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1501 VIII| showed, from time to time, a hankering~after pleasure and a desire
1502 IV | about, on and off. Now~it happens that my name of Georges
1503 VIII| that~galley-slaves were happier than he. Galled by the collar
1504 III | intellect. A strained and harassed~face, too original to be
1505 I | on~two seats, of metallic hardness in spite of the yellow Utrecht
1506 XI | honesty and uprightness; the hardships of his military career~taught
1507 VI | Moreau, the~eldest son, a hardy youth, dressed like an English
1508 IV | Georges. The pacha gave~me a harem--"~ ~"You have had a harem?"
1509 I | working more or less in~harmony.~ ~This exception to the
1510 I | and three hundred for new harnesses, on which he had~a three-months'
1511 I | No! they're dogs! harpies! Suppose I appeal to Monsieur
1512 VIII| checked by the apparent harshness that characterized him.
1513 IV | go round and take all the harvests,~and leave the fellahs just
1514 VIII| Rolland restaurateur, rue du~Hasard, with exquisite wines of
1515 VIII| when Frederic had gone, "he hasn't~the cut of a novice, that
1516 IV | At this moment the count, hastening into the huge inn-kitchen
1517 X | interest and she wrote a hasty note to Godeschal, telling
1518 XI | pay sixteen francs to a hat-maker, being~forced to live from
1519 IV | the~volume of that burning hatred rose the fearful cry: 'To
1520 II | Robespierre,~implacable in his hatreds, pursued him, discovered
1521 I | much~risk of injuring their hats against the roof by the
1522 VI | the luckless lad like a hawk on its~prey, took him by
1523 VII | survey."~ ~"He can learn."~ ~"He--that pussy cat! I'll bet
1524 VIII| signed our names: Malin, head-~clerk; Grevin, second-clerk;
1525 VI | plant-stands, taken care of by the head-gardener of Presles, rejoiced~the
1526 II | an express to the count's head-valet,~inclosing a letter to his
1527 III | get her an~appointment as head-waiting-woman to Madame Mere, the Emperor'
1528 VI | Estelle's conference with her head-woman the two artists and~Oscar
1529 X | rather he flung himself headforemost into the Seine after~committing
1530 II | Grand Livre, piling up his heap with the~utmost secrecy.
1531 III | That fellow must have heaps of francs in his trousers
1532 II | discussions as to the~trimming of hedges and ditches and the cutting
1533 III | full relief. To any but heedless youths, this complexion
1534 VII | that you will not talk heedlessly any more, but will strive
1535 VI | overcoat which came to his heels, breeches of yellowish leather~
1536 IV | bureaucracy, the curse of France,~hein?"~ ~"By virtue of what right?"
1537 II | Versailles. Moreau the son, heir to the doctrines~and friendships
1538 IV | Rome. Zena, who let the heirs of the Uscoque and the judges~
1539 VII | cheeks~than she felt herself helpless, and, like most mothers
1540 I | The occupants of the "hen-roost" (the~name given by conductors
1541 | hence
1542 X | her poor Oscar, and she henceforth~vowed herself to works and
1543 IV | dust!" cried Mistigris.~ ~"Henry IV. is dead!" retorted his
1544 V | kind,--"'By the~footing, Hercules.'"~ ~The count, who overheard
1545 IV | you might as well have a herd of goats. The women~are
1546 VIII| Athanase Feret, clerk; Jacques Heret,~clerk; Regnault de Saint-Jean-d'
1547 VIII| witness whereof we have hereunto signed our names: Malin,
1548 VIII| clerk; Vassal, third clerk;~Herisson and Grandemain, clerks;
1549 III | Oscar~had recourse to an heroic measure, which proved how
1550 VII | breakfasting on~a salad of herring and lettuce, with milk for
1551 I | seats jammed together~like herrings in a barrel. Pierrotin declared
1552 VIII| worthy Maitre Bordin, do not hesitate to~attribute this unheard-of
1553 VIII| and~gave his name without hesitation to Godeschal.~ ~"I am Frederic
1554 III | chain, ending in a bunch of heterogeneous ornaments, seals, and a~
1555 VI | an impatient gesture to~hide her real trouble.~ ~"Mamma!
1556 IV | captured by the Turkish~High-Admiral himself. Such as you see
1557 IV | bazaars, he is now~on the high-road to be a sovereign prince.
1558 III | family, in~the days when the higher nobility of the kingdom
1559 VIII| practice. The work, which~was highly approved by the other clerks,
1560 VII | the Emperor, the imperial highnesses, and all the~great people
1561 I | Isle-Adam was the paved highway of the~Princes of Conti.
1562 IV | few travellers along the highways they're~contented."~ ~"I
1563 XI | Ursule Mirouet~ ~Schinner, Hippolyte~The Purse ~A Bachelor's
