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501 XI | am the inspector-general; charged with the duty of~establishing
502 VIII| May his~bills of costs and charges be paid in a trice! May
503 X | creature went to sleep~after charging her maid to carry the little
504 VII | six years, on the~delicate charity of Monsieur Moreau; and
505 XI | Mistress~ ~Vandenesse, Marquis Charles de~A Woman of Thirty~A Daughter
506 II | ungrateful, but she mingled a charm with her ingratitude. From
507 VIII| titles,~privileges, and charters were lost, to the protection
508 III | year, had~no servant but a charwoman who came daily for a few
509 XI | vivacity of youth which chaste or studious habits have~
510 VIII| lifetime procureur at the Chastelet, do hereby~recognize the
511 X | one who loveth while he chasteneth.~ ~Oscar, meantime, behaved
512 VII | had joined some personal chastisement,~perhaps the lesson might
513 V | breaks. "'What a chit for chat!'" added the rapin.~ ~"Your
514 I | beautiful sites, for the famous chateaux~which princes, monks, and
515 VIII| through the procureur of the~Chatelet-Bordin, the immediate predecessor
516 V | the fun of their lively~chatter.~ ~"Well, are you to have
517 IV | prefer the grisettes of the~Chaumieres at Mont-Parnasse."~ ~"They
518 VI | heavy labor.~ ~At Nerville, Chaumont, Maffliers, Nointel, and
519 IV | chap! You call him, here, Chaureff; but the name is~pronounced,
520 I | your house in the rue de la Chaussee d'Antin to~carry baskets
521 VII | seeing that he lived in a cheap way, reflected that he~had
522 I | others work, but he doesn't cheapen what they do; and he~gets
523 VIII| which alone he could take,~checked by the apparent harshness
524 III | square patch of white~on each cheek. His black trousers covered
525 VIII| signatures, and praises of good~cheer and wines, which seemed
526 VIII| consisted of a piece of Gruyere cheese. After dinner, Godeschal
527 IV | glass of Alicante and some cheese-~cakes?" said Georges to
528 XI | No stop~was made at the cheese-cake inn, and the coach took
529 III | obedience to what he called the "chefs de file,"--~the front-rank
530 VII | the idea~that his nephew cherished him, and she constantly
531 V | Schinner, turning as red~as a cherry.~ ~"So you know his Excellency
532 VIII| breakfast, Sunday next, at the "Cheval Rouge," on the Quai Saint-~
533 IV | Worse than that; he chewed and smoked," continued Georges. "
534 III | vegetables of the season, chickens, eggs,~butter, and game.
535 V | don't know the guerrilla chieftain, Mina, but I know the Keeper
536 VII | of the firm of Protez and~Chiffreville. The practice of his eldest
537 III | meals he saw that their china, glass, and all other little
538 III | poverty; and yet, though the chipped and mended~dishes and tureens
539 V | the~voice breaks. "'What a chit for chat!'" added the rapin.~ ~"
540 VII | disposition," as he~said, in his chivalrous way.~ ~But beneath his calm
541 V | an ocean voyage: rolls,~chocolate--"~ ~"A special kind of bread
542 VIII| by sixteen bottles of~the choicest wines) a compote of peaches
543 III | the vain lad was round and chubby and~bright with the hues
544 VIII| hear mass at the parish church of Saint-~Severin to solemnize
545 IV | girl~for groom, a little Circassian for a mistress, and an Arab
546 VI | present him to her social circle as equal in talent~to the
547 II | of the country-side for a circuit~of thirty miles:--~ ~"Monsieur
548 VIII| were, a~new dynasty. This circumstance made a break in the usages
549 II | lots. It~was necessary to circumvent this plan, and perhaps,
550 II | Serizys, father and~son. Citizen Moreau belonged to the Danton
551 IV | replied the count. "If~the civil list paid you, as it did,
552 II | of increasing his fortune clandestinely; the interests of his three~
553 III | beyond the fact that~the Claparts paid a rent of two hundred
554 X | knees before his~uncle, with clasped hands, "It is twelve o'clock!
555 III | with its~frogs and olives clasping the waist, it seemed to
556 VI | on a gray background. The classic~divan was there, of course,
557 IV | reproduce Hobbema, Ruysdael, Claude Lorrain, Poussin,~and others."~ ~"
558 I | stuffing the tobacco into his clay pipe. "I see a lady and~
559 III | in color, much worn, but clean and well-brushed; a~black
560 II | field, and proved to him clearly that he (Moreau)~could make
561 V | necessary to manage Oscar cleverly in~order to work this new
562 III | sight of a pretty one. The click of the stranger's boot-heels
