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1002 XIII | his sorrows; she walked~groveling in the world of reality,
1003 I | believe that the world is growing~cleverer day by day, and
1004 IV | this passion, which had~grown up in secret, it is necessary
1005 IX | have planned, which begins, grows, totters,~and succeeds!
1006 XV | her sister, who owed her a grudge. In fact, Augustine, in
1007 III | first~appearance on the Gruyere cheese which was left to
1008 XV | germinate was to Joseph Lebas~a guarantee of its durability. Hence,
1009 II | perceived the stranger~on guard, and he, on his part, gazed
1010 IX | no, to see a regiment of Guards march~past all dressed in
1011 XIX | smile to guide the young and guileless apprentice to~conjugal arts
1012 VII | sight-seeing," exclaimed Monsieur Guillaume--"a~headache. And is it so
1013 XII | sort of dismay, that if the Guillaumes~were ambitious, there was
1014 II | odious name, /Fenetre a la Guillotine/. The vision had disappeared.
1015 VI | her flesh; she felt quite guilty as~she perceived that there
1016 VII | only in~cipher. "How much H. N. Z.?"--"All sold."--"
1017 III | their minds. He hailed a hackney cab on its way to a~neighboring
1018 III | excited in their minds. He hailed a hackney cab on its way
1019 X | and with red eyes,~was haled before her father and mother.
1020 XX | dress. The frightened wife, half-dead, as she watched her~husband'
1021 I | Mademoiselle Marie de Montheau~ ~Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis,
1022 XIV | with him, she~ ~trembled. Hampered by her too eager desire
1023 XIII | they lived. Life did not hang heavy on the lovers' hands.
1024 V | dining-room was visible. A hanging lamp shed the yellow light
1025 XVII | furniture, the draperies and the~hangings. Here disorder was a grace,
1026 XI | displayed~so much address in her harangue, she was able to touch so
1027 II | his wide, flexible mouth,~hardened into a smile. His forehead,
1028 XII | spent. Did I not~hear that hare-brained youngster declare this evening
1029 XIV | of sketches, in which the harmless jest was~in such good taste
1030 IX | is! I shall die in that harness, like old Chevrel, but~taking
1031 XV | consolation, turning their eyes, harnessed with eye-~glasses, twenty
1032 III | to a business~which would harry ten such clerks as those
1033 XII | to the tall~candlesticks, hastily blowing out the wax-lights,
1034 III | Mademoiselle Augustine Guillaume in~hasty retreat. The draper, annoyed
1035 II | like a man disembarking at Havre, and seeing France~once
1036 IV | Guillaume commonly decorated her head--that~of a woman near on
1037 X | Mademoiselle Virginie, overcome by hearing that Joseph~had, in a way,
1038 VII | had stamped on~Augustine's heart--had been squirted on by
1039 VI | deeper, seemed~a pain, her heated blood revealed so many unknown
1040 XVI | had his hair curled~like a heathen, laid statues under muslin
1041 III | the old~clothier paid no heed to his apprentices; he was
1042 XIV | and~riches to the envy of heedless folk incapable of taking
1043 XVIII| in silence,~turned on the heels of his boots, and gracefully
1044 X | so peaceful, should~be a hell. Monsieur Guillaume brought
1045 IV | the festival, as the girls helped their mother to~undress,
1046 | Hence
1047 IV | beyond the walls of their hereditary~home, which to their mother
1048 II | visible, though~as numerous as herrings swimming in a shoal. Notwithstanding
1049 X | which Madame Guillaume~found herself--she, who flattered herself
1050 XIX | a way? Can you----" she hesitated; the Duchess smiled.~ ~"
1051 XIX | surprised by an~avalanche; if he hesitates, if he listens to the shouts
1052 XVIII| Ashamed of her~weakness, she hid her face in her handkerchief,
1053 II | of morning seemed to be hidden by~a cloud.~ ~During these
1054 I | have been decorated with~hieroglyphics. For what other name could
1055 XII | heard~some of his neighbors highly approving the good sense
1056 XIV | happiness we must climb a hill whose summit is a narrow
1057 I | itself, and stood on its hind legs to aim at hitting an
1058 III | solemn house, where the hinges were always oiled, and where~
1059 V | had lately discharged--/Hippolyte Comte de Douglas/ and /Le~
1060 XII | who had come in a good hired fly with the rest of the~
1061 I | delightful houses which~enable historians to reconstruct old Paris
1062 IV | little Bible-history, and the history of France in Le Ragois,
1063 XI | Guillaume, that at last she~hit on one which she could work
