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1002 19,4| the possession of a man of dubious integrity, who was once
1003 8,4| depends upon tastes. The Duchess de Veljo wore one only eleven
1004 15,2| of the accepted code of duelling. I did not know that by
1005 10,5| fencing-masters in Paris; and his duels had always terminated fortunately.
1006 8,3| was brought in - a bottle duly covered with dust and mould
1007 13,3| decided on a warfare of duplicity, he was resolved to surpass
1008 6,1| d'Argeles, was really a Durtal de Chalusse. ~This frightful
1009 8,3| bottle duly covered with dust and mould to give it a venerable
1010 8,2| brandished her broom and duster, this girl, exasperated
1011 15,4| money he possessed gradually dwindled away. But it was in vain
1012 13,1| livelier shade of gold to her dyed locks. ~Pascal had scarcely
1013 14,5| its tint had been fixed by dyes as indelible as the stains
1014 9,4| above which ran the name, "E. Carjat." She went in, and
1015 9,2| expecting this missive by the eagerness with which she sprang out
1016 8,4| eloquently. Twenty-four hours earlier, proud and truthful Marguerite
1017 19,3| pointed to the clock, and earnestly exclaimed: "Time is passing,
1018 6,2| man who stole my share of earthly happiness was the Count
1019 9,1| their guard, it would be the easiest thing in the world for them
1020 17,3| he rushed off to a little eating-house which he had remarked on
1021 7,3| me. But your breath was ebbing away, your poor little arms
1022 20,2| false!" ~"Yes, it is false!" echoed M. de Coralth. ~But a clamor
1023 10,5| sumptuous chairs and couches eclipsed M. Fortunat's wonderful
1024 14,5| cushions of her victoria, and eclipsing all the women around her
1025 8,3| rather scanty; but many economical housewives keep most of
1026 10,5| prevent him from going into ecstasies over each room he entered;
1027 9,3| tunic of pearl-gray crepe, edged with a fringe of the various
1028 2,1| breaking china interrupted this edifying conversation. "There!" exclaimed
1029 19,2| scoundrel, had bravely toiled to educate her son, making him the
1030 3,4| baron's memory, never to be effaced. ~"However," resumed M.
1031 12,2| conscience much, I succeeded in effecting an entrance, and had an
1032 9,3| her brain to arrive at an effective combination of colors and
1033 11,5| that may promise to prove effectual." ~Completely mistress of
1034 2,3| audacity, extravagance, and effrontery, who fleece their husbands
1035 20,1| Valorsay received these effusions graciously enough, although,
1036 5,6| would be crushed like an egg-shell. It was to the house of
1037 15,4| with a penniless wife! What egregious folly! And yet I couldn'
1038 17,1| call, half whistle, half ejaculation, which is familiar to the
1039 10,5| fur-trimmed slippers, and even his elaborately embroidered night-shirts.
1040 13,4| suspect Valorsay of great elasticity of conscience. Had he not
1041 12,3| began to read. ~With his elbows on the table, and his head
1042 2,1| my word!" exclaimed the eldest, "he's just in time. Announce
1043 19,1| It came upon her like an electric shock, and with a bound
1044 5,3| no. He felt quite in his element in the society of dissipated
1045 10,2| expected these disclosures to elevate him in his subordinate's
1046 8,5| millionaires, and to the noble and elevated desire of humiliating and
1047 8,4| de Bois d'Ardon. On the eleventh, there will be a concert,
1048 15,3| over me to persuade me to elope with him. This would, of
1049 7,5| surprised at the effect of his eloquence. "Besides, I'm tired of
1050 8,4| opinions boldly and even eloquently. Twenty-four hours earlier,
1051 | elsewhere
1052 17,3| Ferailleur had employed to elude her pursuers, his conjectures
1053 7,5| because I have succeeded in eluding him. He lost all trace of
1054 8,4| in life, since it is her emancipation." ~Was Madame de Fondege
1055 15,4| all the money he could, we embarked again for France. It was
1056 13,4| he doesn't understand the embarrassing position in which he places
1057 7,2| her clinched hands were embedded deep in her quivering flesh. "
1058 15,6| mother gave him - a look embodying the deepest disappointment
1059 15,5| some bands of muslin to embroider, and some pieces of tapestry
1060 9,3| with the florist, and the embroiderer! How many doubts, how many
1061 11,3| subsequently he saw the viscount emerge. He followed him, first
1062 4,1| pronounce it. He saw Pascal emerging from the smoking-room; and
1063 5,2| Coralth possessed in an eminent degree all the attributes
1064 6,1| of an hour afterward her emissaries returned. They had made
1065 13,7| If Kami-Bey had seen an emissary of his sovereign enter the
1066 8,3| his mustaches a la Victor Emmanuel, and rolled his "r," as
1067 12,4| passages with an extravagant emphasis, which heightened their
1068 13,5| others - nothing more. He employs me in certain difficult
1069 9,3| return from these expeditions empty-handed. A dozen gloves or a piece
