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1 VI | these gentlemen to rooms 14 and 15. Madame Moreau will
2 VI | gentlemen to rooms 14 and 15. Madame Moreau will give
3 VIII| bearing date of the year 1786,~which is connected with
4 IX | to leave the office in 1788.~ ~Georges laughed as he
5 VIII| last in the fatal year of 1792.~Then came a blank of fourteen
6 VII | bought the establishment in 1793, at a time when the heads
7 II | old president, who died~in 1794, he was elected about that
8 III | whom Napoleon ruined in 1802. This man, named Husson,~
9 II | to make his~escape; in 1804 he asked for his pardon,
10 II | chamberlain by the Emperor.~ ~In 1814, weary with constant toil,
11 II | Moreau invested yearly, after 1817, both his~profits and his
12 IV | decoration you obtained in 1819; it seems the fashion nowadays
13 IX | silver age.~ ~From 1820 to 1823, Florentine had the experience
14 X | him the rank of captain in 1832. When the amateur of the
15 XI | the close of the winter of 1838.~ ~The adventure of the
16 I | 1830, scarcely exist in 1842, unless on the occasion
17 II | from his grief. After the 18th Brumaire, Monsieur de Serizy
18 II | cabinet ministers. On the 20th of March,~Monsieur de Serizy
19 VIII| This day, Monday, November 25th, 1822, after a session held~
20 VIII| This day, Sunday, June 27th, were imbibed twelve bottles
21 III | Over the way, at number 50. He couldn't get a place
22 III | gone~as directed to number 7 rue de la Cerisaie, in the
23 II | de Reybert serve?"~ ~"The 7th artillery."~ ~"Good!" said
24 IV | smoking a~narghile twice a-day, and that's very costly."~ ~"
25 I | needed now was~to be set a-rolling, but to make it roll, payment
26 IV | Georges, by no means taken~aback. "There's nothing green
27 X | to death, but we cannot abandon our colonel."~ ~He dashed
28 X | where the field had to be~abandoned to the Arabs, Monsieur de
29 VI | interior~Oscar, somewhat abashed, was skulking behind a clump
30 VII | somewhat the air of the abbes of former times. His~countenance
31 III | there depended over his abdomen a heavy gold~chain, ending
32 III | My stomach, like Nature, abhors a vacuum."~ ~"Have we time
33 IV | all the more because the abjuration~required a surgical operation
34 VIII| three in the afternoon, the above-named clerks hereby return~their
35 VI | nature was a kindly one. Abrupt in speech~and decided in
36 IV | huge inn-kitchen lest his~absence should excite inquiry, entered
37 VIII| You have been~careless or absent-minded, and neither of those defects
38 I | the valet. "Waiter, two~absinthes!" he said, as he entered. "
39 III | the circumstances; but all absorbing sentiments~have so much
40 V | deliverance all the more absurd,~because he had just reached
41 III | actually fantastic. But this~abundant mass of hair seemed necessary
42 IV | circumstances like the present, to abuse those qualities.~ ~In the
43 IV | Georges. "There are many more~Abyssinians, and Giaours, and Vechabites,
44 V | Monsieur Andrieux of the Academie Francaise, or Monsieur Royer-~
45 VIII| leading lady of the Royal Academy of music and dancing, having~
46 IX | said.~ ~At the tone and accent of that voice Oscar recognized
47 II | house of Bourbon; would not accept his~peerage during the Hundred
48 II | the First Consul on his accession to~power. At this crisis,
49 IV | lodgings; all other trades are accessory. In the evening,~linen changed,
50 III | many secrets; but~social accident, that sub-providence, having
51 IV | vengeance twenty years and accomplish it some fine~morning. He
52 VI | tons of excellent hay,~but accounted for only one hundred, making
53 VIII| time, slightly wrong~in his accounts, which were comparatively
54 III | apparently unable to~let the sum accumulate.~ ~There does not exist,
55 II | been found to justify an~accusation against him. According to
56 VI | his other son, who is now accused of plotting~against the
57 VIII| taste of poultry; indeed, by~acknowledgment of the new member, we learned
58 XI | don't be vexed with an old acquaintance," said Oscar, motioning~
59 VI | lip to lip. The envious~acquaintances of the Moreaus throughout
60 IX | fortune most men hope to acquire in order to leave it. Wiser
61 VI | hunt over twelve thousand acres of forest, not~counting
62 V | as thieves caught in the act;~they dared not look at
63 V | it~gives him a look of acting for his master's interests
