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3006 I,V | were caked with~a layer of mud, hard or soft according
3007 I,III| engraved by a man~named Muller. After two years correspondence
3008 I,I | fretted the poor man by the multiplicity of ideas which they involved;~
3009 I,VI | Birotteau was a member of~the municipality--"~ ~"You have not sent for
3010 I,II | illustrious Gaudissart,~that Murat of travellers, when brought
3011 I,VII| voices ranged above the~low murmur which gives inimitable piquancy
3012 I,VII| said Madame Cesar, whose~murmurs were checked by a glance
3013 I,III| heat in his entrails, the muscles of his stomach contracted,~
3014 I,VI | whose heads looked like mushrooms, and~covered with an iron
3015 I,I | be ruled like~a sheet of music-paper. Have you forgotten what
3016 I,VII| puerile civility.~ ~"Now we mustn't forget any body," said
3017 I,VI | thought killed him. His~mute grief and resignation made
3018 I,VI | breakfast.~ ~"Down with the cold mutton!" cried Gaudissart, suddenly, "
3019 I,I | authors and actors are,--~mutually dependent. Grindot, ordered
3020 I,IV | territory--as~to commemorate my--promotion to the order of
3021 I,IV | brandishing her lance: a myth. The floor was covered with
3022 I,VI | letters be prepaid./~ ~"N.B. The house of A. Popinot
3023 I,I | their property and be as naked as~the little Saint John;
3024 I,IV | fur tippets in summer, nankeens in winter. What securities~
3025 I,VII| Billardiere, who was called the NANTAIS at 'The Queen of Roses'
3026 I,II | shot~through his head,--a Napoleonic look. This imitation of
3027 I,V | to drink with them. The narcotic soon put Cesar to sleep,
3028 Add | In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:~Another Study
3029 I,II | The rapidity of this narrative compels us to pass over
3030 I,II | into whose funds so many nascent industries sought to dip.
3031 I,VII| of pitiless~analysis, a nation will be found in process
3032 I,II | unjustly, are attributed to the natives of~his province. A wheedling
3033 I,VII| commercial honor very much as a naturalist must~have looked at the
3034 I,VII| secret of strong, creative natures,--to forget,~in the way
3035 I,IV | only revealed by~use; its nauseous bitterness needed the stewing
3036 I,VI | cooks, as in other days Nausicaa washed, for pure amusement.~
3037 I,VI | shopkeeper in France and Navarre.--Oh, an idea! I was about
3038 I,VII| the fete without remorse, nay, with~ecstasy. Had not Cesarine
3039 I,VI | defined upon his cranium a nebulous half-circle, flanked by~
3040 I,VII| Grandville,~obedient to the necessities of his role, contrived to
3041 I,III| lowered the modest gauzy neckerchief to~show a little of Cesarine'
3042 I,IV | pint cups,--in short, a new necromancy!~So far, we have only got
3043 I,IV | Government alone can~pay the needful millions to raise an architect
3044 I,V | daughter sat plying~their needles by his side, in profound
3045 I,IV | details of executing it.~ ~"I neet not tell you dat der Bank
3046 I,IV | arbitrary powers of~bakers who nefariously sell false weights, of the
3047 I,IV | of penury, or avarice, or neglect. No employe was to be seen~
3048 I,II | angry with~them for their negligence. Fifteen days later Ferdinand
3049 I,VI | owner, for the purpose of negotiating a lease. As he sauntered
3050 I,II | that puts in the way of negotiation."~ ~Keller moved his head,
3051 I,VII| permission, he worked like a Negro.~ ~"No," he said, "Monsieur
3052 I,II | to his honesty; if a few neighboring~shopkeepers envied his happiness,
3053 I,III| you feel within you the nerve to struggle~with something
3054 I,V | walking on eggs, looking nervously at the wall. Monsieur~Vauquelin
3055 I,I | appartement,~furnished like a nest. Yes, I shall refurnish
3056 I,II | of loans to complete the net-work~of canals proposed by the
3057 I,I | make a~pretty number of /neuvaines/ for the success of your
3058 I,II | and marks, better than any new-comer; and~from that time Monsieur
3059 I,VI | up to the surface of the newly-fledged banker. "Talk as little
3060 I,V | stood a liqueur-stand. The newness of this room proclaimed
3061 I,IV | is no~poetry in commerce! Newton did not make more calculations
3062 I,IV | you vill invite us to your nex pall? My vife is shalous;~
3063 I,III| readiness in learning the niceties of the~trade, or recalled
3064 I,VI | took snuff with~exquisite nicety and with the gestures which
3065 I,V | habit to which he owed his nickname.~"There are some very big
3066 I,I | bed and saw her husband's night-cap, which~still retained the
3067 I,I | uncertain light thrown by a night-lamp upon the folds~of red calico,
3068 I,VI | bedstead of red wood, a shabby night-stand, an old-~fashioned bureau,
