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502 XIV | love. Ere long she too was courted by the most fascinating~
503 I | be seen in Paris. This covering,~warped by the extremes
504 XVI | laid statues under muslin coverlets, shut his shutters~in broad
505 III | inquisitive gazer~seemed to covet this little nook, and to
506 XVII | clutch at her heart; she coveted the secrets~of an elegance
507 XIX | Augustine was like an Alpine cowherd surprised by an~avalanche;
508 I | outlined by little parallel cracks in the plaster? It was evident
509 XIV | of education begun in the cradle. She could~appreciate music
510 I | in the Museum of Arts and Crafts to illustrate the~early
511 XV | receive; her rooms were so crammed with gold and silver ornaments,
512 XVI | one painted the sea! He crams you with a pack~of tales
513 II | him. A dazzlingly white cravat made his anxious~face look
514 V | fire of Italian passion, craved one of those modest and~
515 XIII | over a lofty spirit. These~cravings of a powerful soul had not
516 XI | than ever possessed by the crazy mania for~seeking alliance
517 II | horizontal lines as there were creases in his coat. This colorless~
518 XI | head in refusal. He will be created~Baron, I can tell you, and
519 XIV | without. A coldness~insensibly crept over him, and inevitably
520 XIX | unaccountable thrill of joy.~Like a criminal who has appealed against
521 II | them, to court patrons, cringing to them, or making them~
522 V | than these two passions at cross-purposes, born in the~silence of
523 XIII | resist the evidence of the cruel fact--his wife was insensible
524 VIII | He was brushing the cuff of his left sleeve with
525 XIV | but it was too late~to cultivate her refractory memory. She
526 IX | rascal," said the worthy and cunning old~merchant, pulling the
527 V | discovered by Augustine in the cupboard of a cook Madame~Guillaume
528 II | shrewdness, and the sort of wily~cupidity which is needful in business.
529 XX | then she felt her blood curdling in her~veins when, with
530 I | fifteenth-~century artisan. Such curiosities did more to enrich their
531 XIX | sure that when he came in curiosity would bring~him there at
532 I | his black hair, now out~of curl, and flowing over his shoulders,
533 XVI | fellow-creatures, had his hair curled~like a heathen, laid statues
534 XIV | jocular speeches that are current in the world as to the inconstancy~
535 IV | portress nun." Her speech was curt,~and her movements had the
536 XV | resources which law and custom might offer Augustine as
537 III | no doubt, to these old customs, he stood~sternly awaiting
538 V | white linen, the~silver, the cut glass, were brilliant accessories,
539 II | antediluvian remains found by Cuvier in the quarries.~
540 XVII | room. At the end of the dainty boudoir she~saw the Duchess
541 XVII | taste, enhanced this sort of dais, under which~the Duchess
542 V | gloomy staircase and those damp store-rooms.~After sounding
543 XVI | interrupt~other people, to dance such rigs at home, never
544 IV | attention. In~a case of danger the master lavished his
545 V | a young man passing the~darkened shop of the Cat and Racket,
546 XX | as fondly as a mother. My darling,~I guess it all; but confide
547 IV | they were as skilled in darning as in~embroidery; their
548 XIV | pretty young woman, who dashed~past in her handsome carriage,
549 I | fashion introduced as much by David's~school of painting as
550 II | and black sill. Like those day-blowing~flowers, which in the early
551 XVIII| make him forget the first days----" At these words Augustine
552 VI | The suffocating heat, the dazzling sight of beautiful dresses,
553 II | and Racket" was to him. A dazzlingly white cravat made his anxious~
554 XVIII| disfiguring. We must learn to deal firmly with the~sorrows
555 II | pieces tendered for. The wily dealer knew~a thousand ways of
556 XX | I will kill her!"~ ~"My dear----"~ ~"She is in love with
557 XIX | appealed against sentence of death, a respite,~however short,
558 XVIII| without suffering a thousand deaths, to see the face which once
559 XIII | the assiduous care~which debars a mother from social pleasures,
560 VIII | Notwithstanding this debauch, the old cloth-merchant
561 V | and discharge a sacred~debt by repaying to an orphan
562 VII | on the balance, wrote to debtors in arrears, and~made out
563 I | Good-faith," Grace of God,"~and "Decapitation of John the Baptist," which
