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2002 I | taken for the~figure of a spectator--so long, and thick, and
2003 VI | for~places, as women say. Speculators and moneyed men would have
2004 XVII | the two old people were speechless with~indignation. But the
2005 XII | roll. If it is round for spendthrifts, it is~flat for saving folks
2006 I | into their houses. Thus the Spinning Sow, the Green Monkey,~and
2007 XI | Monsieur de Sommervieux. Some spiteful people say she only~comes
2008 I | stockings, on which the splashes betrayed his impatience.
2009 XII | In the evening, after a~splendid ball, followed by one of
2010 VI | pointed to Madame Roguin, as a spoil-~sport, to show Augustine
2011 XII | thousand francs to be made by spoiling~good canvas. Money that
2012 VI | Madame Roguin, as a spoil-~sport, to show Augustine that
2013 VIII | shaking hand~on the very spot where his predecessor had
2014 VII | equally intelligible were spouted over~the counters like verses
2015 XIV | over him, and inevitably spread. To attain conjugal~happiness
2016 II | for a moment, rises and spreads in the distance like the~
2017 XIX | Carigliano pressed the secret springlock of the door she stopped,~
2018 II | down on the loiterer, and~sprinkled him with a fine white shower
2019 IX | and his astonished master spun him round in front of~him
2020 VII | last effort of intelligence spurred by a wild craving~for liberty,
2021 I | windows were glazed with~small squares of glass so green that,
2022 VII | Augustine's heart--had been squirted on by the apprentices while~
2023 XV | of their own fat in the stables of the~big house; Madame
2024 XIII | Theodore had come to the~stage of wishing to know the joys
2025 V | the depths of that gloomy staircase and those damp store-rooms.~
2026 XVII | corridors, the handsome~staircases, the vast drawing-rooms--
2027 XV | everything had an aroma of staleness and mediocrity, the~spectacle
2028 IX | she that--that--I love?" stammered the assistant.~ ~Much put
2029 VII | the name which fame had stamped on~Augustine's heart--had
2030 II | young man the most radiant star of morning seemed to be
2031 VII | with poetry would~be in startling contrast to persons and
2032 XIII | powerful soul had not been starved in Theodore during~these
2033 VII | Like~writers, they are a starveling crew. Why the devil need
2034 VII | which~the result could be stated on a sheet of foolscap,
2035 XVII | made her way through the stately corridors, the handsome~
2036 XX | the cemetery at~Montmartre states that Madame de Sommervieux
2037 XVII | Duchess reclined like a Greek statue. The dark hue of the velvet~
2038 XVI | curled~like a heathen, laid statues under muslin coverlets,
2039 XVII | not at first perceive, "Stay; you will see a~pretty woman,
2040 XIV | restraint is pitiless; he stays away, or~laughs it to scorn.
2041 XIX | herself~Theodore's clear and steadfast gaze, she began to quake.
2042 IV | have~been more likely to steal a piece of cloth than to
2043 XX | will paint her as Messalina~stealing out at night from the palace
2044 III | seen that the young~man was stealthily watching the windows of
2045 XIX | such a crisis the heart~steels itself or breaks.~ ~Madame
2046 XIV | narrow ridge, close~to a steep and slippery descent: the
2047 XII | the Rue Saint-Denis, to steer~the good ship Cat and Racket.
2048 XI | prudence~of the pilot who steered the Cat and Racket so wisely
2049 XVIII| in a broken voice, "the step I am about to~take will
2050 XV | Augustine, in her~finery, and stepping out of a handsome carriage,
2051 III | these old customs, he stood~sternly awaiting the appearance
2052 IV | and her movements had the stiff precision of a semaphore.
2053 VI | picture.~ ~"You will be stifled!" cried Augustine. "Let
2054 XIV | seemed to bid her do wrong by stigmatizing~her virtue as insensibility.
2055 II | the busy~street lay in a stillness of which the magic charm
2056 XV | house of Lebas--a life of stir~without movement, a mechanical
2057 III | wool, to show off the fancy~stitches, braces of the strongest
2058 XV | of~their most profitable stock-takings, and told each other old
2059 VII | to the domestic code, she stole up~to her room to make signals
2060 XIV | conclusion against her had stolen into Theodore's mind, and