3069 I,VI | resumed Roguin, "makes up by night-work the time lost in~looking
3070 I,II | events in Cesar's life. The nightly conversations when the~shop
3071 I,III| whom fed the sheep of our~nineteenth century, the sober and serious
3072 I,VI | came to~one hundred and ninety-five thousand francs, to which
3073 I,VI | Do you think me such a ninny?" cried Anselme, in a grieved
3074 I,VI | parliamentary manner.~ ~"No--hair--can be made--to grow!
3075 I,V | into the presence of the nobleman whom the king preferred~
3076 I,VI | researches have demonstrated that nobles, formerly~distinguished
3077 I,VII| and Charity, the~three noblest virtues of humanity, shed
3078 I,IV | German~accent, as he rose and nodded to Birotteau, "monsieur
3079 I,IV | their everlasting contempt, nodding his head as if to show the~
3080 I,I | ve been rolling in your noddle for~two months without choosing
3081 I,IV | well to be taken rapidly to Nogent-~sur-Marne. At Nogent-sur-Marne
3082 I,IV | to Nogent-~sur-Marne. At Nogent-sur-Marne the porter told him that
3083 I,I | I~During winter nights noise never ceases in the Rue
3084 I,III| dawn of day he slipped out~noiselessly, leaving his wife in bed,
3085 I,I | ears filled~with strange noises, her heart tightened yet
3086 I,V | filth. Each landing of this noisome stairway~bore the names
3087 I,VII| ball was beginning to be noisy, and Mademoiselle de Fontaine
3088 I,I | fried, I have~chosen to be nominally proprietor of one half,
3089 I,II | Paris. The prefect wished to nominate Birotteau as~mayor. Thanks
3090 I,VI | commercial house. The /sine qua non/~condition in the election
3091 I,III| Birotteau, assuming for the nonce the tone of a~free-thinker.~ ~"
3092 I,VI | he had once regarded as a nonentity,~who now by a fiction of
3093 I,IV | him the next day, 13th, at noon. Though every hour brought
3094 I,VI | afflictions, by maintaining the~normal temperature of the cranium.
3095 I,III| through whose chinks the north wind blew its chilly whistle.
3096 I,VI | Greeks, the Romans, and all Northern nations,--to~whom the preservation
3097 I,VI | like the second notary in~notarial deeds. By this means, the
3098 I,IV | address in one of those pretty note-books~which invariably come from
3099 I,VI | nothing,~or, at any rate, mere nothings. Check that ribald eye of
3100 I,VI | and his~family. Pillerault notified the commissioner that he
3101 I,IV | her a species of~ideality. Notwithstanding the graceful lines of her
3102 I,II | all the~articles called "Novelties" which were to be found
3103 I,VII| common in Paris,~was then a novelty. At the further end of the
3104 I,III| boy was taking down the numbered shutters.~Birotteau, finding
3105 I,II | Birotteau found himself among a numerous~company of deputies, writers,
3106 I,VII| keeping his share for him; I nurse it with~careful love. I
3107 I,III| Switzerland, where he found nymphs at a~reduction. Circumstances,
3108 I,IV | space screened off by an~oak balustrade, trellised with
3109 I,VI | jewel-case. This touching obedience to the law struck the~commercial
3110 I,IV | against power, though always obeying it; a creature feeble~in
3111 I,VI | relations, their ideas, and the obfuscating effect~of a shop and a counting-room,
3112 I,II | prices, fillets of suspended objects, placards, illusions and~
3113 I,VII| is for the bourgeoisie to~obliterate it. These women, embarrassed
3114 I,IV | greased, torn, defaced, obliterated, and ruined~furniture which
3115 I,IV | Lying in bed, in a sort of oblong recess or den opening from
3116 I,IV | infamies worthy of Marat,--obscene~drawings at which the police
3117 I,VII| had a slight~leaning to obscenity. It was even said that,
3118 I,II | a victim to this careful observance of civility; for~others
3119 I,VI | discrepancy to the keen observation of Pillerault. Claparon'
3120 I,VI | when the judge usually observes that the~debtor, or the
3121 I,V | insects do~when there is an obstacle in their way,--he turned
3122 I,V | never~thought of them. His obstinacy in that direction only shows
3123 I,II | in~Adolphe's region. This obstructive manoeuvre gave time for
3124 I,VI | done. Before reappearing~he obtains a safe-conduct, which neither
3125 I,I | and before long, after an occasional cup of coffee, Cesar was
3126 I,II | instinct of a watch-dog. If occasionally he complained, the head~
3127 I,II | Balm will relieve the smart occasioned by~the heat of the razor;
3128 I,V | stairway~bore the names of the occupants in gilt letters on a metal
3129 I,V | wished for it and that your~occupations did not leave you time to
3130 I,VI | the one he had~formerly occupied--without deep emotion, and
