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1502 2,4| because you are head over heels in debt; it is because you
1503 12,4| extravagant emphasis, which heightened their absurdity. "And what
1504 18,1| gradually slipping from the heights of opulence, down into the
1505 3,2| wife from among all the heiresses of France. Why should he
1506 7,4| last I can escape from this hell! This very night we will
1507 17,4| in this narrow space, and hemmed in a corner, he felt that
1508 | hereby
1509 13,2| deprived of her rightful heritage. You do not know into what
1510 1,2| which sustains the humble heroines of the fireside, and lends
1511 5,6| the count's estate. If she hesitates, her son will compel her
1512 7,6| fade. Luxury and notoriety, high-stepping horses, yellow-haired mistresses,
1513 10,2| of more service than the highest-priced hireling. "So I can count
1514 13,7| Cheated! it was worse than highway robbery." ~"Would it be
1515 9,4| side, at the foot of the hill, you will find the photographer
1516 17,4| heard the door turn upon its hinges, he rose so awkwardly, or
1517 10,2| than the highest-priced hireling. "So I can count on you,
1518 5,4| louis a day to a man who hires a box for first performances
1519 9,6| miserable vehicle we have been hiring by the year," observed Madame
1520 7,6| understand your game," he hissed through his set teeth. "
1521 15,6| disgrace attached to the hitherto stainless name of Chalusse
1522 5,3| college again. During the holidays M. Patterson kept the boy
1523 9,3| trimmed with bands of heavy holland-tinted satin, thickly embroidered
1524 2,1| voice of Van Klopen, the Hollander, caught up the refrain. "
1525 4,1| he exclaimed; and in a hollow voice, he added: "and thus
1526 7,6| He lives at Baden or Homburg in the summer; in Paris
1527 6,2| faint for want of food, homeless and penniless? You saw no
1528 15,1| such I really was, since I honestly believed it - when I happened
1529 9,1| voice became sweeter than honey. They say the payment of
1530 17,3| went off, she remarked in a honeyed voice, but with an exceedingly
1531 4,1| repairs at Valorsay, and the honeymoon with my wife - all these
1532 10,3| The Rue d'Anjou Saint Honore hasn't a hundred numbers
1533 12,1| but a light gleamed on the horizon - a fitful and uncertain
1534 18,5| was no less startled and horror-stricken than Madame Trigault, and
1535 9,6| celebrated connoisseur in horse-flesh, M. de Breulh-Faverlay.
1536 2,4| performance at a theatre, or of a horse-race, without finding your name
1537 6,1| spared neither pains nor horseflesh. He had visited every place
1538 6,4| that you had died upon an hospital pallet. It will furnish
1539 20,2| animal to turn and face the hounds that pursue him, and bid
1540 2,2| break. I'll proclaim on the house-top what others dare not say,
1541 15,6| I proclaimed it from the house-tops, no one would believe me.
1542 10,4| reached one of the handsomest houses, in front of which stood
1543 8,3| scanty; but many economical housewives keep most of their silver
1544 14,2| frightful scene? For you howled and shrieked like a street
1545 7,4| they cannot suppress. The hubbub you hear is made by the
1546 13,1| costume, brilliant enough in hue to frighten a cab horse,
1547 2,1| fantastic design and gorgeous hues, and encircled by a low,
1548 13,7| cheeks became a trifle pale. "Hum!" said he, in an altered
1549 20,1| the concierge down to the humblest scullery maid. Still, he
1550 7,6| from that most terrible of humiliations: the degradation of being
1551 9,3| evening, after inspecting hundreds of yards of silk and satin,
1552 2,1| assent, he began: "In June, a Hungarian costume with jacket and
1553 5,1| it was dangerous to leap hurdles on such an animal as Pompier;
1554 5,5| the least blunder, might hurl him from his splendor into
1555 7,2| Well, then," he replied, huskily, "this is my reason. I know
1556 18,1| theatrical uniform of the 13th Hussars rather ostentatiously. He
1557 17,3| Madame Ferailleur and her son hut how was he to ascertain
1558 17,4| not thought of the only hypothesis that could explain what
1559 13,5| Certainly." ~A glass of ice-water presented to a parched traveller
1560 7,1| viscount, his model and his ideal, what happiness it was! ~
1561 6,1| laborer, and not a spoiled idler, incapable of earning an
1562 7,4| Dissipated and heartless idlers, grooms, gamblers, and abandoned
1563 12,2| heard Madame Vantrasson's ignoble allegations. It has been
1564 19,3| that you had not fled in ignominious fashion. I was convinced
1565 9,1| entirely, and whom he should ignominiously dismiss on returning to
1566 8,4| know then, my dear little ignoramus, that the Baroness Trigault
1567 7,4| personages, which the police ignore, or which they cannot suppress.
