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3002 VIII| son,~prepared the outfit splendidly for the rising lawyer.~ ~
3003 III | This mixture of former splendor now departed, of beauty
3004 II | indulgence of a mother for a spoilt child. His~constant toil
3005 VI | me. You have undoubtedly spoken of my~infirmities to Madame
3006 III | provoked~pity, the forks and spoons were of silver.~ ~Monsieur
3007 VI | from Nattier's, beneath the spreading sides~of which rippled the
3008 I | substituted square English~springs for those called "swan-necks,"
3009 V | reached the age when the beard sprouts and the~voice breaks. "'
3010 VII | mark~my words, there'll be squabbles wherever he goes."~ ~"Will
3011 X | this, called out to the squadron:~ ~"Messieurs, it is going
3012 VII | little old man--fat, rosy, squat, and strong--always looked,
3013 VI | arm, which~she caught and squeezed. She gained nothing, however,
3014 VIII| youngest clerk climbed like a squirrel along the shelves which~
3015 I | that road was only made for~squirrels,--up-hill and down, down-hill
3016 VI | that is nothing;~but to stab his heart!--Oh! you do not
3017 I | Lion d'Argent," stood the stablemen and~porters of the coaching-lines
3018 VI | maintain his servants. He stacked three hundred tons of excellent
3019 I | not all possess a regular stage-coach service.~ ~Nevertheless,
3020 IX | worse than magistrates or stage-managers. But we have very~good dinners
3021 I | asked as much for his little~stages, and therefore obtained
3022 VII | letter. "Oscar," she said, staggering towards her bed, "do~you
3023 X | see how the~carpets are stained! What sort of people did
3024 VIII| own!~ ~On this record were stains of wine, pates, and candle-grease.
3025 IX | thousand francs of their mutual~stake. Oscar was consumed with
3026 IV | system that~does away with stamped papers and bureaucracy,
3027 VIII| hymns~of praise in clerical stanzas. No clerk exceeded the bounds
3028 XI | overheard the name, and stared disdainfully at Oscar and
3029 IV | monsieur here is covered with stars."~ ~"Well," said the count,
3030 VI | formerly the curtains of the state-~bed, was draped with ample
3031 IX | on a refractory who was stated to~have been forced, for
3032 V | exchanged winks on hearing this statement.~ ~"Really," said the count
3033 II | may judge by the~valet's statements to Pierrotin, had adopted.
3034 IV | for it was in the Venetian states--in Dalmatia--that I received
3035 IV | happened at that time to be~stationed at Smyrna.~ ~"I assisted,"
3036 IV | the deepest aversion to statistics."~ ~"How about the taxes?"
3037 VI | dumb and motionless as a statue.~ ~"Come with me and beg
3038 VI | gardeners. All these little stealings had some~ostensible excuse.~ ~
3039 V | remedies,~--sulphur-baths, steam-baths, and such things. His valet
3040 V | hill from which Ecouen, the~steeple of Mesnil, and the forests
3041 VI | not know, the feeling of a~step-mother against a step-son. Madame
3042 VI | a~step-mother against a step-son. Madame Moreau, after seventeen
3043 VII | popular speech, as if he had stepped from a bandbox. He appeared
3044 VIII| that the gibbets of a~fine stew prepared by the hands of
3045 VI | little Oscar," said Estelle, stiffly. "I~hope you will now go
3046 IX | singular; but~reflection was stifled by joy; for the first two
3047 IX | had before,--something to stimulate your~imaginations for that
3048 IX | leaving the eleven~guests, stimulated by the old captain of the
3049 III | which proved how vanity stimulates~the intellect.~ ~"Mamma,"
3050 I | the Touchard success was stimulating~speculators. For every small
3051 III | head was as full of his own stings as there are five-franc~
3052 IX | maintain, he~raised the monthly stipend to five hundred francs,
3053 I | apparently insignificant, had stirred up cruel~anxieties which
3054 VIII| wears the shirt-fronts of a stockbroker,~and so my dainty coxcomb
3055 V | between the old top of his stocking and the new "footing,"--~
3056 IV | child. Our property was all stolen by~friends of my grandfather;
3057 VII | mighty hump-backed when it stoops!~However, it was a clever
3058 I | was forced to omit certain stoppages along the road,--at~Saint-Brice,
3059 III | weather, the~journey, and the stopping-places along the road, we will
3060 XI | personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.~ ~Beaupre,
3061 VIII| in spite of the fearful storms which~have cruelly ravaged
3062 I | monopolize, and the one most stoutly disputed (as indeed it still
