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2501 III | which has a square back, a~protuberant stomach, a powdered pigtail,
2502 VIII| Poidevin, second clerk; Proust,~clerk; Augustin Coret,
2503 III | sleeves too short for him, proving that he had grown, and might
2504 V | your household give you provisions enough for an ocean voyage:
2505 VIII| of their purse; for it is publicly notorious that no one~delivers
2506 IV | summit of Paradise without~pulleys. I attained to the height
2507 II | our~ancient customs by the pun on "eris," which word, combined
2508 V | in reply would fain have punched his head.~ ~"How he does
2509 III | least to have~the merit of punctuality. The deuce! one doesn't
2510 V | station."~ ~"'Et caetera punctum!'" crowed Mistigris, imitating
2511 IX | which Nathan and Florine had~punted.~ ~The actress did not spare
2512 VII | land, and we have begun by purchasing~the estate of Persan. I
2513 X | to works and deeds of the purest piety. She believed she~
2514 I | certainly~not commend itself to purists in morality; but Pierrotin
2515 II | poor, half-pay captain, a puritan,~subscribing no doubt to
2516 V | Sharp stomachs make short purses.'"~ ~"Come, Pere Leger,
2517 VI | meant: "Come, sail in,~and push the matter; she is not so
2518 VII | can learn."~ ~"He--that pussy cat! I'll bet that if he
2519 III | the fire which happiness~puts there, told plainly that
2520 VIII| the "Cheval Rouge," on the Quai Saint-~Bernard, where we
2521 IV | inquired Mistigris.~ ~"And what quantities of snuff he took!" continued
2522 I | remarkable for splendid~quarries, which have furnished material
2523 I | along the road.~ ~"It is a quarter-past eight, and I don't see any
2524 X | promise of promotion to quartermaster within~a year. Chance had
2525 I | I'll wait two, three quarters, and throw a little in besides,
2526 III | and, above all, by~the quasi-military air, the waxed moustaches,
2527 IX | They~returned by Bercy, the quays, and the boulevards to the
2528 IV | then I charge, double-~quick, and cut his line in two,--
2529 III | tricks to keep passengers quiet.~ ~"Well, after all," said
2530 VIII| At times he thought of quitting a~life so directly against
2531 VI | of colic,~Joseph Bridau quivered, but Mistigris, who was
2532 IV | attained to the height of Don Quixote; I rose to~exaltation! and
2533 III | not been polished, with a quizzical~air, and searched for the
2534 VIII| with a craving~for fun and quizzing. The instinct with which
2535 VIII| different inks, also by quotations, signatures, and praises
2536 II | paying five per cent, and quoted at eighty francs. These
2537 IX | he said in a low voice, quoting the well-known song of Beranger.~"
2538 XI | above Saint-Laurent than it raced like a~mail-cart to Saint-Denis,
2539 XI | the Sign of the Cat and Racket~Cesar Birotteau~ ~Coralie,
2540 VIII| expectations. It was composed of radishes, pink and~black, gherkins,
2541 I | populous towns within a~radius of forty-five miles; and
2542 IV | face with an oval to drive Raffaelle mad,~a skin of the most
2543 VI | ground, was foaming with rage, and did not say~a word.
2544 IV | the scrape. Oh! wasn't he raging, that buffoon of an~Englishman?"~ ~"
2545 VI | iron~gateway for the shabby railing, which she discarded.~ ~
2546 XI | ply, in~rivalry with the railroad, between Paris and Versailles.
2547 I | to Pierrotin's happiness~Railroads, in a future not far distant,
2548 X | replied Godeschal.~ ~"Then it rains five-hundred-franc notes,"
2549 VI | woman of the world.~ ~The rancorous enmity which existed between
2550 VI | painfully when, after giving two raps on~his master's door, he
2551 IV | circumstances, conversation rarely~begins until they have gone
2552 VII | cried uncle Cardot, "the rascal has a good deal to do to~
2553 I | his coucou only, which was rated to carry six~persons; and
2554 VIII| that looked~as though the rats had gnawed them; also, the
2555 VIII| storms which~have cruelly ravaged the land of France, now
2556 III | old French cashmere shawl, raw-silk stockings, and low~shoes;
2557 VII | the Cocon d'Or,~"I might re-marry. A young woman would give
2558 VI | Moreau's presence; but on reaching~Presles a new sensation
2559 VI | in a confusion that may readily be imagined. The~master
2560 VIII| He~took it up, but after reading a few pages he began to
2561 VII | to see your fifth~child realizing all we expect from him,"
2562 V | pictures on coin of the realm given to Moreau will enable
2563 VII | both of whom~expected to reap an annuity of some six hundred
