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1001 XI | at the end of ten~years, dowries to young girls, annuities
1002 X | de Serizy's instigation, drafted into that~noble regiment,
1003 I | such occasions, in order to drag it along, he gave his stout
1004 III | was followed by a porter dragging a~hand-cart. The young man
1005 IX | to wit: an old captain of dragoons, named Giroudeau; Finot,
1006 IX | consumed with thirst, and drank three glasses of iced~punch
1007 VI | curtains of the state-~bed, was draped with ample portieres and
1008 VI | decoration consisted of a stone~drapery beneath the windows, as
1009 III | you are standing in a draught, and you may take~cold.
1010 II | anxious forehead, a small drawn-bonnet of faded green taffetas
1011 X | wait composedly till~he draws for the conscription, and
1012 V | through and through with a dreadful foreboding.~ ~They were
1013 I | directly opposite, never dreamed of starting a rival coach
1014 IV | twisted his moustache with a dreamy air.~ ~They were now entering
1015 III | withal tyrannical.~ ~In this dreary apartment, which faced the
1016 IX | changes of fortune, and still drinking punch, Oscar came down~to
1017 IX | opera danseuse~eats and drinks like an athlete. Georges
1018 III | expected to find.~ ~The drivers of public conveyances and
1019 XI | my marriage."~ ~"He still drives about the park," said Reybert.~ ~"
1020 VII | did Madame Clapart see the drops coursing down his cheeks~
1021 IV | the newspapers~how old Ali drubbed Chosrew, and soundly, too,
1022 VII | to your lawyer's office; drudge~night and day, and study
1023 VII | second son,~Joseph, into the drug business of Matifat. So
1024 VIII| by~Messrs. Terrasse and Duclos, keepers of records, by
1025 V | public coach, I'll fight a duel with myself. It was your
1026 I | la queue" (cheat of their dues) the government~officials,
1027 V | young fellows were now as dull as thieves caught in the
1028 VIII| Grandemain, clerks; and Dumets, sub-clerk, to~breakfast,
1029 IV | at Mistigris, who seemed dumfounded.~ ~"Well," said Pere Leger, "
1030 IX | all as drunk as Pitt and Dundas, talked of~going on foot
1031 IV | nothing,~except in some old dust-barrel like this."~ ~"Has monsieur
1032 II | me," said his wife. "The Dutchman who lives there has~put
1033 III | baskets contained anything dutiable. These baskets, hampers,
1034 I | to allow the gendarme on duty--always a~friend to Pierrotin--
1035 III | that his mother at home dwelt too fondly on the~days when
1036 III | black-silk gown that was dyed, a brown~bonnet, an old
1037 VI | and criticize with such eagerness that a~few sparks of the
1038 II | happened it that from the earliest days of his~marriage his
1039 II | the "Courrier Francais," earnest in virtue,~but aware of
1040 II | There she asked with such earnestness to see the count that although~
1041 X | pay all expenses, and he earns, himself, a salary of eight~
1042 I | and such~deceptions were easily practised by the coach proprietors,
1043 IV | something in him," whispered the Eastern~hero to the painter. "However,
1044 I | were~satisfied with this easy-going, patriarchal system. If
1045 X | count's son, having left the Ecole~Polytechnique rather low
1046 VIII| so marked an oenological ecstasy that we~found ourselves
1047 VI | cried Mistigris, in three ecstatic tones. "Why, Presles~will
1048 VIII| tables, and white boxes edged with blue, also new. His
1049 VIII| consequence thereof, for the edification of our successors, and~to
1050 V | parents believed they had educated me!" thought Oscar,~endeavoring
1051 VIII| of the Rhone~completely effaced those of Champagne and Burgundy.
1052 III | sentiments~have so much egotism!~ ~"Georges, do you like
1053 I | it made both ingress and egress extremely perilous,~especially
1054 IV | suppose there are a good many Egyptians," said Mistigris.~ ~"Not
1055 IV | you have Egypt. But those~Egyptians--fellahs they are called--
1056 VI | mother's friend alarm him.~ ~"Eh! my friend!" said Estelle,
1057 I | however, the system was~elastic. In summer, that golden
1058 I | himself, a little late. Such elasticity will certainly~not commend
1059 VI | the notary,~digging his elbow into his clerk's ribs.~ ~"
1060 XI | Courtesan's Life~ ~Poiret, the elder~The Government Clerks~Father
1061 VII | or barrister, as he may elect."~ ~"Come, Oscar; thank
1062 II | who died~in 1794, he was elected about that time to the Council
1063 X | upon the enemy, and his electrified soldiers followed him.~The
1064 I | and things which are the elements of this Scene~will soon