564 I | which ill-disguised the decay of the wood, might be read
565 VIII | so you thought you could deceive~an old fox like me? When
566 XIX | That~this venture must decide her future life, she felt
567 XV | office, Madame Guillaume had decided that she must~receive; her
568 VIII | Joseph Lebas' bed. When this decisive blow had been struck,~the
569 VI | there. The young girl again declared herself~suffering, and obtained
570 IX | even made such a point of~ ~decorum that he desired Augustine
571 V | himself, as he~read the first decree by which Napoleon drew in
572 I | under the weight of the decrepit house, had been encrusted~
573 I | I~Dedication~To Mademoiselle Marie de
574 VI | her heart, as they grew deeper, seemed~a pain, her heated
575 XVIII| She perceived~with the deepest anguish that her visit would
576 XV | effusiveness that~touched her deeply. Her visit brought them
577 V | at last effaces all its~defects.~ ~"At the pace at which
578 XVI | Augustine opened her lips to defend her husband; but Madame
579 VII | returned from the Salon, their dejected faces proclaimed some~disappointment.
580 IV | describe her more truly,~delicately made. Full of gracious candor,
581 XIII | fioriture/ of enjoyment, and he~delighted to vary the transports of
582 II | he was always ready to deliver it,~however large the number
583 XV | position, she had to face the deluge of commonplace~morality
584 XIX | speculation, a business demanding~particular attention. If
585 XIII | effusions of their soul. The demands of~nature are not to be
586 XIV | made no complaints, but her demeanor conveyed reproach.~ ~Three
587 IV | company--Madame Roguin, a Demoiselle Chevrel, fifteen months~
588 VI | solitude in the Rue Saint-~Denis. However, when paying a
589 VIII | sat in the presence of his departed master. This stool, covered~
590 Add | Cousin Pons~The Muse of the Department~Cesar Birotteau~ ~Cardot,
591 III | affected~indifference. This departure was a balm to the hearts
592 V | Saint-Denis, was not unlike a dependency of La~Trappe. But to give
593 V | hopeless in~any attempt to depict this scene, come upon by
594 XI | exception,~opposed this deplorable craving. His favorite axioms
595 XVII | flowers, though it was in~the depth of winter, and decorated
596 XI | laughed, and said to the Deputy High Constable~that if there
597 XIX | true eloquence~which never desert a woman; then, as she pictured
598 IX | point of~ ~decorum that he desired Augustine to take the assistant'
599 XV | like a sick man who, in his desperate plight, tries every~prescription,
600 XIX | must never allow a man to despise~us; it is impossible to
601 XII | other. And why should it be despised? The world began~with trade,
602 III | the rod of~an old-world despotism, unknown nowadays in the
603 IV | fortune, was in his mind destined to~be the husband of Virginie,
604 XIX | scene might perhaps have destroyed for ever the~candor and
605 II | expression of embarrassment detracted from the candor of her face,
606 IX | beat about the bush.~ ~"Deuce take it, Joseph, you must
607 XIX | the upper hand and~never deviating from that aim, by bringing
608 VII | might inspire him with some device. After racking his imagination,
609 XIX | to cheat~time by various devices. The idea struck her of
610 XIX | admirable plans of conduct; she~devised a thousand coquettish stratagems;
611 XIV | s caprices and whims, to devote~herself to the selfishness
612 VI | in a sense, made him a devotee; his happiness was incomplete
613 VII | Mademoiselle Virginie, had been devoting themselves to the hard~labor,
614 X | she interrupted her own devotions~to look in the direction
615 V | the~young girl, who had devoured them in secret, during the
616 XIV | her habits; but by dint of devouring books~and learning undauntedly,
617 I | which the horizontal or diagonal timbers traced on the front,~
618 X | mother does? Might wear diamonds--or keep a~carriage? For
619 X | quite right to act~as he did--and besides, his wife liked
620 XX | that Madame de Sommervieux died at the age of~twenty-seven.
621 XVI | tells you he has been to Dieppe to~paint the sea. As if
622 V | of the obstacle which a difference of~fifteen years placed
623 VII | meeting at the Salon. The difficulties~which the rule of the house
624 XIII | without a single cloud to dim the blue sky under which~
625 XIV | and her habits; but by dint of devouring books~and learning
626 X | devotions~to look in the direction where her daughter's eyes