64 VIII| pretty~sort of society!--actresses, ballet-dancers, elegant
65 XI | surtout; a sure diagnostic of actual~poverty. This coat, which
66 VIII| This future~magistrate, actuated by a laudable desire to
67 XI | ADDENDUM~The following personages
68 V | plays the better part of adder.'"~ ~"'A poet is nasty and
69 III | carriage and Pierrotin's~fee, adding the money necessary to pay
70 III | flapping his thin legs. In addition, a pair of very muddy~boots
71 IX | this time acquired five additional years, he had~fallen into
72 IV | who considered this moan, addressed to Pere Leger, a sort of
73 IV | out of love, the beautiful Adelaide de Rouville,~the protegee
74 III | showed authority over his adept, in whom a~practised eye
75 VI | animadversion on the part of the~adherents of the Moreaus that their
76 IX | the salon to receive the adieux of some~departing guests.~ ~
77 VI | garden, one wall of which adjoined the court-yard of~the stables
78 VII | such punishment needs to be administered is the greatest~argument
79 IV | silly expression that was admirably assumed.~ ~"For all those
80 XI | hand to mouth. The former admirer of Florentine~twirled a
81 IV | for himself two fervent admirers. Accordingly, he now~posed
82 IX | business is to get himself admitted to the bar. Therefore don'
83 IV | On hearing this stern admonition the painter turned red to
84 V | If you get that former~adorer of Madame de Serizy on your
85 V | said Pere Leger.~ ~"He adores his wife and dares not find
86 III | as the "ne~plus ultra" of adornment, was bewildered by the present
87 IV | people at that~end of the Adriatic are pirates, rovers, corsairs
88 IV | in all~Dalmatia, Illyria, Adriatica, and other places. In those
89 III | grow~still more, like other adults of eighteen or nineteen
90 VIII| Tuileries, looking~out for adventures. What else can you expect?
91 VII | somewhat cold, so much did he affect decorum; a "devote" would
92 X | lieutenant-colonel. He took the most affectionate care of the Vicomte~de Serizy,
93 VI | holding up my secrets and my affections to the ridicule~of a Madame
94 I | A peer~of France might afford to hire a cabriolet to himself,
95 II | Council of State in the afternoons, and went~to bed at nine
96 III | and jumped out with the agility~of a frog leaping into the
97 IV | reflections. Therefore,~continue, agreeable old gentleman, to lecture
98 VI | Schinner."~ ~Madame Moreau, agreeably surprised, rose, told her
99 II | diplomat succumbs."~ ~Crottat agreed in this advice, which the
100 VI | of Ali Pacha,~and Mina's aide-de-camp--" he continued, walking
101 V | to apply to the Marquis d'Aiglemont. If you get that former~
102 II | conscience, that was all. Alert, and thoroughly~understanding
103 IV | stuff about the Emperor~Alexander. Or I might be Cousin, and
104 VII | influence, and you have just alienated the only protector~that
105 V | Nunc my eye, nunc alii,'" whispered Mistigris.~ ~"--
106 III | reign, married, through that all-powerful~protection, a purveyor who
107 V | was~perfectly grave.~ ~"By Allah!" he exclaimed, "I see nothing
108 III | Moreau, very intimately allied with Madame Husson, was
109 VIII| to your chamber. You will allot the~exact time it takes
110 II | when the Orders~held their allotted places in the State; and
111 V | us," he thought; "it is allowable to~baffle them-- Pierrotin,"
112 III | clothing, analogous, with due~allowance, to that of Mistigris, consisted
113 V | Serizy."~ ~The person thus alluded to showed no sign upon his
114 IV | beautiful~creature in the town; almond eyes, lids that dropped
115 I | teeth as white and broad as almonds.~ ~"You old good-for-nothing!
116 VIII| were papers, piled up like Alps.~"Monsieur Moreau, we won'
117 VIII| will be said before the altar~of that Holy-Shepherdess
118 IV | in cases."~ ~"'Romances alter cases,'" remarked Mistigris.~ ~ ~
119 VI | poultry-girl, who was having an altercation with a handsome~young man.~ ~"
120 XI | a~pear-shaped stomach, altered the once elegant proportions
121 X | captain in 1832. When the amateur of the best~of all possible
122 VI | gamekeeper. The keeper was amazed when he saw his~real master.~ ~"
123 IX | nation~and an individual. Ambassadors are the attorneys of Peoples.
124 V | the social sphere of an ambassadress.~She carried a handbag worthy
125 III | nothing better than the Ambigu-Comique, where his eyes could~see
126 IX | have satisfied the most ambitious~supernumerary. After being
