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502 II | programme to which a suitor must conform to be excepted. Hence her~
503 I | Ghent; then, thanks to the confusion of 1815, when~the regulations
504 VI | delicious when thus intimately connected with another than herself.~
505 VIII| been able, by my diplomatic connections,~to contribute to his success.
506 VI | painting, he responded as a connoisseur; if she sat down to play,
507 II | smile. When Emilie meant~to conquer a heart, her pure voice
508 II | According~to him, the people had conquered a sufficiently large share
509 VII | loved, for she was secretly conscious of the meanness of the next~
510 III | show. So now, my dear, my consent is~given beforehand, whoever
511 III | The Honorable Deputy was consequently pointed at as a most influential~
512 III | arbiter of your fate, and I consider myself both~happy and unhappy
513 I | changed his opinions very~considerably. Certain circumstances,
514 II | yielded to those private considerations which husband and~wife confide
515 II | brilliant horoscope; their magic consists in taking~their dreams for
516 VIII| increased prodigality, a kind of consolation~which rarely fails of its
517 II | and magnificence that were conspicuous in her dress, her furniture,~
518 III | inevitably become a subject of constant~ridicule. He feared lest
519 VI | was judged by her; she was constantly provoked to find that she
520 VI | which a perfect knowledge constituted, according to his~private
521 I | dignities~under the new Constitution, he was about to return
522 VII | whom he seemed to be in consultation. The "handsome~stranger"
523 II | subjecting them to all her~most contemptuous caprice. Among the young
524 VII | may be ignorant, but I am content to be. But, father, you
525 II | ill-disposed nature. He contented himself with~giving her
526 IV | affection was weary of the contest with a character that the
527 IV | aristocratic~houses on the continent, to the living representatives
528 II | old~man, had it in him to contradict the opinions of a young
529 I | less~amenity. Kings enjoy contradicting more than people think.
530 VIII| diplomatic connections,~to contribute to his success. I am impatiently
531 II | pride she had~unfortunately contributed to foster in the girl's
532 I | might remember it at~a convenient season. The royal amateur
533 IV | Mademoiselle de Conde's convent than not be the wife of~
534 VII | Their adieux were in a~conventional tone, which concealed their
535 VI | than once they had those conversations,~aimless and meaningless,
536 II | prince had taken pleasure in~converting the Vendeen to the ideas
537 II | men rarely renounce their convictions--was due not merely to~his
538 II | for France. He~strove to convince the families who frequented
539 III | centre, at the Ministers, the cooks, the Directors-General,
540 I | own room."~ ~This scene cooled Monsieur de Fontaine's ardor
541 VIII| return, I warn you," she said~coquettishly.~ ~"I hope so."~ ~"Impertinent
542 V | could not resist the frank cordiality of his manner,~and presently
543 III | her, people of respectable corpulence were incapable of~sentiment,
544 II | so difficult as~that of correcting an ill-disposed nature.
545 II | no, the future lover must correspond. After some~little experience
546 VIII| were~served in an immense corridor, where, to leave persons
547 III | at as a most influential~corrupter of the legislative honesty
548 VIII| to be captured by a young corvette,~one fine morning Paris
549 VIII| wear the antique French~costume, which was so becoming to
550 VIII| leave persons of the same~coterie free to meet each other,
551 V | the Count exclaimed:~ ~"Couldn't you get out of the way?"~ ~"
552 II | endow the Church. The Privy~Councillor, being in the secret of
553 VIII| boy was ill in~bed; and I counted on seeing him before coming
554 V | damaged that poor young counter-jumper, my dear,"~said the Count,
555 VII | but before attempting to~counteract them, he wished to be sure
556 IV | power, that is to say, the country-folk, kept apart with wonderful~
557 VIII| Mademoiselle de Fontaine courtesied. "I was very much~surprised,"
558 I | own country. Nor~was his courtier-like calculation one of these
559 II | This~enchanting veneer covered a careless heart; the opinion--
560 III | popularity.~He perhaps found some covert advantage in selling his
561 I | their way to chapel; he craved the favor of a~private audience.
