Chapter

1501 I    |                  full of puddles and deep holes, and obstructed with all
1502 XX   |                 the better class taking a holiday.~His tread, hitherto firm
1503 XVII |                This individual was an old Hollander, named Van Numen, who as
1504 I    |                   not so much flattery as homage to a recognized and established
1505 I    |              became the haunt of numerous homeless vagabonds, and escaped criminals
1506 XIV  |                 were ended, was hastening homeward or in search of pleasure.~
1507 IV   |                   The plaster united in a homogeneous mass, forming a perfect
1508 X    |                truth: answer my questions honestly without reserve.”~“As for
1509 IX   |                    with downcast eyes and honeyed voice, she looked so unlike
1510 XVII |             hurried to the Faubourg Saint Honore, to the house formerly occupied
1511 VI   |                 body or mind. He was very hopeful of success. He had every
1512 XVII |                  do? Was the case utterly hopeless? Not yet. Had not the spurious
1513 XX   |                   was lovely, and, on the horizon, the youthful foliage of
1514 VII  |                   as a test, one of those horribly thick, bluish, nauseous
1515 XVIII|       communication!” he repeated, with a horrified air.~Quick as lightning,
1516 I    |                   open the door. Then the horror-stricken accent of the man who had
1517 XXI  |                with the exception of some horse-chestnuts at the rear of the garden,
1518 XIV  |                   and servants of various hostelries surrounding the station
1519 XXV  |                   unpopular measures. The hostility he encountered, however
1520 XIV  |                   my meals at her table d’hote. Casimir, my secretary,
1521 I    |               Tables, glasses, decanters, household utensils, and stools had
1522 XXI  |                their daily toil, and with housewives intent on purchasing provisions
1523 IV   |                   already. He has gone to hover round the party; he has
1524 I    |              second cry, or rather a wild howl, resounded.~“Ah!” exclaimed
1525 II   |              Widow Chupin, who fought and howled as if they were burning
1526 XXI  |                  had armed himself with a huge pistol, and who would not
1527 XXII |                 the Prefecture de Police, humbly begged employment from the
1528 IV   |                enhance our own value, and humiliate him.”~“What an idea!”~“Faster,
1529 XV   |                 that they apparently felt hungry. At all events they ordered
1530 XII  |                   which blind passion may hurl even an honest man. To-day
1531 XXI  |                 follow them if they leave hurriedly,” resumed Lecoq, who in
1532 XXI  |                 pressed close to his body—husbanding his breath and timing his
1533 VIII |                 to suit you.”~A friendly “hush!” was the only response.
1534 XVI  |               very important and somewhat husky tone that he delivered the
1535 I    |                    Mother Chupin, the old hussy, is not dead!”~As he spoke,
1536 IX   |            Segmuller had unmasked so many hypocrites that he was not deceived
1537 VI   |                 them agree with the vague hypotheses that were revolving in his
1538 XIV  |                 and ask him.”~A bucket of iced water falling upon Lecoq’
1539 VIII |             around the room to aid in the identification of the corpses. This clothing,
1540 V    |             summoned by the commissary to identify, if possible, the murdered
1541 XII  |                   chest. “Fool, imbecile, idiot, that I am!” he thought. “
1542 I    |                 they always returned with idiotic obstinacy, obeying, as one
1543 XV   |                resumed his former life of idleness, thieving, and debauchery.
1544 VII  |                his person to one of those ignominous examinations which make
1545 XII  |                  so far was his pretended ignorance concerning the two women.
1546 II   |                                           II~The young police agent to
1547 III  |                                           III~Obstinate men of Father
1548 XXII |                   was constantly saying: “Il faut que cela se tire au
1549 XVIII|                   the interstices of some ill-adjusted tiles. In this unattractive
1550 XI   |                   strange,” said he, with ill-disguised embarrassment, “that I should
1551 III  |                  was not coming from this ill-fated hovel.”~“Of course not;
1552 XV   |                   one so often detects in ill-treated and neglected animals. Possibly,
1553 XV   |             privation, excessive toil and ill-treatment, had imparted to her face
1554 XXV  |               Sairmeuse leaves behind him ill-will and hatred.’ Do you know
1555 VIII |                 of this letter was almost illegible; and there were mistakes
1556 XIX  |                wagging busily during your illness. Somehow or other, my enemies
1557 XIV  |                almost dry. A slight haze, illumined by the ruddy glare of the
1558 XII  |                  struck his chest. “Fool, imbecile, idiot, that I am!” he thought. “
1559 XXI  |              friends. The liquor they had imbibed was seemingly producing
1560 VI   |              palpitating with emotion and imbued with the convictions of
1561 III  |                 explaining to the man the immensity and imminence of the danger
1562 V    |           door-post, puffing his pipe, as immovable as a sphinx.~“Ah, well,
1563 XX   |               awaiting examination, he is immured in one of the cells of the
