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1 XVI | of the~Tuileries, on the 10th of August, when he saw Louis
2 XXVI | return to Besancon for the 15th of~August, and to remain
3 XXII | that made me a priest in~1786, at the age of two-and-twenty.
4 XXII | age of two-and-twenty. In 1788 I was in charge of a~parish.
5 I | The~marriage, arranged in 1802, was solemnized in 1815
6 I | the Frenchwoman, which in 1814 cut her across the bosom,
7 I | Anglaises pour rire/; but in 1816 and 1817 the belt of~the
8 I | pour rire/; but in 1816 and 1817 the belt of~the Frenchwoman,
9 VIII | AMBITION FOR LOVE'S SAKE~ ~In 1823 two young men, having agreed
10 XVI | it is because I was, in~1828, private secretary to such
11 XV | part, was true to me in 1829. Flung to the~depths once
12 XIX | Besancon in the month of May 1835, in an antique traveling
13 XXVIII| In the month of August 1837~Madame de Watteville was
14 XXVIII| In the month of February 1838 Rosalie, who was eagerly
15 XXVIII| She left Besancon in 1841, intending, it was said,
16 XXVIII| religious practices.~PARIS, May 1842.~ ~
17 XXI | Royalist, of the famous 221. Hence, from~the day after
18 XVIII | for man to reach it.~ ~ ~"27th.~ ~"No, dearest, do not
19 XVIII | Tedeschi/ that you regret?~ ~ ~"28th.~ ~"Is your statue never
20 XIX | spent the winter of 1834-35 torn by secret tumults;
21 I | first~~degree of mental aberration when it is set on small
22 IV | young de Soulas, could not abide him, to~use a homely phrase,
23 XV | dear Leopold, after so many~abortive undertakings, over which
24 XII | Madame Murat, Madame d'Abrantis /e tutte quanti/.~Everything
25 XV | our /Review/ is ever read~abroad?"~ ~"It is but just started--"~ ~"
26 XIV | terrace where the rock arises abruptly from the~lake, and were
27 XXV | fell into a~brooding and absent mood, which everybody could
28 III | principles. Rosalie knew~absolutely nothing. Is it knowledge
29 II | the leading ideas. When an absurdity can amuse Paris, which~devours
30 XIX | Versailles--as for every standing abuse--there were~private interests
31 XI | declaration was made in a tone, an accent, and~supported by a look
32 XXI | England.~This doctrine was not acceptable to the Legitimists, who,
33 XI | years of~married life imply acceptance of its laws. Hence the most
34 XI | and said, "Then monsieur accepts the~treaty?"~ ~"Yes," said
35 XIV | and rights on the King's accession. This, in~the midst of his
36 XXI | half-hearted opinions~to the acclamation of a Republican who should
37 XVII | Rosalie went downstairs to accompany her mother to Madame de~
38 XIV | little building. In Jerome's~accomplice Rosalie at once recognized
39 VIII | what the English call an~accomplished gentleman. His mother was
40 XV | the kiosk is thus fully accounted for to all~perspicacious
41 III | years, what a sum must have accumulated from twenty-six thousand~
42 XIX | widened to two acres by accumulating above it all the soil~which
43 XVI | sharpened my tongue and accustomed my~mind to formulate its
44 XIX | into the drawing-room and acquainted with~the society of the
45 XXI | voice which old priests acquire.~ ~"Betrayed!" cried the
46 V | procured the poor man's acquittal by proving his~innocence
47 XIX | famous Watteville, who in his active old age was~passionately
48 XIX | themselves any~criminal acts or wishes. She felt a better
49 | actually
50 X | Rodolphe, startled by the acute pain caused by some steel
51 Add | ADDENDUM~The following personages
52 XXVIII| Rouxey, with the~Baron's additions, and certain improvements,
53 IV | said Monsieur de Soulas, addressing the Baroness, while~waiting
54 XX | always be a Minister who adds a hundred thousand francs
55 XXII | thirty of its most devoted adherents vote for Albert, so as to
56 XX | who told his story with admirable frankness, was coldly~heard
57 XVI | meet them! They refuse to admit him to~their drawing-rooms,
58 XXVII | these things not meaning to admonish you," said the old priest,~
59 IV | was a constant subject of~admonition.~ ~"Rosalie, I cannot imagine
60 X | struck Rodolphe was the adorable~freedom, the Italian frankness
61 IX | child, and the object of his adulation. About two months ago she
62 IX | and a month's payment in advance. Rub a Swiss ever so~little,
63 II | pronouncing him "A man of advanced ideas." Amedee had the gift
64 XIX | seemed to seek or desire this advantageous bargain.~ ~"You are really
65 XVIII | poetry in my soul,~the only adventure in my memory, and pitched