563 V | you know there's a hill to climb; I'm not hungry, and I'll
564 VII | annuity;~and at my age one clings to old habits. Do you know
565 III | across the forehead, and clipped, like a soldier's,~close
566 VI | question the woman more closely; for he began to see something
567 IX | in the~boudoir, his eyes closing in a leaden sleep.~ ~"Mariette,"
568 III | silver.~ ~Monsieur Clapart, clothed in a shabby surtout, his
569 IV | the coucou rolled through clouds of dust~rising on either
570 IV | weather, which had been cloudy,~cleared; the breeze swept
571 IX | failed him, and his tongue clove to the~roof of his mouth.~ ~"
572 VI | abashed, was skulking behind a clump of trees in the~centre of
573 I | hour, Pierrotin and his co-rival practised an indulgence
574 I | francs~already paid to the coach-builder, not counting five hundred
575 I | Breilmann,~and Company, coach-builders, who had just substituted
576 I | conveniences due to the~progress of coach-building, instead of having to listen
577 I | hotel, and~stable, the same coach-house, office, and clerk. This
578 III | whom she had come to the~coach-office as much from doubt of his
579 I | stablemen and~porters of the coaching-lines watching the lively start
580 III | by nature with a certain coarse beauty, proved~to have no
581 III | The wood-work, painted coarsely~of a reddish white, which
582 IV | been there; it is on the coast."~ ~"You are right," said
583 V | hoarse voice~of a young cock; which made Oscar's deliverance
584 III | enter many homes, and to be cognizant of many secrets; but~social
585 II | with the small-pox like a colander with holes, a flat, spare~
586 II | thanked Madame de Reybert coldly, bestowing upon her the~
587 VI | had a slight sensation of colic,~Joseph Bridau quivered,
588 V | Francaise, or Monsieur Royer-~Collard?" asked Schinner.~ ~"My
589 VII | really for Piron, Vade, and Colle. Naturally, he~admired Beranger,
590 III | tell the two animals to collect their energy; on which,~
591 VI | butcher's-meat, wines, and the colonial supplies required by their~
592 VI | beneath the windows, as in the colonnades of the Place Louis~XV.,
593 VII | fortune that~was almost colossal in ten years. To establish
594 I | base and~capital of the columns of the Brussels theatre
595 II | pun on "eris," which word, combined with the~"i" at the beginning
596 VIII| in~this line, superior to comedians.~ ~In buying a practice
597 VII | served as Turcarets to the comedies and tales of the eighteenth~
598 IX | before the eyes of the new-~comers.~ ~At first, and in the
599 II | securely settled in all his comforts at Presles that he~ceased
600 I | four wheels. This coach, of comical~construction, called the "
601 X | in a regiment of cavalry commanded by the Duc de~Maufrigneuse.
602 I | elasticity will certainly~not commend itself to purists in morality;
603 VI | my education was purely commercial; but~I have so profound
604 IV | the mayor and the Austrian commissary of police to go~back to
605 I | familiar. He could execute~commissions intelligently; he never
606 IV | Such are the follies one commits at eighteen!"~ ~"And you
607 I | of beautiful, rapid, and commodious vehicles,~departing and
608 XI | a relation.~ ~Oscar is a commonplace man, gentle, without assumption,
609 VII | the whole street into a commotion. Clapart, who heard~the
610 III | did not think it best to communicate~the suspicion that had entered
611 I | subject of learned researches comparable to those of~Cuvier on the
612 VIII| his accounts, which were comparatively unimportant. Godeschal said~
613 III | only did he involuntarily compare the~dress of his travelling
614 VIII| seized him to fly when he compared himself in the~street with
615 III | Oscar had no other points of comparison since his~adolescence than
616 II | struggle against dangerous comparisons. In fact, the~most cruel
617 I | take three more in a square compartment~covered with an awning,
618 XI | was divided into three~compartments, coupe, interieur, and rotonde,
619 X | retribution by which~God was compelling her to expiate the errors
620 IV | piece. But~faith! I got no compensation for the vices I contracted
621 I | enterprise~could successfully compete with the Lesser Stage company,--
622 IX | were enjoying a modest~competence. It was to this protector
623 X | cried Madame Clapart.~"You complained that my son lived on your
624 X | had the slightest cause of~complaint against him; here he is
625 I | having to listen to perpetual~complaints of his "sabots" (tires of
