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1001 XX | remain a mystery till the eve of my election. Now, to~
1002 | everyone
1003 III | shapely enough. Her~face was exactly like those of Albert Durer'
1004 XXI | for men~always begin by exaggerating their own influence. Among
1005 IX | Leopold's boat, he~turned to examine the new house with stolen
1006 XXII | good care not to appoint~examiners the first day. There will
1007 XVI | admiration. I managed to save the examining~magistrate's pride by pointing
1008 IX | retired head-gardeners of His Excellency Count~Borromeo of Isola
1009 XIII | learning,~thanks to the excessively monotonous and almost monastic
1010 XIII | Italian women a feverish~excitability.~ ~"I am a Roman!" Francesca
1011 X | Francesca.~ ~"No. But do not excite yourself," replied Francesca
1012 IX | demanding such privation as this excites all the greater~compassion
1013 XIX | Steppes, then every~one must exclaim as Rosalie did.~ ~"We owe
1014 X | being a Frenchman, which excluded all distrust~of him. Francesca
1015 XXI | intimate allies.~They made excursions together to Granvelle, and
1016 XXVIII| So you have~no longer any excuse for not marrying young Monsieur
1017 XIX | use a vulgar phrase, and exerting a~preponderant influence
1018 XXII | your conscience!"~ ~This exordium was followed by profound
1019 XIII | Francesca? Was Francesca expecting each~instant to see Rodolphe?
1020 XXVIII| the real reason of this expedition is still unknown, for she
1021 XXVI | accompanied her in her expeditions.~As the Baroness' name-day
1022 XIX | considerable outlay; and this expenditure would benefit~the influential
1023 XXI | Monsieur de Chavoncourt's expenses in Paris. In the winter
1024 XXVII | conscience, asking me~how you may expiate your sins, and doing as
1025 XVII | uncompromising "No."~ ~She had expiated her sin by self-imposed
1026 XXII | I think that I ought to explain to you who and what your~
1027 XXVI | question of the marriage, by explaining to her that~it was vain
1028 XXVII | he could never obtain any explanation from this~woman, who must
1029 IX | or horses and guides to explore the neighborhood.~ ~Poverty
1030 VI | thinking, you end~in the sudden explosion so well shown by Moliere
1031 II | a flat nose, and brown expressionless eyes; nothing Spanish about
1032 II | are all spoken of by the expressive general name of /the Colony/.
1033 XXIV | second daughter Sidonie, exquisitely dressed, while her elder
1034 XVI | a torment of that kind, extending over four~years. How many
1035 XIX | this park and house was extensive,~but badly cultivated; there
1036 II | spendthrift, recklessly~extravagant, whereas the poor man made
1037 XX | parties without~coming to extremities; it stood as a sort of party
1038 II | contraction of his cheek, and eye-socket, the chief towns of some~
1039 II | his waistcoats and his eyeglass,~maintained in its place,
1040 IX | eyes of fire, Armenian eyelids~with lashes of very un-British
1041 XIII | raillery~with a readiness, a facility, which makes her the charming
1042 XIX | les Rouxey to a sort of factotum, an old servant of the~Wattevilles
1043 XX | gravely, "and agree as to the facts. At your desire--for I have
1044 XXII | clever men can prophesy their failure or success. It is a decent~
1045 XXVI | falsely~representing him as faithless, and she had answered the
1046 XIX | uniting a few yards below the falls, formed a lovely little~
1047 XIX | prospect of this~struggle had fanned her passion and her evil
1048 V | library on the most frugal~fare; but on this occasion, as
1049 II | was the son of one of his farmers, a small servant aged~fourteen,
1050 XXII | of fervor,~interest, and fascination. This whirlwind carried
1051 II | person was garnished with fashionable~trinkets, and his head furnished
1052 XXII | Abbe de Grancey, held him fast, and clasped him~closely,
1053 XVII | self-imposed penances; she fasted, she~mortified herself by
1054 XIV | her. In the course of this fateful night, the power of swift~
1055 XXVI | said the Baron.~ ~"When fathers do not know what ails their
1056 XIII | Were my feet made for fatigue?" she added, putting out
1057 XX | one~to be an ally of your Faubourg Saint-Germain."~ ~"What!
1058 IV | But these qualities--or~faults, if you will have it so--
1059 XXI | aunt's god-~daughter and favorite niece. Consequently, young
1060 XXVI | father's death, and she feared another disaster, much~greater
1061 XXVIII| her face is marked with fearful scars,~which have bereft
1062 XXVI | is nineteen, and she is fearfully~altered in these last months."~ ~"
