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501 I | written by Lulli for the Chorus of Esther or of Athalie.
502 VI | Mademoiselle de~Watteville to that chubby fat Count, bursting with
503 II | leaving~Besancon, a dull town, church-going, and not literary, a military~
504 IX | golden-brown color of a Havana cigar, eyes of fire, Armenian
505 I | brotherhood which gives the upper circles~of Besancon a solemn air
506 II | Monsieur Amedee de Soulas from circulation by~pronouncing him "A man
507 XIX | town stands in a~horseshoe circumscribed by the river Doubs. Thus,
508 III | enable you to understand the city of Besancon.~ ~Some time
509 XXVIII| the pensioners on the old Civil List. A young man, prompted
510 XIX | that so long as he lived no claim was urged~by the inhabitants
511 XIV | with bitter emphasis. "Claire de~Bourgogne, the last survivor
512 Add | Unconscious Humorists~ ~Tinti, Clarina~Massimilla Doni~ ~
513 II | gulf which parts the two classes of~society. With the exception
514 VIII | spending their holiday in the classical~tour in Switzerland. Leopold,
515 IV | town where everything is classified, known,~pigeon-holed, ticketed,
516 II | gloves at fifty sous a pair, cleaned in the deepest~secrecy to
517 II | books. Finally, when he was cleaning his gloves, the tiger~Babylas
518 V | true orator's voice, now clear and appealing, sometimes~
519 XXII | reflection. Only one thing was~clear--the thing which Albert wished
520 VI | suppressed mind, so fresh and clear-seeing,~as swift and as logical
521 VII | periwinkles would grow, iris, clematis, ivy,~honeysuckle, and Virginia
522 Add | Start in Life~The Government Clerks~Modeste Mignon~The Imaginary
523 II | With the exception of the Clermont-Mont-Saint-Jean, the~Beauffremont, the de
524 VI | portrait sketched by the cleverest of the Vicars-General of
525 XXVI | fact, done so. The infernal cleverness with which~the letters were
526 VIII | crowning~perpendicular granite cliffs, like plumes, deserted but
527 X | the balustrade, "does not climb more eagerly to spread~itself
528 IV | seclusion of~domestic life, with closed doors. The Vicar-General,
529 XXII | him fast, and clasped him~closely, letting his head fall on
530 VII | made up her mind to~get a closer view of the lawyer Savaron'
531 II | tunic-coat of iron-gray cloth, belted with~patent leather,
532 XI | with what hues you have clothed the chain of Pilatus, the
533 VII | everything down to his clothing, had the indescribable stamp~
534 IV | had~nothing else to do. Clotilde de Rupt, at this time five-and-thirty,~
535 XIII | going to the Foreigners' Club," said the~jeweler.~ ~Rodolphe'
536 XXVI | led him to a~seat under a clump of rhododendrons, whence
537 X | the sunbeams than I have clung to you for this month past.
538 XXII | Chavoncourt, so as to effect a coalition in their common~interests.
539 XV | garden with her father, coaxing~and cajoling him, and brought
540 III | to dispute his place as cock~of the walk at the Hotel
541 XVI | a small boy and tortured cock-chafers,~the poor insects had one
542 VII | cool, and where we can take~coffee."~ ~"Your father has had
543 XIII | attachment needed where the~cohesion is stronger than in the
544 XI | said the girl, taking the coin, "my master is the famous~
545 XVIII | I am enchanted with the coincidence of employments and~hours
546 IV | imagine why you affect such coldness towards~Amedee. Is it because
547 IV | his card on all his new colleagues, the Ministerial~officials,
548 XVI | by carrier to Besancon. I collected my~diplomas, and I went
549 I | regard this tendency towards collecting as a first~~degree of mental
550 I | took up a~fancy for making collections. Philosophical doctors,
551 XI | and ceremonious; what,~in colloquial language, we should call /
552 II | an introduction~for the colonels or officers of title belonging
553 III | with a~flat figure, fair, colorless, and insignificant to the
554 VI | above the~roof rose a thick column of smoke.~ ~"While all the
555 XXII | French try their~fate by cold combinations calmly worked out. This
556 XV | of my two~partners, who combined to cheat and fleece me--
557 Add | other stories of the Human Comedy.~ ~Beauseant, Vicomtesse
558 IV | further away than any chance comer,~although he had on his
559 XVIII | everything which can~soothe and comfort life.~ ~"Do not fail me!
560 XIV | spread over~a lovely woman comfortably reclining on red cushions,
561 XIX | his clients' fees without comment. But this disinterestedness~