1564 VIII |                   this worthy was able to impart.~In a tone that implied
1565 VIII |                   the lifeless flesh, and imparting a sinister aspect to the
1566 II   |                 and rendering the surgeon impassible when the patient shrieks
1567 XII  |                  repressed animation, the impassioned movements, the studied reticence,
1568 VI   |                read upon the magistrate’s impassive face the impression produced
1569 IX   |           magistrate. “You are accused of impeding the action of the law.”~“
1570 XX   |                   extraction,” a concise, imperative formula, which reads as
1571 IX   |                   that the magistrate had imperfectly heard her words, and had
1572 XXV  |                   consequences. You might imperil your life.”~The young detective
1573 X    |                throat. The deuce take his impertinence! I tried to bite him: that’
1574 II   |                think that he believes too implicitly in what seems to him evidence.
1575 XXIV |                his hands to heaven, as if imploring forgiveness for the young
1576 XXIII|                  different tones, plainly implying that this criminal was evidently
1577 VI   |                  an imperious tone he had imposed silence upon him—and that,
1578 XXI  |          extinguishing the lights, and an imposing “Suisse,” dazzling to behold
1579 XX   |          criminals ordinarily realize the impossibility of escaping from this ambulatory
1580 I    |                 but only a choking cry of impotent rage escaped them. This
1581 XVI  |                   to be afraid of, he can—impregnable in a defense of absolute
1582 VIII |                 rose an infectious vapor, impregnated with the stench of the chloride
1583 III  |                 the cessation of the tiny imprints.~On his return, his countenance
1584 VIII |                  delivery of the order to imprison the accused.~Now, under
1585 IX   |                  ruin me.”~“Next you were imprisoned for having led some young
1586 XVI  |                 thought there would be no impropriety in his listening to the
1587 XIX  |         magistrate, “how’s your master?”~“Improving, sir,” was the reply. “He
1588 I    |              system of defense can not be improvised at once; that it is, on
1589 XXI  |                  he felt that it would be imprudent to do so, for May had settled
1590 XVIII|               that were told him, lies so impudent that they were almost insults,
1591 XVI  |                  own professional honesty impugned? He could not help lifting
1592 XXII |              absences from home, were all imputed to a very unreasonable inclination
1593 I    |                     But the inspector was inaccessible to fear; he freed himself
1594 V    |                 This discovery proved the inaccuracy of Lecoq’s original suppositions.
1595 XXII |             thoroughly absurd, so utterly inadmissible that he quickly dismissed
1596 XXII |                 Hence, the not altogether inappropriate appellation of “Pere Tirauclair,”
1597 I    |                her head, and was uttering inarticulate moans. Finally, facing the
1598 XVIII|            circumstance which might be of incalculable benefit to the prosecution. “
1599 XX   |               until the prisoner is again incarcerated, the governor of the prison
1600 III  |                end. It had evidently been incased in a strong, low shoe.~This
1601 XII  |                  quick. Indeed, he was so incensed that, forgetful of his subordinate
1602 XV   |                wife was subjected to such incessant cruelty and persecution
1603 XXIV |                  between his duty and his inclinations, is placed in a very trying
1604 III  |              toward the outer boulevards, inclining somewhat in the direction
1605 XVII |                only assure the murderer’s incognito.~“But how could the accomplice
1606 XX   |               refunded.”~May uttered some incoherent threat, in which such words
1607 XII  |                 The prisoner was truly an incomparable comedian, for his last observation
1608 III  |                  the theory that seems so incomprehensible to you now.”~“Go on, then,”
1609 I    |                  and his virtues he added incontestable courage, and he would lay
1610 XXIV |                your arm; it would be less inconvenient than your leg; and you wouldn’
1611 XII  |                 was doing all he could to increase the mystery that enshrouded
1612 VIII |                 by believing what appears incredible.”~As soon as the vehicle
1613 III  |               blame his colleague for his incredulity. Resuming his recital, he
1614 XVIII|               seeming preparations for an indefinite stay. He applied for and
1615 III  |               which he had sighed so long indefinitely postponed. He fancied he
1616 II   |                almost immediately. “These indentations were not made by the men’
1617 X    |                 his plan of defense as an index reveals a book’s contents.
1618 I    |              their way as carefully as an Indian when he is stealing upon
1619 XVI  |                   of mingled surprise and indignation. “You can’t suppose that
1620 XVIII|                part for an instant, if an indiscreet word escapes him in his
1621 XIX  |             believe absolutely necessary, indispensable indeed, if we wish to be
1622 X    |             completely recovered from his indisposition; and his features assumed
1623 XVII |              years. Hence, the facts were indisputable; and yet, the young detective
