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4006 I,VI | In the~general rout, the /sauve qui peut/ of Beresina is
4007 I,V | shall be able to pay them. Save--save your honor!"~ ~"I was
4008 I,VII| that won't keep me from saving up everything to~pay you."~ ~"
4009 I,III| taking her money to the savings-bank, she put~it judiciously
4010 I,VI | being~unable to make his savior any other return than that
4011 I,IV | niggardly~avarice. The evil savor of this hybrid flower was
4012 I,I | the ground, and who could~say--if the thing were possible
4013 I,IV | woke~a memory of the stern sayings his pitiless justice had
4014 I,VI | pass where I was, under the scaffold--/Qou-ick/, and good-by to~
4015 I,VI | themselves the props and scaffoldings necessitated by the change~
4016 I,V | satisfied; it will make a~fine scandal all through the quarter.
4017 I,VII| not found in any of the~scandalous failures which daily degrade
4018 I,II | put together gave him a scant~twenty thousand; he lacked
4019 I,VI | upon his body. The jovial~scapegrace, easy-going with all the
4020 I,VI | Mascarille, and the empty~bags of Scapin which such a system develops.
4021 I,II | merits were those of the Scapins of~ancient comedy; he had
4022 I,VI | people; and you are not to scare them with any of your pot-~
4023 I,VII| rose at her waist, and a scarf chastely covering her~shoulders
4024 I,V | money, or I carry off your scent-bags, and that satin trumpery,~
4025 I,VI | oleaginous substances, and scenting it. Popinot~went to work
4026 I,VII| mind of his nephew, had schemed to prepare him by degrees
4027 I,VI | The oil shall~sparkle, scintillate, glisten on every head.
4028 I,III| perfumer and~himself, the scion of an old Parisian family!
4029 I,V | my word! a daughter who scolds her father! Well, well!
4030 I,II | in business, would have scorned to exchange his possessions
4031 I,III| fate on Lord Byron,~Walter Scott, and Monsieur de Talleyrand,
4032 I,II | Death~itself, in times of scourge, has periods when it advances,
4033 I,VII| through~its virtues and scouted for its defects by a social
4034 I,II | up to~vengeance, and the scowling insolence of a summons before
4035 I,IV | said Claparon; "that first scrap~of paper you gave Cayron
4036 I,IV | covered with plates full~of scraps intended for the cats, on
4037 I,VII| hasten to~interrupt him by screaming out: "Take care what you
4038 I,III| himself be~dishonored to screen his employers,--out of such
4039 I,IV | leases. Factious and~fond of scribbling, he wrote polite and specious
4040 I,III| like those of men in whom scrofulous~humors, attacking that organ,
4041 I,VI | they do in~melodramas, a scroll on which was written "Oil
4042 I,VII| in the end over Cesar's scruples, though he~persisted for
4043 I,II | life in a way to shock a scrupulous woman who~shared the religious
4044 I,V | character which painters, sculptors,~and clock-makers exaggerate.
4045 I,VII| which the angels raise.~Sculptured golden doors, like those
4046 I,IV | heart which flamed upon the sea of ice he had traversed
4047 I,VI | conductor of a diligence, and seamed with premature wrinkles,
4048 I,IV | said the banker, with a searching~look at the perfumer. "You
4049 I,IV | His former opinions now seared, as with fire, the soft~
4050 I,IV | them a visit in the fine season of the year.~ ~Birotteau
4051 I,VI | business?" said Pillerault, seating himself~intentionally next
4052 I,II | hundred francs for every second-rate paper, and there were ten
4053 I,II | there is in~Paris a class of secondary houses, useful intermediaries
4054 I,II | the internal energies and~seconds them. Their perfumes (essentially
4055 I,V | produced by a check to the secretion of the coloring matter;~
4056 I,VI | manoeuvre is to~offer to that section of the creditors who make
4057 I,VII| resigning the /entresol/ to the secular arm of Chevet~and his people.
4058 I,IV | drew the Madonna~della Sedia in chalk, and read the works
4059 I,I | therefore had little trouble in seducing him. The~irresistible argument
4060 I,II | women, and to men a means of seduction~which it is within their
4061 I,II | thousand other commercial seductions, such as~fixed prices, fillets
4062 I,III| is specious; the name is~seductive. It is offered as a foreign
4063 I,IV | and after that we will see--I~say, we will see. Another
4064 I,IV | you think an architect who seeks to put up public~buildings
4065 I,III| and the penetration of a seer; he magnetizes his~dupe.
4066 I,II | men in the~turbulent and seething city, which a modern poet
4067 I,VI | cover" himself means that~he seizes securities to the detriment
4068 I,IV | appointed time. Then followed seizures,~law-suits, costs, and the
4069 I,I | municipality of Paris; the prefect, selecting among the deputies~suitable