627 XV | they would talk over their disasters under the old~law of /maximum/,
628 VI | which as a body is sometimes~discerning, awarded it the crown which
629 V | marry off his daughter, and discharge a sacred~debt by repaying
630 V | Madame~Guillaume had lately discharged--/Hippolyte Comte de Douglas/
631 III | they were late. These young disciples of Mercury~knew nothing
632 XIII | again. During the tedious discomforts~of the year when a young
633 X | daughters to perfection--on discovering in Augustine a clandestine~
634 II | the weather, like a man disembarking at Havre, and seeing France~
635 XVIII| weep so~bitterly; tears are disfiguring. We must learn to deal firmly
636 VI | in once or~twice, under a disguise, to get a closer view of
637 XVII | their pleasures. She was disgusted with the world, which to
638 VII | him happy,~not seeing any disparity between herself and him.
639 III | with which her prudent hand dispensed the oil.~They could never
640 XV | love had~revealed to her, disposing them to listen to her matrimonial~
641 X | had a sick headache. The dispute that had~arisen from the
642 XIX | What, madame, must I then dissimulate, calculate, become false,
643 II | rises and spreads in the distance like the~great voice of
644 II | adorer. Vanity, no~doubt, distressed her at being seen in undress;
645 XIV | sparkling set in a spirit of distrust~which no one could fail
646 III | the budget. Not a sound disturbed the peace~of this solemn
647 XIII | but he occasionally sought diversion~in the fashionable world.
648 XIII | and habits, for a while~diverted from their channel. Poetry,
649 IV | of respect which formerly~divided a master draper from his
650 VIII | Yes, monsieur, and the dividend is one of the best you have
651 XVI | sudden, without consulting a doctor, he takes it into~his head
652 XI | duchesse of yesterday was doing too~much honor to a Chevrel,
653 XIX | aggravate her terrors by doling them out to her. She tried
654 XIII | no reserves, none of~the dominion which a worldly-minded girl
655 II | annoyance, had~a stamp of doom. Is not the forehead the
656 XIII | wife and develop in her the dormant germs of~lofty intelligence
657 I | boards, so as to produce the doubtful light by which a~clever
658 V | discharged--/Hippolyte Comte de Douglas/ and /Le~Comte de Comminges/--
659 V | Virginie, who, in spite of her~dower of fifty thousand crowns,
660 XV | Guillaume never used them but to drag her on Sundays~to high Mass
661 VI | grasped his~friend's hand, dragged him off to the studio, uncovered
662 XVIII| attractive grace, but~it ends by dragging the features and blighting
663 XVII | arrangement of the furniture, the draperies and the~hangings. Here disorder
664 I | a fine embroidered coat. Drawing, color,~and accessories,
665 XIII | admiration.~ ~To figure in drawing-rooms with the reflected lustre
666 XVII | handsome~staircases, the vast drawing-rooms--full of flowers, though
667 I | the Venetian blinds were drawn up, revealing little dingy~
668 XVI | simple as to believe that he draws them?"~ ~As she uttered
669 X | distress she felt and the dread of causing a~commotion in
670 V | compared her to an exiled angel~dreaming of heaven. An almost unknown
671 IV | accustomed to hear nothing but dreary arguments and calculations~
672 IV | packed away--the plate, the Dresden china, the~candlesticks,
673 V | decree by which Napoleon drew in advance on the~conscript
674 XVI | place, I don't like his drinking water only; it is~not wholesome.
675 IV | dinner and scold a cook with~due knowledge. They knew nothing
676 III | quietly~observing the mute duel which was going on between
677 XVII | sweeter, and had assumed the dulcet tones of politeness. She
678 XI | Have we not seen Monsieur Dupont~become a Count of the Empire,
679 XV | Lebas~a guarantee of its durability. Hence, when Augustine plaintively
680 V | which~this story opens. At dusk one evening, a young man
681 IV | man-servant never left a speck~of dust, and with the old-world
682 V | charm to pictures of the Dutch school. The white linen,
683 XIII | insensible to~poetry, she did not dwell in his sphere, she could
684 XII | his beloved Augustine, and eagerly lifting her out of~their
685 II | exhalations of the street with an eagerness~that showed how hot and
686 III | Then it was daylight earlier," said the second assistant,
687 XVII | judges, to move heaven and earth. Madame de~Sommervieux was
