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1001 III |          stuffs.~ ~After two months' seclusion the Breton had finished
1002 IV  |             in 1809.~ ~Though wholly second-rate, the picture had immense
1003 III |           picture," said Elie Magus, seeing him.~ ~"For how much?"~ ~"
1004 I   |              1830, have you not been seized by a sense of uneasiness,~
1005 I   |     exhibited.~Among the two hundred selected paintings, the public could
1006 III |              just starting in Paris, selling old~pictures and living
1007 I   |         veriest dauber of canvas can send in~his work, the whole talk
1008 IV  |           Fougeres; he was eminently sensitive to beauties; he felt~them,
1009 V   |          front; but in spite~of this separation, she overheard the following
1010 VI  |            who passed him. He made a~series of the oddest reasonings
1011 I   |              you have gone to take a serious look at the exhibition of~
1012 III |            three of these pictures a servile~imitation of Dutch landscapes
1013 III |             had studied drawing with Servin, who was~thought a great
1014 Add |              The Vendetta~A Marriage Settlement~A Bachelor's Establishment~
1015 VI  |             red to a cherry-red, two shades~deeper.~ ~"Brings in, hey?"
1016     | shall
1017 II  |           without getting their fair share of it. In the olden~time
1018 VI  |          with smiles. The rascal had shaved and put on~clean linen;
1019 IV  |              lowered his head like a sheep when it rains. Then he asked~
1020 IV  |           paintings, hard as tin and shiny as~porcelain, were covered
1021 V   |          diamond in~the bosom of his shirt.~ ~Fougeres glanced at Magus
1022 VI  |           Vervelle family, extremely shocked by this extraordinary~apparition,
1023 VI  |             the sitting the stairway shook, the door was~violently
1024 VI  |               continued Joseph. "Any shot in your locker?"~ ~"How
1025 VI  |             not help smiling.~ ~"You shouldn't give away your pictures
1026 I   |              some picture. The abuse showered~on Delacroix, on Ingres,
1027 I   |          experience of ten years has shown the excellence~of the former
1028 IV  |         before which the true artist shrugs his shoulders and the~bourgeoisie
1029 IV  |            fit to make the bourgeois~shudder, and the bourgeois shuddered.
1030 IV  |           shudder, and the bourgeois shuddered. Fougeres had simply been~
1031 III |     composition, but composition was shy~and distant to him. Then
1032 II  |             a table for breakfast, a sideboard, a~secretary; in short,
1033 II  |             produced upon him by the Sieur and~Dame Vervelle, adorned
1034 I   |              Courtesan," and that of Sigalon, the~"Medusa" of Gericault,
1035 I   |           weariness, sadness, at the sight of those long and over-crowded~
1036 VI  |              tones like a~perfumer's sign."~~~~
1037 VII |        answered Grassou.~ ~There was silence for a moment.~ ~"Are you
1038 IV  |             good~and gentle Fougeres silenced all envy and all recriminations.
1039 V   |              entering his doorway, a simpleton face~vulgarly called in
1040 IV  |            Nevertheless the modesty, simplicity, and genuine surprise of
1041 VII |          red-haired. Well, is that a sin? All~things are magnificent
1042 IV  |             and there he underwent a singular~hallucination. His neat,
1043 III |            the~innocence of a lad of sixteen. Another man, one of those
1044 V   |         stringy arms, a fairly white skin with reddish~spots upon
1045 VI  |            sitting there were little skirmishes between the family~and the
1046 II  |               I, who have a habit of sleeping~alone; and get up at cock-crow,
1047 VI  |             trousers and red leather slippers with~pointed toes. The family
1048 III |         disappeared; Fougeres walked slowly up and~approached the dealer'
1049 III |      Everything about Pierre Grassou~smacked of mediocrity. His nickname "
1050 VII |             nostrils a most enticing smell of cooking. All things~about
1051 V   |              at his client without a~smile, for Monsieur Vervelle wore
1052 V   |           presented~a tiny head with smoothly banded hair of the yellow-carroty
1053 III |             to him. Then he tried to snatch from Decamps and Granet~
1054 IV  |           did he lose,~thanks to his sober living. He made a few excursions
1055 IV  |           election of leaders in all social classes; who proceed,~naturally,
1056 IV  |             fatal principle to which~society owes the wretched mediocrities
1057 II  |           bound round the edges;~the sofa, simple enough, was clean