4070 I,II | Without this air of naive~self-admiration and faith in his own person,
4071 I,VII| I have lost even my old self-confidence; I~have no strength left;
4072 I,III| necessity. They may lose their self-control in~the depths of poverty,
4073 I,VII| which harmonized well with a self-important manner, a Roman nose, and~
4074 I,VI | distraught face. He felt, with~self-reproach, that the cloth he wore
4075 I,V | never sought it; his inward self-respect sufficed him. So when he~
4076 I,II | courtiers,~friends, and self-seekers pressed round him like dogs
4077 I,V | If this is so why do they sell--"~ ~"Don't be frightened,"
4078 I,II | Francois, and placed~him in a seminary. Ordained priest, Francois
4079 I,IV | rousing himself~from the sensation which the terrible word
4080 I,IV | half spend in just such senseless chatter,~Birotteau attempted
4081 I,VI | not to approve of Cesar's sensitive honor. His~mind, however,
4082 I,VII| Yes, wherever there are sentries they will present arms."~ ~
4083 I,II | had never been willing to separate. Imagine the~happiness of
4084 I,I | enough to be jointly and separately liable to the sellers.~I
4085 I,V | the first time since their separation. It was a sad~dinner. Each
4086 I,II | landscape, or painting in sepia! What joy to live again
4087 I,V | at Cesar, amazed at the sepulchural tone in~which he had uttered
4088 I,II | originally made for the Seraglio by an Arabian physician.
4089 I,IV | but it~was clear with the serenity of a young girl who knows
4090 I,III| glass, might be seen~in a serge apron and long sleeves of
4091 I,VII| took all these compliments seriously.~ ~"What an enchanting scene!
4092 I,I | nor to play 'your obedient servant' like men of the world;
4093 I,IV | or niece. He~bullied his servant-of-all-work too much to make her a victim;
4094 I,VI | manner, which meant neither servility nor respect, but was~rather
4095 I,VI | proceedings, instead~of serving the creditors, may become
4096 I,VI | disaster. Religion alone sets a special seal upon fallen
4097 I,IV | the police, of the~heroic seventeen deputies of the Left. He
4098 I,V | The perfumer went up the seventy-eight stairs which led to the
4099 I,VII| Birotteau, there remains seventy-three thousand, which, joined
4100 I,II | get anything.~Your known severity will make you seem uncompromising;
4101 I,VI | Frontin,~the trickeries of Sganarelle, the lies of Mascarille,
4102 I,VI | long used to a~comfortable shabbiness, in which his body was no
4103 I,VI | over his~part, studied the shades of his demeanor, and prepared
4104 I,I | zig-zags produced by falling~shadows, the fantastic appearance
4105 I,IV | constant~butt of the witty shafts and ridicule of artists,
4106 I,IV | hours were terrible.~The shaken man went through, for the
4107 I,I | Well, well! we are too shaky ourselves in the~matter
4108 I,IV | your nex pall? My vife is shalous;~she vish to see your abbartement,
4109 | shalt
4110 I,III| and affectionate, a little shame-faced though~full of eagerness,
4111 I,V | Cesar, would you choose a shameful failure, in which there
4112 I,II | names of these places were shams,~invented to please Frenchmen
4113 I,V | ornamented with a clock shaped~like a lyre, and two oval
4114 I,II | involves and ruins many small shareholders.~ ~The two brothers had
4115 I,VI | Cesar to Madame Ragon, not sharing~the intoxication of her
4116 I,III| the secret councils of the~sharpest speculators in Paris; he
4117 I,VII| excellent assignee. His sharpness is invaluable; when he is~
4118 I,IV | Birotteau returned home, shattered in~mind and body. When he
4119 I,IV | perfumes,--rubbish!~rubbish! Shave the public; speculate!"~ ~"
4120 I,II | show-cases filled with swinging shawls, cravats arranged like~houses
4121 I,VI | the~largest creditors and shear the debtor, or to sacrifice
4122 I,V | France in woollen which you~sheared off the backs of poor sheep
4123 I,II | government which was~capable of shedding blood without repugnance.
4124 I,II | his wife, he hired some sheds, with~the ground about them,
4125 I,I | Everything will be ruled like~a sheet of music-paper. Have you
4126 I,VI | workmen, Popinot, and Cesar shelled a~sufficient quantity, and
4127 I,I | pay your~notes? With the shells of your nuts? To rise in
4128 I,VII| Ferdinand thought that under shelter of a~game of /bouillotte/
4129 I,IV | You had Pillartiere, shentelman of der betchamber; goot
4130 I,III| large panels where painted~shepherdesses danced in panniers, before
4131 I,I | far, you have guided the ship well,~Cesar; I shall follow
4132 I,VI | accepts a failure~as total shipwreck without insurance, passes
4133 I,VI | upper regions~of science. We shirk nothing; we go straight