1070 15,1| with a laudable desire to emulate such distinguished examples,
1071 19,4| will explain how he was enabled to do so. M. de Fondege
1072 2,5| dramas which are constantly enacted in these superb mansions,
1073 5,3| dissipated young men and enamelled women. He swore that he
1074 3,3| young, M. de Chalusse became enamoured of a charming young lady,
1075 2,1| design and gorgeous hues, and encircled by a low, cushioned divan,
1076 19,4| folded and sealed, but not enclosed in an envelope. M. de Chalusse
1077 5,1| presented himself inside the enclosure, a cigar in his mouth, and
1078 17,2| appearance, he would have encountered no obstacles; he might then
1079 12,3| so great was his dread of encountering the gaze of this woman,
1080 14,3| publish reports of these encounters." ~The viscount had never
1081 13,3| safe!" ~It was with this encouraging thought that he approached
1082 20,3| Which one of you is not encroaching upon his capital? And when
1083 19,3| Each moment that is wasted endangers our success. Should any
1084 14,3| for any one else. I will endeavor to interest in your cause
1085 9,1| energy to sustain her in her endeavors for years, if need be. What
1086 13,5| my notary, there will be endless forms to be gone through,
1087 1,1| conspiracy! The torment he endures under such circumstances
1088 16,2| physician replied with an energetic protest. "Oh, not so fast!"
1089 6,2| prostration paralyzed her energies and benumbed her mind. Ruin
1090 2,4| reproaching himself for his enforced indiscretion. He had lost
1091 14,4| must understand that when I engage in an enterprise, it must
1092 3,4| This name and address were engraved upon the baron's memory,
1093 16,1| he entered the shop of an engraver, whom he crushed by his
1094 14,1| already remarkable reputation enhanced by the interest that always
1095 13,7| to the solution of this enigma. Time was flying, and before
1096 7,1| Moreover, he was especially enjoined to distrust tears, and not
1097 20,1| circumstances" to the splendid enjoyment of a princely fortune. Madame
1098 15,4| terrible fear of incurring the enmity of this dangerous coveter
1099 5,5| very well. The chances are enormously in his favor. So, if it
1100 5,6| What a brute!" thought the enraged viscount. "If I leave him
1101 15,2| had dispelled the mists enshrouding the past, and distinctly
1102 2,3| conversation, which would no doubt ensue between the baron and his
1103 10,6| prying curiosity. So our enterprising youth could only read and
1104 8,5| studied the abode of her entertainers. And certainly the study
1105 20,1| approaching fete. It was to be an entertainment for gentlemen only, a monster
1106 5,4| usually an easy task to entice M. Wilkie from his bed,
1107 2,4| shoulder there is a most enticing little mole. I had the satisfaction
1108 11,2| patience, and to the baroness, entreating, or rather commanding her
1109 2,1| baroness. ~"There are but few entries in the month of August,"
1110 17,3| respectable-looking old lady, enumerated the number of her trunks,
1111 5,6| to his head, and he was enumerating, in a loud voice, the desires
1112 2,2| what seemed an interminable enumeration, Van Klopen exclaimed: "
1113 18,5| covetousness, and who, at times, envies an actress's liberty, and
1114 5,3| for a walk in Paris or the environs, gave him his breakfast
1115 18,3| no other fortune than my epaulettes, no other prospects than
1116 1,1| poisonous breeze which wafts an epidemic on its wings. So the hope
1117 12,2| why, there is not a single episode in her life that does not
1118 15,6| Nowadays, however, such episodes are by no means rare. Two
1119 5,4| francs, and an interminable epistle full of reproaches. The
1120 14,1| chance to win notoriety at an epoch when newspapers have become
1121 15,4| avenged, that his sufferings equalled mine, increased my courage
1122 8,3| not restore the General's equanimity. He was silent and subdued;
1123 1,1| faculties have regained their equilibrium, one can measure the distance
1124 19,3| time to look around her, ere he had placed her in an
1125 16,2| is to say, I am liable to error. In the kingdom of science
1126 5,6| Very good. Marguerite was escaping me, but I shall soon have
1127 5,3| to his rooms, under the escort of one of the waiters. This
1128 2,1| inquired the servant who was escorting Pascal, "can any one speak
1129 3,2| the need of regilding his escutcheon, like my son-in-law - - " ~ ~
1130 18,1| discovered. Alone, free from all espionage, and wishing to ward off
1131 8,2| family, and quite willing to espouse the latter's cause should
1132 14,3| the Marquis de Valorsay espouses your cause, you will want
1133 20,1| s house; one could also espy M. de Fondege ferociously
1134 10,6| glanced around him, and espying a dark corner slipped into
1135 11,5| and which consequently establishes; your right to his property." ~"
1136 15,6| immensely rich. All the estimates which have been made are
1137 10,2| him in his subordinate's estimation he was greatly mistaken.