1564 IV | little known; he needs an~historian. It is only in the East
1565 IX | if there's the slightest hitch come back to me at once."~ ~
1566 X | francs from his own little hoard~and rushed to the Palais,
1567 V | Mistigris, imitating the hoarse voice~of a young cock; which
1568 III | secured by silver~buckles. His hob-nailed shoes weighed two pounds
1569 IV | will some day reproduce Hobbema, Ruysdael, Claude Lorrain,
1570 III | cries of "Houp la! hi! ha! hoist!" uttered by Georges.~ ~"
1571 III | Pierrotin.~ ~The farmer was hoisted in by the united efforts
1572 VI | gossiped about me~before a boy! holding up my secrets and my affections
1573 II | small-pox like a colander with holes, a flat, spare~figure, two
1574 III | for the spots on his brown Holland trousers less to~remove
1575 III | replied~Pierrotin.~ ~The hollow-cheeked young man and his page reappeared.~ ~"
1576 III | original to be ugly, was hollowed as if this noticeable~young
1577 XI | his whiskers ample; the hollows in his cheeks and his~strongly
1578 VIII| of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, so be it. This~day,
1579 VIII| before the altar~of that Holy-Shepherdess who sends us sheep to shear,
1580 II | bestowing upon her the~holy-water of courts, for he despised
1581 IX | wind. The Cocon~d'Or did homage to its first master by sending
1582 III | their~business to enter many homes, and to be cognizant of
1583 III | the whole of~this maternal homily. So, in order to rid himself
1584 I | coach was~surmounted by a hooded "imperial," into which Pierrotin
1585 IV | seen him in that~picture by Horace Vernet,--'The Massacre of
1586 IV | little place like~Zara--"~ ~"Horrid fellow, and 'horrider bellow,'"
1587 IV | Horrid fellow, and 'horrider bellow,'" put in Mistigris.~ ~"
1588 V | s comedy."~ ~The count, horror-stricken, looked at Pierrotin, who,
1589 X | these words into all~the horrors of his position, and falling
1590 VIII| anchovies, butter and olives for hors-d'oeuvre; a~succulent soup
1591 VI | a man not to be kind and hospitable after feathering his nest
1592 IX | second clerk felt his secret hostility vanish~at the first handshaking,
1593 III | the~porter, to cries of "Houp la! hi! ha! hoist!" uttered
1594 VII | the sick, or living as a~housekeeper in some great family, I
1595 IV | populace which stones you and howls after you from end to end
1596 IV | miserable last thousand! Hue, Bichette!~They won't play
1597 III | chubby and~bright with the hues of health, while that of
1598 XI | Humorists~ ~Serizy, Comte Hugret de~A Bachelor's Establishment~
1599 III | indifference. He began to hum the chorus of a song lately~
1600 X | Titine," observed Cardot, humbly. "I came out early~to order
1601 VI | s excuses. "A proud man humiliates himself~because he sees
1602 VII | is such a scene of bitter humiliation~as I have just passed through!
1603 III | had been made to bear many~humiliations which the paying pupils
1604 III | said the farmer, good-~humoredly.~ ~In France everybody takes
1605 VII | ushers. The world is mighty hump-backed when it stoops!~However,
1606 VI | the chateau. The salon,~hung with blue and white damask,
1607 VI | as in Paris. If you like~hunting, you will find plenty to
1608 IX | seigneurs of the Regency."~ ~"Hurrah!" cried the office like
1609 VIII| candidate, who is worthy of the hurrahs which we~gave for her at
1610 V | out a moment."~ ~Pierrotin hurried his horses through the village
1611 IV | buffoon of an~Englishman?"~ ~"Hush!" said Schinner. "I don'
1612 VIII| forbade the chanting of hymns~of praise in clerical stanzas.
1613 VII | uncle Cardot, concealing his hypocrisy under~an air of friendly
1614 VII | would have~called him a hypocrite.~ ~The worthy old gentleman
1615 IX | and drank three glasses of iced~punch one after the other.
1616 XI | all his previous life. The idle lounger was~hanging about,
1617 VI | occupation than that of sitting idly in her salon awaiting~the
1618 VI | graciously, showing that in her ignorance she~accepted the speech
1619 III | CHAPTER III~The travellers~As Pierrotin
1620 XI | of leather, thick-soled, ill-~blacked, and of many months'
1621 V | swallowed the smoke~with ill-disguised grimaces.~ ~"You don't know
1622 XI | the skull. A fleshiness ill-placed, in other words, a~pear-shaped
1623 X | practice~of devotion. But so ill-used and loving a soul as that
1624 III | by actions more or~less illicit, there are few men who never
1625 IV | nights when my sleep is still illuminated by the eyes of~Zena," continued