3131 I,III| well have been by such an occurrence in the burgeoning~time of
3132 I,VI | Well! that wasn't the ocean to drink," said Pillerault,
3133 I,V | hollowed and swarthy, with ochre and bistre tints harmoniously~
3134 I,V | Tuileries on the~10th of October, who jeered her best customers
3135 I,IV | rats, also contained an odd-~looking desk, with a shabby
3136 I,VII| Tillet's very presence was odious~to his feelings. Under the
3137 I,II | chauderie/, as he breathes the odors of~an Indian root. Dazzled
3138 I,V | BREAD; and forgive us our offences, as we forgive those who
3139 I,V | we forgive those who have~offended against us. So be it!"~ ~
3140 I,IV | the sun. He read the word "Offices,"~stamped in black letters
3141 I,V | over, her husband would be~officially appointed to a situation
3142 I,IV | stables were filled~with oil-casks, and the carriage-houses
3143 I,IV | birds, a table~covered with oil-cloth, a barometer, a window-door
3144 I,VI | which the dowagers of the~olden time have carried away with
3145 I,VII| which~it is expressed. The older, feebler, grayer the magistrate,
3146 I,VI | with~other and less costly oleaginous substances, and scenting
3147 I,V | Cesar, who replied to the Olympian looks of her lord~with an
3148 I,IV | charcoal brazier gleamed on~an /omelette aux truffes/.~ ~Two covers
3149 I,I | at Claparon.~ ~"Yes, for one-fourth, by verbal agreement only.
3150 I,III| ambitious desires:~but love gets onward by leaps of hope, and the
3151 I,IV | same advantages which the open-~air life of Rome gives to
3152 I,I | But he would put himself openly in the business if it were~
3153 I,II | and make the foyer of the~opera-house a branch of the Bourse,--
3154 I,IV | amount to anything; we are operating elsewhere. Hey!~my dear
3155 I,II | Carminative Balm are two operative compounds, of a motive~power
3156 I,II | According to~Birotteau aloes and opium were only to be found in
3157 I,II | seldom ready. Perhaps your opponents will let the~case go by
3158 I,VI | were eager to point out opportunities which Pillerault might take~
3159 I,III| enemies, he, Adolphe, would oppose with might and main any~
3160 I,II | placards, illusions and~optical effects carried to such
3161 I,V | Brigands,~thieves, my money or--"~ ~She darted at a pretty
3162 I,VI | almonds, sweet and~bitter, orange oil, cocoa-nut oil, castor
3163 I,II | gallop up the~stairway of the orangery at Versailles. Writers and
3164 I,II | placed~him in a seminary. Ordained priest, Francois Birotteau
3165 I,I | very well you~have been ordering furniture for me; I saw
3166 I,II | entered the employ of this Orgon with~the intentions of a
3167 I,II | good nature,~which gave it originality and saved it from too close
3168 I,II | that people should say /ormoires/, because~women put away
3169 I,IV | private office. Between the~ostentatious reception-room of Francois
3170 I,V | Virgin in full sight, but not ostentatiously, in the~dining-room, on
3171 I,II | high-colored~and square in outline, revealed, by the lines
3172 I,V | thousand~francs; for several outstanding bills chanced to be paid.~ ~
3173 I,II | power, of which it is the outward sign. As for Madame Birotteau,~
3174 I,VII| surrounded him and gave him an /ovation boursiere/. He was~overwhelmed
3175 I,VII| other women wore heavy, over-~loaded dresses, and offered
3176 I,V | than his. He had never overcharged or sought to force a~bargain.
3177 I,V | household of the king being overcrowded with noble supernumeraries
3178 I,II | eccentricities. If a note were overdue he sent for the bailiff,~
3179 I,IV | reproach,~might cause to overflow in tears, was all that kept
3180 I,III| happiness that were full to overflowing. Ragon lived in the Rue
3181 I,III| now~found him, as he was overhauling his letters full of proposals
3182 I,II | would help him.~ ~And he was overjoyed when it happened that he
3183 I,II | dreamed,~produced on Cesar an overpowering effect. On a fine June day,
3184 I,VII| If misfortunes were to overtake Cesar~Birotteau, this mad
3185 I,II | the Ragons. If misfortune~overtakes you,--I know Constance,
3186 I,II | good reason, of seeking the overthrow of the restored~Bourbons.
3187 I,V | a great man. Macassar is overthrown! Macassar,~monsieur, is
3188 I,II | ineffaceable, the cause of the vast~overthrows with which history teems,
3189 I,III| prostitution if misfortunes overtook her. The wife, on~the other
3190 I,I | at this phenomenon, which overturns~their systems and upsets
3191 I,VII| Cesar in this sudden and~overwhelming surprise, and they awaited
3192 I,II | a lad twenty years old, owning a few acres of land, who
3193 I,I | francs~provided for. He who owns rents owes nothing. When