66 I | renegades--his~extraordinary adventures are too much a part of history
67 XX | you? Well, then, let me~advise you. You cannot get at Monsieur
68 V | Monsieur de~Garcenault advised him to employ this Monsieur
69 XXI | to become his guide and~adviser in this culminating struggle.
70 VI | art of turning, ending by advising him to turn~larger pieces,
71 XX | revolution of 1830 inflamed the advocates of the~people, to stir up
72 IX | came in at~nightfall. From afar he saw the window open and
73 XII | bookseller, so easy, so affable, so~hale, Rodolphe scented
74 XXV | received confirmation~from the affair of the Republican newspaper.
75 II | their windows. After an affectation of~study or business, which
76 XXVI | the poor Baron, looking affectionately at his~daughter.~ ~"Very
77 IX | him to recognize~a girl of African, or at least of Sicilian,
78 X | before I am able to come again---"~ ~He leaned against one
79 XIV | thought she.~ ~This conclusion aggravated her anxiety to know whether
80 XII | expression of delight, all aggrieved him. And indeed no lover~
81 XI | would have mitigated her agony--"~ ~"What?" said she.~ ~"
82 XXI | when her mother was walking~ahead of them in the garden, affecting
83 XXVI | with~the first medical aid from Besancon, they found
84 XXI | he~burnt it.~ ~Rosalie aimed at preventing Albert's election,
85 IV | very near the end he was aiming at, all neckcloths~set,
86 XVI | mystery, and so hide my aims. I~have adopted habits which
87 VI | an ideal being was this Albert--gloomy,~unhappy, eloquent,
88 XVIII | tone of an /Oime/ or an~/Alberto/! To walk by the blossoming
89 IX | extraordinary strength and~feverish alertness. She looked at Rodolphe
90 XXVIII| and was quite incapable of alienating them in order to diminish~
91 XXIV | matters, we should be eaten up alive by the Puritans of the Left--
92 XVI | delivered in~the deserted alleys of the Bois de Boulogne!
93 XIII | nothing to displease the Holy Alliance~~to which it owes its independence. /
94 XXI | school-friend, were his intimate allies.~They made excursions together
95 III | had~got so far as to be allowed--he alone in the world--to
96 XVI | business men to~me, and allows me to make friends with
97 I | know why----"~ ~This was an allusion to the members of the First
98 XX | supposed by every one~to be an ally of your Faubourg Saint-Germain."~ ~"
99 XXIV | was hidden, and exclaimed~aloud in his amazement, "He must
100 Add | Deserted Woman~ ~Rhetore, Duc Alphonse de~A Bachelor's Establishment~
101 XVIII | though separated by the Alps, we live by precisely~the
102 XXVIII| life at the foot of the~altar.~ ~"This is the last time
103 XV | ten thousand francs could alter the laws of optics;~he saw
104 XXVI | nineteen, and she is fearfully~altered in these last months."~ ~"
105 IV | man was in the house, she alternately dismissed and~recalled her
106 XIII | were full of secret joys, alternating with melancholy~moods, with
107 XIII | but would then become an Amadis? This is not in~question
108 XXVII | for marrying, mentioning Amedee--'If you are so fond of him,~
109 II | in the person of~Monsieur Amedee-Sylvain de Soulas, spelt Souleyas
110 VIII | Switzerland; you will not take it amiss,~Leopold, if I change my
111 XII | a year there will be an amnesty. Oh! /la cara patria/!"~ ~
112 III | the~best informed opined, amount to about twenty thousand
113 XI | We want nothing; my work amply supplies our luxuries,"
114 III | tiresome; we resent being amused, and~are furious at having
115 II | francs a day left~for food, amusements, and gambling. He very often
116 VII | importance in itself, if only it amuses Monsieur de Watteville?"~ ~"
117 I | gentle and~peaceable as his ancestor of the /Grand Siecle/ had
118 III | Guthrie, sacred history, ancient history, the history of
119 XXI | Chavoncourt, a youth of two-~and-twenty, and another young gentleman,
120 III | as a lion. And a~little anecdote will enable you to understand
121 XXII | constitution is mine! Have I an aneurism?" he~asked himself, feeling
122 XXII | Execution, the inexorable angel--'All or~nothing' is the
123 XIV | she looked at him without anger, but with~firm determination.~ ~"
124 I | Pothier and~Brunet in /Les Anglaises pour rire/; but in 1816
125 XVIII | ages me, dear angel, is~the anguish of mortified vanity, the
126 VIII | object of his desires; he annihilated time. While dreaming~of
127 XVIII | the 26th of December, the anniversary of~my arrival at your villa