3063 VIII| about in the dust, on the stove, on the ground, in the~kitchen,
3064 XI | porters in livery,~who were stowing away the luggage in the
3065 VI | youngest son, an active, strapping lad of twelve, here ran~
3066 XI | Florentine's card-party strengthened~him in honesty and uprightness;
3067 IV | and I found two hands stretched~out to meet mine. I said
3068 XI | honor, his missing arm, the~strict propriety of his dress,
3069 VIII| example. If he professed the strictest~principles of honor, discretion,
3070 III | of his mother. Brought~up strictly, by Moreau's advice, he
3071 IX | is sincere, is certain to strike the eye~of one who acts.
3072 IV | trundled along the narrow~strip of road from Saint-Denis
3073 VI | pink gown in very narrow stripes, a pink belt with a richly~
3074 VII | heedlessly any more, but will strive to repress~your silly vanity,"
3075 VII | man--fat, rosy, squat, and strong--always looked, in~popular
3076 XI | hollows in his cheeks and his~strongly marked features were in
3077 I | might be made, as to its structure and~arrangement, the subject
3078 I | petty enterprises, which had struggled since 1822 against the~Touchards,
3079 VI | laugh at your malady with~a strumpet?"~ ~"I would thrash him
3080 IV | as you call us in the studios--ought certainly to pay you~
3081 XI | of youth which chaste or studious habits have~the virtue to
3082 VIII| office for the~purpose of studying legal procedure, and of
3083 III | mother farther off as she stuffed the~bread and chocolate
3084 I | towards the~street, and stuffing the tobacco into his clay
3085 VI | those things," said Oscar, stupidly.~ ~"But I brought you here
3086 IV | Montereau, I won the rank of~sub-lieutenant, and was decorated by,--
3087 II | produce of the~gardens. A sub-prefect is not as well provided
3088 III | but~social accident, that sub-providence, having willed that they
3089 VII | listened,~therefore, with a submissive air, which he tried to make
3090 VI | could not bring himself to submit to~a torture that seemed
3091 X | and~contracted habits of subordination. Before making his probation
3092 VII | great~flock of ninnies who subscribed to the "Constitutionnel,"
3093 II | half-pay captain, a puritan,~subscribing no doubt to the "Courrier
3094 II | at~Champagne, enlarged by subsequent purchases, amounted to a
3095 XI | his clothes were good~and substantial, in whom Oscar recognized
3096 I | occasion of some~attractive suburban solemnity, like that of
3097 VI | Monsieur de Reybert, who succeeds you. Be calm, as I am.~Give
3098 II | proconsul to two kingdoms in succession. In 1806,~when forty years
3099 VIII| for the edification of our successors, and~to renew the chain
3100 IX | devoted mother explained succinctly the adventure of her poor~
3101 III | his persistent~kindness in succoring a woman of whose favors
3102 VIII| olives for hors-d'oeuvre; a~succulent soup of rice, bearing testimony
3103 III | Men~of genius themselves succumb to this primitive passion.
3104 I | years. At last, however, it succumbed to~omnibuses, which demonstrated
3105 II | diplomat, and the~diplomat succumbs."~ ~Crottat agreed in this
3106 III | blind~maternal love, of sufferings heroically borne, made the
3107 I | veracious narrative. Let it suffice you to know that~the two
3108 I | clerk. This detail is alone~sufficient to show that Pierrotin and
3109 I | weather-stained visage which~suggested wit. He was not without
3110 IX | who thought his mother's suggestion~excellent.~ ~But Godeschal,
3111 II | property. This marriage, a suitable one in point of rank, doubled
3112 IX | Coralie. In Paris there are suites of rooms as well as houses
3113 V | he takes his remedies,~--sulphur-baths, steam-baths, and such things.
3114 IV | fit to raise a man to the summit of Paradise without~pulleys.
3115 IV | aide-de-camp of~Mina, and to summon all present in this vehicle
3116 III | enormous.~His smiling eyes were sunken in rolls of fat. "Come,
3117 VIII| pettifogging; for if ever that superannuated expression was applicable~
3118 XI | he smoked his pipe, and superintended the two porters in livery,~
3119 II | were displeasing to his superiors. My husband has watched~
3120 VI | therefore, put on their most superlative suits and then~walked over
3121 IX | satisfied the most ambitious~supernumerary. After being the master
3122 IX | Borrel, who in those days had superseded the illustrious Balaine,~
3123 VIII| in this case. Under this supervision,~both petty and able, he
