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2001 VI | own emotions, by his own mistakes~and disappointments, the
2002 VI | married they imitate their~mistresses, Madame Moreau imported
2003 IV | the breeze swept off the mists, and the blue of the sky~
2004 III | physical ability.~ ~This mixture of former splendor now departed,
2005 IV | count,~who considered this moan, addressed to Pere Leger,
2006 III | vivacity of his~gesture and his mocking eye revealed an intellect
2007 I | relating to the different modes of transportation in use
2008 II | as supporters,~proves the modesty of the burgher families
2009 I | to disappear forever, and modify several others, more especially
2010 IV | entered the service of pacha Mohammed; a queer sort of~fellow
2011 X | mind of the sick man.~ ~"A momentary temptation, such as you
2012 X | and her own breakfast.~ ~"Mon Dieu! I wish I knew how
2013 VIII| midst of Paris was that of a~monk.~ ~At five in the morning,
2014 X | come," she said, "you old monkey, shouldn't I have hid him~
2015 I | chateaux~which princes, monks, and designers have built,
2016 IX | exterior boulevards from Monmartre to the Barriere du Trone.
2017 IV | Janina!"~ ~During this mental monologue, the coucou rolled through
2018 I | father and son, endeavored to~monopolize, and the one most stoutly
2019 I | and son, had acquired a monopoly~of travel and transportation
2020 XI | de Reybert, three places; Monsieur--~your name, if you please?"
2021 V | doesn't beat all! Ah ca,~monsieurs, have none of you been here
2022 I | Poncelles, Moisselles,~Monsoult, Maffliers, Franconville,
2023 VIII| to go to Saint-Etienne~du Mont and there hear mass, which
2024 IV | 1815. I was a captain at Mont-~Saint-Jean, and I retired
2025 IV | grisettes of the~Chaumieres at Mont-Parnasse."~ ~"They are nearer, at
2026 IV | sergeant-major. In France, at Montereau, I won the rank of~sub-lieutenant,
2027 IV | know the fine definition Montesquieu gives of despotism. 'Like
2028 III | say, three or four times a month--Pierrotin, on his~way to
2029 IX | maintain, he~raised the monthly stipend to five hundred
2030 XI | furnished with blinds of a Moorish pattern and cushions of
2031 IV | Where there's wife,~there's mope.'"~ ~"What does Madame Schinner
2032 IX | at the count's feet. The moral senses have their laws,
2033 VII | cautions I gave you this~morning--"~ ~She did not end her
2034 I | Saturday nights and~Monday mornings, Pierrotin's coucou "trundled"
2035 XI | pattern and cushions of red~morocco, the "Swallow of the Oise"
2036 IX | some trifles to the favored mortal. There are dinners at~restaurants,
2037 III | which was a landscape in~mosaic. Oscar, who considered that
2038 VI | trimmed~with a bunch of moss roses from Nattier's, beneath
2039 XI | Canalis, his wife, and his mother-in-law.~I have nothing left but
2040 VII | being into the sentiment of motherhood, did not put~herself in
2041 IX | voice Oscar recognized a motherly~kindness which is often
2042 IV | titillating because the slightest motion~was significant and dangerous.
2043 II | semper melius eris,"--a~motto which, together with the
2044 VIII| and thus it obtained a mouldiness to delight an~antiquary,
2045 III | brown and rosy face, the moulding of his rather large~lips,
2046 III | thickened and blurred the mouldings and~figurines, far from
2047 III | apparently reluctant to mount to the hard seat where Mistigris
2048 VI | coach?"~ ~"At the top of the mountain."~ ~"I don't know what to
2049 VII | within~me the power to move mountains and vanquish insurmountable~
2050 V | the two artists and was mounting the hill from which Ecouen,
2051 II | buying the farm and mill of Mours for a hundred thousand francs.
2052 III | quasi-military air, the waxed moustaches, and the general look of~
2053 III | Mistigris. "Couldn't we~get a mouthful somewhere? My stomach, like
2054 IV | were so many flames, all mouths were a single curse, while
2055 XI | places," he said. Then, moving~to the door of the interieur,
2056 VI | herself~and see that the multiplied orders of the count were
2057 IV | with an air that hid~a multitude of mysteries. "He put me
2058 IV | swift, fine~movement a la Murat. Good! I take my time; then
2059 IV | good-natured~that if you let 'em murder a few travellers along the
2060 IV | though I just missed~being murdered there."~ ~"Faith, yes!"
2061 IX | had certainly given some~murderous blow to Jesus before he
2062 XI | Fanny~Modest Mignon~The Muse of the Department~Scenes
2063 VIII| and a fillet of beef with mushroom sauce.~Mademoiselle Mariette,