688 IV | filled in the future of earthly~joy to them.~ ~When the
689 VI | studio, uncovered a small easel~picture and a portrait.
690 XIV | is incompatible with the easy-going habits of artists,~who,
691 I | the cat's tail had been~eaten into in such a way that
692 XVI | he object to see a woman eating? What queer~notion is that!
693 VII | hopes, the remorse, all the ebb~and flow of feeling which
694 VI | these simple words still echoed in her ear, "You see how
695 XIII | charm. And, indeed,~the ecstasy of love had made her so
696 VI | perceived quite near her the ecstatic face of the young painter.
697 XIV | one-and-twenty she dared undertake to educate herself, and make her~imagination,
698 II | scrutinized the first electric eel he saw in~America. Monsieur
699 XVIII| years of tears have not effaced his image from my heart,
700 V | of the soul, and at last effaces all its~defects.~ ~"At the
701 XX | wives transcends in its~effects all human energy, and perhaps
702 VII | lovers,~seem to be the last effort of intelligence spurred
703 XIII | thought as perfectly as the effusions of their soul. The demands
704 XV | received their daughter with an effusiveness that~touched her deeply.
705 IV | had reached the age of~eight-and-twenty. Youth mitigated the graceless
706 II | have scrutinized the first electric eel he saw in~America. Monsieur
707 XIII | which seems to be their element. When,~by chance, Augustine
708 X | fervent devotion; but at the elevation of the Host,~Madame Guillaume
709 V | that they should be home by eleven~o'clock, the hour when balls
710 VI | nature, listened to the eloquent voice of her heart,~and
711 | else
712 XIV | antagonistic to the~complete emancipation of her intelligence. Finally,
713 IX | Lebas,~who was extremely embarrassed. The young assistant's bashfulness~
714 II | sleep. No~expression of embarrassment detracted from the candor
715 XII | led her to an~apartment embellished by all the arts.~
716 XX | Augustine to endure the violent embrace of genius?~ ~"The humble
717 IV | skilled in darning as in~embroidery; their mother often talked
718 XIX | cajolery, we subjugate these eminently~capricious natures, which,
719 X | with a mischievous little emphasis on the aristocratic /de/.
720 IV | diamonds; young Rabourdin,~employed in the Finance Office; Monsieur
721 V | hour, and she ordered~their employments with monastic regularity.
722 V | lofty enough to feel the emptiness~of such a life. Her blue
723 II | as he~glanced up at the empty window-frame.~ ~At this
724 III | daylight was now brighter, and enabled the~stranger to discern
725 XVII | glance from those of the enchantress. This look seemed to say
726 III | discern the cashier's corner enclosed by a railing and~screened
727 XII | roared with honest laughter,~encouraged by the champagne, which
728 VIII | needed once on a time,~some encouragement to complete his explanation.~ ~"
729 I | decrepit house, had been encrusted~with as many coats of different
730 XV | scale, weighed them, and ended by~showing the necessity
731 | ending
732 IV | but maternal~austerity had endowed her with two great qualities
733 XVIII| attractive grace, but~it ends by dragging the features
734 XVII | it had been captured; to engage~the interest of this haughty
735 VI | conditions, every masterpiece is~engendered. The artist only bent his
736 XX | from men.~ ~An inscription engraved on a broken column in the
737 VI | offered him for the~right of engraving them, and the print-sellers
738 XVI | husband; but Madame Guillaume~enjoined silence with a wave of her
739 XIII | feeling towards his companion enjoins, as its first law, that
740 XII | amiable. He was not above enlivening them~by a few jests in the
741 I | curiosities did more to enrich their fortunate~owners than
742 VII | crown-pieces, without its ever entering the brain of these laborious~
743 XV | accepted life as a commercial~enterprise, in which, above all, they
744 V | the worthy draper gave an entertainment, when he~spared no expense.
745 VI | were the outcome of the enthusiastic sentiments by~which, indeed,
746 IV | they did not hesitate to entrust the happiness of their daughters
747 XIII | and to find other women envious of her, was to Augustine
748 XIV | always avoid, suggested~a few epigrams in the form of sketches,
749 XX | the simple words of this epitaph one of the timid~creature'
750 XV | touched to the heart by the equable happiness, devoid,~to be
751 XVII | can only be judged~by our equals.~ ~Thus poor Augustine found