2061 III | to place himself on the stone flag where Monsieur Guillaume
2062 XIX | carriage rumbled in over~the stones of the silent courtyard.~
2063 | stop
2064 V | staircase and those damp store-rooms.~After sounding the profound
2065 II | Paris, was the one whose stores were always the~best provided,
2066 XIV | of those blows which so strain the bonds of feeling that~
2067 XIX | devised a thousand coquettish stratagems; she even talked to her~
2068 XX | while she gazed at the floor strewn~with the torn fragments
2069 III | cleanliness~which reveals strict order and economy. The most
2070 XIV | Theodore's fortune, she was strictly~economical for herself and
2071 XX | will be avenged!" he cried, striding up and down the room. "She
2072 XII | for an apple. He did not strike a~good bargain though!"
2073 XI | was able to touch so many strings~in the dry hearts of Monsieur
2074 III | stitches, braces of the strongest make, or heavy silk stockings.~
2075 X | was about to speak to her~strongly, when, lowering her veil,
2076 I | vehicle. This venerable structure was crowned by a triangular
2077 XVII | been equal in the hour of struggle."~ ~"But I am not at home!"
2078 IV | calculations~about trade, having studied nothing but grammar, book-keeping,
2079 I | old house, which he was studying with the enthusiasm of an
2080 IV | some wag bet that she was a stuffed figure. Her~long, thin face
2081 I | mania for Greek and Roman styles which~characterized the
2082 XVII | every fascinating charm. A subdued light, friendly to~her beauty,
2083 XIX | ideas, our cajolery, we subjugate these eminently~capricious
2084 XIII | ideas. Sommervieux's nature, subjugated for nearly~two years and
2085 XIII | Poetry, painting, and the subtle joys of~imagination have
2086 IX | begins, grows, totters,~and succeeds! to know the workings of
2087 VII | feelings were soothed that she succumbed~without reflection. At eighteen
2088 XVI | possesses a man~that all on a sudden, without consulting a doctor,
2089 I | which a minute's attention sufficed to stamp on his memory.
2090 V | usual life, one remark will sufficiently paint it. Madame~Guillaume
2091 XVIII| words Augustine broke~down, suffocated with sobs she could not
2092 VI | herself and the artist.~The suffocating heat, the dazzling sight
2093 XVI | indeed, when it is fine, he suggests that I should get~up and
2094 XVIII| of ease and freedom which suited his self-satisfied~expression
2095 XVI | Loraux, the priest at Saint Sulpice, ask his opinion~about it
2096 VIII | finished. The figures of the sum-total~ ~showed a row of 0's long
2097 XI | manners. Ah, your Monsieur Sumer--, Somm----"~ ~"De Sommervieux,
2098 XIV | must climb a hill whose summit is a narrow ridge, close~
2099 XIX | Augustine sighed. They entered a sumptuous gallery, where the~painter'
2100 VII | for a life of~elegance! A sunbeam had fallen into the prison.
2101 XV | them but to drag her on Sundays~to high Mass at the parish
2102 II | given high~relief to a superabundance of life, and the antiquity
2103 XVIII| young woman saw before her a~superfluous witness of the scene. This
2104 XIX | fright, like you, at their superiority, they very acutely noted~
2105 I | applied to the~letters of this superscription, in which the Us and Vs
2106 II | whose hard metal pipe is now superseded by a leather tube; and they~
2107 XII | one of those substantial suppers of which~the memory is dying
2108 XIV | of a good housewife. She supplied generously and~without a
2109 XIII | which some superior minds suppose must exist in~every being.
2110 XI | made the great mistake of supposing that a Paris~notary's wife
2111 XI | But, Augustine, you cannot surely know what a painter is?"
2112 VI | unknown rapture had not surged up in~her heart to vivify
2113 I | and that modern humbug surpasses everything, it~may be observed
2114 XX | morning Madame Guillaume, surprising her~daughter, found her
2115 II | floating among the clouds that surround God the Father. The~apprentices
2116 V | remarkable, and their~mother's surveillance did not allow of their holding
2117 XVI | hand, which she obeyed by a~survival of habit, and her mother
2118 II | costume of their calling, surviving in the midst of more recent~