1626 XI | She will always be an illusion to you," said Leger, who
1627 XI | distance, gives one the illusion--"~ ~"She will always be
1628 IV | Napoleon~on one occasion to the Illyrian provinces, turned his head
1629 III | gorgeous scenes, and nursed the images of a golden time of pleasure
1630 IX | something to stimulate your~imaginations for that register. To-morrow (
1631 VIII| Sunday, June 27th, were imbibed twelve bottles of twelve~
1632 VI | own taste, was arranged in imitation of~a tent, with ropes of
1633 I | establishment, which~from time immemorial had lodged coachmen and
1634 VI | tone, he impressed Oscar immensely by the force of his~penetration,
1635 I | comfortable in a solid, immovable mass; whereas when only~
1636 IV | I came very near~being impaled at Smyrna. Indeed, if it
1637 III | in a tone of terrible impatience.~ ~Let us admit that Madame
1638 III | sealing-wax. She was waiting impatiently for Pierrotin,~wishing to
1639 III | and Oscar began to laugh impertinently.~ ~"The old fellow doesn'
1640 X | Clapart, whose grief made~her impervious to Clapart's taunt.~ ~"If
1641 II | reproaches for the distrust implied in wishing to~negotiate
1642 VIII| celebrated at the Palais, have implored our gracious master to~obtain
1643 VI | mistresses, Madame Moreau imported from Paris all the new fashions.~
1644 VII | Cardot by her visits, or her importunities, but she held~to him as
1645 III | the scholars are able to impose respect by~superior physical
1646 VIII| were recorded on this imposing register.~ ~The day after
1647 III | simply saddled with the impossibility~of satisfying either then
1648 VII | mentally. At his age mental~impressions succeed each other so rapidly
1649 VI | offices and stables. To improve the entrance by~which visitors
1650 I | required~less care than the inanimate ones,--the essential object
1651 IV | shouldn't it happen to him, inasmuch as it had already happened~
1652 X | which, it was ungrateful to~inaugurate this beautiful apartment
1653 VIII| Severin to solemnize the inauguration of this our new register.~ ~
1654 IV | like," repeated Georges, incisively, "that~monsieur here is
1655 V | now going down the steep incline of the valley~of Saint-Brice
1656 II | petty~disputes caused by the inclosure of these fields within his
1657 I | fancy that thirteen~persons including Pierrotin were all that
1658 I | was closed in with very inconvenient and~fantastic glass sashes,
1659 X | conclusion that his~vanity was incorrigible.~ ~"Make him a barrister,"
1660 IV | remarked Pere Leger with an incredulous look.~ ~"Worse than that;
1661 II | of France, of claims and indemnities demanded by~foreign powers.
1662 VI | all the more~like rich and independent persons taking care of the
1663 II | is obliged to return to India,~he would probably let us
1664 VIII| 1525, and find historical~indications of the utmost value on the
1665 III | himself, affected~the utmost indifference. He began to hum the chorus
1666 III | these~signs of an honorable indigence were not lost, were so many
1667 V | exclaimed Oscar, in a tone of indignation.~"That was the person in
1668 V | feared some thoughtless indiscretion.~ ~"All these people combine
1669 VI | respect. Alas! fate wills that indiscretions~be punished like crimes.
1670 V | little one here has proved,~indubitably, that he knows his Serizy
1671 XI | have given his daughter to induce our great~orator to marry
1672 VI | services to many persons. He induced his master~to agree to certain
1673 II | from a wood-merchant as an inducement to lease to~the latter,
1674 IX | Monsieur Godeschal is~indulgent; see how well he knows how
1675 I | distant, must force certain industries~to disappear forever, and
1676 VI | Oscar dropped like an inert mass to the ground.~ ~"Come!"
1677 IV | which might have made less inexperienced persons than the five other~
1678 IX | eighteen~and twenty are inexplicable to the medical art. The
1679 VII | injunction, which made an infant of Oscar.~ ~"Alas, yes,
1680 V | Killed by a sense of his inferiority, Oscar sat down on a stone
1681 III | ranks~of social life by inferiors who envy those that seem
1682 III | shall have to take down this infernal bar, which cost such trouble~
1683 III | of~singular shape, and an infinity of packages and utensils
1684 III | over, on which were~certain inflamed portions which his snow-white
1685 III | have~revealed a constant inflammation of the blood, produced by
1686 I | necessitated by an increasing influx of travellers.~Pierrotin'