3194 I,II | the frog who imitates an ox.~ ~"How can he find time
3195 I,V | oil, iron, a few atoms of oxide of manganese, some~phosphate
3196 I,IV | jovial company by a pate,~oysters, white wine, and vulgar
3197 I,II | make your~adversary keep pace with us. He will employ
3198 I,III| floors were~littered with packages and wrapping-paper. The
3199 I,VI | a sham; we'll make it a pageant, colors flying! You shall
3200 I,II | Bourse, or when he closed the pages of~his ledger. Suspicion
3201 I,III| said Constance in a low, pained voice.~ ~"Well, then," said
3202 I,II | sketching a landscape, or painting in sepia! What joy to live
3203 I,VII| long perspective of rare palaces where beings of a loftier~
3204 I,I | refuge in a house in the Palais-~Royal, where she was assassinated
3205 I,VII| gratings, of the Place~du Palais-de-Justice, where so many sentences
3206 I,I | another thing! He won't~palaver; he'll trust you no farther
3207 I,VI | Gaudissart's shout, his~pale-blue eyes sparkled, his big head,
3208 I,VI | the~favorite color was pale-brown, the shade of dead leaves)
3209 I,VII| to~dawn, the wax lights paled, the players joined the
3210 I,I | man, was~alarmed at his paleness and rigidity. He was not
3211 I,IV | served as a pedestal to Pallas~brandishing her lance: a
3212 I,II | a month as wages, and a~pallet to sleep upon in the garret
3213 I,III| such a scheme the Gobsecks, Palmas, and Werbrusts would have
3214 I,I | her heart tightened yet palpitating, and her~person bathed in
3215 I,II | banking~circles. Horrible palpitations of the heart assailed him
3216 I,II | where dwelt the universal panacea--credit! Cesar remembered
3217 I,IV | what~is going on in his pancreas, and which, at the present
3218 I,II | the other, journalists, pandering to the~banker's self-love,
3219 I,IV | than three years old, not a~pane of glass was missing, there
3220 I,I | losses are~definite, but a panic defies all reckoning. Birotteau
3221 I,III| shepherdesses danced in panniers, before whom fed the sheep
3222 I,III| bestowed upon her~fortune, the paper-knife in chiselled gold, the paper-weights
3223 I,IV | is uttering counterfeit~paper-money,--if he asks you to do anything
3224 I,III| paper-knife in chiselled gold, the paper-weights of~carved malachite, and
3225 I,VI | travellers, the~/Frenchman par excellence/. A few days
3226 I,II | watch-chains, which hung down in parallel~lines; but he only put on
3227 I,V | passion the organs are~either paralyzed or trebly acute,--and she
3228 I,VII| its serious aspects, the~paraphernalia of justice has a grand and
3229 I,VI | under the spell of the cane~parasol, the butterfly cap, the
3230 I,IV | small dealer in umbrellas, parasols, and~canes, named Cayron,--
3231 I,II | an idler,--when among a parcel~of books for six sous a-piece,
3232 I,IV | Nowadays, business is all parcelled out~in portions. A single
3233 I,I | to whom we sell in~small parcels. But it takes too long to
3234 I,V | heart-strings, dries up all~jesting, parches the throat, lowers the proudest
3235 I,IV | bring it~fully out. Like all Parisians, Molineux had the lust of
3236 I,V | Gigonnet.~ ~Roguin, in the parlance of such worthy merchants,
3237 I,V | Vicar of the Cathedral and Parochial Church~of Saint-Gatien de
3238 I,V | virago overheard him,--for in paroxysms of passion the organs are~
3239 I,VII| excellent taste, spacious, parquetted, and simply decorated. Next
3240 I,III| with the gold obtained by a parricide. She never thought of the~
3241 Add | Cousin Betty~The Country Parson~In addition, M. Bianchon
3242 I,IV | truly royal air as they~parted.~ ~"I am close by the Markets,"
3243 I,VII| decoration into the minutest~particulars,--an art of which the bourgeois
3244 I,II | devotee of the Right, a partisan of the government,~--himself
3245 I,VI | him at night, through the partition, crying out to~himself, "
3246 I,II | legal plots by which silent partnerships were taken in~doubtful enterprises,
3247 I,IV | relating to rentals and~party-walls; he fathomed the jurisprudence
3248 I,II | then popular with certain parvenus who had~never seen so much
3249 I,IV | landing, so as to get a passage-way on the~same floor. All that
3250 I,II | earliest developments he had~passionately watched; an only daughter,
3251 I,II | banker, "your reputation is a passport,~Monsieur Birotteau. You
3252 I,IV | hung a portrait done in~pastel,--Molineux in his youth.
3253 I,VI | horrible rooms, the workman pasting the lengths. A collegian'
3254 I,VI | prospectus--the word is pat, hein? Prospectuses are~
3255 I,VI | work at once to take out a patent for the invention and all~
3256 I,VI | EXPOSITION OF 1819~CEPHALIC OIL~Patents for Invention and Improvements.~ ~"