562 XXI | President of the Chamber of Commerce. In fact, the~assembly consisted
563 Add | Cousin Pons~ ~Jeanrenaud~The Commission in Lunacy~ ~Nueil, Gaston
564 VII | Monsieur Savaron did not commit the blunder of putting his
565 XXII | carries power with him. A commonplace deputy, however~incorruptible,
566 II | gravity of a native the commonplaces that were in~fashion, which
567 XXV | useless to~say anything of the commotion that arose in Besancon on
568 XX | of party wall between the~communes of Riceys and les Rouxey,
569 V | then, of course, there are communications between my~tiger and Jerome."~ ~"
570 VIII | The character of his companion, whom we will call Rodolphe,
571 XXI | it would be to his two~companions. Now, Monsieur de Vauchelles
572 XXII | despairing lover could endure no companionship. He walked through the~streets
573 XIII | what could his happiness compare? He was~loved. The lofty
574 IX | excites all the greater~compassion among the Swiss, because
575 XVII | prayers all the time. She had compelled Mariette~to similar sets
576 V | great man's brow; an olive~complexion marbled with red, a square
577 XIX | It is unnecessary to complicate this story by relating all
578 I | to every conqueror,' and complimented him on his success~without
579 VI | bursting with health, paying~compliments, and talking of the fashions
580 XXI | Monsieur Boucher senior, composed of the contractor who expected
581 III | the forty noble families composing the high society of~Besancon
582 XIX | hearing Albert. She had compounded, so to speak, and a~composition
583 XXIII | A word~more would have compromised the priest's dignity and
584 VIII | young notary, a guardian, a comrade, who might to a certain~
585 X | like a log.~ ~"/Nel lago con pietra/!" said the terrible
586 XXI | she had the strength to conceal her rage, which presently~
587 XVII | eyes of Belshazzar. After concealing the~letter, Rosalie went
588 XIII | the graces of a woman she conceals vast learning,~thanks to
589 III | taught her daughter every conceivable stitch in~tapestry and women'
590 VIII | Rosalie had by intuition conceived~a notion of it which strangely
591 XI | evil folly? Is it not to concentrate~all his powers in a noble
592 XIII | insistent will which is concentrated in the feeling called~desire,
593 VI | embroidery with the~obtuse concentration of a girl who, like Agnes,
594 VII | left the finance of the concern to his chief client,~Monsieur
595 XXVIII| things of the world are concerned--to get justice done to my~
596 XXVI | could obtain any information~concerning Albert. This silence was
597 XIII | visitor. "We have a sort of concert~this evening," he added,
598 IX | tongue of both girls, and concluded~that the name of English
599 XIV | me!" thought she.~ ~This conclusion aggravated her anxiety to
600 VII | is raising the kiosk on a~concrete foundation, that it may
601 VII | Nantua, Lous-le-Saulnier. The concurrence was invited of~the learning
602 XI | repay me what~you may have condescended to borrow," he added, with
603 X | an arm, and Rodolphe was conducted to a side gate, of which~
604 XXI | Mariette--as she afterwards confessed--to~take both her and Jerome
605 XI | Gina, her half-grown-up /confidante/, also seemed to have a~
606 XXIV | share in all this. I have~confided in no one but Madame de
607 XIX | considerable progress in Besancon. Confident of success, he now~impatiently
608 XXVI | married, but the Baroness~confidentially desired her maid to wait
609 XIII | spots, in~consequence of the configuration of the hilly ground, there
610 XIV | some injudicious mothers confine them, they are~roused by
611 II | or, if you prefer it, a confusion--of the two~words and the
612 VI | mentioned again; but beyond the congratulations offered by each~newcomer
613 II | have mastered to use at a congress.~ ~
614 VII | client,~Monsieur Boucher, connected by marriage with one of
615 II | in consequence of their connection with Cardinal~Granvelle.
616 III | the~eyes of the studious connoisseur. She had fine hands though
617 II | centuries, the time~of the conquest by Louis XIV. This little
618 XVII | all is well. To my other conquests I have just~added an invaluable
619 XV | letter.~ ~"You know how conscientiously I studied, how faithful
620 XIII | wife of a~bookseller! The consciousness of his blunders increased
621 XI | happy above all men, and consecrate my love, you would treat
622 XIII | attractiveness: for is not death the consecration of genius?~ ~The road to
623 XIV | Rodolphe, thinking she consented, grew bolder; he~put his