1624 III  |                  that is not strictly and indisputably true.”~“And you would have
1625 IX   |                with these questions as to individuality, which gives both the magistrate
1626 XVII |                 compliance with a request indorsed by the commissary of police
1627 X    |                 me what powerful interest induces her to remain silent? Is
1628 XXIV |              these words, Father Absinthe indulged in a hearty laugh: “Ah!
1629 XVII |                  negative reply, at times indulging in some rough joke at the
1630 IX   |                   has remained honest and industrious, hence you have tormented
1631 XIX  |                  who was the magistrate’s inevitable shadow. On their way they
1632 XXIV |                  expect? What is far less inexcusable is the manner in which you
1633 XVIII|                  possessing, moreover, an inexhaustible fund of amusing stories,
1634 V    |                   course. Besides his own inexperience in such a matter, there
1635 II   |                  time. And does not habit infallibly lead to professional indifference,
1636 V    |     sergeant-major of the 53d regiment of infantry of the line, who had been
1637 XXII |                  laughing at his supposed infatuation, disrespectfully called
1638 VIII |                  the crowd itself rose an infectious vapor, impregnated with
1639 XXI  |                  a very bad temper. “What infernal rascals these receivers
1640 XXV  |                   omnipotent, and you, an infinitesimal agent of police, would be
1641 XIV  |                the street, more than ever inflamed with hope and courage.~Unfortunately,
1642 XVIII|                 the physical torture they inflicted, forced the most obstinate
1643 II   |                   him company. He was not influenced by a fear of being obliged
1644 XIV  |                 was not sensitive to such influences, he made haste to reach
1645 XVI  |                two ways. Either there are informers in the prison, or else Chupin
1646 IX   |                 and the public prosecutor informs me that M. d’Escorval shares
1647 VIII |              young detective proceeded to ingratiate himself into the driver’
1648 IX   |                  Chupin would now have to initiate a narrative of the tragedy.
1649 XXIV |   straight-waistcoat, he was powerless to injure himself. Ah! how he must
1650 XVI  |                 that your strange silence injures your husband far more than
1651 XIX  |             criminals in the mere hope of injuring me, jealous as he is, and
1652 XIV  |                  great earnestness to the inmate of the cage, and was so
1653 VII  |                   on the threshold of the inner door, and holding the whole
1654 VII  |             absurd; and no one thought of inquiring the detective’s motive.
1655 XVIII|                 almost regretted that the Inquisition was suppressed. Yes, in
1656 XIV  |                travelers are compelled to inscribe their full names, profession,
1657 XVIII|                   put all sorts of little insects under a magnifying glass,
1658 XX   |              apparently forgotten, in the insecurely locked compartment, until
1659 XV   |                their horrible threats and insidious counsel had failed to accomplish.
1660 I    |             terrible effect an apparently insignificant response drawn from them
1661 XII  |                say? Only a moment ago you insinuated that my former employer
1662 XVI  |                     The young detective’s insinuation, vague as it was, did not
1663 XVIII|            Skilful questioning, ingenious insinuations, forcible threats, and seductive
1664 VII  |             exclaimed the prisoner, in an insolent tone. “Is it a crime not
1665 IX   |                   approached his clerk to inspect the notes taken during the
1666 VI   |                 of anatomy, and examined, inspected, and appraised him physically.
1667 V    |                   during the conflict. On inspecting the bowl, it became evident
1668 II   |                    Police service did not inspire him with repugnance—far
1669 XIII |             worthy of one’s steel” always inspires.~“What coolness, what courage!”
1670 XIX  |                 Norman valet as the first instalment of his wages.~But instead
1671 XVII |                 sum) had been received in instalments at long intervals subsequently.
1672 VIII |               evasive fashion. In several instances, moreover, he had not replied
1673 VI   |                  these men death had been instantaneous. They were both stretched
1674 III  |                 narrow sole and an arched instep. The other denoted a broad,
1675 XVIII|               added, was sent at Gevrol’s instigation.~So thus it was that M.
1676 XV   |             thought, his legs, obeying an instinctive impulse, had brought him
1677 XVIII|                   discover the habits and instincts of the insect world. Very
1678 XVIII|               pincers, and other horrible instruments, which, by the physical
1679 XVIII|             overpowered by a sense of the insufficiency of the purely moral weapons
1680 XXII |                   him for expenses seemed insufficient, he at once opened his private
1681 XVI  |                  scoundrel of some of his insulting assurance. Accordingly,
1682 VI   |                  an effort to collect his intellectual faculties. “I would stake
1683 IX   |               white pocket-handkerchiefs, intending to deluge the latter with
1684 XIX  |              labored on with an obstinacy intensified by constant sneers; still
1685 XXV  |                   became notorious by the intensity of his ultra-royalist opinions.