1064 IV | Augustine and Virginie had hitherto~always satisfied their mother,
1065 XX | glaring look, and in a deep hollow voice, he began~to question
1066 XIV | Her~religious notions and home-grown prejudices were antagonistic
1067 VIII | their~thimbleful of some home-made liqueur, when the rumble
1068 XI | Carigliano, who comes to my 'At Homes,'~raves about Monsieur de
1069 XII | the old man roared with honest laughter,~encouraged by
1070 IX | to trip your neighbor up--honestly of~course!--to make the
1071 XIV | brilliant hues~of their honeymoon were overcast till they
1072 IX | at this manly delicacy,~honored her husband with a nod of
1073 XII | But I am not going~to be hoodwinked by the thirty thousand francs
1074 XV | where the~young proprietors hoped to inveigle the old draper
1075 V | nature, there was something hopeless in~any attempt to depict
1076 XV | its~vacuity seemed to her horrible. However, she concealed
1077 XVI | trade. Religion forbids such horrors; they are~immoral. And at
1078 VIII | with black leather, the horse-hair showing at every corner--
1079 XVI | Champs-Elysees. He was on horseback. Well, at one~minute he
1080 X | at the elevation of the Host,~Madame Guillaume discovered,
1081 X | Yes. I know a master house-painter, Monsieur Lourdois. He is
1082 X | business, the orders, and her housekeeping, so as not to~sit idle,
1083 XIV | with all the care of a good housewife. She supplied generously
1084 XV | The travels of Baron da la~Houtan, which she began again and
1085 XI | weak with your daughters! However----"~ ~The sound of a carriage,
1086 VI | surprise was~lost in the hubbub and buzz of the crowd; Augustine
1087 XIV | shadow by which the brilliant hues~of their honeymoon were
1088 VI | on his comrade's neck and hugged~him, without speaking a
1089 XVI | no more~religion than a Huguenot. Was there ever a man known
1090 XII | the rest of the~family, humbly followed her younger sister,
1091 II | the patriarchal draper as~Humboldt may have scrutinized the
1092 I | by day, and that modern humbug surpasses everything, it~
1093 XI | they might come to die of hunger. He~had himself invented
1094 II | the hours when its~roar, hushed for a moment, rises and
1095 VIII | of the sash window. The icy air of the courtyard came
1096 XIX | merely to see what pitch of idiocy a~ ~man of genius may attain
1097 XVII | the maid.~ ~"You are an idiot! Show her in," replied the
1098 I | puzzled the conscientious idler. For instance, the cat's
1099 VI | faithful portrait of his idol. He went many times~past
1100 XIV | succeeded in becoming less~ignorant. Lightness of wit and the
1101 II | II~In spite of the noise made
1102 III | III~The head of the Guillaume
1103 I | on an azure field~which ill-disguised the decay of the wood, might
1104 VII | fortnight following~the ill-starred morning when Monsieur Guillaume
1105 V | the shape of her head and illuminated it with almost supernatural~
1106 I | Museum of Arts and Crafts to illustrate the~early efforts of French
1107 XIII | down into the void those images which a magic power compels
1108 XVI | imaginations----"~ ~"What are such 'imaginations'?" Madame Guillaume went
1109 XVI | the very nature of such imaginations----"~ ~"What are such 'imaginations'?"
1110 XIII | for the future, and~never imagined that so exquisite a life
1111 XV | wife of the prudent Lebas, imagining that~want of money was the
1112 XIV | could not help a slight imitation of her mother's primness.
1113 IV | three old bankers, and some immaculate~ladies--the arrangements,
1114 II | of the~street, where they immediately met those of her adorer.
1115 VIII | cash box--objects all~of immemorial origin, and fancied himself
1116 VI | lip,~and whose talent lent immortality to transient scenes. She
1117 I | passing~observer. Time, while impairing this artless painting, had
1118 VI | frightened eyes fell on the impassioned~face of the young painter.
1119 I | the splashes betrayed his impatience. He had~just come, no doubt,
1120 XVII | there was here something as impenetrable~in the disorder as in the
1121 VIII | numbered boxes, the files, the implements, the cash box--objects all~
1122 XX | her white lips, as if to implore a moment's~silence. During
1123 XVII | Augustine went away, feeling the impossibility~of making a superior mind
1124 XIV | so open as Theodore's to impressions from without. A coldness~
1125 XVII | XVII~When Augustine was so imprudent as to set forth her serious
1126 VI | an almost~unaccountable impulse, she laid her finger on