1568 4,1| the right to be brutal, ill-bred, cynical and bold; to be
1569 10,1| explains his frenzy on that ill-fated Sunday, when, after being
1570 6,1| you dishonored me by your ill-gotten wealth? Fallen, you might
1571 8,5| was a tall, dark-haired, ill-mannered woman. "Ah! I've found you
1572 18,5| our country do not forbid illigitimate children to search for their
1573 11,4| expected to meet a coarse and illiterate boor; and finally, Victor
1574 9,4| when a sudden inspiration illumined her mind, turning night
1575 9,2| unfortunate, she feared illusions, and was extremely distrustful
1576 10,6| once," replied Chupin. And, imitating the whistle of a locomotive
1577 2,4| since sold and replaced by imitation ones; it is because you
1578 20,2| those whom we had considered immaculate suddenly yield to temptation.
1579 13,3| necktie. He could see only one immediate, decisive chance against
1580 15,6| property." ~Two millions! The immensity of the sum struck Wilkie
1581 13,4| no conscience; he may be immoral, he may defy God and the
1582 7,6| At that moment rage was imparting a truly frightful intonation
1583 12,3| past had not created an impassable abyss between Pascal and
1584 18,2| with the tenderest and most impassioned inflection he could impart
1585 19,2| the obstacles that might impede the fulfilment of her promise.
1586 20,2| blind fury like that which impels a hunted animal to turn
1587 12,2| life must ever remain an impenetrable mystery!" ~Pascal had become
1588 12,2| Ferailleur gave an almost imperceptible shrug of the shoulders,
1589 9,1| increase their expenditure so imperceptibly that she would not be able
1590 13,3| concluded not to do so. An imperfect disguise would attract attention
1591 9,5| wearing a mustache and imperial, and clad in a velvet coat,
1592 18,2| Fondeges would certainly imperil the success of her plans. "
1593 17,4| skilfully, as to let all his implements, wax, knife, and impressions,
1594 7,6| explicit in its brevity, and implied so many terrible accusations,
1595 14,5| praise. For real virtue implies temptation - a struggle
1596 6,1| scarcely probable. He had implored her to accept the property,
1597 13,7| so loud!" he exclaimed, imploringly. ~As he did not even attempt
1598 10,1| threats of such terrible import. ~However, at the very moment
1599 9,3| which some noble ladies have imported from America, to the despair
1600 20,2| atone for this. The man's an impostor! - he lies! - all that he
1601 8,1| smooth-tongued hypocrites and impostors, who are anxious for your
1602 3,3| of some illustrious but impoverished family." ~"You are wrong.
1603 10,6| Trigault several times to impress it upon his memory he darted
1604 5,3| M. Patterson in his most impressive manner. "You are now old
1605 19,4| means of protection from an improbable but possible misfortune.
1606 2,3| should see nothing so very improper in that." ~"Oh, I know.
1607 12,3| diligently, you said, so as to improve herself?" ~"Marguerite knows
1608 15,4| been killed, that he was improving, and that his recovery was
1609 5,4| a debt of honor - he had imprudently lent money to an unscrupulous
1610 6,3| yield to their generous impulses sufficiently to offer twenty
1611 13,7| and who would tolerate no imputations upon his character." ~It
1612 13,8| rascality as that which Kami-Bey imputed to Valorsay. ~"How did you
1613 18,5| to her fleeting youth. ~Inaccessible to any emotion but vanity,
1614 13,3| While he was condemned to inaction, his mind had no doubt been
1615 3,4| defrauded in many ways by his inamorata. I also know that M. de
1616 2,4| after to-morrow she will inaugurate a new style of hair-dressing,
1617 20,3| she supposes he is dead or incarcerated in some prison. ~It is to
1618 9,1| abode. The door-bell rang incessantly for several hours, and an
1619 20,1| fancied he grew several inches taller when, in some public
1620 3,2| 2~"Still it was he who incited M. de Coralth to do the
1621 4,1| do so - such a flood of incoherent thoughts was seething and
1622 15,4| felt a wild, unreasoning, inconceivable fear of my brother. It was
1623 11,3| him! and she had been so inconsiderate as to keep him waiting for
1624 9,6| was a complete, startling, incontestable victory. It was not enough
1625 3,4| narrative. "The husband was incontestably an artless fellow: but he
1626 5,5| favor. So, if it wouldn't inconvenience you to lend me fifty louis " ~"
1627 1,2| proceeding would be slow and inconvenient in the extreme. He was revolving
1628 3,1| distract one's mind with an incurable evil. Let us speak of yourself,
1629 6,5| house on her return. She incurred such a risk of awakening
1630 15,4| the same terrible fear of incurring the enmity of this dangerous
1631 13,8| established fact that a person incurs no risk in robbing Kami-Bey?" ~"
1632 2,1| a man? I says that it's indecent. I'm only a servant, but - - " ~"