1138 6,3| the dainty trifles on your etageres." ~Overcome with shame,
1139 10,1| Achilles's heel will be eternally true. A man may be humble
1140 20,3| married at the church of Saint Etienne du Mont, only a few steps
1141 7,1| rooms, arrayed himself in evening-dress, and sent for his carriage. "
1142 5,2| ascertained where he spent his evenings, contrived a way of introducing
1143 6,1| rank in society down to everlasting infamy. She fancied she
1144 3,2| that effect. This is an every-day occurrence, I know very
1145 15,6| disgrace. 'Tis after all but an everyday occurrence. ~The unhappy
1146 11,2| him as one of those wily evil-minded men who employ their leisure
1147 11,5| motion. All thought of his ex-client irritated him beyond endurance.
1148 13,6| the second. Was that an exaggerated estimate of my services?
1149 6,4| ought not to be suspected of exaggeration when I speak in this style
1150 16,4| confinement and several rigid examinations, Mademoiselle Marguerite'
1151 15,1| emulate such distinguished examples, he had perched himself
1152 2,4| true - the sight of you exasperates me; but I know what's going
1153 2,1| baron was surrounded by exceptional servants, and the presence
1154 13,4| Paris, for, with but few exceptions, they only use their millions
1155 13,1| these scruples, and this excessive delicacy of feeling. Like
1156 14,3| most recherche but at ease, excessively elegant and yet unostentatious;
1157 10,5| and the concierge, after exchanging a significant glance with
1158 9,6| thief would take care not to excite suspicion by a foolish expenditure
1159 9,2| that feverish anxiety that excites the perceptive faculties
1160 15,1| forcing his way into the most exclusive society in the world, is
1161 20,1| He devoted his attention exclusively to the horses and vehicles;
1162 19,2| felt that the other would exert a decisive influence upon
1163 8,1| solely kept alive by the exertions of Madame de Fondege, whose
1164 20,3| chronicled. The reporters exhaust all the resources of their
1165 10,5| took a sort of pride in exhibiting everything. ~He showed Chupin
1166 16,3| the Count de Chalusse's exhumed remains. He pressed the
1167 16,2| Our profession has painful exigencies. Perhaps it is now too late.
1168 12,1| forget the worthy man who has exiled himself for her sake, and
1169 5,1| steeple-chases had never existed. In the first place, he
1170 7,7| somewhat hastened M. Wilkie's exit. He went out into the hall,
1171 5,5| commission, however large, seems exorbitant. It is afterward, when the
1172 12,4| and, disappointed in their expectations, they had planned this pretended
1173 19,1| you. You know Van Klopen expects me again at one o'clock
1174 9,3| always return from these expeditions empty-handed. A dozen gloves
1175 17,3| company isn't a fool. By expending a hundred and fifty thousand
1176 5,4| they are reckless in their expenditures, and rail at work and jeer
1177 17,2| he took a cab at his own expense, and drove with all possible
1178 5,3| the waiters. This first experiment ought to have disgusted
1179 1,2| owner's character as an expert financier, and a shrewd
1180 13,8| have for consideration only expired on the day before yesterday." ~"
1181 12,3| This, however, was the expiring cry of her intractable obstinacy. "
1182 13,8| the papers in which the exploits of these horses are recorded.
1183 9,1| field of investigation to explore. Her common sense told her
1184 12,1| for her. The husband who exposes his honor and happiness
1185 3,3| bride!" ~"Adore only feebly expresses my feelings." ~"I must be
1186 14,5| Wilkie entered, and in the expressionless voice of those who are without
1187 6,1| certainly pay no heed to the extenuating circumstances; he would
1188 12,1| he ventured to say in extenuation. ~"Would you try to defend
1189 2,1| mansion was on a par with its external magnificence. Even the entrance
1190 7,5| destroy all your plans and extinguish your hopes. I am resolved,
1191 17,2| often visited in the hope of extorting some trifling amount from
1192 8,2| from which the sun had extracted most of the coloring. Everything
1193 15,6| shower-bath upon Wilkie's exultant joy. "What is this condition?"