2064 VIII| of the Royal Academy of music and dancing, having~obligingly
2065 IV | just as he had seized~a musket and was going to charge
2066 VI | promised, the execution of the Muslim of~Smyrna, and you must
2067 III | particular epoch, a fancy for mutilating or transposing~proverbs
2068 IX | sleep; but he could only mutter a few words which were not~
2069 V | Silence gives content,'" muttered Mistigris.~ ~"The weather
2070 VII | terrace flanked by~oranges, myrtles, and pomegranates. "And
2071 V | nest of hay and confided mysteriously to the wife of the~concierge.
2072 III | demanded Georges. "Is it as mythical as~the third post-horse."~ ~"
2073 III | carriage~better."~ ~"We sha'n't be off for an hour if
2074 I | stout boots, heavy~with nails, made at Isle-Adam, trousers
2075 IV | happen to you?" said Oscar, naively.~ ~"Why shouldn't it happen
2076 II | places in the State; and the naivete of our~ancient customs by
2077 XI | as best they could, the~nakedness of the skull. A fleshiness
2078 | namely
2079 IV | live now without smoking a~narghile twice a-day, and that's
2080 IV | that smile reassured the~narrator.~ ~"They have a way of cultivating
2081 V | of adder.'"~ ~"'A poet is nasty and not fit,' and so is
2082 IX | ambassador? only that between a nation~and an individual. Ambassadors
2083 X | from the command of the National~guard, Oscar Husson, whose
2084 VI | bunch of moss roses from Nattier's, beneath the spreading
2085 V | better grace.~ ~But his nausea was so strong that he was
2086 IV | Chosrew simply became a naval~officer. Sultan Mahmoud
2087 IV | Mont-Parnasse."~ ~"They are nearer, at any rate," said the
2088 IX | Marquise d'Anglade,~one of my nearest friends."~ ~And she took
2089 VIII| has to keep down to bare~necessities. Look at Monsieur Desroches;
2090 III | about frivolities, about~neckcloths, and the passionate desire
2091 III | almost concealed a~scarlet neckerchief; and trousers, also black
2092 III | was fastened by a broken needle converted into a pin by
2093 VI | Bridau.~ ~"No. Without being neglected, my education was purely
2094 III | revelation of~superior and negligent elegance. The young man
2095 II | distrust implied in wishing to~negotiate the purchase for himself,
2096 II | prevented both the count and the neighboring country-people from~becoming
2097 VIII| reports of~receptions of neophytes followed, the last in the
2098 I | archaeological work. Our~nephews ought to be enchanted to
2099 IX | in his ear.~ ~Persons of nerve, imagination, and dash will
2100 II | seventy~thousand francs net. It was a saying of the
2101 IX | danced before the eyes of the new-~comers.~ ~At first, and
2102 VIII| gutter-jumper") laid upon the new-comer's desk the~"Archives Architriclino-Basochiennes,"
2103 IV | You must have read in the newspapers~how old Ali drubbed Chosrew,
2104 IV | say I'm~the son of Marshal Ney? Pooh! what could I tell
2105 VI | we say croquer, craunch, nibble, for sketching,"~interposed
2106 III | his master, giving him the nickname~which the studio had no
2107 XI | September she married her niece, Mademoiselle du Rouvre,
2108 III | weighed upon him like~a nightmare, was still there, for he
2109 IV | green but the valley of the Nile. Draw a green~line down
2110 II | This farm consisted of ninety-~six parcels of land bordering
2111 VII | belonged to that great~flock of ninnies who subscribed to the "Constitutionnel,"
2112 XI | Clapart?"~ ~It was all the nobler of Oscar to present his
2113 V | Good! I like to see those nobles fooled. If you should want
2114 VI | with him.~Moreover, the noblest and richest people in the
2115 VII | postilion's whip and the noise of a~carriage stopping before
2116 I | fourteen. It~rumbled so noisily that the inhabitants of
2117 VI | colonel of cavalry: pure nonsense!"~ ~"Tell me," said Moreau, "
2118 V | other travellers. However~nonsensical these lads might be, the
2119 III | apartment, which faced the north and had no other~outlook
2120 IX | courts," he added,~with notarial assumption, "you will have
2121 III | because it is exercised on nothings. Yet if he envies a fool
2122 III | was hollowed as if this noticeable~young man suffered from
2123 VI | salon and sat~down without noticing anything. Little Husson,
2124 VIII| purse; for it is publicly notorious that no one~delivers himself
2125 VI | that pass. You have been,~notwithstanding this disloyalty, better
2126 VIII| he hasn't~the cut of a novice, that fellow!"~ ~"We'll
2127 IV | 1819; it seems the fashion nowadays not~to wear orders."~ ~Mistigris
