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1003 II | and~her parents were to gather the bitter fruits of this
1004 VI | gorgeous coloring. They gathered daisies to pull the~petals
1005 IV | could only glean instead of gathering a harvest. She was amused
1006 V | more than duels. We were gay dogs then! Nowadays you
1007 II | Livelier, more attractive, and gayer than ever after~dismissing
1008 IV | Relations and guests gazed at Mademoiselle de Fontaine
1009 III | thinks them small, and he gazes at~himself in the glass!
1010 VI | eye was on Emilie, who was gazing with uneasy curiosity at
1011 V | walking at a foot-pace like a gendarme on patrol in~the Paris streets.
1012 VIII| sheep, down to the third generation. She wished~that none but
1013 IV | of a head,~a painting of genre. Her eyes, after wandering
1014 II | add terror by a stare, or gentleness~by the softness of her gaze,
1015 V | would for the future be gentler, less noisy, and less~wilful,
1016 VII | late Chevalier de Saint-~Georges. He has a thorough knowledge
1017 VIII| faces, and satiated with Germans, to such~a degree that,
1018 IV | turned and tossed her head, gesticulated eagerly, and~laughed for
1019 II | of the head and~feminine gestures, which emphasize so cruelly
1020 VII | in the worst taste.~ ~On getting home, she had an attack
1021 III | place, have you not the gift of~recognizing virtue in
1022 II | opinion--common to~many young girls--that no one else dwelt in
1023 IV | of the divinities which Girodet has~introduced into his
1024 II | breeze and recovers its glad serenity when the air is~
1025 IV | speeches~which caricaturists so gladly pick up. The haughty young
1026 VIII| my brother keeps stealing glances at you; he is dancing in
1027 III | gazes at~himself in the glass! Besides, he is fair. I
1028 V | Count got home he put on his glasses, quietly took the~card out
1029 IV | conjugal; still, she~could only glean instead of gathering a harvest.
1030 IV | couples whose too hearty glee suggested nothing conjugal;
1031 IV | being COMMON FOLK at this gleeful suburban~entertainment,
1032 IV | his linen was fine, his gloves fresh, and evidently~bought
1033 V | which was not unlike a gnarled oak-~stump, with a few leaves
1034 Add | Nucingen~ Cesar Birotteau~ Gobseck~ Lost Illusions~ A Distinguished
1035 Add | Human Comedy.~ ~Beaudenord, Godefroid de~ A Distinguished Provincial
1036 VII | paying out the change for a gold piece to one of the~workwomen
1037 V | assemblies."~ ~When they had gone a little way, and the Count
1038 V | lent~himself with malicious good-humor to the divagations of her
1039 III | air from Il Barbiere.~ ~"Good-morning, papa. What do you want
1040 VI | s heart-strings, won the good-will of the~family for Monsieur
1041 VII | calicoes, and printed~cotton goods, live there.--Stay, I have
1042 VI | the setting~sun and its gorgeous coloring. They gathered
1043 V | fairly long truce from the gout, met Lady~Dudley. The distinguished
1044 I | amused by every detail of his~Gouvernementabilite--a word adopted by his facetious
1045 VII | elegant carriage, and~wear gowns which were to set the fashion
1046 VIII| the Countess, free, and graced with all the advantages~
1047 VII | depths of her heart. She gracefully~raised her head, seemed
1048 II | comes to hand. As yet the graces of youth~and the charms
1049 V | to take a ride.~Then she gradually accustomed her old uncle
1050 III | expression, shook off a few grains of~snuff, carefully wiped
1051 IV | to say~hard things to his grand-niece, on whom he doted, in order
1052 III | relation~to your notions of grandeur. Even that would be such
1053 V | seventy-three, with the son, or the grandson, of one of~my best friends.
1054 I | audience. The audience, at once granted, was in no sense~private.
1055 V | him to fall back on to the grassy bank which rose from the~
1056 VII | Pavillon Planat. Emilie, greatly disturbed by her father'
1057 I | such indignation at the greed of courtiers, had, before~
1058 I | Saddened by seeing the~greediness of his former comrades in
1059 VII | in China and the other in~Greenland.~ ~Does not the breath of
1060 VIII| disguise the emptiness and grief of her sorrowing soul;~for
1061 II | solitude and her wilful griefs. Strong in the experience
1062 VIII| could you, without being grieved, see your brother selling
1063 V | had taken a drop too much grog on board, and I ran you~
1064 V | by which stood a mounted groom in livery. At the~moment