127 V | claim I wish to press on the American~government. I should be
128 III | of a shabby surtout coat,~American-green in color, much worn, but
129 VIII| twenty-three, enriched to the amount of some twelve~thousand
130 IX | intoxication, when their amphitryon introduced them into~Florentine'
131 X | from Paris thought~best to amputate his left arm.~ ~Thus the
132 IX | of Frederic's joke, were amusing~themselves by imitating
133 III | forgotten. His clothing, analogous, with due~allowance, to
134 VIII| pink and~black, gherkins, anchovies, butter and olives for hors-d'
135 VIII| neophyte must give to the~"ancients" of the office into which
136 XI | Middle Classes~ ~Finot, Andoche~Cesar Birotteau~A Bachelor'
137 IV | of honor, that of Saint Andrew of Russia, that of the Prussian~
138 V | professor, isn't he?--~Monsieur Andrieux of the Academie Francaise,
139 VIII| with caused us to think the angels had~had a finger in it.~ ~
140 VIII| Regnault de Saint-Jean-d'Angely, clerk; Bedeau, youngest~
141 VII | which they suffer their own anguish and that of their children
142 VI | themselves the objects of so much animadversion on the part of the~adherents
143 IV | Cophs. But all~that kind of animal is very uninteresting, and
144 III | his bright gray eyes. The~animation of his brown and rosy face,
145 VIII| addressing all the~clerks, "I announce to you the arrival of a
146 V | the jingling of~a vehicle announced the coming of Pere Leger
147 XI | dowries to young girls, annuities to old men; it pays the~
148 IV | Prussian~Eagle, that of the Annunciation of Sardinia, and the Golden
149 II | husband and I, of writing anonymous letters, therefore I have
150 IX | hoax, and by his way of answering, and his manner generally,
151 X | glasses! What pillage! The antechamber actually~makes me shudder--"~ ~
152 I | the rue de la Chaussee d'Antin to~carry baskets of game,"
153 VIII| mouldiness to delight an~antiquary, cracks of aged dilapidation,
154 VIII| architriclino-basochien," of the utmost antiquity, saved from the~fires of
155 | anyhow
156 I | said the valet, nodding. "Anyway, masters are very annoying;~
157 | anywhere
158 III | and taking the coachman apart a few~steps.~ ~"I hope you'
159 VII | old man,~observing Oscar's apathetic air. "Well, he's just out
160 I | his pockets through~the apertures of his blouse, beneath the
161 X | Clapart, hearing this apostrophe, slunk back to his sofa
162 IV | Zara there are a great many apothecaries. I lodged with~one. In foreign
163 VII | borne a second time,~and appealed to sympathy.~ ~When Oscar
164 VIII| superannuated expression was applicable~to a lawyer's office, it
165 VII | to work now with steady application, and to conduct~yourself
166 V | influence, I~advise you to apply to the Marquis d'Aiglemont.
167 V | laughing.~ ~"The count could appoint Monsieur Margueron's son,
168 XI | establishing correspondents and appointing the agents of the company~
169 VI | were~expressive of terrible apprehension.~ ~"His Excellency! who
170 VIII| Godeschal, who~had served his apprenticeship under Maitre Derville, was
171 II | how to make him happy by approbation; she could do what she~pleased
172 III | still tied to his mother's apron-strings.~ ~"He said MAMMA!" cried
173 III | government clerks were apt to become persons of~importance;
174 IV | Circassian for a mistress, and an Arab horse! Yes,~Ali Tebelen,
175 VI | your dear children in the arabesques," said Bridau,~interrupting
176 I | to it the character of an archaeological work. Our~nephews ought
177 X | order a dinner fit for an archbishop at Chevet's. Just see how
178 IV | was an Uscoque,~tricoque, archicoque in a bicoque of a paltry
179 VIII| new-comer's desk the~"Archives Architriclino-Basochiennes," and the clerks enjoyed
180 I | de~Serizy, of cooling the ardor of Pierrotin for the steward
181 V | fine iron~gate.~ ~"Here we are--where?" said the painter,
182 VII | administered is the greatest~argument against it. Nature is never
183 V | Our household' is a very aristocratic term," remarked the count.~ ~"
184 IX | the~Gaiete, in this lady, aristocratically decolletee and swathed in~
185 VI | father and mother reigned as~aristocrats.~ ~"Mamma," he said, "here
186 VIII| from the depths of his~armchair, and behind a table on which
187 IX | wakened in the palace of~Armida. Oscar, presented to the
188 V | laughing,--exactly like~Arnolphe in Moliere's comedy."~ ~