1686 XXI  |                 toil, and with housewives intent on purchasing provisions
1687 VIII |                  not perceive. Had Gevrol intentionally or unintentionally failed
1688 XVIII|                  was, undoubtedly, a very interesting story, since the keeper
1689 IX   |          authorities have been obliged to interfere. When she left your house
1690 XIX  |                   night. The hours seemed interminable, and such was his nervous
1691 XIX  |                 shoulders, which might be interpreted, “Am I a fool?” he hastily
1692 X    |               added: “We will send for an interpreter to tell us whether you speak
1693 X    |             continued. “When I saw myself interred in that living tomb which
1694 VI   |         apparently much astonished at the interruption.~He took a chair and sat
1695 I    |               Gevrol would permit no more interruptions. “Enough talk,” he declared. “
1696 XII  |                  night-time—across fields intersected by ditches, and up a long
1697 III  |                wild gestures of a madman, interspersed with oaths or short laughs,
1698 XVIII|            sun-rays struggled through the interstices of some ill-adjusted tiles.
1699 XIX  |                   supposition of Gevrol’s intervention would explain everything.”~
1700 XXIV |                old man, but I should have interviewed every clothier in Paris;
1701 XXIV |                found out the names of her intimate friends; this would have
1702 II   |                 been sad, the present was intolerable, the future threatened to
1703 IX   |                    M. Segmuller noted the intonation of this response, and then
1704 V    |                This man seemed to be very intoxicated, for he reeled and staggered
1705 II   |                  life between two fits of intoxication, without ever rising above
1706 III  |                   who had suddenly become intrepid. “To work, then!” he sighed,
1707 XIX  |                 will take no part in such intrigues. All I can promise you is
1708 XVI  |                mention to be a sufficient introduction, he thought there would
1709 I    |             pistol, which he aimed at the intruders.~“Surrender!” cried Gevrol.~
1710 XVII |           resolute air, “if you will only intrust the matter to me, sir. If
1711 XVII |                    near the Esplanade des Invalides.”~Lecoq had refrained from
1712 I    |                 poured forth a torrent of invective upon Gevrol and his agents,
1713 XII  |                   him a sum of money, had inveigled him into a conspiracy. A
1714 III  |                 merely amusing himself by inventing this story? Was this scene
1715 IX   |                  your bedroom are so many inventions. You have concocted them
1716 VI   |               benefit of their respective inventors.~“I will request you, gentlemen,”
1717 XV   |               single glance Lecoq took an inventory of the humble abode, and,
1718 VIII |                   t discover anything, he invents wonderful stories, and then
1719 XIX  |             Patrigent, the magistrate who investigated the affair, was the first
1720 XXII |             single instant. He cursed his inveterate inclination always to look
1721 XVIII|                  staked his life upon the inviolability of the secret cells; and
1722 XVII |                   something to drink, and invite the landlord to drink as
1723 VII  |                obligation to Gevrol.”~The involuntary irony of this remark did
1724 IV   |             disciple, Lecoq found himself involved in a cruel perplexity. He
1725 XV   |                excited not merely his own ire, but also the hatred of
1726 XIV  |                which seemed to furnish an irrefutable argument in favor of the
1727 XXII |          dangerous rascal.”~After such an irreparable failure as that which had
1728 I    |                   fellow’s resolution was irrevocable; and that he was not to
1729 IV   |                footprint.”~Lecoq felt the irritation that is natural to a person
1730 IV   |                                           IV~That night the vagabonds,
1731 I    |                    we will take the Rue d’Ivry, and then cut through the
1732 IX   |                                           IX~Some men are wealthy. They
1733 XX   |                    he reached the Rue St. Jacques. He walked more slowly,
1734 XX   |                 again in the hands of his jailers, since he was without the
1735 X    |                 the strait-waistcoat, the jailor tried to feed me just as
1736 X    |             become so. All night long the jailors sat around me, like children
1737 X    |                   that my name was Peter, James, or John. But lying is not
1738 XXI  |             rendezvous. They spoke in the jargon of their pretended rank
1739 XX   |                  his attire, his affected jaunty step, his alternate raising
1740 XIV  |               colleagues, who laughed and jeered at him unmercifully. “Ah!
1741 XIV  |                 in disguise. However, the jeers and taunts of which Lecoq
1742 X    |                 flung open with a violent jerk, and the prisoner entered,
1743 VIII |                  his brain, and, abruptly jerking the rains, he brought his
1744 XVI  |             sustaining his character as a jester and buffoon, it might be
1745 XVIII|             bubbles and frequently a tall jet leaps into the air. But
1746 XVII |            articles sold. Several lots of jewelry were mentioned, with the
1747 XXI  |                 out of the house. May was jingling some coins in his hand,
