0-count | court-group | grove-packe | page-spare | spect-zeal
bold = Main text
Paragraph grey = Comment text
1502 X | tears which dropped on every~page she turned. From the furious
1503 VI | they grew deeper, seemed~a pain, her heated blood revealed
1504 I | that the wittiest of modern painters could not invent so comical~
1505 XX | man on the boulevard who paints lovely portraits for fifty~
1506 II | his anxious~face look even paler than it really was. The
1507 XIV | sweetness of resignation and the pallor~of scorned love. Ere long
1508 VI | he had understood. This pantomime struck~the young girl like
1509 XII | and now, never to sign~any papers relating to money without
1510 I | front,~outlined by little parallel cracks in the plaster? It
1511 VII | ticket attached to each parcel was~carefully examined to
1512 XV | Sundays~to high Mass at the parish church. Three times a week
1513 I | away most of the gilding parsimoniously applied to the~letters of
1514 I | regions. An involuntary smile parted his lips~each time he looked
1515 VIII | boy, that this result is partly owing to you? And I do not
1516 V | conversation~with their partners beyond Yes and No. Also,
1517 VIII | suggested to me~to take you into partnership.--'Guillaume and Lebas;'
1518 VIII | carriage~was heard. The family party were going to see /Cendrillon/
1519 V | before him, he naturally passed to a profound~admiration
1520 I | whose skills astonished the passer-~by, and whose accomplishments
1521 XX | day of the dead, he never passes~this youthful monument without
1522 V | more natural than these two passions at cross-purposes, born
1523 XIII | they had only found fresh pasture. As soon as the~meadows
1524 II | flattened over his yellow pate that it made it look like
1525 XIV | foundation; he so overawed the~pathetic young creature that, in
1526 II | on his part, gazed at the patriarchal draper as~Humboldt may have
1527 XI | cousin," said she,~with a patronizing air.~ ~Madame Roguin made
1528 II | obliged, like them, to court patrons, cringing to them, or making
1529 XI | And at these words she patted Monsieur~Guillaume on the
1530 XI | Roguin went on, after a short pause, "I have seen~the portrait.
1531 V | the Cat and Racket, had paused for a moment to gaze~at
1532 VI | Saint-~Denis. However, when paying a visit to Madame Guillaume,
1533 VIII | Etienne and Co. had made their~payments in gold."~ ~"Oh, oh!" said
1534 X | this house, generally so peaceful, should~be a hell. Monsieur
1535 Add | Provincial at Paris~The Peasantry~The Member for Arcis~ ~Guillaume~
1536 XIV | could not enter into, and peccadilloes outside the~jurisdiction
1537 I | young man himself had his peculiarities. His cloak, folded after
1538 XVI | foot-warmer, her favorite pedestal.~ ~"But, mother, all artists
1539 VI | were not of a nature~to penetrate the recesses of the monastic
1540 V | Augustine seemed to be pensive,~and did not eat; by the
1541 II | loose black velvet breeches, pepper-~and-salt stockings, and
1542 | per
1543 XVII | Augustine did not at first perceive, "Stay; you will see a~pretty
1544 XVII | and the art of it was not perceptible. The whole spirit of~the
1545 XII | artists, if we could touch the perfection of~antique drapery."~ ~"
1546 X | brought up her~daughters to perfection--on discovering in Augustine
1547 XVII | rare flowers raised their perfumed heads from costly Sevres~
1548 IV | Cesar Birotteau, the rich~perfumer, and his wife, known as
1549 X | Guillaume the artist saw the peril into which his love affair
1550 X | ignorance exaggerated the perils. She~believed her daughter
1551 XI | work upon. At this strange period commerce~and finance were
1552 VII | tempests~which, returning periodically, might be termed equinoctial.
1553 XX | the valley," he reflects,~"perish perhaps when they are transplanted
1554 IX | manufacturing town; is not that a perpetual game, Joseph? That~is life,
1555 IX | his hands to consider the~perplexing situation in which he found
1556 III | eldest, whose twelve years of perseverance and discretion had~initiated
1557 XIX | particular attention. If you persist in talking passion while
1558 XII | the priests, high and low,~persisted in addressing the more elegant
1559 XVII | the Duchess was a superior person. Then a painful thought~
1560 Add | Addendum~ ~The following personages appear in other stories
1561 V | Right or~wrong, this was his personal feeling. His heart, which
1562 XII | Madame Guillaume saw in perspective~both their children married,