189 II | his estate of Serizy near Arpajon, where the respect in~which
190 VI | Moreau's pretty wife had arrayed herself~coquettishly, the
191 IV | gendarmes at Pierrefitte to arrest the aide-de-camp of~Mina,
192 I | vehicles,~departing and arriving in Paris at fixed hours,
193 X | Delighted to turn a sharpened arrow in the sensitive heart of
194 III | the count.~ ~"Mistigris, 'ars est celare bonum,'" said
195 X | families,~and men without the article to their names found promotion
196 X | shirt-sleeves with the tools of an artisan. Besides, your~mother loves
197 IX | to this protector of the arts--to use the~consecrated phrase--
198 IX | five-franc pieces, much ashamed at having to mingle such~
199 XI | made any new campaigns in Asia, Africa, or~America?"~ ~"
200 IV | I have not returned from Asia--"~ ~At this moment the count,
201 IX | like a~vision. He turned aside to a dark corner and sat
202 VIII| that characterized him. The aspect~of this gaunt young man,
203 IX | Georges might very well~aspire to the hand of a rich creole;
204 II | of the~conspiracies which assailed the First Consul on his
205 IV | tongues, and legislative assemblies have set the fashion of
206 III | than half an hour late," asserted Pierrotin.~ ~"Well, you
207 II | letter and read it. In its assurances of devotion~and its respectful
208 VI | paper back and forth, so astonished was he at~receiving it from
209 X | The Arabs, in their first astonishment at this furious and unlooked-~
210 IV | one language," said the astute statesman Mistigris.~ ~"
211 VIII| clerk; Grevin, second-clerk; Athanase Feret, clerk; Jacques Heret,~
212 IX | eats and drinks like an athlete. Georges amused himself
213 III | ca! is he subject to such attacks,--that master of yours?"
214 IV | Paradise without~pulleys. I attained to the height of Don Quixote;
215 VIII| us and~sleep in the small attic next to your chamber. You
216 IX | Florentine noticed the attitude of~true grief, which, because
217 XI | yet, Georges ventured to attract attention by yellow kid
218 IX | Coulon's~dancing-class. Attracted by the beauty of that choregraphic
219 X | herself under a curse. She attributed the sorrows of her second~
220 I | Augustin, his valet de~chambre, attributes the change to the visit
221 VIII| devoured melons,~"pates au jus romanum," and a fillet
222 V | Georges, recovering his audacity.~"But I happen to be going
223 III | were likely to examine the audience. His step-father still~wore,
224 IX | beginning, "Inter pocula aurea~restauranti, qui vulgo dicitur
225 IV | injunction from the mayor and the Austrian commissary of police to
226 IV | protection, having to answer to Austrians~and Dalmatians, and in danger
227 III | Clapart with Pierrotin,~and authorized the two confidential remarks
228 VIII| rendered us all~tongue-tied automatoes.~ ~Item: a compote of pigeons
229 VI | pencils--seize with such avidity. Meantime Estelle's clumsy
230 VI | seems he must have been awake and listening to us), with~
231 I | compartment~covered with an awning, where the trunks, cases,
232 X | morning, a terrible sound awoke the unfortunate~clerk. Recognizing
233 IX | melodrama entitled "The Ruins of Babylon." Florentine~was then about
234 IV | are enormous."~ ~"Corpo di Bacco! the Pope is laying it on
235 II | courts, for he despised backbiting; but for all that, he~remembered
236 V | at that particular spot,~backed, as it is, by the noble
237 VI | ropes of blue silk on a gray background. The classic~divan was there,
238 III | Rousseau admire Ventura and Bacle?~ ~But Oscar passed from
239 VII | to Madame Clapart, as he~bade her good-bye, "and I'll
240 IX | Monsieur de Serizy who behaved badly. His wife! I~wouldn't have
241 V | thought; "it is allowable to~baffle them-- Pierrotin," he said
242 III | hand she carried a straw bag and a blue umbrella.~This
243 VI | luxury. The poultry-maid baked their bread; and of late
244 V | and such things. His valet bakes him in~a sort of iron box--
245 IX | superseded the illustrious Balaine,~the creator of the first
246 III | Monsieur le comte? That will balance the carriage~better."~ ~"
247 XI | to him. Georges, almost~bald, retained only three or
248 X | you in~at all hours? My ball lasted till five in the
249 VIII| of society!--actresses, ballet-dancers, elegant young fops,~spendthrifts
250 XI | had seen long service at balls, had now,~like its master,
251 II | time to~time she shed a balm upon the wounds of her husband'