626 IV | thought he. "I shall pay my compliments to his master, whose business~
627 VIII| s head to construct and compose a Register~"architriclino-basochien,"
628 X | replied Moreau, "I should wait composedly till~he draws for the conscription,
629 IV | it, you know, for fear of~compromising HER."~ ~"Ah! I'd return
630 VII | career," said uncle Cardot, concealing his hypocrisy under~an air
631 III | specifically, this overweening conceit--so troubled~Monsieur Moreau
632 VII | know your own child; he is~conceited, boastful, deceitful, lazy,
633 VII | during his lifetime, he had conceived the idea of buying an annuity~
634 VII | Clapart, like all women who concentrate~their whole being into the
635 VII | Persan. I am the head of the concern, which has a~capital of
636 VI | go into the next room and conclude~this business before dinner,
637 II | weekly visit. So, while concluding his purchase of the farm,
638 I | stood on the Place de la Concorde, encumbering the Cours-la-Reine,--~
639 VII | and without in the~least condemning her, he knew very well that
640 IV | we didn't~scatter little condiments while exchanging our reflections.
641 I | l'Echiquier, whither he conducted the valet. "Waiter, two~
642 VI | do?"~ ~During Estelle's conference with her head-woman the
643 X | time in forty years, to confess herself to~the Abbe Gaudron,
644 V | recollecting the name of the confessor at his school.~ ~"Well,
645 III | Pierrotin, who hesitated to confide his fears for~the steward
646 V | from~its nest of hay and confided mysteriously to the wife
647 VI | household~and their own fortune. Confident of his MEANS, she was a
648 IX | from his hand; so that this conflict of wills and~intuitions
649 V | leaving his late companions~confused and bewildered.~ ~"He must
650 VI | were going and coming in a confusion that may readily be imagined.
651 V | turning to Oscar.~ ~"I congratulate myself on having travelled
652 VIII| coucou, Oscar Husson did not connect the present Marest~with
653 III | carvings, consisted of~three connecting rooms, a dining-room, salon,
654 IX | Though religion orders us to conquer it,~distrust remains, and
655 X | pealing with laughter at the conscience-stricken faces of the~uncle and nephew.~ ~"
656 II | Moreau managed the~estate conscientiously; he took an interest in
657 VI | but Mistigris, who was conscious of being in~his Sunday clothes,
658 IX | of the arts--to use the~consecrated phrase--that the theatre
659 XI | the interieur, he named, consecutively, "Monsieur~Bellejambe, two
660 V | silence, which passed for consent.~ ~Oscar, furious at being
661 V | evidently considering the~consequences of their fibs.~ ~"This is
662 IX | is essentially social and conservative. The daughter of James II.,~
663 II | labor. Kind, and always considerate of the countess, he~allowed
664 VI | were treated with all the consideration~due to himself. Grindot,
665 VIII| well-beloved predecessors, we have consigned to~the Keeper of the Archives
666 I | porter, still~by way of consolation.~ ~"But no parcels! Twenty
667 VII | ended by kissing~him to console him for being scolded.~ ~"
668 II | capital invested in the Consolidated thirds,~now paying five
669 II | concerned in one of the~conspiracies which assailed the First
670 XI | Establishment~ ~Canalis, Constant-Cyr-Melchior, Baron de~Letters of Two
671 VI | Mistigris would~say: 'Qui esurit constentit.'"~ ~"Well, he is very good-natured,"
672 VI | looked at each other in consternation; their glances were~expressive
673 I | miles; and their enterprise constituted a fine~establishment in
674 VII | ninnies who subscribed to the "Constitutionnel," and was much~concerned
675 VIII| into Godeschal's head to construct and compose a Register~"
676 I | This coach, of comical~construction, called the "four-wheel-coach,"
677 IV | of our~most distinguished consul-generals who happened at that time
678 VII | I not~right to come and consult the only relation my Oscar
679 II | from~whom had led to the consultation), Monsieur de Serizy defended
680 VI | it."~ ~"Just as Moliere consulted La Foret," said Mistigris.~ ~
681 II | importance was~done without consulting him; but he never went to
682 VIII| prudent, had come, through contact with others, to see~the
683 V | satisfaction, "You haven't any contagious diseases, I hope."~ ~Oscar
684 VIII| obtaining this~volume which contains the Charter of our gullets.~ ~
685 XI | excites~neither envy nor contempt. In short, he is the modern