752 VII | periodically, might be termed equinoctial. For the~last fortnight
753 XV | Augustine as a~means of escape at this crisis; he ticketed
754 XI | francs a year in good landed estate. Do you know that~the father-in-law
755 XV | Having by degrees learned to esteem and care for his wife,~the
756 IV | infringe this~time-honored etiquette. Such reserve may now appear
757 XI | preserving the~peace of Europe. Is not that a compliment?"~ ~
758 Add | Second Home~A Daughter of Eve~ ~Sommervieux, Theodore
759 XI | ran on. "He has~come to my evenings this fortnight past, and
760 IX | face of such an unexpected event. Carried away by his fatherly~
761 XVII | in a garden planted with evergreen trees. It was all~bewitching,
762 | everywhere
763 I | cracks in the plaster? It was evident that~every beam quivered
764 XVII | tones of politeness. She evidently~now meant to be heard.~ ~
765 VII | verified to ascertain the~exact value of the remnant. The
766 XIX | way~which would make her exactly like the portrait. Then,
767 VII | each parcel was~carefully examined to see at what time the
768 I | triangular roof of~which no example will, ere long, be seen
769 V | Monsieur Guillaume. Still,~the excellent merchant's daughters did
770 XVI | never set foot in church excepting to see you~and to be married.
771 XI | Guillaume, as a singular exception,~opposed this deplorable
772 XIV | other absurdities, had an~excessive notion of the dignity she
773 VII | gold. Thus a few~notes were exchanged at long intervals during
774 VII | by romantic spirits,~to excite each other's enthusiasm
775 IV | their parents spent their exemplary lives, they very rarely~
776 III | they made up their mind to exert the right~acquired by taking
777 II | apprentices snuffed up the exhalations of the street with an eagerness~
778 XV | Marengo. Then, when they had~exhausted the tale of lawsuits, they
779 VI | advice, the two pictures were~exhibited. The /Interior/ made a revolution
780 VI | notary's~wife spoke of the exhibition before Augustine, of whom
781 VI | which pour into all our exhibitions in such~prodigious quantity
782 V | involuntarily compared her to an exiled angel~dreaming of heaven.
783 XIII | superior minds suppose must exist in~every being. But Augustine
784 III | shops,~where the apprentices expect to be rich men at thirty.
785 XIX | returned it~to you, for I never expected the pleasure of seeing the
786 XIII | old habits. His wife was expecting their~first child. He saw
787 VII | hitting on the ingenious expedients which, in prisoners and
788 XVI | the wretch proposes such~expeditions. He wants to get rid of
789 VIII | encouragement to complete his explanation.~ ~"To be sure," said Virginie'
790 VII | or the~investments were extended, or repaired, or doubled.
791 II | connections were the most extensive, and whose~commercial honesty
792 II | knew~a thousand ways of extracting the largest profits without
793 XI | than~beggars. They are too extravagant not to be always a bad sort.
794 XIV | mother's primness. This~extreme propriety, which virtuous
795 IX | at Joseph Lebas,~who was extremely embarrassed. The young assistant'
796 I | covering,~warped by the extremes of the Paris climate, projected
797 XV | their eyes, harnessed with eye-~glasses, twenty times a
798 II | with red in the~place of eyebrows. Anxieties had wrinkled
799 XIX | thoughts.~Like the sheep in the fable, full of courage in the
800 XV | which to her seemed almost fabulous. The travels of Baron da
801 XV | way towards the grotesque facade of the~humble, silent home
802 XIII | the evidence of the cruel fact--his wife was insensible
803 XIX | laughing. "Our~power is wholly factitious. And we must never allow
804 VII | incapable of suspecting~the hard facts which result from the union
805 V | seeing his eldest daughter~fade, remembered how he had married
806 IX | Guillaume, that my heart fails me; I~believe----"~ ~"Well,
807 VI | She~would perhaps have fainted if an unknown rapture had
808 II | flashed beneath arches faintly tinged with red in the~place
809 V | which seemed to conform very fairly to their father's~position,
810 XIV | the painter's love was falling down~it. He regarded his
811 XVIII| gracious smile.~ ~"Why all the falseness?" thought Augustine, replying
812 XII | to the business. An old fan-maker~having remarked that such
813 I | middle of this broad and fantastically carved~joist there was an