1065 II | doctrines,~married Mademoiselle Grossetete, the only daughter of the
1066 IV | the living pictures and~groups in the hall as if she were
1067 VII | declaration half-way, which her~growing passion sometimes urged
1068 II | Her faults grew with her growth, and~her parents were to
1069 VIII| which a wise woman sees a guarantee of~happiness. She looked
1070 IV | dandies of the National Guard or the Lovelaces of the
1071 I | with a commission in the Guards. The youngest,~appointed
1072 V | was held in honor, not to guess at once that by the merest~
1073 VIII| were most~interested in guessing the secrets of the couple
1074 III | suitably; and you would be guilty of ingratitude in meeting
1075 VI | the young men. You have no Guimard~now, no Duthe, no creditors--
1076 VIII| illustrious writer, gave Monsieur Guiraudin de~Longueville a peerage,
1077 II | hoped that one of the sudden~gusts of legislation, whose unexpected
1078 V | that you should know. Ah, ha! And I propose to make up~
1079 I | Tuileries and got into the hackney cab~he had left on the quay.
1080 II | to wrath that a perfect hailstorm of sharp sayings~could hardly
1081 III | completed his~venerable style of hairdressing, Emilie's father, not without
1082 VI | himself. "He is so~jolly and hale; but though he wishes to
1083 VII | replied, in a half-sportive,~half-serious tone. "But if I choose one
1084 VII | wife," he replied, in a half-sportive,~half-serious tone. "But
1085 VII | meeting the declaration half-way, which her~growing passion
1086 I | any speech~that bore the hall-mark of wit was certain to please
1087 V | for the environs of the hamlet~where Lady Dudley was living.
1088 III | excellent reasons for not~handing over twenty thousand francs
1089 III | on the floor, admired his~handiwork, jerked his head, and went.~ ~
1090 II | say, "is a tool without a~handle."~ ~As far from Lafayette'
1091 VII | chess, and at backgammon; he~handles the foils, and rides a horse
1092 VI | in such manoeuvres as in handling a ship,~she endeavored to
1093 VIII| am an idiot! You are the handsomest person~here; my brother
1094 VII | those whose fathers were hanged!" cried the admiral~gaily.~ ~
1095 II | Renaissance; pronounced at~haphazard on books new or old, and
1096 VIII| those accidents which always happen to lovers,~Mademoiselle
1097 IV | fascination of novelty. It often happens that we look at a dress,
1098 III | may secure your durable happiness----"~ ~"My good father,"
1099 I | Fontaine" to a quatrain,~harmless enough, which he styled
1100 VI | explained, in the sense that harmonized with her~wishes; she began
1101 III | succeeded in giving a look of harmony to the files of bills, the~
1102 V | fellow!" replied the sailor harshly,~in a sneering tone that
1103 II | say to their mother, "Make haste to kiss me, that I may go
1104 VIII| plumes of the French peer's hat. His~fortune matched his
1105 II | sooner or later, works havoc in a woman's heart, she~
1106 VII | sinking sun wrapped in a haze of red and brown.~This touch
1107 VIII| There are wounds which never heal."~ ~"You are not to go,"
1108 VIII| daughter from the ridicule heaped upon her by this dangerous
1109 VII | in senseless~paradoxes, heaping on all men engaged in trade
1110 VI | found a~response in the hearer's heart-strings, won the
1111 VI | response in the hearer's heart-strings, won the good-will of the~
1112 III | swept up the ashes of the hearth,~which bore witness to a
1113 I | gentlemen. His Majesty laughed heartily enough; any speech~that
1114 III | hoped that, among~so many hearts laid at Emilie's feet, there
1115 VIII| thrown away the king of hearts--I have won. But do not~regret
1116 IV | several~couples whose too hearty glee suggested nothing conjugal;
1117 VI | epigrammatically, that~such heavenly perfection must cover some
1118 III | get a~second look.~ ~"Good Heavens! see how fat he is!" was
1119 III | finding myself relieved of the heaviest of~paternal functions. I
1120 IV | of paper, with so little heed that we do not at~first
1121 III | the fire, pulled up the heels of his slippers, pulled
1122 III | on the lookout for great~heiresses for their sons, wherever
1123 IV | stranger,~could not have helped taking him for a clever
1124 II | favorable openings would~henceforth be offered by a civil or
1125 VI | and you know nothing of heraldry; why, my~dear young friend,
1126 | hereby
1127 II | said he, would~always, as heretofore, be the natural right of
1128 VII | matter without compromising herself--a~rather difficult thing!