1633 14,5| had been fixed by dyes as indelible as the stains upon her past. ~
1634 7,6| This was the name which was indelibly impressed upon Wilkie's
1635 5,5| that I should fix upon the indemnity which is due to me. I will
1636 7,3| air of humility which was indescribably touching, she took her hands
1637 15,1| which is considered a sure indication of birth and breeding. Convinced
1638 7,1| requires passports of the indigent. Besides, no matter what
1639 9,1| She must have material and indisputable proofs before she could
1640 18,5| hers. Crime had bound them indissolubly together. ~Horrified beyond
1641 11,1| cap - revealed thorough indolence, and that morbid indifference
1642 12,2| of ridding himself of his indolent brother-in-law, for he turned
1643 8,3| restrained himself from indulging in various witticisms which
1644 20,1| the terrible chevalier d'industrie, hung over his joy like
1645 2,2| charming and useful branch of industry? Gather up your papers,
1646 6,2| prevents me from casting ineffaceable opprobrium upon the great
1647 18,4| would find their son more inexorable than the severest judge. ~
1648 15,5| they wanted.' My evident inexperience was probably the cause of
1649 19,5| young girl, Pascal. A timid, inexperienced girl, who had been carefully
1650 6,2| You know that I have been infamously duped and deceived, that
1651 12,1| comprehend. I could imagine infanticide more easily. No, such a
1652 6,4| with whom I had been so infatuated, did not love me at all,
1653 8,3| Mademoiselle Marguerite, "I must infer that he usually goes hungry,
1654 12,3| sentiment, an energy no whit inferior to her own, and even an
1655 14,4| ignorance. This feeling of inferiority became so powerful that
1656 15,1| love and friendship of my inferiors - abandoned to the dangerous
1657 12,1| subject. I don't excuse infidelity, but I can understand how
1658 11,4| straightforward person; and she would infinitely have preferred a cynical
1659 9,1| close attention, and of infinitesimal trifles. Nor was she much
1660 18,2| tenderest and most impassioned inflection he could impart to his voice,
1661 19,2| mother's prejudices and the inflexibility of her principles. But he
1662 9,1| Madame la Comtesse" was inflexible. She sent the man about
1663 19,5| revenge as the humiliation he inflicted on me. His plan for your
1664 1,1| alleviated by the prospect of inflicting them a hundredfold upon
1665 17,3| gone off, unmoved by his informant's grievances. Now that he
1666 7,6| vociferated; "take care! Do not infuriate me beyond endurance - - " ~
1667 15,5| to the basest treason and ingratitude.' The man who spoke in this
1668 15,1| omnipresent passion which one inhales with the very air one breathes!
1669 6,4| the fortune that I was to inherit. Oh! he didn't conceal it
1670 1,1| of circumstances, and the inhuman cruelty of relatives. For
1671 4,2| failed. ~"There must be some iniquitous mystery in this affair,
1672 9,4| Argeles." P. F. - these initials of course meant Pascal Ferailleur.
1673 2,5| ought NOT to be taken? Who initiated her into what you call high
1674 7,1| Wilkie with such a host of injunctions, that it was quite evident
1675 17,4| lose all thought of his injuries. "That's M. Ferailleur,"
1676 6,5| smile, that any excess is injurious - excess of pleasure as
1677 10,3| Then, as soon as the ink was dry, he folded the letter
1678 5,2| without giving M. Wilkie an inkling of the truth, he succeeded
1679 12,1| possessor of millions, she, the inmate of a palace, thinking only
1680 11,2| door communicating with the inner room were securely closed,
1681 7,2| although your visit is most inopportune, for I have eighty guests
1682 12,2| often been mistaken for inordinate pride; but she had not forgotten
1683 19,5| heart and intelligence, and inordinately vain, but neither better
1684 10,4| answered. "My reason for inquiring is this: just now, as I
1685 4,2| who would watch him, and insinuate himself into his confidence." ~
1686 18,5| say and prove that he was insolvent whenever occasion required;
1687 9,3| dinner in the evening, after inspecting hundreds of yards of silk
1688 15,1| nobility and frankness which inspires you with unlimited confidence,
1689 13,1| once or in fifty different instalments, as you please. Only use
1690 13,6| have been plenty of such instances. Isn't it a well-known fact
1691 6,3| the Marquis de Valorsay's instigation." ~The baron looked at Madame
1692 4,2| find that he is really the instigator of the infamous plot that
1693 8,5| certainly the study was instructive. The General's household
1694 10,5| variety of steel and silver instruments, knives, pincers, scissors,
1695 15,6| stowed away the proofs which insured him the much-coveted property. ~"
1696 13,3| surely as proximity to fire insures warmth. So he arrayed himself
1697 20,2| pocket M. Wilkie's signature insuring him upward of half a million?
