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1 10 | Chapter 10~
2 11 | Chapter 11~
3 12 | Chapter 12~
4 13 | Chapter 13~
5 18,1| theatrical uniform of the 13th Hussars rather ostentatiously.
6 14 | Chapter 14~
7 16 | Chapter 16~
8 17,3| in the Rue Soumot on the 16th October. Here is a list
9 17 | Chapter 17~
10 17,3| out bearing the numbers 1781, 3025, and 2140. One of
11 18 | Chapter 18~
12 19,4| on Thursday, October 15, 186-, of the sum of two millions,
13 19 | Chapter 19~
14 12,4| did so, and read: "(Model 198). Letter from a young lady
15 20 | Chapter 20~
16 17,3| bearing the numbers 1781, 3025, and 2140. One of these
17 9 | Chapter 9~
18 5,4| street before nine o'clock A.M. And the influence that had
19 9,6| When her excitement had abated a little, she was inclined
20 8,2| misfortunes had compelled her to abdicate her position in society. ~
21 9,6| did he intend to forcibly abduct her? Would he attempt to
22 19,5| atrocious projects he is abetting. They are known only to
23 11,3| not done justice to his abilities; and it was, indeed, with
24 9,3| yourself," she said, all ablaze with enthusiasm, "picture
25 9,1| However, this creditor's abnegation did not extend so far; still
26 3,2| slandered!" he muttered. ~ ~"Abominably. Last Sunday the best horse
27 15,1| could read a passion as absorbing as my own. At last he ventured
28 11,2| this style: "I consent to abstain from interfering with you,
29 19,5| admit a rascal who will abstract the vial." ~Marguerite shuddered.
30 9,6| Leon had returned, and the abstraction of the letter been discovered!"
31 12,4| which heightened their absurdity. "And what shall I say of
32 12,2| willing to swear that she had abused the poor child, and had
33 9,4| of a man is he? If he is accessible to the seductive influence
34 10,4| concierge stopped him. "You accomplish your errands so well that
35 1,2| express your intention of accomplishing a task which requires inexhaustible
36 13,6| thought necessary for the accomplishment of his designs. ~"That does
37 15,5| a proficient in feminine accomplishments; I was an excellent musician,
38 16,4| a careless tone that ill accorded with his state of mind that
39 9,1| second time." ~This probably accounted for the fact that Evariste,
40 6,4| you will have succeeded in accumulating the necessary proofs of
41 5,2| in obtaining from him as accurate a knowledge of his past
42 5,4| soon learned to judge very accurately of the condition of his
43 7,7| him. Oh! that fatal and accursed money! Wilkie's adviser
44 13,7| And what a success he had achieved! He felt certain that he
45 2,1| difficulties, jealous of achieving the impossible, and never
46 10,1| 1~The old legend of Achilles's heel will be eternally
47 11,5| instrument in which the count acknowledges you as his daughter, and
48 9,1| be able to prove a sudden acquisition of wealth. ~But the events
49 11,4| and he has already been actively at work - and with the best
50 14,3| and sitting down, like an actor practising the effects which
51 2,5| husband is the companion of actresses and courtesans; her own
52 19,4| and afterward married her, actuated by avaricious motives alone.