1065 IX | cards, and you'll see the elite of the~women of fashion.
1066 I | Touchard coaches.~He managed to elude the necessity of a custom-house
1067 IV | and I was glad enough to~embark on a Genoese polacca which
1068 VI | painfully~self-conscious and embarrassed. Monsieur de Reybert, a
1069 I | coucou was painted yellow,~embellished along the top with a band
1070 IV | religion of my~fathers and embrace Islamism; all the more because
1071 III | was in the open street, embraced her~Oscar, and said, smiling,
1072 I | cuffs, with many-colored embroidery. A cap with a visor covered~
1073 VIII| Tricks and farces of the embryo long robe~Ten days later,
1074 II | diplomatic~matters. He did not emigrate during the Revolution, and
1075 IV | with vanilla that would be emitting a new opinion."~ ~"You think
1076 IV | t deny that I adore~the Emperor--"~ ~"I served under him,"
1077 IX | hundred francs which my employer gave me to obtain a~document
1078 VII | retribution, for~Nature herself employs it; she uses pain to impress
1079 I | comte; he wants to travel 'en cognito,'~and told me to
1080 V | realm given to Moreau will enable me to~buy Les Moulineaux
1081 IX | the~successful merchant encountered Florentine as she was leaving
1082 I | the Place de la Concorde, encumbering the Cours-la-Reine,--~coucous
1083 VI | seventeen years, could ever be endangered. And yet, when~she heard
1084 V | educated me!" thought Oscar,~endeavoring to smoke with better grace.~ ~
1085 X | weary tete-a-tete of each endless~day. Delighted to turn a
1086 VI | Presles would not have~been endurable without the thought of vengeance
1087 VII | face the privations I have endured for six years in order~to
1088 IV | terrible quarrel. There's no~enduring those climates long; besides,
1089 X | colonel."~ ~He dashed upon the enemy, and his electrified soldiers
1090 III | of a coach, they should engage all the~places," remarked
1091 IV | customs are very different. Englishmen pique themselves on never~
1092 VIII| This was marvellously well engrossed. An expert would have said
1093 IV | Pierrotin told him that enigmatical youth had~placed there.
1094 IV | as the peel of~an onion, enjoined me to silence. A whisper
1095 VII | exposure, and the~exclusive enjoyment of a large garden, for the
1096 II | draw the money. If we have enlightened you as to what is~going
1097 VII | eighteen, you are strong. Enlist in the army; it is your
1098 IV | looked at~him. "At eighteen I enlisted as a private for the famous
1099 IV | and where jest and epigram enliven~all things, even the poverty
1100 IV | those present feel a need of enlivening the journey and~forgetting
1101 VI | the world.~ ~The rancorous enmity which existed between the
1102 II | famous~president Huguet, ennobled under Francois I.~ ~This
1103 VII | Oscar, in spite of the~enormity of his offences, slept the
1104 IV | crossed the street, and entered--"~ ~"The house?" cried Oscar.~ ~"
1105 IV | dreamy air.~ ~They were now entering Saint-Denis, and Pierrotin
1106 VIII| the office into which he enters.~ ~Now, about the time when
1107 III | dressed, he is also capable of enthusiasm over talent, and~of genuine
1108 VIII| I hope, pay a glorious~entrance-fee."~ ~"Forward, the book!"
1109 VI | peristyle which formed an entrance-hall, on which the two suits
1110 VIII| book was duly~prepared, the entries were made. The following
1111 IX | skirmish,--the first affair entrusted to him since his~installation
1112 III | exercised on nothings. Yet if he envies a fool who is~elegantly
1113 VI | flew from lip to lip. The envious~acquaintances of the Moreaus
1114 VII | men he openly professed~epicureanism, and gave himself the license
1115 IV | wit, and where jest and epigram enliven~all things, even
1116 VI | occupied his~mind as a mere episode from the moment when Oscar
1117 I | would joke him about his epitome of a~horse.~ ~The difference
1118 III | Charter make all Frenchmen equals," said Georges.~ ~"Oh! be
1119 IV | Minds need to get their equilibrium as much as bodies. When~
1120 X | Godeschal,~"that tall ne'er-do-well of a Georges Marest is his
1121 II | Reybert, nee de Corroy, stood erect as a pike-~staff. She presented
1122 VIII| the little sub-clerk (the~errand-boy and "gutter-jumper") laid
1123 III | beneficence; he may call it his error, he may never~do it again,
1124 X | compelling her to expiate the errors and pleasures of her~youth.
1125 I | Persan, etc., this region had escaped competition in~1822, and
1126 XI | I am employed by the 'Esperance,' a~company just formed,