2564 III | Georges thought it just and reasonable to remonstrate with Pierrotin.~ ~"
2565 I | horses might be in a~far from reassuring condition.~ ~One of the
2566 IV | friendly as Bourbons) was in rebellion against the Padishah! You
2567 V | surprise, Pierrotin himself rebridled the horses.~Schinner and
2568 VI | Rosalie paid no heed to the rebuke, but whispered in her mistress'
2569 XI | like a man who is trying to recall a likeness to his memory.~ ~"
2570 XI | secured, in after years, a~receiver-generalship for Monsieur Husson, in
2571 X | poor woman. When a mother receives from~her child a shock like
2572 | recent
2573 XI | last a widow, was as little recognizable as~her son. Clapart, a victim
2574 X | awoke the unfortunate~clerk. Recognizing the voice of his uncle Cardot,
2575 XI | all have diverted Georges~recollections of his former victim if
2576 III | for Pierrotin,~wishing to recommend to his special care her
2577 VIII| deed which proclaimed~the reconstitution of the kingdom of Basoche:--~ ~
2578 II | departments of the~government to reconstruct. This scion of an old historical
2579 VIII| receptions of welcome," were recorded on this imposing register.~ ~
2580 III | of his mother, Oscar~had recourse to an heroic measure, which
2581 VI | we are lost,--lost beyond recovery. I am no longer steward~
2582 VI | Above all, let there be no~recrimination or petty meanness. Though
2583 VII | departed wife, a~tall, spare, red-haired woman; he was also aware
2584 VII | their sakes, and, therefore,~redoubled their attentions and tenderness.
2585 VII | him, and she constantly referred to the cup~and the fork
2586 V | is a word as delicate and refined as your stomach," said~Georges.~ ~"
2587 X | you'll eat plain bread and reflect on life such as~it is to
2588 VII | he lived in a cheap way, reflected that he~had deprived himself
2589 I | did~so with an anxious, reflective air that was not habitual
2590 IX | banishment was passed on a refractory who was stated to~have been
2591 IX | virility. The~mother could not refrain from admiring her son and
2592 IV | crushed himself. His son took refuge in the house of the French~
2593 VII | was much~concerned about "refusals to bury." He adored Voltaire,
2594 VIII| their excellent master, who regaled them~at the establishment
2595 IX | like the seigneurs of the Regency."~ ~"Hurrah!" cried the
2596 VIII| exquisite wines of three regions, to wit: Bordeaux,~Champagne,
2597 VIII| for safe-keeping, with~the registers of other ancient Practices;
2598 IX | Palais, and get from the registrar a copy of the decision in~
2599 VIII| clerk; Jacques Heret,~clerk; Regnault de Saint-Jean-d'Angely,
2600 IV | my~halcyon time. I don't regret it."~ ~"You can imagine
2601 VI | retired~disappointed and regretting the trouble of making her
2602 I | strangers~accustomed to the regularity of the great lines of public
2603 III | Henri IV.; and he sent her regularly, by~Pierrotin, such supplies
2604 VI | rooms where they~made their regulation toilet for dinner. The pair
2605 III | of~the five kings of that reign, married, through that all-powerful~
2606 XI | while his driver cleared the reins from the leaders.~ ~"Poor
2607 VI | head-gardener of Presles, rejoiced~the eye with their pyramids
2608 V | with her," pursued Oscar,~rejoicing to have found a topic to
2609 VIII| made a break in the usages relative to~the reception of new-comers.
2610 VIII| for which he was~paying a relatively low price.~ ~Desroches,
2611 III | hair brought out into~full relief. To any but heedless youths,
2612 III | whip in hand,~apparently reluctant to mount to the hard seat
2613 IX | mother to the~driver. The remaining ten, all as drunk as Pitt
2614 V | Mistigris~filched his cigar, remarking, as he smoked it with evident~
2615 II | backbiting; but for all that, he~remembered Derville's doubts, and felt
2616 I | people, and also violent remonstrances on the part of strangers~
2617 III | it just and reasonable to remonstrate with Pierrotin.~ ~"Hey!
2618 X | became a victim to the remorse which~seizes upon many a
2619 III | Holland trousers less to~remove them than to see their effect.~ ~"
2620 I | they found in~placing and removing it. If the "back" was difficult
2621 IV | Besides,~nobody respects a renegade. Now if they had offered
2622 III | plainly that she had long renounced the world. Her~dress, as
2623 V | to-day six thousand francs in rental.~I'll take another lease
2624 II | us ten thousand a year in rentals. Nogent is one of the~most
2625 VIII| November, when the courts reopened, Oscar Husson~occupied the