1063 VIII | proud of him, though still~fearing a catastrophe if ever a
1064 III | by the~Baroness, and to feast her mind with the sins she
1065 XXVIII| XXV~III~In the month of February 1838 Rosalie, who was eagerly
1066 I | were not averse to good feeding were very~much at home at
1067 XIII | the~expression of their feelings--"what is extraordinary in
1068 XII | understand each other, the heart feels delicious~peace, supreme
1069 XIX | and he~took his clients' fees without comment. But this
1070 XXI | You are betrayed, my dear fellow," said the shrewd and worthy
1071 II | the untidiness of their fellow-townsmen.~ ~Thus, in 1834, Besancon
1072 XIV | bastard branch, and that a female line."~ ~"At any rate, she
1073 XIX | hills~he enclosed in a ring fence, and built himself a retreat
1074 XIII | see now, like~Coppet and Ferney."~ ~"You cannot tell me
1075 XIX | Dent de Vilard. But this ferocious old~man was so widely dreaded,
1076 XXII | skill and of feeling, of fervor,~interest, and fascination.
1077 X | thought him cold."~ ~She fetched him some salts, and revived
1078 XIV | him, or of bursting the fetters of Besancon~society by introducing
1079 II | gesture, are started those feuds between house and~house,
1080 XVII | moisture on his palms, such a fevered tumult in his brain,~such
1081 VI | committed herself to a dozen fibs in order to find herself,
1082 XIII | Rodolphe.~ ~"Can she be fickle?" he asked himself as he
1083 VII | knew mademoiselle to be so fidgety," said~Mariette.~ ~"It strikes
1084 XXVII | Rosalie shook her head fiercely.~ ~"To your mother," the
1085 XV | faithful to the~fallen, and fighting for them, without them.
1086 VIII | given him so many proofs of filial affection,--~Monsieur de
1087 II | sent thither from Paris to fill a post of any kind,~are
1088 X | words to Gina, whose eyes filled with tears. The two~girls
1089 XIII | was bound with a golden fillet. Her face, in the light
1090 XVI | my life~is dedicate, who fills it wholly, who is the mainspring
1091 XXVI | appeal, so the decision is~final."~ ~"It has never occurred
1092 VII | name in~front; he left the finance of the concern to his chief
1093 XII | Secretary of State to the financial department of the humble
1094 II | stranger, no intruder, ever~finds his way into one of these
1095 XVIII | noble mind! To admire your fingers playing on the keys, to~
1096 XV | which had slipped through my fingers--~thinking of my crushed
1097 XII | Rodolphe, as he saw Francesca finish~reading the last letter.~ ~"/
1098 VII | received this baptism of fire--a fine expression of~Napoleon'
1099 XX | politics, while~admiring his firmness.~ ~"Ah! I would have dragged
1100 XIX | and were caught in the firs and larches, rolling up
1101 XXII | these battles with their fists, the French~with hard words.
1102 XVIII | angel, forgive me my next fit of sadness in~consideration
1103 XI | Rodolphe had an awning fitted~to his boat and cushions
1104 II | twenty-five francs, and~trousers fitting close to the boots. How
1105 XXIV | Ministries!"~--"The Duc de Fitz-James is to be nominated at Toulouse."--"
1106 II | Amedee was a young man of five-and-twenty, of medium height,~dark,
1107 XXVI | authorities of Riceys~by fixing the boundary line at three
1108 XX | capable of flinging fire and~flames broadcast, particularly
1109 XIV | out like a swan, its flag flaming, its crimson awning spread
1110 V | cord, red slippers, a red flannel waistcoat, and~a red smoking-cap."~ ~"
1111 III | while laying himself out to~flatter Mademoiselle de Watteville'
1112 XI | my birth? Must your love flaunt a coat-of-arms? At Milan~
1113 XV | who combined to cheat and fleece me--me, though~everything
1114 XXVII | she~had left when Albert flew thither, she had left instructions~
1115 XXVII | Did you, or did you not, fling these~words in her teeth?"~ ~"
1116 XX | stubborn; she is capable of flinging fire and~flames broadcast,
1117 III | have allowed himself some flirtations among the grisettes of~Besancon
1118 IV | everyone of his~acquaintance, flirted in strict propriety with
1119 XIX | of the upper valley thus flooded,~through which there had
1120 XV | birth a Princess Soderini, a~Florentine, a very great lady, and
1121 XVIII | sweet as your~soul! Oh! flower of heaven, perpetually adored,
1122 VII | was then the~fashion for flower-stands, with a looking-glass against
1123 XX | two hills, "I shall~cut flowerbeds and make the loveliest English
1124 VII | Besancon should~become a focus of enlightenment as well
1125 XX | right of grazing and cutting fodder on their side of the~Dent
1126 XX | is Monsieur de Soulas a foe to thought?" asked Rosalie.~ ~"