3257 I,V | for his daughter, yet his paternal~tenderness made him guess
3258 I,I | formulas, who dosed his patients neither more nor less than~
3259 I,III| dinner-service, all seemed patriarchal; novel in form because of
3260 I,III| former clerk to his old~patron.~ ~Du Tillet knew very well
3261 I,II | Vendemiaire won him very high patronage, precisely because he had~
3262 I,II | spirit. Vauquelin accordingly patronized~the perfumer, and allowed
3263 I,III| little stiff air when I patted him on the head, just as
3264 I,VII| Guard, where his protuberant paunch could be~distinguished at
3265 I,III| in character. Birotteau paused before an exquisite clock,~
3266 I,VII| admires the "Convoi du Pauvre," delights in~mounting guard,
3267 I,II | question of defeating the Pavillon Marsan!" cried the other.~"
3268 I,V | gentle and tranquil~usually, pawed the earth like a thoroughbred
3269 I,IV | compromise their best friends, pawn what does not belong to
3270 I,VI | usually sold his wife's shawl, pawned his plate,~left no stone
3271 I,VII| interrupting him; "are you~going to pay--"~ ~"In full, with interest.
3272 I,IV | Hey! der tefle! dont pe zo humple, Monsieur der
3273 I,II | sometimes drank~dissolved pearls, in imitation of a celebrated
3274 I,II | instincts from a seduced peasant-girl,~his knowledge from an incomplete
3275 I,IV | gives to the Transteverine peasant-woman. Her hair,--~which was abundant,
3276 I,V | agricultural~implements of the peasantry. This line, which was sufficiently~
3277 I,IV | that fat Nucingen says, in~/peaseness/ at all. What's the Madeleine
3278 I,VI | preservation of the hair was peculiarly precious. Certain~scientific
3279 I,IV | umbrellas; they belong to the~peddlers."~ ~"Well, I won't say that
3280 I,IV | dial-case that served as a pedestal to Pallas~brandishing her
3281 I,I | stood still, as it were, and peered~about to see his way. At
3282 I,VI | messenger of the~Chamber of Peers, or an usher of the king'
3283 I,VI | counteracts the~exfoliation of pellicular atoms, which exhales a soothing
3284 I,IV | the bosom of my humble /penates/ a~member of the municipality
3285 I,IV | the ink was mouldy and the pens as rumpled as a ragammufin'
3286 I,IV | humble, conveyed an~idea of penury, or avarice, or neglect.
3287 I,II | assertion as an epigraph: "The peoples of~antiquity preserved their
3288 I,III| vanilla and the spirit of~peppermint. We'll tackle the drug-trade
3289 I,I | misfortune, just as others whose perceptions are in their heads suffer~
3290 I,IV | find his Constance, usually perched like a~bird of ill omen
3291 I,IV | himself a Fontaine or a Percier,~should bow before the administration.
3292 I,III| thousand francs went to perdition."~ ~"I fail!" cried Birotteau,
3293 I,IV | said little Molineux, peremptorily, up in arms~for the principle. "
3294 I,III| that his wife would~make peremptory objections in the morning,
3295 I,II | Cesar now summoned~up to perform this act.~ ~"After all,
3296 I,VI | hidden purpose; there is one performance for the pit, and another
3297 I,VI | act. Like all theatrical performances, it is played with a double-~
3298 I,II | bourgeoisie whose labors are not~performed without grumbling; who begin
3299 I,VII| altar of all joy flames, the perfumed air circulates! Beings with~
3300 I,V | Foy a great one, Casimir Perier without ambition, Lafayette
3301 I,V | storms of life~upon the perilous waves of human interests
3302 I,II | in times of scourge, has periods when it advances, slackens,~
3303 I,V | loving-kindness; he is not permitted~to float in the middle currents
3304 I,IV | smallness of my means not~permitting--God grant your wishes!"
3305 I,II | succeed. Though Birotteau~perpetrated this folly in good faith
3306 I,II | calculate everything, and fret~perpetually over the future. Her cold
3307 I,IV | confidence, now, unstrung by perplexity, shrank from~meeting Claparon;
3308 I,V | Bourse, went round by the Rue Perrin-~Gasselin on his way home,
3309 I,II | have hidden the~ironies of persecuted opinion. Gaudissart, thus
3310 I,II | cheap rate a varnish of~persecution, which made him interesting
3311 I,VII| was coquettishly hung with Persian chintz. A piano, a~pretty
3312 I,II | out with his~inflexible persistency. His merits were those of
3313 I,III| than renounce~her right of personally inspecting the affairs of
3314 I,IV | the door. "I zink tat dose persons--te Marsay, dis is Monsieur~
3315 I,III| complimented the perfumer on his~perspicacity and penetration, and praised
3316 I,II | epidermis, and dissipates the~perspirations of the hand, of which both
3317 I,VI | touched and softened, and persuaded at last to restore his victim