1127 XII | young Lebas, your brother-~in-law."~ ~"Yes, father, I swear
1128 XIII | joys of~imagination have inalienable rights over a lofty spirit.
1129 V | be~listening to remote, inarticulate revelations of the life
1130 III | easily see the smallest incident that might occur at the~
1131 XIV | management.~Such conduct is incompatible with the easy-going habits
1132 VI | devotee; his happiness was incomplete till he~should possess a
1133 XIV | current in the world as to the inconstancy~of men. She made no complaints,
1134 XIV | husband filled her with incredible despair. A~sinister flash
1135 XV | beaver; and then she felt an indefinable pride in her troubles, as~
1136 XVIII| Duchesse de Carigliano, and indicated the Colonel by a sidelong~
1137 XVII | people were speechless with~indignation. But the word "divorce"
1138 XIII | betrayed her ignorance, the inelegance of her language, and the~
1139 XIV | insensibly crept over him, and inevitably spread. To attain conjugal~
1140 XIII | Theodore~lavished on every day inexhaustible /fioriture/ of enjoyment,
1141 XIII | delight, she believed that her~inextinguishable love would always be her
1142 XIII | young wife is nursing an infant for the first time,~he worked,
1143 XV | kept open house. By the influence of his son-in-law~Sommervieux,
1144 XIX | thoughts,~lend us the means of influencing them."~ ~"Good heavens!"
1145 XII | look for Joseph Lebas, and inform him of the~state of affairs.
1146 XIII | acquiring the manners, the information, the tone of the world she
1147 IV | a piece of cloth than to infringe this~time-honored etiquette.
1148 VII | these~speeches did not infuse much hope into Augustine,
1149 XV | accomplishments of mind, and the ingratiating tenderness that love had~
1150 XVII | by the lofty~spirits who inhabit there. In any circumstance
1151 XIX | looking at Augustine with an inimitable gleam of shrewdness and
1152 VII | D. O."~--A hundred other injunctions equally intelligible were
1153 IV | dressed, could not gratify the innate~vanity of womanhood but
1154 II | head a look of exquisite innocence.~Though wrapped in brown
1155 XI | she would put under severe inquisition.~
1156 XX | withheld from men.~ ~An inscription engraved on a broken column
1157 XIV | stigmatizing~her virtue as insensibility. Augustine tried in vain
1158 XIII | cruel fact--his wife was insensible to~poetry, she did not dwell
1159 II | little incidents the heavy inside shutters that protected~
1160 XIX | the most part chosen quite insignificant wives. Well,~those wives
1161 V | position, were often made insipid by circumstances which were
1162 XVIII| wanting to find pleasure in~inspecting the machinery of the opera
1163 VII | as though movement~might inspire him with some device. After
1164 IX | asked, in a voice~which instantly froze the luckless Joseph.~ ~"
1165 VII | always appreciate, even by instinct.~ ~On the morning when,
1166 XV | movement, a mechanical and instinctive existence like that of~the
1167 XVII | mind intelligible to weak intellects. She had~learned that a
1168 VIII | owing to you? And I do not intend~to pay you a salary any
1169 XV | in the Rue du Colombier,~intending to confide her troubles
1170 VII | get access, in the hope of interesting, if~it were possible, in
1171 VII | the assistants, to whose interests he supposed the others to
1172 XVI | the next, as he does, to interrupt~other people, to dance such
1173 VII | notes were exchanged at long intervals during the fortnight following~
1174 XIII | torture is all the more intolerable because his~feeling towards
1175 XII | and Racket. The artist, intoxicated with happiness,~carried
1176 I | la Caracalla/, a fashion introduced as much by David's~school
1177 I | it yet~more grotesque by introducing some uncertain features
1178 XV | young proprietors hoped to inveigle the old draper into some
1179 I | modern painters could not invent so comical~a caricature.
1180 XI | of hunger. He~had himself invented this sort of adage. And
1181 II | earned for this artless invention of our forefathers an~odious
1182 XIII | in~all his vagaries, his inventions, his joys and his sorrows;
1183 VIII | happy Augustine escaped the~investigations of her Argus-eyed relations.
1184 XV | Guillaume had looked to a good investment, even in the~purchase of
1185 V | fashionable the persons invited~might be, they were careful
1186 I | towards the lower regions. An involuntary smile parted his lips~each
1187 VIII | old merchant opened the iron-lined~shutters, which were so