1127 XXIV | over his spectacles. He folded up the letter, and calmly
1128 XII | snowy peaks and their~hard folds standing clearly out against
1129 XIII | The road to Eaux-Vives follows the shore of the lake, and,
1130 VIII | existence to a woman he fondly loved and to Rodolphe. Thus
1131 XXI | The heiress is not~such a fool as her mother thinks her."~ ~
1132 XIV | protection of luck--the god of fools--has been~denied. And this
1133 XV | Italy, but it is not paid for--to a Milanese lady at her~
1134 VII | schemes on her brow, and forbid her going to confession,
1135 XXVIII| returned~home in a state which forbids her ever appearing in society
1136 XXVIII| imitating her~grand-uncle by forcing the walls of the monastery
1137 XXVII | mother should consent to forego~her claims on les Rouxey.
1138 XV | articles, I was in despair; I foresaw my fate, at the~age of thirty-seven,
1139 XIV | subjected could neither foresee nor prevent. She~dreamed
1140 XXVII | everything dies. Albert, foreseeing that I should go to~him,
1141 XI | name; she had, no doubt, foreseen that I should ask Gina--~
1142 V | Monsieur Albert Savaron,~foretelling our success. As soon as
1143 XXVIII| wills.~ ~The event he had foretold took place. In the month
1144 V | half-witted peasant accused of forgery.~But Monsieur Savaron procured
1145 XXII | hands hanging limp, in a forlorn attitude~worthy of the Magdalen.
1146 XIII | through the ceremonial~of a formal introduction to Princess
1147 VII | against the wall, an~ottoman forming a box, and a table of inlaid
1148 XVI | and accustomed my~mind to formulate its ideas in words. And
1149 VII | Madame de Watteville,~who forthwith went to look at the columns.~ ~
1150 XXII | to gain, within the last fortnight, two~staunch supporters--
1151 VII | Besancon, he~was starting a fortnightly paper, called the /Eastern
1152 XV | who~has one of the largest fortunes in Lombardy. Their villa
1153 XXVIII| Soulas had an income of forty-eight thousand francs from her
1154 XV | Eastern Review/ was no doubt forwarded to Albert's~lady-love.~ ~"
1155 XXII | battle was led by him and fought by his lieutenants--a~battle
1156 VII | the kiosk on a~concrete foundation, that it may not be damp."~ ~"
1157 XV | enterprise, on which I had founded all my hopes, and which
1158 VII | share of the profits as founder. The commercial~interest
1159 III | did~not spend more than four-and-twenty thousand francs a year,
1160 II | to Victor Hugo, Nodier, Fourier, the glories of the town,
1161 XIII | the cloister, being the~fourth child of Prince and Princess
1162 X | so slender as to appear fragile. An amber~paleness overspread
1163 VIII | that after reading the fragment to the end she was~certain
1164 I | treasured shells and geological fragments of the~neighborhood of Besancon.
1165 VII | Mademoiselle de Watteville in the frame of mind produced by her~
1166 XIV | with~the royal family of France--"~ ~"Oh! of a bastard branch,
1167 XVI | most famous~advocate of Franche-Comte.~ ~"But I bury my life in
1168 XXVIII| eighteen hundred thousand francs-- embroidered on~Mademoiselle
1169 XV | giving them up. Oh,~what frantic letters I wrote at that
1170 V | effort that~it needed a freak of the President's to bring
1171 III | shadow on her cheeks. A few freckles~marred the whiteness of
1172 XIV | snatched a kiss.~But she freed herself by a dignified movement
1173 X | Rodolphe was the adorable~freedom, the Italian frankness of
1174 XIII | which come so naturally to Frenchmen in the~expression of their
1175 VIII | born grown up."~ ~This fine frenzy, carefully directed, enabled
1176 VIII | him as a boarder, a very frequent custom in~Switzerland. They
1177 XXVIII| the man of the world, the friar would have been~rejected
1178 XVIII | mortified vanity, the perpetual friction of Paris~life, the struggle
1179 III | excepting on Mondays and Fridays, she~accompanied Madame
1180 XVII | characters, their various~friendships and antipathies. Did ever
1181 IV | reservations are the /chevaux de frise/~behind which weakness takes
1182 III | and the /Patriot/, which~frisked in the hands of the Republicans.
1183 XII | been the slightest shade of frivolity in~Francesca's conduct.
1184 II | remarkable men by means of these~frivolous advantages, which a man
1185 IV | was~dressed in a muslin frock, her hair plainly dressed,
1186 IV | her silk. The cut of her frocks,~made at Besancon, almost
1187 XVI | arise to bring him to~the front--some unpaid defence, or
1188 V | his library on the most frugal~fare; but on this occasion,
1189 II | breakfasted with remarkable frugality. When he was positively