686 VI | added, after looking at him~contemptuously from head to foot. "Your
687 V | scaffold."~ ~"'Silence gives content,'" muttered Mistigris.~ ~"
688 VIII| the~stern discipline and continual toil of his life.~ ~Moreau,
689 V | nose without the slightest contraction of~feature. Then he took
690 VI | committing the fault of contradicting the word of a~minister of
691 XI | desire to SHOW-OFF that the~contrast was not only a sight to
692 III | thoughtless youths in the odd contrasts of the silvery hair, the~
693 V | gravely.~ ~"We shall probably contribute to his rise, for the Abbe
694 II | count had unfortunately contributed not~a little to deprive
695 I | other old-fashioned French~contrivances. But these hard and distrustful
696 XI | years ago."~ ~"Pierrotin now controls the whole service of the
697 II | mistress, and in it every convenience and luxury had~been placed.~ ~"
698 I | would compliment him on the conveniences due to the~progress of coach-building,
699 IV | two years'~seclusion in a convent, where she still is. I am
700 III | fastened by a broken needle converted into a pin by a~bead of
701 VIII| the~aforesaid clerks shall convey themselves in a body to
702 VI | said the count, whose conviction was now complete; "we are~
703 II | husband, he ought to be convinced that we have obtained this~
704 I | specially~lucky days the convoy started from the faubourg
705 IV | understand, my goose was~cooked, oh, brown! when it suddenly
706 VIII| the manners, customs, and~cookery of the clerical race.~ ~
707 I | the Comte de~Serizy, of cooling the ardor of Pierrotin for
708 IX | But Frederic, with the~coolness and gravity of a king's
709 IV | Vechabites, Bedouins, and Cophs. But all~that kind of animal
710 I | rules~written on the tariff, copies of which were, however,
711 X | his tears, which flowed~copiously. At last he understood this
712 IX | workmanship, fastened by gold cords,~dazzled all eyes. The flowers
713 VIII| Proust,~clerk; Augustin Coret, sub-clerk.~ ~At the office.~ ~
714 VIII| dilapidation, and broken corners that looked~as though the
715 IV | taxes are enormous."~ ~"Corpo di Bacco! the Pope is laying
716 VII | cut in. For this~reason corporal punishment, though philanthropists
717 IV | his face as Georges named, correctly, one of our~most distinguished
718 XI | the duty of~establishing correspondents and appointing the agents
719 II | himself, he read the truth.~ ~"Corruption has come to him with fortune,--
720 IV | Adriatic are pirates, rovers, corsairs retired from~business, as
721 IV | pronounced, in Turkish, Cosserew. You must have read in the
722 IV | twice a-day, and that's very costly."~ ~"How did you find Egypt?"
723 I | by two horses. To-day the coucous--if by~chance any of those
724 V | trousers. He sneezed, he coughed, he spat, and swallowed
725 IX | Florentine as she was leaving Coulon's~dancing-class. Attracted
726 VII | can give nothing but good counsel to~her child. We will go
727 IX | unchained senses drive the wise counsels of his mother and Godeschal~
728 III | that his~mother's toilet counted for much in the smiles of
729 I | or else,~why should he countermand the Daumont,--why travel
730 I | came, Monsieur le comte countermanded it. Augustin, his valet
731 I | grateful affection of the country-~people, and also violent
732 VII | tenants of the same vast country-house. Certain, through a long~
733 III | said Mistigris. "'Short~counts make good ends.'"~ ~"Mistigris,
734 I | is going down to spend a couple of days with~him."~ ~"Ha!
735 II | subscribing no doubt to the "Courrier Francais," earnest in virtue,~
736 I | Concorde, encumbering the Cours-la-Reine,--~coucous which had flourished
737 VII | Madame Clapart see the drops coursing down his cheeks~than she
738 IX | year, and a handsome~face, courted Florentine. Every danseuse
739 VII | the old man, who,~out of courtesy to the "fair lady," repressed
740 IX | disinterested she may be, the courtship of such a star is a passion~
741 VIII| Though Frederic Marest was cousin-german~to Georges Marest, the latter
742 II | good situation and eagerly coveting it.~ ~"You say your husband
743 VI | husband discovered Oscar cowering in~his corner. Moreau swooped
744 VIII| stockbroker,~and so my dainty coxcomb spends his Sundays in the
745 VI | a man of fifty,~with a crabbed expression of face, was
746 VIII| to delight an~antiquary, cracks of aged dilapidation, and
747 I | doubly celebrated as the cradle~of the family, now extinct,
748 X | whom poverty had rendered craftily~savage, could be capable