1188 XIV | about his wife, and his irony had some foundation; he
1189 VI | through the galleries. By the irregular~course to which they were
1190 III | plausible reason for such an~irregularity. Every Sunday, each in his
1191 XII | owed so much happiness.~ ~"Isn't it pretty!" cried Guillaume. "
1192 V | been a~prey to the fire of Italian passion, craved one of those
1193 VI | after coming back~from Italy! But I do not advise you
1194 IV | IV~As to the other assistants,
1195 IX | IX~"What, monsieur?" replied
1196 VII | make signals by means of a jar of flowers, if she~sighed,
1197 V | longing, her gentle voice, her~jasmine skin, and her blue eyes
1198 XVII | Duchess she was~filled with jealousy and a sort of despair, as
1199 Add | Cesar Birotteau~ ~Cardot, Jean-Jerome-Severin~A Start in Life~Lost Illusions~
1200 XII | enlivening them~by a few jests in the best taste. So he
1201 XVIII| points, and~as black as jet, by a full imperial, by
1202 XIV | sinister meaning in the~jocular speeches that are current
1203 I | God,"~and "Decapitation of John the Baptist," which may
1204 I | and fantastically carved~joist there was an old painting
1205 III | victim of their~practical joke.~ ~"Well, gentlemen, what
1206 II | singular sentinel, the most jovial, as he~seemed, of the apprentices
1207 XVI | My dear mother, you judge superior people too severely.
1208 XVII | circumstance we can only be judged~by our equals.~ ~Thus poor
1209 XVI | There is a man devoid of~judgement.' "~ ~"Ah, ha!" cried Monsieur
1210 XVII | lawyers, the pleaders, the judges, to move heaven and earth.
1211 VII | condemned once~again before the judgment-seat of trade. As may be supposed,
1212 III | a~neighboring stand, and jumped into it with an air of affected~
1213 XIV | peccadilloes outside the~jurisdiction of a /bourgeois/ conscience.
1214 XIV | moral~considerations which justified him in his own eyes for
1215 IV | the younger. In order to justify this passion, which had~
1216 XV | have a weakness for this kind of confidence.~Madame Guillaume
1217 XIII | reign over a man so easy to kindle as Monsieur de Sommervieux.
1218 XVII | little wordless and consoling~kindnesses by which the old couple
1219 XI | his court while all the~kings visited it, he should have
1220 XV | day she had sent her~first kiss to him who now shed as much
1221 XII | and seating her on his knee, spoke as follows:--~ ~"
1222 VIII | pair~of gold buckles on the knee-straps of his ample satin breeches;
1223 II | into a smile. His forehead, knit with violent annoyance,
1224 II | magic. The old door with its knocker was opened back~against
1225 VII | entering the brain of these laborious~ants to ask--"To what end?"~
1226 XIX | conjugal arts through the labyrinth of her palace. They came
1227 XIX | noted~the qualities they lacked, and either by possessing
1228 IV | bankers, and some immaculate~ladies--the arrangements, made necessary
1229 XVI | in broad day to work by lamp-light? There, get along; if he
1230 V | dwelling in the pompous~land where art has everywhere
1231 XI | thousand francs a year in good landed estate. Do you know that~
1232 XIII | transports of passion by the soft languor of~those hours of repose
1233 II | thousand ways of extracting the largest profits without being~obliged,
1234 V | cook Madame~Guillaume had lately discharged--/Hippolyte Comte
1235 XI | spoke Greek and his wife Latin, they might come to die
1236 I | in fact, there were some~laughable details.~ ~A formidable
1237 XIV | pitiless; he stays away, or~laughs it to scorn. Madame Guillaume,
1238 XII | old man roared with honest laughter,~encouraged by the champagne,
1239 XIV | the money needed for his lavishness; but in her~anxiety to husband
1240 XVII | plate-glass windows, of~the lawns in a garden planted with
1241 I | places in obedience to the laws of old-world orthography.~ ~
1242 XV | had~exhausted the tale of lawsuits, they recapitulated the
1243 XI | Salon. Roguin is now his~ ~lawyer, and knows all his affairs.
1244 XVII | the charges, to see the~lawyers, the pleaders, the judges,
1245 XVII | matter. He made himself the leader~of the application for a
1246 V | seeing always the same face leads insensibly to our~reading
1247 VI | shook her like an aspen leaf~as she recognized herself.
1248 XV | struck her at the house of Lebas--a life of stir~without movement,
1249 V | were indeed set down in the ledger to the credit~of the house,
1250 III | where were kept the immense~ledgers, the silent oracles of the
1251 XV | heard~Joseph Lebas speak of legal proceedings. Augustine thanked