1194 19,4| warrant." he exclaimed, exultantly. And approaching Madame
1195 10,5| cosmetic to the mustaches and eyebrows. Never had he seen in one
1196 2,1| to him." ~The two valets eyed the unknown visitor, plainly
1197 13,4| and his red and swollen eyelids betrayed a long-continued
1198 11,1| it with some hesitation, eying the messenger suspiciously
1199 8,1| Madame Leon on the seat facing them. The drive was a silent
1200 7,6| and his cherished visions fade. Luxury and notoriety, high-stepping
1201 9,5| chair, for her limbs were failing her. She was beginning to
1202 3,2| the breakfast table. Her fainting fit startled me a little.
1203 13,8| something," he thought; a sudden faintness reminding him that he had
1204 13,3| accompanied by a young, fair-haired man, whose mustaches were
1205 20,1| taken the place of the good fairies of former times, had gratified
1206 7,2| that is to say, the good fairy whose protection had followed
1207 5,1| race; and, trusting in this fallacious promise, they risked their
1208 20,2| the honorable man who was falsely accused of cheating at cards
1209 16,4| autopsy will reveal the falseness of the accusation." ~"Naturally -
1210 14,2| dismay, Wilkie endeavored to falter some excuses, but he was
1211 2,4| from the Bois. No one is so famed for 'form,' as the baroness -
1212 15,3| gallantry, the lower officers' familiarity of manner, and the sailors'
1213 2,1| smoking-room hung with cashmere of fantastic design and gorgeous hues,
1214 13,4| surmise was by no means far-fetched, for in sporting matters,
1215 11,2| pushed his investigations farther. "And do you know this old
1216 17,1| have been!" ~Chupin was so fascinated that he wished no reward
1217 15,5| below. There was a strange fascination - a promise of peace in
1218 20,3| curtain rudely torn from its fastenings and secured to the balustrade,
1219 11,3| baroness's residence, but fatalities may attend even a step!
1220 3,3| penniless?" ~"A mere chance - a fatality. M. de Chalusse died very
1221 11,5| to cheat the other. The fathers-in-law are deceived, or the husband,
1222 9,6| and he had reason to be fatigued. First, he had purchased
1223 13,4| nevertheless true that he suffers fearful anguish of mind when he
1224 8,3| that this seems a positive feast to him." In fact, he seemed
1225 10,4| exaggerate his own powers and the fecundity of his resources, he had
1226 10,1| may be humble or powerful, feeble or strong, but there are
1227 3,3| future bride!" ~"Adore only feebly expresses my feelings." ~"
1228 17,4| a fist that would have felled an ox. He had an idea of
1229 10,1| if necessary. Ah, my fine fellows, you've laughed too soon.
1230 15,5| Wilkie. I was a proficient in feminine accomplishments; I was an
1231 15,2| which my brother practised fencing and pistol shooting with
1232 10,5| day from one of the best fencing-masters in Paris; and his duels
1233 8,5| on the morrow; so after a fervent prayer in which Pascal Ferailleur'
1234 19,2| prepared to worship her. How fervently she blessed this noble woman,
1235 13,1| any protestations by the fervor with which it was spoken: "
1236 8,3| venerable appearance, and festooned with cobwebs, such as the
1237 19,2| puritanical old lady had come to fetch Marguerite, so that whenever
1238 13,5| draught. The wine lent him fictitious energy. Fury mounted to
1239 16,4| traces of the breach of fidelity he had committed. Fortunately,
1240 8,4| begin very early. On the fifth of November, the Countess
1241 10,2| his back by falling from a fifth-floor window, my Coralth would
1242 18,1| needs be, but I will die fighting!" And the nearer she approached
1243 1,1| contents of the shop - mouldy figs or dry raisins - which she
1244 10,5| pincers, scissors, and files. "One might think oneself
1245 11,2| 2~She understood. So filling a glass with some liquor,
1246 1,2| s character as an expert financier, and a shrewd manufacturer,
1247 13,6| the most rigidly honest financiers in the world, have never
1248 11,3| himself of his borrowed finery, and had donned his red
1249 10,3| inspiration, and then, in his finest hand, he wrote: ~MY DEAR
1250 11,1| s a wedding-ring on his finger; he has a daughter, for
1251 17,1| ventured to touch it with his finger-tips, and yet he changed color
1252 20,3| The sharp report of firearms suddenly interrupted him.