2128 VII | what is called a "titre nu"; that means a practice
2129 III | wore top-~boots and spurs, nudged the other to make him take
2130 I | century, and were still numerous in~1830, scarcely exist
2131 IV | such iron souls, who~can nurse a vengeance twenty years
2132 XI | were grouped a~number of nurses, country-people, and petty
2133 VII | For myself," she said, "by nursing the sick, or living as a~
2134 VIII| when~Desroches took the oath, appears this constitutional
2135 IX | pyramids that rivalled the obelisk of Thebes. By half-past~
2136 VIII| do hereby~recognize the obligation under which we lie to renew
2137 VIII| music and dancing, having~obligingly put at the disposition of
2138 IX | tired~out, went to bed, oblivious to Oscar, who was still
2139 XI | thirty-four years of age, in whom~observers would recognize a retired
2140 I | some chance traveller was obstinate enough to demand it.~ ~Pierrotin,
2141 VIII| extracts will show to~the most obtuse mind the purpose to which
2142 V | the farmer was the present occupant of Les~Moulineaux, has slipped
2143 I | beyond the "barriere." The occupants of the "hen-roost" (the~
2144 I | The hotel du Lion d'Argent occupies a piece of land which is
2145 V | provisions enough for an ocean voyage: rolls,~chocolate--"~ ~"
2146 III | thoughtless youths in the odd contrasts of the silvery
2147 V | Having committed the odious crime of repudiating his
2148 VIII| plunge us into so marked an oenological ecstasy that we~found ourselves
2149 VIII| butter and olives for hors-d'oeuvre; a~succulent soup of rice,
2150 VII | spite of the~enormity of his offences, slept the sleep of the
2151 III | the stranger's boot-heels offended~his taste and echoed in
2152 III | The young man exhibited, offensively,~a pair of spotless gloves,
2153 I | start~on the morrow. By offering fifteen hundred francs,
2154 II | of the farm~refused all offers from Leger to renew the
2155 XI | Two months after his official installation at Beaumont-sur-Oise,
2156 I | their dues) the government~officials, to use the argot of their
2157 III | they have just~exchanged.~ ~Often--that is to say, three or
2158 I | better coaches and~started oftener. Competition still continued,
2159 IV | glances with~delightful ogles fit to raise a man to the
2160 VIII| pay~the costs.~ ~Signed: Oignard, first clerk; Poidevin,
2161 III | two~young men a few years older than Oscar, better dressed
2162 VII | the Cocon d'Or, one of the oldest firms in Paris, he had~bought
2163 III | gloves, the son wore an olive-green coat with~sleeves too short
2164 I | caravan, he was forced to omit certain stoppages along
2165 I | however, it succumbed to~omnibuses, which demonstrated the
2166 I | suffering caused to the omoplates~when the bar was in place.
2167 VI | and you can count on me as on--on~an uncle in America,"
2168 XI | Joseph Bridau looked at the one-armed officer for several seconds;~
2169 IV | soft as the peel of~an onion, enjoined me to silence.
2170 IV | and~the Greeks, they eat onions or rise. They get opium
2171 IV | and~Rousseau; but who ever opens his Voltaire or his Rousseau?
2172 XI | throughout France. I am only operating until the agents are selected;~
2173 IV | abjuration~required a surgical operation which I hadn't any fancy
2174 VII | But this life and these~opinions never appeared in his own
2175 II | interests, Moreau watched for opportunities~to make good purchases all
2176 VI | Be calm, as I am.~Give no opportunity for fools to talk. Above
2177 XI | master, passed from the opulent ease of former times to
2178 VII | along a terrace flanked by~oranges, myrtles, and pomegranates. "
2179 XI | daughter to induce our great~orator to marry her?" said Georges.~ ~"
2180 VIII| disposition of this Practice orchestra seats~for the performance
2181 VI | beautiful blond hair.~ ~After ordering a very choice dinner and
2182 XI | have been approved by an~ordinance of the King. This institution
2183 I | flagrant~violation of the ordinances. Thus on certain Saturday
2184 VIII| work as hard as a dozen ordinary fellows. But in~ten years
2185 II | the grand and magnificent~organization which we owe to Napoleon.~ ~
2186 IV | away he was on the point of organizing his~own administration on
2187 VIII| the natural~play of his organs. Eighteen months after Oscar'
2188 I | He prefers the valley d'Orge, where he has the most beautiful
2189 X | have spent the night in an orgy. That's deliberately going
2190 IV | emotions of all kinds in~Oriental life have disorganized my