1563 XII | had not much~difficulty in persuading the artist to marry under
1564 XVII | mistress of these rooms pervaded the drawing-room where Augustine~
1565 I | the corner of the Rue du~Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one
1566 XII | Guillaume prided himself /in petto/ for his prudence~in the
1567 XI | and especially by Monsieur Philidor! They~are a set of rascals;
1568 IX | Mass."~ ~These were the phrases spoken at random by the
1569 IV | whose total absence of any physical~affinity with their parents
1570 IV | calling in the most~celebrated physicians, for he was not answerable
1571 XII | the crown-pieces I have picked up~with so much toil wasted
1572 XX | fragments of a large~gilt picture-frame. Augustine, almost senseless
1573 XIX | desert a woman; then, as she pictured to herself~Theodore's clear
1574 V | accessories, and made more~picturesque by strong contrasts of light
1575 V | sometimes be raised as if to~pierce the depths of that gloomy
1576 II | eyes, that might have been pierced~with a gimlet, flashed beneath
1577 III | walked in front, under the~piercing eye of their mother, who
1578 Add | Madame~Cesar Birotteau~Pierrette~A Second Home~A Daughter
1579 IV | face betrayed exaggerated piety. Devoid of attractions or~
1580 XII | flat for saving folks who pile it up. Now, my child, that
1581 X | who, standing behind a pillar, worshiped his~Madonna with
1582 I | wooden beam, resting on four pillars, which appeared to~have
1583 XI | that the prudence~of the pilot who steered the Cat and
1584 VII | of sordid elements, had pined for a life of~elegance!
1585 II | of three laughing faces, pink and white and chubby, but
1586 IX | Madame Guillaume is very pious.~. . . Come. By Gad, boy,
1587 II | instrument~whose hard metal pipe is now superseded by a leather
1588 XIX | for it merely to see what pitch of idiocy a~ ~man of genius
1589 XIV | artist who feels restraint is pitiless; he stays away, or~laughs
1590 IV | of ease. Her~silent and placid face was full of the transient
1591 IV | The two sisters, always plainly dressed, could not gratify
1592 XV | durability. Hence, when Augustine plaintively set~forth her painful position,
1593 III | nook, and to be taking the plan of a~dining-room at one
1594 I | upper~story was built of planks, overlapping each other
1595 IX | undertaking which you have planned, which begins, grows, totters,~
1596 XIX | and laid down admirable plans of conduct; she~devised
1597 XVII | of~the lawns in a garden planted with evergreen trees. It
1598 I | little parallel cracks in the plaster? It was evident that~every
1599 IV | everything was packed away--the plate, the Dresden china, the~
1600 XVII | harmony with a view, through plate-glass windows, of~the lawns in
1601 III | having given, long before, a plausible reason for such an~irregularity.
1602 XI | could only know the tricks~played on poor Father Chevrel by
1603 I | painting representing a cat playing rackets.~This picture was
1604 XI | and commissioned me to plead for him. I know~since this
1605 XVII | to see the~lawyers, the pleaders, the judges, to move heaven
1606 XIII | them,~no doubt, a certain pliancy of mind and a certain refinement
1607 XV | man who, in his desperate plight, tries every~prescription,
1608 XIII | when they find~themselves plunged in passion, which seems
1609 XIV | admired. "If I am not a~poet," thought she, "at any rate,
1610 XV | his wont, he never refused point-blank. Two~good Normandy horses
1611 XVIII| moustache twirled up into points, and~as black as jet, by
1612 II | that showed how hot and poisonous the atmosphere of their
1613 IX | as well~as a minister of police, so as never to make a mistake;
1614 XVII | assumed the dulcet tones of politeness. She evidently~now meant
1615 XIX | Augustine, for the~astute politics of the higher social spheres
1616 V | after long dwelling in the pompous~land where art has everywhere
1617 XV | Then the clever tradesman ponderously~analyzed the resources which
1618 Add | Bachelor's Establishment~Cousin Pons~The Muse of the Department~
1619 XIX | the results of the false~positions into which we may be brought
1620 XVI | ones his are, my word! What possesses a man~that all on a sudden,
1621 XIX | they lacked, and either by possessing those qualities,~or by feigning
1622 XIII | in the calm~of less new possession, recovered its bent and
1623 VI | pictures of genre which pour into all our exhibitions
1624 III | meeting the victim of their~practical joke.~ ~"Well, gentlemen,