1129 VII | stipulations of pride, and the cold~hesitancies of suspicion. At first,
1130 II | and the charms of talent hid these faults from every
1131 VI | even look as if she were hiding~a secret, and kept the conversation
1132 IV | poetic shades of Aulnay, the hillsides of~Antony, and the valley
1133 V | ultra you~see. But I do not hinder young men from being revolutionary,
1134 VII | happiness. His love had not hindered him from perceiving in Emilie
1135 IV | lips; but this, far from hinting at gaiety, revealed on the~
1136 VI | pursuits, or of his family. The hints Emilie threw out~in conversation,
1137 VI | by saying~that he was the Hippocrates of his young sister, whose
1138 I | circumstances, unknown to historians, brought~him into such intimate
1139 V | he belongs to one of our historical~families, and if he is not
1140 V | pistol; he~aimed at the hole made by the Comte's bullet,
1141 III | the days of Longchamps in Holy Week. Besides, my father
1142 I | Henri de Balzac, his brother Honore.~The Comte de Fontaine,
1143 I | favor with which he was honored, and knew how to entertain~
1144 VI | the~servants persisted in honoring with the noble DE, were
1145 V | said to Emilie, "you may hook~him with any easy conscience;
1146 VI | uncle cast the boarding-~hooks over the vessel, Longueville
1147 V | with which she had fed her~hopes. At last, thanks to chance,
1148 III | of hair which had lodged horizontally between the collar of his~
1149 II | for themselves a brilliant horoscope; their magic consists in
1150 II | nevertheless~her heart was full of horrible jealousy at seeing them
1151 IV | either in dashing parties on horseback, or in the light and elegant~
1152 VII | seated with her back to the horses, could not~resist one last
1153 VIII| taken a mean advantage~of hospitality when he had saved an enemy
1154 III | his dressing-gown with a hostile expression, shook off a
1155 VII | with extreme impatience the hour at which young~Longueville
1156 I | residence where the official was housed at~the expense of the nation.
1157 III | marriages, and the style of~housekeeping you require of your mother,
1158 IV | families, and some aristocratic~houses on the continent, to the
1159 IV | complexion was of a manly~olive hue. His mouth seemed ready
1160 V | him to founder like an old hulk if you choose. He won't
1161 III | light step, and she came in humming an~air from Il Barbiere.~ ~"
1162 IV | early. And the month of May humored this~aristocratic escapade
1163 IV | eye-glass was attached, hung over a~waistcoat of the
1164 V | time the Count raised his hunting-crop as if to strike his horse,
1165 VII | a pistol to admiration, hunts~well, plays wonderfully
1166 III | malicious journalism of the day hurled at the three hundred votes~
1167 III | incapable of~sentiment, bad husbands, and unfit for civilized
1168 V | not indifferent to you. Hush! All the family would laugh~
1169 VII | profession.~ ~Emilie felt an icy shudder, though no one perceived
1170 VIII| laugh, saying, "I am an idiot! You are the handsomest
1171 VIII| Portenduere, who made her his idol.~ ~Two years after her marriage,
1172 VI | she loved, and she was~idolized. Her family, knowing that
1173 II | II~Thus, accustomed by degrees
1174 III | III~"Though young and of an
1175 III | came in humming an~air from Il Barbiere.~ ~"Good-morning,
1176 II | as~that of correcting an ill-disposed nature. He contented himself
1177 VI | Fontaine seemed~sorry for an ill-judged sally against the commonalty
1178 III | for the~slightest turn of ill-luck to take his revenge. The
1179 VIII| dancing in spite~of his illness, and you pretend not to
1180 VI | her heart the~fascinating image of the young man.~ ~Then
1181 IV | and coloring worked on her imagination with all the~fascination
1182 II | noble as a Kergarouet, and imagined that her good~hundred thousand
1183 IV | Fontaine amused herself with imagining all these town-~bred figures;
1184 II | souls, nor~conceive of their imaginings. They fancy that most mothers,
1185 V | autumnal~frosts; and his niece immediately began to try the ever-new
1186 I | is well~known that he was immensely amused by every detail of
1187 II | spent her young ardor in an immoderate love of distinctions, and~
1188 I | by the Emperor Napoleon. Immovable in his aristocratic~faith,
1189 VIII| contribute to his success. I am impatiently expecting a dispatch~from
1190 VII | Do you know of any impediment?" she asked, in sincere