749 VI | studios we say croquer, craunch, nibble, for sketching,"~
750 IX | moment to bring her son some cravats, and overhead the last words
751 VIII| possessed, at times, with a craving~for fun and quizzing. The
752 IV | taking my~cup of coffee and cream."~ ~"Don't you eat anything
753 IV | weather was fine, and,~not to create suspicion, I took a turn
754 IX | illustrious Balaine,~the creator of the first restaurant
755 X | have~the four loveliest creatures ever seen behind the foot-lights;
756 IV | said the count, with a credulous air, "a man must love a
757 III | Pierrotin and the~porter, to cries of "Houp la! hi! ha! hoist!"
758 V | Having committed the odious crime of repudiating his mother,
759 VI | indiscretions~be punished like crimes. But while accepting the
760 II | only three days before this critical Sunday, had a talk with
761 VI | Moisselles, began to carp and criticize with such eagerness that
762 VII | neither bow-~legged nor crooked, after sacrificing everything
763 IV | Georges. "But~their chief crop, rice, grows in the water.
764 VIII| with a muddy skin and hair cropped like a~clothes-brush, who
765 IV | do? How do~they vary the crops?"~ ~"Well, in the first
766 X | you?" replied the invalid, crossly.~ ~Just then the bell rang
767 VI | His blue eyes~and a large crow-beaked nose gave him an air that
768 IV | crowded with people. Such a crowd!~like that for an execution.
769 IV | pockets, when I saw the street crowded with people. Such a crowd!~
770 V | Et caetera punctum!'" crowed Mistigris, imitating the
771 I | out of the forest which~crowns the slope of the valley.
772 X | morning, and you have~the cruelty to come and wake me up at
773 IV | the Porte, and, instead of crushing it, as he meant to do,~got
774 IX | established in the rue de Crussol, were enjoying a modest~
775 V | farmer; "and I'll break a crust here~and now."~ ~"Give us
776 X | said the danseuse, who was crying, "will you let your~own
777 VI | which~might give him his cue; one of those words "de
778 I | collar, shoulder-straps~and cuffs, with many-colored embroidery.
779 VI | furnished with beautiful~pieces culled from the rare old furniture
780 IV | narrator.~ ~"They have a way of cultivating which you will think very
781 IV | sweet things that~don't need cultivation. It is a country full of
782 IV | must have fields, farms, culture--"~ ~"Well, there may be
783 V | Albert~has tried in vain to cure it. The count would give
784 IX | The~richest "bibelots" and curiosities danced before the eyes of
785 IV | It was~one of the most curious things I ever saw, though
786 VI | sides~of which rippled the curls of her beautiful blond hair.~ ~
787 III | picturesque disorder of the curly brown hair which fell~upon
788 VI | well say: 'Sour are the~curses of perversity.'"~ ~Oscar
789 VIII| a~clothes-brush, who was curt of speech and possessed
790 VIII| clerk~is, alas, sternly curtailed by his parents. Consequently,
791 III | Mistigris opened the leathern curtain and jumped out with the
792 VIII| surrounded by chocolate custards.~ ~Item: a dessert composed
793 I | elude the necessity of a custom-house permit. If need~were, he
794 VI | handsome lamps, and a rare old~cut-glass chandelier, gave a grandiose
795 I | researches comparable to those of~Cuvier on the animals discovered
796 IV | received the grandson of Czerni-~Georges. Here, of course,
797 IV | spitting a Christian on his dagger than I did of spitting on
798 II | matters had advanced to dagger-thrusts. Monsieur de Reybert~breathed
799 IX | livery, where serving the dainties on silver salvers. The~hangings,
800 VIII| a stockbroker,~and so my dainty coxcomb spends his Sundays
801 VI | The~poultry-game, also the dairy-maid, assisted in the work of
802 IV | the Venetian states--in Dalmatia--that I received a~cruel
803 VI | hung with blue and white damask, formerly the curtains of
804 IX | she was leaving Coulon's~dancing-class. Attracted by the beauty
805 XI | distress to which a former dandy sometimes falls a~prey.
806 II | Citizen Moreau belonged to the Danton party; Robespierre,~implacable
807 V | I, being a married man, dare not invite~you to my house.
808 V | He adores his wife and dares not find fault with her,"
809 IV | Frenchman and an artist was daring enough to make~eyes at her
810 IX | nerve, imagination, and dash will understand how it was~
811 X | abandon our colonel."~ ~He dashed upon the enemy, and his
812 IX | first handshaking, the first dashes of conversation as they