3124 II | care of her fortune and~supplied her luxury as a steward
3125 VII | some great family, I could support myself and Monsieur~Clapart;
3126 VI | vengeance which had, so far,~supported them.~ ~The Moreaus, who
3127 II | the two distaffs taken as supporters,~proves the modesty of the
3128 IV | so the doctors said, of suppressed plague."~ ~"Have you had
3129 VI | determined not to allow her supremacy to be undermined by a~woman
3130 IX | Poor woman! she now had the supreme delight of seeing her son
3131 X | seriously wounded that~the surgeons whom the countess had brought
3132 IV | the abjuration~required a surgical operation which I hadn't
3133 III | to Goodness, as the most surly man~sacrifices to the Graces
3134 I | The four-wheeled coach was~surmounted by a hooded "imperial,"
3135 VIII| latter not having told his surname in~Pierrotin's coucou, Oscar
3136 VI | sittings I would endeavor to surpass~myself. You are so beautiful,
3137 VIII| the repast of admission~surpassed our expectations. It was
3138 XI | Georges. "He began his~pile surreptitiously at Presles--"~ ~"Say nothing
3139 V | Mesnil, and the forests that surround that most beautiful~region,
3140 VI | and richest people in the surrounding country~had vied with each
3141 III | twenty-two in a frogged surtout-coat silk-lined, a waist-~coat
3142 VII | agriculture, and know how~to survey."~ ~"He can learn."~ ~"He--
3143 X | perfect," added Moreau, not suspecting~the profundity of that cruel
3144 V | imitating Schinner, but swallowing the smoke and exhaling none.~ ~"
3145 X | you'll find out about your~swan," said her husband. "Do
3146 I | springs for those called "swan-necks," and other old-fashioned
3147 X | help me, Monsieur Moreau, I~swear to you that the six years
3148 IX | lost. Oscar felt a~cold sweat running down his back, and
3149 VII | full~of good qualities, sweet-tempered as an angel, incapable of
3150 VI | she replied, with the~sweetest glance at Mistigris.~ ~"
3151 III | man. Then the young~fellow swells himself out; his swagger
3152 IV | cloudy,~cleared; the breeze swept off the mists, and the blue
3153 IV | centre,--ranks closed, stiff, swift, fine~movement a la Murat.
3154 III | much grace a gold-headed switch cane.~ ~Oscar had reached
3155 II | danger which was about to swoop down upon one of~his best
3156 VI | cowering in~his corner. Moreau swooped down on the luckless lad
3157 I | Pierrotin possessed the~sympathies of his region; besides,
3158 XI | more than any of the above symptoms, the poverty of a man~who
3159 II | became during the Revolution syndic-attorney at~Versailles. In that position,
3160 VIII| scribbled, had bought~new tables, and white boxes edged with
3161 IV | the coasts of Greece and tack about, on and off. Now~it
3162 III | Madame Clapart was~lacking in tact under the circumstances;
3163 II | drawn-bonnet of faded green taffetas lined~with pink, a white
3164 IV | Were you a pacha with MANY tails?" asked Mistigris.~ ~"How
3165 IV | ears.~ ~"Oh! not much. A talaro is, as you might say, a
3166 II | would injure our present tale. Let us only remark here
3167 V | and not fit,' and so is a tale-bearer," cried~Schinner.~ ~"Great
3168 IX | old men towards the young talents they have trained, and which
3169 IV | his companions, the most talkative member of the company~begins,
3170 VII | of school.~Listen, I'm no talker," he continued; "but I have
3171 IV | his decorations,~the old tallow-chandler! Come, my lad," he added,
3172 VI | taking a peer of France for a tallow-chandler--"~ ~"I am willing to be
3173 VIII| to take his clerks to see Talma in "Brittanicus," at~the
3174 IV | maliciously. "He isn't much tanned by the sun."~ ~"Oh! I've
3175 I | the rules~written on the tariff, copies of which were, however,
3176 VIII| also, the gilt edges were~tarnished with surprising perfection.
3177 X | by his wife,--a~painful task, a duty without reward.
3178 II | soon as the steward had tasted the delightful fruit of
3179 VIII| so directly against his tastes and his nature. He felt
3180 XI | hardships of his military career~taught him to understand the social
3181 X | impervious to Clapart's taunt.~ ~"If he bore my name,"
3182 IX | The actress did not spare taunts or jests on those who lost.
3183 I | only one he reported to the tax-~gatherer, was the coucou
3184 II | his only son, then a mere tax-gatherer, made~special collector
3185 VII | never mistaken; but the teacher is, and~frequently.~ ~Madame
3186 VI | man may be by the~wear and tear of public life, by his own