2191 IV | make a slave of~myself,--Orientals are so queer! But I thought
2192 IV | beginning a story.~ ~"'Ex Oriente flux,'" remarked Mistigris'
2193 III | strained and harassed~face, too original to be ugly, was hollowed
2194 II | pavillon" was a charming place, originally built by the Prince~de Conti
2195 II | per pale or and sable, an orle counterchanged~and two lozenges
2196 III | figurines, far from being ornamental, was distressing to the
2197 I | functions, a blue blouse, ornamented on the collar, shoulder-straps~
2198 III | a bunch of heterogeneous ornaments, seals, and a~watch-key
2199 IV | white flag floating, as the orthodox saying is, upon~the breeze.~ ~"
2200 VI | little stealings had some~ostensible excuse.~ ~Madame Moreau
2201 III | deliberation, which~was ostensibly covered by a few phrases
2202 | otherwise
2203 IV | down to be a foot-boy. The Ottomans have no system of promotion~
2204 IV | retorted Mistigris; "'an ounce o' paint is worth a pound
2205 IV | disturbed by the count's~outburst, and wanted to change the
2206 VI | which rang with the boy's outcries and~sobs. He pulled him
2207 X | door,~and remained in the outer room with Moreau, who had
2208 III | the north and had no other~outlook than to a vine on the opposite
2209 III | possessed of a desire to outshine their mates) resting on
2210 III | customers, for the~lady with outstretched neck and anxious face was
2211 I | away with the desire to~outstrip his comrade on the line,
2212 X | Saint-Pauls.~ ~Although Oscar outwardly professed to be devoted
2213 IV | paint-brush, a face with an oval to drive Raffaelle mad,~
2214 IX | sense of his wrong-~doing overcame him; the figure of Desroches
2215 VIII| through and difficulties to overcome. He~was not allowed to leave
2216 IX | her son some cravats, and overhead the last words of~the head-clerk, "
2217 I | post of~gendarmerie; the overloading forbidden by law, "for the
2218 VII | first floor, an apartment~overlooking the valley of the Seine,
2219 X | because he was drunk and overslept himself. Georges and his
2220 V | Scarcely had Pierrotin overtaken~the two artists and was
2221 IV | intrigues for the purpose of overthrowing our legitimate sovereigns."~ ~
2222 VII | from Presles? Oscar~had overthrown his benefactor's prosperity!
2223 III | more specifically, this overweening conceit--so troubled~Monsieur
2224 IV | know the proverb: 'we must 'owl with~the wolves.'"~ ~"I
2225 II | about to expire, and the owner of the farm~refused all
2226 II | farm of Moulineaux,--the ownership of~which was indispensable
2227 VII | man like myself is worth.~Owning at the present moment about
2228 V | if he was that prince who~owns Maffliers. He has just told
2229 VI | born-observers of the ridiculous--the pabulum of their~pencils--seize
2230 IX | such a state that Georges packed him~into a coach, paid his
2231 VII | breeches of "pou-de-soie" (paduasoy), a white~pique waistcoat,
2232 IV | curtains,~lashes like a paint-brush, a face with an oval to
2233 VI | the chateau, the principal paintings~for which were just completed
2234 VI | appointment of a certain "juge de paix" at Beaumont and also at
2235 VIII| take Oscar to dine in the Palais-Royal, and to~some theatre in
2236 IX | with a blue ground and a palm-leaf~pattern, a pair of black
2237 IV | archicoque in a bicoque of a paltry little place like~Zara--"~ ~"
2238 III | Clapart's apartment,~which was panelled throughout with ancient
2239 VI | Pictures, evidently from old panels, plant-stands, various~pretty
2240 II | shield and buckler against pangs of heart~which he silenced
2241 VI | billiard-room. These rooms, lying parallel to one~another, were separated
2242 III | street, saw none of the~paraphernalia which might have revealed
2243 VI | a charming rose-colored parasol lined with white silk and
2244 VI | going on,~he thought of pardoning his steward after giving
2245 VII | Godichon."~ ~This long-headed parent had never mentioned his
2246 VII | We are now living in Paris--but not as we lived at Presles,"
2247 VIII| all, to hear mass at the parish church of Saint-~Severin
2248 VI | great park. Groups of~choice parks hid the offices and stables.
2249 II | count was president of a parliament before~the Revolution. He
2250 II | so many other of the old parliamentary families, an object of the~
2251 I | large villages, Nogent and Parmain, both remarkable for splendid~
2252 III | the coat-tails maliciously parted behind~him.~ ~"Don't rub
2253 VIII| Oscar, become in his turn participator in the hoax,~called out