813 IV | went, with two or~three dashing fellows,--Selves, Besson,
814 IV | decorations to do such a dastardly thing," said~Oscar.~ ~"Never
815 IV | itself, famous latakiah! and dates! and all kinds of sweet
816 VII | religion of Lisette." His daughters, Madame Camusot and Madame
817 VI | those words "de singe a dauphin" which~artists, cruel, born-observers
818 X | the influence of Madame la Dauphine, granted to the Abbe~Gaudron,
819 IV | butter like those of the David school," put in~Mistigris.~ ~"
820 IV | dangerous. At last it must have dawned upon Zena's~mind that none
821 IX | by the time it was broad daylight, Florentine, tired~out,
822 III | gloves, and seemed to wish to dazzle Oscar by~twirling with much
823 VII | a white~pique waistcoat, dazzling shirt-front, a blue-bottle
824 VII | part" on the occasion of~deaths and marriages, and cards
825 X | hundred francs after a little~debauch in which everybody, even
826 XI | disasters in love and a life of debauchery in~his blotched skin and
827 X | but to feel himself his~debtor on behalf of his son, now
828 IX | thousand. So he pays his debts, and gives up the law.~He
829 IX | sixteen. Shortly after this debut Pere Cardot became an~"old
830 VII | of Husson, and if my dear deceased wife were living she~would
831 VII | is~conceited, boastful, deceitful, lazy, incapable of--"~ ~"
832 I | start of the~vehicles which deceives so many travellers, making
833 I | done very timidly, and such~deceptions were easily practised by
834 VIII| appears this constitutional declaration:--~ ~I, the undersigned,
835 I | these long-headed dealers declined to~undertake it at all until
836 IX | this lady, aristocratically decolletee and swathed in~laces, till
837 V | For a man so~covered with decorations--"~ ~"'Nunc my eye, nunc
838 VIII| Moreover, it is hereby decreed that the~aforesaid clerks
839 X | substitute; Oscar is to dedicate his graduating thesis~to
840 Ded | DEDICATION~To Laure.~Let the brilliant
841 VIII| but only to fall into a deeper disgust for life. Impelled
842 VI | his park like a wounded deer.~ ~When Moreau arrived at
843 IV | which will~certainly be defeated when we enter Spain--as
844 II | de Serizy's action as a defection.~Though the senator was
845 VI | Bridau."~ ~"You took up my defence," said the count, hastily; "
846 IV | Don't~you know the fine definition Montesquieu gives of despotism. '
847 III | and~Rougeot recognized a definitive resolution, and they both
848 III | yourself~some day. 'Travel deforms youth.' Give your place
849 VIII| of pleasure with Oscar,~defraying the expenses, for he felt
850 II | might have found herself degraded in public opinion. The countess
851 VI | knew my father, will you~deign to think of his other son,
852 III | business on hand which~can't be delayed."~ ~"Oh! he'll go well enough,"
853 X | night in an orgy. That's deliberately going to~work to lose your
854 III | mentor. During this short deliberation, which~was ostensibly covered
855 VIII| clerks called the "chamber of~deliberations"; and thus it obtained a
856 VIII| of august and mirobolant~delicacy.~ ~The wines of Roussillon
857 V | cock; which made Oscar's deliverance all the more absurd,~because
858 VIII| publicly notorious that no one~delivers himself up to Themis if
859 III | well as her whole air and demeanor, indicated a mother~wholly
860 VII | Clapart's~salary, also the "demi-bourse," or scholarship, by which
861 VIII| in a body to that noble~demoiselle to thank her in person,
862 VI | monseigneur in that coach?~What demon let loose your tongue, you
863 I | succumbed to~omnibuses, which demonstrated the possibility of carrying
864 IX | you are after; you want~to demoralize my clerks."~ ~So saying,
865 VIII| in the rue de Bethisy, a den of~pettifogging; for if
866 VIII| is really~marvellous. The denizens of a studio and of a lawyer'
867 XI | extremely elegant, seemed to denote an expedition to some rural
868 II | of the most disorganized departments of the~government to reconstruct.
869 I | Daumartin line.~ ~Though the departures for Isle-Adam professed
870 VI | which she discarded.~ ~The dependence in which the situation of
871 VI | but, on the~contrary, to deplore your state, and to ask her
872 V | and he proudly drove in~to deposit with the concierge the thousand
873 III | nose~seemed to have been depressed into it. The hat hid the
874 II | contributed not~a little to deprive him of personal advantages
875 XI | said Leger; "why, he's the deputy from the Oise."~ ~"Ha! the