1252 XI | been made Chevalier of the Legion~of Honor, by the Emperor
1253 XI | Vernet, the late Monsieur Lekain, and~the late Monsieur Noverre.
1254 XIX | mutability of their thoughts,~lend us the means of influencing
1255 VII | was turned over, and the length verified to ascertain the~
1256 VI | every lip,~and whose talent lent immortality to transient
1257 VI | by Titian, Raphael, and~Leonardo da Vinci, were the outcome
1258 XVII | young~wife all was a sealed letter. All that she could discern
1259 X | and~returned it with the letter-press right way up. "Do not allow
1260 I | parsimoniously applied to the~letters of this superscription,
1261 XII | the high altar of Saint-~Leu was the scene of two very
1262 XII | which he sent round with a liberal hand.~The band that covered
1263 VII | spurred by a wild craving~for liberty, or by the fire of love.
1264 XI | a man may get a rise in life--be mayor of~his /arrondissement/,
1265 VI | artists have forgotten that~lifelike work; and the public, which
1266 XIX | however short, seemed to her a lifetime. She placed the portrait
1267 XII | beloved Augustine, and eagerly lifting her out of~their carriage
1268 I | mortices at the passing of the lightest~vehicle. This venerable
1269 VIII | coat, of which~the glowing lights afforded him perennial enjoyment,
1270 X | did--and besides, his wife liked it. But so long as a woman~
1271 | likely
1272 IV | graceless effect which her~likeness to her mother sometimes
1273 VI | Augustine quaked in~every limb as she heard her mother
1274 V | and backgammon within the~limits of her bedroom, such a concession
1275 V | almost unknown emotion, a limpid, seething love~flooded his
1276 VIII | arm of~a large cane chair lined with morocco, of which the
1277 XVIII| us ill, for love does not linger long by a sick-bed.~Melancholy,
1278 XVII | white muslin over a yellow lining. Ornaments of gilt bronze,~
1279 VI | whose name was on every lip,~and whose talent lent immortality
1280 VIII | thimbleful of some home-made liqueur, when the rumble of a carriage~
1281 VII | sent her dear~Theodore a list of the relations and friends
1282 XIX | if he hesitates, if he listens to the shouts of his~comrades,
1283 XIV | with taste. She~understood literature and the beauties of poetry,
1284 V | balls and fetes begin to be lively. Thus their~pleasures, which
1285 XIV | fascinating~men; but she remained lonely and virtuous. Some contemptuous
1286 V | Augustine's expression of vague longing, her gentle voice, her~jasmine
1287 II | Monsieur Guillaume wore loose black velvet breeches, pepper-~
1288 XVI | asylum.~Consult Monsieur Loraux, the priest at Saint Sulpice,
1289 XVI | never to be amused unless~my lord is in gay spirits, and to
1290 XIV | she loved too truly to lose all hope.~At one-and-twenty
1291 XX | I don't know that the loss is very great!" cried the
1292 XVII | boudoir she~saw the Duchess lounging luxuriously on an ottoman
1293 III | fathers, rich~manufacturers at Louviers and at Sedan, had only to
1294 VI | secretly to take her to the Louvre. Her~cousin succeeded in
1295 XIII | In spite of all this love-making, by the end of this year,
1296 XVIII| features and blighting the loveliest face. And~besides, our tyrants
1297 X | speak to her~strongly, when, lowering her veil, she interrupted
1298 II | upset, it beamed with a luminous grace which~gave great attractiveness
1299 XVI | would be fit to shut up in a lunatic asylum.~Consult Monsieur
1300 XIII | drawing-rooms with the reflected lustre of her husband's~fame, and
1301 XVII | despair, as she admired the~luxurious arrangement of the furniture,
1302 XVII | saw the Duchess lounging luxuriously on an ottoman covered with
1303 VII | with all of J. J., all of M. P., and what is left of
1304 VII | with the restlessness of a madman, as though movement~might
1305 X | a pillar, worshiped his~Madonna with fervent devotion; but
1306 XVII | seen any of~the ancient and magnificent mansions of the Faubourg
1307 XVI | afterwards like a~blind magpie?"~ ~"My dear mother, you
1308 V | those modest and~meditative maidens whom in Rome he had unfortunately
1309 | makes
1310 XIV | received~from a friend certain malignantly charitable warnings as to
1311 XVI | wretch wakes you."~ ~"No, mamma, on the contrary, he is
1312 IX | Guillaume, surprised at this manly delicacy,~honored her husband
1313 I | cloak, folded after the~manner of an antique drapery, showed
1314 XIX | a descent but by odious~manoeuvring. Come," she added, "I will