2119 VII | girl? She was incapable of suspecting~the hard facts which result
2120 VIII | members of the crew had hardly swallowed their~thimbleful of some
2121 XVII | Duchess, whose voice was~sweeter, and had assumed the dulcet
2122 III | whose sybaritical tastes~now swell the columns of the budget.
2123 XIII | as~delightful as it was swift, Sommervieux felt one morning
2124 II | as numerous as herrings swimming in a shoal. Notwithstanding
2125 III | such clerks as those whose sybaritical tastes~now swell the columns
2126 IV | Joseph did not~share the symmetrical ideas of his master, who
2127 XVII | in the disorder as in the symmetry, and to the simple-minded
2128 XVII | is so difficult to find sympathy. The storms and~sufferings
2129 XV | business. The formidable symptoms of stock-taking were visible
2130 I | For instance, the cat's tail had been~eaten into in such
2131 XIII | redeems a jest from the taint of~profanity, "But, madame,
2132 VII | household, where an idea tainted with poetry would~be in
2133 XVI | crams you with a pack~of tales that are too absurd."~ ~
2134 XIX | And if, armed with such a~talisman, you are not your husband'
2135 XII | child, that fine~gentleman talks of giving you carriages
2136 IX | Joseph or Virginie were the~taller, to ask them to compare
2137 XI | like an angry woman, sat tapping the floor with her foot
2138 XV | ornaments, and~furniture, tasteless but of undoubted value,
2139 III | those whose sybaritical tastes~now swell the columns of
2140 IV | often talked of having them taught to cook,~so that they might
2141 XII | while they fired a few~taunts, prompted by envy of Augustine,
2142 II | with~white metal buttons, tawny from wear. His gray hair
2143 XVI | galloping as hard as he could tear, and then pulled up~to a
2144 XIII | friends again. During the tedious discomforts~of the year
2145 X | wrath. She snatched away the tell-tale prayer-book and~returned
2146 X | Joseph Lebas to despair by~telling him of Augustine's love
2147 XVI | for ten days. And then he tells you he has been to Dieppe
2148 XIX | knowing her~husband's restless temper, she had her room lighted
2149 I | roguish ancestors contrived to tempt~customers into their houses.
2150 III | which was left to their tender~mercies at breakfast, and
2151 II | large the number of pieces tendered for. The wily dealer knew~
2152 XIII | done, "How pretty!" This tepid admiration~was not the outcome
2153 VII | returning periodically, might be termed equinoctial. For the~last
2154 VI | recognized herself. She was terrified, and looked about her to~
2155 VI | of rapture mingled with terror at thinking that~her presence
2156 XIX | seemed~to aggravate her terrors by doling them out to her.
2157 XV | legal proceedings. Augustine thanked them, and~returned home
2158 II | profit out of the bargain, thanks to~this arrangement, which
2159 XIV | which could not fail to grow thicker day~by day. Though her husband
2160 VIII | had hardly swallowed their~thimbleful of some home-made liqueur,
2161 IV | stuffed figure. Her~long, thin face betrayed exaggerated
2162 V | Raphael and Michael~Angelo, thirsted for real nature after long
2163 II | be impressed.~ ~He was so thoroughly vexed by the time when the
2164 XIX | the habit of~commanding thousands of soldiers. He knows how
2165 XIX | In which we must always threaten," said the Duchess, laughing. "
2166 V | Joseph Lebas, who was~now three-and-thirty, was aware of the obstacle
2167 III | trembled as they~thought of the thrift with which her prudent hand
2168 XIX | she felt an unaccountable thrill of joy.~Like a criminal
2169 VI | has~inspired me!" And the throbs of her heart, as they grew
2170 VI | were surrounded by a vast throng. They fought for~places,
2171 | throughout
2172 XVII | Augustine found herself thrown back on the horror of her~
2173 XIII | flights of his soul, and to~thrust down into the void those
2174 XX | the painter in a voice of thunder. "I~will be avenged!" he
2175 X | These words came like a thunderbolt on poor Augustine. She felt
2176 VI | had been warned of by the~thundering words of preachers. This
2177 VII | value of the remnant. The ticket attached to each parcel
2178 XV | escape at this crisis; he ticketed every argument, so to~speak,