1748 XI   |               these young men left me and joined the dancers. It was not
1749 IX   |                  other’s strength, before joining in a serious struggle; just
1750 IX   |               this morning.”~“You must be joking,” was the reply. “Does the
1751 XV   |                  seemingly seeing it, and jostled against groups of people
1752 XVI  |                her husband, she uttered a joyful exclamation, and sprang
1753 V    |              reserved for the officers of judiciary police; it was a simple
1754 VIII |                yet he did not hesitate to jump on to the box and give the
1755 XIV  |                   I,” rejoined the woman, jumping down from the chair.~Just
1756 IX   |                 and manner, she began her justification. She did not positively
1757 XVI  |               with him the most potent of justifications? He thought of the agreeable
1758 IX   |                 discover what blame could justly be laid at her door.~“I
1759 XXIII|                took his walks abroad, the juvenile street Arabs would impudently
1760 III  |                young man as deeply as the keenest irony could have done. “
1761 XXI  |                  the garden, even the dog kennels, were scrupulously visited,
1762 XXI  |              woolen material. A gay silk ‘kerchief was knotted about his throat,
1763 XXI  |                 assailant, but a vigorous kick stretched him on the ground
1764 X    |                 me to his wife. She was a kind-hearted woman. She took me, examined
1765 XXV  |               confirmed. Appointed by the king to preside at the military
1766 VII  |                 would go mad with joy; he kissed our hands, and thanked us
1767 XV   |                   chairs, and a few plain kitchen utensils constituted the
1768 XXI  |                  ante-rooms, stables, and kitchens of the Hotel de Sairmeuse
1769 XVIII|                   work; and rose from his kneeling position. “You couldn’t
1770 IV   |               distinct of the footprints, knelt beside it, and began his
1771 XVIII|                great joy when the various knickknacks and articles of clothing
1772 XVI  |                  was easy to see from his knit brows that his mind was
1773 XIX  |                    and was examining with knitted brows the figures which
1774 XXI  |                  The door at which he had knocked soon opened, and the grave,
1775 XXI  |                  A gay silk ‘kerchief was knotted about his throat, and a
1776 XIV  |                 come from Leipsic; as the labels pasted upon it by the different
1777 VI   |           invented each month in chemical laboratories and advertised ad nauseam
1778 XIX  |              continued his efforts; still labored on with an obstinacy intensified
1779 XXV  |                theory we have built up so laboriously.”~“And what is that if you
1780 XVII |                 him out of this intricate labyrinth were breaking in his hands.
1781 I    |            profession, its resources, its labyrinths, and its artifices. Long
1782 VI   |                  put on his shoes; he has laced his gaiters wrong side outwards.”
1783 XVII |                   so adroitly, giving the lackey to understand so explicitly
1784 XIX  |                 and then track him to his lair.”~This expedient, although
1785 VII  |                 had become as gentle as a lamb. It was in a wheedling voice,
1786 XX   |              Nonsense! Before we begin to lament, let us wait and see what
1787 VI   |                  which was as keen as his lancet.~His colleague—young, fresh-looking,
1788 XXV  |                  he had gained in foreign lands were confirmed. Appointed
1789 XI   |                  you speak three European languages correctly,” said he. “It
1790 XXI  |              gathered together. The great lanterns in the coach houses and
1791 X    |                 raised his hands from his lap and examined them with evident
1792 XXI  |              inside the house, one of the largest and most magnificent residences
1793 XVIII|                   all this agitation only lasts for a moment; the bubbling
1794 XX   |                   vast advantage over the Latin races, who seem to be lying
1795 VII  |                Looking through the little latticed window in the door, by which
1796 XX   |                 would join each other and laughingly exclaim: “Good!—there’s
1797 XIX  |                   not like the Marquis de Lavalette, protected by royal connivance;
1798 XVI  |                   Toinon the Virtuous had lavished such loving glances. And
1799 XX   |                 the tattered “loafer” who lazily loitered in the sunlight,
1800 XXV  |                extraordinary abilities. A leader at a time when political
1801 III  |             footprint that I can discover leads in the direction of the
1802 XVIII|              enough that they were all in league with the mysterious accomplice;
1803 V    |                ground, and was obliged to lean against the wall for support.
1804 XVIII|                 and frequently a tall jet leaps into the air. But all this
1805 XVII |                   in the day-book and the ledger. Madame d’Arlange first
1806 XVI  |            features, the impudence of his leering smile, and the mingled cowardice
1807 X    |                   I was living, I did not legally exist, for, to have a legal
1808 XIV  |                  to be decorated with the Legion of Honor.”~Gevrol’s influence
1809 II   |                    When he had a moment’s leisure, and a little money in his
1810 XXI  |              Absinthe, too much amazed to lend a helping hand to his younger