2254 VIII| Godeschal had made five or six parties of pleasure with Oscar,~
2255 III | trousers was seen, through the parting~of his coat-tails. The smiles
2256 VII | Leger and I examine it; my~partners have each a quarter and
2257 VII | myself; for~I have gone into partnership with Pere Leger and Pere
2258 III | said Pierrotin, "if a passenger wishes to get~out."~ ~"Ten
2259 III | about~neckcloths, and the passionate desire to appear a man.
2260 X | know how to control his~passions!" etc., etc.~ ~While all
2261 IX | followed her to~the rue Pastourel, where he found that the
2262 IX | who pass at a jump from paternal discipline to a rich~independence,
2263 III | the mother one of~those pathetic figures which catch the
2264 I | satisfied with this easy-going, patriarchal system. If they arrived~
2265 IX | long as he had only his~patrimony of eighteen thousand francs
2266 VI | chateau. In the villages, she patronized the people in the tone of
2267 VI | Estelle, after a slight pause.~ ~"Who does not know him,
2268 IV | beggarly English--who put their paw~on most of the treasure.
2269 VIII| choicest wines) a compote of peaches of august and mirobolant~
2270 X | took him by the arm,~still pealing with laughter at the conscience-stricken
2271 XI | ill-placed, in other words, a~pear-shaped stomach, altered the once
2272 V | the sly expression of a peasant who calculates his~profits.
2273 IV | those hands, soft as the peel of~an onion, enjoined me
2274 II | Bourbon; would not accept his~peerage during the Hundred Days,
2275 VIII| the head-clerk appeared, pen in hand.~ ~"Monsieur Godeschal,
2276 VI | ridiculous--the pabulum of their~pencils--seize with such avidity.
2277 V | roots of his hair, and was penetrated~through and through with
2278 VI | immensely by the force of his~penetration, inspired, no doubt, by
2279 VIII| mother, who lived even more penuriously than Desroches. Moreau could~
2280 IX | Ambassadors are the attorneys of Peoples. If I can~ever be useful
2281 IV | Leger and Oscar, Georges perceived~that he had made for himself
2282 II | because he gained a~larger percentage on them. Presles returned
2283 I | which three travellers could perch; when there, they went,
2284 VIII| volume.~ ~We must explain the perennial joke of this book, then
2285 VIII| tarnished with surprising perfection. As soon as the book was
2286 VIII| called by~Maitre Desroches to perform the difficult functions
2287 VIII| orchestra seats~for the performance of this evening, it is proper
2288 III | house he was hidden when in peril of his life.~ ~This woman,
2289 IV | her in the midst of the perils by which she was surrounded;~
2290 VI | front of which was a sort~of peristyle which formed an entrance-hall,
2291 VI | hundred, making use of a vague permission~once granted by the count.
2292 VI | took her hand, which she permitted.~ ~"Oh! madame, if you would
2293 VII | such cases,~she began the peroration which terminates these scenes,--
2294 I | instead of having to listen to perpetual~complaints of his "sabots" (
2295 I | seat they banged each other perpetually, and ran much~risk of injuring
2296 IV | philosophy; oh, couldn't I~perplex 'em! But no, that shabby
2297 VI | pretensions. Moreover, the perquisites~granted by Monsieur de Serizy
2298 VI | the room. The~carpet was a Persian rug. The boudoir, wholly
2299 IV | that~be enough?"~ ~"If you persist in interrupting, monsieur,"
2300 III | might be on the score of his persistent~kindness in succoring a
2301 III | the~young man in whom his perspicacity at once detected customers,
2302 IV | our shadow; and I couldn't persuade Madame Pirate to send~her
2303 III | corner of the coucou. Oscar,~persuaded that their jokes and laughter
2304 VII | philosophy, well, IT~ISN'T PERU, you know! You will stay
2305 VI | Sour are the~curses of perversity.'"~ ~Oscar was very nearly
2306 I | the Lesser Stage company,--Petites~Messageries, the name given
2307 X | to Oscar, who stood there petrified. "What can he do~now, poor
2308 V | to Oscar and Schinner.~ ~"Phew!" said the great painter; "
2309 VII | corporal punishment, though philanthropists are deeply opposed~to it
2310 X | matter of Joseph's~brother, Philippe Bridau."~ ~At this moment
2311 VI | and presently a word, or phrase or two,~betrayed her past,
2312 IX | arts--to use the~consecrated phrase--that the theatre owed the
2313 III | ostensibly covered by a few phrases as to the weather, the~journey,
2314 III | impose respect by~superior physical ability.~ ~This mixture
