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5016         I,II |             Jean Birotteau,~married the waiting-maid of a lady whose vines he
5017         I,II |            watching for a look as a dog waits for a bone at the~kitchen
5018         I,I  |               he were ill he would have waked~me. For nineteen years that
5019         I,VI |              are supposed to be passing wakeful nights; finance makes~you
5020         I,I  |                 have~never found out my wakefulness, Madame! For three months
5021         I,IV |             dust that covered them. The wall-paper, mouse-~gray with a pink
5022         I,IV |            potatoes, and the rest of us wallow in banknotes. There it all
5023         I,VI |             that's the--reason why--the walls--are not--dry."~ ~"Economy?
5024         I,III|         bestowed by fate on Lord Byron,~Walter Scott, and Monsieur de Talleyrand,
5025         I,V  |                  and his mind seemed to wander; he became~like a little
5026         I,IV |                 beside him.~ ~Birotteau wandered about the streets of the
5027         I,II |                 Revolution, and led the wandering life of priests not sworn~
5028         I,IV |        proprietary~rights on a complete war-footing. He had made it an amusement,
5029         I,VII|               chintz. A piano, a~pretty wardrobe with a mirror door, a chaste
5030         I,III|              not, then we must deny the~warfare between the angels of light
5031         I,III|              his~hair is the color of a warming-pan. Young girls are queer;
5032         I,II |                 company. La~Billardiere warmly supported Birotteau when
5033         I,III|             hundred thousand francs, to warrant us~in giving you a credit
5034         I,II |                 of captain early in the wars of the~Revolution. At the
5035         I,VI |            Minister,~--"Order reigns in Warsaw."~ ~Du Tillet meant to compass
5036         I,VI |                 of entangling that most~wary of human beings, the little
5037         I,VII|               one~that was particularly washed-out, like a five-franc piece
5038         I,VI |        Birotteau retired.~ ~"Well! that wasn't the ocean to drink," said
5039         I,IV |          decorations~for the Fete-Dieu, waste-pipes, lighting, projections over
5040         I,VI |                 not commit the folly of wasting time upon it; he~contents
5041         I,II |                the habit of wearing two watch-chains, which hung down in parallel~
5042         I,II |             duty with~the instinct of a watch-dog. If occasionally he complained,
5043         I,VI |               his gold~buckles, his two watches,--things which an honest
5044         I,II |        staircase with the violence of a waterspout.~ ~"Decazes wants to speak
5045         I,VII|              and stammering. Vandenesse~waved his hand to him, smiling,
5046         I,I  |              appears and reappears some~wayward being, commissioned to play
5047         I,VI |             comprehend the vanities and weaknesses which in all~social spheres
5048         I,III|                 much~urged by two of my wealthiest clients, who want a share
5049       Add    |               Cat and Racket~ ~Matifat (wealthy druggist)~A Bachelor's Establishment~
5050         I,VI |             mittens, and carried in all weathers a cane sunshade,~like that
5051         I,IV |                 saw in those~mysterious weavings a conjuring spirit that
5052         I,VII|            another~ball,--his ball, his wedding-ball! He made loving preparation
5053         I,V  |                for reflection,--time to weigh the duties~before them,
5054         I,VI |              thinks,~reflects, listens, weighs. To seem like a banker you
5055         I,IV |              who nefariously sell false weights, of the police, of the~heroic
5056         I,I  |              some part in his life. His weird face had grinned diabolically
5057         I,V  |                preference. The gracious welcome of this great lord, who
5058         I,V  |             prosperity. Adieu, dear and well-beloved brother; I pray that at~
5059         I,IV |                  and she could play the~well-bred woman in a way that turned
5060         I,IV |                 Molineux, "a recompense well-deserved!"~ ~"Yes," said Birotteau, "
5061         I,IV |                it my aversion to him is well-founded; he let me read down to
5062         I,VI |               to select a sagacious and well-meaning commissioner.~Gobenheim-Keller,
5063         I,IV |             which showed the lines of a~well-set neck, and then rippled downward
5064         I,VII|          sadness smothered the joy that welled up in the hearts of~Cesarine
5065         I,V  |               Bidault called Gigonnet,--wended their way, without a~word
5066         I,III|               the Gobsecks, Palmas, and Werbrusts would have been~ready to
5067         I,II |                  The Queen of Roses" to westward,~the house of A. Popinot
5068         I,V  |              hair: they don't know~that whale-oil is just as good. No power,
5069              | whereas
5070              | whereby
5071         I,II |               men, or by circumstances, wheresoever they~planted themselves.~ ~
5072         I,VII|            Anselme," said Constance.~ ~"Whew! Cesarine has written a