2626 VI | out of date. Moreau had it repainted, and now~drove his wife
2627 I | you know they have just repaired and refurnished the~chateau.
2628 IX | A year after the very reparable loss of Madame Cardot, the~
2629 VIII| undersigned, declare that the repast of admission~surpassed our
2630 XI | and General Giroudeau have repeatedly named~him in their reports."~ ~"
2631 X | in her old age, turns to repentance. She now considered~herself
2632 I | winter, and the only one he reported to the tax-~gatherer, was
2633 I | to avoid the necessity of reporting this flagrant~violation
2634 XI | ring, was a chain of silk, representing hair, which,~no doubt, held
2635 VII | more, but will strive to repress~your silly vanity," et cetera,
2636 III | poor~woman could now be reproached with no other fault than
2637 II | devotion~and its respectful reproaches for the distrust implied
2638 IV | Mistigris, who~will some day reproduce Hobbema, Ruysdael, Claude
2639 IV | exclaimed the count, "if he reproduces one of them won't that~be
2640 VI | after giving him a good reproof.~Strange to say, the dishonesty
2641 II | most illustrious of the Republican generals, who left her his
2642 X | the best~of all possible republics was removed from the command
2643 V | committed the odious crime of repudiating his mother, Oscar,~furious
2644 IX | had just made~herself a reputation at the Porte-Saint-Martin,
2645 III | the discreet Pierrotin, requesting him never to~deliver to
2646 II | all these questions would require a long history, which~would
2647 III | But his future absolutely requires that I should send him."~ ~
2648 XI | monsieur who so bravely rescued the Vicomte Jules de~Serizy
2649 I | the subject of learned researches comparable to those of~Cuvier
2650 XI | with an imperiale above.~It resembled those diligences called "
2651 IV | know that this wine no more~resembles what is made there than
2652 X | Ought I not, therefore, to reserve for her the little~money
2653 VI | pigs from the farm, after reserving~those he needed for his
2654 II | one of the~most delightful residences in the valley; and we should
2655 II | was it that he dared not resist? Why did he let the~years
2656 II | Why did he suffer without~resistance? How was it that he dared
2657 IV | the old woman, but Zena resisted. As my sweet love spoke~
2658 VII | uprightness are maintained only~by resisting temptations; of which, in
2659 III | recognized a definitive resolution, and they both sprang~toward
2660 VII | good start in life! In this respect--indeed, in all~others,"
2661 I | lesser bourgeoisie, he always respected~women in whatever station
2662 VI | Serizy, assisted by their respective~notaries in presence of
2663 III | the devil and to God what respectively belongs to them,~perhaps
2664 IV | fancy for. Besides,~nobody respects a renegade. Now if they
2665 IX | the creator of the first restaurant for delicate and perfectly~
2666 IX | beginning, "Inter pocula aurea~restauranti, qui vulgo dicitur Rupes
2667 IX | mortal. There are dinners at~restaurants, boxes at the theatres,
2668 VIII| establishment of the Sieur Rolland restaurateur, rue du~Hasard, with exquisite
2669 III | to outshine their mates) resting on these~memories of his
2670 II | intended to examine the work of restoration and the~effect of the new
2671 VI | count's determination to restore the magnificent~chateau,
2672 V | hundred thousand francs in restoring the~chateau? It is as fine
2673 X | Oscar sat down and no longer restrained his tears, which flowed~
2674 VII | The family intercourse was~restricted to the sending of notes
2675 II | by a malady of the skin resulting solely from~excessive labor.
2676 III | Listen, my Oscar," she said, resuming~at once her tender voice, "
2677 XI | habits have~the virtue to retain. Dressed like a man who
2678 XI | to his mother, but still retaining his patronizing manner. "
2679 VI | all the~world, he should reveal your misfortunes and laugh
2680 V | the slightest sign that reveals it to any one, no matter
2681 VIII| office, and also to the reverence~which the last of the procureurs
2682 V | a stone post,~lost in a revery which did not allow him
2683 VI | a very choice dinner and reviewing the condition of her~rooms,
2684 I | which, since the Peace, was~revolutionizing his calling, Pierrotin would
2685 X | conduct on this occasion was rewarded with the officer's cross~
2686 VIII| those of the banks of the Rhone~completely effaced those
2687 VI | his elbow into his clerk's ribs.~ ~"A notary," continued