2179 XV | fashionable~woman found some tickets for a box at the Francais,
2180 XIX | every sound, even the low ticking of the clock, which seemed~
2181 I | the horizontal or diagonal timbers traced on the front,~outlined
2182 XIV | is useless to note every tint of shadow by which the brilliant
2183 V | state of the affairs in the tiny republic which, in the~heart
2184 II | been shaved. Standing on tiptoe, in the farthest~corner
2185 VI | the finest portraits by Titian, Raphael, and~Leonardo da
2186 IV | Children, we have done~nothing today."~
2187 II | and-salt stockings, and square toed shoes with silver buckles.
2188 XII | have picked up~with so much toil wasted in carriages and
2189 VII | Racket, was just now in the toils of one of these tempests~
2190 V | weight~of his ideas, he tore himself from his bliss,
2191 XIII | him~to create. To him the torture is all the more intolerable
2192 VII | which could not fail to toss a heart so simple and~timid
2193 IX | guide his decision; but,~tossed a thousand miles from commerce,
2194 IX | planned, which begins, grows, totters,~and succeeds! to know the
2195 IX | correspondence in~every manufacturing town; is not that a perpetual
2196 I | horizontal or diagonal timbers traced on the front,~outlined by
2197 III | in search~of evidence or traces of their pranks. But at
2198 VII | the~barbarous formulas of trade-jargon, which find expression only
2199 III | dwelling seemed suspicious to a~trader who had lived long enough
2200 II | made it a proverb among the traders of the~Rue Saint-Denis: "
2201 IV | suffered misfortune, these old~tradesmen knew how to value the intelligence
2202 XX | read the last scene of a tragedy. Every year,~on the second
2203 XX | mothers and loving wives transcends in its~effects all human
2204 XIII | beautiful than~Raphael's Transfiguration!--Well, and I got tired
2205 VI | better to turn rhymes, and translate the antique poets! There
2206 XX | perish perhaps when they are transplanted too near the skies, to the~
2207 VII | tones, spoken through a trap-door, to inquire into the~depths
2208 V | unlike a dependency of La~Trappe. But to give a full account
2209 VIII | concerns. I have sent you to travel in our goods. In short,
2210 XV | seemed almost fabulous. The travels of Baron da la~Houtan, which
2211 XIV | for the~outer world those treasures of wit and grace that he
2212 I | and accessories, all were treated in such a way as to suggest
2213 XVII | garden planted with evergreen trees. It was all~bewitching,
2214 X | muttered in a low voice,~tremulous with wrath. She snatched
2215 I | structure was crowned by a triangular roof of~which no example
2216 III | mention a decision of the Tribunal of Commerce without~calling
2217 XI | you could only know the tricks~played on poor Father Chevrel
2218 XV | in his desperate plight, tries every~prescription, and
2219 XIV | Still, nothing could seem a trifle to a~spirit so open as Theodore'
2220 XIX | mastered the knowledge of these trifles, important, too, in their~
2221 IX | dressed in your cloth, to trip your neighbor up--honestly
2222 XVIII| you by what means I may triumph over yourself.~Oh, madame,"
2223 XV | wanted to know the most trivial details of that alien~life,
2224 XII | when it reached the Rue des Trois-Freres, led her to an~apartment
2225 IX | was the idea that greatly~troubled the worthy merchant when
2226 VI | Augustine's brain by the truth of coloring,~the multitude
2227 III | apprentices; he was absorbed in trying to~divine the motive of
2228 II | superseded by a leather tube; and they~all grinned with
2229 II | waters, crowned by a frill~of tumbled muslin, which gave her head
2230 I | threatening~walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been
2231 VIII | VIII~Favored by this annual turmoil, the happy Augustine escaped
2232 IX | his hand, and spoke in his turn--spoke for a~quarter of an
2233 II | gloomy and sparkling by turns, was in harmony with the~
2234 XV | harnessed with eye-~glasses, twenty times a day on this presentment
2235 XX | Sommervieux died at the age of~twenty-seven. In the simple words of
2236 VI | even ventured in once or~twice, under a disguise, to get
2237 XVIII| enhanced by a small moustache twirled up into points, and~as black
2238 II | yet unfurled their cups,~twisted by the chills of night,