1127 I | the inanimate ones,--the essential object of a coaching~business.~ ~
1128 IX | to this terrible~law is essentially social and conservative.
1129 III | count.~ ~"Mistigris, 'ars est celare bonum,'" said his
1130 VII | colossal in ten years. To establish his children richly~during
1131 XI | charged with the duty of~establishing correspondents and appointing
1132 VI | Mistigris would~say: 'Qui esurit constentit.'"~ ~"Well, he
1133 VII | approved~of the old man's ethics, and thought that, having
1134 IV | shall I pass myself off~for Etienne or Beranger? No, these idiots
1135 II | Orders of the courts of Europe. No~man was less obvious,
1136 VII | of my son the notary, and~eventually succeed him. Therefore,
1137 II | Napoleon was compelled by the evidence of his eyes to~admit that
1138 IV | of beginning a story.~ ~"'Ex Oriente flux,'" remarked
1139 XI | elegant proportions of the ex-~young man. Now almost ignoble
1140 X | Chance had thus placed the ex-clerk under the command of the~
1141 XI | much changed," said the ex-farmer, now twice a millionaire.~ ~"
1142 IX | spiteful language of the ex-notary, who amused himself by~predicting
1143 V | Sometimes," replied the ex-schoolboy, swelling out his little
1144 X | Desroches' wrath against~his ex-second clerk and all the threatening
1145 III | no other fault than her exaggerated~tenderness for her boy,--
1146 IV | of Don Quixote; I rose to~exaltation! and I cried: 'The monster
1147 I | Pierrotin lifted, weighed, and examined.~ ~"Here," he said to his
1148 III | Opera," said Amaury.~ ~This exasperated Oscar, who bounded up, pulled
1149 VIII| clerical stanzas. No clerk exceeded the bounds of~amiable gayety,
1150 II | skin resulting solely from~excessive labor. Kind, and always
1151 III | all youths whose vanity is excessively ticklish, seemed~annoyed
1152 V | a~cavalier manner which excited the admiration of poor Oscar.~ ~
1153 X | of the public. During the excitement of triumph in~the month
1154 XI | to a middle course. He excites~neither envy nor contempt.
1155 VII | southern exposure, and the~exclusive enjoyment of a large garden,
1156 IX | drive, and arrange the gay excursions~into the country which all
1157 III | Moreau's faults~can ever be excused, it might be on the score
1158 VI | waiting a moment for Oscar's excuses. "A proud man humiliates
1159 I | were all familiar. He could execute~commissions intelligently;
1160 XI | ten years devoted to the~exercise of the most severe piety
1161 III | portentous~because it is exercised on nothings. Yet if he envies
1162 I | over which he wore, while exercising his~functions, a blue blouse,
1163 V | swallowing the smoke and exhaling none.~ ~"And my parents
1164 I | precautionary demand, Pierrotin~had exhausted all his resources and all
1165 VIII| pates, and candle-grease. To~exhibit the stamp of truth that
1166 VIII| said the little clerk, exhibiting the volume.~ ~We must explain
1167 V | de Serizy, and I can only exhort him~to do it with a firm
1168 VII | humble, to~his mother's exhortations, but they were lost in the
1169 III | or rather, there seldom exists, a criminal who~is wholly
1170 II | In order to secure the exorbitant~sum on which his mind was
1171 VIII| admission~surpassed our expectations. It was composed of radishes,
1172 IV | to amuse himself at the expense of~such companions.~ ~"Let
1173 VI | the new fashions.~She wore expensive boots, and never was seen
1174 VIII| marvellously well engrossed. An expert would have said that~it
1175 II | not foreseen, was about to expire, and the owner of the farm~
1176 IX | after listening to the explanation for which he~asked; "it
1177 XI | gazing at the~show, when the explosion came. The poor widow was
1178 VIII| to allow his pupil to be exposed to temptation.~Generally
1179 VII | the Seine, with a southern exposure, and the~exclusive enjoyment
1180 I | world,"--one of his own expressions,--he had come to~look upon
1181 VI | consternation; their glances were~expressive of terrible apprehension.~ ~"
1182 XI | upon the pension~list, made expressly for the families of the
1183 I | Touchard coaches finally extended their route to Chambly;
1184 I | Saint-Denis, the building extends back through a long~court-yard,
1185 VII | his own home, nor in his external conduct~before the world.
1186 I | cradle~of the family, now extinct, of Isle-Adam, and also
1187 VII | francs~board-money which they extract? This is life as it is,
1188 VIII| were made. The following extracts will show to~the most obtuse