128 XXI | full of enthusiasm, to announce the~decision of the preliminary
129 XIII | shared them. Now and again it annoyed him to~admire her calmness.
130 XXVIII| first met at a ball given annually after 1830 for the benefit
131 VIII | francs, bought with it a~life annuity for herself at a high rate,
132 XXVIII| marigold in your hand."~ ~This anonymous note, sent by Rosalie to
133 IV | case! Never let such an answer pass your~lips again to
134 XXIII | nothing to do with it. I am~answerable only for Legitimist voters;
135 V | carpet over the floor. The ante-room stove heats~this library
136 V | his outer room next the ante-room--old Galard's drawing-room--
137 XXI | take the bull by the horns,~anticipate the blow. Tell them all
138 XVII | various~friendships and antipathies. Did ever a Cardinal hoping
139 XVII | die, like the runner of antiquity! To see~fortune and death
140 | anyone
141 IV | Paris, who, after~seeking apartments, made up his mind in favor
142 XI | Ursini; there are Archintos apothecaries; but,~believe me, though
143 XXVII | of God; I am your friend, appalled by dread of~what your punishment
144 XXVI | Albert. This silence was appalling. In a paroxysm of~repentance
145 III | Amedee, to~which the Baron's apparent nonentity gave some certainty.~ ~
146 IV | this young~girlish soul, apparently so weak and yielding, as
147 VII | The commercial~interest appealed to Dole, to Dijon, to Salins,
148 XXVIII| state which forbids her ever appearing in society again. By~one
149 XIX | end; it will give us an appetite for~breakfast."~ ~
150 XV | three-and-thirty, and why did I not apply to you to make me~eligible?
151 XXII | will take good care not to appoint~examiners the first day.
152 V | this pleader a trick by appointing~him to defend at the Assizes
153 VII | columns.~ ~She gave her entire approbation to the Baron de Watteville'
154 XX | occupied by the lake was~appropriated by the Abbe de Watteville.
155 XIII | enthusiastic, and returns to arch raillery~with a readiness,
156 XXII | forgive an insult! It is the Archangel~Michael, the angel of Execution,
157 III | devoted was she to her dear Archbishop--and~severely repressed by
158 I | on all sides to ruin the~Archbishoprics.'--The President was obliged
159 XI | Trivulzio, Ursini; there are Archintos apothecaries; but,~believe
160 XI | a comparison?" she said archly.~ ~"Ah, once for all," said
161 Add | Two Brides~The Member for Arcis~ ~Savaron de Savarus~The
162 XI | beautiful a~~creature as you are--why, it is the fulfilment
163 XVI | of any kind in Paris, the~arena where so many champions
164 IV | symptoms of rebellion. Then the~arid bigot accused her daughter
165 XVI | but some circumstance will arise to bring him to~the front--
166 XX | Some difficulties have arisen since 1830 between the village~
167 XIV | the terrace where the rock arises abruptly from the~lake,
168 XXII | in his library in a deep armchair, his face as pale~as if
169 V | of carved wood, six old armchairs~covered with tapestry, window
170 IX | Havana cigar, eyes of fire, Armenian eyelids~with lashes of very
171 | around
172 XIII | anything whatever that~may arouse your jealousy."~ ~She drew
173 VII | of the other lawyers was~aroused. Also, Savaron, faithful
174 XXII | draw up your~contracts, arrange your compromises?--He will
175 IX | praised the elegance of this arrangement, and talked of the~view
176 VIII | before he could make any arrangements for securing the means of~
177 XIII | revolution.~These are the last arrivals at Geneva, and they are
178 XXI | without~awkwardness or arrogance, without weakness, without
179 II | of the~/parlement/, and arrogant, stiff, solemn, uncompromising,
180 XXI | revealing to him the deeply~artful course pursued by the lawyer
181 XI | which has~always a touch of artfulness.~ ~"Well, this hour will
182 III | by writing them a~leading article of the school of the /Charivari/.
183 VI | general so deeply, that~her artifice is unfailing. As a result
184 XIII | which~looks its best only by artificial light. She was in full evening~
185 XIII | It was said with the artless grace which revived, in
186 XI | said she, with the Italian artlessness which has~always a touch
187 XXVII | your wrong-doing, you must ascertain its extent," said the~Abbe.~ ~"
188 VI | getting into his house, of ascertaining the reason of so much mystery,~
189 XVII | was mingled with genuine~asceticism, and was all the more dangerous.~ ~"
190 XIII | believed in the tradition which ascribes to Italian women a feverish~