252 Ded | honor of it.~Her brother,~De Balzac~
253 I | embellished along the top with a band of barber's blue, on which
254 VII | if he had stepped from a bandbox. He appeared in~black silk
255 I | three were on a seat they banged each other perpetually,
256 IX | place where~sentence of banishment was passed on a refractory
257 IX | said the actress to Oscar.~"Bankers always win; we won't let
258 VIII| Roussillon and those of the banks of the Rhone~completely
259 I | along the top with a band of barber's blue, on which could~be
260 III | the toes of~which were barely seen. He wore no decoration
261 III | your future to this~fragile bark?"~ ~"I must," replied Georges,
262 XI | Moreau~and her daughter, the Baronne de Canalis, and the Baron
263 I | together~like herrings in a barrel. Pierrotin declared that
264 VII | notary and lawyer, either barristers or solicitors, and~sheriffs.
265 III | wheeling the Pope in this old barrow of yours,"~said Georges, "
266 I | was indeed ordered from Barry, Breilmann,~and Company,
267 I | foreign lands,--for the base and~capital of the columns
268 I | delightful valley in the basin of the~Oise to the little
269 III | took a little roll from her basket:--~ ~"Tiens! you were forgetting
270 XI | knob, which was horribly battered.~The blue trousers, the
271 IV | was present at only one battle, that of Hanau, where I
272 IV | tobacco merchant in the bazaars, he is now~on the high-road
273 III | converted into a pin by a~bead of sealing-wax. She was
274 V | forest to Isle-Adam, his face~beaming with the sly expression
275 I | naturally, a fierce competition. Beaten on the long distances of~
276 III | magnificent head of blond hair beautifully brushed and curled; while~
277 III | the streets,--~Cerisaie, Beautreillis, des Lions, etc. Madame
278 I | enterprise, goes as~far as Beauvais.~ ~Along this route, which
279 | becomes
280 IX | actress now led him into the bed-~chamber, where the rest
281 IX | four card-tables in the~bed-chamber. In the salon, the women
282 VIII| Saint-Jean-d'Angely, clerk; Bedeau, youngest~clerk and gutter-jumper.~ ~
283 IV | Giaours, and Vechabites, Bedouins, and Cophs. But all~that
284 IV | of him, assisted by those beggarly English--who put their paw~
285 | begin
286 VI | door of the salon. "And he begs~Monsieur Schinner to give
287 VII | the profits, and if~Oscar behaves himself, we may, perhaps,
288 VII | milk for a dessert, Oscar beheld~with terror the formidable
289 IX | day, impatient enough to~behold, and be presented to the
290 III | were Oscar's feelings on beholding a~gold chain round his neck,
291 V | always the way, 'Fortune belabors the slave.'"~ ~"Let me tell
292 V | who may some day recover~Belgium for France."~ ~Having committed
293 VII | His~countenance did not belie him. Pere Cardot belonged
294 VII | incapacity is almost beyond belief. Yes, I am,~indeed, most
295 X | crossly.~ ~Just then the bell rang loudly. Madame Clapart
296 IV | Horrid fellow, and 'horrider bellow,'" put in Mistigris.~ ~"
297 VI | powerful, he flung him, bellowing, and rigid as a pole, into
298 VI | whom does Mistigris really~belong?"~ ~"To my friend Schinner,
299 X | Oscar and all his worldly belongings stopped before the~door.
300 I | from~Paris to Isle-Adam, beloved by every one along the way.
301 IX | world.~ ~The report of this Belshazzar's feast for the architriclino-basochien~
302 III | every man~has his moment of beneficence; he may call it his error,
303 VIII| Rouge," on the Quai Saint-~Bernard, where we will celebrate
304 XI | was a worn-out foulard,~bespoke the secret distress to which
305 IV | dashing fellows,--Selves, Besson, and others, who are now
306 III | the studio had no doubt bestowed upon him.~ ~The master was
307 II | Madame de Reybert coldly, bestowing upon her the~holy-water
308 III | tenderness for her boy,--the bete-noire of his step-father. Oscar
309 III | actions, dress, and ways~all betokened that complete independence
310 VI | discovered that he was also betraying your confidence and~robbing
311 V | t be blamed if she finds better--" said Schinner,~but he
312 IX | salon. There sparkled a bevy of stage princesses, who,~
313 IX | like a garden. The~richest "bibelots" and curiosities danced
314 IV | tricoque, archicoque in a bicoque of a paltry little place
315 IX | To-morrow (Sunday) you are bidden to~the Rocher de Cancale
316 XI | petty shopkeepers, who were~bidding each other adieu. Then,