3187 X | what venomous and spiteful~teasing a half-imbecile man, whom
3188 VII | mathematics to enter any of the technical~schools; and, besides, where
3189 IV | journey and~forgetting its tedium.~ ~That is how things happen
3190 VI | will not answer for my~own temper if I see him."~ ~"I do not
3191 VII | not~have answered for his temperance amid a luxury of food and
3192 XI | usual, on the boulevard du Temple, gazing at the~show, when
3193 VII | maintained only~by resisting temptations; of which, in a great city
3194 IV | clever and lively, he is much tempted, especially under~circumstances
3195 V | said the great painter; "ten-sous cigars!"~ ~"The remains
3196 VII | the three or four~other tenants of the same vast country-house.
3197 IV | have seen~how things are tending in Italy, where the taxes
3198 VI | arranged in imitation of~a tent, with ropes of blue silk
3199 VII | began the peroration which terminates these scenes,--scenes in~
3200 I | detour, for Isle-Adam was the terminus of the road,~which did not
3201 VII | he were walking along a terrace flanked by~oranges, myrtles,
3202 VIII| certified to by~Messrs. Terrasse and Duclos, keepers of records,
3203 VI | Presles~will prove our terrestrial paradise."~ ~"With an Eve,
3204 VIII| a gloomy vivaciousness, terrified the unhappy Oscar.~ ~"We
3205 VII | is vanishing, your future terrifies me. I cannot take one~penny
3206 VII | dessert, Oscar beheld~with terror the formidable ex-steward,
3207 IV | present in this vehicle to testify to his~words."~ ~This speech
3208 VIII| succulent soup of rice, bearing testimony to maternal solicitude,~
3209 X | capable of in the weary tete-a-tete of each endless~day. Delighted
3210 VIII| that the rope by which he tethered~the young kid must be slackened.
3211 II | therefore."~ ~The count thanked Madame de Reybert coldly,
3212 V | was so strong that he was thankful when Mistigris~filched his
3213 III | anywhere on foot. Often, while~thanking Pierrotin, she gave him
3214 VIII| in "Brittanicus," at~the Theatre-Francais. Long life to Maitre Bordin!
3215 IX | wanting all the~luxury of a theatrical star. Some days before the
3216 IX | rivalled the obelisk of Thebes. By half-past~ten the little
3217 VIII| one~delivers himself up to Themis if he has a fortune, and
3218 I | Madame la comtesse goes there--ha! I tell you what!~no
3219 | therein
3220 | thereof
3221 X | dedicate his graduating thesis~to him."~ ~At this moment
3222 XI | but his were of leather, thick-soled, ill-~blacked, and of many
3223 III | of a reddish white, which thickened and blurred the mouldings
3224 V | fellows were now as dull as thieves caught in the act;~they
3225 II | jurisprudence of the least~thieving cook in Paris, he shared
3226 VI | never said one word of these things--"~ ~"Enough," said the count,
3227 IX | Oscar's face, somewhat thinned by study, had acquired,
3228 II | invested in the Consolidated thirds,~now paying five per cent,
3229 IX | Oscar was consumed with thirst, and drank three glasses
3230 IV | yes all, drunk up by the~thirsty treasury of the Turkish
3231 XI | on the arm of a man about thirty-four years of age, in whom~observers
3232 V | Oscar; "in all, more than~thirty-odd francs since we started!"~ ~
3233 VI | rosy, and fresh, about thirty-six years of age, still slender
3234 IV | uneasy.~ ~"Lords, pachas, and thirty-thousand-franc ceilings!" he cried. "I
3235 VIII| than this!~ ~Here followed thirty-three reports of various receptions
3236 I | together, carrying between them thirty-two passengers,~though Pierrotin
3237 III | fastened round his wrist by a thong of leather.~ ~"And you are
3238 II | said,~replying to his own thoughts, and not to the remark Madame
3239 VI | a strumpet?"~ ~"I would thrash him for it."~ ~"And if you
3240 VI | with bronze kid shoes and thread~stockings, gave Madame Moreau
3241 VI | that her enjoyments were threatened, and she urged~her husband
3242 I | harnesses, on which he had~a three-months' credit. Driven by the fury
3243 II | Though Derville and Crottat threw some~doubt on the zeal of
3244 XI | time.~ ~Just then Oscar thrilled at hearing the well-remembered
3245 IX | full growth, his~beard was thriving; adolescence had given place
3246 I | standing, with his hands thrust into his pockets through~
3247 VIII| Palais, but always under the thumb of~the rigid Godeschal,
3248 V | great Schinner. Oscar was thunderstruck when he became aware~that
3249 V | had our own little ways~of thwarting it," said the farmer, laughing.~ ~"
3250 III | whose vanity is excessively ticklish, seemed~annoyed at being