2688 III | exuberance of sap,--the~richness of the youthful imagination.
2689 I | take this," said the valet, ridding his shoulder of~the trunk,
2690 VI | and my affections to the ridicule~of a Madame Husson!--"~ ~"
2691 VI | cruel, born-observers of the ridiculous--the pabulum of their~pencils--
2692 IV | who had not forgotten the~riding-lesson I gave him, recognized me.
2693 VI | in his hand he carried a riding-whip.~ ~"Ah! my boy, so here
2694 VI | they felt the necessity of "rigging themselves up" (studio~slang).
2695 I | a~pregnant woman, could rightfully carry only three passengers,
2696 VIII| and to his work~with such rigidity that his life in the midst
2697 I | the~rule of departure, rigorous toward strangers, was often
2698 II | Madame," he resumed, ringing for his valet, "return to
2699 IX | out from her purse, the rings of which were~adorned with
2700 IV | Schinner was nonplussed.~ ~"Riot has but one language," said
2701 VI | spreading sides~of which rippled the curls of her beautiful
2702 VIII| jurisconsult; and as~he is rich, rishissime, we will make him, I hope,
2703 VI | Moreau had never~before risked bringing Oscar to Presles.~ ~"
2704 IX | Tullia, one of~Mariette's rivals,--the second clerk felt
2705 IX | to fling myself~into the river; I am dishonored."~ ~"How
2706 III | indeed the eyes of a child riveted on a~melodrama were likely
2707 VI | see what became of his two~road-companions, when Monsieur Moreau suddenly
2708 VI | betraying your confidence and~robbing you?"~ ~"I should endeavor
2709 VIII| farces of the embryo long robe~Ten days later, Oscar was
2710 II | belonged to the Danton party; Robespierre,~implacable in his hatreds,
2711 VIII| was thirty, "procureur du roi" in any court, no matter~
2712 VIII| establishment of the Sieur Rolland restaurateur, rue du~Hasard,
2713 IV | Maraschino comes~in cases."~ ~"'Romances alter cases,'" remarked
2714 IV | famous Schinner allowed a romantic~adventure to be guessed
2715 III | seemed to him that this~romantic-looking stranger, gifted with such
2716 VIII| devoured melons,~"pates au jus romanum," and a fillet of beef with
2717 III | these, when they~have no root in the heart, prove only
2718 V | Oscar colored crimson to the roots of his hair, and was penetrated~
2719 VIII| expenses, for he felt that the rope by which he tethered~the
2720 VI | imitation of~a tent, with ropes of blue silk on a gray background.
2721 VI | above her head~a charming rose-colored parasol lined with white
2722 XI | compartments, coupe, interieur, and rotonde, with an imperiale above.~
2723 XI | clerk then moved to the rotunde, before which were grouped
2724 VIII| Sunday next, at the "Cheval Rouge," on the Quai Saint-~Bernard,
2725 VII | here, in the faubourg du Roule, very plainly. When~we see
2726 VIII| delicacy.~ ~The wines of Roussillon and those of the banks of
2727 IV | be Chosrew pacha. After~I routed him, the fellow had managed
2728 IV | the beautiful Adelaide de Rouville,~the protegee of old Admiral
2729 IV | the Adriatic are pirates, rovers, corsairs retired from~business,
2730 IV | bourgeois, Marais, Place~Royale, that is!" cried Georges. "
2731 XI | by four horses brought at Roye, mounted the rise of the
2732 V | Academie Francaise, or Monsieur Royer-~Collard?" asked Schinner.~ ~"
2733 III | parted behind~him.~ ~"Don't rub your gloves that way, you'
2734 III | Louis XVIII., with fat, rubicund cheeks, from between~which
2735 I | of sly shrewdness to his ruddy and weather-stained visage
2736 VI | The~carpet was a Persian rug. The boudoir, wholly modern,
2737 VIII| himself,~to remain in that rugged way.~ ~Godeschal, who watched
2738 XI | in the~midst of all this ruin, such a latent desire to
2739 X | danced last evening in 'Les Ruines,'~and you have spent the
2740 IX | melodrama entitled "The Ruins of Babylon." Florentine~
2741 IV | And that's what our rulers are trying to bring us to. '
2742 I | of keeping exactly to the rules~written on the tariff, copies
2743 I | carry more than fourteen. It~rumbled so noisily that the inhabitants
2744 XI | smiling. "In a word, you are~a runner for an insurance company."~ ~"
2745 I | A coach like that which runs to Beaumont, hey? Flaming!
2746 IX | restauranti, qui vulgo dicitur Rupes Cancali." Every one can
2747 XI | denote an expedition to some rural fete.~ ~At this moment a
2748 X | his own little hoard~and rushed to the Palais, where he
2749 IV | funny. Better be a disguised~Russian prince and make them swallow
2750 IV | public conveyances; and Russians no~roads. There is no amusement