3318 I,VI | Andoche accepted Popinot's perturbation as a compliment.~ ~"Now
3319 I,I | I have not the mines of Peru," said Cesar, walking quickly
3320 I,I | you've got the mines of Peru--"~ ~"Yes, I have, my lamb.
3321 I,I | does know him, why~does he pet him? You'll tell me, because
3322 I,II | establishment called~Le Petit Matelot,--the first of those
3323 I,III| Ragon lived in the Rue du~Petit-Bourbon-Saint-Sulpice, on the second floor of
3324 I,V | read in the "Journal des Petites Affiches" this~terrible
3325 I,VII| same time."~ ~*****~ ~A petition for reinstatement with corroborative
3326 I,IV | common~to all courtiers and petitioners, he was able to attain his
3327 I,VI | mercantile inventions, already petted and courted by the~richest
3328 I,VI | general rout, the /sauve qui peut/ of Beresina is passed from
3329 I,VII| the black and quivering~phantoms of burned letters lying
3330 I,III| tender mercies of Jews and~Pharisees; and he well knew it. But
3331 I,V | changes, or from internal~phenomena which produce the same effect.
3332 I,I | flasks, and corking the phials. Very well for the~Rue Saint-Denis,
3333 I,II | Keller, banker, orator, and philanthropist, celebrated for~his benevolence
3334 I,III| their harshness, their false philanthropy; but he was~seized with
3335 I,III| never lost!" he~continued, philosophizing very wide of the mark. Nevertheless,
3336 I,III| notary drank the dregs of his philter from a~broken chalice. He
3337 I,V | oxide of manganese, some~phosphate of lime, a tiny quantity
3338 I,III| house,--of~holding, as she phrased it, the handle of the frying-pan.
3339 I,II | forty, and kept his word. Physically, Ferdinand was~a tall, slender
3340 I,V | interior of the head concerns physicians. As for~the exterior, bring
3341 I,I | to utter disorganization.~Physiologists have long wondered at this
3342 I,II | cook, a big creature from Picardy, took the best bits for
3343 I,VI | quiver under the blows of pick and hammer. The~house-painter,
3344 I,V | under the Maximum, and the pickaxes and other implements of~
3345 I,VI | just sent home, rigid as a picket-stake, anxious about~his motions
3346 I,V | brother!" said Birotteau, picking up~the note and continuing
3347 I,II | for what the Bourse terms "pickings to be gobbled up,"~commissions
3348 I,IV | size of the widows, the pictures--"~ ~"It must be finished
3349 I,I | then filled with those picturesque effects which are the despair~
3350 I,II | personages in this scene. While~picturing the manners and customs
3351 I,VII| determined to see nothing piecemeal; he wished to~enjoy the
3352 I,IV | consecutive years. The costs of piercing the wall are to belong to~
3353 I,III| Livingston's, just stop at Pieri Berard's. My lad, the disinterested~
3354 I,II | at the Funambules, when Pierrot, taking an old hair-~broom,
3355 I,VI | half-circle, flanked by~two pigeon-wings, divided by a little queue
3356 I,IV | listens for the grunt as piggy~finds the succulent. Now,
3357 I,IV | the desk and the tables~piled with documents; "they don'
3358 I,II | and surly, wheedling and~pilfering, selfish and a tippler,
3359 I,IV | le baron!--"~ ~"You had Pillartiere, shentelman of der betchamber;
3360 I,IV | the Chamber of Deputies, Pillerault--a philosopher~prepared for
3361 I,I | condemned, as formerly, to the pillory on the~Place de la Bourse,
3362 I,II | will disperse the little pimples which~appear inopportunely
3363 I,IV | way of pouring hope into pint cups,--in short, a new necromancy!~
3364 I,VII| murmur which gives inimitable piquancy to the conversations of
3365 I,IV | of her~father, but it was piquant through the delicacy of
3366 I,II | His waistcoat of white pique, squarely~buttoned, came
3367 I,VII| or for the Greeks, whose piracies it~knows nothing about,
3368 I,III| manage the market? Atrocious pirates, who have neither~faith,
3369 I,VII| way vulgar~anecdotes of Piron, a poet who passes for a
3370 I,VI | them and the bankrupt. The pit--which has all, more or~less,
3371 I,II | Cephalic Oil, and reading a pithy sentence,~constructed by
3372 I,I | an honest~woman, isn't it pitiable? His business is doing well,
3373 I,VI | except du~Tillet, sincerely pitied Cesar, after striking him
3374 I,III| own master. Birotteau, so~pitifully small at the Kellers, felt
3375 I,II | which the clerks laughed at~pitilessly. Two years later, the cook
3376 I,V | swung by the middle, on pivots. The~staircase opened directly
3377 I,I | prospectuses, which will placard Cesar Birotteau at every
3378 I,III| angry with you; in your place--the devil! the devil!--I
3379 I,V | Grief ennobles even the plainest people; for it~has a grandeur
3380 I,V | between your genius and the plainness of a man like me~there is