562 VII | Kergarouet.~"Trusting to that crazy child's tact, I got him
563 II | and Emilie contrived to create. This etiquette soon found~
564 II | and sisters. Then, after~creating a desert about her, the
565 II | the third estate and the creations of the~Empire, by curbing
566 VI | otherwise we should lose our credit, and every sort of~respect."~ ~"
567 VI | Guimard~now, no Duthe, no creditors--and you know nothing of
568 II | balls, where her keen eyes criticised the~celebrities of the day,
569 IV | remarks as though she were criticising or praising a study of a
570 I | scandal! By Heaven! the cross of Saint-Louis and the rank
571 I | solicitation, ex officio, the crosses of the Legion of Honor and
572 III | it a mocking intention, crossing her arms~over the dainty
573 IV | girls, as~wily as judges--crowds the ballroom at Sceaux with
574 VIII| the amazon who preached a crusade against bankers, the~young
575 III | la neige, and ruthlessly~crushing its endless frills of white
576 II | and impertinence.~She had cultivated a large variety of those
577 VI | been roused.~ ~"He is a cunning rascal!" said the Count,
578 II | creations of the~Empire, by curbing the clergy, as the first
579 VI | member of the family was curious to know what~this capricious
580 II | could~also give it a sort of curt clearness when she was minded
581 III | that towel,~draw back the curtains, put those chairs square,
582 II | the set of the gracious curve of her~lips, by the coldness
583 VII | wont to~discharge her most cutting remarks. The three women
584 VIII| persevering devotion that made the cynical smile, she~gave him her
585 III | dignity as a~father. He daintily took a pinch of snuff, cleared
586 III | crossing her arms~over the dainty trimmings of a pelerine
587 VI | coloring. They gathered daisies to pull the~petals off,
588 V | away.~ ~"You very nearly damaged that poor young counter-jumper,
589 IV | kept pale and moist by the damp atmosphere of~Paris back-shops.
590 IV | laughed~beforehand at the damsels' airs, and sharpened her
591 IV | stranger went up to the pretty dancer, and leaning over, said
592 III | recruiting the regiment of~dancers which, spring after spring,
593 IV | rural~baldachino shelters a dancing-floor. The most stuck-up landowners
594 IV | trinkets displayed by the~dandies of the National Guard or
595 VII | my happiness depends. I dare not say ours."~ ~"Yes, yes,
596 I | arrange as~that of this darling daughter. To understand
597 IV | of Terpsichore~either in dashing parties on horseback, or
598 II | nuptial poetry~of their day-dreams. It was on the strength
599 VI | revealing her merits, so as to dazzle him suddenly when she found
600 I | spoken by a man left for dead~at the bloody battle of
601 VI | The family were a good deal~surprised at the silence
602 VII | settle that account; my house~deals in that way. But here,"
603 VIII| freshness of youth. His father's death, and then that of his brother,~
604 III | the royal demesnes were debated over. When Joseph had~reduced
605 VI | gentleman.~ ~"Have you any debts?" he at last asked of his
606 VII | impossible that she should deceive herself.~All the summer
607 VIII| little seminaries."~PARIS, December 1829.~ ~
608 VI | thirty. Oh! with my wife--in decency and~honor. However, your
609 VIII| For a year I have heard no decent French, I~have been weaned
610 VIII| of the couple could never decide~whether the old Count regarded
611 VII | intonation and inimitable decision which the~most famous actress
612 VII | kept her from meeting the declaration half-way, which her~growing
613 III | his~valet was artistically decorating his bald yellow head with
614 I | I~Dedication~To Henri de Balzac, his
615 II | dazzled shallow persons; as to deeper minds, her natural tact
616 VI | perfection must cover some great defect, and that she~would take
617 I | legitimate monarch and his defenders.~Monsieur de Fontaine, like
618 II | a result of her sisters' defiant mockery, his~favorite daughter
619 II | they professed in public,~degenerated sometimes in private into
620 VIII| with Germans, to such~a degree that, I believe, in my patriotic
621 II | II~Thus, accustomed by degrees to the enjoyment of money,
622 VI | worthy of her, intended to delay~revealing her merits, so
623 IV | not betray her apparent delicacy, but a~faint flush already
624 VI | his young sister, whose delicate health~required great care.~ ~"
625 VIII| Their~conduct was indeed so delicately judicious that the men who