814 VII | been increased; that the farmlands, the houses, or the~investments
815 II | Standing on tiptoe, in the farthest~corner of their loft, to
816 XII | frippery. Those who spend~too fast never grow rich. A hundred
817 VIII | him perennial enjoyment, fastened a pair~of gold buckles on
818 XIV | solitude. But before long a~fatal idea suggested to her to
819 XIX | woman, and you deserve your fate."~ ~Augustine kissed the
820 IV | des Bourdonnais, with his father-in-~law, Monsieur Cardot, two
821 IX | event. Carried away by his fatherly~kindness, he began to beat
822 III | confided to his care by their fathers, rich~manufacturers at Louviers
823 XVII | magnificent mansions of the Faubourg Saint-Germain. As~she made
824 IV | world could~have found no fault in the charming girl beyond
825 VIII | altogether deserve~this favor, Joseph. You have not so
826 II | forehead the most prophetic feature of a~man? When the stranger'
827 XIV | freedom.~Now an artist who feels restraint is pitiless; he
828 XIX | possessing those qualities,~or by feigning to possess them, they found
829 V | accounted as the most~unhoped felicity, and made them happier than
830 XVI | loved horses better than his fellow-creatures, had his hair curled~like
831 II | costly presents. When his fellow-tradesmen could only pay in good~bills
832 III | Though two of these young~fellows, who were confided to his
833 XVII | souls they need a union with feminine souls of a~strength equal
834 II | forefathers an~odious name, /Fenetre a la Guillotine/. The vision
835 X | worshiped his~Madonna with fervent devotion; but at the elevation
836 XVIII| own~happiness with so much fervor as I will beseech Him for
837 IV | arranged all~the gauds of the festival, as the girls helped their
838 III | labors. On certain family festivals~he received as a gratuity
839 XIV | the midst of a world of~festivity which to her was a blank,
840 V | the hour when balls and fetes begin to be lively. Thus
841 XIII | XIII~The fever of passion which possessed
842 XIV | absorbing feeling. Even her fidelity vexed~the unfaithful husband,
843 I | prove the patience of the fifteenth-~century artisan. Such curiosities
844 VII | ells."--"At what price?"--"Fifty-five three."--"Set down A. at~
845 VIII | the~numbered boxes, the files, the implements, the cash
846 XV | fact, Augustine, in her~finery, and stepping out of a handsome
847 XIX | with the copy. While we finish our conversation I will~
848 XIII | every day inexhaustible /fioriture/ of enjoyment, and he~delighted
849 VIII | seat, opposite his~own, was fitted into a little niche in the
850 VII | For the~last fortnight the five men forming the crew, with
851 V | lighted in poor Lebas' soul a~flame as ardent as it was reverent.
852 XIV | incredible despair. A~sinister flash showed her the breaches
853 XII | for spendthrifts, it is~flat for saving folks who pile
854 II | so accurately~combed and flattened over his yellow pate that
855 VI | girl like hot coals on her flesh; she felt quite guilty as~
856 II | features, with his wide, flexible mouth,~hardened into a smile.
857 XIII | to suppress the dearest flights of his soul, and to~thrust
858 XIV | formed for this celebrated~flirt of the Imperial Court. At
859 XII | deserted, and while she flitted from~the table to the chimney-piece,
860 II | recalled the puffy cherubs~floating among the clouds that surround
861 V | a limpid, seething love~flooded his heart. After remaining
862 IX | old man,~getting up and flourishing his arms. "I tell you, son-in-law,
863 VII | they choose my~house to flout it in their pictures?"~ ~"
864 VII | remorse, all the ebb~and flow of feeling which could not
865 XVIII| in gazing at the modest flower, which contrasted~so well
866 I | hair, now out~of curl, and flowing over his shoulders, showed
867 II | of the~loft was suddenly flung open, that he did not observe
868 V | moments her cheek would flush, her idle hands would lay
869 XVII | of apse outlined by soft~folds of white muslin over a yellow
870 XII | her on his knee, spoke as follows:--~ ~"My dear child, you
871 XVIII| though I have~lost his. In my folly I dared to dream of a contest
872 XX | one ever can love you as fondly as a mother. My darling,~
873 XIX | than one clever man is a fool, in spite of all his talent.
874 IX | height. This preliminary fooling~brought a cloud to the master'
875 XIX | Outward things are, to fools, half of life; and in that
876 VII | be stated on a sheet of foolscap, proving to the head~of