53 10,4| mother, with the wonderfully acute hearing of the blind, had
54 9,2| notorious woman who was addicted with an insatiable desire
55 16,1| your millions will lend an additional charm to the romance, you
56 10,3| stamp don't parade their addresses in the directory. Still,
57 13,2| too happy!' But then he adds: 'You must arrange the matter
58 11,1| them. And when they were adjusted, the light was so dim that
59 12,3| from their case, and, after adjusting them, she began to read. ~
60 18,5| obtained - how I proposed to administer it, and what its effects
61 2,4| elegant baroness has a host of admirers who follow her everywhere,
62 13,5| course he had personally adopted. ~However, a gesture, even
63 4,2| Marguerite; he pretends that he adores her." ~"Yes, monsieur, yes -
64 2,1| baroness. ~But the illustrious adorner of female loveliness had
65 10,5| Vicomte handled side arms as adroitly as pistols. He took a lesson
66 12,3| wife, and the son of an adulterous woman meet upon equal ground,
67 2,5| thoughts from your heart. The adultery of a childless wife may
68 18,3| prospects than an uncertain advancement. I have been foolish and
69 3,3| she resisted the count's advances for awhile - a very little
70 15,1| Commarin. How he, a mere adventurer, had succeeded in forcing
71 1,2| courage than the reckless adventurers whose names are recorded
72 10,3| but the character of his adversaries justified any course; besides,
73 14,1| sincerely wished that the great adversary of mankind had the Viscount
74 19,3| s arms. They could bear adversity unmoved; but their composure
75 2,3| ladies as puppets, or living advertisements, to display the absurd fashions
76 5,6| its way, at the same time advising his client to strike the
77 15,3| alcohol, he shocked me by advocating theories which were both
78 5,2| However, his defeat did not affect him very deeply. It was
79 7,2| replied, drawling out the name affectedly, "I am M. Wilkie." ~"Did
80 12,3| protect the object of his affections, when she is assailed. Engrossed
81 19,5| murmured. ~Pascal nodded affirmatively. "M. de Valorsay wishes
82 7,3| Perhaps destiny is weary of afflicting us," she continued; "perhaps
83 5,5| the inheritance which the aforesaid Coralth might prove him
84 4,1| wounds in his heart opened afresh, and his sufferings were
85 7,2| lowered his head, and in an aggrieved tone, exclaimed: "Ah! you
86 14,1| up the boulevard with an agile step. Any one else would
87 17,4| thought, as with wonderful agility he avoided Vantrasson's
88 9,2| they had ever known the agonies of that life of false appearances
89 8,2| of the society of such an agreeable and distinguished person.
90 16,1| thinking how he could most agreeably spend the time until the
91 2,2| merely for the purpose of aiding your charming and useful
92 15,5| night and all the next day, aimless and hopeless, we wandered
93 4,2| and then he began to walk aimlessly about the room. ~Pascal
94 8,4| disgust for such worthless aims and sordid desires. But
95 2,1| s conductor, and with an airy of secrecy, he asked: "What
96 14,2| emotion which was nearly akin to fear. Moreover, a glimmer
97 15,3| me afterward, heated with alcohol, he shocked me by advocating
98 20,3| of you is Paul Violaine, alias the Viscount de - - " ~The
99 18,4| outstretched hand to assist her in alighting. "Did you come to take breakfast
100 6,2| dead? He has defrauded me alike of happiness and vengeance!" ~
101 2,5| excuse it be, of a powerful, all-absorbing passion. Convinced of your
102 15,2| our track? Your family is all-powerful - I am a mere nobody - we
103 3,2| francs," said he; "that is an all-sufficient justification. With his
104 1,1| circumstances can only be alleviated by the prospect of inflicting
105 15,1| in lineage, splendor of alliance, and fortune. When I was
106 11,5| these words, phrases, and allusions, one may finally discover
107 15,2| Your brother is dead!' Almighty God! I thought I should
108 15,5| misery of the thing. To ask alms would be scarcely more humiliating.
109 11,2| prefer starvation, or the alms-house and a pauper's grave to
110 8,1| soon the sound of a violent altercation arose; the servant lavishing
111 7,7| handkerchief in it; and alternately bathed Madame d'Argeles'
112 16,2| intellect, his muscular rigidity alternating with utter relaxation, the
113 3,1| luxury that I have toiled to amass millions. If I purchased
114 10,1| others, and a couple of mere amateurs had outgeneraled him. He
115 3,1| consternation. ~ ~"This amazes you, eh?" rejoined the baron. "
116 15,3| sprang up, and exclaimed: "Amazing!" ~But Madame d'Argeles
117 6,2| with Kami-Bey, the Turkish ambassador. It had been agreed between
118 16,2| bedside; the same crafty and ambitious man, constantly tormented
119 18,4| thought it politic to seem amiable. So, on recognizing Madame
120 10,2| I hope, if nothing goes amiss." ~"Very well; I will devote
121 15,6| father say that his income amounted to more than eight hundred
122 18,4| at us! I am sure it will amuse you immensely." ~"Ah! madame,
123 8,1| reception-room, seemed greatly amused. "This is a strange household,"
124 2,4| sayings and gestures, your amusements, your occupations, and the
125 13,2| son-in-law, and vilified and anathematized by all three of them. I
126 8,2| family, and that one of her ancestors had held a most important
127 2,4| complain of is the last anchor which prevents society from
128 6,5| might have been aroused anent his complicity in the card-cheating
129 7,7| she murmured: "No! Your animosity misleads you - he wouldn'
130 9,6| day, and think that he was annihilating all proofs of his infamy.