1625 III | notable upholder of ancient~practices; he might be heard to regret
1626 III | evidence or traces of their pranks. But at this moment the
1627 XVIII| her to hold, "I will never pray to God for my own~happiness
1628 III | by her to carry two large prayer-books,~bound in black morocco.
1629 X | look anywhere but at your prayers," she added, "or I shall~
1630 XIX | the wolf's absence,~she preached to herself, and laid down
1631 VI | the~thundering words of preachers. This moment was to her
1632 IV | movements had the stiff precision of a semaphore. Her eye,~
1633 XVIII| only too well why~Theodore prefers your house to any other,
1634 XIV | religious notions and home-grown prejudices were antagonistic to the~
1635 IX | compare their height. This preliminary fooling~brought a cloud
1636 IV | the second floor was to be prepared to~receive company--Madame
1637 XIV | dignity she considered the prerogative of a~married woman; and
1638 XV | desperate plight, tries every~prescription, and even puts faith in
1639 XV | twenty times a day on this presentment of their past life, to~them
1640 II | them, or making them~costly presents. When his fellow-tradesmen
1641 II | Rue Saint-Denis: "Heaven preserve you from Monsieur Guillaume'
1642 II | recent~civilization, were preserved as cherished traditions,
1643 XI | have no difficulty about preserving the~peace of Europe. Is
1644 VI | they were compelled by the press, Mademoiselle~Guillaume
1645 XIX | As Madame de~Carigliano pressed the secret springlock of
1646 IX | out of the~smoky office, pressing his future father-in-law'
1647 XVI | Consult Monsieur Loraux, the priest at Saint Sulpice, ask his
1648 XII | before Augustine, but the priests, high and low,~persisted
1649 II | shoal. Notwithstanding the~primitive aspect of the Gothic front,
1650 XIV | imitation of her mother's primness. This~extreme propriety,
1651 V | profound~admiration for the principal figure; Augustine seemed
1652 III | simply attired in cotton print,~each took the arm of an
1653 VI | engraving them, and the print-sellers were not more favored~than
1654 VII | eighteen does not love hold a prism between the~world and the
1655 VII | sunbeam had fallen into the prison. Augustine was suddenly~
1656 VII | ingenious expedients which, in prisoners and in lovers,~seem to be
1657 XVII | husband. When she reached the private rooms of the Duchess she
1658 V | before, had gained the first~prize for painting. He had now
1659 I | century offered more than one problem to the consideration of
1660 X | fashionable elegance seemed to proclaim him a cavalry officer on
1661 VII | Salon, their dejected faces proclaimed some~disappointment. In
1662 XII | having remarked that such a prodigal would soon bring his wife
1663 I | panes with boards, so as to produce the doubtful light by which
1664 I | mysteries of the room from profane eyes. Now and then the~watcher,
1665 XIII | a jest from the taint of~profanity, "But, madame, your Paradise
1666 II | managed to get a second profit out of the bargain, thanks
1667 XV | sum total of~their most profitable stock-takings, and told
1668 VI | or painted figures, the profusion of gilt~frames, gave her
1669 I | extremes of the Paris climate, projected three feet over~the roadway,
1670 XII | join old Father Chevrel, promise to consult young Lebas,
1671 X | gathered courage~as she pronounced to her parents the name
1672 II | not the forehead the most prophetic feature of a~man? When the
1673 XVI | you cold that the wretch proposes such~expeditions. He wants
1674 XV | his own, where the~young proprietors hoped to inveigle the old
1675 XIV | s primness. This~extreme propriety, which virtuous wives do
1676 I | and whose accomplishments prove the patience of the fifteenth-~
1677 II | shower of which the scent proved that~three chins had just
1678 II | arrangement, which had made it a proverb among the traders of the~
1679 II | in those~Virgins, and now proverbial. There was a delightful
1680 I | owners than the signs of "Providence," "Good-faith," Grace of
1681 VII | on a sheet of foolscap, proving to the head~of the house
1682 III | might be heard to regret the Provost of Merchants, and~never
1683 X | clandestine~passion of which her prudery and ignorance exaggerated
1684 II | the window, recalled the puffy cherubs~floating among the
1685 IX | and cunning old~merchant, pulling the assistant's ear. "And
1686 XVIII| him back to you, and to punish him for the~audacity of
1687 XI | class; that~every one was punished sooner or later for having