1189 X | has senses and a taste for extravagance like~Oscar can find such
1190 VIII| parents,~and brought up with extreme severity by a stern father,
1191 III | the heart, prove only the exuberance of sap,--the~richness of
1192 III | face, and the thick, tufted eye-brows which were still jet-~black.~ ~
1193 VI | He would draw from your~eyes--"~ ~"We must paint your
1194 IV | seen,~and a hard, stern face--"~ ~"But what did you do
1195 III | dreary apartment, which faced the north and had no other~
1196 X | the conscience-stricken faces of the~uncle and nephew.~ ~"
1197 VIII| countenance as he studied its facetious pages. Inter~pocula each
1198 VI | said the~saucy rapin; "'facilis descensus victuali,' as
1199 I | He was not without that facility of speech which is~acquired
1200 X | a master who forgave no failure in any~affair he had once
1201 IV | Pierrefitte, the sun had fairly~drunk up the last floating
1202 II | he said, had served him faithfully for seventeen years.~ ~"
1203 X | horrors of his position, and falling on his knees before his~
1204 XI | a former dandy sometimes falls a~prey. Moreover, Georges
1205 V | Clapart's son was telling~falsehoods.~ ~"So, monsieur," continued
1206 V | Monsieur Schinner; your fame is~already won, and nobly
1207 III | expressed both respect and familiarity.~ ~"Yes, Pierrotin, very
1208 XI | heavily along. He nodded familiarly to Pierrotin, who appeared
1209 IX | a melodrama~entitled "La Famille d'Anglade."~ ~"My dear,"
1210 X | new dynasty amounted to~fanaticism, was appointed major of
1211 VIII| volume of his repressed fancies and the~follies of youth
1212 III | added in a severe tone, fancying~herself able to inspire
1213 VIII| learned the secret of the farce, and the~revelation inspired
1214 VIII| CHAPTER VIII~Tricks and farces of the embryo long robe~
1215 I | large coach, ordered~from Farry, Breilmann, and Company,
1216 II | his~marriage his wife so fascinated him? Why did he suffer without~
1217 VI | With an Eve, a fair, young, fascinating woman," added Bridau.~ ~
1218 IX | Rocher de~Cancale and a fashionable festivity put them into
1219 VI | imported from Paris all the new fashions.~She wore expensive boots,
1220 VII | Paris; and what am I now? Fasting~is good for the health.
1221 III | replied Georges, in a tone of fatalism.~ ~Oscar gave a sigh as
1222 VII | regarded him as an admirable father-in-~law.~ ~"He knows," thought
1223 I | his credit. His wife, his~father-in-law, and his friends had bled.
1224 I | establishment in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis. In spite of their~long-standing
1225 VII | ever less fussy~or less fault-finding than he. The apartment,
1226 VIII| race.~ ~Having received a favorable answer to this request,
1227 IX | costs some trifles to the favored mortal. There are dinners
1228 X | attached as aide-de-camp to La Fayette,~who gave him the rank of
1229 IV | count at once opened it, and fearing, with some~reason, that
1230 V | high time for Moreau to~feather his nest."~ ~"Yes, for if
1231 VI | kind and hospitable after feathering his nest so~comfortably.~ ~
1232 II | world's honor, the fuss and feathers~of public favor, the glories
1233 V | slightest contraction of~feature. Then he took another whiff,
1234 X | the line. In the month of~February, 1830, Madame Clapart obtained
1235 VIII| salary, he was lodged and fed, for he did the work of
1236 VII | of a~sleepless night; her feeble voice,--in short, everything
1237 VII | considerable sums for entrance fees, examinations, certificates,
1238 III | Madame Husson very rich, he feigned~a great passion for her,
1239 IX | francs. Oscar then thought of feigning illness~and making his escape,
1240 III | health, while that of his fellow-traveller was~long, and delicate,
1241 IV | carry off my windfalls in a felucca, which was captured by the
1242 VIII| second-clerk; Athanase Feret, clerk; Jacques Heret,~clerk;
1243 VII | iron bar, eager for work,~ferociously active. His name is Desroches.
1244 IV | had made for himself two fervent admirers. Accordingly, he
1245 IX | Book of jurisprudential~festivals.~ ~Godeschal disappeared
1246 V | the~consequences of their fibs.~ ~"This is what is called '
1247 VIII| were~filled with reports of fictitious cases. On the first page
1248 III | Saint-Denis by the rue de la Fidelite, "suppose we get out,~hey?"~ ~"
1249 III | seat where Mistigris was~fidgeting.~ ~"If you expect some one
1250 I | which produced,~naturally, a fierce competition. Beaten on the
1251 XI | son. Clapart, a victim of Fieschi's machine, had served his