626 VI | soul, for she found life~delicious when thus intimately connected
627 VI | transformed to love. It~was a deep delight to her to look for the arrival
628 VI | enjoy the little childish~delights which give to first love
629 VIII| family affection. The Padrona~della case would not give me time
630 III | bald yellow head with the delta~of powder which, with the
631 II | happiness is in ourselves, she demanded it of the~circumstances
632 VI | worked a change in her, her demeanor had lost all its~affectations.
633 III | the~interests of the royal demesnes were debated over. When
634 I | the~existence of another Demoiselle de Fontaine, for whom he
635 I | find an equivalent for the demolished abbeys. Monsieur le Comte
636 VII | its success my happiness depends. I dare not say ours."~ ~"
637 III | head.~ ~"My dear, do not so depreciate those who love you. Only
638 III | which Paris and the various deputations from~departments could offer.
639 I | may perhaps have hoped~to derive greater profit from this
640 I | the pecuniary advantages derived from four official~appointments,
641 I | for Monsieur, who never~derogates, and is some comfort to
642 VIII| Camps, and Mademoiselle des~Touches, she did not yield
643 VII | some very good families descended from bastards.~The history
644 VIII| one Excellency smile by describing the fair foe of the~counting-house,
645 VI | attention as she thought she deserved. The family were a good
646 I | satisfaction of her playful desires, so now, at fourteen, she
647 V | visiting card to the~old man, desiring him to observe that he was
648 V | and secret search, almost despairing of the success of an~enterprise
649 I | he received a ministerial despatch, in which a well-known magnate~
650 IV | Though the fair Emilie despised the~commonalty, her feeling
651 II | cemented but that the young despot was, not~unfrequently, the
652 IV | anniversary of a~family fete. At dessert Madame Planat, the Receiver-General'
653 VIII| her~budding happiness, and destroyed its prospects of life. Maximilien'
654 I | immensely amused by every detail of his~Gouvernementabilite--
655 V | the Count. "Do not let me detain~you. But, unless you have
656 I | Saint-Louis.~ ~Shaken in his determination by these successive favors,
657 III | not~demand his vote, he determined to ask what her views were.
658 V | the young man he had so determinedly insulted the day before,~
659 II | herself by inspiring her detractors~with the desire to please
660 VI | honorable mention to the detriment of so many~rivals. A simple
661 III | eccentric notions should deviate into bad~style. He trembled
662 VIII| overheard one of those dialogues into which a young~woman
663 VIII| was no~outward and visible difference between a merchant and a
664 II | Fontaine could assume a~dignified or a frolicsome mien at
665 III | in the greater or smaller dimensions of a man's~body? This is
666 II | this,~without seriously diminishing the regard they professed
667 IV | with their~presence. They dined early. And the month of
668 III | entertainments, the~luxury of his dining-room, and his dinners, fragrant
669 III | his dining-room, and his dinners, fragrant with truffles,~
670 I | and most successful of our diplomates--one of~the faithful five
671 VII | difficult thing! Hitherto no direct avowal had sanctioned the~
672 I | became a legal official and director~of a municipal board of
673 I | never to appoint you to be director-~general, or minister. Neither
674 IV | and~the hope, less often disappointed, of seeing young peasant
675 VI | but she had the~little disappointment of finding that he did not
676 VII | of a man superior to the disaster that has so suddenly fallen~
677 VII | whom she had been wont to~discharge her most cutting remarks.
678 III | I have conscientiously discharged my duty to you as a~father--
679 IV | lawyers' clerks, of the disciples of Aesculapius, and other
680 II | introduced a small leaven of discord. The Receiver-General and
681 II | old Vendeen was not to be discouraged in bringing forward suitors,
682 VI | feelings, the least chance of discovering to what social~sphere he
683 VI | chiefly for her sake. This~discovery gave her such intoxicating
684 I | to some notes which the discreet gentleman had~been invited
685 VII | nay more, his manner of discussing things~revealed a man devoted
686 IV | end to these~matrimonial discussions, I hereby declare that I
687 VIII| not to sit in a shop."~ ~A disdainful gesture completed her meaning.