1811 XXII |                   their consulting rooms, lending to others the weapons they
1812 XVI  |            photograph was flattering. The lens had failed to convey the
1813 VII  |                mentioned her name—Eudosia Leocadie, or some name of that sort.
1814 II   |                 undaunted energy. He gave lessons, and copied documents for
1815 XVIII|               believing himself alone, he lets his mask fall, or forgets
1816 XVI  |               delighted him; and, indeed, letting his rancor have the upper
1817 XI   |              barricade, and your revolver leveled at the police, as if to
1818 XXII |                  substantial token of his liberality. Of course, such a man had
1819 XXII |         disrespectfully called him an old libertine. It was only the officials
1820 XX   |               respectability his faithful lieutenant.~“Ah!” quoth the latter
1821 VI   |           colleague—young, fresh-looking, light-haired, and jovial—was somewhat
1822 IX   |                   of relief—almost one of light-heartedness. “In that case,” said the
1823 IX   |               fellow!”~His heart somewhat lightened by these favorable reports,
1824 XV   |           subordinate, and his vanity was likewise wounded; he felt, however,
1825 VIII |                 stench of the chloride of lime used as a disinfectant.~
1826 XI   |                 more enigmatical than the lineaments of the Sphinx.~Thus far,
1827 VII  |                   the wooden benches that lined three sides of the room.
1828 XX   |               there are prison warders or linesmen of the Garde de Paris installed
1829 XVIII|                keeper who accompanied him lingered for a moment to hear the
1830 XII  |              reflected for a moment, then lingering over each word, he added: “
1831 X    |                 menagerie and no mistake! Lions, tigers, and bears, serpents
1832 I    |                 such vile drugs into your liquors, thus breeding madness in
1833 XVI  |             Gevrol, hitherto an attentive listener, burst into a loud laugh. “
1834 X    |                from one to another of his listeners, as if seeking some sign
1835 XIX  |                 the employment of various literary men, as well as of a physician,
1836 II   |                 untried to earn an honest livelihood. At last he obtained employment
1837 VII  |                 cigars.”~An expression of lively contentment was discernible
1838 XXI  |                 dreaded were the barriere loafers, easily recognized by their
1839 X    |                With the permission of the local authorities there will now
1840 XI   |             familiar with the surrounding localities? In the second place, how
1841 IX   |              arranged her rebellious gray locks in smooth bandeaux, and
1842 VIII |                    care of M. Trigault. I lodge at his place, because I
1843 VIII |               this article to one of your lodgers.”~“To which one?”~“Really,
1844 XVII |               examining all the hotel and lodging-house registers, in which the
1845 XVI  |               From head to foot, from his lofty silk cap to his gaudy colored
1846 XX   |              tattered “loafer” who lazily loitered in the sunlight, dividing
1847 XX   |            remarks with a neatly dressed, long-bearded gentleman, who wore gold-rimmed
1848 XVI  |           Prefecture of Police, going the longest way round as a matter of
1849 II   |                  assailed by the thousand longings of youth, Lecoq endeavored
1850 XV   |                   no reply. Approaching a looking-glass that hung against the wall,
1851 VII  |                  the Morgue. Keep a sharp lookout there. Then, this evening
1852 VI   |                 which the victims carried loose in their pockets. On this
1853 XXI  |                  habitually affect, and a loosely fitting coat of rough woolen
1854 XXI  |               their glazed caps and their loosely-knotted neckerchiefs. The majority
1855 VII  |             belongings of a prison.~“Good Lord!” murmured Lecoq, greatly
1856 XI   |                waves, but now he totters, loses his footing—another second,
1857 XVII |            various articles sold. Several lots of jewelry were mentioned,
1858 XXV  |                 man then read: “Escorval (Louis-Guillaume, baron d’).—Diplomatist
1859 XV   |              across her path. She fell in love with this dissipated, selfish
1860 XX   |                 of April; the weather was lovely, and, on the horizon, the
1861 I    |                   potent enough to dismay lovers of pleasure. And a boisterous
1862 XVI  |                  to get her to speak. She loves that rascal intensely, and
1863 XVI  |                Virtuous had lavished such loving glances. And yet the photograph
1864 IX   |                    after addressing a few low-spoken words to the smiling Goguet,
1865 IX   |                 foot-passengers bless the lowly lot which preserves them
1866 VIII |                   longer surprised at the luck-money they gave me—a louis and
1867 I    |         rendezvous. If the day had been a lucky one, they made merry over
1868 XVII |            imparted to his face an almost ludicrous expression. “Is this aunt
1869 XIX  |             stratagem must be employed to lull the prisoner’s suspicions
1870 III  |               storage of various kinds of lumber. The ground was strewn with
1871 IV   |                ignis fatuus, one of those luminous meteors that raise from
1872 XV   |                   for admission into some lunatic asylum.”~The young detective
1873 XXI  |                the street-lamps glimmered luridly in the mist, and then it
