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502 13,8| taken nothing but a cup of chocolate that day. Thereupon perceiving
503 20,2| could. Beggars cannot be choosers; I staked my all upon a
504 5,4| francs a year is what one chooses to make it - wealth or poverty.
505 17,1| willingly allow himself to be chopped in pieces for her sake;
506 18,5| the newspapers and in the chronicles of Parisian "high life";
507 5,3| some of his old college chums. He found two of them; and,
508 13,2| him the appearance of a chunky bottle, sealed with red
509 14,3| always lived in a lower circle to that in which the baroness
510 3,2| lie!" ~ ~"Who has dared to circulate such a report?" ~ ~"Oh,
511 20,1| A strange rumor was in circulation among the guests. Many of
512 11,3| listened to Chupin's clear and circumstantial report. "I have not been
513 14,4| day. The main thing is to circumvent your father, the terrible
514 7,5| answer, copied from the civil code: 'Article 341. Inquiry
515 6,4| paternal fortune. As for claiming it himself, he dared not.
516 20,2| echoed M. de Coralth. ~But a clamor arose, drowning these protestations,
517 18,1| mustache. He made a great clanking with his spurs, and wore
518 16,4| marry you!'" ~M. de Valorsay clapped his hands. "Bravo!" he exclaimed; "
519 11,1| reading the letter eagerly, clapping her hands with delight as
520 7,3| no longer had strength to clasp me round the neck. And then
521 7,7| had copied from the Code a clause which is applicable to this
522 11,1| story high, and built of clay, and it had fallen to ruin
523 11,2| even now. So he kissed the cleanest spot he could find on the
524 4,2| breakfast-table had not been cleared, and a large decanter of
525 11,4| experience and poor ability in clearing an innocent man who has
526 14,4| thus gained considerably in clearness and precision; and even
527 2,1| every morning. Rare plants climbed the walls up gilded trellis
528 10,5| de Coralth was already climbing the stairs, four at a time,
529 18,5| body, and who yet still clings despairingly to her fleeting
530 17,3| lady had left it in the cloak-room, and the next day a fat
531 2,1| Medicis mantle, two opera cloaks - - " ~"And I was certainly
532 15,2| would bury you in a gloomy cloister, and I should be tried as
533 2,1| one dressing-gown, one close-fitting Medicis mantle, two opera
534 14,4| Valorsay was listening with the closest attention. ~Worthy marquis!
535 13,7| him for two hours. I was closeted with him, cards in hand,
536 14,2| roughly by the arm, and closing the door with a kick, he
537 14,4| turn and fly, when the man clothed in black opened the door
538 19,1| her eyes closed, her hands clutched wildly for some support,
539 14,1| Viscount de Coralth in his clutches. For, in his despair, it
540 20,1| a dozen carriages in the coach-house. He devoted his attention
541 8,1| money enough to pay for coaches," replied the driver with
542 2,4| thousand francs to one of my coachmen; it is because our steward
543 10,6| shops, and several huge coal depots. On the right-hand
544 11,1| that black and glutinous coal-dust which forms the soil of
545 2,2| series of oaths worthy of a coal-heaver, two or three frightened
546 7,7| traitor was evidently on coals of fire. I could see the
547 13,7| he exclaimed, with that coarseness of manner which was habitual
548 13,3| saying to himself that the coast was clear, and that he should
549 9,5| imperial, and clad in a velvet coat, entered the room, and bowing
550 8,3| appearance, and festooned with cobwebs, such as the urchins of
551 10,4| in a line under the porte cochere. As soon as the cart was
552 14,2| stylish lady, that notorious cocotte - - " ~The viscount sprang
553 15,3| cursed ship, eating salt cod twice a day, and living
554 13,2| deference. I'll be petted and coddled and made much of, or else
555 10,6| tobacco dealer, and his cogitations only made him more perplexed
556 1,2| other quickly pocketed the coin, not a little surprised
557 2,3| know. Only your ideas don't coincide with mine. I shall never
558 16,2| completely overwhelmed. The coincidence between the doctor's deposition
559 15,6| eyes of the police, and in coining money out of a woman's supposed
560 2,1| gorgeous liveries as gold coins fresh from the mint; still,
561 11,2| one of those patient, cold-blooded hypocrites who make poverty
562 10,1| to say "thanks," in the coldest possible tone. ~Absorbed
563 15,6| her story with apparent coldness, and yet, in her secret
564 1,2| servant called one of his colleagues. "Eh! Florestan - is the
565 10,5| Never had he seen in one collection such a variety of steel
566 17,4| prevent you from acting as a collector, does it?" ~Chupin instinctively
567 3,3| madly in love as a young collegian - sufficiently in love to
568 8,2| had extracted most of the coloring. Everything was in disorder
569 14,1| pass out with haggard eyes, colorless lips, and disordered clothing,
570 13,4| glanced rapidly through their columns, and threw them on the floor
571 11,1| had not been touched by a comb for weeks; and her big black
572 14,3| meeting; then he lends the combatants weapons when they have none;
573 9,3| to arrive at an effective combination of colors and materials.