877 XVI | on her~knees, raised by a foot-warmer, her favorite pedestal.~ ~"
878 XVIII| haughty Duchess. The young fop bowed in silence,~turned
879 VI | Madame Roguin~could not forbear from speaking to Madame
880 XVI | followed such a trade. Religion forbids such horrors; they are~immoral.
881 VI | revealed so many unknown forces in her being.~She affected
882 XIV | intelligence. Finally, a foregone~conclusion against her had
883 XIII | the first~mistakes of a foreigner, though they end by annoying
884 I | animal held in one of its forepaws a racket as big~as itself,
885 XVIII| carefully combed, and~a forest of black hair in some disorder.
886 VI | his most intimate friends forgetting the world, the theatre,~
887 IX | assistant's ear. "And I forgive you--I did the~same myself."~ ~"
888 | former
889 VII | last fortnight the five men forming the crew, with Madame Guillaume~
890 VII | utterance to the~barbarous formulas of trade-jargon, which find
891 VIII | came in through a window, fortified by iron~bars, and looking
892 I | did more to enrich their fortunate~owners than the signs of "
893 XII | is all very well to look forward to~a few hundred thousand
894 VI | surrounded by a vast throng. They fought for~places, as women say.
895 XIV | and his irony had some foundation; he so overawed the~pathetic
896 VIII | you could deceive~an old fox like me? When you knew that
897 XVII | contempt of splendor. The fragrance that floated in the warm
898 I | doubt, not to overweight the frail house.~ ~One rainy morning
899 V | his big hands and powerful frame, had~found a secret admirer
900 II | monuments.~These three faces, framed by the window, recalled
901 VI | figures, the profusion of gilt~frames, gave her a sense of intoxication
902 XV | tickets for a box at the Francais, where she~remembered having
903 I | illustrate the~early efforts of French carpentry. These windows
904 XX | whole scene. In the end the frenzy~of passion prompted the
905 XIII | which he was best pleased to~frequent was that of the Duchesse
906 VI | being curious, she had frequently observed, believing~him
907 IX | Joseph," the draper said with frigid dignity, "I was speaking
908 II | the waters, crowned by a frill~of tumbled muslin, which
909 XII | wasted in carriages and frippery. Those who spend~too fast
910 II | His~coat, with square-cut fronts, square-cut tails, and square-cut
911 IX | a voice~which instantly froze the luckless Joseph.~ ~"
912 I | the~watcher, weary of his fruitless contemplation, or of the
913 V | back from Rome. His soul,~full-fed with poetry; his eyes, satiated
914 XIV | though she had often made fun of it,~could not help a
915 X | page she turned. From the furious glare shot at him by Madame~
916 II | that it made it look like a~furrowed field. His little green
917 I | so long, and thick, and furry were the tails of~our forefathers'
918 XI | them well! They all have a gab and nice~manners. Ah, your
919 V | seven years before, had gained the first~prize for painting.
920 VI | their steps through the galleries. By the irregular~course
921 XIX | They entered a sumptuous gallery, where the~painter's wife
922 II | great market-place at a gallop, the busy~street lay in
923 XVI | Guillaume. "In my day only gamblers~stayed out so late."~ ~Augustine
924 XVI | utter amazement.~ ~"Then he gambles?" said Monsieur Guillaume. "
925 V | dancing,~restricting the games of boston, whist, and backgammon
926 IX | watch as anxiously as at the gaming-table whether~Etienne and Co.
927 XVII | windows, of~the lawns in a garden planted with evergreen trees.
928 II | noise made by a few market gardeners, who, being late,~rattled
929 II | the atmosphere of their garret must~be. After pointing
930 XIX | of the groom,~the street gate was opened, and the artist'
931 XX | the~region where storms gather and the sun is scorching."~ ~ ~
932 XX | saw the expressive~furrows gathering like clouds; then she felt
933 IV | unpacked, and arranged all~the gauds of the festival, as the
934 XVI | amused unless~my lord is in gay spirits, and to be dull
935 III | house. The too inquisitive gazer~seemed to covet this little
936 XVIII| admiration he showed in gazing at the modest flower, which
937 Add | Human Comedy.~ ~Aiglemont, General, Marquis Victor d'~The Firm
938 XI | alliance with rank; and the generals of the Empire took full~
939 XII | dying out in the present generation, Monsieur and Madame~Guillaume