1698 19,4| possession of a man of dubious integrity, who was once the marquis'
1699 16,2| persistent efforts of the count's intellect, his muscular rigidity alternating
1700 18,1| horses; and the wife was intent upon shopping. As for Madame
1701 13,3| his bedroom. He was to all intents busily engaged in examining
1702 5,1| happened? ~But the races had interfered with his plans. M. Wilkie
1703 11,2| consent to abstain from interfering with you, but only on conditions
1704 2,1| 1~The sumptuous interior of the Trigault mansion
1705 9,4| herself up for lost, I shall interpose. I shall save her; and it
1706 2,3| leave the room, but his wife interposed: "The Baroness Trigault,
1707 14,2| sprang from his chair, and interrupting M. Wilkie: "I advise you,
1708 10,6| with miserable shanties interspersed with some tiny shops, and
1709 18,2| from it. At last, after an interval of irksome silence, he ventured
1710 10,5| remained upstairs in the intervals between the nine or ten
1711 16,2| knew what he was doing. Interviewed on behalf of the Marquis
1712 16,1| quest of one of his former intimates, with the generous intention
1713 3,3| No, this is the first intimation I have received of it. It
1714 7,6| imparting a truly frightful intonation to M. Wilkie's voice. The
1715 9,6| weak ones which are become intoxicated by the first symptom of
1716 12,3| the expiring cry of her intractable obstinacy. "Now," she resumed, "
1717 13,2| extent by the host of female intriguers, who look upon every foreigner
1718 9,4| Let the F's continue their intrigues, and even pretend to favor
1719 15,1| had discovered a means of intruding upon my presence, even in
1720 19,4| it? He finally decided to intrust it to the keeping of M.
1721 8,1| Mademoiselle Marguerite, intrusts herself to the care of strangers -
1722 19,5| was riveted upon her. She intuitively divined what was passing
1723 18,4| the workmen have already invaded our apartments. The General
1724 10,6| seal was the viscount's' invariable precaution against his servant'
1725 16,1| the peace came to take the inventory, the money could not be
1726 15,6| The other I intend to invest for you in such a way that
1727 3,3| hundred thousand francs safely invested; her furniture and diamonds
1728 19,5| shall go at once to the investigating magistrate and explain everything.
1729 9,6| isn't an outlay - it's an investment." Subtle reasoning that
1730 19,2| Madame Leon, who had been invisible since the morning, might
1731 5,6| the unfortunate idea of inviting Victor Chupin to come up
1732 13,8| my affairs are terribly involved." ~"The devil! You should
1733 3,3| blase, I boasted of being invulnerable. Well, one fine morning
1734 13,6| assumed modesty; but he was inwardly jubilant, for he felt that
1735 18,2| last, after an interval of irksome silence, he ventured to
1736 18,2| Marguerite shrugged her shoulders ironically, and remained for a moment
1737 8,2| to do all the washing and ironing since the laundress - - " ~"
1738 10,2| only said, 'If you are not irredeemably bad you will be honest after
1739 16,1| tongue." ~M. Casimir, who was irreproachably clad in black, with a white
1740 7,6| him from the ground with irresistible strength, and flung him
1741 15,5| that impelled me almost irresistibly to plunge into the flood.
1742 9,3| for some time she stood irresolute. At last the instinct of
1743 12,3| care. By declaring children irresponsible for their mother's faults,
1744 11,5| way that was exceedingly irritating to his vanity, and in a
1745 2,1| voice betrayed a violent irritation, which was only restrained
1746 14,4| his mouth, but no sound issued from his lips, and it seemed
1747 4,1| and I know your hands are itching. Excuse me for making you
1748 2,1| only allow me to read the items. It will take but a moment,"
1749 3,4| richly deserves to be in jail. How it is that he is allowed
1750 5,3| cigars upon the table, and a jar of tobacco on the mantel-shelf.