191 XIV | Certainly they must be ashamed of themselves."~ ~Though
192 XIII | great price; smiles shed aside~for him alone, stolen glances,
193 VII | that the floor should be of asphalt. Rosalie suggested a~hanging
194 XIII | short, Rodolphe's lightest~aspiration was now a living hope.~ ~
195 X | heart, and the nature of its aspirations for~happiness. This plant,"
196 XIII | nature of plain folks to aspire to~grandeur?" she asked,
197 XIX | the usurpation. The old assassin, the old renegade, the old~
198 XXI | of Commerce. In fact, the~assembly consisted of twenty-seven
199 XIX | Dent de Vilard.~ ~His heirs asserted their protectorate of the
200 XXVII | undertaking to collect his assets. When Girardet asked what
201 XXIV | departure, without any reason assigned for his~evasion. By half-past
202 XXVII | Monsieur Girardet, begging~his assistance in selling the house belonging
203 XII | dine with us to add to your associations, /povero mio/,"~said she. "
204 XI | further~trick like Gina's assumed dumbness.~ ~"Where would
205 XIII | called~desire, and thus assumes the nature of a vehement
206 XXVII | tremendous passion under~his assumption of calm. I understand now
207 XII | service," said she; "but I can assure~you that even that is something--
208 XI | eleven o'clock no one was astir in the~village, there was
209 XXVI | letters were written so much astonished the Vicar-General that he~
210 I | the Chorus of Esther or of Athalie. Hoops,~introduced at Paris
211 XX | be laughing at the young athlete's uncompromising politics,
212 XXVII | human justice, are the~most atrocious and detestable," said the
213 VII | The man must have been atrociously ugly who did not seem handsome
214 XVI | specialty. This line of conduct attaches business men to~me, and
215 XXVII | the risk of bringing on an attack which might have~wrecked
216 XIV | already known; he was about to attain the desires of his ambition;
217 VIII | overlooked the means of~attainment. "When my son has children,"
218 II | Monsieur is very busy." An attempt had~been made to withdraw
219 XIV | brave efforts, the~daring attempts of a young man gifted with
220 XII | who had been watching it~attentively, gave a joyful start, though
221 XIII | her the fixed, tenacious, attracting gaze, charged with the~full,
222 XIII | recent death added to its~attractiveness: for is not death the consecration
223 VII | tale signed "A. S.," and attributed to~the famous lawyer. In
224 XI | of this~vassal who was so audacious as to constitute himself
225 XXII | violently that its pulses~seemed audible in the silence like little
226 XIII | it had already~been, was augmented by his anxiety and by suspense
227 VIII | trees and torrents. Here are austere solitudes and charming~headlands,
228 XI | conspirator of all others whom Austria would most like to have~
229 IX | outlaws in fear of~the Austrian or Sardinian police. The
230 XXVIII| forgiveness, which you ask for the author of so much~woe, is entire
231 II | him up as the sovereign authority in~matters of fashion and
232 III | women love to~hear, being authorized by their superior virtue
233 XXVIII| leaving me~at liberty to avail myself of your offer, the
234 VII | articles of which~Alfred availed himself. And thus the merchant'
235 XXVIII| she thought~of nothing but avenging Savarus by torturing her
236 XXI | Each man represented on an average~six votes, but in estimating
237 I | the diocese who were not averse to good feeding were very~
238 XII | has been duped.~ ~"/Che avete, signor/?" Francesca asked
239 II | song by Alfred de~Musset:~ ~Avez vou vu dans Barcelone~ ~
240 XIII | grace which revived, in this avowal~hidden beneath a jest, the
241 XXVIII| this life on that which awaits us; all in me is worn~out;
242 VI | world is sleeping, he is awake--like God!" thought she.~ ~
243 XXI | entered the room well, without~awkwardness or arrogance, without weakness,
244 VIII | head was~raised against the background of the room on the upper
245 IV | bar-sinister is, of course, the badge of a bastard; but the~bastard
246 XII | tossed a little leather bag to Gina, full of~gold no
247 XXVI | down the~slope, lost his balance, and slipped into the lake,
248 X | friends were on their way from Bale to Lucerne, the fatal~letter,
249 XXI | the kind of~smile which a ballet-dancer puts on for the public.
250 XXI | were master of the votes by ballot. Under~such circumstances,
251 XXII | and you~will be elected by ballot--"~ ~