624 XXI | daughter and favorite niece. Consequently, young Chavoncourt and his~
625 XXVI | her father were~building a conservatory, the Baroness understood
626 IV | her daughter, because she~considered her honor as a mother to
627 XV | into bed again, not without considering how~she might take advantage
628 V | room, for the furniture~consists of an old writing table
629 XI | the revolution,~and the conspirator of all others whom Austria
630 XIII | being loved, with~a force, a constancy, a tenacity, which made
631 XVII | strength and energy, and so constantly worn the~springs of desire,
632 XXII | secret calculations of his~constituents, the clever candidate gave
633 XI | who was so audacious as to constitute himself her protector.~ ~
634 XXII | through? What a wretched constitution is mine! Have I an aneurism?"
635 XIX | Watteville had~a huge dam constructed, leaving two cuttings for
636 XXVIII| see it is impossible to consult him. The General of the
637 XXIV | his boots is not~dry--or a consultation, perhaps, detains Monsieur
638 XVI | invitations. I~am only to be consulted between six and eight in
639 XIII | friendship."~ ~Though he was consumed by curiosity, Rodolphe dared
640 XXII | up, the fire of~the soul consumes them. Alone, he might weep.
641 XIV | these~pages, to her really contagious, she had said solemnly to
642 XXVII | and carrying the letter~containing the order for his execution,
643 XIX | the world, and this story contains a moral that ought to~serve
644 X | against one of the gate-posts contemplating the beautiful~Italian, who
645 XVI | barrister will be treated~with contempt, but some circumstance will
646 XIV | inexperienced youth, had to contend against~duplicity, which
647 XXI | completely was she~stupefied by contending feelings. And yet in the
648 XX | God knows, I meant to be content with these small joys;~with
649 XV | when you saw me so gay and contented, writing my~political articles,
650 XXVII | greatly distressed by the contents of the last~letter he had
651 I | several hours with me,"~continued Monsieur de Grancey, who
652 XXI | francs in hard cash,~when the contract was to be signed. Victoire
653 II | help of his hands, by the~contraction of his cheek, and eye-socket,
654 XXII | you advice, draw up your~contracts, arrange your compromises?--
655 XXVI | circumstance which would have contradicted~some system of geology,
656 I | neighborhood of Besancon. Some contradictory folk, especially women,~
657 XXII | the~Ministerial votes, and contrived to have a secret interview
658 XXVI | said the Baroness, sternly controlling the rage of a~bigot startled
659 XXI | issuing of the writs for convening the~electoral bodies, and
660 I | the~buildings of the old convent remains with the Chapter
661 XX | produce division of~interests; convictions are inseparable."~ ~"The
662 XXIV | aristocracy of~Besancon in convocation extraordinary. They were
663 II | couple of dishes~from a cookshop, never spending more than
664 VIII | his gentleness, and the coolness of his senses and his~brain,
665 IX | Madame Stopfer,~retired coopers from Neufchatel, he questioned
666 XXVI | Albert's, and the rough copies which she showed~to the
667 XIV | servant, to get across the~coping of the wall and step into
668 XIII | one goes to see now, like~Coppet and Ferney."~ ~"You cannot
669 XV | Berne, and at Geneva. One copy, is in fact,~sent to Italy,
670 XI | girlish~gesture, "I will be as coquettish, as gay, as glad, as a child
671 V | dressing-~gown tied with a red cord, red slippers, a red flannel
672 X | Rodolphe was received with the cordiality due to his~misfortunes and
673 XXV | milord/."~ ~"Was there a coronet on the carriage?" asked
674 XIV | never to cease, a regular correspondence between Rodolphe and~Francesca,
675 III | as being more likely to corrupt life than to~grace it. The
676 II | year, the income from some cottage farms which lent painful~
677 IV | Ministerial~officials, the Councillors of the Court, and the members
678 VII | first novel produced in the county, came under discussion~that
679 XXVIII| Rosalie, who was eagerly courted by many~young men, achieved
680 Add | Provincial at Paris~Scenes from a Courtesan's Life~Letters of Two Brides~
681 VII | down the steps, across the courtyard, and through the~gates,
682 XXI | without weakness, without cowardice, quite~gravely, and was
683 I | like a~wood-louse in the crack of a wainscot, he had married
684 II | families are arranged in the cradle, so rigidly are the greatest~
685 X | coat, his~waistcoat and cravat. Then Gina opened his shirt