1191 VI | and~honor. However, your imperfections will not interfere with
1192 II | on which she sat into an imperial throne.~ ~Monsieur de Fontaine
1193 VIII| not to go," said the girl, imperiously, and she smiled.~ ~"I shall
1194 IV | were in a picture gallery; impertinently~turning her eye-glass on
1195 IV | attract the attention of the imperturbable stranger. None of her~little
1196 VII | Their eyes met and flashed implacable looks. Each hoped to~inflict
1197 II | turns is rippled by~the impulse of a breeze and recovers
1198 V | her anything more.~ ~This incident added to the intensity of
1199 VI | it~by a thousand little incidents which any one can imagine;
1200 IV | pleasure to grand people in an incognito?~Mademoiselle de Fontaine
1201 I | taste~to leave his work incomplete. The marriage of the eldest
1202 IV | kind near~Paris; and it had incontestable advantages in its rotunda,
1203 IV | whole~family knew to be incorrigible. The sons-in-law muttered,
1204 VII | the upper class live gives~incredible force to any explosion of
1205 III | have, perhaps, to you the indefinable something that will reveal~
1206 IV | consequence of the Act~of Indemnity, and a man of seventy, feeling
1207 VI | in order to~preserve my independence."~ ~"And you did well,"
1208 II | give their boys a start in independent and industrial~professions,
1209 VII | single word, which could indicate a vulgar origin~or vulgar
1210 VII | speculation in Mexico or the Indies? I will clear~all this up."~ ~"
1211 III | dying as it would seem of indigestion. A whimsical result! his~
1212 I | Charter,~and displayed such indignation at the greed of courtiers,
1213 II | to paralyze~a partner's indiscreet tongue. Her colorless face
1214 III | representative government,~was an indispensable condition. Mademoiselle
1215 II | his daughter's capricious indocility and~ironical shrewdness
1216 V | so far as to kiss him to induce him to divulge so~important
1217 VIII| will always allow us to indulge family affection. The Padrona~
1218 VI | caustic, more gentle, and~indulgent. This change in her temper
1219 II | start in independent and industrial~professions, explaining
1220 VIII| the whirlpool; luxury was~ineffectual to disguise the emptiness
1221 VIII| one made excuses for her~inequality of temper, which had its
1222 III | sighted than merciless, would inevitably become a subject of constant~
1223 V | not a peer of France, he infallibly will be."~ ~"How do you
1224 V | spurs on a~young girl's infant passion so effectually as
1225 VI | deepest joy; for, like all infatuated people, she explained~it,
1226 VII | implacable looks. Each hoped to~inflict a cruel wound on the heart
1227 VI | give her some amusement. An informal~dance was proposed and accepted.
1228 III | and you would be guilty of ingratitude in meeting with~levity those
1229 VI | servant announced to the~inhabitants of the Villa Planat, "Monsieur
1230 VII | fulness of intonation and inimitable decision which the~most
1231 I | Our Council is a perfect inn-parlor, whither~public opinion
1232 V | Ought we not to go on and inquire if the young man is hurt?
1233 VI | companion, after many~other inquiries.~ ~"No, monsieur."~ ~"What,
1234 I | august persons thought of~inquiring as to the sum of his losses,
1235 VIII| flashed upon him.~He glanced inquiringly from his brother to his
1236 VII | might be the outcome~of the inquiry which he had begged a Paris
1237 III | flashing a mischievously inquisitive~look at the furniture of
1238 III | your mother, have made such inroads on our~income that I can
1239 VI | a~naturalist watches an insect in the microscope.~
1240 VII | back upon him with amazing insolence. These words,~spoken in
1241 II | she justified herself by inspiring her detractors~with the
1242 IV | Monsieur de Marsay, for instance."~ ~"I know, my dear," retorted
1243 VII | invite. Thus the lovers had~instinctively understood the situation
1244 II | to which her coquettish instincts~and her mirror had taught
1245 VII | begged a Paris friend to institute with~reference to the family
1246 IV | to threaten to~become an institution. The environs of the little
1247 III | the Government issued its~instructions in its dressing-gown. However,"
1248 V | man he had so determinedly insulted the day before,~he went
1249 VII | engaged in trade the bitterest insults~and witticisms in the worst
1250 I | As a consequence of the intelligent attention with which he
1251 VIII| not telling~more than I intend, like all the other diplomatic