317 I | person of a little beast no~bigger than a pony, about whose
318 VI | height, and seemed stern. His bilious complexion, to which country~
319 VI | bloom. The dining-room and billiard-~room were furnished in mahogany.~ ~
320 VI | dining-room~connected with a billiard-room. These rooms, lying parallel
321 VIII| he prays arrive! May his~bills of costs and charges be
322 I | if by~chance any of those birds of ponderous flight still
323 II | liberal gifts.~ ~But after the birth of Moreau's third child,
324 V | Undoubtedly he will be made a bishop some day," said Oscar.~ ~"
325 XI | sarcasm not unmixed with bitterness.~ ~"Parbleu! I've too many--
326 XI | leather, thick-soled, ill-~blacked, and of many months' wear.
327 IV | between ourselves, is a~blackguard; he is still alive, but
328 VIII| years. My clerks are young blades~who have nothing but their
329 V | false Schinner, "I am caught blague-ing in a~public coach, I'll
330 II | object of the~First Consul's blandishment. He was appointed to the
331 I | father-in-law, and his friends had bled. This superb diligence he
332 X | in order to draw down the~blessing of God on the head of her
333 IX | monsieur!" she said, "the blessings of a mother will follow
334 III | departed, of beauty gone, of blind~maternal love, of sufferings
335 XI | cloth, and~furnished with blinds of a Moorish pattern and
336 XI | in~his blotched skin and bloated, vinous features. The eyes
337 II | to sell the whole in one block,~and talked of cutting the
338 VII | conduct has been that of a blockhead; up to this moment when
339 VI | eye with their pyramids of bloom. The dining-room and billiard-~
340 XI | life of debauchery in~his blotched skin and bloated, vinous
341 III | by incessant~labor. These blotches and pimples so injured the
342 VII | dazzling shirt-front, a blue-bottle coat, violet silk~gloves,
343 IX | mustn't~commit any more blunders like one he was guilty of
344 III | white, which thickened and blurred the mouldings and~figurines,
345 IV | and the pretended Schinner blushed to their ears.~ ~"Well,
346 VIII| eight hundred francs with board and~lodging. Consequently,
347 VII | the three thousand francs~board-money which they extract? This
348 III | that gray tone we see in boarding-~schools. When Pierrotin
349 X | manner in which his wife boasted~of Oscar every time he obtained
350 VII | child; he is~conceited, boastful, deceitful, lazy, incapable
351 III | recovering them. The natural boastfulness of school-boys~(possessed
352 IV | their equilibrium as much as bodies. When~each person thinks
353 XI | Government Clerks~A Prince of Bohemia~The Middle Classes~A Distinguished
354 IV | head, and his vanity was~boiling in his veins; so when the
355 VIII| ourselves at a late hour in the Bois de Boulogne instead of~our
356 IV | Schinner.~ ~"Well, you're a bold dog," cried farmer Leger. "
357 X | a reproachful~look, the boldness of which he had never shown
358 V | that speech, uttered with bombastic assumption, Oscar flung~
359 VI | upon his own house like a bombshell.~ ~From the top of the hill
360 II | clever woman hold him in bondage?~ ~The answer to all these
361 III | Mistigris, 'ars est celare bonum,'" said his master.~ ~"I
362 I | inn-keeper, who had as many~books as there were lines. She
363 I | soft hay and~put it in the boot. There's no name upon it,"
364 II | ninety-~six parcels of land bordering the estate of Presles, and
365 VI | dauphin" which~artists, cruel, born-observers of the ridiculous--the pabulum
366 IX | The wines were worthy~of Borrel, who in those days had superseded
367 I | at Isle-Adam, trousers of bottle-green velveteen,~waistcoat of
368 XI | about, as usual, on the boulevard du Temple, gazing at the~
369 VIII| late hour in the Bois de Boulogne instead of~our domicile,
370 III | This exasperated Oscar, who bounded up, pulled out the wooden "
371 VIII| stanzas. No clerk exceeded the bounds of~amiable gayety, for the
372 II | faithful to the house of Bourbon; would not accept his~peerage
373 I | former~residence of the Bourbon-Contis. Isle-Adam is a little town
374 VII | son-in-law, in the rue des Bourdonnais. But, you see, your uncle~
375 VI | husband's affairs at~the Bourse. She even depended on Moreau
376 VII | in mind and body, neither bow-~legged nor crooked, after
377 IX | a peer of France, and he bowled us over. Ah ca! so you want
378 V | bakes him in~a sort of iron box--for he is always in hopes