1252 VII | years longer to see your fifth~child realizing all we expect
1253 XI | fine-looking for a woman of fifty-four years of age. She is very~
1254 XI | passengers. Pierrotin, now about fifty-six years old, was little~changed.
1255 IX | mind, and I don't care a fig for him now."~ ~Oscar listened
1256 III | proclaimed the lively spirit of a~Figaro, and the careless gayety
1257 V | in a~public coach, I'll fight a duel with myself. It was
1258 III | mother one of~those pathetic figures which catch the eye of many
1259 III | blurred the mouldings and~figurines, far from being ornamental,
1260 III | which trailed a few dirty filaments which even a poet could~
1261 V | thankful when Mistigris~filched his cigar, remarking, as
1262 III | he called the "chefs de file,"--~the front-rank men in
1263 VIII| pates au jus romanum," and a fillet of beef with mushroom sauce.~
1264 II | at the beginning and the final "s" in "melius," forms the
1265 II | made~special collector of finances at Beaumont. The farmer,
1266 XI | The countess is~still fine-looking for a woman of fifty-four
1267 III | considered that old-fashioned finery as the "ne~plus ultra" of
1268 I | Daumartin, which was so firmly established~that its neighbors,
1269 VII | d'Or, one of the oldest firms in Paris, he had~bought
1270 V | fooling with customers, or fishes,~either."~ ~"Very good,"
1271 X | clerk she went off into such~fits of laughter that not only
1272 VIII| mind, I'm afraid, is~not fitted for law. He can talk well,
1273 X | and read it. Finding the five-hundred-~franc note, he went into
1274 VII | popular expression, have been~flabbergasted if any one had explained
1275 IV | gendarmerie,--the white flag floating, as the orthodox
1276 I | necessity of reporting this flagrant~violation of the ordinances.
1277 IX | eating ices. The wax-candles flamed in the candelabra.~Tullia'
1278 IV | those eyes~were so many flames, all mouths were a single
1279 I | his father. The~rounded flanks of this vehicle allowed
1280 III | more worn than~the coat, flapping his thin legs. In addition,
1281 VIII| lost sight of~him, Moreau flattered himself that between them
1282 IV | A fair yield and no flavor,'" said Mistigris.~ ~The
1283 X | evil genius; he~ought to flee him like the plague; if
1284 IV | that of our Admiral of the Fleet--"~ ~"But I thought he was
1285 XI | nakedness of the skull. A fleshiness ill-placed, in other words,
1286 VI | The words "waiting-maid" flew from lip to lip. The envious~
1287 VII | monsieur!"~cried the mother, flinging herself into a chair that
1288 IX | pacha!" he exclaimed in a flippant way.~ ~"Hey! you here, Monsieur
1289 VII | he belonged to that great~flock of ninnies who subscribed
1290 III | distressing to the eye. The~floors, never waxed, were of that
1291 I | Cours-la-Reine,--~coucous which had flourished for a century, and were
1292 X | restrained his tears, which flowed~copiously. At last he understood
1293 VI | be seen standing near a~flower-bed in the court-yard of the
1294 VI | the Place Louis~XV., the flutings of which were stiff and
1295 IX | Vendome.~ ~The clerks were fluttering still in the skies of fancy
1296 IV | a story.~ ~"'Ex Oriente flux,'" remarked Mistigris's
1297 VIII| wild desires seized him to fly when he compared himself
1298 VI | face to the ground, was foaming with rage, and did not say~
1299 III | Empire, his watch in the fob of his~trousers, from which
1300 V | laughed as he stood with folded arms~under the porte-cochere,
1301 VI | lodge and wrote a line,~folding it in a way impossible to
1302 IV | his nephew, the~Comte de Fontaine."~ ~"A great painter is
1303 III | endowed by nature with a foolishness his mother did not~perceive,
1304 III | step-father's sarcasms. This foolishness--~or, to speak more specifically,
1305 VI | Give no opportunity for fools to talk. Above all, let
1306 IV | minister~comes down to be a foot-boy. The Ottomans have no system
1307 X | creatures ever seen behind the foot-lights; we'll~dance you a 'pas
1308 I | the body of the coach as a foot-rest for the~rabbits, which was
1309 I | usually found a strong foothold in the good-will and~sympathy
1310 IV | own administration on that footing--"~ ~"But," said Leger, who
1311 IX | the candelabra.~Tullia's footmen and those of Madame du Val-Noble
1312 VI | course, with its pillows and footstools. The~plant-stands, taken
1313 VIII| ballet-dancers, elegant young fops,~spendthrifts who are wasting
1314 VI | game, fruits, flowers, forage, vegetables, wood, the steward~
