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1 VIII | sum-total~ ~showed a row of 0's long enough to allow Guillaume
2 XIII | she could~not do enough by abandoning herself to sanctioned and
3 XIV | Augustine tried in vain to abdicate her~reason, to yield to
4 XI | s affection a reason for abdicating~her principles and for consenting
5 I | walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated
6 V | they were careful not to be absent; for the most important~
7 VII | Racket. If Augustine was absent-~minded, if, against all
8 IV | into~the springs of the absolute government which ruled the
9 XIV | loved him well enough to absolve him and condemn~herself.
10 XIV | knowledge vanished in one absorbing feeling. Even her fidelity
11 XVI | pack~of tales that are too absurd."~ ~Augustine opened her
12 XIV | Madame Guillaume, among other absurdities, had an~excessive notion
13 XV | allowed to talk,~and the abundant meal spoke of ease without
14 IX | pleasantries of time-honored acceptance in such~simple families.
15 VII | young painter tried to get access, in the hope of interesting,
16 XV | the upper hand in every accessory. It was as though~Monsieur
17 II | mention his notary as an accommodating~man, and managed to get
18 XVIII| clearly that I am not his accomplice. If I was anxious to have
19 V | Trappe. But to give a full account of events as well as of
20 V | bedroom, such a concession was accounted as the most~unhoped felicity,
21 VII | with increased ardor, to accumulate more~crown-pieces, without
22 II | wear. His gray hair was so accurately~combed and flattened over
23 XVI | a face that scorned the accusation.~ ~"He must keep you up
24 XX | alternately on Augustine, on the~accusing dress. The frightened wife,
25 XIII | which a worldly-minded girl acquires over her husband by~ingenious
26 XIII | and who never thought of~acquiring the manners, the information,
27 X | Guillaume was quite right to act~as he did--and besides,
28 XIX | aim, by bringing all our actions to bear on~it, all our ideas,
29 XV | their past life, to~them so active and amusing. The appearance
30 XI | room, and looking at the~actors in this domestic scene: "
31 XX | passion prompted the artist to acts and words which any woman
32 XIX | their superiority, they very acutely noted~the qualities they
33 XII | began~with trade, since Adam sold Paradise for an apple.
34 VIII | business name? We might add, 'and Co.' to round off
35 Add | Addendum~ ~The following personages
36 XII | artist and~a man of rank; adding, with a sort of dismay,
37 XI | Roguin displayed~so much address in her harangue, she was
38 XII | high and low,~persisted in addressing the more elegant of the
39 XIX | to herself, and laid down admirable plans of conduct; she~devised
40 V | frame, had~found a secret admirer in Mademoiselle Virginie,
41 XVII | the afternoon to try for~admittance to the boudoir of the famous
42 III | this prime minister was admitted to share the~pleasures of
43 IV | sound morals. The~masters adopted their apprentices. The young
44 II | immediately met those of her adorer. Vanity, no~doubt, distressed
45 X | stranger. Lebas, who had advised~his friend to become a suitor
46 X | peril into which his love affair had~fallen; he went out,
47 XIII | another by the most intimate affections, is~obliged constantly to
48 IV | absence of any physical~affinity with their parents makes
49 VIII | which~the glowing lights afforded him perennial enjoyment,
50 XIX | battery, but~before me,--he is afraid!"~ ~Augustine sighed. They
51 | afterwards
52 XIX | the clock, which seemed~to aggravate her terrors by doling them
53 XI | way before~Madame Roguin's aggressive volubility. Austere Madame
54 XX | Did I not tell you long ago that the man was mad! Your
55 XIX | for her husband in all the agonies of hope. That~this venture
56 VII | moment the young couple had~agreed to see each other at a certain
57 II | on the third floor by the aid of the sash runners,~of
58 III | Well, gentlemen, what ails you that you are standing
59 VI | intoxication which doubled her alarms. She~would perhaps have
60 XV | trivial details of that alien~life, which to her seemed
61 XVII | and loving heart~is not all-sufficient to an artist; that to balance
62 XI | olive-branch. I read that allegory in the /Genie du~Christianisme/,"
63 XI | crazy mania for~seeking alliance with rank; and the generals
64 XI | to Madame Guillaume; "the allusion~ought to please you, cousin.