1253 11,4| twisting his cap near the fireplace, attired in a blouse and
1254 20,3| uncompromising conscience, more moral firmness, or more generous aspirations
1255 13,2| England at an hotel. I order first-class happiness at so much a month.
1256 7,7| We mustn't frighten the fish till we are quite ready.
1257 11,1| boards over the yawning fissures in the walls. "If I lived
1258 12,1| gleamed on the horizon - a fitful and uncertain light, it
1259 2,1| such a price for his angry fits." ~"Well," observed the
1260 5,5| was unmoved. "It is not fitting that I should fix upon the
1261 8,5| The aspect of the place fittingly explained the habits and
1262 9,5| wished to say, for a man of five-and-thirty, wearing a mustache and
1263 13,8| with a necklace costing five-and-twenty thousand francs for the
1264 15,5| morning I changed my last five-franc piece - it lasted us a week.
1265 18,3| cause to blush." He looked fixedly at Mademoiselle Marguerite,
1266 11,1| sold the entire stock and fixtures for a few shillings. Four
1267 16,4| energy and courage will flag. What do you think she will
1268 9,4| madness not to seize this flagrant proof of the Marquis de
1269 17,4| after melting it at the flame of the candle, he let it
1270 6,3| next week we shall have flaming posters on all the walls,
1271 13,7| with him, and which the flatterers around him styled "form." "
1272 9,6| they think me an idiot to flaunt the millions they have stolen
1273 1,1| shop is always bitter in flavor. So, having no credit at
1274 18,5| clings despairingly to her fleeting youth. ~Inaccessible to
1275 8,1| of candle was glaring and flickering. "What!" exclaimed Madame
1276 13,2| instant he heard some one fling open the door of the large
1277 13,4| for the possession of a floating spar. Had he not confessed
1278 1,2| of his colleagues. "Eh! Florestan - is the baron receiving?" ~"
1279 9,3| the dressmaker, with the florist, and the embroiderer! How
1280 9,3| embroidered with flowers. A wide flounce of Valenciennes at the bottom
1281 2,2| Baron will understand that flounces, puffs, and ruches - - " ~"
1282 7,5| pocket a scrap of paper, and flourishing it triumphantly, he exclaimed: "
1283 15,5| my knees and watching the flow of the dark river below.
1284 3,3| I love, and sent purple flushes to my face. Naturally I
1285 13,7| wildly dilating and his hands fluttering despairingly. "Don't speak
1286 15,2| existence. She wiped away the foam-flecked blood which had risen to
1287 4,1| thoughts was seething and foaming in his brain. "Did you hear,
1288 5,6| had an imposing number of foes, whom he only held in check
1289 13,1| from the large apartment by folding-doors, which had been removed,
1290 9,3| hidden so easily in the folds of a mantle! ~And yet, to
1291 10,4| people who are giving other folk's property away. ~"Then
1292 2,2| responsible for their wives' follies - it's quite possible there
1293 8,4| probably not a very close follower of the fashions," she replied. "
1294 13,2| more wealthy, he had more followers; he had been more toadied
1295 20,3| success; he is admired, fondled, and flattered. He makes
1296 6,2| who tempted the wife I so fondly loved to forget her duty,
1297 3,1| mysterious fear, when a heavy footfall made the floor of the dining-room
1298 7,6| you ought to kiss her very footprints!" ~As livid as if his blood
1299 7,3| Suddenly the sound of footsteps near the door roused him
1300 2,3| well as his own interest forbade him to remain any longer
1301 18,4| terrible, despite her own forbearance, and that they would find
1302 18,5| laws of our country do not forbid illigitimate children to
1303 16,2| of them. ~"My profession forbids my acting as an adviser
1304 17,2| 2~The foregoing conversation will explain
1305 7,4| generally meets with among foreigners. M. Patterson, who manages
1306 7,5| your part to deny me, but I foresaw such a contingency, and
1307 1,1| muttered, like a man who foresees the futility of his efforts. ~
1308 5,5| that some one else might forestall him. ~"You here, at sunrise,
1309 12,4| is always the same. The forger is evidently in the habit
1310 2,5| no doubt in the hope of forgetting your sorrows that you spend
1311 6,2| anger, hatred, pity, and forgiveness. Madame d'Argeles shuddered.