4134 I,VII| exhibiting to the eye a shirt-~frill of lace that had been
4135 I,VII| harnessed with spectacles and a shirt-collar~worn above his ears, he
4136 I,II | sufficiently to show a pleated shirt-frill. His coat, of maroon~cloth,
4137 I,I | passed through several of the shocks, in some~sort electrical,
4138 I,VII| chevalier was a pair of gold shoe-buckles, and a diamond pin. For
4139 I,IV | bulbous roots swathed in list shoes--offered to the eye a flat
4140 I,II | all the walls and all the shop-fronts. Incapable of perceiving
4141 I,II | destiny to which, like~all shop-girls, she may at times have aspired.
4142 I,II | the~manners and customs of shop-keeping, in which chaff is a principal~
4143 I,V | elegant boxes which adorn the shop-windows of the~boulevards and the
4144 I,IV | after the fashion of young shop-women, whose~desire to attract
4145 I,I | without~offence, for I respect shopkeeping; the best of our kidney
4146 I,II | Englishwoman in the humor~for "shopping." The young person deigned
4147 I,II | the smiles of the siren shopwoman.~ ~For eight succeeding
4148 I,II | all,~it is better to be shorn than killed."~ ~He went
4149 I,II | those bold strokes by which~short-lived monopolies were called into
4150 I,III| His nose~was ignominiously shortened like those of men in whom
4151 I,VI | hinder,--as the reader will shortly see.~ ~The agent to whom
4152 I,II | signs, floating~banners, show-cases filled with swinging shawls,
4153 I,V | infinite," said Cesar with~shrewd courtesy. "We have come
4154 I,VI | with round features whose shrewdness was~hidden under a restrained
4155 I,IV | Birotteau found this shrewish trader among sacks of filberts,
4156 I,VI | said Madame Ragon, in her~shrill voice and patronizing manner.~ ~"
4157 I,I | in rags,~turning with a shrivelled, withered hand the latch
4158 I,IV | buy perfumery?" The baron shrugged his shoulders and turned~
4159 I,III| taking down the numbered shutters.~Birotteau, finding himself
4160 I,II | the color by opening~or shutting the pores of the skin according
4161 I,IV | one to the other like a shuttle-cock; but~Constance had already
4162 I,IV | cozening face, the soul of a Shylock. He always~demanded six
4163 I,III| his modest youth and the~shyness which grew out of his deformity,
4164 I,I | to those who are about a sick-bed.~The old doctor had seen
4165 I,VII| drawing a stamped paper from a side-pocket. "I~will give you a cheque
4166 I,IV | the dining-room were two sideboards, two cages full of birds,
4167 I,II | here all enterprises were sifted, and the first tithes~levied,
4168 I,VII| blood strangled his last sigh.~ ~"Behold the death of
4169 I,VII| guide shows a gallery to a~sight-seer. Every member of the family
4170 I,II | and recognizing its clear-~sightedness, Cesar tumbled from the
4171 I,IV | showed myself worthy~of that--signal--and royal--favor, by my
4172 I,VI | with a cane accompaniment~significantly rapped upon the pavement.~ ~"
4173 I,III| latin word /coma/, which signifies 'hair,' as Monsieur Alibert,~
4174 I,IV | all your~reasons can be silenced by the superior consideration
4175 I,VI | quaint charm which we see in~silhouettes relieved against a white
4176 I,V | carbonate of lime, a little~silica, and a good deal of sulphur.
4177 I,VI | substitute-judge,--a rich silk-~merchant, Liberal in politics,
4178 I,VII| Madame Camusot, the rich silk-merchants, and all their children,
4179 I,VII| the~rustle of the violet silken curtains which the angels
4180 I,IV | jaunty, herrings~and muslin, silks and honey, butter and gauze,
4181 I,II | sheep, and love now made him sillier. He dared not utter a word,~
4182 I,VII| native powers of jocose silliness. It was a~fair specimen
4183 I,V | hard, and crowned with silver-gray hair~cut so short that it
4184 I,IV | fixedly at him, and he saw the silver-lined pupils of~those eyes, streaked
4185 I,II | wrinkles, and had slightly~silvered the thick tufts of hair
4186 I,I | which he had had recourse on similar occasions.~ ~"Listen, Constance.
4187 I,I | his depression under this simoom of~misfortune, he prepared
4188 I,II | conceive no ideas but~the simplest (the small change of the
4189 I,VI | To strangle your rivals, simpleton! If I take their orders
4190 I,VI | creditor, except du~Tillet, sincerely pitied Cesar, after striking
4191 I,VI | large commercial house. The /sine qua non/~condition in the
4192 I,VI | you specify nothing. Don't sing those songs of Beranger
4193 I,VII| just as three leading singers at an opera stand~out in
4194 I,II | Steibelt's on the piano, and singing a~ballad; or when he found
4195 I,IV | This~judge, whose mind was singularly acute on all moral questions,
4196 I,III| within him that indefinable sinking~which succeeds great moral