5073         I,I  |               accidents, capricious~and whimsical in its course. This explanation
5074         I,VII|                green coat with a collar~whimsically cocked up, which gave the
5075         I,II |              the-wisp. He lets the gust whirl him~along, instead of lying
5076         I,VII|              wife, carried along by the whirlwind of business, had~never revisited
5077         I,V  |             promote the growth of their whiskers and mustachios.~All we need
5078         I,IV |                and~furniture of painted white-wood covered with green worsted
5079         I,II |              the inventor of a paste~to whiten the hands, the composition
5080         I,VI |          prevent it from falling off or whitening. To~prevent Baldness and
5081         I,II |                 obstinately rebellious,~whitens the most recalcitrant epidermis,
5082         I,II |                 iris~was circled with a whitish rim as if it were lined
5083         I,IV |           tenant in the Rue Montorgeuil who--"~ ~"Monsieur," said Birotteau, "
5084         I,VI |                  and~that's the--reason why--the walls--are not--dry."~ ~"
5085         I,III|               and /ifs/ and /hows/ and /whys/. What a devil of a~dog
5086         I,I  |                about the ball? I am not wicked, but I should like to~meet
5087         I,III|               of thin glass, encased in wicker;~they would have a mysterious
5088         I,II |               who wants to be an actor, wide-awake as an errand-boy~who earns
5089         I,II |                 of the toilet, has been widely sought by both sexes in~
5090         I,III|               heart a sad~secret, which widened the distance between Cesarine
5091         I,IV |              the pitch, the size of the widows, the pictures--"~ ~"It must
5092         I,II |        squareness of his shoulders, the width of his feet,--all denoted
5093         I,VII|            ordered a~coach and took his wife--much disfigured by a bonnet
5094         I,IV |              between Versailles and the wigwam of a Huron chief. Birotteau
5095         I,IV |               body. When he related his wild-goose chase to his wife and~daughter
5096         I,V  |                thrown~them all into the wildest regions of romance. The
5097         I,VI |                 bankrupt on a charge of wilful~bankruptcy."~ ~"Is that
5098         I,II |                as a traveller pursues a will-o'-the-wisp. He lets the gust
5099         I,VII|             honor of being present?"~ ~"Willingly," said the judge. "If my
5100         I,V  |               was humbly expressing~his willingness to go to prison,--"madame,
5101         I,VII|            Cesar's study.~ ~"Ah! /thou/ wilt pay for all this," said
5102         I,IV |               pass, monsieur," he said, winding up the tale,~"that monsieur
5103         I,I  |             life as my arm is to turn a windmill. Honors~will be your ruin!'
5104         I,IV |               an enchanting view of the windmills of Montmartre as he walked
5105         I,IV |               oil-cloth, a barometer, a window-door which opened on the~hanging
5106         I,V  |            third floor of a house whose window-sashes, with~small and very dirty
5107         I,II |                and after rapping on the window-shutters went away and drowned~herself.
5108         I,I  |                  flying open to all the winds? You'll get as hoarse as
5109         I,VII|                threw~out that anchor to windward for you. If you will pay
5110         I,II |                of her swains, wholesale wine-~merchants, rich proprietors
5111         I,VII|          Popinot drag a feather from my wing. I~am as glad of your happiness
5112         I,IV |            drawings at which the police winked. This Gendrin, a profoundly~
5113         I,I  |                We can come and pass the winters in Paris with our son-~in-law;
5114         I,III|                ideas. Control yourself,~wipe your eyes, hold your heart
5115         I,V  |                   Popinot and Birotteau wiped their eyes, so affected
5116         I,II |         indomitable~destiny, whose hand wipes out our dreams, and shows
5117         I,IV |       balustrade, trellised with copper wire and furnished with a~sliding
5118         I,III|              you are thought one of~the wise-heads of the banking business,
5119         I,III|                 a~dangerous game. It is wiser to step back for a better
5120         I,IV |              potent cosmetics, oil them with--"~ ~"Ah! dose Rakkons,"
5121         I,VI |              inspired~respect. She had, withal, a certain oddity about
5122         I,VII|               Popinot, brusquely. "If I withdraw from that~amount the forty-eight
5123         I,VI |                if convicted of "gaiety" withdraws from~court, saying with
5124         I,III|                from which that hand now withdrew him, and into which it~had
5125         I,I  |              turning with a shrivelled, withered hand the latch of her own
5126         I,III|              for lack of~knowing how to withhold an honest sentiment vulgarly
5127         I,III|        frying-pan. Birotteau~was at his wits' end; he had used all his
5128         I,IV |                the constant~butt of the witty shafts and ridicule of artists,
5129         I,II |                vivify them; they are as wonderful for their~simplicity as