686 XVII | natural law; but when her craving for affection is centered
687 IX | the side of the hedge, and crawled like a snake to find~a way
688 IX | Lucerne, for she seemed to be crazy about music.~ ~"She loves
689 XVI | interests of the country,~will create them, or preserve them,
690 VIII | sketches, as a musician creates melodies. Tender-hearted,
691 IX | Richardson has given~it to a creation whose fame eclipses all
692 II | fashion, which gave him the credit of being one of the most~
693 XXI | winter she~received very creditably once a week, on Tuesdays,
694 VIII | by a roadway and a little creek from~the new house, where
695 VII | honeysuckle, and Virginia creeper. The Baroness desired that
696 XVI | secured the arrest of the real criminals, who had~come forward as
697 XIV | swan, its flag flaming, its crimson awning spread over~a lovely
698 VI | accident. This inevitable crisis was brought on in Mademoiselle
699 XXV | disappearance at the most critical moment of his life.~ ~"Mademoiselle,
700 XV | parched face; to~him the crooked mouth was straight; and
701 XVII | moment when Tantalus rebels, crosses his~arms, and defies hell,
702 V | narrow, and too short; crow's feet~on his temples; deep-set
703 I | escaped being crushed by the crowd; but~they were adopted.
704 XXIV | Watteville's rooms were crowded by the aristocracy of~Besancon
705 VI | stood forth in contrast with crowds of Besancon~faces she had
706 XVII | it~should never come to crown my head with roses, the /
707 VIII | trimly kept meadows, forests crowning~perpendicular granite cliffs,
708 I | off to~~Paris, and at the crucial moment I was able to secure
709 XXVIII| her beauty; her health, cruelly upset, leaves~her few days
710 XIV | fever in her blood. She was crying--but with~rage. This little
711 XXI | guide and~adviser in this culminating struggle. The Chapter did
712 V | in the hands of the real~culprits. Not only did his line of
713 XIX | was extensive,~but badly cultivated; there were chalets on both
714 XI | should ask Gina--~she is so cunning.--What is your quarrel with
715 V | pictures, with thick shining curls, hair as stiff as horse-~
716 XIII | though magnetized by this current of love, and her eyes,~without
717 VIII | nobleman of Brabant, was cursed with extreme sensitiveness.~
718 V | covered with tapestry, window curtains of gray stuff bordered with~
719 VIII | boarder, a very frequent custom in~Switzerland. They offered
720 I | evades the tyranny of the~Custom-house. The fashion that is called
721 II | of which the manners and customs and~physiognomy are worth
722 XX | the right of grazing and cutting fodder on their side of
723 XIX | constructed, leaving two cuttings for the overflow. Above~
724 XV | the founding, namely, of a daily paper answering only~to
725 I | leaves, the brocades, the damask, the carpets, the gilt furniture,~
726 VII | foundation, that it may not be damp."~ ~"You know the very least
727 III | sieve of an old Jesuit? Dancing~and music were forbidden,
728 II | de~Musset:~ ~Avez vou vu dans Barcelone~ ~C'est ma maitresse
729 XXI | all, or, stung by a myriad darts, at a given moment~bursts
730 VIII | Tender-hearted, like his~mother, he dashed with inconceivable violence
731 XXVI | following paragraph under the date of~Florence, May 25th:--~ ~"
732 XVII | bed she opened the letter, dated from day to day,~so as to
733 II | aristocracy~of Besancon dates no further back than a couple
734 XXI | Council, and in favor with the Dauphin and~Dauphiness. It would
735 XXI | favor with the Dauphin and~Dauphiness. It would be very good of
736 XXII | fire.~ ~At last the day dawned of the first struggle, practically
737 XV | should~begin, and now it is dawning. Yes, my dear Leopold, after
738 XVII | when, abandoned to long day-dreams, I have lost~myself in anticipation
739 XIII | the Bergmanns' had left at~daybreak. It then seemed to him intolerable
740 XIII | Italians, among them the dazzling and illustrious Princess
741 IV | Galard's man--Galard being dead--Jerome, who can~cook a little.
742 II | No town~ever offered more deaf and dumb resistance to progress.
743 IX | Fanny and her pretended deaf-and-dumb~maid were at the other end
744 IV | imitated the police in its dealings with the republicans; but
745 VII | Eastern France could only be~dealt with in a review. What a
746 XXVII | after your father's legal~debts are settled, if, indeed,
747 XIII | ask his pardon for having deceived him as~to her rank.~ ~When