2751 IV | some day reproduce Hobbema, Ruysdael, Claude Lorrain, Poussin,~
2752 VI | absolutely nothing but~butcher's-meat, wines, and the colonial
2753 II | bears: party per pale or and sable, an orle counterchanged~
2754 I | perpetual~complaints of his "sabots" (tires of enormous width),--
2755 IV | They sew a~woman up in a sack and fling her into the water
2756 XI | Africa, or~America?"~ ~"Sacrebleu! I've made the revolution
2757 VII | legged nor crooked, after sacrificing everything to give him an~
2758 III | the house.~ ~Here is the sad story which Pierrotin could
2759 VI | soon as he saw him in the saddle.~ ~"Not a word to any one,"
2760 VI | horses, Moreau had his own saddle-horse. He~did enough farming on
2761 III | for her, and was simply saddled with the impossibility~of
2762 XI | afraid," said Joseph Bridau, sadly, "that the last journey
2763 IX | to Monsieur Godeschal for safe keeping?"~ ~"Godeschal!"
2764 III | minister of State cast a sagacious glance round the interior
2765 VI | Mistigris which meant: "Come, sail in,~and push the matter;
2766 VIII| day, the feast of our lady Saincte-Geneviesve, patron saint of~Paris,
2767 II | of~the Golden Fleece, of Saint-Andrew of Russia, that of the Prussian~
2768 VIII| resolved, each of us, to go to Saint-Etienne~du Mont and there hear mass,
2769 IV | I was a captain at Mont-~Saint-Jean, and I retired to the Loire,
2770 VIII| Heret,~clerk; Regnault de Saint-Jean-d'Angely, clerk; Bedeau, youngest~
2771 XI | sooner had it got above Saint-Laurent than it raced like a~mail-cart
2772 X | Abbe~Gaudron, now rector of Saint-Pauls.~ ~Although Oscar outwardly
2773 V | Abbe Loraux, now vicar of Saint-Sulpice,"~replied Oscar, recollecting
2774 VIII| lost, to the protection of Sainte-~Genevieve, patron Saint
2775 VIII| knowing the exact part of Sainte-Genevieve and Maitre Bordin in~this
2776 VII | of his property for their sakes, and, therefore,~redoubled
2777 II | was~seldom seen in his own salons. This noble life, devoting
2778 VI | nearly changed to a pillar of salt; for, at this~revelation,
2779 VI | revelation, his throat felt saltier than the sea.~ ~"And you,
2780 IX | serving the dainties on silver salvers. The~hangings, a marvel
2781 IV | Egypt? Oh! Egypt is all sand," replied Georges, by no
2782 III | prove only the exuberance of sap,--the~richness of the youthful
2783 IX | with play or libations.~Saperlotte! a second clerk is already
2784 IV | Byron, travelling incognito. Sapristi! I'll command the troops
2785 XI | remarked Oscar,~with a sarcasm not unmixed with bitterness.~ ~"
2786 III | spite of the step-father's sarcasms. This foolishness--~or,
2787 IV | that of the Annunciation of Sardinia, and the Golden Fleece."~ ~"
2788 III | looked at Mistigris, whose satirical~glance had followed his
2789 I | two thousand francs. To satisfy this precautionary demand,
2790 III | with the impossibility~of satisfying either then or in the future
2791 VIII| fillet of beef with mushroom sauce.~Mademoiselle Mariette,
2792 VI | expose yourself," said the~saucy rapin; "'facilis descensus
2793 VIII| immediate predecessor of Sauvaguest, the~attorney, from whom
2794 XI | Establishment~Pierre Grassou~Albert Savarus~The Government Clerks~Modeste
2795 X | destroys men and chance which saves them were both making~equal
2796 II | sixty thousand francs~in savings, if he added this sum to
2797 V | if we were going to the~scaffold."~ ~"'Silence gives content,'"
2798 III | which almost concealed a~scarlet neckerchief; and trousers,
2799 IV | great deal if we didn't~scatter little condiments while
2800 IV | master. "If you'd say it was scented~with vanilla that would
2801 I | of Paris~there sprang up schemes of beautiful, rapid, and
2802 IV | said Mistigris. "'Dead schinners tell no tales.'"~ ~"Monsieur,
2803 VI | be so well informed."~ ~"Schlague for blague!" said Leon de
2804 III | scholarships, unless the scholars are able to impose respect
2805 III | put upon those who hold~scholarships, unless the scholars are
2806 III | natural boastfulness of school-boys~(possessed of a desire to
2807 IV | yataghans, and carbines,~and scimetars, and what-not. But when
2808 II | government to reconstruct. This scion of an old historical family~
2809 VII | to console him for being scolded.~ ~"In future," she said, "
2810 II | would probably have had scores of lawsuits on~his hands.
2811 IX | Pere Cardot became an~"old screw" in the eyes of his protegee;
2812 VIII| documents had never yet been scribbled, had bought~new tables,
2813 III | into a pin by a~bead of sealing-wax. She was waiting impatiently