252 XXII | undoubtedly have come out of the ballot-box. At the moment, he was~conqueror.
253 XXVIII| innocent, hastily quitted the ballroom, leaving the speaker~at
254 V | their sockets like burning~balls; but, in spite of all these
255 XVIII | ambitions. This peace is a balm.~ ~"If you could imagine
256 X | jasmine~which covered the balustrade, "does not climb more eagerly
257 XX | much as possible. On~those banks," and she pointed to the
258 VII | you please, received this baptism of fire--a fine expression
259 XX | to ourselves. Then this barbarian would end by saying, what
260 II | Musset:~ ~Avez vou vu dans Barcelone~ ~C'est ma maitresse et
261 IX | couple expected to make, they bargained for three months'~residence
262 XIX | little~river to irrigate the barren, uncultivated valley, and
263 IV | entered on the~list of the barristers to the Court, showing his
264 XII | tranquillity. Certainty is the basis for which human~feelings
265 XVII | seeing the waters she sees, basking in her gaze, hearing her
266 VIII | on a promontory, almost~bathed by the waters. As the boat
267 XXII | The English fight these battles with their fists, the French~
268 XIII | a beautiful day, or the Bay of Naples.~Emilio," she
269 XVIII | cheerful mood; it has come as a beam of~light from the torch
270 XXVIII| I learned too late the~bearings of this life on that which
271 VII | demeanor,~as of a man who bears a world on his shoulders
272 Add | Doni~ ~Hannequin, Leopold~Beatrix~Cousin Betty~Cousin Pons~ ~
273 XVIII | going to Belgirate my heart beats~so wildly that I am forced
274 XXI | wax enthusiastic over a /beau ideal/ of parliamentary
275 II | Clermont-Mont-Saint-Jean, the~Beauffremont, the de Scey, and the Gramont
276 XXI | of forty, was one of the~beauties of Besancon. While the Chamber
277 XIII | this carriage Francesca,~beautifully dressed, by the side of
278 V | him he received me in his bed-room,~adjoining the library,
279 VI | impatiently looked forward to bedtime. She had promised~herself
280 IV | her! She has more than one Beelzebub in her skin!"~ ~The Baroness
281 XXVII | first on Monsieur Girardet, begging~his assistance in selling
282 XVIII | every possible form, to~beguile my impatience. I still am
283 XIII | it. The old man certainly~behaved to her as a father to his
284 XXVIII| Mademoiselle de Watteville behaves in the most extraordinary
285 XIII | He felt quite dizzy as he beheld in this carriage Francesca,~
286 IV | and richest families in Belgium."~ ~"He is a Frenchman,
287 XV | good name now extinct in Belgium--though indeed I am~neither
288 XII | repaid by God. Love never believes~itself secure but by this
289 XXI | docile sheep to follow the bell.~ ~
290 IX | Count~Borromeo of Isola Bella and Isola Madre in the Lago
291 XVIII | saying to whom the letters belonged, nor~to whom they were going.
292 XX | declares that the whole Dent belongs to his district, and maintains~
293 XVII | Upharsin/, did in the eyes of Belshazzar. After concealing the~letter,
294 I | but in 1816 and 1817 the belt of~the Frenchwoman, which
295 II | tunic-coat of iron-gray cloth, belted with~patent leather, bright
296 XXVIII| fearful scars,~which have bereft her of her beauty; her health,
297 XV | get some at Neufchatel, at Berne, and at Geneva. One copy,
298 VII | begun to carve the wood."~ ~"Berquet is to make a cellar under
299 XIX | the day at Besancon. At Besancon--as in the matter of the~
300 XXVIII| forgive her, and as I~shall beseech Him to give Madame de Rhetore
301 III | town, to~be the finest and best-dressed man there, in order to win
302 XII | Lucerne?"~ ~"But allow me to bestow a regret on the Bergmanns'
303 II | since~we see women in Paris bestowing their special attention
304 XX | attitude, which certainly betrays more~thoughtfulness than
305 XIII | Her elder sister had been betrothed to Prince~Gandolphini, one
306 Add | Leopold~Beatrix~Cousin Betty~Cousin Pons~ ~Jeanrenaud~
307 XII | acquaintance," replied Rodolphe, bewildered.~ ~"Quite," said the librarian; "
308 XIV | Francesca, no doubt, had bewitched him, and obtained from him--
309 XIII | heart," she replied, with a bewitching smile. "But do not wear~
310 XXII | grains of sand dropping on a~big drum.~ ~At this moment three
311 XIV | valued her highly for her bigotry, her~honesty, and long service,
312 II | hundred francs a year. His bills for~articles received from
313 I | Amedee de Soulas, whose biography is here~necessary to the
314 XXIV | about forty, who hoped for a bishopric, the two Chavoncourt~girls,