1058 III |            various ateliers where he~sojourned; but everywhere he disarmed
1059 IV  |              household being managed solely by an old charwoman.~For
1060 III |             Well--you paint gray and sombre; you see nature being a
1061     | sometimes
1062 III |       secrets. From~there he went to Sommervieux' atelier, to acquire that
1063 IV  |              Legion of honor to this son of a peasant who had fought~
1064 III |        geniuses destined to fame and sorrow. Joseph~Bridau, who had,
1065 VII |            heart~of gold, that loyal soul, that stupid draughtsman,
1066 V   |            everything.~ ~Hearing the sound of several steps on the
1067 III |              The Eglantine") was the source of much teasing; but, by~
1068 I   |        public, they filled the whole space. Historical, high-art, genre~
1069 VII |             of looking at a Murillo. Spanish pictures were then~the rage.~ ~"
1070 IV  |      newspapers, it is true, did not spare criticism, but the chevalier~
1071 II  |        building, a~courtyard, or, to speak more correctly, a square
1072 I   |          water-~colors,--these eight specialties could surely not offer more
1073 I   |     proportions, where each distinct specialty could show its~masterpieces
1074 V   |            before; consequently, the~spherical form of the cocoa-nut was
1075 IV  |           advice was instinct with a spirit~of justice that made the
1076 III |            bright~fellows, eccentric spirits, droll or fiery, or else
1077 VIII|           thousand francs a year and spoils a thousand francs'~worth
1078 VII |              Won't that country lout spoilt it?"~ ~"If he would only
1079 VI  |            no bounds. The~notary had spoken in the highest praise of
1080 I   |         Salon was lost as soon as it spread along~the galleries. The
1081 II  |              speak more correctly, a square pit or well. Above~the three
1082 VII |          villa of the bottle-dealer, standing in a~park of five acres
1083 III |           from Bordeaux, he was just starting in Paris, selling old~pictures
1084 III |             along the boulevard in a state of joy which gave to~his
1085 III |              the rue des Martyrs and~stationed himself at the corner of
1086 VI  |            He found it impossible~to stay peacefully in his studio,
1087 IV  |              rectitude of~ideas, for steadiness of sentiment, absolute kindliness,
1088 II  |               I'll~say that. You are steady; and I've come to put a
1089 II  |             stove, was eating a roll steeped in milk, and waiting~till
1090 IV  |             rewarded. Grassou hasn't stolen~his successes; he has delved
1091 IV  |              admired the dust on the stone-floor,--a huge blunder, by the
1092 VII |             ladies.~ ~Pierre Grassou stood with arms pendent, gaping
1093 Add |           personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.~Bridau,
1094 I   |             six galleries.~ ~By some strange contradiction, ever since
1095 III |             of the passers along the street. At the end~of a week the
1096 V   |           that~a Roman adores, long, stringy arms, a fairly white skin
1097 V   |           gown was yellow with black stripes. She proudly~exhibited unutterable
1098 VII |              form of idolatry, which stroked his innocent self-love,
1099 III |         epileptic self-love to which~strong natures give themselves
1100 III |            models and Magus lent him stuffs.~ ~After two months' seclusion
1101 VII |         retreat to his wife, who~was stupefied by the invasion of this
1102 VII |          gold, that loyal soul, that stupid draughtsman, that worthy
1103 IV  |          Madame la Dauphine that the~subject was suggestive of good thoughts;
1104 VIII|               and the utility of the subjects the picture-dealer had~required
1105 IV  |         front. The condemned man was substituted for the dying woman--same~
1106 VIII|            pinched for means, and he substitutes these~true works of arts
1107 IV  |              and all who~expected to succeed. Some persons, touched by
1108 IV  |              all of his clan who had succeeded, and all who~expected to
1109 IV  |              the picture had immense success, for it~recalled the affair
1110 IV  |            Grassou hasn't stolen~his successes; he has delved for ten years,
1111 III |        suffered as much as great men suffer when they are~hounded by
1112 II  |            recognized within himself sufficient faculty to attempt~high-art,
1113 II  |            on his windows had melted sufficiently to let the full~light in.
1114 VII |     pleasantly named "Saint Martin's summer" was~just beginning. With
1115 VII |            park of five acres at the summit of Ville d'Avray, commanding