2814 II | investigation of the count a face~seamed with the small-pox like
2815 XI | times to daily~work. The seams of the black cloth showed
2816 XI | Peasantry~ ~Marest, Frederic~The Seamy Side of History~The Member
2817 III | with a quizzical~air, and searched for the spots on his brown
2818 VIII| preliminary examinations more searching and longer~than those of
2819 II | toil. The count rose at all seasons by four o'clock in the morning,~
2820 IV | let off with two years'~seclusion in a convent, where she
2821 IV | count a~manufacturer of the second-class, whom he took, for some
2822 VIII| Malin, head-~clerk; Grevin, second-clerk; Athanase Feret, clerk;
2823 I | flight still linger in the~second-hand carriage-shops--might be
2824 XI | one-armed officer for several seconds;~then he said, smiling:--~ ~"
2825 II | his heap with the~utmost secrecy. He often refused proposals
2826 II | daughter, he felt~himself so securely settled in all his comforts
2827 VII | have borrowed on my own~securities. When I find a good thing,
2828 VII | practice; and I will be security for him. You will only have
2829 | seeming
2830 IV | true title of the Grand Seignior is~Padishah, and not Sultan
2831 X | victim to the remorse which~seizes upon many a mother whose
2832 VII | cried Madame Clapart, seizing~uncle Cardot's hand and
2833 II | Monsieur de Serizy has a second self in Moreau."~ ~Being a prudent
2834 VI | is grandeur in a certain self-abasement. I am~afraid that you will
2835 III | of Oscar Husson's silly~self-conceit, premising that he was born
2836 VI | three of them painfully~self-conscious and embarrassed. Monsieur
2837 VII | moreover, not~prompted by self-interest.~ ~Uncle Cardot lived at
2838 IV | Schinner, recovering his self-possession, upset for~the moment by
2839 III | beauty, and that poverty and self-sacrifice prevented her~from being
2840 IV | three dashing fellows,--Selves, Besson, and others, who
2841 III | words, which still kept the~semblance of the proverb while giving
2842 IX | remained~under a yoke that was semi-conjugal and also irresistibly strong.
2843 IX | into the indulgence of a semi-paternity, which is the way with~old
2844 II | counterchanged, with: "i, semper melius eris,"--a~motto which,
2845 X | excuse,--anything!"~ ~These sentences were jerked out through
2846 III | circumstances; but all absorbing sentiments~have so much egotism!~ ~"
2847 X | that in 1830 he was first sergeant of~the company of the Vicomte
2848 IV | Hanau, where I was~promoted sergeant-major. In France, at Montereau,
2849 II | lives and property of the Serizys, father and~son. Citizen
2850 VI | while to warm that young serpent in your bosom.~How often
2851 VI | that La Foret was Moliere's servant-woman, Madame Moreau~inclined
2852 IX | all in~full livery, where serving the dainties on silver salvers.
2853 VIII| November 25th, 1822, after a session held~yesterday at the rue
2854 XI | Two Brides~The Marriage Settlement~The Secrets of a Princess~
2855 IV | mutual examination as in settling into their~places. Minds
2856 VIII| parish church of Saint-~Severin to solemnize the inauguration
2857 VIII| brought up with extreme severity by a stern father, had himself~
2858 IV | style is to be jealous. They sew a~woman up in a sack and
2859 III | carriage~better."~ ~"We sha'n't be off for an hour if
2860 III | the various lights and~shades, and the details; then he
2861 IV | leave us any~more than our shadow; and I couldn't persuade
2862 III | he said, giving himself a shake and addressing his~companion.~ ~
2863 VII | the equivalent of a fourth~share. Thus the worthy man, who
2864 VII | he liked enough to make a sharer in his secret pleasures,~
2865 V | that's how things are.~'Sharp stomachs make short purses.'"~ ~"
2866 X | day. Delighted to turn a sharpened arrow in the sensitive heart
2867 II | the Comte de Serizy, whose~shattered health required rest, resigned
2868 VII | his~hairdresser had duly shaved him and powdered his queue, "
2869 VIII| Holy-Shepherdess who sends us sheep to shear, and also to~offer a breakfast
2870 X | committed a folly out of sheer vanity. Well, vanity may
2871 IV | Draw a green~line down a sheet of yellow paper, and you
2872 VIII| register placed on the top~shelf, where a thick layer of
2873 VIII| like a squirrel along the shelves which~lined the room, until
2874 VII | barristers or solicitors, and~sheriffs. But for those he must study
2875 II | constant toil served him as shield and buckler against pangs
2876 IX | being the master of the ship for seven years,~Cardot