131 8,3| should be dressed when he announces dinner to a person of rank.
132 11,3| horses and his carriages, announcing, moreover, that he would
133 7,2| be born. If I was such an annoyance to them when I came into
134 13,8| so outrageously that it annoys me. On the other hand, to
135 5,4| promenading between the Chaussee d'Antin and the Faubourg Montmartre.
136 10,6| have flowers to send to anybody it's convenient to be neighbors!" ~
137 | anyone
138 8,5| display, to the furore for aping the habits and expenditure
139 19,1| pretend to listen to his apologies. Although by no means overshrewd,
140 13,4| was something extremely appalling in the position of this
141 5,4| evening a thousand gorgeously apparelled gentlemen, with a cigar
142 5,4| compliance with your repeated appeals, I have remitted the entire
143 14,1| the only thing that could appease his furious anger and heal
144 15,6| before he would consent to append his name to it. At last,
145 5,6| through carefully, before appending his signature, and then
146 8,3| cemetery had whetted his appetite, and to address his wife
147 3,2| and you may rely upon her applauding your victory at Vincennes
148 7,7| the Code a clause which is applicable to this case. By this one
149 4,1| it; and he realized his applicant's urgent need. He felt certain
150 10,5| for the hands, and the application of cosmetic to the mustaches
151 4,1| twelvemonth at least a million applications for money or help, and for
152 17,2| passers-by turned to see who was applying this unflattering epithet
153 11,1| time in scrutinizing - in appraising the man, as it were. "What
154 6,3| insinuations, the dangers she apprehended, and her firm determination
155 18,4| which had been sent him on approbation. He did not like his wife'
156 10,6| On this occasion he had appropriated a pair of those delicately
157 12,4| Ferailleur. ~Pascal was about to approve this suggestion, when a
158 7,7| his eyes fell upon a tiny aquarium, in a corner of the room.
159 13,8| there was a strong dose of Arabian avarice and distrust in
160 15,6| last. "I will choose as an arbiter between us one of my friends -
161 13,3| in the direction of the Arc de Triomphe. Pascal's heart
162 8,2| By a search in the family archives she had discovered - so
163 3,4| began his. It was a long and arduous one, but at last it succeeded,
164 11,1| mistaken." ~"Excuse me; aren't you Madame Paul?" ~"Yes." ~"
165 12,3| rooted to be shaken by these arguments. "I won't discuss this question,
166 8,4| sure that she had heard aright. "Yourself! That is incomprehensible!
167 12,3| time that a cloud had ever arisen between mother and son.
168 6,5| death and the complications arising from it, or was she only
169 11,4| attitude, with his thumb in the armhole of his waistcoat. "Ah! nothing
170 19,2| Come, and let no fear of arousing suspicions of the Fondeges
171 10,4| plants from the vehicle and arranging them in a line under the
172 12,2| allow me to wed Marguerite arrives, you surely won't oppose
173 3,4| baron greatly agitated on arriving, and that he now seemed
174 13,4| strangle him!" But no. His arteries did not throb more quickly;
175 19,1| succumbed. Every vein and artery throbbed with violence,
176 7,2| for M. Wilkie he could not articulate a syllable. His tongue was
177 14,4| effort, he succeeded in articulating: "Anything you wish! - upon
178 13,4| had been concealed by the artifices of the toilet, he was really
179 3,4| husband was incontestably an artless fellow: but he was also,
180 10,5| expressed his admiration so artlessly that the valet, feeling
181 15,3| reason had regained its ascendency, my eyes were gradually
182 20,3| cannot escape the scaffold, ascends it with a firm step. ~He
183 5,1| on his legs. The jockey ascribed the horse's extreme thinness
184 20,3| firmness, or more generous aspirations than I once possessed. You
185 5,1| Helder, and allowed him to aspire to the character of a sporting
186 17,2| suddenly he exclaimed: "What an ass I am!" in so loud a tone
187 17,4| himself from his dangerous assailant. In the open field, he could
188 15,2| common thief, or as a vile assassin.' My only answer was: 'Let
189 15,2| exclaimed: 'I have no wish to assassinate you. Defend yourself, and
190 15,2| Arthur Gordon had virtually assassinated him. He relied upon my ignorance
191 20,1| four hundred people had assembled in the Baron's reception-rooms,
192 2,1| him as an exclamation of assent, he began: "In June, a Hungarian
193 14,5| shall leave you the means of asserting your right to my parents'
194 16,2| mistake my conjectures for assertions. Still, I ought not to conceal
195 8,2| So these people will pay assiduous court to me," she thought.