2315 VI | certain remedies,~not used by physicians, but known to the common
2316 V | Pierrotin, put me out here, and pick me up~at the same place
2317 IV | ve all seen him in that~picture by Horace Vernet,--'The
2318 II | he~could sell the fields piecemeal to the count at a high price,
2319 VIII| of speech and possessed a piercing eye and~a gloomy vivaciousness,
2320 I | duty--always a~friend to Pierrotin--to avoid the necessity of
2321 VI | He kept his poultry-yard, pigeon-cotes, and~cattle at the cost
2322 IX | Cardot, with~his hair in "pigeon-wings," seemed like an angel,
2323 VIII| automatoes.~ ~Item: a compote of pigeons with caused us to think
2324 VI | had paid his butcher with pigs from the farm, after reserving~
2325 III | protuberant stomach, a powdered pigtail, and wears a little coat
2326 II | Corroy, stood erect as a pike-~staff. She presented to
2327 XI | remarked Georges. "He began his~pile surreptitiously at Presles--"~ ~"
2328 II | salary on the Grand Livre, piling up his heap with the~utmost
2329 X | the broken glasses! What pillage! The antechamber actually~
2330 VI | very nearly changed to a pillar of salt; for, at this~revelation,
2331 VI | there, of course, with its pillows and footstools. The~plant-stands,
2332 VI | to the steward's lodge, piloted by Jacques Moreau, the~eldest
2333 III | labor. These blotches and pimples so injured the naturally
2334 III | needle converted into a pin by a~bead of sealing-wax.
2335 II | Presles. From speeches like pin-~pricks, matters had advanced
2336 IX | young fellows who have been pinched for means in their youth
2337 XI | a sky-blue cravat and a pink-striped cotton shirt, expressed,
2338 X | never be anything but simply pious. The Aspasia of the~Directory
2339 VII | inquisitive observation would have~piqued him.~ ~"I'm afraid Poiret
2340 IV | end of the Adriatic are pirates, rovers, corsairs retired
2341 VII | preferences were really for Piron, Vade, and Colle. Naturally,
2342 III | heard of Madame Husson's pitiable~condition, and he was able,
2343 II | his place; he is not to be pitied therefore."~ ~The count
2344 I | discovered in the chalk pits of Montmartre.~ ~These petty
2345 IX | remaining ten, all as drunk as Pitt and Dundas, talked of~going
2346 II | think of it."~ ~With these plans in mind, Moreau, as soon
2347 IV | replied Mistigris,--"a plant that grows to the height
2348 II | and eager eyes, fair hair plastered down upon an~anxious forehead,
2349 IX | down beside him. The other players saw with satisfaction the
2350 II | refused proposals on the plea of want of~money; and he
2351 VIII| him~a barrister he might plead cases that were carefully
2352 VIII| with a fine figure and~pleasant face, presented himself,
2353 X | poor boy?"~ ~"Whatever he pleases!" said Cardot, sharply,
2354 IX | black cashmere trousers pleated, a black coat very~well
2355 III | imperial~splendors. His pliant imagination retained the
2356 VI | son, who is now accused of plotting~against the State, and is
2357 V | Monsieur~Leger is about to pluck the Comte de Serizy, and
2358 VIII| of the exquisite~coffee, plunge us into so marked an oenological
2359 I | diligence had just started,~plunging heavily after those of the
2360 III | old-fashioned finery as the "ne~plus ultra" of adornment, was
2361 XI | called "Gondoles," which now ply, in~rivalry with the railroad,
2362 II | interests, while he himself pocketed~forty thousand francs which
2363 VIII| Signed: Oignard, first clerk; Poidevin, second clerk; Proust,~clerk;
2364 XI | the beautiful estate~of Pointel, between Presles and Beaumont."~ ~"
2365 VII | Madame Moreau hates him like poison, you know why. She'll~try
2366 IV | cursed corsair was dead,~poisoned by Zena. I'd liked to have
2367 I | which Pierrotin managed to~poke six passengers; this space
2368 I | Pierrotin. "Where have they poked themselves? Yes, harness
2369 IV | enough to~embark on a Genoese polacca which was loading for the
2370 IX | Mere Godichon" had the wise policy to~keep Mademoiselle Cabirolle
2371 VI | if it hadn't been for the politeness of~a young man he'd have
2372 VII | his calm air and his snowy poll he concealed an old age~
2373 X | son, having left the Ecole~Polytechnique rather low in his class,
2374 VII | by~oranges, myrtles, and pomegranates. "And what did he get?"~ ~"
2375 I | Pierrefitte, Groslay, Ecouen, Poncelles, Moisselles,~Monsoult, Maffliers,
2376 I | chance any of those birds of ponderous flight still linger in the~
2377 I | little beast no~bigger than a pony, about whose merits he had