688 VIII| declared that there was~no disgrace in making a mistake. If
689 VIII| luxury was~ineffectual to disguise the emptiness and grief
690 III | More than one~actor in it, disgusted by a refusal, seemed to
691 I | generous souls who do not~dismiss a servant in a torrent of
692 II | beliefs which no woman could disown,~who, through her mother,
693 II | highest circles would not have disowned, kept up a sarcastic~temper
694 VIII| impatiently expecting a dispatch~from the Brazilian Legation,
695 V | leave the King at liberty to disperse their assemblies."~ ~When
696 VI | when the house party were dispersed~in the drawing-rooms and
697 VI | Clara, I feared I might have displeased you by speaking thus~of
698 VII | appeal to her; she even disposed~of them at once by two or
699 VIII| had reserved the right~of disposing of his fortune to keep his
700 V | suppositions were at once dissipated like a dream. Annoyed, as
701 III | suitors would not be a mere dissolving view in~his daughter's eyes;
702 IV | promise in that~head, too much distinction in his whole person, to
703 II | in an immoderate love of distinctions, and~expressed the deepest
704 III | themselves, and perfectly distinctive manners.~Though nowadays
705 IV | Mademoiselle de Fontaine very~distinctly.~ ~At this all eyes were
706 VI | good breeding.~ ~Emilie, distracted by this reserve, hoped to
707 VII | emotion that was all the more disturbing because it~was produced
708 V | malicious good-humor to the divagations of her rather~eccentric
709 I | in the Unity of the three Divine Persons.~ ~"If your Majesty
710 IV | face was like one of the divinities which Girodet has~introduced
711 V | kiss him to induce him to divulge so~important a secret. The
712 V | than duels. We were gay dogs then! Nowadays you think
713 I | precise ideas of the~peaceful domain of the civil service, where
714 VI | after seeing him to the door.~ ~Mademoiselle de Fontaine,
715 IV | position.~ ~As it is extremely doubtful that the fame of the "Bal
716 III | draughts, he looked round him doubtfully, examined~his dressing-gown
717 VI | as~a young man respects a dowager."~ ~Monsieur Longueville
718 III | they were~manufactured by dozens. At least, you will not
719 III | at any conclusion of the drama she was playing. More than
720 III | rounded back~screened him from draughts, he looked round him doubtfully,
721 III | take away that towel,~draw back the curtains, put those
722 VII | arithmetician as Bareme, draws, dances, and sings well.
723 V | at once dissipated like a dream. Annoyed, as any~woman must
724 IV | of which~she had so long dreamed.~ ~Seated on one of the
725 V | looks to me like an author dreaming over his poetry, for he~
726 V | into a corner of the room, drew her~on to his knee, held
727 VIII| accompanied him in all his~drives; she even persuaded him
728 V | sailor-like, I had taken a drop too much grog on board,
729 VIII| splendid entertainments to drown thought; but she, no~doubt,
730 IV | last words were happily drowned in the noise.~ ~"My dear
731 IV | singing the air of Cara non dubitare, in the~"Matrimonio Segreto."~ ~
732 VIII| keep pace~with Mesdames the Duchesses de Maufrigneuse and du Chaulieu,
733 V | not lacking, any~more than duels. We were gay dogs then!
734 V | amuse~yourself by provoking duels----"~ ~"White hairs!" cried
735 VII | woman. They sang an Italian duet with so much expression~
736 V | were fixed in a sort of dull amazement on the~stranger,
737 II | often,~secret tears and dumb revolt against supposed
738 III | husband~as may secure your durable happiness----"~ ~"My good
739 II | short-sighted, this one's name was Durand, that one limped, and almost~
740 VI | have no Guimard~now, no Duthe, no creditors--and you know
741 IV | of good style and of the duties of an~official position.~ ~
742 V | who escorted her did not dwell among the flowery and fragrant~
743 II | girls--that no one else dwelt in a sphere so lofty as
744 III | illustrious Chamber that~was dying as it would seem of indigestion.
745 VI | phoenix of~men, who had earned honorable mention to the
746 VII | undertone, had escaped the ears of her two sisters-in-~law.
747 II | fled to the ends of the earth to~escape a marriage such
748 VI | dress, an air of perfect ease,~polite manners, a pleasant
749 III | esteemed a beauty in the East, to be fat seemed to her
750 II | should begin to think~of economizing, to add to the estate of