1312 8,3| the supply of knives and forks was rather scanty; but many
1313 18,3| opened the door, when a forlorn hope brought him back to
1314 2,2| And I not only said it, I formally notified you through my
1315 9,3| shades in the dress, and forming a panier behind." ~But how
1316 11,5| to retrieve his shattered fortunes. Upon my word, I see nothing
1317 16,3| avenge him if he has been foully murdered." ~For M. Wilkie
1318 17,4| promissory note of mine for fourpence, and then sent a man here
1319 20,3| his brains oozing from his fractured skull, and his right hand
1320 13,1| the hall was, as usual, fragrant with the perfume of rare
1321 9,4| she perceived several show frames filled with photographs
1322 11,3| to Chupin, and drawing a franc from her pocket she offered
1323 10,3| envelope with a hundred franc-note which he drew from an old
1324 8,2| position at the court of Francis I. or of Louis XII. Indeed,
1325 13,8| distrust in his composition. ~"Frankly, prince," said the baron, "
1326 15,4| tears, and thanking God for freeing me from such terrible remorse,
1327 18,2| inclined to ask for more frequent leaves of absence. ~However,
1328 7,4| of those establishments frequented by distinguished personages,
1329 3,1| good-natured cynic, the frequenter of gambling-dens? Alas,
1330 13,1| carpet, the magnificent frescoes, and the costly statuary,
1331 13,3| but had somewhat lost its freshness; the carpet, which had once
1332 17,3| driver of No. 2140. Listen: Friday, at ten minutes past nine,
1333 10,3| eager for money, and that frightens me." ~"That's to say, you
1334 11,5| this," she replied, in a frigid tone. ~"What! you know - - " ~"
1335 9,3| pearl-gray crepe, edged with a fringe of the various shades in
1336 3,1| again. Was this, indeed, the frivolous and jovial Baron Trigault
1337 11,4| clad in a coarse serge frock, with dishevelled hair covered
1338 13,2| He was clad in a black frock-coat, buttoned tight to the throat,
1339 13,2| me the slip." ~The baron frowned, and this time he omitted
1340 18,2| relating despite his mother's frowns, were calculated to convince
1341 19,2| seven when she finished this frugal meal. She waited a moment,
1342 10,2| francs hidden in my room, the fruit of years of work. I'll spend
1343 11,4| But weary at last of this fruitless delay, she exclaimed: "I
1344 9,6| foolish expenditure of the fruits of his knavery, but they -
1345 19,2| obstacles that might impede the fulfilment of her promise. For it was
1346 10,5| On Sunday, too, what a funny idea! And I have been treating
1347 10,5| velvet dressing-gown, his fur-trimmed slippers, and even his elaborately
1348 5,6| Postponement generally furnishes fate with weapons against
1349 8,5| luxury and display, to the furore for aping the habits and
1350 12,3| her glasses to wipe away a furtive tear which made Pascal's
1351 18,2| girl could not refrain from furtively watching the man whom they
1352 7,5| acknowledge me without any fuss! Now, will you do so? No?
1353 7,6| been suddenly turned to gall - with quivering lips and
1354 15,3| the captain's offensive gallantry, the lower officers' familiarity
1355 15,2| billiard-room and a spacious gallery in which my brother practised
1356 13,4| and punishable with the galleys. And who can say how many
1357 19,2| had urged his horse into a gallop. He had evidently received
1358 2,5| Yes, it's true that I gamble. People say, 'That great
1359 16,1| the attractions of their gambling-den! It will take the newspapers
1360 3,1| cynic, the frequenter of gambling-dens? Alas, yes! But the baron
1361 13,2| which the results of our games are noted, and that shall
1362 1,2| find any pleasure at the gaming table of the Hotel d'Argeles.
1363 15,6| associate in opening a gaming-house under the very eyes of the
1364 15,6| any miser. Last year my gaming-room yielded more than one hundred
1365 17,2| himself at the office in the garb he then wore, and so, much
1366 5,2| should invent astonishing garments for him; he would make himself
1367 9,2| attracted by some partridges garnished with truffles, and a bottle
1368 18,2| three or four adventures of garrison life which he persisted
1369 10,6| are closed, when the few gas-lamps only increase the grimness
1370 8,2| positively rained down. ~"What!" gasped Madame de Fondege, "you
1371 2,1| And he went on and on, gasping for breath, rattling off
1372 13,8| generosity recorded in the Gaulois or the Figaro the next day;
1373 7,3| near the window, Wilkie gazed with consternation at Madame
1374 10,5| stupefied Chupin. He stood gazing in open-mouthed wonder at
1375 15,5| beside a blazing fire, with a generously spread table before us.