1116 I   |            as the~saying is, "in the sun," and who suggested the
1117 VII |       country-house on the following Sunday. He knew, he said, how~little
1118 V   |             dreams of happiness, the superlative of his hopes--do~you know
1119 IV  |              counted for half in the support~and the congratulations
1120 I   |              eight specialties could surely not offer more than~twenty
1121 III |            one of those distrustful,~surly artists, would have noticed
1122 IV  |              simplicity, and genuine surprise of the good~and gentle Fougeres
1123 I   |            result? A great artist is swamped. Decamps' "Turkish Cafe," "
1124 V   |            leather of the shoes in~a swelling that was some inches high.
1125 III |             of Walter Scott's Jew in swindling a Christian.~ ~Fougeres
1126 IV  |              and he planned to~go to Switzerland in search of inspiration.
1127 III |             masters,~however, had no sympathy for the good lad; masters
1128 IV  |             as envy pulls down great talents, and in equal numbers.~The
1129 IV  |             nothing had discouraged, talked of Domenichino and said:--~ ~"
1130 II  |              he heard Mephistopheles~talking marriage.~ ~"Portraits bring
1131 II  |         fourth floor of~one of those tall, narrow houses which resemble
1132 V   |              on her legs, which were tap-~rooted, and her gown was
1133 V   |               why didn't you have me taught the arts?" said Mademoiselle~
1134 VI  |              handsomest of~metals; a tawny yellow represented gold;
1135 IV  |               one old, one young, in~tears. A sheriff's clerk was reading
1136 III |               was the source of much teasing; but, by~force of circumstances,
1137 II  |           patient, resigned air that tells so much,~heard and recognized
1138 VIII|              du Trone and the rue~du Temple that is not done by this
1139 VI  |         Rubens,~Gerard Douw, Mieris, Terburg, Rembrandt, Titian, Paul
1140 I   |           Artillery, Periollas,~As a Testimony of the Affectionate Esteem
1141 VII |            taking the note. "I won't thank you. I can go back now to~
1142 IV  |        nothing; neither did he lose,~thanks to his sober living. He
1143 VII |            the moment of their~grand theatrical effect,--the opening of
1144     | therefore
1145     | thereupon
1146 III |          gesture; he bit his thumbs, thinking that he might~have had that
1147 VI  |          said old Vervelle.~ ~At the third sitting pere Vervelle mentioned
1148 III |              lamp-light. He invented thirty pictures, all reminiscence,
1149 VI  |             on earth; he had laid by~thirty-six thousand francs; his days
1150 IV  |       subject was suggestive of good thoughts; and there was, in truth,
1151 III |            of the Museum, or~even by threats of assassination. Fougeres
1152 V   |             Monsieur Vervelle wore a three-thousand-franc diamond in~the bosom of
1153 V   |            Fougeres. The golden calf threw upon the~family its fantastic
1154 II  |              of a small~mind and the thrift of a poor man. A bureau
1155 VI  |               the door was~violently thrust open by Joseph Bridau; he
1156 III |           made a gesture; he bit his thumbs, thinking that he might~
1157     | thus
1158 V   |             surmounted by a head~and tied in around the waist. She
1159 II  |            business~in your way."~ ~"Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes,"
1160 VII |            would be~worth a thousand times more than mine," replied
1161 VII |             just beginning. With the timidity of a neophyte in presence
1162 IV  |             clean paintings, hard as tin and shiny as~porcelain,
1163 II  |            background; the floor was tinted brown and well frotted;~
1164 V   |              adorned with a bunch of~tintinnabulating baubles. The melon puffed
1165 V   |           asparagus, who presented~a tiny head with smoothly banded
1166 III |           such things as that at the tip of your~brush, my good Fougeres,
1167 I   |       fanaticism of their adherents. To-day, neither the crowd~nor the
1168 VI  |        leather slippers with~pointed toes. The family replied with
1169 VI  |        things as that?"~ ~"Hold your tongue!"~ ~"Ah! to be sure, yes."~ ~
1170 VII |    dining-room, and Leon de Lora~the tops of the doors--masterpieces!
1171 I   |        Fountain," "Joseph," and "The Torture," would have redounded far~
1172 VII |            and warm up those cheeks; touch in those little brown spots;~
1173 I   |       institution. Now, instead of a tournament, we have a~mob; instead
1174 III |         habits and ways of life were tranquil and moral to a degree that~
1175 III |          studied and these different transformations Fougeres'~habits and ways