2239 XVI | home?"~ ~"At one o'clock--two----"~ ~The old folks looked
2240 XV | with the times. During the two-thirds of the day she spent there,~
2241 XIX | The one who loves~most is tyrannized over, and, which is worse,
2242 XVIII| to arm yourself~against tyranny."~
2243 XVIII| loveliest face. And~besides, our tyrants are so vain as to insist
2244 IV | world because she~was so ugly. Mademoiselle Virginie,
2245 I | grotesque by introducing some uncertain features which must have~
2246 XIV | and silent grief. These unconfessed feelings placed a shroud~
2247 VI | dragged him off to the studio, uncovered a small easel~picture and
2248 XIV | devouring books~and learning undauntedly, she only succeeded in becoming
2249 XIV | one-and-twenty she dared undertake to educate herself, and
2250 IX | can; then to carry out~an undertaking which you have planned,
2251 XVII | words, though spoken in an~undertone in the adjoining boudoir,
2252 XV | furniture, tasteless but of undoubted value, that the simplest
2253 XIII | reflection;~she floated on an undulating tide of rapture; she thought
2254 III | lads, who had been somewhat uneasy as to meeting the victim
2255 XVII | proceedings would bring into his uneventful~life, father Guillaume took
2256 IX | undecided in the~face of such an unexpected event. Carried away by his
2257 XIV | comparisons; then sorrow unfolded to~her the first lessons
2258 V | maidens whom in Rome he had unfortunately seen only in~painting. From
2259 XVI | in very good spirits. Not~unfrequently, indeed, when it is fine,
2260 II | early morning have not yet unfurled their cups,~twisted by the
2261 V | was accounted as the most~unhoped felicity, and made them
2262 IV | them,~whose character was unimpeachable, suffered misfortune, these
2263 XIII | lightness, which to her~was unintelligible, and which redeems a jest
2264 XII | immortalized by~the artist saw, united under its skylight, Monsieur
2265 IV | their mother was the whole universe. The meetings to~which family
2266 | unless
2267 | unlike
2268 IV | with having wiped, rubbed, unpacked, and arranged all~the gauds
2269 XII | Guillaume.~ ~"And the cloth unrolled!" added Lebas; "you might
2270 III | their pleasure to leave~untouched. This bit of mischief, and
2271 XIX | her room lighted up with unusual~brightness, feeling sure
2272 IV | cap of a particular and unvarying~shape, with long lappets,
2273 IX | cloth, to trip your neighbor up--honestly of~course!--to
2274 XV | Virginie a successor who could uphold the ancient~honor of the
2275 III | Guillaume family was a notable upholder of ancient~practices; he
2276 IV | the Sieur~Chevrel, sat so upright in the stool behind her
2277 II | his calmness, so easily upset, it beamed with a luminous
2278 X | holding her prayer-book upside down. She was about to speak
2279 VIII | have ever~made."~ ~"Do not use new-fangled words. Say the
2280 V | principles.~ ~As to their usual life, one remark will sufficiently
2281 XII | had exerted himself to the utmost in the church to~get Virginie
2282 VII | in the cellar-store, gave utterance to the~barbarous formulas
2283 XV | thousand lives like this; its~vacuity seemed to her horrible.
2284 XIII | not follow him in~all his vagaries, his inventions, his joys
2285 V | Augustine's expression of vague longing, her gentle voice,
2286 XX | flowers that bloom in the valley," he reflects,~"perish perhaps
2287 III | wrinkled hand alone gave value--netted purses,~which she
2288 XIV | her wits and her~knowledge vanished in one absorbing feeling.
2289 XIX | Lebas, or Madame~Guillaume's vapid morality. Strange are the
2290 VIII | see /Cendrillon/ at the~Varietes, while the two younger apprentices
2291 XIII | enjoyment, and he~delighted to vary the transports of passion
2292 XVII | heads from costly Sevres~vases. At the moment when this
2293 XVI | head to eat nothing but vegetables? If indeed it were from~
2294 VII | Madame Guillaume.~The very vehemence of his passion hindered
2295 I | passing of the lightest~vehicle. This venerable structure
2296 X | strongly, when, lowering her veil, she interrupted her own
2297 XX | her blood curdling in her~veins when, with a glaring look,
2298 I | the lightest~vehicle. This venerable structure was crowned by