1315 VIII| presence of the master himself forbade the chanting of hymns~of
1316 V | through with a dreadful foreboding.~ ~They were now about to
1317 II | Pierrotin. That worthy had~just forebodings of a danger which was about
1318 IX | gentleman, wise from experience,~foresaw that by the time he was
1319 II | advance of agriculture~was not foreseen, was about to expire, and
1320 IX | an eye of the soul which foresees catastrophes;~and the repugnance
1321 VI | license from the~Eaux et Forets; and we hunt over twelve
1322 X | fall before a master who forgave no failure in any~affair
1323 X | Serizy was led not only to forgive Oscar for his~painful remarks
1324 X | you see that the reason he forgot to go for those papers was~
1325 III | families and provoked~pity, the forks and spoons were of silver.~ ~
1326 VII | Oscar beheld~with terror the formidable ex-steward, who entered
1327 I | of which are the stables, forming a large house~standing close
1328 IV | contracted in that God-~forsaken country, if country it is.
1329 VI | turned the paper back and forth, so astonished was he at~
1330 IV | Parbleu!" said Schinner; "the fortifications count for much in my~adventure.
1331 IV | said Georges; "but it is fortified."~ ~"Parbleu!" said Schinner; "
1332 VII | brilliant success. For the next fortnight she took Oscar to~walk daily,
1333 IV | with the rank~of colonel. I fought for the constitutional cause,
1334 XI | material was a worn-out foulard,~bespoke the secret distress
1335 I | the rule of rivalry was founded on reasons that are~easy
1336 I | its being given here. The four-wheeled coach was~surmounted by
1337 I | each time that he drove the~four-wheeler. This may seem extraordinary
1338 VII | practised on so sly an old fox~as uncle Cardot. The latter
1339 III | trust your future to this~fragile bark?"~ ~"I must," replied
1340 X | mother whose conduct has been frail in her youth,~and who, in
1341 X | Finding the five-hundred-~franc note, he went into his private
1342 II | no doubt to the "Courrier Francais," earnest in virtue,~but
1343 V | Andrieux of the Academie Francaise, or Monsieur Royer-~Collard?"
1344 II | We are, as you see, quite~frank with you. Moreau has made
1345 II | counting that the integrity and frankness of Monsieur~de Reybert were
1346 XI | was greasy; long usage had frayed the edges of the sleeves
1347 II | her liberty all the more freely because her husband~treated
1348 VI | property.~ ~The house, built of freestone, in the style of the period
1349 III | and the Charter make all Frenchmen equals," said Georges.~ ~"
1350 IX | poor parents, having never frequented~the great world, or, indeed,
1351 X | going to~work to lose your freshness. Besides which, it was ungrateful
1352 VII | interests, and because of her friendship for Moreau, the only~person
1353 II | heir to the doctrines~and friendships of his father, was concerned
1354 IX | ecarte; bet on him."~ ~Oscar, frightened by his position, accepted
1355 VI | cried the steward,~with frightful violence.~ ~Too bewildered
1356 VII | out of his senses; he is frightfully~changed."~ ~Oscar did not
1357 IX | fine outfit! I~have six frilled shirts of fine linen in
1358 VI | lined with white silk and fringed.~Seeing that Pierrotin merely
1359 XI | edges of the sleeves into~fringes.~ ~And yet, Georges ventured
1360 XI | but~these were elaborately frizzed out to conceal, as best
1361 III | out with the agility~of a frog leaping into the water.~ ~"
1362 III | young man of twenty-two in a frogged surtout-coat silk-lined,
1363 III | and the overcoat with its~frogs and olives clasping the
1364 III | the "chefs de file,"--~the front-rank men in war, and men of rank
1365 I | for its width. Though its frontage has only three or four windows
1366 IV | a marshal; if you~don't fulfil your functions to his satisfaction,
1367 X | threatening prophecies which he~fulminated against him. The result
1368 IV | his way of dismissing his~functionaries. A gardener is made a prefect;
1369 III | Presently," said that functionary, who was standing, whip
1370 X | into his private office furiously angry with his~second clerk.
1371 | further
1372 II | that the world's honor, the fuss and feathers~of public favor,
1373 VII | because no one was ever less fussy~or less fault-finding than
1374 IV | diligences of~France, that gabbling and indiscreet country,
1375 IV | I was seized, garroted,~gagged, and guarded by the police.
1376 IX | Three more turns and the gains were lost. Oscar felt a~
1377 I | be kept to that vigorous gait.~ ~"Shall I harness up,
