Chapter

 1 I    |                Oh! it is useless to say anything; I feel it, but
 2 I    |        minutes. Poor devil! he will say nothing.”~The inspector
 3 I    |             s ears. “What would you say, old woman, if I arrested
 4 I    |             said all that I have to say,” he replied, at last. “
 5 II   |            of any manufacturer, and say: “I would like to work.”
 6 II   |            a vagabond.”~“That is to say, a man belonging to the
 7 II   |          continued, “what would you say if I showed you that this
 8 II   |             It was not necessary to say any more. The elder officer
 9 III  |         nothing. However, who could say how low an unworthy passion
10 III  |        seems to me,” he ventured to say at last, “that this individual
11 III  |          who can, without boasting, say that I have good eyes—I
12 III  |       saying a great deal!”~“When I say everything, I mean all that
13 III  |            What do these footprints say to you, Papa Absinthe? To
14 III  |              his companion—I should say his accomplice—came here
15 IV   |              where? And what can we say? If we swear by all the
16 IV   |       investigating magistrate will say, ‘Let me see them.’ And
17 V    |           studied, one might almost say, with a magnifying glass.
18 V    |     investigating magistrate should say: “Let the officer who drew
19 VI   |          your regiment?”~“I can not say for certain: there are some
20 VI   |       consider what he was going to say, the brave trooper evidently
21 VI   |           of the search; that is to say, a minute description of
22 VI   |           fancies.”~Before he could say any more, the sound of a
23 VI   |           of his pale-blue eyes. To say that he was cold and grave,
24 VI   |          the ground, and strange to say he no longer experienced
25 VII  |           is shameful! What shall I say to my wife? What will the
26 VII  |             murmured.~“What did you say?” inquired the keeper.~“
27 VIII |             listen to all he had to say.~“As you may suppose,” continued
28 VIII |             bridge. It’s useless to say ‘no’; I’ve made up my mind,
29 VIII |          and women; for, strange to say, the Parisian fair sex is
30 IX   | Fontainebleau.”~“Eh! Why didn’t you say so at once? A messenger
31 IX   |             Without boasting, I may say that I haven’t an equal
32 IX   |            them so as to be able to say to me: ‘I didn’t see anything;
33 IX   |          longer young?”~“He did not say that.”~“Reflect a moment;
34 IX   |          told me so.”~“Oh, I didn’t say that, I’m sure, my good
35 IX   |              I’m not a sorceress; I say what I think.”~“Then you
36 X    |            speak the truth. As they say at the Palais de Justice,
37 X    |             will close her eyes and say to you, ‘No, it’s night.’
38 X    |         impossible for a culprit to say more than a few words in
39 X    |             and why I can’t exactly say where I was born.”~If truth
40 X    |          the prisoner’s armor. “You say you have lived in foreign
41 X    |             France; but what do you say in Germany?”~“Of course,
42 XI   |    significant ejaculation.~“When I say that he is on his way,”
43 XI   |     shoulders disdainfully. “So you say you were in Leipsic on Wednesday?
44 XI   |            their movements.”~“Did I say that?”~“Word for word; the
45 XI   |         least, he did not intend to say—that; they had quite misinterpreted
46 XI   |   statements of the physicians, who say that one of the shots must
47 XII  |          you believe nothing that I say? Only a moment ago you insinuated
48 XII  |           personage; so what need I say about my pretended accomplice?
49 XIV  |            am trying to teach it to say ‘Have you breakfasted?’
50 XIV  |          Yes, madame.”~“What did he say?”~“He was not in; but I
51 XIV  |           well preserved—that is to say, she was plump and healthy
52 XV   |           gay that year; that is to say, all places of public resort
53 XV   |         pleasantry too far. You may say that I have a solid fist
54 XVI  |             the person who dared to say that I knew Lacheneur.”~“
55 XVI  |            ordered your wife not to say anything about Lacheneur.
56 XVI  |             than anything you could say.”~She left the room—or rather
57 XVI  |          secret cell.” He is, so to say, cut off from the number
58 XVI  |          shuts out the sunlight, to say nothing of the guard who
59 XVII |            the jewel enabled her to say that she had seen this earring
60 XVII |        would have instructed him to say that the earring had never
61 XVII |     investigation which, strange to say, the police seldom employ,
62 XVIII|             little creatures—as you say—under a microscope, these
63 XIX  |              It shall be for you to say, gentlemen, whether I’m
64 XIX  |    murderers obstinately refused to say where they had concealed
65 XIX  |             though I may venture to say that in three days from
66 XIX  |      amazement.~“No, sir, I did not say that. I am satisfied that
67 XIX  |           with him proves.”~“I must say that’s my own opinion,”
68 XX   |            roadway, and, strange to say, exchanged a few remarks
69 XX   |             Absinthe. But who could say that May would not be aided
70 XX   |         mistake, this cousin was to say certain words—a countersign,
71 XX   |            of his cousins, began to say some peculiar words—the
72 XX   |      exclaimed Lecoq.~“What did you say?”~“Nothing that would interest
73 XX   |          would have been willing to say or do anything just then.
74 XX   |           May.”~“What did the woman say? Did you hear any cry of
75 XX   |             money or not?”~“I can’t say. They gesticulated like
76 XXI  |         Monsieur le Duc (he did not say “Monseigneur”) to inquire
77 XXI  |           by leaf, one might almost say. Occasionally the discouraged
78 XXII |      something about him.”~“I don’t say I haven’t been guilty of
79 XXII |           to go to M. Segmuller and say: ‘Forgive me: you have judged
80 XXIII|             superstitious, I should say he was the devil himself.”~
81 XXIII|        point! Lecoq, my boy, I must say that you have conducted
82 XXIII|          angel!”~“Don’t you mean to say like a fool?” asked the
83 XXIII|         with a horrible grimace. “I say that you have conducted
84 XXIV |           you do, I ask?”~“I should say to myself that a magistrate
85 XXIV |        absolutely neutral. I should say to myself others are trying
86 XXIV |               I don’t know; I can’t say now. But if I were placed
87 XXIV |     Escorval’s clerk. So they could say nothing. The magistrate
88 XXIV |     misfortunes; and he intended to say: ‘Yes, it’s I. There is
89 XXIV |             to cool down.”~“We will say no more about that, then.
90 XXIV |             word at all; you should say carelessness, thoughtlessness.
91 XXIV |           the accomplice—that is to say—to the solution of the mystery.’”~“
92 XXIV |          but I am consistent, and I say that it seems impossible
93 XXV  |             thought of what you now say, but I distrusted myself,
94 XXV  |            and I wanted to hear you say it yourself.” Then with