1190 IX | hothouse. The flowers, the fruit,~and the botanical rarities
1191 XII | on their minds the most fugitive details of that~unique hour.
1192 XVI | had~a difficult task to fulfil; I did my utmost for the
1193 VII | Vicar-General's words in their~fullest extent. Yes, those eyes
1194 XX | lawsuit is really great fun. It brings some interest
1195 III | resent being amused, and~are furious at having been made to laugh.
1196 V | s; a splendid forehead,~furrowed by the strong median line
1197 IV | time. Her mother, pale with fury, sent her to her room, where
1198 II | lionne.~ ~There has been a fusion--or, if you prefer it, a
1199 XII | our youth, even the most~futile, is of use. If my wife had
1200 XIII | gifts in women is a certain gaiety which does not~detract from
1201 XXI | advantage you~would have gained--"~ ~"What?"~ ~"The unanimous
1202 XVII | Oh! my dear Leopold, no gambler with the last remains of
1203 II | for food, amusements, and gambling. He very often dined out,
1204 XVII | playing my last card in the game of ambition. Alas! my dear~
1205 XIII | family. The Colonnas and Gandolphinis had always~intermarried.~ ~
1206 V | to Besancon, Monsieur de~Garcenault advised him to employ this
1207 II | nobility. His person was garnished with fashionable~trinkets,
1208 X | leaned against one of the gate-posts contemplating the beautiful~
1209 VII | courtyard, and through the~gates, Rosalie's heart beat, as
1210 XIII | stuff of her dress and the gauze of her scarf. But~when,
1211 IV | sometimes skips~over two generations. We have an illustrious
1212 XIII | you could know with what~generosity he risked his life and fortune
1213 XXI | the representation of the generous~sentiments they so little
1214 XI | advantage of the liberty he so generously gives me; but three years
1215 XXV | and from that to~Monsieur Gentillet, who sold him the old traveling
1216 XXIV | threatened now burst. Some of the gentlemen sat down to cards, finding~
1217 VIII | spirit~of rectitude, his gentleness, and the coolness of his
1218 XI | fulfilment?" he asked.~ ~She gently bent her head. Two large
1219 XVII | passion was mingled with genuine~asceticism, and was all
1220 III | knowledge to have learned geography from~Guthrie, sacred history,
1221 I | Watteville treasured shells and geological fragments of the~neighborhood
1222 XXVI | contradicted~some system of geology, Monsieur de Watteville
1223 IV | example of this~phenomenon in George Sand, in whom are resuscitated
1224 VII | whose deep gaze,~whose very gestures, combine to express a devastating
1225 XIV | I shall see him when he gets up; perhaps he will come
1226 XIII | and English."~ ~"Even some Gevenese?"~ ~"Yes, monsieur, our
1227 II | advanced ideas." Amedee had the gift of~uttering with the gravity
1228 XIV | attempts of a young man gifted with fine qualities, but
1229 I | damask, the carpets, the gilt furniture,~were all in harmony
1230 XI | foreseen that I should ask Gina--~she is so cunning.--What
1231 XI | so well depicted in the /Gioconda/. This smile made~Rodolphe
1232 I | Dedication~To Madame Emile Girardin.~ ~One of the few drawing-rooms
1233 XIII | himself, justifying this girl-wife.~ ~"She has no taint of
1234 XIII | Francesca the imprudence of girlhood, the true nature of~a woman
1235 XI | as coquettish, as gay, as glad, as a child which~knows
1236 II | Prince Talleyrand would gladly have mastered to use at
1237 XXIV | said he to himself, after glancing at~the girl over his spectacles.
1238 I | 1815. The chandeliers of glass cut in the shape of~leaves,
1239 XIV | look at the~fascinating gleam which shone through Albert'
1240 X | arm, and their whiteness~gleamed against his black coat.
1241 VI | she had seen from her~bed, gleaming through the trees of the
1242 VI | pleasure in gazing at the glimmer from the lawyer's candles
1243 XVIII | my gaze that ivory skin,~glistening under the candlelight, and
1244 XIV | and felt in her heart a gnawing desire~to fight for him,
1245 XVII | my idol.~ ~"To reach the goal and die, like the runner
1246 XXI | Victoire was this aunt's god-~daughter and favorite niece.
1247 XXIV | Chavoncourt and the Abbe de Godenars, another Vicar-General,~
1248 IX | origin. The child had the~golden-brown color of a Havana cigar,
1249 XXIV | the foot of the wall.~ ~"Gone--in a post-chaise, mademoiselle."~ ~"
1250 XVI | diplomas, and I went to bid you good-bye. The mail coach dropped~
1251 II | worthy of the garrison, a good-natured, fat, rubicund face,~a flat
1252 XXI | cold, calm, and grave.~ ~"Good-night, Monsieur l'Abbe," said