1874 XVIII|               able to procure many little luxuries, which are never denied
1875 XIX  |                  equal the police in such machinations.~What could have been done
1876 VII  |                   which stood a measuring machine, under which each culprit
1877 III  |               very individuals who end in madly adopting them. When an idea
1878 IX   |                  ever losing sight of his magisterial duties.~Still, the tone
1879 XIX  |                  and concentrating in one magnetic glance all his power of
1880 XVII |               passing through a large and magnificently furnished drawing-room,
1881 XXIV |                shown this earring to each maid in succession until I found
1882 IX   |                     Aspasie Claperdty, my maiden name,” replied the old woman, “
1883 XV   |              hearts were touched. Lecoq’s main thought, however, was to
1884 IX   |                magistrate has his own—was mainly good-humor. Unlike most
1885 VII  |             honest woman. Was she not the mainstay of her family (since her
1886 IX   |                  be impossible for you to maintain it, and I may add that it
1887 IV   |                time of that affair at the Maison Blanche, last December.”~“
1888 XIX  |              tricks only bring the sacred majesty of justice into contempt!”~
1889 XXI  |         loosely-knotted neckerchiefs. The majority of the company appeared
1890 I    |                  absence to visit the wig maker.”~“At least—”~But Gevrol
1891 I    |                 and escaped criminals and malefactors, moreover, made the quarter
1892 XV   |                 very unlike the Boulevard Malesherbes, and one brief glance sufficed
1893 XXII |                  the same. I have no more malice in my composition than a
1894 XVIII|               myself out on the floor and manage to sleep here.”~“So that,
1895 II   |                 unseen and unheard, still manages to hear and see everything.
1896 X    |           questions as a tried general in maneuvering his troops.~However, all
1897 XXI  |               that I don’t understand the maneuvres of these wily confederates,
1898 I    |                   them. This was his last manifestation of intelligence. A bloody
1899 VI   |             rendering immense services to mankind. He had the gracious calmness
1900 XXI  |                  examined the magnificent mansions of the Faubourg Saint-German,
1901 XIV  |                 lamps, hung like a purple mantle over the city. The streets
1902 XIX  |              furnished.”~A fleeting flush mantled over M. Segmuller’s forehead. “
1903 XIX  |                   banter, a scarlet flush mantling at the same time over his
1904 IV   |                   can be found in all the manuals. It is excellent, no doubt,
1905 XIX  |                   suborned the witnesses; manufactured the articles of conviction;
1906 II   |                   enter the office of any manufacturer, and say: “I would like
1907 XVIII|                   recalled the fantastic, many-colored costumes, clad in which
1908 IV   |                him to continue the forced march he was making. “Upon my
1909 XV   |                                        XV~Mardi Gras, or Shrove Tuesday,
1910 VIII |                 hey up, Cocotte!” and his mare pricked up her ears and
1911 IX   |              informed me by a note on the margin of this file of papers that
1912 XI   |                   traveled with a show of marionettes, and in England with a collection
1913 VIII |                  his nets round about the markets, whence the police generally
1914 VI   |                  puzzling immobility that marred its beauty, the sarcastic
1915 IX   |                understand, sir; I have my marriage papers safe in my chest
1916 I    |                and penetrated to the very marrow of one’s bones. Besides,
1917 IV   |               meteors that raise from the marshes and float about in the atmosphere
1918 XVII |                taken to the great auction mart in the Rue Drouot; the sale
1919 X    |             England!—could produce such a marvel, such a paragon—” For a
1920 XXI  |                slightest attention to the marvels of art and upholstery that
1921 I    |                  along the pavement, or a masked figure crept by in the shadow
1922 I    |                 And a boisterous crowd of maskers filled each tavern, and
1923 IV   |                   united in a homogeneous mass, forming a perfect model
1924 XII  |            self-control, the prisoner had mastered his agitation. “All this,”
1925 XIII |                   of absolute denial—is a masterpiece. It is perfect. How well
1926 VI   |                tobacco, a pipe, and a few matches were found; in the left
1927 IX   |                 smile, to get his writing materials ready. He then turned toward
1928 XV   |             overcome with fatigue; take a mattress from the bed for yourself,
1929 XVI  |                  had not merely taken his matutinal chocolate and arranged his
1930 VI   |       mechanically murmured his name: “M. Maurice d’Escorval.”~He was the
1931      | maybe
1932 X    |                queen and to the honorable mayor of this town! No country,
1933 XXII |                managing to exist upon the meagre stipend he received. Suddenly
1934 XVIII|                    Here he remained until meal-time in the evening, when he
1935 XVI  |                your words would have been meaningless?”~“What words?”~The magistrate
1936 V    |                   with which to take some measurements, and a bit of board in place