574 3,1| the world knew was only a comedian; this was the real man. ~ ~
575 8,5| but these were the only comfortably furnished apartments in
576 15,1| he had already been the commander of a slave ship, and had
577 5,2| the continual subject of comment; he would be credited with
578 13,4| am playing the part of a commentator," he remarked. "I sold seven
579 11,3| exclaimed: "Have you executed my commissions?" ~"They have been executed,
580 16,2| shrewd for that; and yet, a compact had been concluded by which
581 11,3| feeling of satisfaction at all comparable with that which he now experienced.
582 8,2| offered to Madame Leon, who on comparing these quarters with the
583 15,1| me without a dowry, or of compelling me to enter one of those
584 5,3| SEND,' because my business compels me to return to England,
585 8,2| sufficiently liberal reward to compensate for all personal discomfort.
586 9,4| which you shall be amply compensated. You have cause to know
587 5,2| His horses are going to compete!" What bliss thrilled his
588 8,1| father. We have only a modest competence, no more. But here we are!" ~ ~
589 18,2| No." ~Any one but the complacent lieutenant would have been
590 11,1| did I tell you?" he said complacently. ~"Yes, you were right!"
591 1,1| condition you come without complaining if I sometimes require your
592 16,4| undoubtedly; but terribly complicated. When there are so many
593 6,5| brother's death and the complications arising from it, or was
594 6,5| have been aroused anent his complicity in the card-cheating affair.
595 12,3| she did not receive the compliments she expected, and which
596 12,1| it were a dog, I cannot comprehend. I could imagine infanticide
597 9,2| and her knitted brows and compressed lips suggested deep concentration
598 18,3| name I bear should ever be compromised, my prospects would be blighted
599 17,3| that way with one of your comrades, come in, and I'll reward
600 15,1| given at the house of the Comte de Commarin. How he, a mere
601 2,2| over himself or this scene conceals some mystery," thought Pascal. ~
602 13,4| end. Besides, he would not concede that all was lost; and,
603 6,4| Argeles spoke in that tone of concentrated rage which betrays years
604 9,2| compressed lips suggested deep concentration of thought mingled with
605 14,5| to carry out his happiest conceptions, his courage failed him. "
606 9,2| engrossed in his or her own concerns to notice the behavior of
607 8,4| eleventh, there will be a concert, followed by a ball, at
608 11,2| to stoop to such shameful concessions! If she were acquainted
609 17,2| but Chupin had a way of conciliating even the most crabbish doorkeeper,
610 19,3| making to give a clear and concise explanation, for he had
611 15,3| would have been a family conclave; a compromise would have
612 17,1| to Chupin as one does in concluding a bargain. ~If he had yielded
613 10,5| another, the valet stated as a conclusive argument that the baroness
614 5,6| of the scrape. He could concoct some story for Wilkie's
615 2,5| daughter and my son-in-law, had concocted this vile conspiracy together.