196 9,5| by me." ~Meanwhile, his assistant had returned, bringing the
197 13,8| this morning that you once assisted a man who was in a similar
198 10,5| acknowledge their kindness in assisting me." ~Fearing recognition,
199 19,5| de Valorsay, and those associated with him, do not come within
200 5,3| years' imprisonment, by assuming M. Wilkie's name, and passing
201 13,4| come here every year to astonish the Parisians with their
202 19,2| quickly gained, was indeed astounding. "Is it possible?" she murmured. ~"
203 14,1| the interest that always attaches to people who are talked
204 6,3| writ will be served, and an attachment placed upon your furniture;
205 11,5| becoming your husband; and to attain that object he won't hesitate
206 13,8| betrayed himself. He had attained his object. Still, he succeeded
207 20,3| however, prevent him from attending the trial of Vantrasson
208 14,2| his servant slept in an attic upstairs, Wilkie was quite
209 14,3| the looking-glass to study attitudes and gestures, with a new
210 20,1| naturally exercised a powerful attraction over him, and he fancied
211 16,1| of rank to increase the attractions of their gambling-den! It
212 12,4| not mistakes that we can attribute to haste! Ignorance is proved
213 18,4| remark it; however, she attributed it to the girl's remarkable
214 5,2| an eminent degree all the attributes that were likely to dazzle
215 5,6| house. Let us part friends - au revoir - and, above all,
216 6,3| without reserve, at public auction, in the Rue Drouot, with
217 14,5| furniture in the house to the auction-rooms." ~Wilkie was struck dumb
218 11,1| the Quai de la Seine. An auctioneer would have sold the entire
219 14,5| glances. They even sneered audibly and pointed at him; and
220 20,2| weakness, and surveying his audience with flashing eyes, he explained,
221 16,2| his eyes, and more than aught else the violence of his
222 10,6| darted away at a pace which augured a speedy return. ~However,
223 2,1| entries in the month of August," continued Van Klopen. "
224 7,7| Chalusse, and consequently the aunt of the beautiful young girl
225 10,1| Coralth, his housekeeper, austere Madame Dodelin, handed him
226 13,4| naturally required an exact and authentic statement of each animal'
227 19,4| the official stamp might authenticate its date. But on reflection,
228 9,5| will be returned to its author to-morrow, and he will burn
229 2,4| thirty thousand francs - I authorize you to do so; and I give
230 15,6| document, since the court has authorized it, owing to my husband'
231 3,2| is no way of calling the authors to account. They have even
232 19,1| unfortunate girl advanced with an automatic tread, her eyes fixed on
233 17,2| recommendation, and with no other auxiliaries than his own shrewdness
234 13,6| present his programme, and he availed himself of it. "Others may
235 4,2| he drained with feverish avidity, and then he began to walk
236 10,3| usual. This was the only avocation that her almost complete
237 6,2| she no longer thought of avoiding it; she awaited it with
238 13,3| would attract attention and awaken suspicion; and could he
239 5,2| uninitiated with the deepest awe. "What a disaster, my friends,"
240 8,5| Tuesday. "I must be very awkward," she thought, "if to-morrow,
241 17,4| upon its hinges, he rose so awkwardly, or rather so skilfully,
242 1,1| Pascal Ferailleur when he awoke for the first time in the
243 15,5| escaped, M. Wilkie shuddered. "B-r-r-r!" he growled. "You did well
244 16,2| by." ~The valet thereupon backed out of the room, bowing
245 7,4| this house, without one backward glance. I will never set
246 11,5| there is one thing that baffles my powers of comprehension.
247 13,6| which was not a tempting bait to the marquis's evil instincts.
248 1,1| at the butcher's or the baker's, Madame Vantrasson was
249 10,5| cleverly contrived on the balcony, and adjoining a little
250 13,4| falling upon M. de Valorsay's bald pate. He turned whiter than
251 11,1| from Paul. Come, come!" ~A bald-headed, corpulent man, who looked
252 7,7| to rights, and put some ballast in this young madcap's brains.