379 IV | the travellers were again boxed up.~ ~It was now eleven
380 VI | at her throat, and~velvet bracelets on her bare arms (Madame
381 XI | it was monsieur who so bravely rescued the Vicomte Jules
382 IX | the office like one man. "Bravo! very well! vivat!~Long
383 V | Georges to Oscar.~ ~"I have breakfasted," replied Oscar.~ ~Oscar
384 V | beard sprouts and the~voice breaks. "'What a chit for chat!'"
385 V | habit of stopping an~hour to breathe his horses, give them their
386 IV | Besides, what man of any~breeding would wear his decorations
387 VI | look like?"~ ~"Face like a brick," said Georges, "hair snow-white,
388 IV | the coucou?"~ ~"Hey! that brick-colored old fellow goes it strong!"
389 III | Pierrotin took Rougeot by the bridle and gave that guttural cry, "
390 VI | Just as Madame Moreau was bridling, and soaring to the seventh
391 X | Godeschal then related briefly the affair of the journey
392 IV | reached the guard-house of a brigade of~gendarmerie,--the white
393 IX | thousand francs, but those brigands~Finot and Giroudeau won
394 III | presented to the eye a~brighter patch of color when the
395 XI | features. The eyes had lost the~brilliancy, the vivacity of youth which
396 IV | know, don't you,~that the British sell powder and munitions
397 VIII| clerks to see Talma in "Brittanicus," at~the Theatre-Francais.
398 XI | into this road that Georges broke the silence which~the travellers
399 VI | stewardship then the wife of a broker does in her husband's affairs
400 VI | them much), together with bronze kid shoes and thread~stockings,
401 X | simultaneously making the family broth, Clapart's~"tisane," and
402 VII | of her father and of her~brother--"~ ~"She loved her brother,"
403 II | became~through his wife the brother-in-law of the ci-devant Marquis
404 V | mother's handiwork.~ ~"We are brothers in socks," said Mistigris,
405 II | his grief. After the 18th Brumaire, Monsieur de Serizy became,~
406 III | of blond hair beautifully brushed and curled; while~he, by
407 III | besides two trunks, buckets, brushes, boxes of~singular shape,
408 I | capital of the columns of the Brussels theatre are of Nogent stone.~
409 III | contained, besides two trunks, buckets, brushes, boxes of~singular
410 VI | with a richly~chased gold buckle, a velvet ribbon and cross
411 II | served him as shield and buckler against pangs of heart~which
412 V | castles," said Mistigris.~ ~"Budding diplomatists have so much
413 IV | wasn't he raging, that buffoon of an~Englishman?"~ ~"Hush!"
414 I | particularly~pleased to build a vehicle which would be
415 I | material for many of the finest~buildings in modern Paris and in foreign
416 VI | who held in his hand a bundle of~deeds and other papers.~ ~
417 V | packages of the painter, the bundles of Oscar~Husson, and the
418 XI | other adieu. Then, after bundling in the six passengers,~he
419 VII | son need any longer be a~burden on him.~ ~"He is right,
420 VI | the Empire, the~head of a bureau, who fell a victim to his
421 IV | with stamped papers and bureaucracy, the curse of France,~hein?"~ ~"
422 X | on behalf of his son, now buried in the chapel of the chateau~
423 XI | either, monsieur; the sun burns black in Africa, doesn't
424 V | replied Oscar.~ ~Three bursts of laughter came from Mistigris,
425 VII | really and truly, you were burying your energy and your capacity
426 X | ladies as that on every bush--if he pays for them.~Some
427 VII | of eyebrows as thick as bushes, beneath~which sparkled
428 IV | understand, they~are too busy cropping off each others'
429 VI | breast, and fastened to a buttonhole on the left~was the order
430 III | removed his shabby cap of a bygone period, a pointed skull,
431 II | Monsieur," she said to the cabinet-minister, "we are incapable, my~husband
432 VII | given Oscar a dinner at the Cadran-Bleu, taking him, afterwards,
433 V | nearly every day."~ ~"'Aut Caesar, aut Serizy,'" said Mistigris,
434 V | maintain my station."~ ~"'Et caetera punctum!'" crowed Mistigris,
435 IV | Alicante and some cheese-~cakes?" said Georges to the count.~ ~"
436 V | expression of a peasant who calculates his~profits. Nothing was
437 IV | Egyptians--fellahs they are called--have an immense advantage
438 III | coming along alone.~ ~"He calls that insect a horse!" exclaimed
439 VII | him for you."~ ~This visit calmed the anxieties of the poor
440 VI | what language! He dared to calumniate my wife. Besides~this, I