1252 V | This incident added to the intensity of Mademoiselle de Fontaine'
1253 VIII| the malicious old sailor intentionally blew over her;~she learned
1254 III | understanding his master's intentions, aired and tidied~the room,
1255 I | poetry.~ ~From that day his intercourse with Monsieur de Fontaine
1256 Add | a Courtesan's Life~ The Interdiction~ A Study of Woman~ Another
1257 VIII| that the men who were most~interested in guessing the secrets
1258 VI | your imperfections will not interfere with my~introducing you
1259 II | House~of Austria, which, by intermarriage, threatens to pervade Europe.
1260 VIII| Monsieur," Emilie eagerly interposed, "is it not very wrong to~
1261 VII | pressure of hands which interpreted their happy~thoughts.~ ~
1262 VI | Pergolesi or Rossini as faithful interpreters to express their~secrets.~ ~
1263 III | coaxing tone of~voice to interrupt him, "it strikes me that
1264 I | Pay-List. Thus, by the King's intervention, his eldest son~found a
1265 I | because his requests for an interview were never answered.~And,
1266 VI | life~delicious when thus intimately connected with another than
1267 VII | knew~it," with a fulness of intonation and inimitable decision
1268 VI | discovery gave her such intoxicating pleasure that she was startled
1269 VII | speak. Carried a way by this intoxication, they~easily forgot the
1270 III | son-in-law may be whom you introduce to~me; but if you should
1271 III | legislation, and your official introductions?"~ ~"I shall not always
1272 I | This ironical speech was introductory to a rescript giving Monsieur
1273 II | encouraging proposals which she~invariably rejected.~ ~Nature had bestowed
1274 VII | passion sometimes urged her to invite. Thus the lovers had~instinctively
1275 I | discreet gentleman had~been invited to recast. This little success
1276 III | mind. He~felt a certain inward satisfaction at having well
1277 IV | and well shod in boots~of Irish kid. He had none of the
1278 VII | mock submission spiced with irony.~ ~"At least, my dear Emilie,
1279 II | it~which made her singing irresistibly charming. Clever, and intimate~
1280 VII | my choice; my choice is~irrevocably made--what more is needful?"~ ~"
1281 III | father, that the Government issued its~instructions in its
1282 IV | IV~"You are making game of
1283 Add | the Valley~ Father Goriot~ Jealousies of a Country Town~ Ursule
1284 III | admired his~handiwork, jerked his head, and went.~ ~The
1285 III | must to-day forbear from jesting on so important a matter.~
1286 I | however young, ended, as he jestingly~told his Sovereign, in attaching
1287 V | for them with a present of~jewelry, or by giving her his box
1288 VIII| little capital my~brother joined a banking firm, and I hear
1289 VI | delighted all the party by joining his delightful voice to
1290 VI | Longueville to himself. "He is so~jolly and hale; but though he
1291 III | epigrams which~the malicious journalism of the day hurled at the
1292 I | greater profit from this journey into a foreign land than~
1293 VII | he added, as he heard the joyful exclamation~she could not
1294 I | abundance which suffices for the joys of~early youth; her lightest
1295 IV | peasant girls, as~wily as judges--crowds the ballroom at Sceaux
1296 VI | They supposed~that Emilie, judging the man worthy of her, intended
1297 V | inexperienced as to~trust their own judgment to take care of their future
1298 VIII| was indeed so delicately judicious that the men who were most~
1299 III | he says Zules instead of Jules; he is always~looking at
1300 I | departments charged with absolute~jurisdiction over the leaders of revolt;
1301 II | of~acting a part; but she justified herself by inspiring her
1302 VI | notions of lawful order,~Kantism, and liberty have spoilt
1303 VI | Maximilien that I had the keenest desire to know you, out
1304 VII | forward, looking at her keenly.~ ~"Mademoiselle," he said
1305 IV | the family were that day keeping the anniversary of a~family
1306 VIII| person~here; my brother keeps stealing glances at you;
1307 IV | well shod in boots~of Irish kid. He had none of the vulgar
1308 III | with~levity those proofs of kindness which I am not alone in
1309 III | refrain of the melody, she kissed~the Count, not with the
1310 V | room, drew her~on to his knee, held the card under the
1311 II | last: one had too thick knees and was bow-legged, another
1312 III | herself on her father's knees--for he~had dropped all tremulous
1313 III | minute in the midst of the labyrinth~of papers piled in some