253 7,3| and occasionally a cry of "Banco!" or "I stake one hundred
254 12,3| close behind her with a loud bang as she left the house. Pascal
255 19,4| deposit, in my name, at the Bank of France, subject to the
256 6,4| earn his own living." ~"My banking account is always at your
257 20,2| his first efforts at the bar, crowded round him, pressing
258 9,2| reading the missive, standing barefooted in her night-dress, directly
259 19,3| 3~Upon the threshold, bareheaded, and breathless with impatience
260 9,6| carriage, and he had heard of a barouche which a Russian prince had
261 8,2| growled and cursed the old barrack where one was worked to
262 9,6| from her trunk, and, after barricading her door to prevent a surprise,
263 17,4| he felt that despite this barrier he was lost. "What a devil
264 10,4| low drinking dens near the barrieres. It was the old Chupin come
265 16,2| suspicions," he said, "suspicions based, it is true, upon strange
266 15,5| to every perfidy, to the basest treason and ingratitude.'
267 11,2| intelligent, in spite of his bashfulness. He was very light-haired,
268 10,5| its water spigots and its basins, its sponges and boxes,
269 17,2| hand, with such a slight basis to depend upon, was it not
270 2,5| hoped to discover the cursed bastard and your accomplice. It
271 7,7| handkerchief in it; and alternately bathed Madame d'Argeles's temples
272 5,1| Valorsay; they formed a little battalion of enemies who were no doubt
273 8,1| the door, carrying an old battered iron candlestick, in which
274 16,1| threshold. "It was a hard battle, but I asserted my rights.
275 6,2| contradictory feelings which were battling for mastery in his mind -
276 20,2| all the others, Kami-Bey bawled out: "To say nothing of
277 15,4| able to hold his father at bay even with the assistance
278 13,2| beard, a flat nose, small, beadlike eyes, and sensual lips.
279 19,5| with fear. With them was a bearded man who, as soon as she
280 6,5| his eyes that he was the bearer of good news. "Everything
281 2,5| disgrace to the title he bears, and who has completed the
282 7,6| table, swearing that the beastly turmoil of a few moments
283 11,3| wants his dog to love him, beats it; and, besides, when the
284 10,5| in old oak; the luxurious bed-room with its bed mounted upon
285 8,5| sheets on the visitors' beds. "Yes," thought Mademoiselle
286 16,2| the Count de Chalusse's bedside; the same crafty and ambitious
287 17,2| the misfortunes which had befallen her former employers. She
288 5,3| and if any serious trouble befalls you, write to me. Now, my
289 9,6| in case any misfortune befell her, he could obtain the
290 14,2| had at last penetrated his befogged brain: he saw that M. de
291 | beforehand
292 7,6| transported with indignation, "you beggarly rascal! you brigand! Is
293 20,2| myself as best I could. Beggars cannot be choosers; I staked
294 2,4| was only because you had begged him to do so, and because
295 14,1| three equally startling beginnings: "Another famous duel,"
296 11,1| exclaimed. "He's frightened - he begs me to wait a little - look -
297 17,4| turned pale with anger on beholding his supposed creditor, and
298 12,3| but she might meet other beings as vile as herself who would
299 6,1| Argeles, in a tone that belied her words. And, anxious
300 12,4| contradictory, now strengthened this belief. "How is it," he said to
301 16,2| he spoke, he pulled the bell-rope, and an instant after, the
302 20,2| Viscount de Coralth fairly bellowed with rage. But Pascal did
303 15,1| You know what family I belong to. I will tell you, however -
304 15,5| down on one of the stone benches of the Point-Neuf, holding
305 15,2| marvellous devotion.' And, bending over me, he printed a kiss
306 8,5| that rest would be more beneficial than anything else, and
307 2,5| of yielding, she was only bent on retaliation. ~"Does your
308 6,2| paralyzed her energies and benumbed her mind. Ruin seemed so
309 12,4| acknowledge his daughter or to bequeath her his immense fortune?
310 19,3| you as his daughter, and bequeathed you his entire fortune.
311 7,6| him. "Jacques," she said beseechingly, "Jacques!" ~This was the
312 5,4| influence that had made him rise betimes in the present case had
313 5,1| informed declared that in the betting-rooms the evening before he had
314 12,1| anguish. He was still somewhat bewildered with the strange scenes
315 10,3| at first, he had written bezique, but in the copy he wrote
316 19,3| and signed with your name, bidding me an eternal farewell.
