Chap.

 1        1|        of her a gentleman and a lady, who took their seats, he
 2        1|        there was only one stout lady, who was stranded, as it
 3        1| Everybody wanted to see Nana. A lady had the flounce of her dress
 4        1|     looked at him.~“Who is that lady in the balcony?” La Faloise
 5        1|    Faloise asked suddenly. “The lady with a young girl in blue
 6        1|       name was Madame Robert, a lady of honorable repute who
 7        1|       asking you, sir, but that lady who is acting—do you know
 8        2|           As she spoke Zoe, the lady’s maid, opened the outer
 9        2|        she liked.~Meanwhile the lady’s maid kept hinting that
10        2|       Zoe ushered in a tall old lady who wore ringlets and looked
11        2|       dining room, where an old lady was already seated at table.
12        2|        voices,” replied the old lady. “I thought you had company.”~
13        2|     thank you,” replied the old lady with dignity. “It doesn’
14        2|     with whom she had served as lady’s maid. Zoe spoke of these
15        2|       Four kings,” replied this lady, whom the play greatly excited.~
16        2|          There’s only one of my lady’s trunks there and a table.
17        2|        good telling him that my lady’s gone out, and so he’s
18        2|   company waiting for you,” the lady’s maid repeated.~But Nana
19        2|         Maloir behind her. That lady was now busy reading her
20        2|      These big words caused the lady’s maid not a little distress,
21        2|         a man who is offering a lady a present. Nevertheless,
22        2|      continually disturbing the lady’s maid, who left Madame
23        3|         was an insufferable old lady, always hand in glove with
24        3|         opened anew, and an old lady had come in, followed by
25        3|         Venus first night. This lady’s arrival caused a stir
26        3|        me, no!” replied the old lady. “He is always in garrison
27        3|      Hugon beyond them.~“It’s a lady who desires your company
28        3|       very much surprised. What lady was it?~“Oh, Nana!” said
29        3|        not acquainted with that lady,” he murmured.~“Come, come,
30        4|  business of settling her young lady. If at her time of life
31        4|         Clarisse Besnus, whom a lady had brought up from Saint–
32        4|      capacity of maid while the lady’s husband had started her
33        4|  prowling round each individual lady, looking to see if she were
34        5|       affecting the manner of a lady about to pay a call.~“A
35        5|        trying to look quite the lady, though she was already
36        5|        behind, became the great lady, the queen of love, in act
37        5|       as like a litigious great lady as ever.~When she saw Nana
38        5|   exchanged, “not now.” The old lady looked grave. Just then
39        6|      furlough,” replied the old lady, “but without doubt you
40        6|         told,” murmured the old lady. “Georges, you were there
41        6|      live. If we meet this said lady on the road we shall not
42        6|      shelved. Thereupon the old lady told them how Georges in
43        6|       darted back, jostling the lady’s maid at the top of the
44        6|          perhaps you know.”~The lady’s maid never budged an inch.
45        6|      women hereabouts.”~The old lady rendered equal thanks to
46        6|   Certainly,” continued the old lady, “and the person in question
47        6|   highroad with a golden–haired lady, but he defended himself
48        6|    Among all her guests the old lady spared only Count Muffat
49        6|       Oh, my God!” said the old lady suddenly. “Georges is with
50        6|     such a kind, decent sort of lady! I’ll tell her that I never
51        6|    Chateau de Chamont is an old lady of Napoleon’s time? Oh,
52        6|         twilight, and the great lady seemed still to be sweeping
53        6|       meditated on Gaga’s young lady. He could well remember
54        6|           Zoe,” she said to the lady’s maid, who was enchanted
55        8|      not yet come home, the old lady ventured to give expression
56        8|     would look furtively at the lady’s bare legs. Every conversation
57        8|         not the pleasure of the lady’s acquaintance. But Satin
58        8|        A thoroughly fashionable lady,” one might have said of
59        8|        her! Yet seeing that the lady was keeping them waiting,
60        8|         a bar. This Laure was a lady of some fifty summers, whose
61        8|       dying to tell this honest lady a few home truths. But the
62        8|         cheek to go playing the lady—yes, the lady in the dustbin!
63        8|       playing the lady—yes, the lady in the dustbin! She now
64        8|       like a highly respectable lady whom nobody could possibly
65        8|        humored tone. “The grand lady’s part, maybe? The deuce,
66        9|      and caresses. As this last lady’s part had not yet been
67        9|          Only why was his great lady so chaste? It wasn’t natural!
68        9|     When I want to be a perfect lady, why then I am a swell,
69        9|        much as she likes, but a lady—No, by Jove!”~“You are mistaken,
70        9|         my feet! Yes, I’ll fine–lady your Paris for you, I will!”~
71       10|        possible. But a solitary lady’s maid was no longer sufficient.
72       10|        in the kitchen and in my lady’s chamber. Zoe organized
73       10|      her mad bravado. Still the lady’s maid grew gradually lenient,
74       10|        teach you to respect the lady who owns it. Respect’s what
75       10|         at table with her. This lady would arrive from unknown
76       10|  affairs in order to oblige his lady clients. The count put himself
77       10|           Madame—” murmured the lady’s maid in an injured tone.~
78       10|       Thereupon Nana kissed the lady’s maid and, wishing to show
79       11|         course to the sovereign lady busy chatting with with
80       11|   happen to have a permit for a lady about me.”~And he led her
81       11|       there on the grass with a lady in a brougham. I recognized
82       11|         with Mme Lerat, the old lady having come in to bring
83       12|         back this morning.”~The lady’s maid had persuaded Georges
84       12| respected family.”~And the good lady defended him against the
85       12|         allusions. But the good lady wore so sad a smile that
86       12|     eyes kept following another lady smilingly, so singularly
87       12|     cousin’s arm. “You see that lady in white silk?”~Ever since
88       12|     native province.~“Yes, that lady with the lace.”~The journalist
89       12|    present himself at his great lady’s house; he would be well
90       12|    heart—my cousin Fauchery, my lady cousin and her husband,
91       12|      pillow and, dismissing the lady’s maid:~“What! Is that you?”
92       13|      talking of the matter. The lady’s maid at once espied the
93       13|        themselves at their good lady’s embarrassing situations.
94       13|  constantly successful. The old lady, humbled utterly by her
95       13| constantly solicited by the old lady, she would refuse or resign
96       13|       her starting back. An old lady was advancing through the
97       13|         hurried up, and the old lady insisted on their carrying
98       13|       explain to Monsieur—”~The lady’s maid, having brought a
99       13|       he could not steal Nana’s lady’s maid from her, the journalist