1253 VII | supposed to be a witless goose, had simply made up her
1254 Add | Beauseant, Vicomtesse de~Father Goriot~The Deserted Woman~ ~Genovese~
1255 XIII | said to Rodolphe.~"It is a gossiping town. Though I am far above
1256 VIII | projected journey to Saint-~Gothard, on the strength of a single
1257 XXVI | the Baroness had a little Gothic monument erected of~white
1258 IV | diseases. Thus talent, like the gout, sometimes skips~over two
1259 XXII | those men who are~born to govern society at large than a
1260 II | short, every one engaged~in governing it, sent thither from Paris
1261 V | a black merino dressing-~gown tied with a red cord, red
1262 XIII | outside Italy. Under the graces of a woman she conceals
1263 XIII | his way to the Prince, who~graciously led him to his wife. Rodolphe
1264 I | cut her across the bosom, gradually~descended till it reached
1265 XXII | the silence like little grains of sand dropping on a~big
1266 II | Beauffremont, the de Scey, and the Gramont families, with a few others~
1267 IV | reappeared in the soul of his grand-niece, reinforced by the~tenacity
1268 XXVIII| dreams of imitating her~grand-uncle by forcing the walls of
1269 IV | Marechal de Saxe, whose~natural granddaughter she is.~ ~The decisive character
1270 XIII | plain folks to aspire to~grandeur?" she asked, with a mischievous
1271 XII | sky, the woman, all were grandiose and suave,~even their love
1272 I | all Madame~de Watteville's grandparents were dead, and their estates
1273 XXI | father-in-law; of Monsieur Granet, the influential man to~
1274 IX | permission~was not immediately granted. The retired gardeners asked,
1275 X | polished arms of a statue grasped Rodolphe's arm, and their
1276 Add | Bachelor's Establishment~Pierre Grassou~A Start in Life~The Government
1277 IX | poor to allow himself any~gratifications, and very rarely went out;
1278 IX | dressing himself carefully to gratify the old gardeners of the~
1279 XX | long~enjoyed the right of grazing and cutting fodder on their
1280 XIII | my country, to be rich,~great--that you may be as proud
1281 XVII | course, she exaggerated the greatness, remarkable as it~was, of
1282 XXI | men of whom, in the Rue de Grenelle, the Minister~of the Interior
1283 XXVII | the Grand Chartreuse near Grenoble. You know, better~than I
1284 VIII | private joys, their private griefs, or the~mysterious events
1285 XIII | my rival, but that would~grieve the /Diva/ too deeply.' "~ ~ ~
1286 XIII | Colonna."~ ~"I should be grieved to see you without such
1287 X | ray of brightness on his grieving heart. Her smiles~flung
1288 X | with~a little incredulous grimace.~ ~"Shall I not be forced
1289 XXII | Nothing could resist the slow grinding of the Prefecture. Three
1290 VI | Monsieur de Watteville, who groaned as~bitterly as his daughter
1291 XVII | to her, not without many groans over this treachery, a letter~
1292 II | francs.~Add to this the groom, or tiger, the horses, a
1293 XII | without love.~ ~The boat grounded; Rodolphe sprang on to the
1294 I | drawing-room fire, and the men in groups by the~windows, every one
1295 XXVI | his~health, and who was growing fat, accompanied her in
1296 XXI | her~ends.~ ~"My daughter grows quite charming!" said Madame
1297 XIX | nature, abandoned to chance growths, but full of sublime and~
1298 X | several~times; "I owe her no grudge, do not scold her. The happiness
1299 XI | enough to make a young~man guard himself against every evil
1300 VIII | faithful young notary, a guardian, a comrade, who might to
1301 XXVII | enlightenment,~counsel, and guidance, you chose to act in your
1302 IX | the~lake, or horses and guides to explore the neighborhood.~ ~
1303 VIII | him mere desire became a guiding force and the motive power
1304 IV | without discovering it, so~guileless was she. Thus young Monsieur
1305 I | Monsieur de Watteville, guilelessly.~ ~"At Besancon," replied
1306 III | ecstasy, the same severe guilelessness.~Everything about her, even
1307 XXVII | him happiness~in another guise. You, monsieur, who have
1308 XXI | when he~hears the first gun fired for a battle. He raised
1309 III | have learned geography from~Guthrie, sacred history, ancient
1310 XXVI | treated herself to a riding habit and rode about;~her father,
1311 XVI | my aims. I~have adopted habits which prevent my accepting
1312 IV | IV~She habitually wore simple checked cotton
1313 II | finest man in Besancon.~A hairdresser who waited upon him at a
1314 XII | so easy, so affable, so~hale, Rodolphe scented some mystification,
1315 XI | Francesca's~dignity. Gina, her half-grown-up /confidante/, also seemed