1314 VII | had observed in a handsome lace and~linen shop at the corner
1315 V | when adventures were not lacking, any~more than duels. We
1316 IV | estate.~Her partner was a lad of about fifteen, with red
1317 IV | danced quite as well as~ladies--nay, sometimes better. Most
1318 II | a~handle."~ ~As far from Lafayette's party as he was from La
1319 II | Vain~effort! He had to lament his daughter's capricious
1320 I | this journey into a foreign land than~from active and dangerous
1321 IV | dancing-floor. The most stuck-up landowners of~the neighborhood rarely
1322 VIII| Upper Chamber~under the lash of an illustrious writer,
1323 IV | shaded by such long, curled lashes. Melancholy and~passion
1324 VII | During the minute while it lasted, the girl,~haughty as she
1325 VIII| he knew his longitude and~latitude too well to allow himself
1326 III | which I am not alone in lavishing on~you."~ ~As she heard
1327 II | assembly, its appointments~to law-offices, and those of the exchequer,
1328 VI | changed. All these notions of lawful order,~Kantism, and liberty
1329 VI | with what art did she not lead the~stranger to unlock the
1330 I | survives the memory of~the League and the day of the Barricades (
1331 VII | hold that~will stop any leak in his fortune?"~ ~"As to
1332 IV | to the pretty dancer, and leaning over, said in a~gentle but
1333 VIII| His~fortune matched his learning and his merits; only the
1334 II | had~introduced a small leaven of discord. The Receiver-General
1335 I | sous-prefet, ere long became a legal official and director~of
1336 VIII| dispatch~from the Brazilian Legation, which will help to lift
1337 III | influential~corrupter of the legislative honesty of the illustrious
1338 I | was safe from~changes in Legislature. These bounties, bestowed
1339 I | difficulty, from among the lean legs which had got mixed up with
1340 VII | merchant,~would not be at leisure to spend a whole season
1341 I | at the bloody battle of Les Quatre Chemins. Though ruined
1342 VIII| Every one hoped that this lesson would be severe enough to
1343 III | constant~ridicule. He feared lest her eccentric notions should
1344 III | the files of bills, the~letter-boxes, the books and furniture
1345 II | to hold their heads on a level with~hers. Wherever she
1346 III | ingratitude in meeting with~levity those proofs of kindness
1347 VIII| being compelled to raise a levy of peers~to support the
1348 V | nineteenth will give it~political lib----"~ ~"Oh, we will not talk
1349 V | fellow's shoulder, saying, "A liberal citizen is a~reasoner; every
1350 III | started by certain mocking Liberals, who made~up by their flow
1351 III | you the best years of your life--your~attractions might work
1352 VIII| Legation, which will help to lift the cloud from~his brow.
1353 III | rising.~ ~But he suddenly lifted his eyes to heaven, and
1354 VIII| duchess, whose eyes shot lightning flashes, and whose skin~
1355 VIII| even persuaded him that she liked the smell of tobacco,~and
1356 | likely
1357 II | affair, carried out to the liking of his beloved~child, would
1358 II | name was Durand, that one limped, and almost~all were too
1359 II | alabaster brow~were like the limpid surface of a lake, which
1360 V | young man is hurt? He is~limping, uncle, only look!"~ ~"No,
1361 VII | was streaked with yellow lines and red~patches; the paleness
1362 VIII| a name~which is on every lip--I ought to say in every
1363 III | them, headstrong girl!--Listen,~Emilie. It is my intention
1364 II | almost~all were too fat. Livelier, more attractive, and gayer
1365 III | amusing, thanks to a certain liveliness of rhetoric. The Count felt~
1366 VIII| night, to the sounds of a lively~band, would often say, "
1367 V | stood a mounted groom in livery. At the~moment when, from
1368 VIII| and he is the~noblest soul living----"~ ~"Do you know my name?"
1369 I | the three hundred thousand livres~I have spent, out and out,
1370 I | just when her family was~loaded with the favors of fortune,
1371 VII | only~secret I shall keep locked here," and he laid his hand
1372 II | else dwelt in a sphere so lofty as to be~able to understand
1373 II | under Emilie's sarcasm. Logical readers will be surprised~
1374 III | Champs-Elysees on~the days of Longchamps in Holy Week. Besides, my
1375 VIII| often said that he knew his longitude and~latitude too well to
1376 VII | anxiously, "Are not the~Longuevilles----?"~ ~"They became extinct
1377 VIII| fault to find with her.~Lookers on chose to think that the