1688 XV | investment, even in the~purchase of a candlestick. In the
1689 XIX | for ever the~candor and purity of a less virtuous woman
1690 III | alone gave value--netted purses,~which she took care to
1691 VI | courage to enable her to push through the crowd~and join
1692 VI | Guillaume and her cousin were pushed to within a few steps of
1693 XV | every~prescription, and even puts faith in old wives' remedies.~ ~
1694 I | features which must have~puzzled the conscientious idler.
1695 VII | sold."--"What is left of Q. X.?"--~Two ells."--"At
1696 XIX | steadfast gaze, she began to quake. When she~asked whether
1697 XI | days they were gentlemen of quality."~ ~"But, father, Monsieur
1698 II | remains found by Cuvier in the quarries.~
1699 I | old-world orthography.~ ~To quench the pride of those who believe
1700 VI | replying to her cousin's~questions concerning the pictures;
1701 III | the Cat and Racket. After quietly~observing the mute duel
1702 X | you, but take care not to quit it."~ ~The conference between
1703 XVIII| his boots, and gracefully quitted the boudoir.~At this instant,
1704 I | evident that~every beam quivered in its mortices at the passing
1705 VII | verses of modern poetry, quoted by romantic spirits,~to
1706 I | representing a cat playing rackets.~This picture was what moved
1707 VII | with some device. After racking his imagination, it~occurred
1708 XII | Theodore appeared in all the radiance of happiness, their eyes
1709 II | to enjoy their victim's rage, the lads ceased~laughing
1710 X | fallen; he went out, with a raging soul, determined to venture
1711 IV | history of France in Le Ragois, and~never reading any book
1712 III | cashier's corner enclosed by a railing and~screened by old green
1713 I | Master Chevrel." Sun and~rain had worn away most of the
1714 I | protect the threshold from the rainfall as to~shelter the wall of
1715 I | overweight the frail house.~ ~One rainy morning in the month of
1716 VII | family! What hopes must it raise in a young~creature who,
1717 XI | Sommervieux very well," the Dove ran on. "He has~come to my evenings
1718 IX | were the phrases spoken at random by the old draper, and their~
1719 VIII | he pulled a bell, which rang at the~head of Joseph Lebas'
1720 XIII | meadows of love had been ransacked, and the artist had gathered
1721 II | and the sash fell with the rapid run, which in~our day has
1722 XIV | As she~recalled the early raptures of their union, she understood
1723 IX | I know everything, you rascal," said the worthy and cunning
1724 XI | Philidor! They~are a set of rascals; I know them well! They
1725 XIV | poet," thought she, "at any rate, I will understand poetry."~ ~
1726 XI | the door, interrupted the~rating which the old draper already
1727 II | gardeners, who, being late,~rattled past towards the great market-place
1728 VII | to share~his glory! What ravages must such a vision make
1729 XI | comes to my 'At Homes,'~raves about Monsieur de Sommervieux.
1730 V | Michael~Angelo, thirsted for real nature after long dwelling
1731 XIII | groveling in the world of reality, while his head was in the
1732 XIX | Augustine than the narrow reasoning of Joseph Lebas, or Madame~
1733 XVIII| to find~more than ample reasons. But I am devoted to my
1734 X | There~Madame Guillaume reasserted her rights, and, for the
1735 X | brief tale of her love. Reassured by a speech from her~father,
1736 VII | dream, which it was a joy to recall to her mind.~She was initiated
1737 XV | the tale of lawsuits, they recapitulated the sum total of~their most
1738 XVIII| in spite of~herself, at receiving such homage from the most
1739 | recent
1740 XIX | back-staircase, which led up to the reception rooms. As Madame de~Carigliano
1741 VI | nature~to penetrate the recesses of the monastic solitude
1742 XVII | under which~the Duchess reclined like a Greek statue. The
1743 VI | like an aspen leaf~as she recognized herself. She was terrified,
1744 I | which~enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The
1745 V | houses on the exchange had recourse to the immense credit, the~
1746 XIX | us; it is impossible to recover from such a descent but
1747 XIII | unintelligible, and which redeems a jest from the taint of~
1748 XIII | pliancy of mind and a certain refinement of~speech; but she used
1749 XX | bloom in the valley," he reflects,~"perish perhaps when they
1750 XIV | too late~to cultivate her refractory memory. She listened with
1751 XIII | nature. Sommervieux took refuge in the~peace and silence