1315 XV | The appearance of this mansion and these~rooms, where everything
1316 XVII | ancient and magnificent mansions of the Faubourg Saint-Germain.
1317 III | care by their fathers, rich~manufacturers at Louviers and at Sedan,
1318 IX | correspondence in~every manufacturing town; is not that a perpetual
1319 Add | Birotteau~ ~Carigliano, Marechal, Duc de~Father Goriot~Sarrasine~ ~
1320 XV | Monsieur Guillaume's battle of Marengo. Then, when they had~exhausted
1321 I | Dedication~To Mademoiselle Marie de Montheau~ ~Half-way down
1322 II | the noise made by a few market gardeners, who, being late,~
1323 II | rattled past towards the great market-place at a gallop, the busy~street
1324 VIII | next morning, put on his maroon-colored coat, of which~the glowing
1325 Add | Comedy.~ ~Aiglemont, General, Marquis Victor d'~The Firm of Nucingen~
1326 XI | adage. And he compared such~marriages to old-fashioned materials
1327 XII | envy of Augustine, who was marrying an artist and~a man of rank;
1328 XIX | be long before you~have mastered the knowledge of these trifles,
1329 VI | various conditions, every masterpiece is~engendered. The artist
1330 VI | and eager study of the two~masterpieces, Girodet threw himself on
1331 IV | honesty and sound morals. The~masters adopted their apprentices.
1332 XI | marriages to old-fashioned materials of mixed silk and wool.
1333 XV | disposing them to listen to her matrimonial~grievances. Old people have
1334 IX | mother-in-law's good graces. The matron became so~cheerful that
1335 XIII | pasture. As soon as the~meadows of love had been ransacked,
1336 XV | to talk,~and the abundant meal spoke of ease without luxury.
1337 III | skylight, whence the family at~meals could easily see the smallest
1338 XVII | world, which to her seemed~mean and small as compared with
1339 III | always oiled, and where~the meanest article of furniture showed
1340 IV | charming girl beyond a certain meanness of~gesture or vulgarity
1341 | meanwhile
1342 XV | stir~without movement, a mechanical and instinctive existence
1343 XV | an aroma of staleness and mediocrity, the~spectacle offered by
1344 V | one of those modest and~meditative maidens whom in Rome he
1345 IV | the whole universe. The meetings to~which family anniversaries
1346 VIII | to~remain at table. The members of the crew had hardly swallowed
1347 IV | man's linen was cared~for, mended, and often replaced by the
1348 XIV | painter might find his wife mending the household linen, and
1349 IV | Camusot, the~richest silk mercer in the Rue des Bourdonnais,
1350 XV | though they were articles of merchandise of different~qualities;
1351 III | was left to their tender~mercies at breakfast, and which
1352 III | These young disciples of Mercury~knew nothing more terrible
1353 VI | paint, my dear fellow, are mere screens. We should do~better
1354 XIV | too late, that there~are /mesalliances/ of the spirit as well as
1355 III | Saint-Leu, and to vespers.~Mesdemoiselles Virginie and Augustine,
1356 XX | Yes, I will paint her as Messalina~stealing out at night from
1357 V | satiated with Raphael and Michael~Angelo, thirsted for real
1358 Add | Government Clerks~Modeste Mignon~ ~Sommervieux, Madame Theodore
1359 XI | her husband giving way so mildly under a catastrophe which
1360 IX | but,~tossed a thousand miles from commerce, on the ocean
1361 VII | If Augustine was absent-~minded, if, against all obedience
1362 XII | it. It is no concern of mine. But as to~what I can give
1363 XIII | have no concealments, but mingle the aspirations of their~
1364 VI | herself felt a sort of rapture mingled with terror at thinking
1365 II | of his shop,~as if by a miracle, the instant the servant
1366 I | what moved the young man to mirth. But it must be~said that
1367 X | Theodore de Sommervieux,~with a mischievous little emphasis on the aristocratic /
1368 XVI | genius is to make his wife miserable? And because he is~a genius
1369 XX | During this dreadful night misery had led her to that patient~
1370 XX | replied Madame Guillaume, who~misinterpreted the expression of her daughter'
1371 XIII | as we laugh at the first~mistakes of a foreigner, though they
1372 IV | eight-and-twenty. Youth mitigated the graceless effect which
1373 XI | old-fashioned materials of mixed silk and wool. Still,~there
1374 XVI | artists are obliged to have models."~ ~"He took good care not
1375 Add | de~The Government Clerks~Modeste Mignon~ ~Sommervieux, Madame
1376 VI | all its bloom, her maiden modesty in all its glory. She~herself
1377 III | faces and their movements on Monday in search~of evidence or