876 VI | Clapart, it was never in derision; but, on the~contrary, to
877 VIII| fires of the Revolution, and derived through the procureur of
878 V | They were now about to descend the steep hill of La Cave,
879 I | Line to Isle-Adam."~ ~Our descendants will be mightily mistaken
880 II | Monsieur Huguet de Serisy descends in a direct line from the
881 VI | the~saucy rapin; "'facilis descensus victuali,' as we say at
882 VII | imagine, though I cannot describe it to you. I will see you
883 VI | on condition,--~that of describing, as you promised, the execution
884 VI | himself to be arrested as a deserter--"~ ~"Monseigneur," said
885 IX | you'll be punished for deserting me; I~feel in the vein.
886 X | side of the people. This desertion, which~had an importance
887 I | which princes, monks, and designers have built, such as Cassan,
888 II | Reybert, whom her husband despatched to Paris.~There she asked
889 XI | the~valley of the Oise (despatching one through Saint-Leu-Taverny
890 II | holy-water of courts, for he despised backbiting; but for all
891 IX | dreaming,--blows which were destined to become a reality in~1830.~ ~
892 VII | see the grandeur of his destiny," said the little old man,~
893 III | that trouble and sorrow had destroyed his~mother's beauty, and
894 X | where to go.~ ~Chance which destroys men and chance which saves
895 III | rather large~lips, the ears detached from his head, his slightly
896 I | office, and clerk. This detail is alone~sufficient to show
897 VI | I should endeavor to detect him, and send him to the
898 III | his perspicacity at once detected customers, for the~lady
899 VI | impossible to open without detection, and gave it~to the man
900 VI | she heard of the count's determination to restore the magnificent~
901 I | enterprise~would make such a detour, for Isle-Adam was the terminus
902 IV | seen the parts that are devastated by war.~Besides, I have
903 VIII| young clerks~will seize and develop a hoax or a practical joke
904 III | be~without education and devoid of the talent of observation,
905 VII | did he affect decorum; a "devote" would have~called him a
906 II | salons. This noble life, devoting itself from~its very beginning
907 VIII| as exquisite; also were devoured melons,~"pates au jus romanum,"
908 IV | are enormous."~ ~"Corpo di Bacco! the Pope is laying
909 XI | instead of a surtout; a sure diagnostic of actual~poverty. This
910 I | Argent, whence he could see, diagonally, the kitchen of the inn,
911 IV | last floating vapors of the diaphanous veil which swathed~the scenery
912 VII | struck to the~heart by the diatribe she had brought upon herself.~ ~"
913 IX | aurea~restauranti, qui vulgo dicitur Rupes Cancali." Every one
914 X | seven he heard Godeschal dictating to~the second head-clerk
915 X | her own breakfast.~ ~"Mon Dieu! I wish I knew how the affair
916 I | passengers, from the great difficulty they found in~placing and
917 V | is much too delicate to digest the victuals of a~tavern."~ ~"'
918 VI | saying," said the notary,~digging his elbow into his clerk'
919 VI | the count himself calm and dignified.~ ~During the time this
920 VIII| antiquary, cracks of aged dilapidation, and broken corners that
921 IX | slurs on the count, for~they diminished, in a way, the importance
922 VII | notice in~the household if he dines out; old Cardot, on the
923 VII | examinations, certificates, and~diplomas; and here again the question
924 II | admirable memoranda on delicate diplomatic~matters. He did not emigrate
925 II | de Serisy descends in a direct line from the famous~president
926 VIII| be under your immediate direction, and I shall keep an eye
927 III | she herself was a queen in Directorial Paris. At any rate,~Oscar,
928 I | force certain industries~to disappear forever, and modify several
929 VII | lively Gerontes which is now disappearing rapidly, though it once~
930 VI | passengers, Estelle retired~disappointed and regretting the trouble
931 VI | by his own mistakes~and disappointments, the soul of any man able
932 VI | That will do; don't disarrange those papers," said the
933 XI | Husson~in discretion; his disaster at Florentine's card-party
934 XI | exhibited the traces of disasters in love and a life of debauchery
935 IV | Loire, after we were all disbanded.~Faith! I was disgusted
936 I | the cavalry on the great disbandment of 1815,~the worthy fellow
937 VI | shabby railing, which she discarded.~ ~The dependence in which
938 VII | have been complete. The discernment with~which such punishment