3381 I,II | gentleness, praised~him publicly. Plaintiffs and defendants extolled
3382 I,II | dissimulating as a Cromwell planning to decapitate the head of~
3383 I,IV | me~all night to draw the plans--we would rather work for
3384 I,IV | first~aspect of this human plant--umbelliferous, judging by
3385 I,II | circumstances, wheresoever they~planted themselves.~ ~The last child
3386 I,V | clock in the~Jardin des Plantes. On the first floor, in
3387 I,VII| monsieur," said Molineux, planting one foot in the boudoir, "
3388 I,IV | and die in or under the plastered walls of~the strange unhealthy
3389 I,I | immediate application of mustard plasters to~the soles of his feet.~ ~"
3390 I,IV | The floor was covered with plates full~of scraps intended
3391 I,II | them, under the jeering plaudits of a~foolish crowd incapable
3392 I,II | Pillerault, becomes~the plaything of events; he follows the
3393 I,II | opened sufficiently to show a pleated shirt-frill. His coat, of
3394 I,III| and he uttered them with a plebeian and~naive emphasis which
3395 I,VI | often a fortune."~ ~"And for plebeians like myself," said Andoche, "
3396 I,V | said: "Monsieur, will you~pledge yourself, here, in presence
3397 I,II | understand that if I had plenty of ready money~I need only
3398 I,II | harmony,~and after steadily plodding on through life, saw the
3399 I,II | hatched the~specious, legal plots by which silent partnerships
3400 I,IV | into a sack of filberts. "Plump, no empty ones,~my dear
3401 I,III| which du Tillet's hand had~plunged him, from which that hand
3402 I,III| of pleasure. When~a man plunges into the mire of excesses
3403 I,III| chamois-skin with a border of green plush, and a~bonnet lined with
3404 I,III| his toes like a~hero in Plutarch. "Let us not mistake; the
3405 I,V | mother and daughter sat plying~their needles by his side,
3406 I,VII| music have all converged, poets whose~hearts have throbbed
3407 I,I | course of a whole day. The poignant tale of her~monologue may
3408 I,V | difficult to refuse him point-blank, on account of his~relations.
3409 I,VII| promised her daughter not to poison her husband's~pleasure by
3410 I,IV | certainly betrayed nothing poisonous. In this~queer product might
3411 I,III| banker in the Faubourg~Poissonniere,--all of whom were closely
3412 I,VII| Monsieur Birotteau, to avoid a police-court which might~have destroyed
3413 I,III| I ought to be so~out of policy; but as for you Anselme,
3414 I,IV | of scribbling, he wrote polite and specious letters to
3415 I,III| good-for-nothing members of the body politic who seem the~necessary evil
3416 I,VII| children, the~one at the Ecole Polytechnique, and the lawyer; he is to
3417 I,IV | with us; don't potter with pomatum and perfumes,--rubbish!~
3418 I,VII| she turned as rosy as a pomegranate.~ ~"This is to be a day
3419 I,VI | know," said Molineux, with pompous authority, "if Monsieur~
3420 I,VI | forget him. Finot loves~the pomps and the vanities; he is
3421 I,I | are woods and~fields, and ponds and vineyards, and two dairies,
3422 I,II | June day, crossing~by the Pont-Marie to the Ile Saint-Louis,
3423 I,III| master. Claparon was an ugly~poodle, but as ready to jump as
3424 I,I | foulard which looked like a pool of blood, her mind turned
3425 I,II | Have you been robbing the poor-box?" asked the perfumer, laughing.~ ~
3426 I,IV | thought Birotteau.~ ~"Popole!--that's my godson,--he
3427 I,V | of~Versailles, where the populace broke nearly everything,
3428 I,IV | were six~straw chairs and a porcelain stove; on the walls, which
3429 I,I | for bottle,~crystals, and porcelains. The workshop for our people,
3430 I,II | opening~or shutting the pores of the skin according to
3431 I,IV | the five per cent for the porter--"~ ~"But," said Birotteau, "
3432 I,VI | waiting~for Madame Madou's porters, Popinot triumphantly recounted
3433 I,II | another table were heaped portfolios, minutes, projects,~specifications,
3434 I,IV | is all parcelled out~in portions. A single enterprise requires
3435 I,III| in~brocatelle, contained portraits of duchesses and other royalist~
3436 I,VI | Birotteau alone, intending to pose as the sovereign arbiter
3437 I,III| Tillet himself~pleased him by posing as Sarah's banker, and having
3438 I,III| Young men are sometimes in~positions of frightful necessity.
3439 I,II | of "The Queen of Roses," possessing already~six hundred francs,
3440 I,II | scorned to exchange his possessions for~those of the First Consul,
3441 I,III| had vaguely foreseen the possibility~of destroying Cesar, and
3442 I,III| suitable~person for the post; he accordingly trenched
3443 I,III| twenty-five days; he took a~post-chaise without saying a word to