315 XXII | life.--I have refused three bishoprics already; I mean~~to die
316 IX | old~gardener.~ ~Rodolphe bit his lips and went away,
317 VI | Watteville, who groaned as~bitterly as his daughter under the
318 I | him on his success~without bitterness."~ ~"And where did you unearth
319 I | servants. Though~served in blackened family plate, round a looking-glass
320 IX | un-British length, hair blacker than black; and~under this
321 II | cravats, jewelry,~patent blacking, and clothes, ran to another
322 IV | by dint of pots of patent blacking--an end which required so~
323 X | her liquid eyes of velvety blackness.~A pair of hands as beautiful
324 XXII | not a~thought for which to blame myself--"~ ~"Ah! if you
325 XX | it required all the hot~blast by which the revolution
326 XIII | hard as a cameo. A~servant blazing with gold lace stood behind.
327 XXIV | the Duchess to you to be blessed!" cried Savarus.~ ~After
328 XVIII | twelfth year since that blest evening~when, by a look,
329 XVII | anticipation of the joys of blissful love! May it not be~that
330 XVIII | Alberto/! To walk by the blossoming orange-trees, to live a
331 XXVIII| being loved, or one of the blows ascribed to chance,~must
332 XXII | infectious, presently became~blundering.~ ~The Prefet, alarmed by
333 XIII | The consciousness of his blunders increased Rodolphe's~desire
334 XIII | spirit~reacted: Francesca blushed! Rodolphe felt a whole life
335 VIII | willing to take him as a boarder, a very frequent custom
336 IX | establishment fed the three English boarders~for a hundred francs a month
337 XVIII | books you read. Even to your boating on the lake every~incident
338 XXI | convening the~electoral bodies, and the day fixed for their
339 VII | blood, for it seethed and boiled as though its warmth were~
340 XXVIII| a steamboat of which the boiler burst.~Mademoiselle de Watteville
341 XXII | eloquence that flowed at boiling heat from the heart and
342 XVI | the deserted alleys of the Bois de Boulogne! These wasted~
343 VIII | when he came of age. It was~bold; it was counting on her
344 XIV | thinking she consented, grew bolder; he~put his arm round her,
345 VIII | own life; but without this boldness the~good mother would certainly
346 VIII | result of tightening the bond that united them. Rodolphe
347 XXI | and your hand read like a book. At~this moment I have no
348 VII | hundred subscribers were~booked in consideration of the
349 XX | friendly understanding as to my border line on this side~of the
350 V | window curtains of gray stuff bordered with~green, and a green
351 I | Wattevilles are Swiss) was then borne as~an escutcheon of pretence
352 IX | the old gardeners of the~Borromean Islands, whom he regarded
353 IX | of His Excellency Count~Borromeo of Isola Bella and Isola
354 III | eyes, of a very light blue, borrowed beauty from their lashes,~
355 XIII | these incidental rivets that Bossuet spoke when he~compared to
356 IX | flowers, the fruit,~and the botanical rarities of this spot were
357 XVI | deserted alleys of the Bois de Boulogne! These wasted~harangues
358 XIII | Francesca understood this boundless love;~but it was so natural,
359 VII | Neufchatel, to the~Jura, Bourg, Nantua, Lous-le-Saulnier.
360 XIV | bitter emphasis. "Claire de~Bourgogne, the last survivor of the
361 XII | Paris under the Empire, with~Bourrienne, Madame Murat, Madame d'
362 XI | obedience and respect."~ ~She bowed as a woman satisfied, and
363 VII | wall, an~ottoman forming a box, and a table of inlaid bark.
364 II | hat with black lacing, and brass buttons~with the arms of
365 XIV | refused him; but before braving the storms of this career,
366 XX | lake was about six acres in~breadth, in some places ten or twelve,
367 XXVIII| loved so well, could make me break the law of~oblivion I imposed
368 II | very often dined out, and~breakfasted with remarkable frugality.
369 V | The third time he was breakfasting in his library on the most
370 XIX | Besancon. At moments he could breathe freely at the thought of
371 XXII | address held his hearers breathless, it was said. These~men,
372 II | leather, bright blue plush breeches, a red waistcoat, polished~~
373 XII | under which a man of good breeding hides~his real feelings.~ ~"
374 VII | districts~of le Bugey, la Bresse, and Franche Comte. By the
375 XXI | father of the family is above~bribery, it would be hard if the
376 Add | Courtesan's Life~Letters of Two Brides~The Member for Arcis~ ~Savaron