940 XV | witness~to her husband's generosity to her. In short, the couple
941 XIV | duty, hoping that by this generous~conduct she might sooner
942 XIV | housewife. She supplied generously and~without a murmur the
943 XI | read that allegory in the /Genie du~Christianisme/," she
944 VI | birth~to the pictures of genre which pour into all our
945 XII | Now, my child, that fine~gentleman talks of giving you carriages
946 XX | that she had it."~ ~The gentleness, or rather the exquisite
947 VII | money and trade, to whom a genuine passion must appear a quite~
948 XV | his happiness had taken to germinate was to Joseph Lebas~a guarantee
949 XIII | develop in her the dormant germs of~lofty intelligence which
950 V | Augustine, however, had~been gifted by chance with a spirit
951 I | had worn away most of the gilding parsimoniously applied to
952 II | have been pierced~with a gimlet, flashed beneath arches
953 XVIII| once beamed~with love and gladness turn chill, colorless, and
954 II | expressed by his face as he~glanced up at the empty window-frame.~ ~
955 IX | disappointment, cast meaning glances at Joseph Lebas,~who was
956 X | turned. From the furious glare shot at him by Madame~Guillaume
957 XX | in her~veins when, with a glaring look, and in a deep hollow
958 IV | the~candlesticks, and the glass--made a variety in the monotonous
959 XV | eyes, harnessed with eye-~glasses, twenty times a day on this
960 I | carpentry. These windows were glazed with~small squares of glass
961 II | her neck and shoulders gleamed here and~there through little
962 I | his hand a pair of white gloves, and his black hair, now
963 VIII | maroon-colored coat, of which~the glowing lights afforded him perennial
964 XV | like navigators without a goal or a compass. Sitting by~
965 V | the pace at which that man goes, our girls will soon have
966 XV | last four years they had~gone their way like navigators
967 XVI | motives, it might do him some good--but he has no more~religion
968 XVIII| appeal was understood.~ ~"Good-bye, then, Monsieur d'Aiglemont,
969 I | signs of "Providence," "Good-faith," Grace of God,"~and "Decapitation
970 Add | Marechal, Duc de~Father Goriot~Sarrasine~ ~Carigliano,
971 VI | purpose. Madame Roguin's gossip naturally~inspired Augustine
972 II | primitive aspect of the Gothic front, Monsieur Guillaume,
973 XIX | wives. Well,~those wives governed them, as the Emperor governs
974 XIX | governed them, as the Emperor governs us; and if they were~not
975 XVIII| heels of his boots, and gracefully quitted the boudoir.~At
976 IV | eight-and-twenty. Youth mitigated the graceless effect which her~likeness
977 IV | having studied nothing but grammar, book-keeping, a~little
978 XII | at once to lay~up for my grandchildren; but swear to me, here and
979 XVII | she breathed in an~air of grandeur which explained the attraction
980 XII | my~child, I hope to be a grandfather, by Gad! I will begin at
981 V | everywhere left something grandiose. Right or~wrong, this was
982 XVI | uttered this exclamation, the grandmother laid her spectacles~on a
983 VI | to the Salon?" The artist grasped his~friend's hand, dragged
984 XVIII| moment's silence the Duchess,~grasping poor Augustine's hands in
985 IV | plainly dressed, could not gratify the innate~vanity of womanhood
986 III | festivals~he received as a gratuity some little gift, to which
987 XI | whole~responsibility in so grave a matter, since her opinion
988 II | buttons, tawny from wear. His gray hair was so accurately~combed
989 VIII | his hand resting on the greasy arm of~a large cane chair
990 XIII | love would always be her greatest grace in his eyes,~as her
991 IX | to it?" was the idea that greatly~troubled the worthy merchant
992 XIII | cornflowers as the children do, so greedily that he did not see~that
993 XVIII| full of artifice, was too greedy of homage not to have a
994 II | slightly bent figure in greenish cloth, finished with~white
995 VI | throbs of her heart, as they grew deeper, seemed~a pain, her
996 V | that day the old merchant, grieved at seeing his eldest daughter~
997 XI | could not help making a grimace~with his lips, which was
998 II | leather tube; and they~all grinned with mischief as they looked
999 XIX | when, at the call of the groom,~the street gate was opened,
1000 XVI | along; if he were not~so grossly immoral, he would be fit
1001 V | standing, composed so strange a group; the heads were so singular,
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