1378 VI | women say. Speculators and moneyed men would have covered~the
1379 I | Spinning Sow, the Green Monkey,~and others, were animals
1380 XVIII| eyes, soothing her by a few monosyllables murmured~with gracious compassion.
1381 IV | glass--made a variety in the monotonous lives of~the three women,
1382 XX | Why, he must be a perfect monster!"~ ~Augustine laid a finger
1383 VII | passion must appear a quite~monstrous speculation, a thing unheard-of.
1384 I | One rainy morning in the month of March, a young man, carefully~
1385 I | To Mademoiselle Marie de Montheau~ ~Half-way down the Rue
1386 XX | column in the cemetery at~Montmartre states that Madame de Sommervieux
1387 XX | never passes~this youthful monument without wondering whether
1388 II | in sculpture on certain monuments.~These three faces, framed
1389 XIV | incapable of appreciating the moral~considerations which justified
1390 IV | school of honesty and sound morals. The~masters adopted their
1391 XIX | would forget her by~the morrow. This scene might perhaps
1392 I | every beam quivered in its mortices at the passing of the lightest~
1393 IX | bashfulness~commended him to his mother-in-law's good graces. The matron
1394 XX | patient~resignation which in mothers and loving wives transcends
1395 III | in trying to~divine the motive of the anxious looks which
1396 XVI | indeed it were from~religious motives, it might do him some good--
1397 XIII | living with~artists might mould his wife and develop in
1398 XVIII| further enhanced by a small moustache twirled up into points,
1399 II | with his wide, flexible mouth,~hardened into a smile.
1400 I | rackets.~This picture was what moved the young man to mirth.
1401 I | in the midst of the Paris mud, because he wore white~silk
1402 VI | the truth of coloring,~the multitude of living or painted figures,
1403 XIV | generously and~without a murmur the money needed for his
1404 XVIII| her by a few monosyllables murmured~with gracious compassion.
1405 Add | Establishment~Cousin Pons~The Muse of the Department~Cesar
1406 I | have found a place in the Museum of Arts and Crafts to illustrate
1407 XIX | natures, which, by the very mutability of their thoughts,~lend
1408 X | right way up, miss," she muttered in a low voice,~tremulous
1409 I | curtains which~screened the mysteries of the room from profane
1410 VII | in~cipher. "How much H. N. Z.?"--"All sold."--"What
1411 XVI | himself into a room with naked women!~And you are so simple
1412 XV | Monsieur Guillaume had been named a member of the~consulting
1413 V | the first decree by which Napoleon drew in advance on the~conscript
1414 VI | covered~the canvas with double napoleons, but the artist obstinately
1415 XIII | of her language, and the~narrowness of her ideas. Sommervieux'
1416 XIX | these eminently~capricious natures, which, by the very mutability
1417 VII | natural: the quiet barque that~navigated the stormy waters of the
1418 XV | had~gone their way like navigators without a goal or a compass.
1419 XIII | s nature, subjugated for nearly~two years and a half by
1420 XIX | worse, is sooner or later~neglected. The one who wishes to rule
1421 VI | cousin succeeded in the negotiations she opened with Madame Guillaume~
1422 III | He made them~work like Negroes. These three assistants
1423 III | Monsieur Guillaume to his three neophytes. "In~former days, bless
1424 III | wrinkled hand alone gave value--netted purses,~which she took care
1425 VIII | ever~made."~ ~"Do not use new-fangled words. Say the profits,
1426 XV | displayed for her parents her newly-acquired~accomplishments of mind,
1427 VII | cashmere shawl. But~the news that the pictures had disappeared
1428 XI | They all have a gab and nice~manners. Ah, your Monsieur
1429 VIII | was fitted into a little niche in the wall. He contemplated
1430 XI | repeated, "and I have come into Noah's Ark, like the~dove, with
1431 II | II~In spite of the noise made by a few market gardeners,
1432 XVII | she was approaching so noiselessly that she caught a~glance
1433 III | seemed to covet this little nook, and to be taking the plan
1434 XV | refused point-blank. Two~good Normandy horses were dying of their
1435 III | the Guillaume family was a notable upholder of ancient~practices;
1436 XIV | ruin.~ ~It is useless to note every tint of shadow by
1437 XIX | superiority, they very acutely noted~the qualities they lacked,
1438 XIV | brilliant. Her~religious notions and home-grown prejudices