1752 XI | do not shake your head in refusal. He will be created~Baron,
1753 XVIII| to win back Sommervieux's regard--I will not say his~love.
1754 VIII | nothing on my conscience as regards you. But you--you have a
1755 IX | will fail or no, to see a regiment of Guards march~past all
1756 XX | too near the skies, to the~region where storms gather and
1757 I | his~eyes towards the lower regions. An involuntary smile parted
1758 III | practices; he might be heard to regret the Provost of Merchants,
1759 V | employments with monastic regularity. Augustine, however, had~
1760 XIII | confidence that she could always~reign over a man so easy to kindle
1761 VIII | rule as to dessert which reigned throughout the year. The~
1762 X | The poor child artlessly~related the too brief tale of her
1763 XII | never to sign~any papers relating to money without my advice;
1764 VIII | allow Guillaume for once to relax~the stern rule as to dessert
1765 VI | Guillaume~for permission to release the young girl for two hours
1766 II | often suddenly gives way and releases the heavy~panes it ought
1767 I | In point of fact, this relic of the civic life of the
1768 III | apprentice~were suddenly relieved from the fears which the
1769 II | traditions, like the~antediluvian remains found by Cuvier in the quarries.~
1770 XII | An old fan-maker~having remarked that such a prodigal would
1771 XV | puts faith in old wives' remedies.~ ~The old people received
1772 VIII | for whom, no doubt, these reminiscences were too much,~took up three
1773 VII | ascertain the~exact value of the remnant. The ticket attached to
1774 X | courage by a variety of gentle remonstrances,~carried her good nature
1775 VII | the fears, the hopes, the remorse, all the ebb~and flow of
1776 V | seemed to be~listening to remote, inarticulate revelations
1777 V | an~artist accustomed to render nature, there was something
1778 VII | investments were extended, or repaired, or doubled. Whence it became~
1779 V | discharge a sacred~debt by repaying to an orphan the benefit
1780 XI | fashion.~ ~"I know all," she repeated, "and I have come into Noah'
1781 IV | cared~for, mended, and often replaced by the mistress of the house.
1782 VI | refused~to sell or to make replicas. An enormous sum was offered
1783 VI | artist only bent his head in reply.~ ~"How happy are you to
1784 XIV | pleasantries were after all only~reprisals from his friends. Still,
1785 XIV | but her demeanor conveyed reproach.~ ~Three years after her
1786 V | the affairs in the tiny republic which, in the~heart of the
1787 XI | the day had begun were to resemble those of~nature, by ending
1788 XIII | she had no coquetry, no reserves, none of~the dominion which
1789 XIX | advantage of. By firmly resolving to have the upper hand and~
1790 III | of furniture showed the respectable cleanliness~which reveals
1791 XIX | against sentence of death, a respite,~however short, seemed to
1792 XI | Monsieur Guillaume the whole~responsibility in so grave a matter, since
1793 XII | good hired fly with the rest of the~family, humbly followed
1794 XIX | Then, knowing her~husband's restless temper, she had her room
1795 VII | the~neighborhood with the restlessness of a madman, as though movement~
1796 XIV | experience. She determined to restrict~herself bravely within the
1797 V | portress nun" allowed dancing,~restricting the games of boston, whist,
1798 XIII | one morning the need for~resuming his work and his old habits.
1799 II | seemed, of the apprentices retired and came back holding an
1800 III | Augustine Guillaume in~hasty retreat. The draper, annoyed by
1801 VII | of these tempests~which, returning periodically, might be termed
1802 XVIII| for my sake. I will only reveal one, because it may~perhaps
1803 I | Venetian blinds were drawn up, revealing little dingy~muslin curtains
1804 V | to remote, inarticulate revelations of the life of passion,~
1805 V | flame as ardent as it was reverent. From an easily understood
1806 XV | indeed, the feeling had revived in all its strength when
1807 III | hundred~francs a year as the reward of his labors. On certain
1808 II | up. The watcher was then rewarded for his long~waiting. The
1809 IX | In the heat of his eager rhetoric, old Guillaume had scarcely
1810 VI | should do~better to turn rhymes, and translate the antique
1811 XVIII| elegance of his dress; the ribbons attached to his~button-hole
1812 XIV | in a sphere of glory and~riches to the envy of heedless
1813 IV | Cesar; Monsieur Camusot, the~richest silk mercer in the Rue des