1751 11,1| few shillings. Four stone jars, and a couple of pairs of
1752 2,1| ultimately dislocate their jaws and arms. ~"Tell me," inquired
1753 3,4| maddened with anger and jealousy, should rush in and throw
1754 5,4| expenditures, and rail at work and jeer at economy. What source
1755 14,4| own interests had been in jeopardy he could not have appeared
1756 9,6| year." ~Was this only a jest - one of those witticisms
1757 7,7| were ill, while another jestingly remarked that he had dined
1758 9,2| being quite disgusted with job-masters, so he declared. Besides,
1759 13,4| scoundrels, hotel-keepers, and jockeys." ~Pascal at once thought
1760 5,2| spectators were pushing and jostling one another beyond the ropes
1761 13,5| parched traveller while journeying over the desert sands of
1762 10,5| between the nine or ten journeys he made to the porte-cochere
1763 3,1| indeed, the frivolous and jovial Baron Trigault whom Pascal
1764 17,3| had said, he was a stout, jovial-faced man, and he did not hesitate
1765 17,3| documents it contained, and joyfully exclaimed: "Here we have
1766 2,5| idiot! that I was! With what joyous pride, on my return after
1767 10,3| are, Toto," she exclaimed, joyously. "I didn't expect you so
1768 12,3| count as one of the sublime joys of maternity the task of
1769 13,6| modesty; but he was inwardly jubilant, for he felt that his enemy
1770 14,1| pretty effectually used up, judging from appearances," one of
1771 19,2| kindly voice exclaimed: "Jump in quickly, mademoiselle " ~
1772 9,2| it surprised her that a keen-sighted person like Madame Leon
1773 13,1| before drowning him." ~The keenest penetration was concealed
1774 3,2| that I used Rochecotte's, Kervaulieu's, and Coralth's names in
1775 5,3| boarding-school, and his wife was the kindest and most patient of women.
1776 14,2| lamp. Then as his wrath kindled, "Ah! so it's you!" he exclaimed,
1777 16,2| liable to error. In the kingdom of science it would be unpardonable
1778 7,3| ice beneath his mother's kisses. Indeed, he barely tolerated
1779 8,5| that evening, and, after kissing her dear young lady, she
1780 13,8| very pale, his brows were knit; he looked like a man who
1781 9,2| word after word, and her knitted brows and compressed lips
1782 10,3| found his mother engaged in knitting, as usual. This was the
1783 17,1| his worn-out shoes, his "knockers" and his glazed cap, he
1784 17,2| moment later Chupin was knocking at this woman's door. She
1785 11,1| wine-glasses, and three or four labelled bottles, five or six boxes
1786 6,1| ought to have made me a laborer, and not a spoiled idler,
1787 9,6| appearance, wearied with the labors of the day, but in fine
1788 9,6| So money is no longer lacking in this household," thought
1789 14,5| before, had driven round the lake, reclining on the cushions
1790 13,4| even tottered, as if his lame leg, which was so much affected
1791 18,4| friend whom we so bitterly lament." ~ ~
1792 10,6| a thick fog; the street lamps were not yet lighted, and
1793 18,2| served, the conversation languished till at last it died out
1794 5,2| his mother took him on her lap, and embraced him with convulsive
1795 5,2| memory; and now, after a lapse of twenty years, he pronounced
1796 13,8| fortune - to make it even larger than it has ever been. I
1797 1,2| His mansion was one of the largest and most magnificent in
1798 18,2| drinking a glass of the Chateau Laroze, to which Madame Leon had
1799 15,4| a slave in terror of the lash. However, during our long
1800 18,2| started as if he had been lashed with a whip. "Ah! you are
1801 8,5| milliner's persistence, and, lastly, the new sheets on the visitors'
1802 7,2| have friends while my money lasts." He wiped his eyes, dry
1803 8,1| hunted in her pocket for her latch-key. Not finding it, she rang.
1804 15,1| this, and seized with a laudable desire to emulate such distinguished
1805 18,1| twenty-seven, or thereabouts, with laughing eyes and a heavy mustache.