65 | along
66 XIX | life! Augustine was like an Alpine cowherd surprised by an~
67 XII | memorable Sunday the high altar of Saint-~Leu was the scene
68 XIV | de Sommervieux tried to alter her~character, her manners,
69 | Although
70 VIII | Virginie's father, "you do not altogether deserve~this favor, Joseph.
71 IV | understood~the difficulty of amassing money; they were economical,
72 VI | not more favored~than the amateurs.~ ~Though these incidents
73 XVI | looked at each other in utter amazement.~ ~"Then he gambles?" said
74 XII | that if the Guillaumes~were ambitious, there was an end to the
75 II | first electric eel he saw in~America. Monsieur Guillaume wore
76 III | but the draper and his amorous apprentice~were suddenly
77 I | reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening~walls of
78 XIX | worthy~women had the gift of analyzing their husbands' nature;
79 I | pictures by which our roguish ancestors contrived to tempt~customers
80 II | velvet breeches, pepper-~and-salt stockings, and square toed
81 V | with Raphael and Michael~Angelo, thirsted for real nature
82 II | which joy, grief, love,~anger, or scorn blazed out so
83 XI | better half,~who, like an angry woman, sat tapping the floor
84 I | comical~a caricature. The animal held in one of its forepaws
85 I | Monkey,~and others, were animals in cages whose skills astonished
86 IV | meetings to~which family anniversaries gave rise filled in the
87 II | forehead, knit with violent annoyance, had~a stamp of doom. Is
88 III | hasty retreat. The draper, annoyed by his assistant's perspicacity,~
89 XIII | foreigner, though they end by annoying us if they are~not corrected.~ ~
90 VIII | VIII~Favored by this annual turmoil, the happy Augustine
91 IV | physicians, for he was not answerable to their parents~merely
92 II | cherished traditions, like the~antediluvian remains found by Cuvier
93 I | with the enthusiasm of an antiquary.~In point of fact, this
94 II | superabundance of life, and the antiquity of the heavy~window with
95 VII | brain of these laborious~ants to ask--"To what end?"~
96 II | in the~place of eyebrows. Anxieties had wrinkled his forehead
97 XIV | his lavishness; but in her~anxiety to husband her dear Theodore'
98 IX | on 'Change, to watch as anxiously as at the gaming-table whether~
99 | anywhere
100 XV | painter's wife perceived that, apart from the cap and lappets,
101 XII | Trois-Freres, led her to an~apartment embellished by all the arts.~
102 XVII | of the word divorce the apathetic old draper~seemed to wake
103 XI | Nevertheless, in spite of her apparent self-control, when~she saw
104 II | entry by a man-servant, apparently coeval with~the sign, who,
105 II | that he did not observe the apparition~of three laughing faces,
106 XIX | Like a criminal who has appealed against sentence of death,
107 XI | wrathful looks at~Augustine, appearing to leave to Monsieur Guillaume
108 XII | Adam sold Paradise for an apple. He did not strike a~good
109 XVII | himself the leader~of the application for a divorce, laid down
110 I | the gilding parsimoniously applied to the~letters of this superscription,
111 XIV | his wife as incapable of appreciating the moral~considerations
112 XVII | astonished eyes, she was approaching so noiselessly that she
113 IX | her husband with a nod of approval. So the procession left
114 XII | of his neighbors highly approving the good sense of Mademoiselle~
115 XVII | the centre of a sort of apse outlined by soft~folds of
116 II | gimlet, flashed beneath arches faintly tinged with red
117 Add | Peasantry~The Member for Arcis~ ~Guillaume~Cesar Birotteau~ ~
118 XVIII| cried the young wife, ardently seizing the hand which her~
119 VII | begin again with increased ardor, to accumulate more~crown-pieces,
120 XVII | the lines of it, almost~argued the case; he offered to
121 XV | crisis; he ticketed every argument, so to~speak, and arranged
122 IV | hear nothing but dreary arguments and calculations~about trade,
123 VII | should evade these sons of Argus, he would yet be~wrecked
124 VIII | the~investigations of her Argus-eyed relations. At last, one
125 X | headache. The dispute that had~arisen from the discussion between
126 XVII | the elegant habits of the aristocracy,~Augustine felt a terrible
127 X | mischievous little emphasis on the aristocratic /de/. And~yielding to the
128 XI | I have come into Noah's Ark, like the~dove, with the
129 XV | where everything had an aroma of staleness and mediocrity,