1814 XVI | expeditions. He wants to get rid of you. Did one ever hear
1815 XIX | seeking the clue to the riddle. Well, my sweet child, those
1816 XX | cavalry colonel, because he rides~well----"~ ~"Theodore!"~ ~"
1817 XIV | whose summit is a narrow ridge, close~to a steep and slippery
1818 XVIII| disorder. He was whisking a riding whip~with an air of ease
1819 XX | portrait. The artist stood~rigid as a rock, and his eyes
1820 XVI | other people, to dance such rigs at home, never to let you
1821 II | roar, hushed for a moment, rises and spreads in the distance
1822 XII | insist; you~may, if you like, risk your capital in happiness.
1823 XV | the old draper into some risky~discount, which, as was
1824 XV | the shops, formerly the rivals of his own, where the~young
1825 I | projected three feet over~the roadway, as much to protect the
1826 XII | though!" And the old man roared with honest laughter,~encouraged
1827 III | duty to keep them under the rod of~an old-world despotism,
1828 I | living pictures by which our roguish ancestors contrived to tempt~
1829 XII | made round that it might roll. If it is round for spendthrifts,
1830 I | the mania for Greek and Roman styles which~characterized
1831 VII | modern poetry, quoted by romantic spirits,~to excite each
1832 I | crowned by a triangular roof of~which no example will,
1833 II | wander beyond the neighboring roofs to look at the sky;~then,
1834 XIII | the artist had gathered roses~and cornflowers as the children
1835 I | different paint as there are of rouge on an old~duchess' cheek.
1836 XIX | Duchesse de~Carigliano had roused in her mind a crowd of contradictory
1837 VIII | the sum-total~ ~showed a row of 0's long enough to allow
1838 XIV | into the causes of their ruin.~ ~It is useless to note
1839 IV | absolute government which ruled the old cloth-~merchant'
1840 VIII | home-made liqueur, when the rumble of a carriage~was heard.
1841 XIX | and the artist's carriage rumbled in over~the stones of the
1842 II | floor by the aid of the sash runners,~of which the pulley so
1843 IX | rapture.~ ~He was about to rush out of the room when he
1844 XVIII| of homage not to have a ruthless~heart.~ ~"Madame," said
1845 X | with tears~in her eyes: "To sacrifice me to another man would
1846 XIV | selfishness of his vanity. Her sacrifices bore no~fruit. Perhaps they
1847 XII | he is to settle on you is safely tied up. So now, my~child,
1848 XVI | Monsieur Loraux, the priest at Saint Sulpice, ask his opinion~
1849 XVII | mansions of the Faubourg Saint-Germain. As~she made her way through
1850 XVIII| things he has done for my sake. I will only reveal one,
1851 III | Guillaume~talked of dressing the salad, the hapless youths trembled
1852 I | light by which a~clever salesman can ascribe to his goods
1853 IV | what their mother would sanction, their~ideas had not acquired
1854 XIII | by abandoning herself to sanctioned and sacred married~love;
1855 Add | Marechal, Duc de~Father Goriot~Sarrasine~ ~Carigliano, Duchesse de~
1856 I | third floor,~to the modest sash-frames of wood, so clumsily wrought
1857 XV | as~she looked up at the sash-window, whence one day she had
1858 V | full-fed with poetry; his eyes, satiated with Raphael and Michael~
1859 VIII | knee-straps of his ample satin breeches; and~then, at about
1860 XII | in skilful hands. Their satisfaction was at its height when,~
1861 XV | violent steps~which could not satisfy the love she still had for
1862 VIII | relations. At last, one Saturday~evening, the stock-taking
1863 XV | concerning the Canadian savages.~
1864 XII | spendthrifts, it is~flat for saving folks who pile it up. Now,
1865 XV | then he put them in the scale, weighed them, and ended
1866 IX | rhetoric, old Guillaume had scarcely looked~at his assistant,
1867 XVII | character from the aspect~of the scattered objects; but there was here
1868 VIII | When you knew that I had scented the Lecocq~bankruptcy?"~
1869 IV | ideas had not acquired much scope. They knew perfectly how
1870 XX | storms gather and the sun is scorching."~ ~ ~
1871 I | The young man seemed very scornful of this part of the~house;
1872 IX | always some way out of a scrape. And we men are not always
1873 VI | my dear fellow, are mere screens. We should do~better to
1874 II | Commerce as it is seen in sculpture on certain monuments.~These
1875 XVII | simple-minded young~wife all was a sealed letter. All that she could
1876 III | their movements on Monday in search~of evidence or traces of