1378 III | of~blue linen. His white gaiters, coming above the knee,
1379 IV | Illyria to one of our most gallant~officers of artillery?"
1380 I | the afternoon, and arrived gallantly at Isle-Adam~by ten at night.
1381 VIII| galley-slaves were happier than he. Galled by the collar of this iron~
1382 VIII| his nature. He felt that~galley-slaves were happier than he. Galled
1383 VI | him, and send him to the galleys."~ ~"Monsieur Moreau, listen
1384 IX | of weight, and shouldn't~gamble on notes, or go beyond a
1385 X | poor~mother.~ ~"What! he gambled with the money of the office?"
1386 IX | all, with the instinct of gamblers, took the side~of Giroudeau,
1387 IX | and his partner lost five games running. After losing the~
1388 I | his horses and shouting "Gare!" was rough; but~he managed
1389 VII | your mother's home, in the garret; go~straight to the law-school;
1390 X | attached, was~always in garrison in Paris, or within a circumference
1391 IV | fell upon me; I was seized, garroted,~gagged, and guarded by
1392 III | the~valet, he saw in the gate-way of the Lion d'Argent the
1393 VI | substituted a handsome iron~gateway for the shabby railing,
1394 IV | it cuts down the tree to gather the fruits.' They don't
1395 I | he reported to the tax-~gatherer, was the coucou which he
1396 II | the widow at twenty of Gaubert, one of the~most illustrious
1397 VIII| other clerks:~ ~"My dear Gaudet, go away from here of your
1398 XI | Life~The Government Clerks~Gaudissart the Great~The Firm of Nucingen~ ~
1399 III | countenance was to be the weather-~gauge by which the other young
1400 VIII| him. The aspect~of this gaunt young man, with a muddy
1401 I | too obvious to allow the gendarme on duty--always a~friend
1402 II | illustrious of the Republican generals, who left her his whole~
1403 VIII| the protection of Sainte-~Genevieve, patron Saint of this office,
1404 IV | glad enough to~embark on a Genoese polacca which was loading
1405 VI | I do not deserve such gentleness, monseigneur," said Moreau,
1406 III | enthusiasm over talent, and~of genuine admiration for genius. Such
1407 XI | addresses to Mademoiselle Georgette Pierrotin, whose~'dot' amounted
1408 IV | of three months, from the~germ, so the doctors said, of
1409 IV | never~opening their lips; Germans are melancholy in a vehicle;
1410 VII | belonged to that race of~lively Gerontes which is now disappearing
1411 II | de Serizy did not go to Ghent. He informed Napoleon that
1412 VIII| radishes, pink and~black, gherkins, anchovies, butter and olives
1413 VIII| the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, so be it. This~day, the
1414 IV | many more~Abyssinians, and Giaours, and Vechabites, Bedouins,
1415 II | really owed him that sum as a gift after ten years'~management;
1416 III | romantic-looking stranger, gifted with such advantages, insulted
1417 II | satisfaction by liberal gifts.~ ~But after the birth of
1418 XI | years, dowries to young girls, annuities to old men; it
1419 I | harness up!" added Pierrotin, glancing out towards the~street,
1420 IX | Florentinas y Cabirolos. Gold glittered on four card-tables in the~
1421 V | All is not gold that glitters,'" he began, his eyes flaming.~ ~"
1422 II | feathers~of public favor, the glories of success were indifferent
1423 VIII| looked~as though the rats had gnawed them; also, the gilt edges
1424 IV | might as well have a herd of goats. The women~are horribly
1425 IV | been for me you'd have~been gobbled up. It was that mischief-making
1426 VIII| renew the chain of years and goblets, I, the said Godeschal,~
1427 XI | Thirty~Cousin Pons~ ~Derville~Gobseck~The Gondreville Mystery~
1428 IV | vices I contracted in that God-~forsaken country, if country
1429 VIII| our predecessors held the Goddess Bottle and good~living.~ ~
1430 III | twirling with much grace a gold-headed switch cane.~ ~Oscar had
1431 XI | those diligences called "Gondoles," which now ply, in~rivalry
1432 I | broad as almonds.~ ~"You old good-for-nothing! It starts to-morrow, I
1433 IV | himself; he assumed an air of~good-humored interest in the country,
1434 I | passengers, and stowed away, good-naturedly, in her vast kitchen the~
1435 I | a strong foothold in the good-will and~sympathy of the inhabitants
1436 IV | recognized me. You understand, my goose was~cooked, oh, brown! when
1437 III | the impression of those~gorgeous scenes, and nursed the images
1438 VI | Serizy,--that you should have gossiped about me~before a boy! holding
1439 IV | at the execution of the Governor of~Smyrna, whom the Sultan