130 IV | some immaculate~ladies--the arrangements, made necessary by the way
131 VII | balance, wrote to debtors in arrears, and~made out bills. All
132 V | picture which might have arrested every painter in the world.
133 XVIII| made before Augustine's arrival, and she winged them with~
134 XI | in life--be mayor of~his /arrondissement/, for instance. Have we
135 III | oiled, and where~the meanest article of furniture showed the
136 XV | categories, as though they were articles of merchandise of different~
137 XVIII| useless; this lady,~full of artifice, was too greedy of homage
138 XIX | calculate, become false, form~an artificial character, and live in it?
139 I | of the fifteenth-~century artisan. Such curiosities did more
140 X | and mother. The poor child artlessly~related the too brief tale
141 VII | and the length verified to ascertain the~exact value of the remnant.
142 I | which a~clever salesman can ascribe to his goods the color his
143 XX | as Augustine would have ascribed to madness.~ ~At eight o'
144 XVIII| she could not suppress. Ashamed of her~weakness, she hid
145 XII | Gad! So I took your lover~aside, and a man who managed the
146 VII | these laborious~ants to ask--"To what end?"~
147 VI | his room, and woke him by asking,~"What are you going to
148 II | had changed while he was asleep, he presently perceived
149 VI | trembling shook her like an aspen leaf~as she recognized herself.
150 XIII | concealments, but mingle the aspirations of their~thought as perfectly
151 III | terrible than the wordless assiduity with which the~master scrutinized
152 XIII | boy no longer required the assiduous care~which debars a mother
153 XIX | Listen~to me," she went on, assuming a confidential tone. "I
154 XIX | than Augustine, for the~astute politics of the higher social
155 XVI | to shut up in a lunatic asylum.~Consult Monsieur Loraux,
156 V | from his bliss, went home, ate nothing,~and could not sleep.~
157 XIV | as to the nature~of the attachment which Sommervieux had formed
158 V | something hopeless in~any attempt to depict this scene, come
159 III | Virginie and Augustine, simply attired in cotton print,~each took
160 IV | gesture or vulgarity of attitude, and sometimes a want of
161 IV | exaggerated piety. Devoid of attractions or~of amiable manners, Madame
162 XVIII| no doubt, lends a certain attractive grace, but~it ends by dragging
163 II | luminous grace which~gave great attractiveness to a countenance in which
164 XVIII| and to punish him for the~audacity of his behavior to me. He
165 XX | Augustine skilfully seized the auspicious moment; she threw herself~
166 XI | s aggressive volubility. Austere Madame Guillaume was~the
167 IV | her features, but maternal~austerity had endowed her with two
168 XIX | cowherd surprised by an~avalanche; if he hesitates, if he
169 XX | voice of thunder. "I~will be avenged!" he cried, striding up
170 XI | keeping sullen silence; she avoided even casting wrathful looks
171 XVII | drawing-room where Augustine~awaited her. She tried to divine
172 II | the girl, as yet hardly awake, let her~blue eyes wander
173 VI | is sometimes~discerning, awarded it the crown which Girodet
174 V | now three-and-thirty, was aware of the obstacle which a
175 IV | which~everything was packed away--the plate, the Dresden china,
176 VI | power of~the Devil, of whose awful snares she had been warned
177 I | his cloak, stood under the awning of a shop opposite this~
178 XI | deplorable craving. His favorite axioms were that, to~secure happiness,
179 I | right of the picture, on an azure field~which ill-disguised
180 XIX | her palace. They came to a~back-staircase, which led up to the reception
181 V | games of boston, whist, and backgammon within the~limits of her
182 XI | extravagant not to be always a bad sort. I~served the late
183 VII | assistant and his wife, balanced~his accounts, carried on
184 VII | as stock-taking.~ ~Every bale was turned over, and the
185 III | indifference. This departure was a balm to the hearts of the other
186 XII | with a liberal hand.~The band that covered the young artist'
187 IV | Cardot, two or three old bankers, and some immaculate~ladies--
188 XV | the way they~had weathered bankruptcies, and, above all, the famous
189 I | Decapitation of John the Baptist," which may still be seen
190 VII | cellar-store, gave utterance to the~barbarous formulas of trade-jargon,
191 VII | more natural: the quiet barque that~navigated the stormy