1806 3,3| and that I shall be the laughing-stock of my acquaintances. Still
1807 7,7| attention; and one acquaintance laughingly inquired if he were ill,
1808 8,2| washing and ironing since the laundress - - " ~"That's sufficient,"
1809 14,1| newspapers have become public laundries, in which every one washes
1810 6,1| Did not the money she had lavished upon him contain every germ
1811 8,1| altercation arose; the servant lavishing insults upon his mistress,
1812 18,1| Fondeges are spending money lavishly; try and find out the names
1813 7,4| them? Have you been to the law-school a dozen times? No. But you
1814 11,2| subsistence for me, your lawfully wedded wife, and for your
1815 20,1| Coralth. "They look like lawyers or magistrates." But although
1816 15,6| makes his appearance and lays claim to this fortune, I
1817 5,1| jockey. ~The latter was a lazy, worthless fellow, who had
1818 6,2| Yes, she slept the heavy, leaden slumber which always follows
1819 2,2| retain one's position as a leader of fashion; and many of
1820 8,1| Occasionally, the General leaned from the carriage window
1821 10,1| private office. His heart was leaping with joy, and he laughed
1822 16,1| amazement of Paris when it learns that Lia d'Argeles was a
1823 15,4| recently died, leaving him a legacy of fifty thousand dollars -
1824 10,1| 1~The old legend of Achilles's heel will
1825 13,8| sounds like one of the wild legends of your native land. Valorsay
1826 7,5| are mistaken. You are my legitimate child. I am a married woman - - " ~"
1827 13,4| Valorsay had asked for had lengthened into a quarter of an hour,
1828 7,2| live as utterly alone as a leper, without a soul to love
1829 10,5| adroitly as pistols. He took a lesson every day from one of the
1830 15,5| cherished. To give music lessons it is necessary to obtain
1831 7,7| or I should say, money - lets him loose; and then seems
1832 8,5| to throw this note into a letter-box without being observed." ~
1833 19,4| purchased one of those letter-presses which merchants use in their
1834 9,1| General was holding his levee; they remained there from
1835 18,3| strangely with his usual levity of manner, he added: "If
1836 2,3| themselves on surpassing lewd women in audacity, extravagance,
1837 17,1| have you finished, you old liar?" rose to Chupin's lips,
1838 12,2| unprincipled drunkard and libertine. He fancied the poor little
1839 10,5| it were a throne, and the library filled with richly bound
1840 7,3| son from it. I would have licked up the very mire in your
1841 20,2| man's an impostor! - he lies! - all that he says is false!" ~"
1842 5,6| sign our formal contract in lieu of the temporary one you
1843 3,3| cannot be met twice in a lifetime. I intend to leave Paris.
1844 7,6| your work, wretch!" ~And lifting him again, as easily as
1845 11,2| bashfulness. He was very light-haired, and in features he was
1846 9,4| That girl's certainly light-headed," he thought. ~Her demeanor
1847 1,1| hope that had momentarily lightened his heart faded away again.
1848 10,4| consent." ~He went off with a lighter heart; and on reaching the
1849 7,2| the liveried servants, the lights and flowers, all impressed
1850 10,5| argument that the baroness liked it in such or such a place,
1851 2,5| reeled. "Good Lord! what a likeness!" he murmured. ~ ~ ~
1852 5,1| employed him without either limit or shame. Although he made
1853 15,1| equal of any in France in lineage, splendor of alliance, and
1854 13,3| of really changing their lineaments. Thus after weighing the
1855 16,1| romance, you will become the lion of the season." ~M. Wilkie
1856 11,4| intense surprise and the liveliest admiration. But weary at
1857 5,4| are sixty francs to a high liver, who breakfasts and dines
1858 2,5| gambling in horror - that I loathe it. But when I play, I sometimes
1859 7,3| exclaimed, "he spurns me; he loathes me. Ah! I knew it would
1860 7,2| place where physiologists locate the heart, he felt certain
1861 10,6| imitating the whistle of a locomotive with wonderful perfection,
1862 10,5| capital marksman, and could lodge eight balls out of ten in
1863 14,2| gentleness, sentiments of the loftiest nature, tenderness, a shower
1864 9,1| most was that she could not logically explain the conduct of her
1865 10,6| ladies. But, above all, don't loiter on the way. I don't mind
1866 11,1| thoroughly at home in the loneliest and most dangerous by-ways
1867 13,4| swollen eyelids betrayed a long-continued want of sleep. ~The fact
1868 16,3| de Valorsay rose with a long-drawn sigh of relief. "What an
1869 17,3| midnight when Chupin saw the long-looked-for vehicle enter the courtyard.
1870 3,3| understand that she really longs to see me married." ~"I
1871 2,4| wife dresses, but how she looks en dishabille, and how she
1872 20,2| around him seeking for some loophole of escape. ~However, the
1873 18,2| was the good cheer that loosened his tongue. There could
1874 8,5| Leon, who was usually so loquacious, did not seem to be in a
1875 5,4| a member of the House of Lords, who was twenty times a
1876 5,4| told his creditors that his lordship, his father, would some
1877 2,4| Baroness Trigault uses her lorgnette with charming impertinence.