4197 I,VII| Vandenesse, called at the Sinking-~Fund Office to find him.
4198 I,V | appointed to a situation in the Sinking-fund Office, with a~salary of
4199 I,II | when it advances, slackens,~sinks back, and slumbers. Our
4200 I,II | succeeded the smiles of the siren shopwoman.~ ~For eight succeeding
4201 I,VII| Oh! and don't forget the sister-in-law of Monsieur Lebas, Madame~
4202 I,VII| supremacy over its glorious sisters. A~radiant fairy springs
4203 I,IV | allowed to go far.~Gobseck sits in a corner of his web like
4204 I,V | consisting of an antechamber, a~sitting-room, and a bed-room. Judged
4205 I,IV | one of the angles, on the sixth floor for~sanitary reasons,
4206 I,I | thousand francs; that is, sixty-~five thousand in bills for
4207 I,VII| we have one hundred and sixty-one thousand~francs. Our uncle
4208 I,I | in~1793. The Funds are at sixty-two: buy into the Funds. You
4209 I,IV | weather is fine,~go to see the skating, and are always to be found
4210 I,II | explaining their beauties, or~sketching a landscape, or painting
4211 I,IV | totality of~fractions, and skim the profits before there
4212 I,II | eye, thin~lips, and a dry skin--cast at Birotteau, lowering
4213 I,I | the impression the little skin-flint (a word of his~vocabulary)
4214 I,VII| breeches which revealed the~skinny legs on which he boldly
4215 I,V | Birotteau," said his wife, "skip all that, and see what he
4216 I,VI | flowers in Madame Ragon's cap skipped like young rams.~Claparon
4217 I,II | and vanquishing the first~skirmishings of adverse fortune, Cesar
4218 I,VII| her a superb~ball-dress, a skirt of white satin, and a tulle
4219 I,II | resource, their cleverness~in skirting evil, their itching to lay
4220 I,II | had wide flaps and long skirts. Up to the year 1819 he
4221 I,V | born on him, pointed to his skull, denuded of hair and of
4222 I,II | periods when it advances, slackens,~sinks back, and slumbers.
4223 I,V | short, every calumny or slander which a man brings upon
4224 I,II | law. How would you like slap-dash judgments, which~can't be
4225 I,VI | we want flowers. Depart,~slaves!" he added, with a gorgeous
4226 I,VI | enthusiastically.~ ~"A prospectus which slays Macassar at the first word,"
4227 I,V | advance a certain sum to the sleeping-partner on~the profits of the business,
4228 I,I | write, while my poor~wife sleeps, sends you her tender remembrances.~ ~ ~
4229 I,VI | can get in at a window, slide down a chimney, creep in
4230 I,IV | wire and furnished with a~sliding cat-hole, within which was
4231 I,V | Macassar oil has not the~slightest action upon the hair; but
4232 I,II | expected not to succeed in the slipperiest~city in the world, came
4233 I,IV | door. He begged the porter, slipping ten francs~into his hand,
4234 I,V | whose mind human speech slips like water from a duck's
4235 I,VII| sauntering across the grassy slope~without perceiving them,
4236 I,IV | its~vim one must have the sloth of ease. Nobody ever sees
4237 I,IV | and where the habits of a slovenly life had~spoiled, dirtied,
4238 I,IV | you are not one of the sluggards who waste their~time on
4239 I,IV | Cesar fell into a sort of slumber, from which no one tried
4240 I,II | slackens,~sinks back, and slumbers. Our globe is perhaps only
4241 I,I | Mass at eight~o'clock as slyly as if he were going to a
4242 I,VI | coat, a white waistcoat, small-clothes and silk~stockings, shoes
4243 I,IV | My room is chilly, the smallness of my means not~permitting--
4244 I,II | the Balm will relieve the smart occasioned by~the heat of
4245 I,VI | will varnish it to hide the~smell."~ ~Three days later the
4246 I,V | angel," she said, "and don't smirch the~names of the people
4247 I,II | Cesar was so vigorously smitten by the beauty of Constance~
4248 I,VII| prosperities sends up its smoke, the~altar of all joy flames,
4249 I,IV | repairs:~no chimney ever smoked, the stairs were clean,
4250 I,IV | unwholesome presence of smokers. Nothing ever more faithfully~
4251 I,I | farmer who is as close as a snail, won't~sell a hundred thousand
4252 I,IV | notes."~ ~"Impossible!" snapped the banker. "I'm not alone
4253 I,VII| people~whom he was anxious to snare; he had really kept his
4254 I,IV | ordinary clothes. He felt a sneer in every word.~ ~"Vill you
4255 I,II | fatigued and to~fall asleep and snore. Du Tillet awoke him triumphantly,
4256 I,I | and Cesar were peacefully snoring.~ ~
4257 I,VI | Invalide; toy with your snuff-box, glance often at your feet,
4258 I,VI | great-aunts replacing their gold snuff-boxes solemnly on the~tables beside
4259 I,I | business, signing~always 'So-and-so, insolvent,' until the whole
4260 I,II | Beauty." He picked up the so-called Arab~book, a sort of romance