192 IV | the other assistants, the barrier of respect which formerly~
193 VI | Girodet broke~through all the barriers with which artists are familiar,
194 IX | embarrassed. The young assistant's bashfulness~commended him to his mother-in-law'
195 XVIII| handkerchief, which she bathed with~tears.~ ~"What a child
196 XIX | He knows how to face a battery, but~before me,--he is afraid!"~ ~
197 XV | Lecocq, Monsieur Guillaume's battle of Marengo. Then, when they
198 XV | candlestick. In the midst of this bazaar, where splendor~revealed
199 XII | of happiness, their eyes beaming~with love, dressed with
200 XIX | bringing all our actions to bear on~it, all our ideas, our
201 XIV | understood literature and the beauties of poetry, but it was too
202 XVIII| of dignity and powerful beauty--said in a gentle and~friendly
203 XV | existence like that of~the beaver; and then she felt an indefinable
204 | becoming
205 IV | younger than her cousin, and bedecked with diamonds; young Rabourdin,~
206 XI | generally little better than~beggars. They are too extravagant
207 XII | would soon bring his wife to~beggary, father Guillaume prided
208 XV | visible all~round him; he begged her to excuse him. She was
209 IX | you have planned, which begins, grows, totters,~and succeeds!
210 XVI | that your husband, does not behave~like a Christian."~ ~"Oh,
211 XV | spectacle offered by these two beings, cast away, as it were,
212 VI | had frequently observed, believing~him to be a new neighbor.~ ~"
213 VIII | to describe, he pulled a bell, which rang at the~head
214 XII | remained in a fine house belonging to them in the Rue du~Colombier,
215 XII | happiness,~carried off his beloved Augustine, and eagerly lifting
216 II | pierced~with a gimlet, flashed beneath arches faintly tinged with
217 XVII | these souls of fire, but bereft of their~resources, she
218 XVIII| so much fervor as I will beseech Him for yours, if you~will
219 IV | once she had heard some wag bet that she was a stuffed figure.
220 VI | again at the young painter, betraying the emotion~that came over
221 VI | of beautiful dresses, the~bewilderment produced in Augustine's
222 III | just now appeared to~the bewitched man in the street.~ ~Though
223 IV | book-keeping, a~little Bible-history, and the history of France
224 VIII | be very ill to show one's~bile. Let us speak of something
225 VI | revolution in painting. It gave birth~to the pictures of genre
226 IV | nuns~would to receive their bishop. Then, in the evening, when
227 XVIII| advise you not to weep so~bitterly; tears are disfiguring.
228 XIV | they were lost in utter~blackness. One evening poor Augustine,
229 XIV | festivity which to her was a blank, the poor little thing could
230 II | grief, love,~anger, or scorn blazed out so contagiously that
231 III | neophytes. "In~former days, bless you, when I was in Master
232 XVIII| dragging the features and blighting the loveliest face. And~
233 XVI | chattering afterwards like a~blind magpie?"~ ~"My dear mother,
234 I | floor, where the Venetian blinds were drawn up, revealing
235 IX | you. I know it."~ ~And he blinked his little green eyes as
236 V | he tore himself from his bliss, went home, ate nothing,~
237 VIII | bed. When this decisive blow had been struck,~the old
238 XII | tall~candlesticks, hastily blowing out the wax-lights, the
239 XIV | heart~received one of those blows which so strain the bonds
240 VII | occurred to him to bribe the blowsy waiting-maid with gold.
241 I | could not have seen the blue-checked cotton curtains which~screened
242 V | shabbiness of which made them~blush. Their style of dancing
243 VIII | word of it." Joseph Lebas~blushed. "Ah, ha!" cried Guillaume, "
244 I | to the lower~panes with boards, so as to produce the doubtful
245 XIII | seem to have~forgotten all bodily union. Augustine was too
246 VI | and the public, which as a body is sometimes~discerning,
247 I | curtains behind the large Bohemian glass panes, did not~interest
248 XVIII| Aiglemont, we shall meet in the Bois de~Boulogne."~ ~These words
249 III | of them would have been bold enough to remain~at the
250 XIV | blows which so strain the bonds of feeling that~they seem
251 XIV | but by dint of devouring books~and learning undauntedly,
252 XVIII| turned on the heels of his boots, and gracefully quitted
253 V | restricting the games of boston, whist, and backgammon within
254 XI | is so much vanity at the bottom of man's heart that the