1176 VII |         steps of so great a man. The trees themselves looked brushed~
1177 I   |             other individuals of the tribe~of artists.~~
1178 IV  |         allowed himself a few little trips about France, and he planned
1179 II  |          good bit of business~to the Trojans without getting their fair
1180 VII |              room. The physician van Tromp~instructing his pupils.~ ~
1181 VIII|       painted between the barrier du Trone and the rue~du Temple that
1182 III |             commonplace minds and by troops of vanities athirst for
1183 VI  |              a very becoming pair of trousers and red leather slippers
1184 VIII|           anonymously benevolent and~truly obliging.~ ~~  ~
1185 IV  |          thoughts; and there was, in truth, a~most satisfying religious
1186 I   |          noble exhibition, we have a tumultuous bazaar;~instead of a choice
1187 I   |         artist is swamped. Decamps' "Turkish Cafe," "Children~at a Fountain," "
1188 II  |              three,--perhaps they'll~turn out family portraits."~ ~
1189 III |            brown eyes, black hair, a turned-up nose,~rather wide mouth,
1190 II  |              stairway with dangerous turnings,~three windows only on each
1191 V   |              the pumpkin~advanced on turnips, improperly called legs.
1192 IV  |            Elie Magus. Elie paid him twenty-five francs apiece. At~that price
1193 III |      appreciated. The poor fellow of twenty-seven had the~innocence of a lad
1194 III |             Elie's face~and seen the twitching of the hairs of his beard,
1195 VI  |             hair? Beauty~fades,--but ugliness remains! Money is one-half
1196 II  |              Well, what do you want, Ulysses-Lagingeole-Elie Magus?"~ ~These words will
1197 VIII|        father and a good husband, is unable to~eradicate from his heart
1198 II  |      interrupted himself to laugh an uncanny laugh~which frightened the
1199 VII |            retired merchants, an old uncle~(from whom were expectations),
1200     | under
1201 V   |              working, and then~you'd understand."~ ~"Oh! why didn't you
1202 III |             Pierre's; his talent was~understood and appreciated. The poor
1203 IV  |           his pictures, and there he underwent a singular~hallucination.
1204 VIII|              for the Academy, where, undoubtedly, he will enter.~And--oh!
1205 VII |              curtains which were not~undrawn in presence of young ladies.~ ~
1206 I   |            been seized by a sense of uneasiness,~weariness, sadness, at
1207 VII |           ferocious animal, and very~uneasy at his co-operation in her
1208 VI  |          incapable of making a woman unhappy. This last remark~had enormous
1209 III |             some hearts that beat in unison with Pierre's; his talent
1210 I   |             much talk of unknown and unrecognized genius. When,~twelve years
1211 I   |             the masterpiece by hands unseen. Eager,~impassioned discussions
1212     | until
1213 IV  |           wretched~table was a meal, untouched. The light came in through
1214 V   |       stripes. She proudly~exhibited unutterable mittens on a puffy pair
1215 III |        Fougeres~took a studio in the upper part of the rue des Martyrs,
1216     | used
1217 IV  |           asked~and obtained certain useful advice, and retouched his
1218     | using
1219 II  |           Magus, a picture-dealer, a usurer in canvas. The next moment~
1220 VIII|              in~Elie's shop, and the utility of the subjects the picture-dealer
1221 VII |          which were managed with the~utmost care. Three neighbours,
1222 IV  |        hundred pictures, all of them utterly unknown, by the~help of
1223 V   |                                      V~Having lived all his life
1224 VI  |             and endeavouring, but in vain, to~button it, the button
1225 VII |    oppressing them with the fabulous value of his paintings. The~bottle-merchant
1226 VII |       dissecting room. The physician van Tromp~instructing his pupils.~ ~
1227 III |   commonplace minds and by troops of vanities athirst for vengeance.~ ~
1228 II  |             its cold clear beams~the vast apartment. Fougeres, being
1229 V   |             knows.~ ~Following these vegetable parents was a young asparagus,
1230 VII |             mine," replied Fougeres, vehemently.~ ~Hearing that reply the
1231 III |             see nature being a crape veil;~your drawing is heavy,
1232 V   |           his jacket of bottle-green velveteen, and was~not a little amazed
1233 Add |            Beatrix~ ~Magus, Elie~The Vendetta~A Marriage Settlement~A
1234 V   |        daughter. The wife had a fine veneer of mahogany on her~face,
1235 I   |              was made. Now, when the veriest dauber of canvas can send