1440 V | allowed the smoke slowly and~gracefully to escape them.~ ~"There,
1441 VIII| Palais, have implored our gracious master to~obtain them from
1442 VI | Moreau~inclined her head graciously, showing that in her ignorance
1443 X | At that time the cavalry~grades were all being taken up
1444 I | argot of their vocabulary. Gradually the greedy~Treasury became
1445 VIII| more than most licensed graduates; he did the work~at the
1446 X | Oscar is to dedicate his graduating thesis~to him."~ ~At this
1447 II | of ten thousand from the Grand-Livre."~ ~"But why don't you ask
1448 XI | replied Joseph Bridau, "the granddaughter of~Monsieur de Reybert.
1449 VII | have such charming little granddaughters! You are, as~it were, the
1450 IX | be the widow of a Spanish grandee, to whom his cousin Georges
1451 VIII| third clerk;~Herisson and Grandemain, clerks; and Dumets, sub-clerk,
1452 VI | cut-glass chandelier, gave a grandiose appearance to the room.
1453 VII | two double louis which my~grandmother gave me, and walked to Paris;
1454 IX | splendid~products for the gratification of Mademoiselle Cabirolle,
1455 V | influence?" inquired Georges gravely.~ ~"We shall probably contribute
1456 IV | his name is, as I may say, graven on my~heart--"~ ~"What was
1457 VIII| behavior in the coucou. The~gravest and most gloomy clerk is
1458 IX | Frederic, with the~coolness and gravity of a king's attorney, continued
1459 XI | whitening lines; the collar~was greasy; long usage had frayed the
1460 I | vocabulary. Gradually the greedy~Treasury became severe;
1461 III | was needed to find in his green-~gray eyes the shrewdness
1462 VII | reminded him in a gentle but grieved voice of the benefits they~
1463 V | smoke~with ill-disguised grimaces.~ ~"You don't know how to
1464 IV | there; I much prefer the grisettes of the~Chaumieres at Mont-Parnasse."~ ~"
1465 IV | about there) in~the pirate's grog, just to make him sleep
1466 XI | the hotel and joined the group~of travellers who were waiting
1467 XI | rotunde, before which were grouped a~number of nurses, country-people,
1468 VI | opened into the great park. Groups of~choice parks hid the
1469 IX | He had reached his full growth, his~beard was thriving;
1470 VIII| consisted of a piece of Gruyere cheese. After dinner, Godeschal
1471 IV | moment the coucou reached the guard-house of a brigade of~gendarmerie,--
1472 VI | from what was called the guard-room. He was dressed in a long~
1473 X | ambition was to leave the Guards and be appointed sub-~lieutenant
1474 VIII| Bordin, successor to the late~Guerbet, in his lifetime procureur
1475 V | Mistigris.~ ~"I don't know the guerrilla chieftain, Mina, but I know
1476 VI | artist, who was to~be her guest and companion for weeks,
1477 VI | asked questions~of their guide, the gardener, who told
1478 IX | blunders like one he was guilty of last night, or~he'll
1479 VIII| contains the Charter of our gullets.~ ~This day, Sunday, June
1480 IV | the Ionian Islands~with gunpowder and munitions for Ali de
1481 III | the bridle and gave that guttural cry, "Ket,~ket!" to tell
1482 XI | his~face had the worn and haggard lines that were now famous,
1483 VII | his breakfast, after his~hairdresser had duly shaved him and
1484 IV | me. However, that was my~halcyon time. I don't regret it."~ ~"
1485 I | faubourg Saint-Denis at half-~past four o'clock in the
1486 X | venomous and spiteful~teasing a half-imbecile man, whom poverty had rendered
1487 II | recognized the wife of some poor, half-pay captain, a puritan,~subscribing
1488 III | of millions, obtained a half-scholarship for her son, Oscar~Husson,
1489 X | everybody, even Godeschal, was half-seas over. This~time, at any
1490 III | speeches were uttered in half-tones to allow Oscar to hear them~
1491 I | said the valet, pointing~half-way down his little finger, "
1492 III | in his heart. He felt as hampered by his own~clothes (made
1493 IV | only one battle, that of Hanau, where I was~promoted sergeant-major.
1494 V | ambassadress.~She carried a handbag worthy of the utmost respect,
1495 V | footing,"--~his mother's handiwork.~ ~"We are brothers in socks,"
1496 I | difficult and even painful~to handle, that was nothing to the
1497 III | friend, got into the coach,~handling with an air of great importance
1498 IX | hostility vanish~at the first handshaking, the first dashes of conversation
1499 V | valet!" cried Oscar.~ ~"Hang it! people don't tell such
1500 IV | business, as they haven't been hanged--"~ ~"Uscoques," said Georges.~ ~
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