1937 VII  |                   corner of which stood a measuring machine, under which each
1938 XIV  |                   well. I was expecting a mechanic—from Leipsic—to meet me
1939 VI   |                 of the Palais de Justice, mechanically murmured his name: “M. Maurice
1940 V    |                old soldier, decorated and medaled—who had smelt powder many
1941 VI   |                 had judged correctly. The medical men declared it to be a
1942 V    |                  authorities to draw up a medico-legal report in all such cases.
1943 XVII |              their victims? Such horrible meetings have at times the most momentous
1944 XX   |             trembled in every limb. “Yes, mein Herr—Monsieur, I mean—I
1945 IV   |                   it rains, the snow will melt, and then farewell to our
1946 XII  |                  a few footprints on some melting snow; a sleepy cab-driver’
1947 V    |                  will be seen that in the memoranda appended to this explanatory
1948 VI   |                upon whom Napoleon, in the Memorial of St. Helena, pronounced
1949 XVI  |             glance and heard his words of menace. Terror-stricken, she staggered
1950 I    |               enforced these words was so menacing that one of the agents drew
1951 X    |                   Ah! he could boast of a menagerie and no mistake! Lions, tigers,
1952 IX   |             afterward, having a blouse to mend for my boy, I went upstairs
1953 IX   |                  no further proof of your mendacity. These women were short,
1954 XV   |                    however, gratified.~In mentioning these facts to Lecoq, the
1955 XII  |                   tried to laugh, but his merriment partook somewhat of the
1956 I    |               been a lucky one, they made merry over their spoils, and when
1957 IV   |             fatuus, one of those luminous meteors that raise from the marshes
1958 XXI  |                    but the necessity of a methodically conducted search was now
1959 XVIII|              creatures—as you say—under a microscope, these patient, gifted men
1960 VII  |           strongest bars, or one of those microscopical bits of lead with which
1961 XIV  |                Was this friend of yours a middle-aged man, of medium size, of
1962 XXV  |                  of his friends, the Abbe Midon, cure of the little village
1963 XII  |                 the prisoner’s part, in a mild, Platonic way, of course.~“
1964 XIV  |                  The temperature was much milder; the snow had altogether
1965 XX   |                   blue sky. The “ethereal mildness” of “gentle spring” seemed
1966 XXIII|                 shout after him or try to mimic his favorite grimace. And
1967 VI   |             neglect the slightest detail. Minutely, and with the most scrupulous
1968 XV   |                 about in the rain and the mire for a week at the very least.
1969 XII  |                  astonishment, irony, and mirth. When the magistrate had
1970 VIII |                   I said to myself: ‘Some mischievous fellow has been playing
1971 VII  |                   names of all those whom misconduct, crime, misfortune, madness,
1972 XVI  |                   that her words had been misconstrued; and vowed on her mother’
1973 XVIII|            courage and energy,” said he.~“Misdirected as it may be,” growled Gevrol,
1974 XXIV |                 ready to triumph over his misfortunes; and he intended to say: ‘
1975 XVIII|                  not been for that cursed mishap, he would have been obliged
1976 XI   |                  say—that; they had quite misinterpreted his words. With such remarks
1977 XXI  |                   of every opportunity to mislead the persons who might be
1978 X    |                  discovered some means of misleading their examiner. On the contrary,
1979 VIII |               wonderful stories, and then misleads the magistrates with his
1980 X    |                   those who are afraid of misplacing a word of the romance they
1981      | miss
1982 IX   |              moment of absent-mindedness, misses the step, and fractures
1983 XXV  |                   on several confidential missions. Heir to the opinions, prejudices,
1984 XXI  |                  glimmered luridly in the mist, and then it required a
1985 III  |                 social distinctions, many mistresses would be servants. What
1986 X    |                  in very emphatic tones: “Mit Be-willigung der hochloeblichen
1987 VIII |                   you about, you fool, to mix yourself up with this affair!
1988 VII  |                   distinguished a stifled moan. There could no longer be
1989 VIII |                 usual, he found among the mob a large number of girls
1990 III  |                  everything, and then you mock me in this way. We find
1991 V    |                  murderer!”~A very simple mode of discovery had presented
1992 IV   |                   mass, forming a perfect model of the impression. Thus,
1993 V    |                 the valuable earring, the models of the different footprints
1994 VI   |              impressions. These have been modified by subsequent researches,
1995 V    |                 was rereading his report, modifying a few expressions, when
1996 X    |             tongue over his lips as if to moisten them, and said: “Am I to
1997 XII  |                the drawer of his desk the molds of the footprints prepared
1998 XIII |           somewhat in the same style that Moliere consulted his servant. But,
1999 XVII |                  well-nigh developed into monomania. He was no longer subject
2000 II   |                 This is the case with all monomaniacs; an hour comes in which