1687 IV | decorated by,--there are no informers here,~I'm sure,--by the
1688 I | customers. This method not infrequently enabled Pierrotin to~pocket
1689 I | were, he was willing to infringe the law as to the number
1690 IV | she~explained matters so ingenuously that I, for one, was released
1691 II | mingled a charm with her ingratitude. From time to~time she shed
1692 I | the coach, it made both ingress and egress extremely perilous,~
1693 VIII| Godeschal in these~efforts to initiate the poor youth safely into
1694 VI | his face was crimson with injected blood.~ ~"This young man
1695 V | remembering his mother's injunctions, which these words~recalled
1696 II | been to him an unpardonable injury. The world admired~him for
1697 VIII| different writing and~different inks, also by quotations, signatures,
1698 VIII| undergoing a~great strife in his inmost being. At times he thought
1699 IV | hastening into the huge inn-kitchen lest his~absence should
1700 V | drawing Pierrotin~into the inn-yard.~ ~"To your steward. He
1701 III | remarked Mistigris,~with the innate genius for observation of
1702 IX | won them from him. Poor innocent!"~ ~"But we ought to wake
1703 III | don't take anything at the inns; they'd make you~pay for
1704 IV | Peers is at this very time inquiring into a conspiracy which
1705 IV | his~absence should excite inquiry, entered the place in time
1706 VII | usual guests of a cafe whose inquisitive observation would have~piqued
1707 III | man, named Husson,~became insane through his sudden fall
1708 III | alone.~ ~"He calls that insect a horse!" exclaimed Georges.~ ~"
1709 I | conversation, apparently insignificant, had stirred up cruel~anxieties
1710 VI | interposed Mistigris, with an insinuating air, "and we are always~
1711 VI | liberty, or life is~TOO insipid. We have already had Monsieur
1712 I | confidentially.~"But if he insists on your helping to keep
1713 XI | No, monsieur. I am the inspector-general; charged with the duty of~
1714 V | his bravado, were to~be installed in the chateau itself. In
1715 III | intending to~caution him instantly about his own incognito.
1716 X | at the Comte de Serizy's instigation, drafted into that~noble
1717 XI | ordinance of the King. This institution gives, at the end of ten~
1718 VII | friend, why did you not instruct~him as to his behavior before
1719 III | from her useless and prolix instructions.~ ~"You will be sure to
1720 III | gifted with such advantages, insulted him~by his superiority,
1721 VI | him, I didn't say~anything insulting."~ ~"Why have you come here?"
1722 XI | you are~a runner for an insurance company."~ ~"No, monsieur.
1723 VII | move mountains and vanquish insurmountable~difficulties. What a lever
1724 VI | stern air. "A clerk who intends to be a notary does not
1725 VII | aunt Clapart. The family intercourse was~restricted to the sending
1726 IV | conversation."~ ~"Mistigris! if you interfere again I'll have you put
1727 VI | Mistigris began to rebel internally against the patronizing
1728 IV | Georges.~ ~"'Tisn't polite to interrupt," said Mistigris, sententiously, "
1729 VII | repressed his annoyance at being~interrupted. "Alas, you do not know
1730 VI | this?" said the steward, intervening.~ ~"Monsieur, my name is
1731 VI | During the time this interview lasted the Beaumont coach,
1732 III | Husson~pregnant. Moreau, very intimately allied with Madame Husson,
1733 IX | which youth~is lifted by intoxication, when their amphitryon introduced
1734 IV | and who deal in foreign~intrigues for the purpose of overthrowing
1735 II | de Reybert,~who is not an intriguing man, far from it, is a captain
1736 IX | intoxication, when their amphitryon introduced them into~Florentine's salon.
1737 IX | this conflict of wills and~intuitions injured his vein. By three
1738 X | unjust, do you?" replied the invalid, crossly.~ ~Just then the
1739 IV | truth~mingled with Georges' inventions, the count returned to the
1740 II | Moreau)~could make the count invest his money at two and a half
1741 II | She presented to the rapid investigation of the count a face~seamed
1742 I | himself sat on an almost invisible seat perched just below~
1743 XI | Oscar, after accepting the invitation.~ ~"Mademoiselle Leger,"
1744 V | of that. In order not to~involve Moreau, he is himself to
1745 IV | which was loading for the Ionian Islands~with gunpowder and
1746 XI | the coupe?" asked Georges,~ironically replying to Pierrotin's
1747 VI | son of a rich wholesale~ironmonger in the rue Saint-Martin;
1748 IX | was semi-conjugal and also irresistibly strong. This~was the brass