1376 5,5| It is not perhaps a very gentlemanly proceeding, but it is a
1377 14,2| and moderation, persuasive gentleness, sentiments of the loftiest
1378 6,1| lavished upon him contain every germ of corruption, misfortune,
1379 15,1| Chalusse, in the Faubourg Saint Germain, a perfect palace, surrounded
1380 5,2| voice, with many excited gesticulations. And how great his delight
1381 6,5| sound came forth. She turned ghastly white under her rouge, and
1382 2,1| plants climbed the walls up gilded trellis work, or hung from
1383 10,5| velvet, hangings, mirrors and gilding. Still this did not prevent
1384 9,5| this struggle between girlish timidity and a lover's virgil
1385 13,6| services!" ~But he would gladly have recalled the sneer
1386 14,1| linen and dries it in the glare of publicity! He saw his
1387 17,4| knife similar to those which glaziers use. However, Chupin did
1388 1,2| hypocritical smile and the malice gleaming in her eyes?" He pressed
1389 7,1| hold them, to feel them gliding in golden waves between
1390 14,2| akin to fear. Moreover, a glimmer of reason had at last penetrated
1391 10,6| lantern of a tobacco-shop, glimmering through the fog. ~ ~
1392 18,2| started from her eyes and glistened on her long lashes. "Whom
1393 5,6| excited gestures, by the glitter in his eyes, it might have
1394 10,2| trouble," he continued, gloomily. "I've told you, sir, that
1395 18,5| the rest matter? She even gloried in her knowledge that she
1396 13,2| Paris by its splendors and glories, but rather by its corruption -
1397 11,3| old gentleman. "Besides, a gloved cat has never caught a mouse
1398 9,5| proud, generous enthusiasm glowed in her dark eyes, and her
1399 11,1| covered with that black and glutinous coal-dust which forms the
1400 2,2| Dressmaker. I know the goings on in your establishment.
1401 2,5| gone off with the first gold-seekers, was braving a thousand
1402 14,1| congregates, in the company of golden-haired young women, from nine in
1403 6,5| opening the door, he added: "Good-by, my dear madame, I will
1404 7,5| official notice. I wish you good-evening." ~He bowed; he was really
1405 18,1| dinner. ~The lieutenant was a good-looking fellow of twenty-seven,
1406 8,2| Mademoiselle Marguerite entered a good-sized room lighted by two windows,
1407 11,2| Every evening. He always has goodies in his pocket for mamma
1408 7,5| greatest criminal in the world. Goodness is all very well in its
1409 5,4| Every evening a thousand gorgeously apparelled gentlemen, with
1410 7,7| allowance for years, he suddenly gorges him with oats - or I should
1411 9,3| tiny crack, she watched her governess change her dress, throw
1412 18,2| such smiling lips, such a graceful mien, such wonderful charms
1413 14,4| M. Wilkie." ~With a most gracious and dignified air - the
1414 5,1| fabulous bills from the grain merchant, the veterinary
1415 12,3| note would it be written grammatically, and be free from any mistakes
1416 10,2| he spoke this word with a grandiloquent air - "you have seen my
1417 5,3| in the way of pleasure, granting all his wishes, but never
1418 11,2| there are such splendid grapes. I'm going with him to get
1419 10,2| old usurer - Chupin, as grasping as avarice itself, refuse
1420 20,1| fairies of former times, had gratified M. Wilkie's every longing
1421 20,3| luxury, and everything that gratifies your vanity! But an abyss
1422 17,1| counting my gold behind a grating, I should like to have a
1423 10,2| sake, for my own pleasure - gratis." ~M. Fortunat could not
1424 9,6| counted the cost. What with gratuities and extras, it costs us
1425 5,3| toward the end of October, a grave-looking, red-whiskered gentleman,
1426 11,1| when I met her driving her gray ponies. If people didn't
1427 12,3| point until the day when the gray-haired magistrate, after hearing
1428 16,3| devoted to me, and who is the greediest, most avaricious scoundrel
1429 14,1| flattering whisper which would greet his appearance everywhere: "
1430 17,3| unmoved by his informant's grievances. Now that he had discovered
1431 5,1| aroused, he was doomed to grievous disappointment. The rumor
1432 6,5| evening, although still grievously suffering both in mind and
1433 10,6| gas-lamps only increase the grimness of the shadows, and when
1434 14,1| repeated, again and again, grinding his teeth. And if he hastened
1435 8,3| one of those bottles which grocers and wine-merchants prepare
1436 1,1| stealing something. Nor did the grocery store pay; the few half-pence
1437 13,8| could have been guilty of so gross a fraud - a fraud which
1438 6,5| instead of mingling with the groups of talkers, he at once took
1439 6,3| to do so, but I shall not grudge the money. I should probably
1440 15,5| approaching the parapet, when a gruff voice beside us exclaimed: '
1441 15,1| the head of one of those guerilla bands which make politics
1442 10,1| little enough - and what I've guessed. In fact, I know nothing
1443 9,4| just given you for your guidance, it is very necessary that
1444 13,1| ground floor. This time his guide remarked that he would take
1445 3,4| unmoved by a thought of the guillotine. And if you require a proof
1446 11,5| you! She has beaten the guv'nor on every point." ~M.