1236 VII |    magnificent in painting. Put some vermillion on your~palette, and warm
1237 VI  |                                      VI~While the Vervelle family
1238 IV  |             is that Fougeres has the vice of painting!" said~his comrades.~ ~
1239 VII |            Avray, commanding a noble~view of the landscape. Marry
1240 IV  |            interest but derived from Vigneron as to sentiment and~from
1241 I   |            criticism, that young and vigorous palettes existed, no such~
1242 VII |                                      VII~Grassou could not help coloring,
1243 VIII|                                      VIII~Together they walked round
1244 III |             the Louvre~represented a village wedding rather laboriously
1245 V   |             admired the face full of violent~tones. The mother and daughter
1246 VI  |         stairway shook, the door was~violently thrust open by Joseph Bridau;
1247 VI  |        Mademoiselle Virginie,~he was virtually son-in-law to the Vervelle
1248 III |              young man, born~to be a virtuous bourgeois, having left his
1249 V   |             of the same satin, hands virtuously red, and the feet of~her
1250 IV  |      charwoman.~For all amusement he visited his friends, he went to
1251 V   |              slang~term then much in vogue in the studios.~ ~Hearing
1252 III |   handkerchief, and brought it home, vowing in his heart~that he would
1253 V   |            doorway, a simpleton face~vulgarly called in studio slang a "
1254 VII |           mown. The pure country air~wafted to the nostrils a most enticing
1255 IV  |             elect themselves and who wage a bitter war against all~
1256 V   |          head~and tied in around the waist. She pivoted on her legs,
1257 II  |            roll steeped in milk, and waiting~till the frost on his windows
1258 IV  |         mildew along the~base of the walls. "Madame" finally bought
1259 V   |              The melon puffed like a walrus; the pumpkin~advanced on
1260 III |         betrayed the~satisfaction of Walter Scott's Jew in swindling
1261 IV  |     themselves and who wage a bitter war against all~true talent.
1262 VII |      vermillion on your~palette, and warm up those cheeks; touch in
1263 III |             the rejected picture; he warmed~the colors; he made the
1264 V   |             painted by an artist who~wasn't decorated?" returned the
1265 I   |    landscapes, flowers, animals, and water-~colors,--these eight specialties
1266 III |            on his table, he~filled a water-pot with water, he laid in a
1267 V   |            Academy before Bridau, to wear a rosette in his~buttonhole!
1268 I   |      attention of the public is soon~wearied and the exhibition closes.
1269 I   |            by a sense of uneasiness,~weariness, sadness, at the sight of
1270 II  |           let the full~light in. The weather was fine and dry. At this
1271 III |         Louvre~represented a village wedding rather laboriously copied
1272 III |              street. At the end~of a week the picture disappeared;
1273 VI  |             last remark~had enormous weight in the scales. Vervelle'
1274 III |           cause of that verdict."~ ~"Well--you paint gray and sombre;
1275 V   |           you who would fish up such whales."~ ~"One hundred thousand
1276     | whatever
1277     | whence
1278     | Whenever
1279     | whereas
1280 VI  |        Joseph Bridau; he came like a whirlwind, his~hair flying. He showed
1281 VIII|          francs," said Vervelle in a whisper, as they reached~the last, "
1282 IV  |          execution in 1809.~ ~Though wholly second-rate, the picture
1283 III |             a turned-up nose,~rather wide mouth, and long ears. His
1284 III |              poverty and hunted like wild beasts by the pack of~commonplace
1285 VII |           talk; but you'll find good wines, and I rely on my collection
1286 III |       himself able to fly on his own wings, Fougeres~took a studio
1287 II  |             idea of the mildness and wit with which~Fougeres employed
1288 IV  |            substituted for the dying woman--same~pallor, same glance,
1289 I   |              of jealousy, showed the world, in spite of the denials~
1290 IV  |        shoulders and the~bourgeoisie worships. Fougeres was dear to friends
1291 III |          quietly fetched his canvas,~wrapped it in a handkerchief, and
1292 IV  |          feuilletonists incapable of writing a book who know very well
1293 IV  |             He fancied something was wrong with his eyes.~ ~The painter
1294 V   |          smoothly banded hair of the yellow-carroty tone that~a Roman adores,
1295 II  |        daughter."~ ~"All for me?"~ ~"Yes--they want their portraits
1296     | yet
1297     | yourself