2378 III | tureens were those of the poorest families and provoked~pity,
2379 III | opulence. He filled, very poorly, a place in the Treasury~
2380 IX | never control your vanity, popinjay?"~ ~"Ah! monsieur," said
2381 VI | who turned as red as a poppy on seeing the two artists
2382 IV | a murderer by a maddened~populace which stones you and howls
2383 I | transportation to all the populous towns within a~radius of
2384 I | clock. Under the enormous porch or passage, above which
2385 IX | herself a reputation at the Porte-Saint-Martin, in a melodrama~entitled "
2386 III | swagger is all the more portentous~because it is exercised
2387 VI | bed, was draped with ample portieres and window curtains lined
2388 III | which were~certain inflamed portions which his snow-white hair
2389 IV | there some~day to paint her portrait; for in a few years, you
2390 IV | Venice to Rome by painting portraits~for five francs apiece,
2391 VI | a~remarkable talent for portraiture. He would be too happy,
2392 III | the Madame Clapart just portrayed, instead of the~young and
2393 IV | admirers. Accordingly, he now~posed as a great personage; paid
2394 V | needs no protection; he~possesses the secrets of statesmen
2395 II | already the legitimate possessor of sixty thousand francs~
2396 I | which demonstrated the possibility of carrying eighteen~persons
2397 VII | sent Oscar back to you in a post-chaise," he cried, in a~tone of
2398 III | washing herself,~and paid the postage on her letters daily, being
2399 VII | very well that Oscar was a posthumous~child. His nephew, therefore,
2400 VII | stockings, breeches of "pou-de-soie" (paduasoy), a white~pique
2401 II | three~children served as a poultice to the wounds of his honor.~
2402 VI | exclaimed Moreau and the poultry-~girl together.~ ~"I am sure
2403 VI | afterwards her cook. The~poultry-game, also the dairy-maid, assisted
2404 VI | house. On his way he~met the poultry-girl, who was having an altercation
2405 VI | their~life of luxury. The poultry-maid baked their bread; and of
2406 VI | by the count. He kept his poultry-yard, pigeon-cotes, and~cattle
2407 IV | ounce o' paint is worth a pound of~swagger.'"~ ~"And such
2408 I | he would pay a handsome pourboire if he~was not recognized."~ ~"
2409 IV | driving sovereigns. What pourboires I'll get!"~ ~"And all the
2410 IV | drink me down the glass poured out for the chandler; that
2411 IV | Ruysdael, Claude Lorrain, Poussin,~and others."~ ~"But," exclaimed
2412 III | his~adolescence than the poverty-stricken household of his mother.
2413 VIII| favors on his venerable pow! May he sell dear so glorious
2414 II | indemnities demanded by~foreign powers. Without personal assumption,
2415 VIII| registers of other ancient Practices; and we have ourselves~gone,
2416 VI | continued the count, "ought to practise discretion,~shrewdness,
2417 VIII| quotations, signatures, and praises of good~cheer and wines,
2418 VIII| must be slackened. These "pranks," as he called them,~helped
2419 VIII| the youngest clerk, "and~pray let us be serious."~ ~The
2420 VIII| rich clients for whom he prays arrive! May his~bills of
2421 VIII| he is now."~ ~Godeschal preached by example. If he professed
2422 V | coach. Therefore, by way of precaution," added the count,~striking
2423 I | francs. To satisfy this precautionary demand, Pierrotin~had exhausted
2424 VI | when the latter assumed precedence over~the former on her first
2425 VII | a lasting memory~of her precepts. If to the shame of the
2426 II | country; she returned from it precisely as~though she were still
2427 I | intelligence and a certain military precision. Active and decided in~his
2428 III | vast~forehead proclaimed a precocious intellect. A strained and
2429 IX | streets that have their predestinations. Enriched with a magnificent~
2430 IX | ex-notary, who amused himself by~predicting the blows to the nobility
2431 IV | functionaries. A gardener is made a prefect; and the prime minister~
2432 II | at Presles, for his wife preferred Serizy, an estate~only fifteen
2433 III | Husson's silly~self-conceit, premising that he was born in the
2434 IX | week," she said, "and to prepare,~in case you get a bad number,
2435 IX | that that blagueur is preparing some~trick against us for
2436 XI | Pere Leger! more and more preponderant!" cried~Georges.~ ~"To whom
2437 IV | say that he loaded me with presents,--diamonds,~ten thousand
2438 VIII| attribute this unheard-of preservation, when all titles,~privileges,
2439 X | the army will, at least, preserve him from that."~ ~"Could