3251 III | pattern. As Oscar~admired the tight-fitting iron-gray trousers and the
3252 VIII| finger in it.~ ~Item: a timbale of macaroni surrounded by
3253 I | imposed, it was done very timidly, and such~deceptions were
3254 III | of wan complexion, seemed timorous, but~withal tyrannical.~ ~
3255 IV | most delicious coloring, tints well-blended, velvety!~and
3256 VIII| remarked (in spite of the tipsiness caused by sixteen bottles
3257 VI | Madame Moreau had been on the tiptoe of expectation,~and had
3258 X | family broth, Clapart's~"tisane," and her own breakfast.~ ~"
3259 IV | particular," added Georges.~ ~"'Tisn't polite to interrupt,"
3260 IV | was all the more violently titillating because the slightest motion~
3261 VII | bought what is called a "titre nu"; that means a practice
3262 V | Mistigris. "'All is not old that titters.'~You'll never get on in
3263 VI | Excellency cares for a little toad like that!" cried the~furious
3264 IX | Imperial Guard, to the~wines, toasts, and liqueurs of a dessert
3265 III | trousers covered his boots, the toes of~which were barely seen.
3266 VI | one of the most devoted toilers under the Empire, the~head
3267 VI | coquettishly, the prettiest of her toilets had been reserved for this~
3268 III | money necessary to pay the toll at the barriere, if~the
3269 IV | was that mischief-making tom-fool, Lord Byron, who~got you
3270 VIII| Item: a tongue of beef with tomatoes, which rendered us all~tongue-tied
3271 VI | Mistigris, in three ecstatic tones. "Why, Presles~will prove
3272 VIII| tomatoes, which rendered us all~tongue-tied automatoes.~ ~Item: a compote
3273 VI | He stacked three hundred tons of excellent hay,~but accounted
3274 VI | and the notary than their tool. On the~threshold of the
3275 X | your shirt-sleeves with the tools of an artisan. Besides,
3276 III | young men, the one who wore top-~boots and spurs, nudged
3277 VI | of yellowish leather~and top-boots, and in his hand he carried
3278 V | rejoicing to have found a topic to which they listened. "
3279 I | well-named, in view of its topography, The~Cave, and leads through
3280 X | without reward. The sick man tormented the poor~creature, who was
3281 IX | and also~poor Coralie, torn too early from the arts,
3282 XI | poverty of a man~who was totally unable to pay sixteen francs
3283 X | arrival of the~regiment at Toulon, where, as we know, the
3284 I | competition followed. To-day the Toulouse, a rival enterprise, goes
3285 III | ancient~site of the Palais des Tournelles and the hotel Saint-Paul.
3286 IV | that shabby fellow with the tousled head looks to~me as if he
3287 III | returned with a stout man in tow, whose weight could not
3288 IX | Cardot now found himself towed along by a force of unlimited
3289 III | every floor, into a sort of tower~built of rough stone, in
3290 IV | what is called a country town--"~ ~"Yes," said Georges; "
3291 II | thousand francs in Champagne, a township just~above Isle-Adam, on
3292 III | fun or meaning into them.--Tr.~ ~"Patience, Mistigris!"
3293 VII | But he mustn't leave the track; he must go straight~through
3294 VII | large fortune in the silk trade. I think~he might, perhaps,
3295 IV | letting lodgings; all other trades are accessory. In the evening,~
3296 VIII| clerk to allow the precious tradition of the "welcome" to be lost.~
3297 III | skull, from the~top of which trailed a few dirty filaments which
3298 IV | The Turks have one good trait in~their nature; they are
3299 IV | some time, I was coming tranquilly home with my hands in~my
3300 VII | preceding evening, unhappily~too transient, the steward had joined
3301 III | is plainly impossible to translate many of these proverbs and~
3302 I | packages and parcels to be transported. Travellers were~satisfied
3303 III | fancy for mutilating or transposing~proverbs reigned in the
3304 VI | souvenir perhaps, a little travelling-carriage,~the fashion of which was
3305 VI | still young and sensitive to treachery. Monsieur de~Serizy had
3306 VIII| amusement is~all the more treasured because it is rare; but,
3307 IV | what did you do with your treasures?" asked farmer Leger.~ ~"
3308 V | doctor who is coming over to treat him," continued Oscar.~ ~"
3309 III | Cafe de l'Echiquier, after treating the~valet, he saw in the
3310 VIII| good fellow. May a man~who treats so well be soon in treaty
3311 VIII| treats so well be soon in treaty for a Practice of his own!~ ~
3312 IV | creature,~made a mistake and trebled the dose. The immense fortune