2299 I | second~floor, where the Venetian blinds were drawn up, revealing
2300 XI | was to~me the day I got a verdict of the consuls against him.
2301 VII | turned over, and the length verified to ascertain the~exact value
2302 XI | the late Monsieur Joseph Vernet, the late Monsieur Lekain,
2303 VII | spouted over~the counters like verses of modern poetry, quoted
2304 VI | VI~The next day he went to
2305 Add | Aiglemont, General, Marquis Victor d'~The Firm of Nucingen~
2306 XI | Emperor on his entry into Vienna? Oh, this~marriage must
2307 VII | VII~"That is what comes of sight-seeing,"
2308 VIII | VIII~Favored by this annual turmoil,
2309 VI | Raphael, and~Leonardo da Vinci, were the outcome of the
2310 VII | ardent~nature gave added violence to his passion for Augustine.~ ~
2311 XVII | Augustine, and her~heart beat violently.~ ~"The lady is in there,"
2312 V | silence of the dingy shop, as violets bloom in the depths of a
2313 II | same repose as in those~Virgins, and now proverbial. There
2314 XI | court while all the~kings visited it, he should have no difficulty
2315 VI | surged up in~her heart to vivify her whole being, in spite
2316 XI | Madame Roguin's aggressive volubility. Austere Madame Guillaume
2317 II | France~once more after a long voyage. Having convinced himself
2318 II | white and chubby, but as vulgar as~the face of Commerce
2319 IV | certain meanness of~gesture or vulgarity of attitude, and sometimes
2320 IV | once she had heard some wag bet that she was a stuffed
2321 XIX | all his talent. But I~dare wager you never could refuse your
2322 III | order and economy. The most waggish of the three~youths often
2323 VII | him to bribe the blowsy waiting-maid with gold. Thus a few~notes
2324 XVII | apathetic old draper~seemed to wake up. Prompted by his love
2325 XVI | he has lost,~the wretch wakes you."~ ~"No, mamma, on the
2326 XVI | and then pulled up~to a walk. I said to myself at that
2327 XVIII| Never.--No, no. It is like wanting to find pleasure in~inspecting
2328 XVI | proposes such~expeditions. He wants to get rid of you. Did one
2329 XIX | And this is life. It~is a warfare----"~ ~"In which we must
2330 XVI | man galloping about like a~warlock?"~ ~"But, my dear mother,
2331 IX | of an hour, with so much warmth and feeling, that he altered~
2332 VI | awful snares she had been warned of by the~thundering words
2333 XVIII| friendly voice: "My first warning is to advise you not to
2334 XIV | certain malignantly charitable warnings as to the nature~of the
2335 I | in Paris. This covering,~warped by the extremes of the Paris
2336 XII | picked up~with so much toil wasted in carriages and frippery.
2337 IX | your own~on 'Change, to watch as anxiously as at the gaming-table
2338 XX | wife, half-dead, as she watched her~husband's changeful
2339 XVI | don't like his drinking water only; it is~not wholesome.
2340 XVI | enjoined silence with a wave of her hand, which she obeyed
2341 XII | hastily blowing out the wax-lights, the worthy draper,~who
2342 II | wily dealer knew~a thousand ways of extracting the largest
2343 XVII | up like this siren,~our weapons at least might have been
2344 I | Now and then the~watcher, weary of his fruitless contemplation,
2345 XV | cloth, of the way they~had weathered bankruptcies, and, above
2346 XII | scene of two very different weddings. Augustine and~Theodore
2347 XV | parish church. Three times a week the worthy~couple kept open
2348 XVIII| is to advise you not to weep so~bitterly; tears are disfiguring.
2349 IX | at his assistant, who was weeping copiously. "Why, Joseph,
2350 XV | he put them in the scale, weighed them, and ended by~showing
2351 XX | colonel, because he rides~well----"~ ~"Theodore!"~ ~"Let
2352 XVI | a man~settled in life, a well-behaved, quiet man galloping about
2353 XV | storms, enjoyed by~this well-matched couple. They had accepted
2354 X | Monsieur Lourdois. He is well-to-~do."~ ~Thus conversing,
2355 | wherever
2356 XVI | genius. He is fond of scenes which----"~ ~"I would make scenes
2357 XIV | her husband's caprices and whims, to devote~herself to the
2358 I | which the origin seems so~whimsical to many Paris merchants,
2359 XVIII| He was whisking a riding whip~with an air of ease and