5130         I,VI |            Birotteau, contemplating the wondrous shape of the~flask, "yesterday [
5131         I,VI |               bending~it to the use and wont of his calling,--a phenomenon
5132         I,VI |             early in the morning at his wood-yard,~if he sells wood; in his
5133         I,V  |                 some returns; there are wood-yards which will bring in a~rent.
5134         I,IV |                an undershirt of~knitted wool, once white, but now yellowed
5135         I,III|                who was in the wholesale wool-trade, lost his~property and died,
5136         I,II |          kitchen to a dining-room, or a work-room to a~shop. Here were turned
5137         I,VI |               and Popinot were at their work-shop in the Faubourg du Temple~
5138         I,V  |              sober life of a determined~worker. His history was like Cesar'
5139         I,V  |             Pillerault belonged to that working-~men's party which the Revolution
5140         I,VI |              were day workmen and night workmen--~arrested all the idlers
5141         I,VI |           echoing of~a Sunday, when the workpeople were away from it and the
5142         I,VI |                  his books, and his own workroom. Above these rooms~were
5143         I,IV |           coachhouses,~stables, and old workshops, where she fought the vermin
5144         I,VI |               is before the eyes of the world--"~ ~"Yes, but he still keeps
5145         I,III|                can tell you that all my worldly goods~were one louis, given
5146         I,I  |                he flung him away like a~wornout instrument.~ ~Monsieur Lebas
5147         I,IV |              that be used?"~ ~"Don't be worried--I will find room for a little
5148         I,V  |            exclaimed Birotteau; "in the worst of a storm a star~guides
5149         I,IV |           white-wood covered with green worsted velvet. As~to the chamber
5150         I,IV |          decorate it. I wish to make it worthy--"~ ~"Worthy! You have said
5151         I,VI |                 trimmed with black lace woven in large square meshes;
5152         I,II |                in truth a hard judicial wrangler. But if he boldly contested
5153         I,VI |             each bottle, and serve as a~wrapper.~ ~"METHOD OF USING CEPHALIC
5154         I,III|              littered with packages and wrapping-paper. The storerooms held small~
5155         I,VII|                at him with~concentrated wrath.~ ~"I shall not refuse to
5156         I,VII|          dressed in white crape, wore a wreath~of white roses, a rose at
5157         I,V  |          determined to live on amid the wreck of his fortunes at "The~
5158         I,II |                skin without~prematurely wrinkling it,--the inevitable result
5159         I,IV |              well; he will send you the writ in an~envelope, with all
5160         I,I  |              father a little table with writing-~things upon it,--among them
5161         I,IV |            germs of crime, the roots of wrongdoing; and he now watched~Birotteau,
5162         I,V  |                 of abject shape made of wrought-iron, and the barbarous contrast~
5163         I,VI |              the hands of the judge and wrung them, with tears in~his
5164       Add    |               the Absolute~ ~Rabourdin, Xavier~The Government Clerks~At
5165         I,IV |         following Birotteau through the yard, "I would like your note~
5166         I,I  |              middle of the next room, a yard-stick~in his hand measuring the
5167         I,III|              for all~her family; I send yearly to her niece in Touraine,
5168         I,VII|                 had coveted for fifteen years--on~a round of civilities.
5169         I,II |                sorrows were to dim with yellowing tints that dazzling~fairness,
5170         I,VII|                 trinkets, was under the yoke of this Catherine II. of~
5171         I,VII|            years ago--like our~children yonder! In eighteen months I have
5172         I,III|              had two brothers. One, the youngest of the family, was at~this
5173         I,V  |             were~in a situation such as yours--Ah, one has to foresee everything
5174              | yourselves
5175         I,IV |                 you, who vas vounded at Zaint-Roqque--"~ ~"On the 13th Vendemiaire,
5176         I,III|                of the house, he threw a~zeal and energy into his work
5177         I,IV |         monsieur is~debudy-mayor of der zecond arrondissement, and gifs
5178         I,V  |            blaying me a bretty drick in zenting Pirodot to me. I don't~know,"
5179         I,IV |                 blace. Dere is a crowd, zey~tell me, waiting in der
5180         I,I  |                can picture the alarming zig-zags produced by falling~shadows,
5181         I,IV |               tay, to der Bank mit~mein zignature; so shall you haf, at four
5182         I,IV |            graat and small~alaike, dree zignatures. So denn, you traw a cheque
5183         I,IV |              but dey would not wait one zingle day longer."~ ~"Monsieur
5184         I,IV |                 Hey! der tefle! dont pe zo humple, Monsieur der debudy-mayor;
5185         I,IV |              should receif, as she say, zom lessons from~Matame Pirodot."~ ~"
5186         I,IV |                 world. Sooner or later, ztit! the usurer will toss~him