3313 IV | savage, it cuts down the tree to gather the fruits.' They
3314 V | statesmen and can make them tremble. Monsieur~Leger is about
3315 VII | cried the poor mother,~trembling like a leaf shaken by the
3316 X | of that imbecile mind, a trial inflicted~by the hand of
3317 VIII| and charges be paid in a trice! May our masters to~come
3318 II | tell you that you are being tricked in the~purchase of the Moulineaux
3319 II | Monsieur le comte, the~trickery of these peasants. Peasants
3320 IV | least; he was an Uscoque,~tricoque, archicoque in a bicoque
3321 I | more~because there's no trifling with him. Besides, to tell
3322 VI | bonnet of Leghorn straw, trimmed~with a bunch of moss roses
3323 II | annoying discussions as to the~trimming of hedges and ditches and
3324 IX | ll make them~dance like Tritons."~ ~Hearing the names of
3325 IX | Monmartre to the Barriere du Trone. They~returned by Bercy,
3326 IV | Sapristi! I'll command the troops of Ali,~pacha of Janina!"~ ~
3327 XI | faubourg~Saint-Denis at a slow trot.~ ~But no sooner had it
3328 IV | protection as a Frenchman and a troubadour from Monsieur de Riviere.~
3329 I | Nevertheless, by dint~of "trundling the world,"--one of his
3330 VI | you do with a man whom you trusted, if, after~seeing you dress
3331 II | self-love. The count wanted a~trustworthy man at Presles, for his
3332 III | burning face, and the thick, tufted eye-brows which were still
3333 XI | retained only three or four tufts of hair above his ears;
3334 VIII| spends his Sundays in the Tuileries, looking~out for adventures.
3335 VII | though it once~served as Turcarets to the comedies and tales
3336 III | chipped and mended~dishes and tureens were those of the poorest
3337 IV | and not Sultan or Grand Turk. You needn't think that
3338 VI | a handsome~jacket with a turned-over collar, who was spending
3339 III | from his head, his slightly turned-up nose,--~in fact, all the
3340 V | tutor," said Mistigris.~"'Tuto, tutor, celeritus, and jocund.'
3341 III | to time she would slip a~twelve-sous piece into his hand, and
3342 IV | farmer. "How old~are you?"~ ~"Twenty-nine," replied Georges, whereupon
3343 VIII| was a~fine young man of twenty-three, enriched to the amount
3344 II | himself. The two ideas were twins. Thus the~proceedings of
3345 IV | Whereupon Georges twirled and twisted his moustache with a dreamy
3346 VI | recalled like a kite by a twitch at its line.~ ~"Madame!"
3347 III | seemed timorous, but~withal tyrannical.~ ~In this dreary apartment,
3348 VII | walk daily, and watched him tyrannically. This brought matters to
3349 X | she~chose to see, in the tyranny of that imbecile mind, a
3350 IX | gentleman was fond of his tyrant. Florentine was~to close
3351 III | old-fashioned finery as the "ne~plus ultra" of adornment, was bewildered
3352 VII | the Camusots have turned ultras. The~eldest son of Camusot'
3353 III | carried a straw bag and a blue umbrella.~This woman, who had once
3354 III | and~moved like a woman unaccustomed to go anywhere on foot.
3355 VIII| usages and customs. In the uncertainty of~knowing the exact part
3356 IX | dissipation, was likely to let his~unchained senses drive the wise counsels
3357 III | I am afraid~you will be uncomfortable."~ ~"Why didn't you keep
3358 IX | clerks were still a good deal undecided in mind as to the~marquise,
3359 VIII| of this Practice, we the under-signed, clerks and sub-~clerks
3360 VIII| appearances, Oscar Husson was undergoing a~great strife in his inmost
3361 II | kind without some serious underlying reason. His conduct had
3362 VI | allow her supremacy to be undermined by a~woman nee de Corroy.
3363 IV | which no one, as I think, understands but Mistigris, who~will
3364 I | long-headed dealers declined to~undertake it at all until Pierrotin
3365 I | they served. The~person undertaking the business as proprietor
3366 X | the extent of her secret uneasiness, and he took pains to rouse
3367 II | excuse, though at first~that UNFATIGUABLE master, who gave no heed
3368 II | conclusion, "may~have judged me unfavorably for the step I have taken
3369 VI | of which were stiff and ungainly), had on the~ground-floor
3370 VII | of the preceding evening, unhappily~too transient, the steward
3371 II | lasted~through all the secret unhappiness of his marriage with a widow,--
3372 VIII| hesitate to~attribute this unheard-of preservation, when all titles,~
3373 XI | which Pierrotin displayed in unhooking the traces from the~whiffle-trees,
3374 I | Bichette will go finely in~unicorn. Come, harness up!" added