4261 I,V | how goes the~business?"~ ~"So-so," said Madame Madou, respectfully,
4262 I,VI | down; attack the viands! Soak up the champagne! let us~
4263 I,II | shares, the~manufacture of soaps, essences, and eau-de-cologne.
4264 I,VII| it. Possibly the mind is~sobered by a glimpse, caught through
4265 I,II | The papers were therefore soberly studied, from the title
4266 I,V | meaning and~ennobled it. The sobriety of Claude Pillerault, long
4267 I,V | except through tears and sobs.~ ~Neither Popinot nor Pillerault
4268 I,II | key-note of the various~societies in which he found himself.
4269 I,IV | sautes au vin de champagne/,~sodden in their own sauce. The
4270 I,VI | himself to be~touched and softened, and persuaded at last to
4271 I,IV | worthy magistrate?" she said, softening her voice.~ ~"No; I had
4272 I,VI | complexion, and all the softer~corresponding graces: as
4273 I,IV | said Cesarine, who rose softly to lay a kiss on Cesar's~
4274 I,II | utmost importance to the softness, suppleness, brilliancy,
4275 I,IV | covers and two napkins, soiled by the supper of the previous~
4276 I,IV | would have been afraid of soiling herself by contact~with
4277 I,II | The life of~Paris and his sojourn in a dark shop had dulled
4278 I,VII| Victoires et Conquetes," the~"Soldat-laboureur," admires the "Convoi du
4279 I,VII| together only by the base solder of material~interests, and
4280 I,IV | equal to those of our brave soldiers of the old army. The ribbon~
4281 I,I | mustard plasters to~the soles of his feet.~ ~"What can
4282 I,VI | him so much money, so much solicitude, so~much labor. The facts
4283 I,I | tremble till I see our fortune~solidly secure and Cesarine well
4284 I,I | mathematician absorbed in the~solution of a problem, might have
4285 I,IV | say to a man he~thought solvent, "but pay my rent; all delays
4286 | someone
4287 I,V | old Guillaume, and his son-in-~law Joseph Lebas, Claparon,
4288 I,V | boy! he shall not be my son-in-law--"~ ~"Oh, mamma!"~ ~"--he
4289 I,II | charming~Cesarine playing a sonata of Steibelt's on the piano,
4290 I,I | as the songs of a mother soothe the weary~child tormented
4291 I,VI | pellicular atoms, which exhales a soothing perfume,~and arrests, by
4292 I,IV | elegant, showed none of the sooty marks of a fire; the hearth
4293 I,IV | man on the effects of his sorcery.~ ~"Do not be afraid, madame,
4294 I,II | put your finger~upon the sore."~ ~"Good God! you are ruined!"
4295 I,V | these days when~you must sorely need the support of fraternal
4296 I,IV | man of genius who hasn't a sou--like all men of genius.~
4297 I,VII| level to another. Not a soul--not Madame Birotteau,~nor
4298 I,VII| vibrated, in many tones, sounding its clarions through the~
4299 I,VII| hearts have throbbed at those sounds will understand how the
4300 I,IV | said the old fellow with a sour~smile; "but when you come
4301 I,II | Saint-Roch and~the Rue de la Sourdiere, knew nothing of the existence
4302 I,VI | Some give you clear water soured with lemon, and~the rest
4303 I,IV | Oh, monsieur," said the southerner. "Before you are ruined,
4304 I,VI | gratitude of our beloved sovereigns?"~ ~"You have been very
4305 I,IV | he~craved the share of sovereignty which is exercised more
4306 I,III| with a little King~Charles spaniel, which presented a surprisingly
4307 I,V | thought that she was~thus sparing her husband from distress,
4308 I,I | temperament has~placed the vital spark. Feeble beings have the
4309 I,VI | provincial towns! The oil shall~sparkle, scintillate, glisten on
4310 I,VI | shout, his~pale-blue eyes sparkled, his big head, hollowed
4311 I,IV | contrary. Men who quaff the sparkling cup are born to~understand
4312 I,VII| and youthful, her~bosom, sparklingly white, her throat and shoulders
4313 I,VI | when the /concordat/ is specially dishonest,~and the bankrupt
4314 I,II | did not go beyond their~specialty, having no time to give
4315 I,VI | beyond that, and~mind you specify nothing. Don't sing those
4316 I,V | to which were attached specimens of their~craft. As a rule,
4317 I,VI | man's teeth, and the black speckles which appeared here and
4318 I,V | moving~to the heart of a spectator.~ ~An old woman came to
4319 I,IV | henceforth, like Hamlet,~with a spectre beside him.~ ~Birotteau
4320 I,III| and walk on tiptoe, but speculate--boldly."~ ~He advised Roguin
4321 I,I | broker, every trustee who~speculates is an object of suspicion.
4322 I,I | house upon them; he was~speculating only on the value of the
4323 I,I | be a perfumer, and not a speculator in land.~We women have instincts
4324 I,II | business man.~Two words, two speeches, two interviews, were required
4325 I,VI | Constance, always under the spell of the cane~parasol, the
4326 I,IV | signed, he kept the deed and spelled it over for a week, fearing~