1439 XVIII| Duchess,~carried away by the novelty of such a scene, and touched,
1440 XX | Every year,~on the second of November, the solemn day of the dead,
1441 III | old-world despotism, unknown nowadays in the showy modern shops,~
1442 | nowhere
1443 Add | Marquis Victor d'~The Firm of Nucingen~A Woman of Thirty~ ~Birotteau,
1444 II | deliver it,~however large the number of pieces tendered for.
1445 VIII | wall. He contemplated the~numbered boxes, the files, the implements,
1446 II | hardly visible, though~as numerous as herrings swimming in
1447 IV | and exerted themselves as nuns~would to receive their bishop.
1448 XIII | year when a young wife is nursing an infant for the first
1449 V | muslin~sewing on the polished oak counter, and presently her
1450 XVI | wave of her hand, which she obeyed by a~survival of habit,
1451 XIII | simple child who had~lived in obscurity in the Rue Saint-Denis,
1452 II | flung open, that he did not observe the apparition~of three
1453 III | and Racket. After quietly~observing the mute duel which was
1454 V | three-and-thirty, was aware of the obstacle which a difference of~fifteen
1455 VI | napoleons, but the artist obstinately refused~to sell or to make
1456 VI | declared herself~suffering, and obtained leave to go to bed.~
1457 XIII | doubt, with zeal, but he occasionally sought diversion~in the
1458 V | V~When, on very great occasions, "the portress nun" allowed
1459 XV | revealed the owner's want of occupation, Sommervieux's famous picture~
1460 VI | Though these incidents occupied the world, they were not
1461 III | smallest incident that might occur at the~shop-door. So much
1462 VII | racking his imagination, it~occurred to him to bribe the blowsy
1463 IX | miles from commerce, on the ocean of sentiment,~ ~without
1464 VIII | little room, full of the odor peculiar to~offices.~ ~The
1465 XIV | Sommervieux could not take offence; and even~if they had been
1466 XVII | the sense of smell without offending it. The accessories of~the
1467 VIII | of the odor peculiar to~offices.~ ~The merchant remained
1468 III | prudent hand dispensed the oil.~They could never think
1469 III | where the hinges were always oiled, and where~the meanest article
1470 XI | compared such~marriages to old-fashioned materials of mixed silk
1471 XI | like the~dove, with the olive-branch. I read that allegory in
1472 XVI | her daughter again. "Fine ones his are, my word! What possesses
1473 II | and~there through little openings left by her movements in
1474 V | scene with which~this story opens. At dusk one evening, a
1475 XVIII| inspecting the machinery of the opera instead of sitting in a
1476 X | had been of antagonistic~opinions, had shown itself in a terrible
1477 XI | as a singular exception,~opposed this deplorable craving.
1478 XVII | peculiar to women~born to opulence or to the elegant habits
1479 III | immense~ledgers, the silent oracles of the house. The too inquisitive
1480 V | at the same hour, and she ordered~their employments with monastic
1481 X | the retail business, the orders, and her housekeeping, so
1482 VIII | take an interest in a~poor orph----"~ ~He was brushing the
1483 I | to the laws of old-world orthography.~ ~To quench the pride of
1484 XVII | lounging luxuriously on an ottoman covered with brown~velvet
1485 VIII | without, however, coming out--he placed with a shaking
1486 XIV | saw that he kept for the~outer world those treasures of
1487 II | harmony with the~singular outline of his features, with his
1488 XIX | important, too, in their~way. Outward things are, to fools, half
1489 XIV | had some foundation; he so overawed the~pathetic young creature
1490 XIV | of their honeymoon were overcast till they were lost in utter~
1491 X | Mademoiselle Virginie, overcome by hearing that Joseph~had,
1492 III | s service, I~should have overhauled more than two pieces of
1493 I | story was built of planks, overlapping each other like slates,
1494 I | order, no doubt, not to overweight the frail house.~ ~One rainy
1495 XVIII| Augustine's hands in both her own--hands that had a rare~character
1496 XV | where splendor~revealed the owner's want of occupation, Sommervieux'
1497 I | to enrich their fortunate~owners than the signs of "Providence," "
1498 VII | all of J. J., all of M. P., and what is left of V.
1499 XVI | sea! He crams you with a pack~of tales that are too absurd."~ ~
1500 II | on the outside,~certain packages, wrapped in brown linen,
1501 IV | in which~everything was packed away--the plate, the Dresden
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