616 6,5| conduct clearly now, and I condemn it. I sinned for my son'
617 12,4| am so wretched - that she condemns me unheard, and has no greater
618 19,4| in case any one could condescend to think of him, after the
619 2,2| her husband's gold and the condescension of a worthy German prince,
620 13,8| Besides, the sale was only conditional, and took place under the
621 2,1| in the eyes of Pascal's conductor, and with an airy of secrecy,
622 9,3| could be completed! How many conferences with the dressmaker, with
623 5,6| with Wilkie before he had conferred with him, for he was completely
624 18,1| track of the thieves. By conferring with the people from whom
625 15,1| chosen for me by my mother's confessor, and which were calculated
626 11,4| regretting the necessity of confiding in this man, for the more
627 16,4| eight or ten days' solitary confinement and several rigid examinations,
628 9,4| which I have just received, confirms what my servants had already
629 5,5| It was easy to divine the conflict that was raging in his mind,
630 15,1| and how should he act to conform himself to the probable
631 12,1| intelligence and will to confounding this infamous calumny. And
632 9,6| is courageous enough to confront an unknown, mysterious,
633 2,3| attentively, but only heard a few confused words, to which the baron
634 7,2| s recommendations buzzed confusedly in his ears, and he judged
635 18,2| misunderstanding her silence, and congratulating himself upon the effect
636 14,1| French chivalry usually congregates, in the company of golden-haired
637 10,6| la Seine is a broad road, connecting the Rue de Flandres with
638 9,6| amount from a celebrated connoisseur in horse-flesh, M. de Breulh-Faverlay.
639 13,8| Still, he succeeded in conquering his emotion, and it was
640 11,4| much the same tone as a conqueror might assume to explain
641 13,3| after weighing the pros and cons, Pascal determined to present
642 11,2| own mother. Chupin felt conscience-smitten even now. So he kissed the
643 12,1| consent to live was that of consecrating his life, and all his strength,
644 6,2| chanced to be one of three consecutive days which Baron Trigault
645 14,1| quite above such paltry considerations - good enough for commonplace
646 2,1| unknown visitor, plainly considering him to be one of those persons
647 9,1| that her task would merely consist in carefully watching the
648 17,2| added that his duty only consisted in noting the arrivals and
649 20,3| often goes to visit and console the widow Gordon, formerly
650 13,5| from his parting words: 'It consoles me a little,' he said, '
651 11,5| position. I can prove that he conspired with M. de Coralth to ruin
652 12,2| yearly income of which is to constitute the marriage dowry of some
653 13,5| magnitude of a man's income that constitutes affluence, but rather the
654 14,3| discernment; "he hasn't a bronze constitution like myself." ~M. Wilkie
655 7,5| to the courts in order to constrain me to acknowledge you as
656 15,2| yours.' He spoke in the constrained tone, and with that air
657 6,5| heart, and yet she tried to construe them as mere proofs of her
658 2,1| Klopen. And as if he had construed the oath that answered him
659 5,6| binding. The lawyer whom he consulted replied that, at all events,
660 9,6| girl - had outwitted this consummate scoundrel!" I have not been
661 9,4| crime!" A bold stroke is in contemplation which, if no unfortunate
662 13,5| Valorsay interrupted him with a contemptuous sneer. "Didn't you just
663 17,2| he had a great deal to contend against. Pausing in his
664 13,4| ruined millionaire, who was contending desperately against his
665 8,3| seemed bubbling over with contentment. He twirled his mustaches
666 19,3| suppose this will should be contested, your property might pass
667 7,5| me, but I foresaw such a contingency, and here is my answer,
668 5,2| papers; he would be the continual subject of comment; he would
669 18,2| but reason told her that a continuation of this scene would render
670 13,8| been. I am on the point of contracting a marriage which will make
671 9,5| noble cause. This striking contrast - this struggle between
672 18,3| and in a solemn tone, that contrasted strangely with his usual
673 8,2| Madame de Fondege showed her contributed not a little to her resignation.
674 13,2| by the sound of a lively controversy in the hall. ~"Who's taking
675 10,6| asking if it suits your convenience. If it hadn't been for you,
676 10,6| to send to anybody it's convenient to be neighbors!" ~He glanced
677 3,4| daughter in some provincial convent. During the last few months
678 15,1| one of those aristocratic convents, which are the refuge, and
679 19,5| by a magistrate, who is conversant with the whole affair, can
680 10,4| had appeared before his conversion. And as he took a last look
681 10,4| woman was preaching to a convert; for during the past three
682 15,3| some jewelry which could be converted into money. I gave him all
683 15,3| but not for the purpose of conveying me to the Hotel de Chalusse -
684 16,3| testimony will be sufficient to convict her of the robbery. As for
685 5,1| Baron P., who were finally convicted of the same rascality that
686 7,7| s mother survives. Even convicts deprive themselves of their
687 16,2| the violence of his last convulsions, have led me to ask myself
688 12,2| his mother with one hand convulsively clutching the back of the
689 8,3| However, the dinner was badly cooked and poorly served. One might
690 1,1| would be delighted with my cooking, for I have seen more than
691 1,1| first question of French cooks, on presenting themselves
692 2,4| that of Jenny Fancy, or Cora Pearl, or Ninette Simplon.