4327 I,I | else, and now you talk of~spending on nonsense money earned
4328 I,VI | hold of~an old commercial sphinx.~ ~"Monsieur," he replied, "
4329 I,IV | the wisdom~of an Egyptian sphinx--was talking to Derville
4330 I,II | Sommervieux. Astronomers lived on spiders.~ ~These striking points
4331 I,II | examination. Blind but good, not spiritual but deeply religious, he~
4332 I,VII| hinges. The eye is lost in splendid vistas: it~sees a long perspective
4333 I,IV | habits of a slovenly life had~spoiled, dirtied, greased, torn,
4334 I,VI | suffices to wet a little sponge in the oil, and after parting~
4335 I,VII| pretty saucers, with gilt spoons, on silver~trays. Tanrade,
4336 I,IV | baron, it is granted on the sport," said Birotteau, who~thought
4337 I,VI | circles round her eyes had spread to a wide circumference,
4338 I,V | miserable blueish paper sprinkled with tricolor flowers, which~
4339 I,VI | nose and~thin lips, bore a spurious resemblance to a marquise
4340 I,II | Birotteau never~had but that one spurt of martial courage. During
4341 I,II | himself to the subterraneous spying which distinguishes a~genuine
4342 I,IV | brought the merchandise; such squabbles usually~ending in a bottle
4343 I,II | waistcoat of white pique, squarely~buttoned, came down low
4344 I,II | stoutness of his limbs, the~squareness of his shoulders, the width
4345 I,VI | his~pocket a bottle of a squat shape, like a pumpkin, and
4346 I,V | of mind~and his political stability were endangered by the Jesuits,
4347 I,III| tell him to return to the stable. Leave word~with Adolphe
4348 I,II | employed by women in all stages of their toilet, will prevent~
4349 I,II | of that~year the assets staggered our ambitious perfumer;
4350 I,IV | Parisian shop, where the air stagnates and the sun~seldom shines,
4351 I,II | traversed a labyrinth of staircases, under the guidance of a~
4352 I,IV | and in the space under the stairway--"~ ~"Must that be used?"~ ~"
4353 I,IV | which crowned it, with a stalk encased in greenish trousers,
4354 I,III| pain that he could scarcely stammer a few~words about the Bank
4355 I,VII| lips were disconnected and stammering. Vandenesse~waved his hand
4356 I,III| tissues of a virtuous man and~stamps them, as it were, with the
4357 I,II | at~business from a lofty standpoint; he intoxicated new recruits
4358 I,VI | good one. The house, which~stands second from the Rue des
4359 I,I | were wide~open, her eyes staring and fixed, her hair quivering,
4360 I,II | or the half-shadows of a~starlit night. On a table of immense
4361 I,IV | monsieur and~madame had started for Paris. Birotteau returned
4362 I,VII| to travel for our oil and starts in a few days; put him down.~
4363 I,VI | is the chief question in statecraft. We are the tap-~root of
4364 I,IV | said du Tillet.~ ~Cesar stated, with painful trepidation,
4365 I,VI | Sciences, confirming our statement, hein? Famous! Come,~Finot,
4366 I,VII| the invitations,--which a stationer had~sent home that morning,
4367 I,VI | belong, in~opinion, to the /statu quo/ of the great man who
4368 I,VI | his particular case.~ ~The status of civil death in which
4369 I,VI | relating to this flaw in our statutes. It is~desirable that the
4370 I,II | constant harmony,~and after steadily plodding on through life,
4371 I,I | have kept the secret of his~stealing that three thousand francs,--
4372 I,VII| said du Tillet, with a stealthy glance.~ ~"Poor!" exclaimed
4373 I,VI | what~may we not obtain from steam and telegraphy, and other
4374 I,II | himself astride the gentle~steed of hope, he stroked his
4375 I,VI | nuts to this incomparable~steersman of mercantile inventions,
4376 I,II | Cesarine playing a sonata of Steibelt's on the piano, and singing
4377 I,II | never left the maternal stem;~an angel whose budding
4378 I,V | hackney-coach!" cried Cesar, in stentorian tones, as soon~as he had
4379 I,II | horror the~history of his step-sister Augustine's marriage with
4380 I,II | he found society a hard~stepmother, and he handled it, in his
4381 I,II | individuals. Misfortune is a stepping-stone~for genius, the baptismal
4382 I,VII| for the~Bourbons on the steps--"~ ~"True," said the judge.~ ~"--
4383 I,VI | other return than that of sterile~gratitude. As he could not
4384 I,VII| honorable toil, giving them sterling~qualities which diminish
4385 I,VII| everybody regrets the~sternness with which you treat yourself,
4386 I,IV | nauseous bitterness needed the stewing of some business in~which
4387 I,VI | I--" cried Gaudissart, sticking a forty-franc piece in his
4388 I,IV | without~candles and the sticky dust that covered them.
4389 I,III| Anselme put on a~little stiff air when I patted him on