255 VII | time the piece had been bought. The~retail price was fixed.
256 XX | that~there is a man on the boulevard who paints lovely portraits
257 XVIII| shall meet in the Bois de~Boulogne."~ ~These words were spoken
258 IV | silk mercer in the Rue des Bourdonnais, with his father-in-~law,
259 XIV | outside the~jurisdiction of a /bourgeois/ conscience. Augustine wrapped
260 XVIII| Augustine, replying only with a bow.~ ~Her silence was compulsory.
261 XVIII| haughty Duchess. The young fop bowed in silence,~turned on the
262 VIII | the implements, the cash box--objects all~of immemorial
263 VIII | contemplated the~numbered boxes, the files, the implements,
264 III | off the fancy~stitches, braces of the strongest make, or
265 X | of her feelings, she was~brave enough to declare with innocent
266 XIV | sinister flash showed her the breaches which, as a result of her~
267 XIX | the heart~steels itself or breaks.~ ~Madame de Sommervieux
268 II | suspicion. If some of~his brethren in business made a contract
269 VII | imagination, it~occurred to him to bribe the blowsy waiting-maid
270 XII | more elegant of the two brides. He heard~some of his neighbors
271 X | artlessly~related the too brief tale of her love. Reassured
272 VI | over her. Never had the bright rose of her cheeks shown
273 III | shop. The daylight was now brighter, and enabled the~stranger
274 XIX | lighted up with unusual~brightness, feeling sure that when
275 XIII | of love had made her so brilliantly lovely that her beauty~filled
276 XVII | lining. Ornaments of gilt bronze,~arranged with exquisite
277 XII | consult young Lebas, your brother-~in-law."~ ~"Yes, father,
278 XV | unhappy young woman met her brother-in-law~with his pen behind his
279 VI | devoted to his love and to his brush, he was lost to the sight~
280 VIII | poor orph----"~ ~He was brushing the cuff of his left sleeve
281 III | swell the columns of the budget. Not a sound disturbed the
282 I | dormer-window. This upper~story was built of planks, overlapping each
283 I | silence in~which the house was buried, like the whole neighborhood,
284 IX | began to beat about the bush.~ ~"Deuce take it, Joseph,
285 V | full on~her face, and her bust seemed to move in a circle
286 XIX | in my house," she said, "but--here!----"~ ~"My dear child,
287 XVIII| ribbons attached to his~button-hole were carelessly tied, and
288 II | finished with~white metal buttons, tawny from wear. His gray
289 XII | is your~fortune, will not buy up Paris. It is all very
290 VI | was~lost in the hubbub and buzz of the crowd; Augustine
291 III | minds. He hailed a hackney cab on its way to a~neighboring
292 I | others, were animals in cages whose skills astonished
293 XIX | on~it, all our ideas, our cajolery, we subjugate these eminently~
294 IV | but dreary arguments and calculations~about trade, having studied
295 II | but when he recovered~his calmness, so easily upset, it beamed
296 XV | unheard-of concerning the Canadian savages.~
297 XII | chimney-piece, from the candelabra to the tall~candlesticks,
298 V | singular, and~every face had so candid an expression; it was so
299 XV | even in the~purchase of a candlestick. In the midst of this bazaar,
300 VIII | the greasy arm of~a large cane chair lined with morocco,
301 X | believed her daughter to be cankered to the core.~ ~"Hold your
302 XX | voice, might have touched a cannibal, but not an artist in the~
303 VI | there than from our luckless canvases!"~ ~Notwithstanding this
304 XVI | People without religion are capable of anything.~Did Guillaume
305 XIV | to yield to her husband's caprices and whims, to devote~herself
306 XIX | subjugate these eminently~capricious natures, which, by the very
307 VII | behind his ear, was like a captain commanding the working of
308 XVII | arts by which it had been captured; to engage~the interest
309 I | it had been~dressed /a la Caracalla/, a fashion introduced as
310 IX | we will start on our new career under the name of a new~
311 V | invited~might be, they were careful not to be absent; for the
312 XVIII| to his~button-hole were carelessly tied, and he seemed to pride
313 I | not invent so comical~a caricature. The animal held in one
314 V | girls at the time of~the Carnival.~ ~And once a year the worthy
315 I | early efforts of French carpentry. These windows were glazed
316 I | broad and fantastically carved~joist there was an old painting
317 VIII | know all the secrets of~the cash-box. For the last two years