693 5,6| so in a tone of brusque cordiality, he resumed: "Excuse me
694 12,3| herself. Her vanity as a cordon-bleu was piqued because she did
695 20,1| renunciation had been so correctly drawn up, that as soon as
696 7,6| baron no longer doubted the correctness of his conjectures, and
697 6,3| will write to your London correspondent. Request M. Patterson to
698 15,1| nature? This man, who was a corrupt and audacious hypocrite,
699 10,5| and the application of cosmetic to the mustaches and eyebrows.
700 13,8| Jenny Fancy with a necklace costing five-and-twenty thousand
701 6,4| yourself in some pretty cottage near London, and create
702 5,4| M. Patterson, which was couched as follows: ~"MY DEAR SIR,
703 10,5| the sumptuous chairs and couches eclipsed M. Fortunat's wonderful
704 2,3| noisily moved a chair, and coughed in that affected style which
705 7,7| person who sent him here had counselled coolness and prudence. I
706 8,1| perilous seductions, perfidious counsels, and perhaps even violence,
707 9,1| they retired with radiant countenances, and an obsequious smile
708 12,4| but it's only a clever counterfeit. And who doesn't know that
709 7,7| mothers!" ~A burning tear coursed down the baron's cheek;
710 15,6| matter if I were known as a courtesan since rumor lied, and my
711 13,4| in acknowledgment of this courtesy on his visitor's part, and
712 13,6| creditors quiet while his courtship was in progress. The day
713 20,1| intended to send him to Coventry later on, but just now M.
714 14,4| carriages shrouded in linen covers; when he counted the valets
715 15,1| me in an unknown hand was covertly handed me by my maid, I
716 15,4| enmity of this dangerous coveter of the Chalusse millions.
717 18,3| displayed to satisfy their covetous longings, they hoped to
718 20,2| have lost and you spurn me. Cowards! hypocrites! that you are,
719 17,2| conciliating even the most crabbish doorkeeper, and of drawing
720 2,5| myself that the sight of her cradle would drive all evil thoughts
721 13,6| one else: 'We are rather cramped just now; but see that rascal
722 2,1| still here." ~A terrible crash of breaking china interrupted
723 2,3| could distinctly hear the creaking of the baron's boots, as
724 15,6| still remained the task of creating for myself one of those
725 10,6| they send you anywhere in creation without even asking if it
726 2,1| names which he gave to his "creations," and interrupted every
727 5,1| race, was steadily gaining credence. ~Large sums had been staked
728 20,1| claims and displayed his credentials he was placed in possession
729 5,2| of comment; he would be credited with splendid, perfect "
730 8,3| prepare for the benefit of credulous customers was brought in -
731 9,2| directly opposite the little crevice. She read line after line,
732 14,4| friend is indeed in a most critical position, a position from
733 5,1| said exactly the same of Croisenois, of the Duc de H., and Baron
734 3,2| conversation in the form of a cross-examination, and after the marquis's
735 7,3| Argeles, his mother, who was crouching in the middle of the room
736 2,4| If it is scandal that crowns one a great lady, you ARE
737 2,2| succeed in organizing a little crusade against you." And animated
738 10,2| they are my supports, my crutches, and with them I'm not afraid
739 15,6| thought that reflection would cure me of my folly. Unfortunately,
740 6,5| gleamed in her eyes. One curious guest, without a thought
741 7,7| very night, indeed, it was currently reported at the clubs that
742 2,2| repays his creditors with curses." ~The noise of an overturned
743 20,3| The open window, and a curtain rudely torn from its fastenings
744 2,1| and encircled by a low, cushioned divan, covered with the
745 14,5| the lake, reclining on the cushions of her victoria, and eclipsing
746 9,3| or will not, buy. It is a custom, which some noble ladies
747 10,3| him. He isn't a regular customer, but he comes here occasionally." ~"
748 18,5| the wife created by the customs of fashionable society;
749 1,2| the change he had made by cutting off his hair and beard,
750 3,1| assurance, the good-natured cynic, the frequenter of gambling-dens?
751 20,2| absolutely frightful in his cynicism, hatred, and scorn. "Ah!