4390 I,I | not move her neck, which~stiffened as if petrified; the membranes
4391 I,V | monsieur, if the hair is still-born, it is impossible to give
4392 I,VI | of the table, where there stilled remained the tokens of a~
4393 I,I | Monsieur Haudry ordered stimulants and generous~diet, and before
4394 I,III| have invented an oil to stimulate the growth of hair, to~titillate
4395 I,VI | a useless and injurious~stimulation of the instrument which
4396 I,VI | this court was a filthy and~stinking black substance, left by
4397 I,I | ordered by Birotteau to stipulate the~costs, went for the
4398 I,VII| from Celestin, when he stipulated that all should~be kept
4399 I,VI | The subsidence of~passions stirred up by failures is thus accounted
4400 I,II | deputies, writers, journalists, stock-brokers, merchants of~the upper
4401 I,VII| Birotteau that he stood stock-still, unable to move.~ ~"There
4402 I,II | Tillet got~a situation with a stockbroker. He said perfumery did not
4403 I,IV | be recognized the typical stockholder, who~believes every report
4404 I,V | came into the eyes of the stoic Pillerault; Cesarine, overcome~
4405 I,V | profession of faith in a stoical old republican was strangely
4406 I,V | into a kind~of Christian stoicism,--a noble doctrine, which
4407 I,VII| stand~out in relief from the stolid array of their supernumeraries.
4408 I,III| same hour,~remembering that stomachs which were sixty-five years
4409 I,III| is like a seed falling~on stony ground; but vengeance vowed
4410 I,IV | Cesarine, sitting on a little stool~at her mother's feet, touched
4411 I,VI | extremely honorable," he said, stooping to~Madame Ragon's ear.~ ~"
4412 I,I | fourth shall be a general store-house for bottle,~crystals, and
4413 I,III| and wrapping-paper. The storerooms held small~casks of various
4414 I,IV | along, and take care of her stores, which were in coachhouses,~
4415 I,II | Morfondus for his little third~storey.~ ~"Well, uncle?" said Birotteau,
4416 I,V | you, are flung into the storms of life~upon the perilous
4417 I,II | strength of his body, the stoutness of his limbs, the~squareness
4418 I,IV | straw chairs and a porcelain stove; on the walls, which were
4419 I,VII| their hair, lately curled, straggles down their faces, and gives
4420 I,II | sturdy limbs, his honest~and straightforward manner, all contributed
4421 I,VII| to each~other, heard the strains of Collinet's orchestra,
4422 I,VII| heart, and the rush of blood strangled his last sigh.~ ~"Behold
4423 I,VI | prospectuses; he is now at Strasburg getting the prospectuses~
4424 I,VI | merchants.~ ~Another much-used stratagem, and one to which we owe
4425 I,VI | shaking off the grains which strayed upon~their kerchiefs, will
4426 I,IV | silver-lined pupils of~those eyes, streaked with threads of gold, which
4427 I,V | awakened by this last and fatal stream of light, saw at length~
4428 I,VII| the same character as the street-door, but~of finer work by a
4429 I,II | life of this household will~strengthen the ideas which ought to
4430 I,VI | reigns~after the storm and stress of interests violently in
4431 I,I | neither turn her neck, nor stretch out her hand to pull the~
4432 I,IV | in dreams providentially strewn at long intervals~through
4433 I,VI | which advised him to pay strict attention~--"and, the year
4434 I,II | Palais de Justice we have stricter forms. Forms~are the bulwarks
4435 I,V | were all stamped with the strictest punctuality; for~regular
4436 I,IV | piano lifts the hammer~which strikes its corresponding string.~ ~ ~
4437 I,IV | strikes its corresponding string.~ ~ ~
4438 I,IV | a mile-post, dressed in striped calico, without a belt.~ ~
4439 I,I | commission."~ ~Birotteau, who had stripped himself of ready money when
4440 I,II | what seemed to him a great stroke, and seek out the famous~
4441 I,IV | play,~invent April-fools, stroll on the boulevards when the
4442 I,III| previously agreed upon.~The strongest recommendations, the warmest
4443 I,IV | a caress into which she strove to~put the thoughts which,
4444 I,I | all persons who have never~struggled long with poverty, and who
4445 I,VI | profit there instead of struggling any longer at his own ill-paid~
4446 I,VI | cheeks,~where the rouge never stuck, were jaded by excesses,
4447 I,IV | of his deceased~canaries stuffed; and, finally, a chilly
4448 I,VII| Cesar's emotion~and his stumbling step to the natural intoxication
4449 I,IV | creditors," said Cesar, stunned by the sudden sight of the~
4450 I,IV | held in presence of the stupefied Cesar, Derville~shook his
4451 I,III| thunder-struck at his~own stupidity: "they told me certain things
4452 I,VI | name, and they are such stupids~that they'll think your
4453 I,II | Minos who had crossed the Styx of~commerce when he quitted
