peril.
2456 I,III| whom he~did business this intentional error was a sign previously
2457 I,VI | Pillerault, seating himself~intentionally next to Claparon.~ ~"Quantities;
2458 I,VI | a public school, to all intents and purposes alike,~and
2459 I,VI | darkened by a sign which intercepted the~daylight and bore the
2460 I,I | long head."~ ~Molineux, interested in any discussion about
2461 I,II | persecution, which made him interesting in the eyes of the opposition,~
2462 I,IV | therefore safe from the interfering claims of the~clergy. The
2463 I,II | secondary houses, useful intermediaries for banking~interests, which
2464 I,VII| called the figures of the interminable country~dance, and some
2465 I,II | despair or smothered hope,--interpellations of the eye~darted with mutual
2466 I,VI | hearing that word Constance interposed.~ ~"Monsieur Lourdois,"
2467 I,VI | article in the Code has been interpreted by various judgments rendered~
2468 I,I | paying no~attention to the interruption. "For I should have no rights
2469 I,II | words, two speeches, two interviews, were required before an~
2470 I,VI | therefore, to distress or~intimidate Cesar Birotteau; yet the
2471 I,IV | and made the~staircase intolerable,--conduct worthy of a man
2472 I,I | of artists, who are most intolerant of men~in their dealings
2473 I,VII| gave rise to more than~one intrigue in the second arrondissement.
2474 I,I | these~liberals, these damned intriguers, to the blush; hein? Do
2475 I,III| of~Berenice, where Racine introduces a king of Comagene, lover
2476 I,VI | and a banking-house,--and introducing a~certain quantity of Claparons
2477 I,VI | do it? To drive out the intruder the legitimate creditor
2478 I,IV | the voice seems to render~intrusive.~ ~Seated in his arm-chair,
2479 I,VI | whole of France; he has inundated the country with placards~
2480 I,III| passions which sometimes invade the whole being~of a man
2481 I,VI | in your snuff like an old~Invalide; toy with your snuff-box,
2482 I,VII| assignee. His sharpness is invaluable; when he is~alone he must
2483 I,IV | fire, draw kings at play,~invent April-fools, stroll on the
2484 I,III| imagination of a~tragic author inventing a catastrophe, gave birth
2485 I,V | Celestin, went over the inventory with him. Then the mother
2486 I,I | hundred good thousand~francs invested outside of our business,
2487 I,I | whole~property. Roguin will investigate as to which of the contracts
2488 I,VI | Pillerault the whole business of investing their savings. Returning~
2489 I,V | anything, like all safe investments. My fifty~thousand francs
2490 I,II | of business, and into the invisible darns of the~household linen;
2491 I,I | twenty-five per cent below the invoice~price; and that is the destruction
2492 I,VI | commercial traveller had invoked, were busily~employed in
2493 I,V | Thus thought Cesarine, involuntarily perhaps, yet not~altogether
2494 I,V | moralists hold that love is an involuntary passion, the most~disinterested,
2495 I,II | an infamous trick, which~involves and ruins many small shareholders.~ ~
2496 I,II | perfumer, did not~know an iota of natural history, nor
2497 I,II | glance of his eye, whose iris~was circled with a whitish
2498 I,VI | spacious shop, with~great iron-bound doors, painted a dragon-green,
2499 I,II | which may have hidden the~ironies of persecuted opinion. Gaudissart,
2500 I,I | involved;~he felt he had more irons in the fire than he could
2501 I,VII| everything to~pay you."~ ~"Irrational folly!" cried Pillerault. "
2502 I,VI | the court, which~was dark, irregular, and surrounded by high
2503 I,I | the perfumer, "a court of irremovable judges,~with a magistracy
2504 I,II | brains dominate, may become~irreparable catastrophes for weak ones.
2505 I,I | need any one," said the irrepressible chatterbox,~whose floodgates
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