1877 VIII | double desk, where his wife's seat, opposite his~own, was fitted
1878 XIX | least respected. I like secrets--especially~those which concern
1879 XI | favorite axioms were that, to~secure happiness, a woman must
1880 III | manufacturers at Louviers and at Sedan, had only to ask and to
1881 XIV | idea suggested to her to seek counsel and comfort in the
1882 V | unknown emotion, a limpid, seething love~flooded his heart.
1883 XX | room.~ ~Augustine skilfully seized the auspicious moment; she
1884 XVIII| the young wife, ardently seizing the hand which her~rival
1885 XI | in spite of her apparent self-control, when~she saw her husband
1886 XVIII| freedom which suited his self-satisfied~expression and the elegance
1887 XIV | to devote~herself to the selfishness of his vanity. Her sacrifices
1888 IV | the stiff precision of a semaphore. Her eye,~with a gleam in
1889 XI | Count of the Empire, and a senator, all because he went as~
1890 V | On the other hand, the senior apprentice, with his~long
1891 VI | in spite of this chaos of~sensations. She nevertheless believed
1892 XX | picture-frame. Augustine, almost senseless with grief, pointed to~the
1893 XIX | bringing~your husband to his senses."~ ~She rose with a smile
1894 XIV | day the young wife's too sensitive heart~received one of those
1895 VI | outcome of the enthusiastic sentiments by~which, indeed, under
1896 II | pointing to the singular sentinel, the most jovial, as he~
1897 XV | could here contemplate the sequel of the scene of which~the
1898 XI | by ending in clear and serene weather. Madame Roguin displayed~
1899 X | next to Lebas. During the sermon all went well between~Augustine
1900 II | miracle, the instant the servant withdrew. Monsieur~Guillaume
1901 III | was in Master Chevrel's service, I~should have overhauled
1902 XVII | she refused her father's services, said~she would not be separated
1903 XII | artist to marry under a settlement of his~wife's money on herself.
1904 XII | in the matter of marriage settlements. In the evening, after a~
1905 XVI | judge superior people too severely. If their~ideas were the
1906 XVII | perfumed heads from costly Sevres~vases. At the moment when
1907 V | hands would lay the muslin~sewing on the polished oak counter,
1908 V | house, they wore dresses the shabbiness of which made them~blush.
1909 XX | room. "She shall~die of shame; I will paint her! Yes,
1910 IX | found himself. Joseph Lebas,~shamefaced and in despair, remained
1911 XVII | share their sorrows without sharing~their pleasures. She was
1912 II | three chins had just been shaved. Standing on tiptoe, in
1913 VIII | the old cloth-merchant was shaving~himself at six next morning,
1914 XIX | contradictory thoughts.~Like the sheep in the fable, full of courage
1915 V | young people's eyes meet by~sheer need of change in the midst
1916 VII | result could be stated on a sheet of foolscap, proving to
1917 I | from the rainfall as to~shelter the wall of a loft and its
1918 IV | counters and~the shining shelves, on which the old man-servant
1919 IV | polished counters and~the shining shelves, on which the old
1920 XIX | she felt too keenly not to~shiver at every sound, even the
1921 II | as herrings swimming in a shoal. Notwithstanding the~primitive
1922 III | that might occur at the~shop-door. So much affection for his
1923 I | meant to make game of the shop-owner and of the passing~observer.
1924 III | duty~this was.~ ~The old shopkeeper could not help smiling.
1925 II | seemed as~curious to the shopkeeping folk of the "Cat and Racket"
1926 XIX | The one who wishes to rule should----"~ ~"What, madame, must
1927 XIX | hesitates, if he listens to the shouts of his~comrades, he is almost
1928 II | sprinkled him with a fine white shower of which the scent proved
1929 XIII | in~society by a man who shows himself with a handsome
1930 III | unknown nowadays in the showy modern shops,~where the
1931 VIII | throughout the year. The~shrewd old draper rubbed his hands,
1932 XIV | unconfessed feelings placed a shroud~between the husband and
1933 XVI | What, child, your husband shuts himself into a room with
1934 XVII | to be heard.~ ~Augustine shyly entered the room. At the
1935 XVIII| does not linger long by a sick-bed.~Melancholy, at first, no
1936 XVIII| indicated the Colonel by a sidelong~glance. All its mute appeal
1937 IV | Guillaume, daughter of the Sieur~Chevrel, sat so upright
1938 VII | VII~"That is what comes of sight-seeing," exclaimed Monsieur Guillaume--"
1939 VII | stole up~to her room to make signals by means of a jar of flowers,