2360 XVIII| by a full imperial, by whiskers carefully combed, and~a
2361 XVIII| in some disorder. He was whisking a riding whip~with an air
2362 V | restricting the games of boston, whist, and backgammon within the~
2363 VI | stronger contrast with the whiteness of her skin. The artist
2364 XVI | drinking water only; it is~not wholesome. Why does he object to see
2365 II | of his features, with his wide, flexible mouth,~hardened
2366 IV | lappets, like that of a widow. In all the~neighborhood
2367 VII | intelligence spurred by a wild craving~for liberty, or
2368 II | glanced up at the empty window-frame.~ ~At this moment a slender
2369 VI | Guillaume covered with her wing. For eight whole~months,
2370 XVIII| Augustine's arrival, and she winged them with~a threatening
2371 XVI | Monsieur Guillaume, "how wise I was to have your money~
2372 XI | steered the Cat and Racket so wisely gave way before~Madame Roguin'
2373 XIX | later~neglected. The one who wishes to rule should----"~ ~"What,
2374 XIII | had come to the~stage of wishing to know the joys of satisfied
2375 XX | certain chords which God has withheld from men.~ ~An inscription
2376 XIV | eager desire to please, her wits and her~knowledge vanished
2377 I | it must be~said that the wittiest of modern painters could
2378 IX | devoted~Celadons to our wives--you understand? Madame Guillaume
2379 VI | went into his room, and woke him by asking,~"What are
2380 XIX | full of courage in the wolf's absence,~she preached
2381 IV | gratify the innate~vanity of womanhood but by a luxury of cleanliness
2382 XIX | especially~those which concern women--well enough to have amused
2383 IV | cleanliness which became them~wonderfully, and made them harmonize
2384 XX | youthful monument without wondering whether it does not need
2385 XV | discount, which, as was his wont, he never refused point-blank.
2386 I | details.~ ~A formidable wooden beam, resting on four pillars,
2387 XVI | her spectacles~on a little work-table, shook her skirts, and clasped
2388 XIII | infant for the first time,~he worked, no doubt, with zeal, but
2389 VII | a captain commanding the working of the~ship. His sharp tones,
2390 IX | and succeeds! to know the workings of every house of business
2391 XIII | of~the dominion which a worldly-minded girl acquires over her husband
2392 XI | little endure under the worries of a household,~that both
2393 X | standing behind a pillar, worshiped his~Madonna with fervent
2394 X | low voice,~tremulous with wrath. She snatched away the tell-tale
2395 XI | she avoided even casting wrathful looks at~Augustine, appearing
2396 XX | with grief, pointed to~the wreck with a gesture of deep despair.~ ~"
2397 IX | your head in the midst of wrecks, to have friends by correspondence
2398 XVII | the cause of her present wretchedness.~ ~So one day Augustine,
2399 VII | me of your artists! Like~writers, they are a starveling crew.
2400 III | often amused himself by writing the date of its first~appearance
2401 I | sash-frames of wood, so clumsily wrought that they might~have found
2402 Add | Cesar Birotteau~ ~Rabourdin, Xavier~The Government Clerks~Cesar
2403 XI | XI~"But, Augustine, you cannot
2404 XII | XII~The old draper went to look
2405 XIII | XIII~The fever of passion which
2406 XIV | XIV~Thus Augustine came among
2407 XIX | XIX~"Ah, madame, before coming
2408 I | the passer-by give to the Xs~and Vs which the horizontal
2409 XV | XV~So one morning she made
2410 XVI | XVI~"What, child, your husband
2411 XVII | XVII~When Augustine was so imprudent
2412 XVIII| XVIII~On seeing Augustine, the
2413 XX | XX~"What is the meaning of
2414 VIII | and looking out on a small yard surrounded by such black
2415 IX | will give her to me?"~ ~"Yes--with fifty thousand crowns;
2416 XIV | abdicate her~reason, to yield to her husband's caprices
2417 X | the aristocratic /de/. And~yielding to the unknown charm of
2418 XVIII| Colonels in the army, the youngest, the most fashionable, and
2419 XII | not~hear that hare-brained youngster declare this evening that
2420 XX | dead, he never passes~this youthful monument without wondering
2421 VII | cipher. "How much H. N. Z.?"--"All sold."--"What is
2422 XIII | he worked, no doubt, with zeal, but he occasionally sought
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