751 VIII| Chamber, she would move for an edict, she said, by which all~
752 II | coldest heart.~ ~She had been educated with a care which her sisters
753 VIII| and I hear he has just effected a~speculation in Brazil
754 VI | the winter. If I have but~eighty thousand francs a year at
755 II | not some day enjoy sixty--eighty--a hundred thousand francs
756 II | than once, when his two elder girls were married,~had
757 II | practical government by its elective assembly, its appointments~
758 IV | had to study the various~elements that composed the mixture
759 II | every effort to collect~the elite of marrying men about his
760 IV | unbending the corners of~eloquent lips; but this, far from
761 VII | a peer like the rest of 'em.~--I never heard him mention
762 VIII| the~age of seventy-two to embark as pilot on board the Belle
763 V | himself for some time with her~embarrassment; then he said: "Emilie,
764 VIII| The young Secretary to~the Embassy took up his brother's quarrel,
765 IV | the Paris townsfolk, who, emerging from the stony abyss in
766 I | whether this complicity in~emigration would prove more propitious
767 VIII| her disastrous education, Emile for the second time killed
768 I | posts~offered to him by the Emperor Napoleon. Immovable in his
769 II | feminine gestures, which emphasize so cruelly or so happily
770 I | Fontaine was so happy as to be~employed by Louis XVIII., and found
771 I | minister. Neither you nor I, as employes, could keep our~place on
772 VIII| like you, in diplomatic~employment."~ ~"No," said the attache,
773 VI | meaningless, in which the emptiest phrases are those which~
774 VIII| ineffectual to disguise the emptiness and grief of her sorrowing
775 VI | This change in her temper enchanted and amazed her family.~Perhaps,
776 VII | greatest dangers they can encounter.~Never had Emilie and Maximilien
777 II | and lent all his weight to encourage the~political see-saw which
778 VI | defects her education had encouraged. Was~not this her first
779 II | of the day, delighted in encouraging proposals which she~invariably
780 I | Monsieur de Fontaine he was~encumbered with a large family. Though
781 VI | in handling a ship,~she endeavored to bring upon the scene
782 II | She would have fled to the ends of the earth to~escape a
783 VIII| hospitality when he had saved an enemy from the fury of the storm.~
784 VII | exhausted her wit in trying to engage them in a~conversation,
785 VII | wittier: his light figure, his engaging manners,~seemed to her more
786 III | fondly,~and coaxed him so engagingly that the old man's brow
787 VI | even gave up going into the Engineers in order to~preserve my
788 V | without seeing the young Englishman who had dropped from the~
789 IV | louder voice than good taste~enjoined; she turned and tossed her
790 I | childhood on the~family estate, enjoying the abundance which suffices
791 II | accustomed by degrees to the enjoyment of money, elegance of~dress,
792 III | person as you are, I~need not enlarge on all the difficulties
793 I | honored, and knew how to entertain~the monarch in those familiar
794 II | Paris, the necessity for~entertaining, the magnificence of the
795 IV | at this gleeful suburban~entertainment, and promised herself immense
796 I | he thought ADORABLE, an enthusiastic expression which escaped~
797 VII | that the audience applauded enthusiastically. Their adieux were in a~
798 V | amused~himself with her entreaties, and, above all, her caresses.
799 V | silence before the young lady entrusted to his care.~The stranger
800 VII | woman to whom he would be entrusting his~happiness. His love
801 VII | actress of the time might have envied her. She went~straight up
802 VI | Mademoiselle de Fontaine was almost envious, and called her "the~Siren."
803 I | was one of those special envoys~who were sent throughout
804 VI | apathy; she said, somewhat epigrammatically, that~such heavenly perfection
805 III | once the object of those epigrams which~the malicious journalism
806 VIII| de Persepolis said with Episcopal grace: "Fair~lady, you have
807 I | turn the epigram into an~epithalamium?" said the Count, trying
808 VII | first love; but both were equally~proud, and each feared to
809 II | her parents recognized as equals by the most illustrious~
810 I | favorites managed~to find an equivalent for the demolished abbeys.
811 II | which was~to result in a new era and splendid fortunes for
812 I | appointed sous-prefet, ere long became a legal official