318 III | stranger to discern the cashier's corner enclosed by a railing
319 XI | silence; she avoided even casting wrathful looks at~Augustine,
320 XI | giving way so mildly under a catastrophe which had~no concern with
321 X | discussion was held, to catch a word or~two. The first
322 XV | of weight under various~categories, as though they were articles
323 I | tails of~our forefathers' cats. To the right of the picture,
324 XIV | they~never inquire into the causes of their ruin.~ ~It is useless
325 X | she felt and the dread of causing a~commotion in church she
326 V | lighted, and was as a dark cave beyond which the~dining-room
327 XV | Nothing was changed in the cavern, where the drapery business
328 XIX | marriage, we shall soon cease to understand each other.
329 II | victim's rage, the lads ceased~laughing on seeing the haughty
330 IX | men are not always devoted~Celadons to our wives--you understand?
331 VII | depths of the hold in the cellar-store, gave utterance to the~barbarous
332 XX | on a broken column in the cemetery at~Montmartre states that
333 VIII | party were going to see /Cendrillon/ at the~Varietes, while
334 IX | interest will be ten per cent."~ ~The young man, to whom
335 XVII | velvet and placed in the centre of a sort of apse outlined
336 XII | laughter,~encouraged by the champagne, which he sent round with
337 XVI | marriage. I~met him in the Champs-Elysees. He was on horseback. Well,
338 XX | she watched her~husband's changeful brow--that terrible brow--
339 XV | breakfast she observed certain changes~in the management of the
340 XIII | while~diverted from their channel. Poetry, painting, and the
341 VI | being, in spite of this chaos of~sensations. She nevertheless
342 XV | the house looked like a chapel. Economy and expense seemed
343 II | they are now, in which the characteristic habits~and costume of their
344 I | Greek and Roman styles which~characterized the early years of this
345 IV | prided herself on the~perfect characters of her two daughters. It
346 XVII | offered to be at all the charges, to see the~lawyers, the
347 XVI | saying a word to me, and of chattering afterwards like a~blind
348 IX | course!--to make the goods cheaper than others can; then to
349 XIX | out to her. She tried to cheat~time by various devices.
350 XIII | of~nature are not to be cheated. She is as inexorable as
351 III | appearance on the Gruyere cheese which was left to their
352 II | civilization, were preserved as cherished traditions, like the~antediluvian
353 II | window, recalled the puffy cherubs~floating among the clouds
354 V | his legs were long and his chest deep, suffered~in silence.~ ~
355 V | with his~long legs, his chestnut hair, his big hands and
356 XV | where she had spent her childhood. She sighed as~she looked
357 XIII | young painter say, with the childlike lightness, which to her~
358 XVIII| with love and gladness turn chill, colorless, and indifferent?
359 II | their cups,~twisted by the chills of night, the girl, as yet
360 XV | compass. Sitting by~the chimney corner, they would talk
361 XII | flitted from~the table to the chimney-piece, from the candelabra to
362 IV | away--the plate, the Dresden china, the~candlesticks, and the
363 II | scent proved that~three chins had just been shaved. Standing
364 VII | Why the devil need they choose my~house to flout it in
365 XX | the existence of certain chords which God has withheld from
366 VIII | permission to go wherever they chose, provided they~were in by
367 XIX | married have for the most part chosen quite insignificant wives.
368 XVI | does not behave~like a Christian."~ ~"Oh, mother, can you
369 XI | allegory in the /Genie du~Christianisme/," she added, turning to
370 II | faces, pink and white and chubby, but as vulgar as~the face
371 V | Augustine, near whom a fat chubby-cheeked maid was~standing, composed
372 VII | find expression only in~cipher. "How much H. N. Z.?"--"
373 V | bust seemed to move in a circle of fire, which threw~up
374 XVII | who inhabit there. In any circumstance we can only be judged~by
375 XI | family have been respected citizens~these hundred years!~ ~"
376 I | fact, this relic of the civic life of the sixteenth~century
377 II | the midst of more recent~civilization, were preserved as cherished
378 X | discovering in Augustine a clandestine~passion of which her prudery
379 XX | night from the palace of Claudius."~ ~"Theodore!" said a faint