748 XVIII | for this is the 26th of December, the anniversary of~my arrival
749 IX | dumbness must be a necessary~deception. From the way in which they
750 XXII | at a theatre,~is the most deceptive thing in the world. Albert
751 XVII | I read it," she~finally decided, after hesitating for an
752 IV | granddaughter she is.~ ~The decisive character and romantic daring
753 V | and the books are the sole decoration of the room, for the furniture~
754 XVI | of her to whom my life~is dedicate, who fills it wholly, who
755 I | I~ ~Dedication~To Madame Emile Girardin.~ ~
756 X | inspired me; but they are deep--they are eternal."~ ~"/Zitto/!"
757 V | crow's feet~on his temples; deep-set eyes, moving in their sockets
758 XXI | Legitimists, who, in their~defeat, had the wit to divide in
759 XXII | danger; the case must be defended within three days. The election
760 XVI | when he saw Louis XVI. defending~himself so badly while he
761 XVII | rebels, crosses his~arms, and defies hell, throwing up his part
762 III | heraldry. No newspaper had ever defiled her sight.~She attended
763 XI | with an expression~full of delicate feeling.~ ~"Let us drop
764 XII | each other, the heart feels delicious~peace, supreme tranquillity.
765 IX | fond of music. I should be~delighted if, during my residence
766 IX | listening to an Italian air delightfully sung. When the singing~ceased,
767 XXII | Boucher, who was about to deluge him with~a speech announcing
768 IX | neighborhood.~ ~Poverty demanding such privation as this excites
769 VI | enlighten them, you make~them demons before their time; if you
770 XII | artist's enthusiasm.~ ~"/E denaro/!" added Gina, like an echo,
771 XI | Rodolphe made many signs of denial.--"Yes," said the bookseller'
772 XIV | the god of fools--has been~denied. And this indefatigable
773 II | the chief towns of some~departments had their sub-lions, who
774 X | understand that~his honor depended on it.~ ~Leopold returned
775 XXI | When a man's whole life depends on an election, the~period
776 IX | made himself at home by depositing in his room such property
777 XIII | of the two refugees, but depressing~to Rodolphe.~ ~"Can she
778 II | provinces can hardly~be deprived of them. So, as soon as
779 IX | among the Swiss, because it deprives them of a chance of~profit.
780 XIV | XIV~There was a depth of tone in her reply which
781 III | whither he meant to go as Depute.~ ~All these manoeuvres
782 XXVI | came one day to les Rouxey, deputed, no doubt, by Madame de~
783 XVI | one class~that elects the deputies--the commercial class. I
784 XIV | prevent. She~dreamed of descending by a ladder from the kiosk
785 II | and~physiognomy are worth describing. This opinion allowed of
786 VII | the Baron de Watteville's design,~while choosing for the
787 XXI | simpleton to~further her designs.~ ~"Monsieur Amedee," said
788 XX | as to the facts. At your desire--for I have a~regard and
789 III | education, and by her~mother's despotism, which held her rigidly
790 XII | intoxication of soul was destined to be disturbed. A~boat
791 XI | must suffer much from the~destitution to which exile has brought
792 XXVIII| Soulas."~ ~"I do not wish to destroy my mother's happiness,"
793 XXI | great de Watteville's work destroyed."~ ~"The devil!" thought
794 XV | one hour, a servant girl~destroys the long and painful work,
795 XXIV | a consultation, perhaps, detains Monsieur de Savarus."~ ~
796 XVI | out the impossibility of detecting~a plot so skilfully planned.~ ~"
797 XXVII | are the~most atrocious and detestable," said the Abbe severely. "
798 XXVII | to~give him. Your mother detests you; you made her a fierce
799 XIII | certain gaiety which does not~detract from tenderness. This combination
800 XX | are inseparable."~ ~"The deuce is in it!" said Savarus. "
801 III | disquisitions in the Revue des Deux Mondes, and you will~hardly
802 VII | gestures, combine to express a devastating or absorbing~thought. Rosalie
803 XIV | famous Watteville, was fully~developed in his descendant. She devised
804 III | was in the secret of the devices by which Amedee~succeeded
805 XIX | work so many~interests and devise so many springs, absorbed
806 XIV | developed in his descendant. She devised those whimsical schemes,~
807 XV | concealed from you all my devotedness and my dangers.~What would
808 XV | wait for happiness while devoting myself to some~mechanical
809 XIV | reward of his zeal, his~devotion, and his past services,
810 II | absurdity can amuse Paris, which~devours as many masterpieces as
811 I | Perron. Madame de Watteville,~devout as a girl, became even more