752 9,3| overflowing with richly-attired dames and damsels, who ask to
753 13,4| suffered the tortures of the damned in his struggle to maintain
754 9,4| I can place this proud damsel in a perilous, terribly
755 9,3| richly-attired dames and damsels, who ask to see all the
756 10,2| sweetheart after all; and I'll dance at the wedding." ~As he
757 5,3| rivers; and after dinner they danced. And at day-break, having
758 5,1| mouth, and his racing card dangling from his button-hole, he
759 7,3| of abject misery that one dares not lift one's head before
760 18,2| Your parents, I suppose; I daresay they told you to be bold.
761 2,2| Van Klopen's impudence in daring to read such a bill, the
762 8,5| threshold. She was a tall, dark-haired, ill-mannered woman. "Ah!
763 15,4| saw Arthur Gordon's face darken, as he talked with evident
764 10,5| returned!" exclaimed the valet, darting to the window. ~Chupin also
765 14,2| First I should like - - " ~"Dash it all! Do you suppose that
766 19,4| stamp might authenticate its date. But on reflection, he became
767 13,2| pictures, they sell me vile daubs at fabulous prices. They
768 19,2| who was destined to be her daughter-in-law at once became sacred in
769 15,5| me, Wilkie, and nothing daunted me. ~"I finally succeeded
770 19,2| he had also spoken of her dauntless energy, the nobility of
771 5,3| dinner they danced. And at day-break, having served his apprenticeship
772 2,4| wife's shoulders are of dazzling whiteness, and that high
773 6,2| excess of wretchedness had deadened her sensibility. Utter prostration
774 9,1| they must deem me blind, deaf, and more stupid than mortal
775 13,4| depriving him of his honor - dearer than life itself - was at
776 14,5| none the less received her death-blow. It was only necessary to
777 5,5| That wouldn't be polite. A debtor is always sacred, and I
778 17,2| of M. Isidore Fortunat's debtors, a man whom he often visited
779 14,3| which invariably attacks debutants, and makes the throat so
780 11,3| s house. The General had decamped early in the morning to
781 4,2| been cleared, and a large decanter of water was still standing
782 8,5| she had escaped unharmed. ~Deceit was certainly most repugnant
783 11,1| least three minutes more to decipher the missive. Chupin had
784 15,3| glances whenever I appeared on deck, I saw that my position
785 8,3| she found it difficult to decline the favors they longed to
786 5,4| illustrious tailor, who declines to make a pair of trousers
787 5,1| of whips and spurs that decorated his apartments in the Rue
788 9,6| her? Would he attempt to decoy her into a trap where she
789 13,4| hands, before his premature decrepitude had been concealed by the
790 1,1| expressed her willingness to deduct five francs from the sum
791 13,8| Marquis. I have, of course, deducted my commission. Now, if you
792 16,2| magistrate, and his alarming deductions found their way even to
793 19,5| of care on his forehead deepened, as he said: "Happiness
794 13,4| record the victories or defeats of the animals he has purchased.
795 6,2| is about to strike their defenceless heads. She tottered to her
796 14,2| Yes, Madame d'Argeles's defender is Baron Trigault." ~M.
797 5,1| stoop to cheat?" asked his defenders. "To put money into one'
798 17,2| and utilized his wits in defending his meagre salary from his
799 16,4| Valorsay had turned very pale. "Defer your complaints until another
800 13,2| have myself treated with deference. I'll be petted and coddled
801 20,2| pursue him, and bid them defiance, he confronted the throng
802 16,2| understood each other. No definite words had passed between
803 11,2| stood revealed in all its deformity. Chupin had good cause to
804 20,2| in self-justification the degenerate age in which we live - an
805 13,1| turning her head, or even deigning to look at him. She did
806 1,2| Pascal shook his head dejectedly. "Didn't you hear, mother?"
807 13,7| gather courage. But no! He deliberated some time, and then rejoined: "
808 9,6| from the villain who had deliberately dishonored Pascal? How would
809 15,6| a moment, as if he were deliberating upon the course he ought
810 7,1| himself time for further deliberation, he returned to his rooms,
811 10,6| appropriated a pair of those delicately tinted trousers which were
812 5,5| and his joy was wild - delirious. "Enough, enough!" he interrupted. "
813 18,3| very lives depended. But delirium seemed to have seized them
814 5,3| give a fete in honor of his deliverance, and so he hurried off in
815 17,4| indifferent tone of a man who is delivering a message, the meaning of
816 8,3| of that dangerous optical delusion known as prejudice. She
817 9,4| light-headed," he thought. ~Her demeanor was really so extraordinary
818 6,4| the sale of a woman of the demi monde. Oh! don't fear -
819 18,5| notoriety of the leaders of the demi-monde; the woman who is always
820 5,4| drives out with yellow-haired demoiselles, and who owns a race-horse?