380 XVIII| unfaithful to you, understand~clearly that I am not his accomplice.
381 I | that the world is growing~cleverer day by day, and that modern
382 I | the extremes of the Paris climate, projected three feet over~
383 XIV | conjugal~happiness we must climb a hill whose summit is a
384 XI | sooner or later for having climbed too high;~that love could
385 XVI | comes home?"~ ~"At one o'clock--two----"~ ~The old folks
386 V | midst of persistent work and cloistered~peace, was sure, sooner
387 V | After sounding the profound cloistral silence, she seemed to be~
388 III | eye of their mother, who closed the little family procession~
389 VI | under a disguise, to get a closer view of the bewitching~creature
390 IV | government which ruled the old cloth-~merchant's household.~ ~
391 VIII | Notwithstanding this debauch, the old cloth-merchant was shaving~himself at six
392 II | tails, and square-cut collar~clothed his slightly bent figure
393 III | But at this moment the old~clothier paid no heed to his apprentices;
394 II | Guillaume, of all the~merchant clothiers in Paris, was the one whose
395 XV | consulting board for the clothing of the Army. Since her husband
396 XIX | amused myself by~seeking the clue to the riddle. Well, my
397 I | sash-frames of wood, so clumsily wrought that they might~
398 XVII | Augustine felt a terrible clutch at her heart; she coveted
399 IX | room when he felt himself clutched by~a hand of iron, and his
400 XX | but not an artist in the~clutches of wounded vanity.~ ~"It
401 VI | the young girl like hot coals on her flesh; she felt quite
402 I | been encrusted~with as many coats of different paint as there
403 VII | obedience to the domestic code, she stole up~to her room
404 II | man-servant, apparently coeval with~the sign, who, with
405 II | so contagiously that the coldest man could~not fail to be
406 XV | excuse him. She was received coldly enough~by her sister, who
407 XIV | impressions from without. A coldness~insensibly crept over him,
408 II | square-cut tails, and square-cut collar~clothed his slightly bent
409 XVIII| personage was, of all the~Colonels in the army, the youngest,
410 XX | inscription engraved on a broken column in the cemetery at~Montmartre
411 III | sybaritical tastes~now swell the columns of the budget. Not a sound
412 Add | other stories of the Human Comedy.~ ~Aiglemont, General, Marquis
413 I | painters could not invent so comical~a caricature. The animal
414 III | a box at the theatre to command a piece which Paris~had
415 V | sign~of the Cat and Racket commanded that they should be home
416 IX | assistant's bashfulness~commended him to his mother-in-law'
417 V | Douglas/ and /Le~Comte de Comminges/--may have contributed to
418 XI | told me all his woes, and commissioned me to plead for him. I know~
419 IV | manners, Madame Guillaume commonly decorated her head--that~
420 XV | had to face the deluge of commonplace~morality which the traditions
421 X | and the dread of causing a~commotion in church she bravely concealed
422 VI | perceived that there was a compact between herself and the
423 XIII | his~feeling towards his companion enjoins, as its first law,
424 X | go to the play, and into company.--But you~are not listening
425 IV | to be prepared to~receive company--Madame Roguin, a Demoiselle
426 IX | the~taller, to ask them to compare their height. This preliminary
427 XIV | she reflected; she made comparisons; then sorrow unfolded to~
428 XVIII| monosyllables murmured~with gracious compassion. After a moment's silence
429 XVI | you are to stand on, to compel his wife never to be amused
430 XI | Guillaume!" said the old man, compelling her to silence.--~"Augustine,"
431 XIII | images which a magic power compels him~to create. To him the
432 IX | still she has had~nothing to complain of in me. Do as I did. Come,
433 XIV | inconstancy~of men. She made no complaints, but her demeanor conveyed
434 XI | of Europe. Is not that a compliment?"~ ~The tempests with which
435 V | chubby-cheeked maid was~standing, composed so strange a group; the
436 XIII | sketches for his finest compositions he heard her~exclaim, as
437 XIV | slip when souls may meet~in comprehension. One day the young wife'
438 XVIII| behavior to me. He will end by compromising me. I know~the world too
439 XVIII| a bow.~ ~Her silence was compulsory. The young woman saw before
440 VI | Girodet threw himself on his comrade's neck and hugged~him, without
441 XIX | listens to the shouts of his~comrades, he is almost certainly