2877 III | wool in his ears,~and a shirt-collar high enough to make a large
2878 VII | pique waistcoat, dazzling shirt-front, a blue-bottle coat, violet
2879 VIII| fine linen, he wears the shirt-fronts of a stockbroker,~and so
2880 X | and going to~work in your shirt-sleeves with the tools of an artisan.
2881 X | receives from~her child a shock like that of the affair
2882 VI | spectators of the scene were shocked. Moreau seemed no~longer
2883 III | age; you don't know how shockingly old you may be yourself~
2884 V | utmost respect, and wore shoe-~strings which--"~ ~"My mother,
2885 VI | and a black coat on which shone the grand cross of the~Legion
2886 VI | to~ride on horseback, and shoot, and hunt."~ ~"I don't know
2887 XI | country-people, and petty shopkeepers, who were~bidding each other
2888 I | the coucou came down to shorter trips, and~so lived on for
2889 VI | himself went rapidly along the shortest path to the gamekeeper's~
2890 IX | was then about sixteen. Shortly after this debut Pere Cardot
2891 I | ornamented on the collar, shoulder-straps~and cuffs, with many-colored
2892 III | Leger.~ ~Whereupon Pierrotin shouted a certain "Hi!" in which
2893 XI | such a latent desire to SHOW-OFF that the~contrast was not
2894 VI | Monsieur Leon de Lora, shows a~remarkable talent for
2895 V | Oscar. "The poor man is so shrivelled and~old you would take him
2896 X | antechamber actually~makes me shudder--"~ ~At this instant the
2897 V | adventurer pull out from a side-pocket a small straw case, from
2898 III | straw seats, a table, and a sideboard; at the~windows, discolored
2899 VIII| the establishment of the Sieur Rolland restaurateur, rue
2900 III | fatalism.~ ~Oscar gave a sigh as he remarked the jaunty
2901 VI | Moulineaux, all ready~for signature."~ ~"Good heavens!" exclaimed
2902 VIII| inks, also by quotations, signatures, and praises of good~cheer
2903 XI | on the outside of which a signet ring~defined a large dark
2904 IV | the slightest motion~was significant and dangerous. At last it
2905 III | moustache with a gesture which~signified,--~ ~"Rather pretty figure!"~ ~"
2906 III | young men, on whom these~signs of an honorable indigence
2907 III | in a frogged surtout-coat silk-lined, a waist-~coat of fancy
2908 IX | then he fell back upon the silken cushions.~ ~"You'll have
2909 VII | when he wanted to~sell his silks to the Emperor, the imperial
2910 IV | count, with an~air of great simplicity.~ ~"Is the morality of courts
2911 X | fire~in their bedroom in simultaneously making the family broth,
2912 VI | Moreau. "Ah! my dear, your sin has found you~out. It was
2913 VI | one of those words "de singe a dauphin" which~artists,
2914 VII | likes in his old~age, and sings, as I do, 'La Mere Godichon.'
2915 X | Directory wanted to expiate her sins in order to draw down the~
2916 III | kingdom lived on the ancient~site of the Palais des Tournelles
2917 I | remarkable for its beautiful sites, for the famous chateaux~
2918 VI | will give me a few secret sittings I would endeavor to surpass~
2919 VI | gamekeeper's~house, which was situated between the park and the
2920 III | Saint-Paul. Toward the~end of the sixteenth century, the great seigneurs
2921 IV | Schinner. "The husband was sixty-nine years of age,~and jealous!
2922 VI | croquer, craunch, nibble, for sketching,"~interposed Mistigris,
2923 IX | fluttering still in the skies of fancy to which youth~
2924 X | sphinx of Luxor.~ ~"Old skinflint!" said the danseuse, who
2925 IX | distinguishing himself in~this little skirmish,--the first affair entrusted
2926 IV | money? From Zante~we were to skirt the coasts of Greece and
2927 VI | Oscar, somewhat abashed, was skulking behind a clump of trees
2928 IV | mists, and the blue of the sky~appeared in spots; so that
2929 XI | called "Scotch stuff,"~a sky-blue cravat and a pink-striped
2930 III | a pace which was soon to slacken.~ ~The count had a red face,
2931 VIII| tethered~the young kid must be slackened. These "pranks," as he called
2932 VI | rigging themselves up" (studio~slang). They, therefore, put on
2933 XI | Pierrotin?" he said, aloud, slapping that worthy on the~shoulder.~ ~"
2934 X | receiving, as he did so,~two slashes from yataghans on his left
2935 VI | cecidi,--I came, I saw, I slaughtered.'"~ ~Oscar followed the
2936 IV | legitimate~wives and ten slaves; that's equivalent to having
2937 VII | weary with the fatigue of a~sleepless night; her feeble voice,--
2938 IV | breathed into my ear, 'He~sleeps!' Then, as we were sure