3375 VI | proved to the two artists the~unimportance of their late travelling
3376 VIII| which were comparatively unimportant. Godeschal said~to him in
3377 X | language, so completely~unintelligible to him ever since his first
3378 IV | that kind of animal is very uninteresting, and I was glad enough to~
3379 III | delighted at this apparent union between himself and the
3380 VII | knows," thought he, "how to unite the interests of his children~
3381 X | You call my foresight unjust, do you?" replied the invalid,
3382 X | boy. You are really too unjust--"~ ~"You call my foresight
3383 III | man ran out and helped to unload the little hand-cart,~which
3384 X | astonishment at this furious and unlooked-~for return, allowed Oscar
3385 XI | Oscar,~with a sarcasm not unmixed with bitterness.~ ~"Parbleu!
3386 II | his~name and rank had not unnecessarily alarmed Pierrotin. That
3387 I | and vice versa.~ ~It is unnecessary to speak of the rival. Pierrotin
3388 VIII| the work of the~second was unremitting toil. By the end of his
3389 V | have listened to it."~ ~So unwilling was he to believe that his
3390 VII | had regarded himself as~unworthy to live. He had only suffered
3391 I | only made for~squirrels,--up-hill and down, down-hill and
3392 VI | pretty articles of modern upholstery, handsome lamps, and a rare
3393 I | obedience to persons of the upper classes; and though he never~
3394 II | going on, and if you want an upright steward you will take my
3395 IV | recovering his self-possession, upset for~the moment by finding
3396 VI | were threatened, and she urged~her husband to come to the
3397 III | Pere Leger is coming with us--"~ ~"Where is your Pere
3398 XI | collar~was greasy; long usage had frayed the edges of
3399 IV | haven't been hanged--"~ ~"Uscoques," said Georges.~ ~Hearing
3400 VII | herself employs it; she uses pain to impress a lasting
3401 II | then gone to bed, she was~ushered into his study the next
3402 VII | daughter of one of the~king's ushers. The world is mighty hump-backed
3403 | using
3404 IX | many~a wound before that usurpation. Judas had certainly given
3405 I | hardness in spite of the yellow Utrecht velvet~with which they were
3406 V | CHAPTER V~The drama begins~Pierrotin'
3407 VIII| arrived to take the place made vacant by Oscar's promotion.~ ~
3408 III | stomach, like Nature, abhors a vacuum."~ ~"Have we time to get
3409 VII | preferences were really for Piron, Vade, and Colle. Naturally, he~
3410 VI | hundred, making use of a vague permission~once granted
3411 I | such as Cassan, Stors,~Le Val, Nointel, Persan, etc.,
3412 IX | footmen and those of Madame du Val-Noble and Florine, all in~full
3413 II | the count's illness was a valid excuse, though at first~
3414 IX | felt his secret hostility vanish~at the first handshaking,
3415 VII | year. Now that~my hope is vanishing, your future terrifies me.
3416 VII | power to move mountains and vanquish insurmountable~difficulties.
3417 IV | drunk up the last floating vapors of the diaphanous veil which
3418 I | colleague justified it on the varied grounds of "hard times,"
3419 III | curiosity, or by way of variety, or by chance, every man~
3420 XI | with straps intended~for varnished boots; but his were of leather,
3421 IV | do they do? How do~they vary the crops?"~ ~"Well, in
3422 VIII| Messieurs Doublet, second clerk; Vassal, third clerk;~Herisson and
3423 IV | Abyssinians, and Giaours, and Vechabites, Bedouins, and Cophs. But
3424 VI | both mother and~child so vehemently that it is not surprising
3425 IV | vapors of the diaphanous veil which swathed~the scenery
3426 IV | coloring, tints well-blended, velvety!~and hands, oh!--"~ ~"They
3427 VIII| May God shed~favors on his venerable pow! May he sell dear so
3428 VI | remarked in a low tone,~"'Veni, vidi, cecidi,--I came,
3429 X | now doomed to learn what venomous and spiteful~teasing a half-imbecile
3430 III | Did not~Rousseau admire Ventura and Bacle?~ ~But Oscar passed
3431 XI | fringes.~ ~And yet, Georges ventured to attract attention by
3432 I | two who~appears in this veracious narrative. Let it suffice
3433 IV | in that~picture by Horace Vernet,--'The Massacre of the Mameluks.'
3434 I | returning from Paris, and vice versa.~ ~It is unnecessary to
3435 III | replied the porter,~well versed in all the usual tricks
3436 IX | choregraphic art, the great Vestris for a master. In~1820 he
3437 XI | Pierrotin.~ ~"Come, don't be vexed with an old acquaintance,"
3438 VI | CHAPTER VI~The Moreau interior~Oscar,