1878 5,3| taking him to the college of Louis-the-Great, where he was entered as
1879 1,2| Five or six footmen were lounging about the courtyard when
1880 2,1| illustrious adorner of female loveliness had already resumed his
1881 18,4| breakfast. You will see a lovely woman." And addressing the
1882 2,3| courtesans fleece their lovers? Noble ladies! who drink,
1883 3,1| I have never met a more loyal, more honorable, or more
1884 3,3| must have been born under a lucky star!" ~Had he been less
1885 8,2| servants were carrying the luggage upstairs, Marguerite discovered
1886 7,6| in the cards, and swore lustily at the deserters who had
1887 14,3| inevitably cast some of its lustre upon him! Now he would be
1888 3,2| that his locks were still luxuriant. If he experienced any secret
1889 9,6| what form? What abominable machination might she not expect from
1890 16,1| hour to set in motion the machinery which he had had in complete
1891 2,2| turn their husbands into machines for supplying money? You
1892 7,7| some ballast in this young madcap's brains. Besides, your
1893 7,7| of attention, or by the magnetic force of his will, he hoped
1894 2,1| a par with its external magnificence. Even the entrance bespoke
1895 13,1| handsome suite of rooms, and magnificently furnished. Here sat the
1896 11,1| Flavie." ~He had used her maiden name in speaking of her.
1897 11,4| stranger, and open to him her maidenly heart, filled with love
1898 19,1| a physician. One of the maids came with some fresh water
1899 14,4| courtyard, where the master's mail-phaeton stood in waiting; when through
1900 8,2| many little mysteries and make-shifts to be concealed in this
1901 18,2| she go, without exciting malevolent remarks? Whom could she
1902 1,2| hypocritical smile and the malice gleaming in her eyes?" He
1903 12,3| gaze of this woman, whose malignity was but poorly veiled by
1904 2,2| Pascal. ~Meanwhile, the man-milliner continued to urge his claims -
1905 8,1| finding it, she rang. A tall man-servant of impudent appearance and
1906 16,4| man is called, knows the management of the house, and he will
1907 3,2| trainer, and his grooms. My manager declares that the twenty-three
1908 7,4| foreigners. M. Patterson, who manages a large manufacturing establishment,
1909 10,2| shoulder broken, and his body mangled from his fall. Great heavens!
1910 8,4| attached to the matter was so manifest that Marguerite could not
1911 15,1| these models of deportment? Manifestly he ought to assume that
1912 14,1| that the great adversary of mankind had the Viscount de Coralth
1913 13,4| endeavoring, by the most infamous manoeuvres, to rob him of the woman
1914 13,8| great deal of dishonest manoeuvring results from greed for gain
1915 8,3| herself on a sofa near the mantelpiece, and when Mademoiselle Marguerite
1916 2,1| said to myself: 'Whew! the mantua-maker is presenting his bill!'
1917 1,2| financier, and a shrewd manufacturer, the possessor of valuable
1918 7,4| Patterson, who manages a large manufacturing establishment, will, I know,
1919 13,4| energy of a ship-wrecked mariner struggling for the possession
1920 13,4| a pile before him, first marking certain passages with a
1921 13,3| the marquis's abode bore marks of the haste which mars
1922 10,5| le Vicomte was a capital marksman, and could lodge eight balls
1923 3,4| beloved Marguerite, the future Marquise de Valorsay, has no dowry." ~
1924 20,2| had aided and advised the marquius so effectually. He abruptly
1925 8,4| continued Madame de Fondege, "a marriageable young girl should never
1926 13,3| marks of the haste which mars the merest trifle produced
1927 3,3| are lost! My husband is at Marseilles: he will be here to-morrow.
1928 15,5| room in the Faubourg Saint Martin. It was badly ventilated
1929 13,3| carpet, which had once been a marvel of beauty, was stained in
1930 10,5| The chandeliers seemed marvels in his eyes; and the sumptuous
1931 20,2| accomplice of the notorious Mascarot; he is a cowardly villain,
1932 6,2| calmness real? Was it not a mask, would not his fury suddenly
1933 2,3| and carouse, who attend masked balls, and talk slang! Noble
1934 8,5| if to-morrow, on going to mass, I can't find an opportunity
1935 6,2| which were battling for mastery in his mind - anger, hatred,
1936 2,1| for parasol and shoes to match, one Pompadour bathing-suit,
1937 11,2| with the help of several matches and a great deal of drawing,
1938 19,2| and compared her with this matchless woman. ~Meanwhile the cab
1939 16,3| Wilkie, I am sure, perfectly, mathematically sure of success. Maumejan,
1940 17,4| remember any such powerful matron as the porter had described.