441 XI | Have you made any new campaigns in Asia, Africa, or~America?"~ ~"
442 IX | qui vulgo dicitur Rupes Cancali." Every one can imagine~
443 IX | wax-candles flamed in the candelabra.~Tullia's footmen and those
444 VIII| Madame Clapart, mother of the candidate-basochien Oscar Husson,~we, the undersigned,
445 VIII| enforced; namely, to allow all candidates for the privilege of~Basoche
446 VII | by the light of a single candle. Monsieur Clapart was expecting~
447 VIII| stains of wine, pates, and candle-grease. To~exhibit the stamp of
448 IX | by a force of unlimited caprice.~But the luckless old gentleman
449 I | years had~driven a coucou of capricious flight between Paris and
450 IV | Sultan Mahmoud ordered him to capture Ali by sea; and he did~get
451 IV | in a felucca, which was captured by the Turkish~High-Admiral
452 I | miles in five hours with his~caravan, he was forced to omit certain
453 IV | Ali gave me yataghans, and carbines,~and scimetars, and what-not.
454 IV | don't know who they are.~Carbonaro? the deuce! I might get
455 XI | disaster at Florentine's card-party strengthened~him in honesty
456 IX | Gold glittered on four card-tables in the~bed-chamber. In the
457 X | glance at Moreau. "Your uncle Cardot--"~ ~"I have no longer an
458 VII | business life."~ ~Neither the Cardots, nor the Camusots, nor the
459 III | ridiculous suit of clothes, and caring nothing for the~real interests
460 VI | to Moisselles, began to carp and criticize with such
461 III | what is called in Paris "le carre,"--that is, the square landing,--
462 V | count, when they reached the Carreau~woods, "here we all are,
463 I | linger in the~second-hand carriage-shops--might be made, as to its
464 X | to him."~ ~At this moment carriage-wheels were heard, and a hackney-coach~
465 III | of public conveyances and carriers are called by their~business
466 I | monsieur or madame. My bill for cartage alone comes to fifty francs
467 VII | saying to you. You ought to carve the~last word in letters
468 III | throughout with ancient carvings, consisted of~three connecting
469 IX | Here," he said, opening his cash-box, "are five hundred francs.
470 II | say that while he accepted casks~of wine, and took care of
471 I | designers have built, such as Cassan, Stors,~Le Val, Nointel,
472 X | Madame Clapart to her son, casting a~reproachful glance at
473 V | Monsieur knows men, not castles," said Mistigris.~ ~"Budding
474 VI | poultry-yard, pigeon-cotes, and~cattle at the cost of the estate,
475 III | would be well to show the causes of Oscar Husson's silly~
476 II | secret sorrows was that of causing~repugnance to his wife by
477 VII | your mother? After all the cautions I gave you this~morning--"~ ~
478 V | twirling his cane in a~cavalier manner which excited the
479 VI | Legion of honor~for the first cavalry-sergeant at Beaumont. Consequently,
480 VII | conversation and escape~Clapart's cavilling, "Oscar must be at Presles
481 VI | low tone,~"'Veni, vidi, cecidi,--I came, I saw, I slaughtered.'"~ ~
482 III | Mistigris, 'ars est celare bonum,'" said his master.~ ~"
483 VIII| Saint-~Bernard, where we will celebrate the victory of obtaining
484 V | Mistigris.~"'Tuto, tutor, celeritus, and jocund.' Of course,
485 III | imperial, stowed~away with such celerity that Oscar, who happened
486 I | advantages of a powerful centralization, the Touchard~coaches ("
487 VIII| existence of which has been certified to by~Messrs. Terrasse and
488 IV | cross?"~ ~"The cross of 'ceux-ci'? No, thank you! Besides,
489 VI | Georges.~ ~"Why?"~ ~"Oh, I chaffed him about his decorations."~ ~"
490 I | animals discovered in the chalk pits of Montmartre.~ ~These
491 II | de~Rouvre, made count and chamberlain by the Emperor.~ ~In 1814,
492 VIII| and argued some cases in chambers.~Godeschal and Desroches
493 I | Augustin, his valet de~chambre, attributes the change to
494 X | Prince-royal. The~Vicomte de Serizy chanced to be the lieutenant-colonel
495 VI | and a rare old~cut-glass chandelier, gave a grandiose appearance
496 IV | Saint-Brice, leaving that to~Chantilly on the right.~ ~"Is Rome
497 VIII| master himself forbade the chanting of hymns~of praise in clerical
498 IV | Chosrew pacha,~another queer chap! You call him, here, Chaureff;
499 X | his son, now buried in the chapel of the chateau~de Serizy.~ ~ ~
500 VIII| apparent harshness that characterized him. The aspect~of this
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