821 2,5| has completed the work of demoralization you began? And what is your
822 10,4| she is, and to see herself denounced by her own son! I, who am
823 19,5| I myself wrote out the denunciation, which was as terrible and
824 10,4| Still he did not think of denying it. She would only have
825 7,1| twirled his mustaches, and departed on his mission. He even
826 17,2| had charge of a certain department, and was compelled to return
827 17,2| noting the arrivals and departures of the drivers, and that
828 14,4| victimized, if he's left dependent on his own resources." ~"
829 14,1| his eyes; and he bitterly deplored the step he had taken. Yes,
830 8,3| amazed to see her husband deport himself in this style, and
831 15,1| example of these models of deportment? Manifestly he ought to
832 16,2| coincidence between the doctor's deposition and M. Casimir's testimony
833 10,6| shops, and several huge coal depots. On the right-hand side -
834 6,5| proof of his scorn for the depraved creatures who haunt the
835 11,2| leisure to the profit of their depravity - one of those patient,
836 12,1| moments of frenzy and terrible depression; but he was incapable of
837 13,4| ruining his future, and depriving him of his honor - dearer
838 14,5| of degradation you might descend to? With your instincts
839 17,3| courtyard. The driver slowly descended from his box and then went
840 7,6| the baron's clinched fist descending like a sledge-hammer on
841 13,7| breathless from his hurried descent of the staircase. "Ah! you
842 18,2| crystal? Ah! my mother's descriptions fell far short of the truth.
843 7,6| and swore lustily at the deserters who had broken up the game. "
844 3,3| shall lead there! I don't deserve such good fortune. I must
845 12,2| the marriage dowry of some deserving orphan." ~Pascal was greatly
846 2,1| with cashmere of fantastic design and gorgeous hues, and encircled
847 16,2| prepared this gentleman" - designating M. Wilkie - "for your terrible
848 5,4| restaurants, whose clothes are designed by an illustrious tailor,
849 19,5| conduct at that moment. So, desirous of making a full confession,
850 8,5| other rooms were bare and desolate. It is true that Madame
851 1,1| but he does not act. He despairs, and asks himself what would
852 14,3| project, then," sighed Wilkie, despondently; "but pray advise me. What
853 7,7| Lia." ~She shook her head despondingly. "Do you suppose that my
854 11,5| a porter there that her destination was London. M. Ferailleur
855 8,5| for how could this extreme destitution in one part of the establishment
856 11,1| with the phosphorescent and destructive brilliancy of fever. Everything
857 13,8| reply, the marquis began a desultory tramp up and down the smoking-room.
858 4,1| he had not an equal for detecting a coming appeal. "Good heavens!"