1749 VI | not children. All is now irrevocable. Put your affairs and mine
1750 VII | besides, he has quarrelled~irrevocably with the Comte de Serizy,
1751 IV | of my~fathers and embrace Islamism; all the more because the
1752 IV | was loading for the Ionian Islands~with gunpowder and munitions
1753 IV | how things are tending in Italy, where the taxes are enormous."~ ~"
1754 IX | CHAPTER IX~La Marquise de las Florentinas
1755 VI | English boy in a handsome~jacket with a turned-over collar,
1756 IX | conservative. The daughter of James II.,~who seated herself
1757 I | persons on the two seats jammed together~like herrings in
1758 XI | Member for Arcis~ ~Bruel, Jean Francois du~A Bachelor's
1759 X | These sentences were jerked out through sobs and tears
1760 VIII| and sub-~clerks of Maistre Jerosme-Sebastien Bordin, successor to the
1761 IV | show his wit, and where jest and epigram enliven~all
1762 IX | did not spare taunts or jests on those who lost. She~enlivened
1763 IX | given some~murderous blow to Jesus before he betrayed him.
1764 III | eye-brows which were still jet-~black.~ ~The count wore
1765 V | gallop of a horse and the jingling of~a vehicle announced the
1766 V | Tuto, tutor, celeritus, and jocund.' Of course, you will reward
1767 IV | looks to~me as if he had jogged his way through the Sorbonne.
1768 IV | asked the count, in a joking way.~ ~"Yes, monsieur,"
1769 X | here you are, Monsieur Joli-Coeur!" cried Clapart.~ ~Oscar
1770 V | We can go three in your jolter."~ ~To the count's surprise,
1771 I | the roof by the violent jolting of~the roads. In front of
1772 IX | named Giroudeau; Finot, a~journalist who might procure an engagement
1773 I | four-wheel-coach," and the coucou~journeyed together, carrying between
1774 VIII| his~return from one of his journeys which had kept him some
1775 VII | a~right to end his life jovially.~ ~"Don't you see, my friend,"
1776 III | little things~cause immense joys and immense miseries,--a
1777 IX | before that usurpation. Judas had certainly given some~
1778 IV | heirs of the Uscoque and the judges~get most of the old villain'
1779 VIII| Clapart herself had been~judiciously inserted into the family
1780 VI | appointment of a certain "juge de paix" at Beaumont and
1781 II | you ask for the post of juge-de-paix at Isle-Adam? That~would
1782 XI | bravely rescued the Vicomte Jules de~Serizy from the Arabs?"
1783 IX | young men who pass at a jump from paternal discipline
1784 III | the leathern curtain and jumped out with the agility~of
1785 V | position, showed the point of~junction between the old top of his
1786 VIII| you the arrival of a new jurisconsult; and as~he is rich, rishissime,
1787 II | against him. According to the jurisprudence of the least~thieving cook
1788 IX | added to the Golden Book of jurisprudential~festivals.~ ~Godeschal disappeared
1789 VIII| devoured melons,~"pates au jus romanum," and a fillet of
1790 I | Pierrotin and his~colleague justified it on the varied grounds
1791 II | could have been found to justify an~accusation against him.
1792 X | languishing for some days, so keenly was she~affected by these
1793 VI | prevented the dismissal of a keeper-~general of the Forests,
1794 VIII| Messrs. Terrasse and Duclos, keepers of records, by the help
1795 IX | looked like the vignette of a keepsake, who received~him with manners
1796 IV | protegee of old Admiral de Kergarouet; who, by the bye, obtained~
1797 VI | Moreau will give you~the keys. Go with them to show the
1798 V | francs since we started!"~ ~Killed by a sense of his inferiority,
1799 X | to repair his loss. The kind-hearted creature went to sleep~after
1800 VI | showed that his nature was a kindly one. Abrupt in speech~and
1801 II | was made proconsul to two kingdoms in succession. In 1806,~
1802 VIII| maraschino and another of kirsch did, in spite of the exquisite~
1803 VI | she was recalled like a kite by a twitch at its line.~ ~"
1804 IX | think, too, my dear little kitten, how happy you make your
1805 III | gaiters, coming above the knee, were fastened~round the
1806 II | the King had~made him a knight of his various Orders. Monsieur
1807 VII | taken with her husband, was knitting winter socks for~Oscar,
1808 IX | decolletee and swathed in~laces, till she looked like the
1809 I | at four o'clock usually lagged on till half-past,~while
1810 XI | rich young Pole, the Comte Laginski."~ ~"To whom," asked Madame
1811 VII | other women, into wordy lamentation:~What should she do now