939 III | sideboard; at the~windows, discolored curtains. Later, when he
940 VI | when she returned, much discomfited, to the salon.~ ~"I am sure
941 IX | sounded the new~clerk to discover the joke which, as he thought,
942 X | under a~dead horse. Oscar, discovering this, called out to the
943 V | utterly confounded by~the discovery that the farmer was the
944 II | producing the most annoying discussions as to the~trimming of hedges
945 XI | overheard the name, and stared disdainfully at Oscar and his~mother.~ ~"
946 V | The count has a skin disease which makes him hideous.
947 IV | t be funny. Better be a disguised~Russian prince and make
948 VIII| only to fall into a deeper disgust for life. Impelled by~the
949 IV | disbanded.~Faith! I was disgusted with France; I couldn't
950 VIII| that of his master,--~one dish of meat, one of vegetables,
951 X | Seine after~committing a dishonorable action? He cannot now become
952 IX | women delight in. However~disinterested she may be, the courtship
953 VI | been,~notwithstanding this disloyalty, better than others, as
954 VI | same year, prevented the dismissal of a keeper-~general of
955 VIII| that Monsieur Desroches has dismissed you. You have been~careless
956 V | whoever attempts to speak disparagingly of the countess must answer
957 II | the fatigue of others,~was disposed to consider Monsieur de
958 I | and the one most stoutly disputed (as indeed it still is),~
959 II | the annoyances and petty~disputes caused by the inclosure
960 IX | are always punished for disregarding them. There is~one in particular,
961 II | loyally that a single word of disrespect said of~her would have been
962 X | what will he become? A dissipated fellow. The~discipline of
963 IX | enjoyments, though longing for dissipation, was likely to let his~unchained
964 II | which, together with the two distaffs taken as supporters,~proves
965 I | competition. Beaten on the long distances of~twelve to eighteen miles,
966 I | Railroads, in a future not far distant, must force certain industries~
967 I | the Touchard enterprise to distinguish~it from that of the Grandes
968 VII | if he does well, if he distinguishes himself, if he~likes his
969 IX | with the full intention of distinguishing himself in~this little skirmish,--
970 X | future."~ ~Moreau, deeply distressed in spite of his stern bearing,
971 III | from being ornamental, was distressing to the eye. The~floors,
972 VII | uncle~was not present at the distribution of the Henri IV. prizes,
973 I | of the inhabitants of the districts which they served. The~person
974 I | contrivances. But these hard and distrustful manufacturers would only~
975 III | name of Lecomte.~ ~"Don't disturb any one," he said to Pierrotin. "
976 IV | Leger, who was a good deal disturbed by the count's~outburst,
977 II | of the count's steward (a disturbing letter from~whom had led
978 II | the~trimming of hedges and ditches and the cutting of trees.
979 VI | background. The classic~divan was there, of course, with
980 II | legislative functions to divert his mind~from his grief.
981 XI | his dress, would all have diverted Georges~recollections of
982 I | standing close against the division wall of the adjoining property.~
983 IV | months, from the~germ, so the doctors said, of suppressed plague."~ ~"
984 II | Moreau the son, heir to the doctrines~and friendships of his father,
985 III | in his button-hole, and~doeskin gloves concealed his hands.
986 VI | forest, not~counting our own domain."~ ~Oscar, the painter,
987 VIII| Boulogne instead of~our domicile, where we thought we were.~ ~
988 VII | who often came in to play dominoes, for never~did he allow
989 IV | never have got through the doorway," replied~Schinner. "So
990 IV | mistake and trebled the dose. The immense fortune of
991 IV | my time; then I charge, double-~quick, and cut his line
992 II | suitable one in point of rank, doubled the~already considerable
993 VIII| have invited Messieurs Doublet, second clerk; Vassal, third
994 IX | death of his uncle, nearly doubling his means,~had still further
995 I | little town of Isle-Adam, doubly celebrated as the cradle~
996 VI | his~conjugal authority was doubted.~ ~Moreau's youngest son,
997 II | he~remembered Derville's doubts, and felt inwardly shaken.
998 I | popular saying is, "good dough." The hotel at which they
999 I | squirrels,--up-hill and down, down-hill and up!" said Pierrotin. "
1000 VI | The count and Moreau went downstairs; Moreau white as the count'
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