317 12,3| Madame Ferailleur's rather bigoted opinions. Again and again
318 15,2| This pavilion contained a billiard-room and a spacious gallery in
319 7,1| boulevards, played a game of billiards with one of the co-proprietors
320 5,6| had just signed would be binding. The lawyer whom he consulted
321 12,3| break the strongest tie that binds a woman to duty. If the
322 13,7| purchaser of those horses, the biographies of which had been so rigidly
323 5,2| looked upon America as his birthplace. The French language was
324 19,5| and as formidable as our bitterest enemy could possibly desire,
325 17,4| impression, by means of a thin bladed knife similar to those which
326 14,1| once dear viscount that he blamed, accused, and cursed. ~ ~
327 6,3| the dividends of my friend Blanc, at Baden." ~"But M. de
328 15,5| comfortable room, beside a blazing fire, with a generously
329 13,1| was thirty-five, when she bleached it to the fashionable color
330 18,1| living; and a vision of his bleeding corpse, lying lifeless in
331 6,2| and which falls like God's blessing upon a tortured mind. On
332 8,3| he said, "Sacr-r-r-r-r-e bleu!" even more ferociously
333 10,4| circumstances." ~Chupin blew his nose so loudly that
334 18,3| compromised, my prospects would be blighted forever! The only course
335 10,3| that her almost complete blindness allowed her to pursue; and
336 16,1| a man of bronze," or "a block of marble," as he said. ~"
337 9,2| impossible, for the keyhole was blocked up by the key, which had
338 19,1| Fondege been so incensed. "The blockhead!" she mentally exclaimed. "
339 15,3| should have terminated in bloodshed. And the blow had fallen
340 20,2| distorted with passion, his eyes bloodshot, and foam upon his lips;
341 14,3| swollen and covered with blotches, and there were dark blue
342 8,5| herself alone, and, drawing a blotting-pad from one of her trunks,
343 7,7| him, he made the strangest blunders, and lost. His agitation
344 11,4| Chupin understood her, for he blushed to the tips of his ears,
345 3,2| yet Pascal could not help blushing and hanging his head. "I
346 5,3| where he was entered as a boarder. As he did not study, and
347 5,3| was the master of a small boarding-school, and his wife was the kindest
348 11,1| timber, and to nail some old boards over the yawning fissures
349 3,2| fifty thousand." ~ ~Was he boasting, or was he speaking the
350 14,2| of M. Wilkie's greatest boasts that he had an indomitable
351 10,6| surface is ruffled by some boatman propelling his skiff through
352 11,1| abode, his blood fairly boiled in his veins. "He ought
353 18,2| effect he had produced, grew bolder, and with the tenderest
354 9,5| be astonished at her own boldness. But she had no time to
355 14,1| burst into the room, like a bombshell, caught him by the throat,
356 17,4| Vantrasson. But to imagine any bond of interest between Pascal
357 15,5| falling, and chilled us to the bones. You were crying bitterly.
358 11,4| whom he had seen in the book-bindery, years before, clad in a
359 12,4| this morning I entered a book-shop, and purchased the volume.