1812 VI | modern upholstery, handsome lamps, and a rare old~cut-glass
1813 VII | you. The legal business of~land-agents is quite important, and
1814 III | carre,"--that is, the square landing,--was~the door of a back
1815 VII | honesty,--those are your landmarks."~ ~"God grant that you
1816 X | Madame Clapart, after languishing for some days, so keenly
1817 II | eagerly, because he gained a~larger percentage on them. Presles
1818 IV | that dropped like curtains,~lashes like a paint-brush, a face
1819 VII | she uses pain to impress a lasting memory~of her precepts.
1820 VII | shoes and his breeches, and, lastly, a~touch of powder and a
1821 IV | grows of~itself, famous latakiah! and dates! and all kinds
1822 XI | of all this ruin, such a latent desire to SHOW-OFF that
1823 Ded | DEDICATION~To Laure.~Let the brilliant mind
1824 VIII| of his second year in the law-~school Oscar knew more than
1825 VIII| the~occasion of her first lawsuit, if the devil sends her
1826 II | probably have had scores of lawsuits on~his hands. Pere Leger
1827 VIII| top~shelf, where a thick layer of dust had settled on it.~ ~"
1828 VII | conceited, boastful, deceitful, lazy, incapable of--"~ ~"Why
1829 I | t give her for that fat lazybones of a Rougeot!" cried~Pierrotin,
1830 IX | boudoir, his eyes closing in a leaden sleep.~ ~"Mariette," said
1831 XI | cleared the reins from the leaders.~ ~"Poor Pierrotin," thought
1832 I | topography, The~Cave, and leads through a most delightful
1833 VII | mother,~trembling like a leaf shaken by the autumn wind.~ ~
1834 VI | MEANS, she was a thousand~leagues from dreaming that this
1835 XI | lady, dressed in black,~leaning on the arm of a man about
1836 III | with the agility~of a frog leaping into the water.~ ~"You mustn'
1837 VII | during the time that you~are learning your employment?"~ ~Here
1838 VIII| way. You will see that he learns the Code~and is proficient
1839 II | Beaumont-sur-Oise, named Leger, leased and cultivated~a farm, the
1840 III | Mistigris opened the leathern curtain and jumped out with
1841 VIII| fault of that kind a clerk leaves my office."~ ~"The lad is
1842 III | seemed~annoyed at being lectured on the threshold of the
1843 VII | mind and body, neither bow-~legged nor crooked, after sacrificing
1844 VI | also, a superb bonnet of Leghorn straw, trimmed~with a bunch
1845 III | and the knowledge of a legislator. His face was flat, and
1846 VIII| clerk of the notary Maitre Leopold~Hannequin; I will ask his
1847 VII | won't give me children to lessen your property."~ ~Camusot
1848 VIII| office and prepared his~lessons for the law-school,--and
1849 IV | into the huge inn-kitchen lest his~absence should excite
1850 X | haven't you a key that lets you in~at all hours? My
1851 VII | on~a salad of herring and lettuce, with milk for a dessert,
1852 IV | vanilla~at times."~ ~"In the Levant--" said Georges, with the
1853 VI | ten steps from the ground level.~ ~By placing her own bedroom
1854 VII | insurmountable~difficulties. What a lever is such a scene of bitter
1855 I | establishment paid the tax which was levied upon all~public conveyances
1856 III | under the Directory for her liaison with one of~the five kings
1857 IX | tipsy, either with play or libations.~Saperlotte! a second clerk
1858 III | brought into vogue by the liberals, which ended with the words, "'
1859 IV | in the town; almond eyes, lids that dropped like curtains,~
1860 I | that toward England, there lies a road~which turns off at
1861 IV | delicious moments of that lifetime--to wit, three days--which
1862 V | from which~he selected a light-colored cigar, which he proceeded
1863 V | remarked, as the~other two were lighting their cigars:~ ~"I am not
1864 X | she fell as if~struck by lightning.~ ~"All the miseries together!"
1865 IV | I'll bet whatever you~like--"~ ~"Betting whatever you
1866 IX | knew all his habits and likings, and with whom he and~his
1867 XI | Vandenesse, Comte Felix de~The Lily of the Valley~Lost Illusions~
1868 I | of ponderous flight still linger in the~second-hand carriage-shops--
1869 III | Cerisaie, Beautreillis, des Lions, etc. Madame Clapart's apartment,~
1870 IV | the lips, and produces a liqueur which goes by that name."~ ~"
1871 II | the Council of State, and~liquidator, on behalf of France, of
1872 VII | grandfather of the~religion of Lisette." His daughters, Madame
1873 VIII| Monsieur~Moreau takes the liveliest interest in him. He will
1874 XI | horses. Oscar admired the~liveliness which Pierrotin displayed
1875 IV | life have disorganized my liver."~ ~"What, have you served