812 XII | extreme rapidity, and in a~dialect unfamiliar to a man who
813 XXVII | that~cloister everything dies. Albert, foreseeing that
814 XXII | said. These~men, all with different interests, were spellbound
815 XXVI | The men had the greatest~difficulty in enabling the Baron to
816 XXVIII| alienating them in order to diminish~Rosalie's share, Mademoiselle
817 XXII | in the Boucher committee diminished in number.~ ~Nothing could
818 II | feet already fat, white dimpled hands, a beard under his
819 V | times; then he goes in, dines, and goes to bed between
820 I | Abbe's arm to~go into the dining-room. "If he is a stranger, by
821 III | with the baroness until~dinner-time. Then, after dinner, excepting
822 XVI | Besancon. I collected my~diplomas, and I went to bid you good-bye.
823 XII | like Caesar, and on his diplomatic lips a sardonic~smile, the
824 XXIV | which sum up a question and direct the~issue.~ ~"If the Elder
825 VIII | This fine frenzy, carefully directed, enabled Rodolphe to achieve
826 XXVII | alas! am not your spiritual director; you are not~kneeling at
827 XI | at Rodolphe.~This obvious disagreement between the Italian lady'
828 XXVI | father!"--The~Baron had disappeared.~ ~In trying to reach a
829 IX | of~spirit and imagination disappointed of the results of a plan
830 XXVI | and she feared another disaster, much~greater in her eyes,
831 IX | English deaf-mute,~in whom his discernment, though young as yet, enabled
832 XIII | of October. To avoid~the discomforts of the town he took rooms
833 IV | meaning of this scene without discovering it, so~guileless was she.
834 II | of the /petit-maitre/ of discreditable etymology, have made~way
835 XX | Here, where everything is discussed, I should be supposed by
836 XXIV | extraordinary. They were discussing the~exceptional step of
837 VII | in the county, came under discussion~that mid-winter at Madame
838 IV | are known~as hereditary diseases. Thus talent, like the gout,
839 XIV | heart?"~ ~She was silent, disengaged her hand which held her
840 XXVII | of private life, the most disgraceful is that of~breaking the
841 XVIII | set down? Alas! even while disguising them I was~sorely afraid
842 XVII | feel~a heady languor; deep disgust surges up from the depths
843 XVI | undertaking by which I was disgusted, but which has now~made
844 II | tiger to fetch a couple of dishes~from a cookshop, never spending
845 XXIII | her family. You are quite disinterested, for you~have so much confidence
846 XXVIII| other."~ ~After enjoying the dismay stamped on the Duchess'
847 XXI | quite~gravely, and was not dismayed at finding himself among
848 IV | the house, she alternately dismissed and~recalled her daughter,
849 XXI | himself some supporters, displayed all the faculties of his
850 XIII | anxious to do nothing to displease the Holy Alliance~~to which
851 XXII | the real number--at the disposal of the Prefecture, would
852 XXIV | Madame de Watteville was~disposed to regard such delay as
853 III | digestion as~the toughest disquisitions in the Revue des Deux Mondes,
854 IV | mother regarded the girl~as a dissembler. If by mischance a spark
855 XIX | impatiently awaited the dissolution of the Chamber. Among the
856 XXVIII| pride,~or even her rather distant great connections.~
857 XXII | At this moment three distinct taps sounded on his door;
858 Add | Bachelor's Establishment~A Distinguished Provincial at Paris~Scenes
859 III | invested with the judgment that distinguishes~those old families! It was
860 XXVII | notary had seemed greatly distressed by the contents of the last~
861 VII | scientific student in the districts~of le Bugey, la Bresse,
862 XII | soul was destined to be disturbed. A~boat was approaching
863 XXI | their~defeat, had the wit to divide in their opinions, and to
864 VII | the periodical would pay a~dividend to the share-holders of
865 XXII | angel. There is something~divinely pitiless in that head."~ ~"
866 XX | always possible to produce division of~interests; convictions
867 XIII | English~horses. He felt quite dizzy as he beheld in this carriage
868 I | collections. Philosophical doctors, devoted to the~study of
869 XXVII | may expiate your sins, and doing as I bid you. I shall see--~
870 VII | commercial~interest appealed to Dole, to Dijon, to Salins, to
871 IV | most secret seclusion of~domestic life, with closed doors.
872 XV | my mind to do as you have done--to start on a beaten path,~
873 XIII | Rodolphe, leaning against the door-post, looked at the Princess,~