813 IV | humored this~aristocratic escapade by one of its finest evenings.
814 II | the ends of the earth to~escape a marriage such as those
815 II | unselfishness; but nothing escapes the eye of a good~father,
816 V | English, and the~stranger who escorted her did not dwell among
817 V | uncle and her brothers to~escorting her in very early rides,
818 VIII| Chaulieu, the~Marquises d'Espard and d'Aiglemont, the Comtesses
819 V | Fontaine, is a man~it is essential that you should know. Ah,
820 I | time, notwithstanding the established careers open to his~three
821 I | sword in hand,~against the establishment of the republic, he may
822 II | of some old hereditary estates, but whose~name was not
823 III | civilized society. Though it is~esteemed a beauty in the East, to
824 II | contrived to create. This etiquette soon found~even ampler opportunity
825 Add | Mirouet~ Beatrix~ ~Rastignac, Eugene de~ Father Goriot~ A Distinguished
826 VI | concerning himself, he could evade with the~adroitness of a
827 I | when~the regulations were evaded, he passed into the bodyguard,
828 VIII| young girl whose love had evaporated before a bale of muslin.
829 IV | escapade by one of its finest evenings. Mademoiselle de~Fontaine
830 V | immediately began to try the ever-new power of~her coquettish
831 | everywhere
832 III | which the~absurdity would be evident to some women who were not
833 IV | fine, his gloves fresh, and evidently~bought of a good maker,
834 VIII| much to his fidelity in~evil days as to his name, which
835 V | chief part of the night she evolved the~most brilliant pictures
836 I | without any~solicitation, ex officio, the crosses of
837 II | pointed out to his wife, by exact~arithmetic that their residence
838 IV | went nearer, to be able to~examine the young lady at the moment
839 III | looked round him doubtfully, examined~his dressing-gown with a
840 IV | whole family--a perfect example of the parliamentary families
841 II | dint of~observing unhappy examples, the brilliant hues of their
842 VIII| often~made more than one Excellency smile by describing the
843 II | suitor must conform to be excepted. Hence her~disdain and sarcasm.~
844 VII | Yes, yes, ours!"~ ~Exchanging such sweet nothings, they
845 II | law-offices, and those of the exchequer, which, said he, would~always,
846 VI | give each other only to excite the jealousy of men. Emilie,~
847 VII | as he heard the joyful exclamation~she could not suppress, "
848 IV | neighborhood rarely fail to make an excursion thither once or~twice during
849 VIII| unendurable. Every one made excuses for her~inequality of temper,
850 V | but cruel mistakes, which exert a~fatal influence on the
851 VII | have revenged~herself. She exhausted her wit in trying to engage
852 III | it; admiration is always~exhausting to human beings. The old
853 III | for money will~certainly exist for at least two centuries.~ ~"
854 I | smiled on hearing of the~existence of another Demoiselle de
855 V | any~woman must be whose expectations are frustrated, she touched
856 VIII| success. I am impatiently expecting a dispatch~from the Brazilian
857 VIII| Paris, M. de Suffren's first expedition, or the battle of Aboukir.~ ~
858 VII | conversation, in which she tried to expend her fury in senseless~paradoxes,
859 I | official was housed at~the expense of the nation. Emilie had
860 II | nation. He preached the expensive doctrines of~constitutional
861 III | to my suitors is not yet expired."~ ~"Emilie, we must to-day
862 II | Fontaine often tried to explain to his~daughter the more
863 VII | of coming, to wring some explanation from~him. She went out after
864 VII | incredible force to any explosion of feeling, and to meet
865 II | books new or old, and could expose the defects of a work~with
866 IV | Sceaux"~should ever have extended beyond the borders of the
867 VI | was as~thorough as it was extensive. He knew so well the right
868 VII | which~had made her to some extent the possessor of a heart
869 V | passionately captivated by the externals of marriage and love.~Is
870 VII | Longuevilles----?"~ ~"They became extinct in the person of the old
871 II | hues of their ideal are~extinguished. Then, one fine day, in
872 VI | and the traps she laid to extract from the young~fellow some
873 VII | aloud, "that I have~had very extravagant ideas about life and the
874 IV | official position.~ ~As it is extremely doubtful that the fame of
875 I | august family; then, having extricated his sword, not without some~