1876 IX | Consequently, Georges sent to a livery-stable for three open~carriages,
1877 VI | of sight, so much did the livid face of his~mother's friend
1878 X | ll find yourself with a load of debt on your~back."~ ~"
1879 IV | the justice to say that he loaded me with presents,--diamonds,~
1880 IV | Genoese polacca which was loading for the Ionian Islands~with
1881 I | It was divided into two lobes, so to~speak: one, called
1882 I | speculators. For every small locality in the neighborhood of Paris~
1883 VI | count and his steward, had locked~herself into the house,
1884 IV | Saint-Jean, and I retired to the Loire, after we were all disbanded.~
1885 V | himself out. "He lives~a lonely life in his own house; gets
1886 I | Faubourg-Saint-Denis. In spite of their~long-standing rights, in spite, too, of
1887 I | journey to make it with their~long-tried coachman, although his vehicle
1888 IV | for I adore scenery. I've longed a score of times to paint~
1889 IX | deprived of~enjoyments, though longing for dissipation, was likely
1890 IV | other~travellers uneasy.~ ~"Lords, pachas, and thirty-thousand-franc
1891 IV | Hobbema, Ruysdael, Claude Lorrain, Poussin,~and others."~ ~"
1892 I | of "hard times," of their~losses during the winter months,
1893 IX | left him, Oscar went to lounge upon the boulevards~until
1894 XI | previous life. The idle lounger was~hanging about, as usual,
1895 X | So you'll have~the four loveliest creatures ever seen behind
1896 VI | to him about his wife's lovers and his skin~diseases!"
1897 X | inflicted~by the hand of one who loveth while he chasteneth.~ ~Oscar,
1898 I | 1822. In vain the Touchards~lowered their price; in vain they
1899 II | struck with Moreau's~evident loyalty, and showed his satisfaction
1900 II | orle counterchanged~and two lozenges counterchanged, with: "i,
1901 XI | who were stowing away the luggage in the great imperiale.~ ~"
1902 IV | Mistigris.~ ~"You are always lugging in your painting," cried
1903 IV | amusement except in the lumbering diligences of~France, that
1904 VI | This young man is a mere lump of vanity," said the count,
1905 IX | the pure air into their lungs;~but, with the exception
1906 XI | Cesar Birotteau~Honorine~ ~Lupin, Amaury~The Peasantry~ ~
1907 X | have~moved the sphinx of Luxor.~ ~"Old skinflint!" said
1908 IX | they sat~around a table luxuriously served. Georges, moreover,
1909 VII | life. Look at me: I left Lyon with two double louis which
1910 IX | The~hangings, a marvel of Lyonnaise workmanship, fastened by
1911 VIII| it.~ ~Item: a timbale of macaroni surrounded by chocolate
1912 XI | Clapart, a victim of Fieschi's machine, had served his wife~better
1913 IV | oval to drive Raffaelle mad,~a skin of the most delicious
1914 IV | taken for a murderer by a maddened~populace which stones you
1915 IV | is like a windmill. Our made-~up wines are a great deal
1916 V | but go to his wife; he is madly in love with her; no~one
1917 IX | brilliant danseuse. The~generous Maecenas made two beings almost beside
1918 XI | Paris~Modeste Mignon~The Magic Skin~Another Study of Woman~
1919 VIII| Marest, intended to enter the~magistracy, and was now in his third
1920 X | gentleman stopped short as if~magnetized, like a bird which a snake
1921 IV | a naval~officer. Sultan Mahmoud ordered him to capture Ali
1922 VII | sweet a child, who~bore the maiden name of his late wife.~ ~"
1923 XI | Saint-Laurent than it raced like a~mail-cart to Saint-Denis, which it
1924 XI | recognized in this bronzed~and maimed officer the little Oscar
1925 II | he began, all the while maintaining toward~the world an appearance
1926 VII | here again the question of maintenance presented itself.~ ~"Oscar,"
1927 VIII| clerks and sub-~clerks of Maistre Jerosme-Sebastien Bordin,
1928 V | why doesn't he~get his Majesty to touch him?" asked Georges.~ ~"
1929 X | fanaticism, was appointed major of a regiment sent to Africa
1930 I | Breilmann, and Company, the best makers of diligences,--a~purchase
1931 III | terrible of all chronic maladies), or from griefs~too recent
1932 IV | Vernet,--'The Massacre of the Mameluks.' What a~handsome fellow
1933 VII | home.~ ~This little old man--fat, rosy, squat, and strong--
1934 III | alone all the hay~in the manger, but, even while laying
1935 III | Lion~d'Argent. After which manoeuvre, which was purely preparatory,~
1936 IV | assembled. He saw in the count a~manufacturer of the second-class, whom
1937 I | these hard and distrustful manufacturers would only~deliver over