442 XIII | that they~should have no concealments, but mingle the aspirations
443 X | neighborhood. It is difficult to~conceive of the state of violent
444 VIII | have told you almost all my~concerns. I have sent you to travel
445 V | limits of her bedroom, such a concession was accounted as the most~
446 XIV | enough to absolve him and condemn~herself. She shed tears
447 VII | art and thought from being condemned once~again before the judgment-seat
448 X | the husband and wife was conducted so secretly~that at first
449 X | care not to quit it."~ ~The conference between the husband and
450 XIX | she went on, assuming a confidential tone. "I have been in the~
451 V | pleasures, which seemed to conform very fairly to their father'
452 XI | because he went as~mayor to congratulate the Emperor on his entry
453 II | the~best provided, whose connections were the most extensive,
454 XIV | and this she~could not conquer. The artist would laugh,
455 V | Napoleon drew in advance on the~conscript classes.~ ~From that day
456 XI | abdicating~her principles and for consenting to receive Monsieur de Sommervieux,~
457 IX | long head in his hands to consider the~perplexing situation
458 XIV | of appreciating the moral~considerations which justified him in his
459 XIV | notion of the dignity she considered the prerogative of a~married
460 XV | Guillaume~found their chief consolation, turning their eyes, harnessed
461 XVII | the little wordless and consoling~kindnesses by which the
462 XIX | social spheres were no more consonant to~Augustine than the narrow
463 XI | said to the Deputy High Constable~that if there were many
464 V | of a wood.~The mute and constant looks which made the young
465 XIII | intimate affections, is~obliged constantly to suppress the dearest
466 II | or scorn blazed out so contagiously that the coldest man could~
467 XV | Augustine; she could here contemplate the sequel of the scene
468 VIII | little niche in the wall. He contemplated the~numbered boxes, the
469 I | weary of his fruitless contemplation, or of the silence in~which
470 XIV | lonely and virtuous. Some contemptuous words~which escaped her
471 XVIII| folly I dared to dream of a contest with you; and I~have come
472 XIX | roused in her mind a crowd of contradictory thoughts.~Like the sheep
473 XVI | you."~ ~"No, mamma, on the contrary, he is sometimes in very
474 XVIII| the modest flower, which contrasted~so well with the haughty
475 V | more~picturesque by strong contrasts of light and shade. The
476 XIV | conversation, but she could contribute nothing brilliant. Her~religious
477 V | de Comminges/--may have contributed to develop the ideas of
478 I | which our roguish ancestors contrived to tempt~customers into
479 XVIII| and indifferent? I~cannot control my heart!"~ ~"So much the
480 XII | and Mademoiselle Virginie, convalescent~from her headache. Monsieur
481 X | is well-to-~do."~ ~Thus conversing, the family reached the
482 XIV | complaints, but her demeanor conveyed reproach.~ ~Three years
483 II | after a long voyage. Having convinced himself that nothing~had
484 VIII | the courtyard came in to cool the~hot atmosphere of the
485 IX | assistant, who was weeping copiously. "Why, Joseph, my poor~boy,
486 XIX | here~face to face with the copy. While we finish our conversation
487 XIII | and artless, she had no coquetry, no reserves, none of~the
488 XVII | the boudoir of the famous coquette, who was never~visible till
489 XIX | she~devised a thousand coquettish stratagems; she even talked
490 X | daughter to be cankered to the core.~ ~"Hold your book right
491 VIII | horse-hair showing at every corner--as it had~long done, without,
492 XIII | artist had gathered roses~and cornflowers as the children do, so greedily
493 XIII | annoying us if they are~not corrected.~ ~In spite of all this
494 VII | Guillaume?~How could he correspond with her when her mother
495 XVII | way through the stately corridors, the handsome~staircases,
496 II | characteristic habits~and costume of their calling, surviving
497 XIV | suggested to her to seek counsel and comfort in the bosom~
498 XI | Monsieur Dupont~become a Count of the Empire, and a senator,
499 II | great attractiveness to a countenance in which joy, grief, love,~
500 V | sewing on the polished oak counter, and presently her mother
501 III | when they went into the country, or when,~after waiting
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