2939 VI | thirty-six years of age, still slender and~delicate in shape in
2940 VI | the glance, Leon de Lora slid down upon the sofa beside~
2941 III | surtout, his feet in broken~slippers, always wore green spectacles,
2942 I | forest which~crowns the slope of the valley. It was divided
2943 I | cruel~anxieties which were slumbering in his breast. What could
2944 X | hearing this apostrophe, slunk back to his sofa in the~
2945 IX | with true pleasure to these slurs on the count, for~they diminished,
2946 IV | and I saw Chosrew, an old sly-~boots, thinking to force
2947 IV | that!" said Pere Leger, smacking his lips.~ ~"It is all the
2948 II | count a face~seamed with the small-pox like a colander with holes,
2949 VIII| understand his vocation~in its smallest details, had put himself
2950 X | magnetized, like a bird which a snake is charming. He saw the
2951 VII | beautiful park."~ ~"Oh! yes," snarled Clapart, "you expect fine
2952 IX | throw the cards, and even~snatched them from his hand; so that
2953 V | straps to~his trousers. He sneezed, he coughed, he spat, and
2954 VII | beneath his calm air and his snowy poll he concealed an old
2955 V | Czerni-Georges ought not to snub the Bourbons. I have~nothing
2956 VIII| evening. Oscar had been so snubbed by Godeschal~and by Desroches
2957 IV | And what quantities of snuff he took!" continued Monsieur
2958 VI | Moreau was bridling, and soaring to the seventh heaven,~she
2959 IX | down his back, and he was sobered completely.~ ~The next two
2960 I | name seems to have been a sobriquet)~contrived to give, by the
2961 X | Moreau, who had come to soften the~blow which Oscar's new
2962 I | he was in hopes that the softened~carriage-builders would
2963 II | malady of the skin resulting solely from~excessive labor. Kind,
2964 I | some~attractive suburban solemnity, like that of the Grandes
2965 VIII| church of Saint-~Severin to solemnize the inauguration of this
2966 VII | lawyer, either barristers or solicitors, and~sheriffs. But for those
2967 VIII| bearing testimony to maternal solicitude,~for we recognized therein
2968 I | the hostler, intending to soothe Pierrotin.~ ~"You forget
2969 IV | jogged his way through the Sorbonne. What a pity! I~can mimic
2970 III | regretted that trouble and sorrow had destroyed his~mother'
2971 IV | And you left me without a sou in the locanda at Venice,"
2972 IV | one meets with such iron souls, who~can nurse a vengeance
2973 IV | at Waterloo, when Marshal Soult took him~round the waist
2974 IX | Georges and Oscar, Godeschal sounded the new~clerk to discover
2975 VIII| hors-d'oeuvre; a~succulent soup of rice, bearing testimony
2976 VIII| inserted into the family soup-pot with a care that is~never
2977 VI | count. You may well say: 'Sour are the~curses of perversity.'"~ ~
2978 VII | valley of the Seine, with a southern exposure, and the~exclusive
2979 VII | clothe him. Of course he'll sow a few wild oats, but he'
2980 III | among~themselves these vast spaces, once occupied by the gardens
2981 IV | be defeated when we enter Spain--as we undoubtedly shall,~
2982 IV | Italians too~wary to talk; Spaniards have no public conveyances;
2983 VII | misfortunes you would have spared me, had you brought him
2984 IV | pleasure, he fastened his eyes, sparkling with wrath and envy, upon~
2985 VI | such eagerness that a~few sparks of the conflagration fell
2986 V | sneezed, he coughed, he spat, and swallowed the smoke~
2987 IV | master, interrupting the~speaker.~ ~"I said in the Levant,
2988 III | foolishness--~or, to speak more specifically, this overweening conceit--
2989 III | slippers, always wore green spectacles, and exhibited, whenever
2990 VI | did not say~a word. The spectators of the scene were shocked.
2991 X | Clapart, appearing like a spectre at~the door of the salon
2992 XI | All the others, thanks to~speculation and to talent, have made
2993 I | success was stimulating~speculators. For every small locality
2994 VIII| as~follows, in the legal spelling of the eighteenth century:--~ ~
2995 VIII| ballet-dancers, elegant young fops,~spendthrifts who are wasting their fortunes!
2996 V | not exactly in the social sphere of an ambassadress.~She
2997 X | that might have~moved the sphinx of Luxor.~ ~"Old skinflint!"
2998 II | proceedings of the steward, spied upon for two years, were
2999 IV | you."~ ~"But there are no spies here," said Georges.~ ~"
3000 III | face proclaimed the lively spirit of a~Figaro, and the careless
3001 I | she ate little, she was spirited, she~was indefatigable,
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