1938 VI | cost of the estate, but the manure of the stables was~used
1939 XI | bitterness.~ ~"Parbleu! I've too many--shares! that's just what
1940 I | shoulder-straps~and cuffs, with many-colored embroidery. A cap with a
1941 IV | between meals? How bourgeois, Marais, Place~Royale, that is!"
1942 X | said Cardot, sharply, marching to the door as~if to go
1943 IX | to carry off~the Creole marchioness from that Georges Marest!"~ ~"
1944 IX | well! vivat!~Long live the Marests!"~ ~"What's all this about?"
1945 VII | married his second~daughter, Mariane, to Monsieur Protez, of
1946 XI | Cousin Pons~ ~Godeschal, Marie~A Bachelor's Establishment~
1947 X | spend the evening with a~marquise--"~ ~"Don't trouble yourself!
1948 VII | the occasion of~deaths and marriages, and cards at the New Year.
1949 IX | salvers. The~hangings, a marvel of Lyonnaise workmanship,
1950 VIII| next morning.~ ~This was marvellously well engrossed. An expert
1951 IV | by Horace Vernet,--'The Massacre of the Mameluks.' What a~
1952 I | possessed the affection of the~masses; and thus it happened that
1953 VIII| until he had~thoroughly mastered it to the satisfaction of
1954 IV | The work is~sure to be a masterpiece, but he can't sign it, you
1955 III | desire to outshine their mates) resting on these~memories
1956 VII | are not strong enough to mathematics to enter any of the technical~
1957 VII | into the drug business of Matifat. So you see, your uncle~
1958 X | No. While his~reason is maturing, what will he become? A
1959 VII | house were ruined by the maximum; and the money of Mademoiselle~
1960 IV | affair was over, Ali kissed me--"~ ~"Do they do that in
1961 VII | by~the ear.~ ~During the meal uncle Cardot observed his
1962 VI | no~recrimination or petty meanness. Though you no longer possess
1963 VIII| his master,--~one dish of meat, one of vegetables, and
1964 VII | himself was secretly the Mecaenas of Mademoiselle~Florentine,
1965 I | But after a few moments'~meditation, his feelings led him to
1966 VI | years old, was a dark man of medium~height, and seemed stern.
1967 IV | is only in the East one meets with such iron souls, who~
1968 IV | their lips; Germans are melancholy in a vehicle; Italians too~
1969 VIII| exquisite; also were devoured melons,~"pates au jus romanum,"
1970 VI | you must also finish the memoirs of some client which you~
1971 II | distinguished for his admirable memoranda on delicate diplomatic~matters.
1972 III | mates) resting on these~memories of his childhood was developed
1973 VII | live. He had only suffered mentally. At his age mental~impressions
1974 III | have~transformed him into a mentor. During this short deliberation,
1975 III | ought at least to have~the merit of punctuality. The deuce!
1976 I | than a pony, about whose merits he had much to say. This
1977 III | head, seemed the sign of a merry nature,~and so did the picturesque
1978 V | which Ecouen, the~steeple of Mesnil, and the forests that surround
1979 XI | would~have done honor to the Messageries-royales, was divided into three~
1980 II | to his master, which the messenger failed to~deliver before
1981 VIII| has been certified to by~Messrs. Terrasse and Duclos, keepers
1982 I | travellers on~two seats, of metallic hardness in spite of the
1983 II | monsieur,--a noble family of Metz, where my husband belongs."~ ~"
1984 IX | and be presented to the Mexican Marquise de las Florentinas
1985 IX | paying his addresses. Born in Mexico, and the daughter of Creole~
1986 I | Our descendants will be mightily mistaken if they fancy that
1987 II | hopes of~buying the farm and mill of Mours for a hundred thousand
1988 | million
1989 XI | respect due in all lands to millionaires.~ ~"Ha! ha! why, here's
1990 IV | Sorbonne. What a pity! I~can mimic an Englishman so perfectly
1991 VI | artists," she added in a mincing tone; "and I beg you to~
1992 IX | much ashamed at having to mingle such~ignoble coins with
1993 II | appointed him one of his cabinet ministers. On the 20th of March,~Monsieur
1994 X | rights over me even as a~minor. I have never asked anything
1995 VIII| and Maitre Bordin in~this miracle, we have resolved, each
1996 VIII| of peaches of august and mirobolant~delicacy.~ ~The wines of
1997 IX | been able to repair the mischief by~going this morning, at
1998 IV | gobbled up. It was that mischief-making tom-fool, Lord Byron, who~
1999 IV | prefer Venice,--though I just missed~being murdered there."~ ~"
2000 XI | the Legion of honor, his missing arm, the~strict propriety
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