876 II | thick and strongly-arched eyebrows, lent her~countenance an
877 I | Gouvernementabilite--a word adopted by his facetious Majesty.~ ~Thanks to the
878 III | the fireplace so as to sit facing~her father, and settled
879 VI | from the young~fellow some facts concerning himself, he could
880 VIII| consolation~which rarely fails of its effect on a Parisian
881 IV | apparent delicacy, but a~faint flush already tinged her
882 V | fine~weather, had gained a fairly long truce from the gout,
883 I | Immovable in his aristocratic~faith, he had blindly obeyed its
884 VIII| a young~woman so easily falls with a young man who has
885 II | of flattery, sincere or false, and the~festivities and
886 IV | budget was voted, the~whole family--a perfect example of the
887 VIII| the old count; and this fantastic~damsel even listened without
888 IV | a~waistcoat of the most fashionable cut. Never had the fastidious
889 IV | fashionable cut. Never had the fastidious Emilie~seen a man's eyes
890 III | as you long for--and this~fastidiousness may cost you the best years
891 V | mistakes, which exert a~fatal influence on the lives of
892 III | discharged my duty to you as a~father--conscientiously, do I say?
893 III | advantage thus given to a too favored child."~ ~"In their position!"
894 I | civil service, where astute favorites managed~to find an equivalent
895 V | she tried to give to her features.~The girl's piercing eyes
896 V | dreams with which she had fed her~hopes. At last, thanks
897 V | and then she enjoyed the feeble satisfaction of seeing~him
898 II | those turns of the head and~feminine gestures, which emphasize
899 VIII| Aiglemont, the Comtesses Feraud, de~Montcornet, and de Restaud,
900 VIII| before his~youthful and fervid eloquence had dazzled the
901 IV | anniversary of a~family fete. At dessert Madame Planat,
902 II | by an admiring crowd as a fetfah of the Sultan by the Turks.
903 VII | home, she had an attack of fever, which at first assumed
904 VIII| reward due as much to his fidelity in~evil days as to his name,
905 IV | found a flower in this wide field--the metaphor is reasonable--
906 VII | in the midst of woods and fields; wasting his time as~freely
907 V | a few seconds become so fierce that the~younger man forgot
908 V | though there had never been a fifteenth and a~sixteenth century."~ ~"
909 V | that I think no more of fighting a duel than of smoking a~
910 III | a look of harmony to the files of bills, the~letter-boxes,
911 VII | dear~uncle, has he been a filibuster, an outlaw, a pirate?"~ ~"
912 VI | the answer might seem, it filled Mademoiselle de Fontaine~
913 V | gardens. In spite of~the film which age had drawn over
914 III | choice must be serious and final. I will never twice~compromise
915 II | of attentions to which a finer nature~than hers might perhaps
916 IV | aristocratic escapade by one of its finest evenings. Mademoiselle de~
917 VI | than once they felt their finger tips thrill and tremble
918 IV | surely must~be----" Without finishing her thought, she suddenly
919 III | set it at the side of the fireplace so as to sit facing~her
920 VII | vanished "like~Saint-Elmo's fires," to use his favorite expression.~ ~"
921 II | that his father had sold firewood. This noteworthy~change
922 VII | shrubbery~towards an arbor fit for lovers, where she knew
923 I | precepts when he thought it fitting~to choose a companion for
924 VII | should find myself in this fix!" cried the old sailor,~
925 V | we sailed under the wrong flag. You know what that means.
926 IV | something to admire in the flats of La~Beauce. However, as
927 II | her as the compliments of flattery, sincere or false, and the~
928 II | of life. She would have fled to the ends of the earth
929 VI | friend, you are not fully fledged. The man who does not sow~
930 II | argue fluently on Italian or Flemish~painting, on the Middle
931 IV | in the House of Commons--flew away like a~brood of young
932 VI | lovers can.~ ~"Well, well; a flirtation never turned so quickly
933 VIII| God, though I pour~out a flood of words, I have already
934 III | Liberals, who made~up by their flow of words for their small
935 IV | young lady suddenly~found a flower in this wide field--the
936 I | as natural as a wealth of~flowers or fruit, or as the rural
937 V | did not dwell among the flowery and fragrant~bowers of Chatenay.~ ~
938 II | everything. She could argue fluently on Italian or Flemish~painting,
939 IV | apparent delicacy, but a~faint flush already tinged her white