1378 III | revenge. The indifferent, the~lookers-on were beginning to weary
1379 III | French peers are on the lookout for great~heiresses for
1380 VI | Punctually; otherwise we should lose our credit, and every sort
1381 I | inquiring as to the sum of his losses, or of the money he had
1382 IV | talking to her brother in a louder voice than good taste~enjoined;
1383 I | bewailed~himself in his cab, loudly enough to compromise him,
1384 Add | Mirouet~ ~Louis XVIII., Louis-Stanislas-Xavier~ The Chouans~ The Seamy
1385 IV | that roof could speak, what love-stories could~it not tell!~ ~This
1386 IV | the National Guard or the Lovelaces of the counting-house.~A
1387 III | conscientiously, do I say? Most lovingly, my Emilie. Yes, God~knows!
1388 VIII| said Longueville, in a low voice, under cover of the~
1389 I | King's memory as one of the loyal servants of the~Crown.~ ~
1390 III | sure his steed cannot bolt. Luck be with you, my~dear!"~
1391 V | shopkeeper who is~only too lucky to have been thrown down
1392 I | Vendeen steadily refused the lucrative posts~offered to him by
1393 III | these days. When experience lurks behind so sweet a face as
1394 VIII| manoeuvres of the Ville de~Paris, M. de Suffren's first expedition,
1395 III | force~in our government machinery that they have no great
1396 VII | my choice is~irrevocably made--what more is needful?"~ ~"
1397 II | that she~had a touch of madness.~ ~But such aberrations
1398 I | tones, "Amicus Plato sed magis amica Natio." Then, a~few
1399 I | despatch, in which a well-known magnate~announced to him his nomination
1400 II | because, not knowing that the~mainspring of happiness is in ourselves,
1401 I | income barely sufficed to~maintain his children, and came to
1402 IV | evidently~bought of a good maker, and his feet were small
1403 II | regain, was attacked by the malady of which~he was to die.
1404 V | Lady Dudley may have some male relation staying with her,"
1405 I | where astute favorites managed~to find an equivalent for
1406 IV | the complexion was of a manly~olive hue. His mouth seemed
1407 VI | Receiver-General's ostentatious mansion. Though his~conversation
1408 III | among the folds of azure mantling, not to~drive like the princes
1409 III | declared that they were~manufactured by dozens. At least, you
1410 II | s~heart as if it were of marble. A father's eyes are slow
1411 I | moment the~events of the 20th March (1815) gave warning of a
1412 I | to him his nomination as marechal de camp, or brigadier-~general,
1413 V | with, and~whether he is a marquis or a shopkeeper. Really
1414 Add | Humorists~ ~Vandenesse, Marquise Charles de (Emilie de Fontaine)~
1415 VIII| Maufrigneuse and du Chaulieu, the~Marquises d'Espard and d'Aiglemont,
1416 VII | Emilie the~prejudices which marred her young nature; but before
1417 II | made folks believe~that, as Mascarille says, people of quality
1418 VIII| corner."~ ~"A perfect tragic mask!" said Emilie, after looking
1419 VIII| peer's hat. His~fortune matched his learning and his merits;
1420 IV | Cara non dubitare, in the~"Matrimonio Segreto."~ ~As it happened,
1421 VIII| Mesdames the Duchesses de Maufrigneuse and du Chaulieu, the~Marquises
1422 VII | heaven and the carpet of a~meadow."~ ~"He is rich," she reflected. "
1423 VI | conversations,~aimless and meaningless, in which the emptiest phrases
1424 VII | secretly conscious of the meanness of the next~words she added: "
1425 IV | tell!~ ~This interesting medley gave the Sceaux balls at
1426 VII | or four days after this memorable day, on one of those fine~
1427 V | him as a pirate~follows a merchantman. Then, when she has lost
1428 VIII| she said, by which all~merchants, and especially dealers
1429 III | less clear-~sighted than merciless, would inevitably become
1430 III | not be~left at anybody's mercy, and ought to enjoy the
1431 II | convictions--was due not merely to~his unfortunate residence
1432 V | guess at once that by the merest~chance Emilie had met the
1433 IV | affecting to watch the merry quadrille; but by a stratagem
1434 VIII| tried to keep pace~with Mesdames the Duchesses de Maufrigneuse
1435 VII | What the devil can it mean? Messrs. Palma,~Werbrust & Co.,
1436 IV | in this wide field--the metaphor is reasonable--whose~splendor
1437 VII | tact, I got him here by a method of my~own. I know that the
1438 VII | ruined by some speculation in Mexico or the Indies? I will clear~
1439 VI | watches an insect in the microscope.~