3444 I,II | that~of velvet.~ ~"Address, post-paid, Monsieur Cesar Birotteau,
3445 I,VI | another for~the side-scenes. Posted in the side-scenes are the
3446 I,VII| both death and life to all posterity; for~it appears that the
3447 I,II | continent flaunted with the posters, yellow, red, and blue,
3448 I,I | tender remembrances.~ ~ ~This postscript was added at Cesarine's
3449 I,I | sitting erect in the same~posture in the middle of the alcove,
3450 I,VI | scare them with any of your pot-~house principles."~ ~This
3451 I,I | which needs five years' pot-boiling before you get any broth.~
3452 I,VI | tradesman's table, for the pot-houses--"~ ~Here the flowers in
3453 I,IV | pig is penned up with his~potatoes, and the rest of us wallow
3454 I,IV | perfume your affairs with~potent cosmetics, oil them with--"~ ~"
3455 I,VI | faithful slave of the Rue de la Poterie!" cried the~illustrious
3456 I,II | language to say /armoires/. Potier, Talma, and Mademoiselle
3457 I,IV | capacities.~Go in with us; don't potter with pomatum and perfumes,--
3458 I,V | matter expelled from that pouch, or crypt, which is filled
3459 I,V | bargains on which his neighbors~pounced; later, when they regretted
3460 I,V | all~the land in Paris by pouncing upon it, he might have lost
3461 I,VI | fire a salute--from six~pounders, too!"~ ~The virtuous magistrate
3462 I,V | Himself; without unity, no power--"~ ~"Ah! in that light--"~ ~"
3463 I,IV | us?--a midge of a thing.~Pr-r-r! We don't play low, my good
3464 I,V | himself feared, or he must~practise the virtues of exquisite
3465 I,I | school of Moliere, a great practitioner and in favor of the old-~
3466 I,VII| giving such a fete~for such praiseworthy reasons.~ ~"Bless my heart!"
3467 I,III| as for gratitude, we have prayed to God for him~daily for
3468 I,IV | creydit! Yes, I know der Prayfic of die~Seine was at your
3469 I,II | he said to himself, after~praying that God would help him.~ ~
3470 I,I | disaster; "he did~not take his precautionary medicine at the beginning
3471 I,VI | required by formalities which~precede a conference at which the
3472 I,VII| of his~rehabilitation had preceded him. The first person who
3473 I,IV | represented that prosaic precinct called by the newspapers
3474 I,V | supporters, entering the~precincts of bankruptcy, crossed the
3475 I,V | growing on the sides of precipices, that I might have sought~
3476 I,V | face.~ ~He left the room precipitately, that he might not show
3477 I,IV | joyous emotion and then precipitating it to the~last depths of
3478 I,VI | On~this point the law is precise, formal, and not to be evaded.
3479 I,I | his document~with fussy precision.~ ~The architect watched
3480 I,V | who was gifted with the~precocious experience which comes from
3481 I,II | manner, all contributed to predispose others in~his favor. The
3482 I,II | had just given him of his preferment was the determining~reason
3483 I,VI | making little out of it, prefers to manage~the bankruptcy
3484 I,II | as~ammunition to destroy prejudices, bringing to bear upon the
3485 I,II | act upon the skin without~prematurely wrinkling it,--the inevitable
3486 I,VI | to legalize the theft he~premeditated. As a rule, the petty trades
3487 I,III| changes,~though they hinder premeditation, nevertheless offer opportunity
3488 I,VI | Aristides; we vote him a premium and crown of encouragement,
3489 I,VI | required by law certain premiums, which the debtor~consents
3490 I,VI | requested that all letters be prepaid./~ ~"N.B. The house of A.
3491 I,V | and obtained from him a prescription for a~sleeping draught,
3492 I,V | had combated his wife's presentiments.~ ~The perfumer went up
3493 I,VI | Northern nations,--to~whom the preservation of the hair was peculiarly
3494 I,VI | hats and oil are well-known~preservatives of the public hair."~ ~Popinot
3495 I,V | in gold, thinking that it preserves the hair: they don't know~
3496 I,II | Abdeker,~or the Art of Preserving Beauty." He picked up the
3497 I,VI | Popinot the judge, who presided at~the trial, released him
3498 I,I | half-diseased sentiment, which presses so violently upon the~human
3499 I,VI | have not sent for us, I presume, to explain that we are
3500 I,II | his manners, which grew presuming, as if~intended to convey
3501 I,I | of business, and wish to pretend~they know nothing about
3502 I,VII| exclaimed Pillerault, pretending anger, "you may have the~
3503 I,VI | him a good fellow, with no pretension," said~Roguin.~ ~"I have
3504 I,VI | conversation was effluent, gallant,~pretentious, and smiling, with the smile
3505 I,II | took him into the shop on a~pretext of business.~ ~"Du Tillet,"
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