360 11,4| a coarse and illiterate boor; and finally, Victor Chupin,
361 2,3| creaking of the baron's boots, as he paced to and fro,
362 10,6| the left-hand side it is bordered with miserable shanties
363 7,4| to these words with a joy bordering on rapture. One might have
364 15,1| stolid and insolent air of boredom which is considered a sure
365 16,2| unnatural, M. Casimir.' Borigeau is the concierge of the
366 11,1| bespoke terrible reverses, borne without dignity. Even if
367 13,2| worn-out animals. Everybody borrows money from me - and I'm
368 19,4| saying, she drew from her bosom one of the copies which
369 10,4| Well, I'll say a whole bottleful. my boy, if that suits you
370 9,3| flounce of Valenciennes at the bottom of the skirt. Over this,
371 20,3| notorious women, a table always bountifully spread, glasses ever overflowing
372 19,2| First of all, mademoiselle, brace yourself against the wall,
373 2,3| noble ladies, pray? The brainless fools who only think of
374 20,2| resplendent in a handsome, bran-new, black dress-suit. ~The
375 12,3| their mother's faults, were branded as outcasts, is past." ~
376 8,2| she served; for while she brandished her broom and duster, this
377 2,5| agitated, in spite of her bravado. And, besides, he was standing
378 1,1| of; - he belonged to this brave-hearted woman, who had saved him
379 15,4| but Arthur Gordon, who was bravery personified, and who exposed
380 9,3| bonnet." ~They left the breakfast-room at the same time, closely
381 4,2| 2~The breakfast-table had not been cleared, and
382 2,1| Monsieur and madame were breakfasting together - a most unusual
383 5,4| francs to a high liver, who breakfasts and dines at the best restaurants,
384 2,1| here." ~A terrible crash of breaking china interrupted this edifying
385 10,6| when the only sound that breaks the silence is the rippling
386 6,2| feverish anxiety, listening breathlessly to every sound in the street,
387 1,1| progress of the poisonous breeze which wafts an epidemic
388 9,6| connoisseur in horse-flesh, M. de Breulh-Faverlay. This excellent speculation
389 7,6| reply was so explicit in its brevity, and implied so many terrible
390 7,7| Fortunat. Ah! why didn't I not bribe him to hold his peace?" ~
391 10,3| Valorsay's residence, and of bribing one of the valets; but while
392 14,3| confidence after that? The brightest hopes, the most ecstatic
393 20,2| whose eyes sparkled more brightly than ever through her happy
394 13,5| deserting him, he poured out a brimming glass of Madeira, which
395 17,4| police be sure to hear of the broil? And if they did, would
396 7,1| wished to be alone, so as to brood over the delights that the
397 8,2| while she brandished her broom and duster, this girl, exasperated
398 13,6| well-known fact that the N - - Brothers, the most rigidly honest
399 5,6| perceived, and so in a tone of brusque cordiality, he resumed: "
400 6,4| I had suffered from his brutality when I at last succeeded
401 10,1| Sunday, when, after being brutally dismissed by M. Wilkie,
402 15,4| he threatened to turn his brutatity to you, Wilkie. To save
403 8,3| him." In fact, he seemed bubbling over with contentment. He
404 5,4| francs - a mere drop in the bucket. M. Wilkie felt indignant
405 10,4| He had visited half the buildings in the street, when he reached
406 11,5| thought - "hit just in the bull's-eye. Zounds! there's a
407 14,2| had better not attempt to bully me! Now, tell me what passed
408 13,4| muttered, as he tied up the bundle of papers he had laid aside,
409 7,1| himself to this task, and burdened Wilkie with such a host
410 1,1| he's dead and he's to be buried this very day." And with
411 14,1| Argeles, his mother, a big, burly individual had burst into
412 15,4| And as I fell on my knees, bursting into tears, and thanking
413 15,2| discover us. They would bury you in a gloomy cloister,
414 10,5| continue." ~Thereupon he busied himself placing the flowers
415 18,5| by a terrible thirst for bustle and excitement; whose head
416 7,6| feared she should see her son butchered before her very eyes, and
417 7,6| are fastened by a single button - hung down in the most
418 13,2| clad in a black frock-coat, buttoned tight to the throat, and
419 7,2| Coralth's recommendations buzzed confusedly in his ears,
420 11,1| loneliest and most dangerous by-ways of Paris as an honest man
421 5,1| replied the skeptical bystanders. "But people said exactly
422 9,4| physician who attended M. de C - - in his last moments,
423 10,2| ll pay your board, your cab-hire, and all your expenses." ~
424 17,3| the superintendent of the cab-stand in the Rue Soumot on the
425 17,3| distance she had given the cabman different instructions.
426 17,3| quarter past nine. Five cabs came in, but we need not
427 7,6| man who had brought him cakes and toys in the comfortable
428 13,8| decisive step, and who was calculating the consequences. But having
429 2,5| braving a thousand dangers in California, so as to win wealth and
430 8,4| unfrequently the case with callous natures, Madame de Fondege
431 13,3| addition in pencil: "Who calls as the representative of
432 10,5| anything to fear, and in the calmest possible tone replied, "
433 5,6| at him keenly, and then calmly said: "In other words, you
434 16,1| clad in black, with a white cambric tie round his neck, entered
435 17,3| send you back your note cancelled." ~Chupin was really very
436 15,2| imprudent enough to light the candles. One night when I had just
437 3,3| nobility of soul, such passion, candor and talent, cannot be met
438 3,4| woman. He took refuge at Cannes; but she followed him. He
439 19,5| themselves, in order to capture them all at once, and prevent
440 6,5| anent his complicity in the card-cheating affair. The hostess's calmness
441 7,7| that there would be no more card-playing at the d'Argeles establishment,
442 4,1| the marquis's pretended carelessness concealed real embarrassment,
443 2,5| were deceiving me with your caresses, you were, with fiendish
444 16,1| swallow a morsel. Thus not caring to return home, he started
445 2,3| who drink, and smoke, and carouse, who attend masked balls,
446 7,1| handsome staircase, heavily carpeted, and adorned with flowers.