1940 VIII | to round off the~firm's signature."~ ~Tears rose to the eyes
1941 III | cast alternately at his signboard and into the~depths of his
1942 II | Guillaume's~notary!" to signify a heavy discount.~ ~The
1943 II | its clumsy shape and black sill. Like those day-blowing~
1944 I | the wall of a loft and its sill-less dormer-window. This upper~
1945 IX | don't cry. Can~you be so silly? What is to be done? It
1946 V | from his predecessor under similar conditions! Joseph Lebas,
1947 XVII | the symmetry, and to the simple-minded young~wife all was a sealed
1948 IX | is to be found in it~are simpletons. To be on the scent of a
1949 III | Virginie and Augustine, simply attired in cotton print,~
1950 XIII | being. But Augustine was too sincerely religious not to take~fright
1951 XIV | enjoy it, but she could not sing with taste. She~understood
1952 XIII | the~young couple without a single cloud to dim the blue sky
1953 I | Each story presented some singularity; on the first floor~four
1954 XV | showing the necessity for his sister-in-law's taking violent steps~which
1955 IV | mother's will.~ ~The two sisters, always plainly dressed,
1956 XVI | that~his bedroom and his sitting-room are not enough, and that
1957 XIV | taking a just view of~the situations of life, was a prey to intense
1958 XIV | deserted for a woman of~six-and-thirty. Feeling herself so wretched
1959 I | of the civic life of the sixteenth~century offered more than
1960 IV | that~of a woman near on sixty--with a cap of a particular
1961 XII | and Racket~once more in skilful hands. Their satisfaction
1962 XX | into her room.~ ~Augustine skilfully seized the auspicious moment;
1963 IV | father was rich, they were as skilled in darning as in~embroidery;
1964 I | were animals in cages whose skills astonished the passer-~by,
1965 XVI | little work-table, shook her skirts, and clasped her hands on
1966 I | overlapping each other like slates, in~order, no doubt, not
1967 XVIII| as to insist that their slaves should~be always cheerful."~ ~"
1968 VIII | clock, while all were still sleeping in the~house, he made his
1969 VIII | brushing the cuff of his left sleeve with his right hand, and~
1970 II | window-frame.~ ~At this moment a slender white hand threw up the
1971 XII | cheeks. That night the lovers slept as soundly as~Monsieur and
1972 II | square-cut collar~clothed his slightly bent figure in greenish
1973 XIV | had both let the moment slip when souls may meet~in comprehension.
1974 XIV | ridge, close~to a steep and slippery descent: the painter's love
1975 III | meals could easily see the smallest incident that might occur
1976 XVII | air~flattered the sense of smell without offending it. The
1977 IX | Virginie, as he went out of the~smoky office, pressing his future
1978 VI | the Devil, of whose awful snares she had been warned of by
1979 X | tremulous with wrath. She snatched away the tell-tale prayer-book
1980 II | Father. The~apprentices snuffed up the exhalations of the
1981 XX | holding~a handkerchief soaked with tears, while she gazed
1982 XIII | hours of repose when souls soar so high that they seem to
1983 XVIII| broke~down, suffocated with sobs she could not suppress.
1984 XIII | satisfied vanity to be found in~society by a man who shows himself
1985 V | voice, of which even the softest tones were sour, "Augustine,
1986 XIX | commanding thousands of soldiers. He knows how to face a
1987 XIII | Happy in~being her husband's sole delight, she believed that
1988 III | other two~lads, who had been somewhat uneasy as to meeting the
1989 XI | your Monsieur Sumer--, Somm----"~ ~"De Sommervieux, papa."~ ~"
1990 VII | from a ball, Theodore de~Sommervieux--for this was the name which
1991 VII | If he should evade these sons of Argus, he would yet be~
1992 VII | many of her feelings were soothed that she succumbed~without
1993 XVIII| the tears from her eyes, soothing her by a few monosyllables
1994 VII | notes; that he did not owe a sou; that~a hundred or two hundred
1995 XIII | zeal, but he occasionally sought diversion~in the fashionable
1996 V | damp store-rooms.~After sounding the profound cloistral silence,
1997 XII | night the lovers slept as soundly as~Monsieur and Madame Guillaume.~ ~
1998 V | even the softest tones were sour, "Augustine, my~treasure,
1999 XV | reflected that they had their source in eighteen months of such~
2000 I | houses. Thus the Spinning Sow, the Green Monkey,~and others,
2001 V | an entertainment, when he~spared no expense. However rich
|