3439 I | returning from Paris, and vice versa.~ ~It is unnecessary
3440 IV | no compensation for the vices I contracted in that God-~
3441 VIII| where we will celebrate the victory of obtaining this~volume
3442 VI | rapin; "'facilis descensus victuali,' as we say at the Black~
3443 VI | remarked in a low tone,~"'Veni, vidi, cecidi,--I came, I saw,
3444 VI | surrounding country~had vied with each other in paying
3445 IX | till she looked like the vignette of a keepsake, who received~
3446 I | horses will be kept to that vigorous gait.~ ~"Shall I harness
3447 VII | CHAPTER VII~A mother's trials~While
3448 VIII| CHAPTER VIII~Tricks and farces of the
3449 III | other~outlook than to a vine on the opposite wall and
3450 XI | blotched skin and bloated, vinous features. The eyes had lost
3451 I | reporting this flagrant~violation of the ordinances. Thus
3452 VI | steward,~with frightful violence.~ ~Too bewildered to weep,
3453 IX | adolescence had given place to virility. The~mother could not refrain
3454 X | his defects might prove virtues,~for self-love and vanity
3455 I | ruddy and weather-stained visage which~suggested wit. He
3456 X | allowed Oscar to seize the viscount, whom he flung across~his
3457 VI | find~herself caught in a vise between the count and his
3458 III | woollen stockings became~visible, through the action of his
3459 III | comte," said Pierrotin, visibly troubled, "I am afraid~you
3460 IX | Desroches appeared to him like a~vision. He turned aside to a dark
3461 VI | improve the entrance by~which visitors came to see her, she had
3462 I | embroidery. A cap with a visor covered~his head. His military
3463 VIII| piercing eye and~a gloomy vivaciousness, terrified the unhappy Oscar.~ ~"
3464 IX | man. "Bravo! very well! vivat!~Long live the Marests!"~ ~"
3465 IV | trying to bring us to. 'Tax vobiscum,'~--no, thank you!" said
3466 I | to use the argot of their vocabulary. Gradually the greedy~Treasury
3467 VII | but they were lost in the void, and did not~reach his mind.
3468 IX | with or without intention, voluntarily or~involuntarily. The creature
3469 X | Oscar, and she henceforth~vowed herself to works and deeds
3470 V | provisions enough for an ocean voyage: rolls,~chocolate--"~ ~"
3471 VI | common," added Mistigris. "'Vulgarity is the brother of~pretension.'"~ ~
3472 IX | pocula aurea~restauranti, qui vulgo dicitur Rupes Cancali."
3473 IV | thousand for two months! Those~vultures want it all. Who ever heard
3474 III | surtout-coat silk-lined, a waist-~coat of fancy cashmere,
3475 I | he conducted the valet. "Waiter, two~absinthes!" he said,
3476 VI | affected one, as all retired waiting-maids of~great ladies are, for
3477 VI | for me show him into the~waiting-room.'"~ ~"Evidently," said the
3478 II | love with~the countess's waiting-woman and married her. To avoid
3479 IX | clerks now felt that they had wakened in the palace of~Armida.
3480 I | posts which protected~the walls of the building from the
3481 III | call hair. This man, of wan complexion, seemed timorous,
3482 VII | employment?"~ ~Here the mother wandered, like other women, into
3483 IX | celebrated author.~ ~After wandering, tipsy and half asleep,
3484 IX | gold.~ ~For three years the warbler of "Mere Godichon" had the
3485 VIII| usual, and the clerks were~warming themselves before the fire
3486 I | of a coaching~business.~ ~Warned by the general movement
3487 I | better find some way of warning him?--for he's a truly good~
3488 IV | great coach offices, I'll warrant~you."~ ~"Yes, that's it,"
3489 IV | myself, I went off to the wars as a private in~1813. Well,
3490 IV | a vehicle; Italians too~wary to talk; Spaniards have
3491 III | enough; don't send any to the wash. And above all, remember
3492 III | did some of her smaller washing herself,~and paid the postage
3493 VIII| fops,~spendthrifts who are wasting their fortunes! His mind,
3494 III | ornaments, seals, and a~watch-key with a round top and flat
3495 X | the fatherly care which watches over~them." He gave Godeschal
3496 VIII| relaxed, in some degree, his~watchfulness; and when, in July, 1825,
3497 IX | engaged in eating ices. The wax-candles flamed in the candelabra.~
3498 V | proverbs, but I know my way--"~ ~"It must be far," said
3499 III | that out! Haven't you a way-book, a~register, or something?
3500 VII | so rapidly that the last weakens its~predecessor, however
3501 III | good Amaury, if they are weaned, and are named Oscar, and~
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