859 17,3| fifty thousand francs on its detective force every year, it knows
860 19,2| suspicions of the Fondeges deter you. They are henceforth
861 9,6| meaning? Marguerite could not determine. One thing is certain, the
862 7,4| these rooms again - the detested gamblers who are sitting
863 13,8| or triple the amount! The deuce! that requires reflection,
864 5,1| least have been allowed to develop his proposals, and then
865 6,5| and in the meantime don't deviate in the least from your usual
866 5,5| solely on your account that I deviated from my usual habits." ~"
867 13,2| the details of the scheme devised by his young friend, he
868 7,1| dined at the Cafe Riche, devoting as much time as possible
869 15,3| necklace, with a handsome diamond cross attached to it. However,
870 1,1| this was not a satisfying diet, as she was forced to confess;
871 6,5| refuse. But now I would dig the ground with my own hands,
872 16,1| the newspapers a month to digest this strange romance. And
873 3,3| rheumatism in prospect, and my digestion is becoming impaired - in
874 14,4| With a most gracious and dignified air - the air of a true
875 15,2| contracted, and her eyes dilated, would have realized that
876 16,2| with utter relaxation, the dilation of the pupils of his eyes,
877 13,5| shouldn't now find myself in a dilemma from which I see no possible
878 12,3| true, mother." ~"She worked diligently, you said, so as to improve
879 11,1| adjusted, the light was so dim that it took him at least
880 11,2| figure Chupin could only dimly distinguish in the darkness. "
881 5,4| liver, who breakfasts and dines at the best restaurants,
882 17,4| day, it appeared even more dingy and dilapidated. Madame
883 19,2| apprehensions were realized. The dinner-hour came and passed, and still
884 11,3| would not return before dinner-time. A little while later, Madame
885 5,3| possession of the precious diploma which opens the door of
886 13,3| Valorsay is playing the diplomat," he thought. "He doesn'
887 7,5| did not pretend to be a diplomatist, and, indeed, he was greatly
888 7,7| a corner of the room. He dipped his handkerchief in it;
889 8,3| companion" had ever made any direct allusion to her relatives,
890 13,7| baron's house that Pascal directed his steps. ~After the more
891 12,3| cause of one of the greatest disappointments of my life; but I have no
892 2,3| be a pity to arouse the disapproval of your friends." ~This
893 15,2| springing upon my brother, disarmed him, and wounded him in
894 5,2| the deepest awe. "What a disaster, my friends," he exclaimed. "
895 15,3| love affair had ended so disastrously. It was deplorable to think
896 13,2| which you might perhaps disavow, and - " ~With a careless
897 20,3| when she is too long in discarding, by ejaculating, in a stentorian
898 7,4| selfishness and cunning she discerned in Wilkie's mind appalled
899 8,3| In the daytime when he discharged the duties of footman, he
900 5,4| previously, he had so far disclosed it to no one. It was certainly
901 15,6| she perhaps hoped that by disclosing her terrible sacrifice and
902 7,5| declaration would silence and discomfit Wilkie, but she was mistaken.
903 7,2| who, after enjoying his discomfiture, would suddenly make their
904 8,2| compensate for all personal discomfort. So, in the sweetest of
905 13,3| sure that nothing could disconcert or even trouble him in future.
906 9,2| of thought mingled with discontent. At last she shrugged her
907 3,4| become discouraged and had discontinued his search, that the count
908 6,5| think it wise or kind to discourage her. "Nonsense!" he said
909 1,1| setting to work, how many discouragements arise! The fever of revolt
910 11,4| have made several important discoveries. It must have been your
911 2,5| life? and who used her as a discreet and easy chaperon? Who married
912 11,5| Mademoiselle Marguerite discreetly refrained from committing
913 4,2| does NOT explain the great discrepancy between your allegations
914 5,1| ring. People were eagerly discussing the Marquis de Valorsay'
915 19,2| photographer. He was fortunately disengaged, and she at once obtained
916 19,1| His face was considerably disfigured, and one of his eyes was
917 20,3| indebted for bread. Obliged to disgorge their plunder, and left
918 3,3| night, being completely disguised, she left her child on a
919 11,1| in its appointments, and disgustingly dirty. The floor was covered
920 2,4| dresses, but how she looks en dishabille, and how she is formed;
921 2,1| hundred francs' worth of dishes. He MUST be rich to pay
922 11,4| coarse serge frock, with dishevelled hair covered with scraps
923 3,1| him in this vile work of dishonoring an honest man?" ~ ~"The
924 6,1| that his visit was entirely disinterested. He had pretended that his
925 18,2| felt sure that I should dislike you; but I have seen you
926 2,1| if they would ultimately dislocate their jaws and arms. ~"Tell
927 5,4| He saw himself reduced to dismissing his carriage, to selling
928 4,2| Very well! She must be disobeyed. You must discover some
929 9,6| little, she was inclined to disparage rather than to exaggerate
930 15,4| but he seemed even more displeased than before. 'Such is the
931 17,1| very good plan, but if it displeases you, we will say no more
932 18,1| that was too becoming to be displeasing; and he offered her his
933 3,3| This assertion seemed to disprove Pascal's statements. "Can
934 9,1| saw the bill paid without dispute or even examination, he
935 2,1| for absolute necessities disputed in this style," she was
936 5,1| to make an example, and disqualify both the marquis and his
937 5,6| knowledge did not seem to disquiet him, for it was in the same
938 14,1| What most troubled and disquieted him was not the condition
939 9,1| position to be treated with disrespect a second time." ~This probably
940 8,4| ashamed to find that she could dissemble so well. ~"Besides," continued
941 15,6| There was one great cause of dissension between the baron and myself.