1316 XXI | preferred the triumph of his half-hearted opinions~to the acclamation
1317 VI | age, goes~forth to meet half-way. What an ideal being was
1318 V | defend at the Assizes a half-witted peasant accused of forgery.~
1319 XXII | as he went home from the hall where his fate was at stake.
1320 II | head furnished with ideas hall-marked by the press.~ ~In 1834
1321 VI | said she. "A prelate's hands----" she went~on to herself. "
1322 XXVI | folk of~Besancon.~ ~After handsomely paying up the ninety thousand
1323 XV | far more exacting than the handsomest.~ ~If the night-scene in
1324 V | been speaking, seemed to hang on his lips.~ ~
1325 XVI | de Boulogne! These wasted~harangues have at any rate sharpened
1326 XI | better to be frank than to harbor cold or hostile feelings
1327 IV | Rosalie, a little too~much harried, morally, about young de
1328 XXII | sounded on his door; Albert~hastened to open it, and almost fainted
1329 II | leather top-boots, a shiny hat with black lacing, and brass
1330 IV | struggle had stirred up some hatred between the~mother and daughter,
1331 II | solemn, uncompromising, haughty~beyond all comparison, even
1332 IX | golden-brown color of a Havana cigar, eyes of fire, Armenian
1333 IX | Madame Bergmann, the retired head-gardeners of His Excellency Count~
1334 VIII | austere solitudes and charming~headlands, smiling and trimly kept
1335 XXII | wished to get into their heads:~ ~Was it not far better
1336 XVII | there are days when I feel~a heady languor; deep disgust surges
1337 XIV | heart, to have his bruises healed and his~courage revived
1338 XXII | future. This address held his hearers breathless, it was said.
1339 XXI | general may have when he~hears the first gun fired for
1340 XXII | eloquence that flowed at boiling heat from the heart and soul
1341 V | floor. The ante-room stove heats~this library as well. As
1342 XXVII | that is touching, that is heavenly in the story~of the youthful
1343 XXVI | de Watteville had dined~heavily, digestion was in progress,
1344 XIII | Francesca knew~Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. The charming creature perfectly
1345 XIV | herself. But he did not heed the warning, and~detected
1346 XXVIII| Watteville, the famous Besancon~heiress----"~ ~The Duchess turned
1347 XIX | the Dent de Vilard.~ ~His heirs asserted their protectorate
1348 XVI | Napoleon suffered, not at Saint Helena, but on the Quay of the~
1349 XXVI | that called the tomb of Heloise at Pere-Lachaise.~ ~A month
1350 XXVI | shock to the digestion was helping to kill the poor man.~ ~
1351 IV | Watteville, who~was strong in heraldic information. "The Savarons
1352 IV | precisely like what are known~as hereditary diseases. Thus talent, like
1353 | herein
1354 VIII | mother had recourse to a heroic measure.~She sold everything
1355 XIV | she did not--"~ ~"Did not hesitate, you would say, to bury
1356 XVII | she~finally decided, after hesitating for an hour between Yes
1357 IV | Savaron~was received without hesitation by the lawyers of the town.
1358 XVI | sat for five months like a~hibernating marmot.~ ~"My name had,
1359 XII | which a man of good breeding hides~his real feelings.~ ~"Here
1360 XVII | necessarily goes unpunished, the high-minded Albert~could esteem her.
1361 VIII | before him like one of the highroads~that cross the plains of
1362 XIX | Between two precipitous hills--little peaks with bare summits
1363 XIII | the configuration of the hilly ground, there is~scarcely
1364 II | thirty-six francs a month to keep himself--a sum that~seemed enormous
1365 III | The editor took the hint, and thenceforth spoke the
1366 Add | the Absolute~ ~Schinner, Hippolyte~The Purse~A Bachelor's Establishment~
1367 I | descended till it reached the hips.~ ~
1368 IX | Lovelaces could not afford to hire boats to row on the~lake,
1369 VII | their~articles, the lawyer hit on the good idea of suggesting
1370 IV | not abide him, to~use a homely phrase, and when he spoke
1371 XV | perfectly respectable;~Jerome honestly means to marry me--"~ ~"
1372 XIV | highly for her bigotry, her~honesty, and long service, and she
1373 VII | grow, iris, clematis, ivy,~honeysuckle, and Virginia creeper. The
1374 I | of Esther or of Athalie. Hoops,~introduced at Paris by
1375 III | perhaps~have been all the more hopeful with the strict and prudish
1376 XXI | evening, take the bull by the horns,~anticipate the blow. Tell
1377 V | curls, hair as stiff as horse-~hair; a round white throat
1378 IV | waistcoats, wore out so~many horseshoes and stays--for he wore a
1379 I | this is reciprocal. The hostility of the two~nations is suspended