1447 5,1| Croisenois, of the Duc de H., and Baron P., who were
1448 13,7| coarseness of manner which was habitual with him, and which the
1449 18,4| Klopen's. Received as a habituee of the establishment, thanks
1450 17,4| resolved to let himself be hacked to pieces rather than allow
1451 14,5| her son. In this sad-eyed, haggard-faced woman, clad in black, no
1452 1,1| was impossible! Would they haggle over ten francs to secure
1453 11,4| she left the house, so she hailed it and got in. The step
1454 2,4| inaugurate a new style of hair-dressing, and take part in a comedy.
1455 13,1| fourth day even now her hairdresser came to apply a certain
1456 6,4| will see all the dolls that hairdressers, milliners and fools call
1457 13,4| deal with - one of those half-civilized nabobs who come here every
1458 19,5| Mademoiselle Marguerite sank half-fainting into an arm-chair. "You
1459 13,7| breath. ~After casting a half-frightened glance around him, the worthy
1460 4,1| Zounds!" he exclaimed in a half-grieved, half-petulant tone; "I
1461 2,1| been quarrelling for a good half-hour. And, heavenly powers, isn'
1462 13,3| the courtyard, near the half-open gate of which five or six
1463 1,1| grocery store pay; the few half-pence which were left there occasionally
1464 4,1| exclaimed in a half-grieved, half-petulant tone; "I haven't the amount!" ~
1465 7,3| heaved a deep sigh, and in a half-stifled voice: ~"MADAME!" she repeated. "
1466 11,5| M. Ferailleur, I cried 'halt!' My conscience revolted
1467 20,3| stunned by the butcher's hammer. Suddenly a desperate resolution
1468 18,4| commotion and a loud sound of hammering. She was trying to imagine
1469 1,1| itself? As well try to hold a handful of water; as well try to
1470 5,6| know me. You know how I handle a sword; and don't forget
1471 10,5| for Monsieur le Vicomte handled side arms as adroitly as
1472 10,5| Coralth's apartments were handsomer than his own in the Faubourg
1473 10,4| one of those vagabonds who hang about cafes and theatres
1474 17,1| talk about the rope in the hangman's house, and there are certain
1475 16,1| are hours when the most hardened conscience is touched, and
1476 6,5| guest, without a thought of harm, tried to take the card,
1477 13,1| the servants is ever in harmony with the feelings of the
1478 5,1| veterinary surgeon, and the harness-maker. In addition, he regularly
1479 13,1| least a thousand louis, and harnessed to the baroness's brougham,
1480 16,4| another time," he said, harshly. "What has happened? Tell
1481 9,5| remarked: "Perhaps you are too hasty, sir. You have not allowed
1482 19,1| ever saw such obstinacy! Hateful creature! - I could beat
1483 2,4| he thought; "the baron hates that miserable viscount
1484 7,7| reasons the baron had for hating M. de Coralth, she murmured: "
1485 9,1| and arrogant, with their hats upon their heads, and surly
1486 3,2| never had his face evinced haughtier indifference, more complete
1487 16,1| millions! that's a good haul. Tell me, my friend, have
1488 6,5| the depraved creatures who haunt the boulevards each evening.
1489 14,2| and shrieked like a street hawker, and we could hear you in
1490 10,3| have hesitated to employ so hazardous an expedient as the one
1491 13,5| paid this evening, at all hazards - a sacred obligation -
1492 9,3| at the cost of a terrible headache, she had at last conceived
1493 14,1| appease his furious anger and heal his wounded pride. And a
1494 8,3| the favors they longed to heap upon her. ~However, Mademoiselle
1495 18,2| calculated to convince his hearers that he was a great favorite
1496 13,2| days in peace, or, as God hears me, I'll let my family die
1497 18,5| at her feet, crying, in a heart-rending tone: "Have pity, Marguerite,
1498 19,1| I was very cold, and the heat of the room made me feel
1499 15,3| he joined me afterward, heated with alcohol, he shocked
1500 2,1| for a good half-hour. And, heavenly powers, isn't he tantalizing!" ~
1501 10,1| old legend of Achilles's heel will be eternally true.