377 VI | morning, after Mass,~she had a brief interview with the Abbe
378 I | he devoured documents and~briefs; he had seven or eight interviews
379 X | evening~that she shed a ray of brightness on his grieving heart. Her
380 VIII | province the manner, the~brilliancy, if you will, of the new
381 V | patient and yet~impatient, broad and yet hollow. I saw, too,
382 XX | flinging fire and~flames broadcast, particularly if she should
383 I | the shape of~leaves, the brocades, the damask, the carpets,
384 XXI | lovely place! I should be broken-hearted at seeing that fine piece~
385 IV | plainly dressed, and had bronze~kid shoes.~ ~This education,
386 XXV | de Watteville fell into a~brooding and absent mood, which everybody
387 XIX | with pines, when silence~broods over it like that of the
388 VIII | rivers, lakes and rocks, brooks and~pastures, trees and
389 XXI | Chavoncourt, for it was his wife's brother-in-law, as~President of the Tribunal,
390 I | the queens of the saintly brotherhood which gives the upper circles~
391 XIII | but the death of her two~brothers, and of her elder sister,
392 XIV | sick at heart, to have his bruises healed and his~courage revived
393 I | went to see Pothier and~Brunet in /Les Anglaises pour rire/;
394 IX | about the spit of land, to Brunnen and to Schwytz, and came
395 XXVIII| these headquarters of~Saint Bruno, but you are always especially
396 XXVI | place where the water was bubbling, but at last they pulled
397 IX | ready to pour out~their budget of gossip without any pressing.~ ~
398 VII | student in the districts~of le Bugey, la Bresse, and Franche
399 VII | Albert Savaron's~rooms. A builder was sent for, who undertook
400 I | Thus the possession of the~buildings of the old convent remains
401 XXI | for this evening, take the bull by the horns,~anticipate
402 V | men who have some heavy burden to bear."~ ~"Why did so
403 V | moving in their sockets like burning~balls; but, in spite of
404 XXI | to its instructions, he~burnt it.~ ~Rosalie aimed at preventing
405 XXI | darts, at a given moment~bursts into speech. But it is still
406 XXVIII| course of the winter, and busying~herself with improving her
407 I | employments, was his own butler, enjoyed a sort of fame
408 II | black lacing, and brass buttons~with the arms of Soulas.
409 II | advantages, which a man can buy for fifteen louis, and get~
410 II | vou vu dans Barcelone~ ~C'est ma maitresse et ma lionne.~ ~
411 XII | white~teeth, a face like Caesar, and on his diplomatic lips
412 XVI | perplexities! What must not~the caged eagles suffer, and imprisoned
413 XV | her father, coaxing~and cajoling him, and brought him to
414 VIII | imagines, as a mathematician calculates, as a painter~sketches,
415 XXII | five years hence."~ ~This calculation did Savarus all the more
416 XXII | And, reading the secret calculations of his~constituents, the
417 II | tiger~Babylas replied to callers, "Monsieur is very busy."
418 IV | to the Judges instead of calling in person! What a blunder!'
419 X | where his grief could~grow calmer. The young Frenchman's position,
420 XIII | annoyed him to~admire her calmness. Like an Englishwoman, she
421 XIII | talks, I do not choose to be calumniated, not for my own sake, but
422 XIII | an old lady as hard as a cameo. A~servant blazing with
423 XXII | opponents in the hostile camp. Towards the end of the
424 V | drawers, a shabby carpet, a camp-bed, and cotton~window-curtains.
425 XVIII | our writers amuse you? If Canalis' songs delight you? I~read
426 XIX | river and the~irrigation canals.~ ~When the Baron de Watteville
427 XIII | smile, refined and subtle, candid and~triumphant, curled Princess
428 XXI | he was in from Albert's candidature.~ ~But this did not satisfy
429 XXII | cried Savarus, seizing a candle, and leading the~Abbe into
430 X | Francesca looked so lovely by candle-light that first evening~that
431 XVIII | skin,~glistening under the candlelight, and through which I can
432 XIX | come to introduce to him a Canon who needed his professional
433 XI | over shop-doors: Sforza, Canova,~Visconti, Trivulzio, Ursini;
434 VIII | on the lake of the~Four Cantons. The views which shut in
435 XXV | like a great painting on~canvas. The old gentleman had in
436 XVI | but find myself alone to canvass~for the election. The people
437 XXVIII| Chartreuse--a~man of immense capabilities, Albert de Savarus, whose
438 XXI | priest's vast political capacities; and the priest, touched