447 8,3| dining-room. Furniture, carpets, and hangings, were all
448 13,3| handsome. The stables and carriage-house - really elegant structures -
449 6,1| baron? At last the sound of carriage-wheels in the courtyard made her
450 6,1| 1~"This man carries away your secret; you are
451 14,5| What's the meaning of these carts in the courtyard?" ~"They
452 13,8| himself, like unfaithful cashiers when they first appropriate
453 2,1| of smoking-room hung with cashmere of fantastic design and
454 6,3| the furniture, wardrobe, cashmeres, laces, and diamonds of
455 17,1| again arrayed himself in his cast-off clothes, and with his blouse
456 19,3| he opened it; and then, catching Marguerite in his arms,
457 3,4| street corners with infinite caution; it seemed to him that he
458 5,1| not have been dismissed so cavalierly. He would at least have
459 14,2| experienced men than himself. So, ceasing his recriminations, he began
460 8,3| say that the drive to the cemetery had whetted his appetite,
461 20,2| him almost to suffocation, censuring themselves for having suspected
462 7,2| thoughts and all my hopes are centered in you alone! Wilkie!" ~ ~
463 2,2| thirty-three francs, ninety centimes." ~"Call it twenty-eight
464 10,1| where all his sensibility centred. For it was in this cash-box
465 15,1| a real park, shaded with century-old trees. Certainly everything
466 13,7| breakfast without the slightest ceremony, and would give me no peace
467 17,3| conjectures were changed into certainties. This information proved
468 8,3| Justine." ~The pert-looking chambermaid appeared, and her mistress
469 5,2| box of his carriage with champagne for nothing. At last the
470 10,2| Coralth would be the Duc de Champdoce to-day. And shall he be
471 13,4| of defrauding Domingo's champions by a conspiracy? ~At last
472 10,5| this establishment. The chandeliers seemed marvels in his eyes;
473 18,2| mother have continually been chanting your praises. 'Mademoiselle
474 2,5| her as a discreet and easy chaperon? Who married her to a wretch
475 10,1| five thousand - without charging them any commission. I'll
476 18,5| started back as if a yawning chasm had suddenly opened at her
477 8,3| club, my dear. I want a chat with our dear child." ~Since
478 18,2| drinking a glass of the Chateau Laroze, to which Madame
479 19,2| off and the laughter and chatter of the servants in the kitchen
480 7,6| frightened that his teeth chattered. "Pardon!" he faltered. ~"
481 19,5| distorted faces and teeth chattering with fear. With them was
482 20,2| brilliant viscount was gayly chatting with them, when a footman,
483 5,4| promenading between the Chaussee d'Antin and the Faubourg
484 18,2| fair sex. It was the good cheer that loosened his tongue.
485 13,2| get extras I pay for them cheerfully, without haggling. Follow
486 5,6| little plan which was a chef d'oeuvre in its way, at
487 13,3| about on side-tables and cheffoniers. Each of these objects bore
488 5,4| that gentleman sent him a cheque for one thousand francs -
489 20,1| his father, the terrible chevalier d'industrie, hung over his
490 9,3| mention as noticeable for its "chic." "Picture to yourself,"
491 5,1| young men hired him, it was chiefly, or only in view of, displaying
492 13,1| 1~It was pure childishness on Pascal's part to doubt
493 2,5| heart. The adultery of a childless wife may be forgiven or
494 13,6| air, and remarked in the chilling tone of a person who is
495 16,4| dark forebodings are only chimeras! Yes, she will swear it,
496 20,2| apartment opposite the lofty chimney-piece. "Gentlemen," he began,
497 6,3| The baron was stroking his chin, as was his usual habit
498 8,2| paper, and adorned with chintz curtains, from which the
499 10,5| might think oneself in a chiropodist's, or a dentist's establishment,"
500 6,1| This is a practical age; chivalrous sentiments are expensive -
501 14,1| where the flower of French chivalry usually congregates, in