1941 5,5| cards skilfully. And his matutinal visit to M. Wilkie was caused
1942 1,1| respectable family, as the Maumejans might easily ascertain by
1943 | maybe
1944 17,2| his wits in defending his meagre salary from his creditors.
1945 15,5| advance, I found a small, meagrely furnished room in the Faubourg
1946 8,2| that she should take her meals at the family table, a thing
1947 18,1| or a day longer! Had they measured the extent of his villainy?
1948 13,1| with closed eyes to any measures he might propose. He ought
1949 19,2| gave her some soup and cold meat, served on a corner of the
1950 19,1| glance around her, while she mechanically passed her hand again and
1951 17,2| to explain the ingenious mechanism of the office to an outsider. "
1952 7,6| you? By what right do you meddle with my affairs?" ~"By the
1953 16,2| deceive the most experienced medical men. The persistent efforts
1954 18,2| coupled with such utter mediocrity. It was evident that he
1955 7,1| France. ~Such were Wilkie's meditations while he was engaged in
1956 11,3| daily bread through the medium of those chance opportunities
1957 7,4| obstacles one generally meets with among foreigners. M.
1958 7,3| always cry and have a sort of melodrama." ~Suddenly the sound of
1959 17,4| sealed bottle, and, after melting it at the flame of the candle,
1960 2,1| have no existence for the menials of fashionable establishments,
1961 18,5| and she often exercised it mercilessly. Even after the frightful
1962 8,2| this favor was due to her merit alone, but Mademoiselle
1963 13,1| has done anything at all meritorious, or even worthy of the slightest
1964 16,2| Unfortunately, this tribute to the merits of the valet's friend was
1965 13,7| understanding the cause of their merriment broke into a hearty laugh. "
1966 13,3| all the respect due to the Messiah. Come in. I will announce
1967 7,3| himself that he was a man of mettle - and he remained as cold
1968 15,1| ship, and had fought in Mexico at the head of one of those
1969 6,2| own accord. It was past mid-day when he returned, but his
1970 8,1| anything. And the task is a mighty one - to brave unknown dangers,
1971 6,4| dolls that hairdressers, milliners and fools call great ladies,
1972 13,4| be compared to that of a miner, who, while ascending from
1973 1,2| the possessor of valuable mines. The marvellous luxury so
1974 11,5| discovered this scheme for mining M. Ferailleur, I cried '
1975 2,3| of these artful men, who minister to your vanity, and use
1976 2,1| gold coins fresh from the mint; still, despite their splendor,
1977 7,1| glance at himself in the mirror, twirled his mustaches,
1978 10,5| satin, velvet, hangings, mirrors and gilding. Still this
1979 11,5| look at his clerk, but the mischief was done: denial was useless.
1980 9,2| been led to commit certain misdemeanors by his love of gambling
1981 15,6| passionately, as madly, as any miser. Last year my gaming-room
1982 15,5| was badly ventilated and miserably lighted, but still it was
1983 7,1| supposed. But this first mishap annoyed him extremely. What
1984 18,3| I was doing. I have been misinformed. I have been beguiled by
1985 7,4| Argeles a ray of hope. "I have misjudged him," she thought. "Poor
1986 7,7| murmured: "No! Your animosity misleads you - he wouldn't dare!" ~
1987 14,2| first; for he dared not misrepresent the facts. ~But when he
1988 | miss
1989 15,2| will she had dispelled the mists enshrouding the past, and
1990 16,2| starving in the midst of his mock splendor. ~M. Casimir was
1991 15,1| probable example of these models of deportment? Manifestly
1992 18,1| room. Like any well-bred modiste, she bowed respectfully
1993 2,4| is a most enticing little mole. I had the satisfaction
1994 6,5| veins seemed to her like molten lead. The physician who
1995 7,6| the summer; in Paris or at Monaco in the winter." ~"Oh! oh!
1996 6,4| sale of a woman of the demi monde. Oh! don't fear - your exhibition
1997 8,3| marked with the General's monogram, surmounted by his wife'
1998 5,1| to accuse the others of monopolizing the jockey. ~ ~
1999 20,1| entertainment for gentlemen only, a monster card-party; but every one
2000 6,4| If your parents are not monsters,' he was always saying, '
2001 3,1| indeed incomprehensible, monstrous - but it is the truth. It