1440 II | dignified or a frolicsome mien at her will. Her neck was
1441 IV | recognized her as a distinguished~milady who for some months had
1442 I | any pleasantry, however mild, on the subject~of his poetry.~ ~
1443 I | cost nothing and are worth millions. One evening, when~the Sovereign
1444 III | de Manerville?"~ ~"Oh, he minces his words--he says Zules
1445 II | curt clearness when she was minded to paralyze~a partner's
1446 IV | Mademoiselle de Fontaine with mingled~curiosity and pity. The
1447 IV | herself immense pleasure in mingling with~the crowd. Everybody
1448 I | property~when he received a ministerial despatch, in which a well-known
1449 III | attractions might work a miracle, for men often marry for
1450 II | coquettish instincts~and her mirror had taught her to add terror
1451 III | words, after flashing a mischievously inquisitive~look at the
1452 III | reward of her devotion in my misfortunes.~You see, my child, that
1453 III | not without some~secret misgivings, told his old servant to
1454 | miss
1455 VIII| no disgrace in making a mistake. If she, like her father,
1456 III | God is my witness, poor~mistaken child, I have conscientiously
1457 V | extreme youth--sweet but cruel mistakes, which exert a~fatal influence
1458 III | cause of many dangerous misunderstandings with certain~families. I
1459 II | sharp sayings~could hardly mitigate. So when the head of the
1460 I | lean legs which had got mixed up with it,~he crossed the
1461 IV | elements that composed the mixture before she could find any
1462 VII | admonition was received~with mock submission spiced with irony.~ ~"
1463 II | of her sisters' defiant mockery, his~favorite daughter had
1464 II | influential leaders of~that moderate party which most desired
1465 V | this idea the old admiral moderated his horse's pace so as to~
1466 Add | Comte de~ The Chouans~ Modeste Mignon~ Cesar Birotteau~
1467 VI | Fontaine's, were unexpected modesty and discretion. He never
1468 IV | complexions are kept pale and moist by the damp atmosphere of~
1469 IV | whom he doted, in order to mollify~the bitter tone of the discussion
1470 II | Fontaine married Mademoiselle Mongenod, the~daughter of a rich
1471 VII | Mademoiselle de Fontaine by the monstrous vanity founded on her birth~
1472 VIII| the Comtesses Feraud, de~Montcornet, and de Restaud, Madame
1473 IV | see it; and by~a sort of moral phenomenon somewhat resembling
1474 | Moreover
1475 VII | day, on one of those fine~mornings in the month of November,
1476 VIII| No, but perhaps with a mortal blow."~ ~"Is not that pure
1477 VII | to my birth?"~ ~She stood motionless, cold, and speechless.~ ~"
1478 IV | festivity by some powerful motive.~ ~All these observations
1479 VII | each~other their secret motives. There are times in life
1480 V | tilbury, by which stood a mounted groom in livery. At the~
1481 IV | of a manly~olive hue. His mouth seemed ready to smile, unbending
1482 VIII| in the Chamber, she would move for an edict, she said,
1483 VIII| she asked, betrayed into a movement~of curiosity.~ ~"Yes; my
1484 IV | matter of~partners. Her movements did not betray her apparent
1485 IV | wandering over the vast moving~picture, were suddenly caught
1486 III | the window."~ ~The Count multiplied his orders, putting Joseph
1487 I | official and director~of a municipal board of the city of Paris,
1488 VII | Co., wholesale dealers in muslins, calicoes, and printed~cotton
1489 IV | incorrigible. The sons-in-law muttered, and the~brothers glanced
1490 II | more important pages of the mysterious book of life. Vain~effort!
1491 V | caresses, the tenderest~names; she even went so far as
1492 IV | red hands, and dressed in~nankeen trousers, a blue coat, and
1493 II | clergy, as the first of the Napoleons had been~to attract the
1494 VIII| impatience to his periodical narratives~of the battles of the Belle-Poule,
1495 VII | anguish that~prejudice and narrow-mindedness ever sowed in a human soul.
1496 I | Amicus Plato sed magis amica Natio." Then, a~few days later,
1497 IV | displayed by the~dandies of the National Guard or the Lovelaces of
1498 VI | the two young people as a~naturalist watches an insect in the
1499 IV | Fine black hair curled~naturally over a high forehead. At
1500 VI | to say~in a discussion on naval architecture, trivial, it
1501 IV | places of the same kind near~Paris; and it had incontestable
1502 IV | Mademoiselle de Fontaine went nearer, to be able to~examine the
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