2440 VIII| Maitre~Bordin should be preserved; and we, the undersigned,
2441 XI | pile surreptitiously at Presles--"~ ~"Say nothing against
2442 V | concerns a claim I wish to press on the American~government.
2443 VI | the good man's mind with a prestige of grandeur.~ ~"Well, monsieur,"
2444 VI | to foot. "Your mother, I presume, has not~accustomed you
2445 VI | Vulgarity is the brother of~pretension.'"~ ~While the matter of
2446 VI | Presles to take down their pretensions. Moreover, the perquisites~
2447 XI | which was slipped into a~pretentious gold ring, was a chain of
2448 XI | faded waistcoat, a cravat,~pretentiously tied, although the material
2449 VI | herself~coquettishly, the prettiest of her toilets had been
2450 II | From speeches like pin-~pricks, matters had advanced to
2451 II | stamp; but no one, unless a priest, ever comes to life of this~
2452 VII | worthy old gentleman hated priests; he belonged to that great~
2453 IX | magnificent~service of plate, the "prima danseuse" of the Gaiete
2454 IV | made a prefect; and the prime minister~comes down to be
2455 III | themselves succumb to this primitive passion. Did not~Rousseau
2456 X | expedition undertaken by the Prince-royal. The~Vicomte de Serizy chanced
2457 IX | sparkled a bevy of stage princesses, who,~having been informed,
2458 VIII| Oscar, made it a matter of~principle not to allow his pupil to
2459 VIII| professed the strictest~principles of honor, discretion, and
2460 VIII| uncle Cardot, who went privately to Desroches~and made inquiries
2461 VIII| preservation, when all titles,~privileges, and charters were lost,
2462 II | Emperor, he became once more a privy-~councillor, was appointed
2463 IV | after winning the 'grand prix' five years~ago. My name
2464 VII | boy who has never won a prize at school!" continued Clapart.~ ~
2465 X | will have gone through his probations in life."~ ~"If that is
2466 VIII| purpose of studying legal procedure, and of training himself
2467 V | light-colored cigar, which he proceeded to smoke on the~threshold
2468 VII | will bear~worthily, was proclaimed--"~ ~"The deuce it was!"
2469 II | the~Emperor, he was made proconsul to two kingdoms in succession.
2470 IX | a~journalist who might procure an engagement for Florentine
2471 VIII| reverence~which the last of the procureurs of noble race had for all
2472 IX | possible. I have promised a PROD of twenty francs to Simon.
2473 II | whatever he wanted of the produce of the~gardens. A sub-prefect
2474 II | frequently~running into it, producing the most annoying discussions
2475 I | Competition still continued, so productive is a line~on which are little
2476 IX | sending its most splendid~products for the gratification of
2477 V | doubtless, some celebrated professor, isn't he?--~Monsieur Andrieux
2478 VIII| he learns the Code~and is proficient in his classes; that is
2479 I | Beaumont-sur-Oise,--a line extremely profitable,~for three rival enterprises
2480 IV | the friend of Ali Tebelen~profited by the occasion to ask the
2481 VI | commercial; but~I have so profound and delicate a sense of
2482 X | Moreau, not suspecting~the profundity of that cruel sentence.~ ~"
2483 II | farm, the fields of which projected into and greatly injured
2484 III | away from her useless and prolix instructions.~ ~"You will
2485 X | children, and I can make no~promises."~ ~"Never mind, never mind,"
2486 VII | affection were, moreover, not~prompted by self-interest.~ ~Uncle
2487 VII | young man makes his way~promptly either in business or in
2488 V | remember, I shall know if you pronounce it, or~make the slightest
2489 IV | Chaureff; but the name is~pronounced, in Turkish, Cosserew. You
2490 II | remained an~honest man, and no proof could have been found to
2491 III | tender voice, "you have a propensity to talk, and to tell~all
2492 X | and all the threatening prophecies which he~fulminated against
2493 II | secrecy. He often refused proposals on the plea of want of~money;
2494 III | really thinking of some day~proposing Oscar to the count as his
2495 IV | to his capital he~made me propositions, wanted me to drown a wife,
2496 XI | missing arm, the~strict propriety of his dress, would all
2497 VII | you; I saw you with the prospect of a fine career, and I~
2498 VII | feeling~that he injured the prospects of his children, all finely
2499 VII | overthrown his benefactor's prosperity! As commerce and a~government
2500 VII | women whom he saw~without protectors; he "placed himself at their
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