942 20,3| gayety, wild excitement, and dissipation. You, too, have a passion
943 17,4| vacant house a few paces distant from the Vantrassons', and
944 2,5| task seemed too hard or too distasteful when I thought of you -
945 20,1| Besides, people of rank and distinction naturally exercised a powerful
946 3,1| was evinced by a frightful distortion of his features. His face
947 3,1| exclaimed: "But it is useless to distract one's mind with an incurable
948 16,2| am I to do?" And in his distress he glanced from the doctor
949 20,3| don't pretend to be so distressingly virtuous! I was ruined -
950 1,2| magnificent in the opulent district of the Madeleine, and its
951 8,1| are the cause of all this disturbance, and I am very sorry for
952 9,2| proofs she had seen, the most disturbing doubts returned. Might she
953 5,1| cheat, he could have easily diverted suspicion. He would have
954 14,4| sufficient, not only to divest him of all his scruples,
955 6,4| handsome fortune and we will divide it. I will give you back
956 6,3| cause than in swelling the dividends of my friend Blanc, at Baden." ~"
957 8,4| my child - for you are divinely beautiful - you will reign
958 2,4| has an exquisite foot, a divinely-shaped leg, and a perfect hand.
959 17,3| But as he belongs to this division he will be back sooner or
960 14,5| long before you were in the dock, and I should hear of you
961 20,2| Valorsay. ~"Don't try that dodge on us!" shouted Chupin. "
962 6,5| spy, Victor Chupin, was dogging her carriage. It was most
963 16,2| but continued in the same dogmatic tone. "The count apparently
964 2,1| him he does the same as dogs do when they come up out
965 1,1| you off." ~However, these doleful complaints, far from rendering
966 6,4| and you will see all the dolls that hairdressers, milliners
967 7,2| assurance which was the dominant trait in his character was
968 7,6| pittance, and held in check and domineered over by a brutal father. "
969 5,1| had been aroused, he was doomed to grievous disappointment.
970 9,1| the General's abode. The door-bell rang incessantly for several
971 7,5| hand was already on the door-knob. But Madame d'Argeles detained
972 19,3| happiness; and standing in the door-way, Madame Ferailleur felt
973 3,3| she left her child on a doorstep in the vicinity of the central
974 16,1| is touched, and when long dormant instincts at last assert
975 13,8| for there was a strong dose of Arabian avarice and distrust
976 14,2| called him to account in double-quick time." ~M. de Coralth shrugged
977 14,1| estate, which was more than doubtful, would he not be obliged
978 8,4| she, "these dresses will doubtless do very well for your first
979 19,1| hesitation, and so she went down-stairs at once. Hope sent new blood
980 15,4| could not understand how the down-trodden slave dared to revolt against
981 14,5| would arrest you upon your downward path except a large fortune.
982 10,3| doubted it. In the rough draft which he penned at first,
983 7,5| disgracing the name and dragging it through the mire." ~Wilkie
984 2,5| conception of the terrible dramas which are constantly enacted
985 16,3| but there is one slight drawback - I don't know how to draw
986 13,8| the table, swearing like a drayman. However, controlling himself
987 2,5| accomplice. It was because I dreamed of a vengeance as terrible
988 20,1| any period of transition, dreamlike as it were, he had passed
989 7,4| eyes. She had taken her dreams for realities, and the desires
990 9,6| elaborate toilette she had dreamt of. The ladies were still
991 14,4| lackey attired in a black dress-coat, and as serious in mien
992 3,4| and also by paying her dress-maker's bills." ~The baron sprang
993 20,2| handsome, bran-new, black dress-suit. ~The marquis could no longer
994 14,1| washes his soiled linen and dries it in the glare of publicity!
995 2,4| which prevents society from drifting one knows not where. Those
996 1,1| fact that the wine a man drinks in his own shop is always
997 5,4| expensive suppers, to a man who drives out with yellow-haired demoiselles,
998 6,5| revived Madame d'Argeles's drooping spirits, and she received
999 2,5| tried drink, but it wouldn't drown thought, so I had recourse
1000 20,3| tempest of hisses momentarily drowned his voice, but as soon as
1001 7,2| inquired Madame d'Argeles, dryly. ~"In fact - yes. I should