1380 IX | the~lady, thanks to his hosts' loquacity; for they were
1381 XX | Thus it required all the hot~blast by which the revolution
1382 IX | their house, and had built a hothouse. The flowers, the fruit,~
1383 IX | to ask leave to visit the hothouses and~gardens, which were
1384 II | waited upon him at a fixed hour--another luxury,~costing
1385 II | done honor to a thrifty~housewife. At Besancon in those days
1386 XIV | whimsical schemes,~round which hovers the imagination of most
1387 XI | could but~know with what hues you have clothed the chain
1388 II | drawing-rooms to shame. As~to Victor Hugo, Nodier, Fourier, the glories
1389 XI | haughtiness, "a reflection on the~humbleness of my birth? Must your love
1390 Add | Mistress~The Unconscious Humorists~ ~Tinti, Clarina~Massimilla
1391 VI | eating nothing?"~ ~"I am not hungry, mamma," said she. "A prelate'
1392 XXVIII| estate of les~Rouxey, riding, hunting, refusing two or three offers
1393 XV | wandered about, gloomy and hurt, through the lonely~places
1394 VII | francs a quarter.~ ~To avoid hurting the conceit of the provincials
1395 XXII | success. It is a decent~hustings, without the mob, but formidable;
1396 XIII | She has no taint of hypocrisy, and is carried away by
1397 XVII | political career,'~replied I hypocritically, 'it would be to devote
1398 XIX | thought she. "Ah! if it were I--I~would give up everything
1399 I | enjoyed the profoundest ignorance; but as his wife was a red-haired~
1400 XIII | know whether he would be ignored and repelled. He asked for~
1401 II | II~Within ten years England
1402 XIII | express this truth by an image which has~been pre-eminently
1403 Add | Clerks~Modeste Mignon~The Imaginary Mistress~The Unconscious
1404 IV | force, the~power, and the imaginative faculty of the Marechal
1405 VIII | wished for~things as a poet imagines, as a mathematician calculates,
1406 XX | frontier of Switzerland, and to immortalize his term of~office. Chantonnit,
1407 XXVIII| daughter, to soften the impact of those two iron wills.~ ~
1408 II | till~death, and widen the impassable gulf which parts the two
1409 V | gentle, patient and yet~impatient, broad and yet hollow. I
1410 XIII | woman were to Rodolphe an impenetrable enigma,~of which the solution
1411 XI | she cried, abandoning her imperial manner.~ ~"I have now no
1412 XXIV | regard such delay as an impertinence.~ ~"My dear Baroness," said
1413 VIII | inconceivable violence and impetus of thought~after the object
1414 XXII | pride on that brow; it is~implacable; she would never forgive
1415 XXIII | Vicar-General would not be implicated~in a scheme which at last
1416 XI | three years of~married life imply acceptance of its laws.
1417 VIII | a~Parisian who had thus imported into the province the manner,
1418 XXVIII| break the law of~oblivion I imposed on myself when I entered
1419 VII | clients, on whom he had impressed the necessity for~promoting
1420 XIV | who seemed to give his own impressions; and~truth, even if unskilled,
1421 XVI | caged eagles suffer, and imprisoned lions!--They suffer what~
1422 XXVI | she was taking steps to improve the value of les~Rouxey,
1423 XXVIII| and busying~herself with improving her land, was regarded as
1424 XIII | discerned in Francesca the imprudence of girlhood, the true nature
1425 VI | the~Chapter of Besancon imprudently allowed himself to sketch
1426 XXVIII| pretensions /a la/ de Rupt, her inappropriate pride,~or even her rather
1427 XI | French you would call it inartistic. It is~better to be frank
1428 XVII | knew of her crime, infamous~inasmuch as it necessarily goes unpunished,
1429 VII | when the Watteville family inaugurated the Belvedere,~Savaron also
1430 XXVIII| own~lands, and was quite incapable of alienating them in order
1431 XVII | who have been preserved by incessant~struggles. Oh, my Life!
1432 XIII | It~was perhaps of these incidental rivets that Bossuet spoke
1433 IV | Thus, to all her mother's incitement she replied merely~by such
1434 VII | home.~This third number included a tale signed "A. S.," and
1435 XIV | probably had by this time, including compound interest and~her
1436 IX | a hundred francs a month inclusive. In Gersau it was generally~
1437 XI | subject," said she, with incomparable dignity of~gesture, expression,
1438 III | thenceforth spoke the most~incomprehensible philosophical lingo. His
1439 VIII | his~mother, he dashed with inconceivable violence and impetus of
1440 XXII | commonplace deputy, however~incorruptible, is but a conscience. What
1441 XXIII | marry, is not capable of increasing his wealth.~Though Vauchelles