874 IV | domestic life, with closed doors. The Vicar-General, the
875 VII | as though its warmth were~doubled.~ ~As soon as Albert had
876 XIV | She never for an instant doubted the sincerity of this poetical~
877 X | heart."~ ~She looked at him doubtfully.~ ~"None," said he, "not
878 II | where I went . . ." The dowagers of the~town would say to
879 III | their lashes,~which, when downcast, threw a shadow on her cheeks.
880 XVII | the~letter, Rosalie went downstairs to accompany her mother
881 III | cents, in 1830. Rosalie's dowry would therefore, as the~
882 XX | it will be possible to drag the~proceedings out till
883 XX | firmness.~ ~"Ah! I would have dragged my father into a lawsuit--
884 XX | Riceys, hoped to give a dramatic turn to his career on the~
885 XVI | client was innocent; I very~dramatically secured the arrest of the
886 XXII | Will he give you advice, draw up your~contracts, arrange
887 XI | is my desire. Fame is a~drawbridge which may serve to cross
888 V | there~a wretched chest of drawers, a shabby carpet, a camp-bed,
889 III | for twelve~years had been drawing an income of fifty thousand
890 V | ante-room--old Galard's drawing-room--which~he has had painted
891 XXVII | your friend, appalled by dread of~what your punishment
892 XIX | ferocious old~man was so widely dreaded, that so long as he lived
893 X | the~most fatal, the most dreadful news: Rodolphe's mother
894 XIII | loved as every woman may dream of being loved, with~a force,
895 XIV | foresee nor prevent. She~dreamed of descending by a ladder
896 VIII | annihilated time. While dreaming~of the fulfilment of his
897 I | looking-glass tray furnished~with Dresden china, the food was exquisite.
898 IV | wore simple checked cotton dresses; but on Sundays and~in the
899 V | came out in a black merino dressing-~gown tied with a red cord,
900 VI | and to look~at Albert's dressing-room windows. When the hour came,
901 XIV | handkerchief, and again dried her eyes.~ ~"Forgive me!"
902 XII | neither hear nor guess the drift of this~conversation. But
903 XIX | bridge, and that the only~drinkable water was that from Arcier.
904 XXII | not fall; fierce thought drinks them up, the fire of~the
905 XIII | Have they not just driven in?"~ ~"Yes, sir."~ ~In
906 XXVIII| strong-minded young lady~too! She drove a clever man into a monastery--
907 XII | standing at the risk of being drowned.~"Tito! Tito!" cried she,
908 XXII | of sand dropping on a~big drum.~ ~At this moment three
909 I | le Baron de Watteville, a dry, lean man devoid of~intelligence,
910 XXIV | varnish on his boots is not~dry--or a consultation, perhaps,
911 XXVIII| than the pistol~shots of a duel. Francesca Soderini, who
912 II | talking of leaving~Besancon, a dull town, church-going, and
913 XV | at night?"~ ~Mariette was dumfounded, and could make no reply.~ ~"
914 XVII | his part of the eternal dupe.~That is what I shall come
915 XII | silence of a man who has been duped.~ ~"/Che avete, signor/?"
916 XIV | portrait for Rodolphe, and a~duplicate for Emilio. She told him
917 XIV | had to contend against~duplicity, which won the day. Thus
918 III | exactly like those of Albert Durer's saints, or those of the~
919 IX | the lake and around the dwelling, that the two women must
920 XVI | What must not~the caged eagles suffer, and imprisoned lions!--
921 XIII | pre-eminently successful from the earliest ages of the world,~there
922 X | know this: if you are in earnest in what you~have allowed
923 VII | importance, to bring light to the East of~France, and compete with
924 XXIV | election~matters, we should be eaten up alive by the Puritans
925 VI | matter, Rosalie; you are eating nothing?"~ ~"I am not hungry,
926 XXVIII| was regarded as a very eccentric~personage. She was one of
927 XII | denaro/!" added Gina, like an echo, for she had found her tongue.~ ~"
928 I | barrister."~ ~"Very strange!" echoed Amedee de Soulas, whose
929 IX | to a creation whose fame eclipses all others! Miss Lovelace
930 III | same delicacy saddened by ecstasy, the same severe guilelessness.~
931 III | anything but the /Lettres edifiantes/~and some works on heraldry.
932 VII | editor remaining~unpaid. This editing, indeed, was beyond price.~ ~
933 XII | had not received a man's education--an~unheard-of thing in Italy--
934 IX | with amazing curiosity and~effrontery, watching his every movement.~ ~"
935 IV | with a husband who turned egg-cups in every~variety of wood,
936 XXVII | she lives, and she is~but eight-and-thirty! Your whole estate will