4454 I,VII| which he~husbanded as a poor sub-lieutenant husbands his uniform,--his
4455 I,I | wills that I shall be,~--sub-prefect, if such be my destiny.
4456 I,VI | hidden under a restrained and subdued manner, suddenly appeared.
4457 I,VII| of men and things, which subdues the heart and hardens~it
4458 I,IV | compliment.~ ~"Monsieur Grindot suberintented der resdoration of your
4459 I,I | not a prophecy!"~ ~This submission thwarted Birotteau, who
4460 I,I | go to him~to-morrow and submit my idea; offering him at
4461 I,V | makes himself adored; he submits to feminine~tyranny, and
4462 I,II | of~his inferiority, Cesar subordinated his own views to those of
4463 I,VII| compassionate, ready to subscribe~for the children of General
4464 I,V | black his boots, and he~subscribed to a boot-black for that
4465 I,VII| other enemies of the throne.~Subsequent events have proved that
4466 I,IV | vassal; he laid claim to his subservience, and looked upon any man
4467 I,VI | ever become permanent. The subsidence of~passions stirred up by
4468 I,VI | displaced by Monsieur Camusot, a substitute-judge,--a rich silk-~merchant,
4469 I,VII| circumventing the law by a substitution. But the~refinements of
4470 I,II | devoting himself to the subterraneous spying which distinguishes
4471 I,VI | said Popinot. "/Your/ oil succeeds--thanks to my~advertisements
4472 I,V | midst of which the wood was successfully defending~itself against
4473 I,VII| satin, and a tulle robe with succory~flowers embroidered all
4474 I,IV | grunt as piggy~finds the succulent. Now, when the man of genius
4475 I,VI | which, indeed, he might succumb. On~this point the law is
4476 I,VI | left no stone unturned, and succumbs at last with empty hands,
4477 I,IV | think there could exist such--weak beings!" he said, with~
4478 I,II | called into being and rapidly sucked dry.~Here defects of legislation
4479 I,II | journalistic influence and the suction power that~reiterated newspaper
4480 I,III| the lender ought to have~sued Roguin for the costs and
4481 I,V | beyond the control of the sufferer,--has but two~courses open
4482 I,II | subject to headache from the sufferings of~that horrible malady.
4483 I,VII| Your~look--three words suffice--"~ ~"Stop!" said Madame
4484 I,VI | cosmetics leave their trace.~It suffices to wet a little sponge in
4485 I,VII| and~whispered, in a voice suffocated by a rush of blood that
4486 I,VI | honored," so he said, "by the suffrages of his fellow-~citizens";
4487 I,V | blossomed in roses on her cheek, suffused her~forehead and even her
4488 I,III| Instead~of the pure glow which suffuses the tissues of a virtuous
4489 I,IV | Lombards where nuts for sugarplums were to be found, heard~
4490 I,I | income of all of that to live suitably in~foreign countries."~ ~"
4491 I,IV | Grandville of the~royal suite, Monsieur Camusot of the
4492 I,V | silica, and a good deal of sulphur. The differing proportions
4493 I,II | every man hoped to be a sultan as much as~every woman longed
4494 I,II | every woman longed to be a sultana, was an inspiration which
4495 I,IV | seasons, fur tippets in summer, nankeens in winter. What
4496 I,I | analyzing the affair~and summing it up with advice as to
4497 I,VII| procureur-general/ read a summing-up of the schedule, giving~
4498 I,IV | towards the table which was sumptuously served.~ ~"Madame la baronne,
4499 I,IV | s~head, and twisted like sunfish; with boxes and papers and
4500 I,VII| that of Birotteau, live sunk in sorrows,~instead of transmuting
4501 I,VII| his cheeks,~his eyes grew sunken and dim, and his face hollow.
4502 I,V | chilling, tones which gild the sunsets of winter. His head, thin~
4503 I,VI | carried in all weathers a cane sunshade,~like that used by Queen
4504 I,II | enters; but this commercial sunshine was really the image of
4505 I,VII| ardent fires, and casts the superabundance of its own life upon the~
4506 I,VI | true light as a magnificent~supererogation of integrity. In two months
4507 I,II | which sounded to the~ears of superficial people like eloquence. Thus
4508 I,II | his own circle knew him superficially, and~were unable to judge
4509 I,I | begin to-morrow, and are superintended by an architect recommended
4510 I,V | charge of the desk, and the~superintendence of the new shop was entrusted
4511 I,II | from the editors. Wily as a~supernumerary who wants to be an actor,
4512 I,VI | provisional assignees, who are to supersede the~agent, step into the
4513 I,V | t surely give in to such superstitions?"~ ~"Uncle, I shall never
4514 I,VI | comrades, when ten years supervene between the time when they~
4515 I,I | in their interests~under supervision; he should still carry on
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