940 VI | kindly put in; her face had flushed with richer color, as she
941 V | stump, with a few leaves fluttering about it, withered by autumnal~
942 V | young heads need~an old fogy like me always by their
943 VII | backgammon; he~handles the foils, and rides a horse like
944 III | of my carriage among the folds of azure mantling, not to~
945 IV | to play at being COMMON FOLK at this gleeful suburban~
946 VIII| time yet, and~cursed the follies of her youth.~ ~At this
947 V | following him as a pirate~follows a merchantman. Then, when
948 V | in order to screen your folly; whereas if you had but
949 III | chair again--caressed him fondly,~and coaxed him so engagingly
950 II | vagaries as Monsieur de Fontaine--to suspect that she~had
951 II | notions of the head of the Fontaines, and the prudent~matches
952 IV | care I don't marry you, old fool!" replied the young girl,
953 V | Now she is walking at a foot-pace like a gendarme on patrol
954 IV | of the Channel who have a footing in every government~department,
955 III | fortunate accident as you long for--and this~fastidiousness
956 III | Emilie, we must to-day forbear from jesting on so important
957 III | occasions brought out all his forces, he believed that this~time
958 I | from this journey into a foreign land than~from active and
959 V | Dudley. The distinguished foreigner had with her in her open
960 IV | who have~traveled far, by foreigners who are very hard to please,
961 II | objects of a ceremonious formality which the~Countess and Emilie
962 I | whose~sweetness is more formidable than the anger of a rebuke.
963 II | advantages, that they united in forming a little court round the~
964 III | centuries.~ ~"Pending such a fortunate accident as you long for--
965 I | opportunity of going up to the~fortune-seeking Vendeen, and made him understand
966 | forty
967 II | unfortunately contributed to foster in the girl's young soul.~ ~
968 VII | by the monstrous vanity founded on her birth~and beauty,
969 V | to him, and leave~him to founder like an old hulk if you
970 III | and seemed to find a fresh~fount of resignation in some religious
971 V | unlike a chimera at the fountain-~head of the imaginary wealth
972 I | playful desires, so now, at fourteen, she was~still obeyed when
973 IV | feeling. His slender, easy frame~recalled the noble proportions
974 Add | Clerks~ ~Manerville, Paul Francois-Joseph, Comte de~ The Thirteen~
975 V | he could not resist the frank cordiality of his manner,~
976 VIII| You have more passion than Frenchwomen," said Maximilien, whose~
977 II | convince the families who frequented his drawing-room,~or those
978 V | which come of the~habit of frequenting drawing-rooms, and I am
979 VIII| lover come in, in all the~freshness of youth. His father's death,
980 III | ruthlessly~crushing its endless frills of white tulle. After a
981 II | assume a~dignified or a frolicsome mien at her will. Her neck
982 VII | the sharp cold of an early frost, Mademoiselle de Fontaine,
983 V | it, withered by autumnal~frosts; and his niece immediately
984 I | as a wealth of~flowers or fruit, or as the rural plenty
985 II | were to gather the bitter fruits of this disastrous~education.
986 V | be whose expectations are frustrated, she touched up her~horse
987 III | personal grace~which is but fugitive, especially under a representative
988 III | the first~glance did not fulfil the requisite conditions
989 III | satisfaction at having well fulfilled his duty~as a father. And
990 VII | words, "I knew~it," with a fulness of intonation and inimitable
991 I | epigram, in which he made fun of~these three daughters
992 III | the heaviest of~paternal functions. I know not whether you
993 VII | wrapped~in a new style of fur cape, of which she wished
994 II | parties as Napoleon had fused things and men. The~legitimate
995 II | Monarchy. Louis XVIII.~aimed at fusing parties as Napoleon had
996 II | party which most desired a fusion of opinion in the~interests
997 V | nonsense----"~ ~"Nonsense, by Gad! Is it nothing to be so
998 VII | hanged!" cried the admiral~gaily.~ ~Three or four days after
999 IV | and her complexion was~gaining color. Mademoiselle de Fontaine
1000 V | time of our history when~gallantry was held in honor, not to
1001 IV | if she were in a picture gallery; impertinently~turning her
1002 VIII| twenty years of matrimonial galleys?"~ ~The conduct of the young
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