439 IV | clever as he was in his~capacity of the chief Father Confessor
440 XIII | for he~had heard what a /capriccio/ might mean in an Italian.
441 XIII | the disguised exile, the capricious~beauty of Bergmanns' lodgings.
442 XXIV | the gentlemen sat down to cards, finding~the thing intolerable.
443 VII | Rosalie dressed with~such carefulness as made Mariette, the ladies'-
444 XII | made Rodolphe long to be so~caressed, even if it were without
445 XVIII | you, to hear that~girlish caressing voice! To embrace in my
446 I | brocades, the damask, the carpets, the gilt furniture,~were
447 XIII | looked at the approaching~carriage--an elegant English phaeton,
448 XIII | is~scarcely space for two carriages to pass each other.~ ~At
449 XVI | off, furniture and all, by carrier to Besancon. I collected
450 XXVII | page, falsely accused, and carrying the letter~containing the
451 VII | chandelier, and~has begun to carve the wood."~ ~"Berquet is
452 V | an old writing table of carved wood, six old armchairs~
453 XIX | beautiful lake, and below it two cascades; and~these, uniting a few
454 XX | If you should lose your~case--well, I will never reproach
455 XXI | thousand francs in hard cash,~when the contract was to
456 XIII | monastic life she led~in the castle of the old Colonnas.~ ~This
457 XXVII | the reason of the terrible~catastrophes which to us seem inexplicable.
458 III | Baroness.~To Rosalie our Cato affected prodigality; he
459 X | startled by the acute pain caused by some steel instrument~
460 IX | and again, but~with much caution; the old couple treated
461 VI | which made her daughter cautious for the~rest of her days.~ ~"
462 XVIII | proposed to me, live there as /cavaliere servente/,~only our passion
463 XXII | kills the word when the word ceases to overpower~reflection.
464 XXVIII| personage. She was one of the celebrities of the Eastern provinces.~ ~
465 VII | Berquet is to make a cellar under it," said an Abbe.~ ~"
466 VII | share-holders of five per cent, the editor remaining~unpaid.
467 XVII | craving for affection is centered in an~exceptional man, it
468 VII | France, and compete with the centralizing influence of Paris! These~
469 III | savings in~the three per cents, in 1830. Rosalie's dowry
470 II | further back than a couple of centuries, the time~of the conquest
471 XVII | bent on staking it at the Cercle des~Etrangers for the last
472 XI | withdrew. "You are cold and ceremonious; what,~in colloquial language,
473 XXVII | Florence, it was at the~ceremony of her marriage.~ ~"Our
474 IX | deeply like the roof of a chalet~on all four sides of the
475 XIX | badly cultivated; there were chalets on both hills and neglected~
476 XVIII | If I am~returned to the Chamber--oh! you must come to Paris
477 XVI | the~arena where so many champions meet, I came to a determination~
478 I | had mingled in 1815. The chandeliers of glass cut in the shape
479 XIV | story of his passion,~while changing the names of persons and
480 XIX | to be removed to make a channel for the river and the~irrigation
481 XVIII | a perfume, like a steady~chant, like some divine nourishment,
482 IV | astonishment, that tempers, characteristics, wit, or genius~reappear
483 XIV | swift~decision, which had characterized the famous Watteville, was
484 XIII | tenacious, attracting gaze, charged with the~full, insistent
485 III | article of the school of the /Charivari/. The chief of the~moderate
486 VI | diocese had all the greater charm for Rosalie because there
487 XXVIII| into a monastery--the Grand Chartreuse--a~man of immense capabilities,
488 XIX | picturesquely situated. The chateau and the park were, in fact,~
489 XXVI | eldest son of the Duc~de Chaulieu, the former Ambassador,
490 XXI | Victoire, the eldest of the~Chavoncourts, on whom an old aunt was
491 XII | who has been duped.~ ~"/Che avete, signor/?" Francesca
492 XV | partners, who combined to cheat and fleece me--me, though~
493 VIII | loved and to Rodolphe. Thus cheated by~a stroke of fate, Rodolphe'
494 XXII | ambitious man. Each day was a check for Savarus, though~each
495 XIII | the evening were full of cheerfulness,~justified, indeed, by the
496 V | when I saw there~a wretched chest of drawers, a shabby carpet,
497 IV | such reservations are the /chevaux de frise/~behind which weakness
498 VI | thought was red. From the chimney above the~roof rose a thick
499 I | tray furnished~with Dresden china, the food was exquisite.
500 XII | should have been obliged to chop wood to~get my living here. /