1442 X | exclamation with~a little incredulous grimace.~ ~"Shall I not
1443 II | gifts to our language.~The /Incroyable/, the /Merveilleux/, the /
1444 XIV | has been~denied. And this indefatigable wrestler, upheld by love,
1445 XIV | letter, in which the mind indemnified itself for the reserve required~
1446 XIII | souls admiration is~not independent of a certain penetration.
1447 VII | to his clothing, had the indescribable stamp~which can only be
1448 IX | have brought her from the Indies," said Madame Bergmann.~ ~"
1449 XVIII | dress. Can it be a matter of~indifference to me to know what you wear?
1450 XIX | deal more. The Baron in his indifference--for his wife was to~have,
1451 VIII | men met the glance thus indifferently given by the unknown fair.~ ~"
1452 X | wooden bench.~ ~"Am I very indiscreet in asking how old you are,
1453 XXI | pray keep the secret of my indiscretion--if he is returned~deputy,
1454 XVI | this mortgage,~which is indispensable.~ ~
1455 XXIV | secure of her lover, had not indulged in any of the arts of the~
1456 XIV | and~Francesca, the only indulgence they allowed themselves.~ ~
1457 XIV | politics what commercial industry had~refused him; but before
1458 XXI | to trust to the~force of inertia and to Providence. Monsieur
1459 XIV | his~capital; but he, an inexperienced youth, had to contend against~
1460 XXIII | to my~electors, they are infallible."~ ~"And who on earth has
1461 XVII | if he knew of her crime, infamous~inasmuch as it necessarily
1462 VIII | sensitiveness.~From his infancy he had in everything shown
1463 XVII | dangerous stage of enamored infatuation. The~Baroness was much pleased
1464 XX | which the revolution of 1830 inflamed the advocates of the~people,
1465 XXVIII| what terrible blow he had inflicted on the~beautiful Duchesse
1466 VI | Saint-Pierre, and~managed so ingeniously that the hour of her confession
1467 XIV | the~solitude to which some injudicious mothers confine them, they
1468 XXVIII| Watteville was so severely injured that she lost her~right
1469 VII | forming a box, and a table of inlaid bark. Monsieur de Soulas~
1470 XVII | carries with it a shred of my inmost life. At~every fresh effort
1471 VIII | prepared for them at the Swan Inn, the~friends walked round
1472 XVIII | amber in whose heart an insect lives for ever in~unchanging
1473 XVI | tortured cock-chafers,~the poor insects had one form of struggle
1474 IV | her daughter of perfect insensibility. Rosalie knew~her mother
1475 VII | Baroness desired that the~inside should be lined with rustic
1476 III | figure, fair, colorless, and insignificant to the last degree.~Her
1477 V | and appealing, sometimes~insinuating, but a voice of thunder
1478 XXVI | that is all."~ ~"If you insist on the plain truth, I will
1479 IV | said the Baroness.~ ~"You insisted on her learning heraldry,"
1480 XIII | charged with the~full, insistent will which is concentrated
1481 XV | under~the reservations /she/ insists on. I did not tell you,
1482 XX | can only be settled after~inspection of the localities," said
1483 XVIII | suddenly felt the~flash of inspiration which lifts the poet above
1484 XIII | gratitude which roused her instinctive nobleness.~The situation
1485 XXII | she would never forgive an insult! It is the Archangel~Michael,
1486 XVI | he could have quelled the insurrection; as~he actually did, on
1487 XXI | and~the resources of his intellect. He entered the room well,
1488 IX | on whom she waited very~intelligently, and had settled, two winters
1489 XIII | an emotion that is very intelligible, "To the Villa~Jeanrenaud--
1490 VII | columns for a~Belvedere he intends to erect on the heap of
1491 XXVI | father, I imagine, has no intention of making me marry~against
1492 XXVI | Mademoiselle de Watteville had~intercepted Albert's letters to the
1493 XIII | Gandolphinis had always~intermarried.~ ~From the age of nine
1494 XIII | is stronger than in the intermediate loops of rings. This~recognition
1495 XII | of Nature, whose glories, interpreted by the glory in their hearts,~
1496 XX | Rosalie?" asked her mother,~interrupting her reflections. "Monsieur
1497 XXI | for their meetings, is an interval~during which ordinary vitality
1498 IV | reappear in families at long intervals, precisely like what are
1499 III | himself the very smallest~intrigue? He lived a public life,
1500 I | Esther or of Athalie. Hoops,~introduced at Paris by an Englishwoman,
1501 XIV | fetters of Besancon~society by introducing Albert to the drawing-room
1502 XXVIII| fashions, easily obtained introductions to the best society. The~