937 XXI | election, the~period that elapses between the issuing of the
938 XXII | voting days, and you~will be elected by ballot--"~ ~
939 XXI | immediate readiness to go~to the election--in short, above a hundred
940 XXV | the way he came," said an elector on hearing of~Albert Savaron'
941 XXI | writs for convening the~electoral bodies, and the day fixed
942 XVI | there is one class~that elects the deputies--the commercial
943 XI | and to a woman, a~strong element of fidelity to know that
944 XV | apply to you to make me~eligible? I concealed from you all
945 XI | father's name is~Colonna."~ ~Emboldened by Francesca's modest rank,
946 XVIII | girlish caressing voice! To embrace in my gaze that ivory skin,~
947 I | I~ ~Dedication~To Madame Emile Girardin.~ ~One of the few
948 XVI | promotion of several lawyers to eminent positions. But when I~remembered
949 XIII | carriage and~say with an emotion that is very intelligible, "
950 XII | no more, alas! than the emotions~of youth. To believe in
951 XIV | exclaimed Rodolphe, with bitter emphasis. "Claire de~Bourgogne, the
952 X | Frenchman, Frenchman!" said she, emphasizing her exclamation with~a little
953 V | Garcenault advised him to employ this Monsieur Albert Savaron,~
954 XX | subtlety~Rosalie must have employed in an underhand way.~ ~"
955 II | Besancon~the officials, the employes, the military, in short,
956 XV | myself to some~mechanical employment.'~ ~
957 XXVI | the greatest~difficulty in enabling the Baron to catch hold
958 XVII | very dangerous stage of enamored infatuation. The~Baroness
959 XIII | lightness of youth added an enchanting grace at this moment to~
960 XX | or low, some traces of an enclosure."~ ~For a century the Dent
961 | ending
962 XVII | Chavoncourt's; and as long as the endless evening lasted, she was~
963 XIII | Rodolphe, who would~find enemies in Francesca's father and
964 XV | everything was done by my energy--made me give up the pursuit
965 I | President was obliged to enforce silence. All~the townsfolk
966 XX | Watteville's business may be, by engaging~Girardet, and prompting
967 XIII | Rodolphe an impenetrable enigma,~of which the solution attracted
968 VI | Albert Savaron offered many enigmas to be solved.~ ~"Albert
969 XXII | they~would be the first to enjoy the right of profiting by
970 XVII | To lose the faculty of~enjoyment after earning the right
971 VI | one of restraint. If you enlighten them, you make~them demons
972 II | of being one of the most~enlightened of the nobility. His person
973 XVIII | in Paris. Though~I work enormously, the peacefulness of the
974 XIII | intoxication of such a moment~enslaves a man for life! A faint
975 XX | protect you against this enterprising Chantonnit. Why~should you
976 XXVI | great~splendor. Numerous entertainments given in honor of the marriage~
977 XI | discovered that Francesca was an enthusiast for Liberal ideas, and for~
978 XXI | combine the votes of the~enthusiasts and the patriots. Monsieur
979 V | old oak, and which I found entirely lined with~law-books, arranged
980 I | exclaimed with pleasure at the entrance of Monsieur~l'Abbe de Grancey,
981 XXI | touched by the~young man's entreaties, had been willing to become
982 VII | sooner forgotten because the envy of the other lawyers was~
983 XIII | importance is immense, as an epitome of the~past and as a link
984 XXVI | a little Gothic monument erected of~white marble, like that
985 VII | while choosing for the erection of this monument a spot
986 XXVII | only way to repair your errors, and reminded you of~the
987 I | at the Tuileries narrowly escaped being crushed by the crowd;
988 I | Swiss) was then borne as~an escutcheon of pretence on the old shield
989 XVII | too lavish effusion of its essence? For,~after all, at this
990 II | XIV. This little world is essentially of the~/parlement/, and
991 II | vou vu dans Barcelone~ ~C'est ma maitresse et ma lionne.~ ~
992 III | his rank in Besancon, and esteemed him highly~for it. Soulas
993 I | Lulli for the Chorus of Esther or of Athalie. Hoops,~introduced
994 XXII | counted, the candidates estimate their chances,~and clever
995 XXI | average~six votes, but in estimating their values they said ten,
996 II | Barcelone~ ~C'est ma maitresse et ma lionne.~ ~There has been
997 XVII | staking it at the Cercle des~Etrangers for the last time one night,
998 II | petit-maitre/ of discreditable etymology, have made~way for the "
999 I | more constant because it evades the tyranny of the~Custom-house.
1000 XXIV | reason assigned for his~evasion. By half-past eleven only