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2502 3,2| if he felt the need of regilding his escutcheon, like my
2503 16,4| document is perfectly en regle, and unattackable. Maumejan,
2504 17,3| much more obliging than the regulations required. However, when
2505 6,5| my own. But I might have rehabilitated myself through him, and
2506 8,4| divinely beautiful - you will reign as a queen wherever you
2507 20,3| fashionable world - in fact, he reigns over it like a king. After
2508 4,2| scoundrels assail them. We will reinstate you in public esteem, monsieur.
2509 12,4| the hope that she would reject and scorn him, and, disappointed
2510 5,6| Wait a little before you rejoice," said he. "Yes, your mother
2511 16,1| indulged in all sorts of harsh rejoinders, and making himself out
2512 1,1| his mother, she began to relate the history of her life,
2513 12,1| with emotion, he rapidly related all he had learned by his
2514 18,2| life which he persisted in relating despite his mother's frowns,
2515 9,6| symptom of success, and then relax in their efforts. When her
2516 16,2| rigidity alternating with utter relaxation, the dilation of the pupils
2517 7,3| have been a rest, a welcome release for me. But your breath
2518 10,6| replied the man, without releasing his hold on his pipe. ~"
2519 7,1| one of them advanced to relieve Wilkie of his overcoat,
2520 5,6| idea was too tempting to be relinquished. ~So on Monday morning,
2521 19,2| passion, she at last yielded a reluctant consent. The young girl
2522 13,8| despair. "Alas!" he replied, reluctantly, "nothing could be more
2523 3,2| recovered already, and you may rely upon her applauding your
2524 8,5| everything with distrust; and by relying only on herself, she had
2525 18,4| most delightful - - " ~The remainder of the sentence died unuttered
2526 3,1| the baron. But experience reminded him that confidential disclosures
2527 13,8| thought; a sudden faintness reminding him that he had taken nothing
2528 5,4| repeated appeals, I have remitted the entire amount to you.
2529 11,1| who was playing with the remnants of a toy-horse. The sight
2530 13,5| to be gone through, and remonstrances without number." ~For a
2531 10,3| money in the letter," he remonstrated. And opening the envelope,
2532 10,4| in a red waistcoat, were removing the plants from the vehicle
2533 8,2| that prove to be the more remunerative course, she saw a long series
2534 15,3| A woman who repairs to a rendezvous should always have all the
2535 13,5| while waiting for their rents to fall due." ~This excuse
2536 7,2| He nervously passed and repassed his fingers between his
2537 10,3| fashionable folks employ in repaying their debts. To tell the
2538 2,2| losing all his money at play, repays his creditors with curses." ~
2539 12,2| that you may never have to repent of choosing a wife whose
2540 16,1| what to do. Not that he repented, he was incapable of that;
2541 5,4| unfavorable character of the replies his manner became humble
2542 2,2| but the baron, instead of replying, only whistled; and wounded
2543 13,3| pencil: "Who calls as the representative of Baron Trigault," the
2544 1,1| false with the true, and representing herself as an unfortunate
2545 5,4| Twenty thousand francs a year represents about sixty francs a day;
2546 18,5| fall. "Then it is only a reprieve," she moaned, "and I am
2547 18,4| and at once proceeded to reprimand her maid for not having
2548 12,1| back, as if she had seen a reptile spring up in her pathway. "
2549 20,1| Paris wait awhile." ~He repudiated his former friends. Costard
2550 18,5| Marguerite! Good God! you repulse me. After all you have promised
2551 15,6| one of those scandalous reputations that attract public attention.
2552 11,3| sent a message to Florent requesting him to wait, as she desired
2553 9,6| Besides purchasing every requisite for that wonderful costume
2554 13,1| I shall ever be able to requite it. Shall I ever have a
2555 15,6| was no fool by reading and rereading the contract before he would
2556 3,4| he said. ~But he quickly reseated himself, and the exclamation
2557 18,5| century to both of them. The resemblance - which had astonished Pascal
2558 12,4| that all writings in pencil resemble each other more or less?
2559 4,1| circumstances the marquis would have resented it. However, he had special
2560 17,2| where Pascal had formerly resided was by no means a polite
2561 8,3| what is more, to relatives residing in Paris. She had previously
2562 3,3| Being an honest woman, she resisted the count's advances for
2563 8,1| unworthy of Pascal?" And she resolutely entered the carriage, mentally
2564 1,2| this the way you keep your resolutions and your oaths! You express
2565 16,3| escaped the marquis, but resolving to restrain himself, he
2566 15,4| But it was in vain that he resorted to brutal treatment; in
2567 19,1| listening she heard the cry resound a second time, even more
2568 17,3| spoke of his "fare" as a respectable-looking old lady, enumerated the
2569 19,5| than many others who figure respectably in society. His name is
2570 6,5| when he came to pay his respects to her soon afterward. For
2571 20,2| Chupin - Victor Chupin, resplendent in a handsome, bran-new,
2572 15,6| a scarcely audible voice responded: "It is not likely that
2573 10,2| me, it's because I have responsibilities, m'sieur. You know my establishment" -
2574 14,4| cannot accept this great responsibility unless I am allowed absolute
2575 7,7| exhausted and out of breath. She rested for a moment, and then resumed
2576 13,6| considerable assistance in restoring Valorsay's composure. "Enough
2577 8,3| suffocated by the necessity of restraining her wrath, Madame de Fondege
2578 18,3| lieutenant's departure the restrictions which had been placed upon
2579 8,1| violence, at the same time retaining a calm eye and smiling lips.
2580 2,5| yielding, she was only bent on retaliation. ~"Does your son-in-law
2581 3,4| story; but, in spite of his reticence, I learned that he had been
2582 5,1| sell his horses." ~"He only retires from the turf because he'
2583 8,1| very sorry for it." ~The retort that rose to the housekeeper'
2584 7,6| are a coward yourself," he retorted. "You had better learn who
2585 19,2| for the evening, she was retracing her way home, when suddenly
2586 16,3| back, or to even think of retreat. The Rubicon is passed." ~"
2587 17,4| hadn't kept it. When she returns, please deliver my message;
2588 18,1| agent had frightened her, by revealing the Marquis de Valorsay'
2589 2,5| should consider myself amply revenged if I could make you suffer
2590 11,1| person bespoke terrible reverses, borne without dignity.
2591 5,6| Let us part friends - au revoir - and, above all, keep me
2592 5,4| that M. Patterson would not revoke his decision; and indeed
2593 9,2| should not have remarked this revolution; but the worthy companion
2594 20,3| right hand still clutching a revolver. He was dead. "And the other!"
2595 20,3| that room he had laid two revolvers, and two packages containing
2596 1,2| inconvenient in the extreme. He was revolving the subject in his mind
2597 19,4| inspired me, and who thus rewards me for an hour of courage.
2598 3,3| pleasant after all; there is rheumatism in prospect, and my digestion
2599 9,3| filled to overflowing with richly-attired dames and damsels, who ask
2600 15,4| accuser. You were born in Richmond, Wilkie, where we remained
2601 9,2| the open letter upon the rickety chest of drawers, which,
2602 13,8| thought of employing had often ridden one of the animals which
2603 10,2| And shall he be allowed to ride about in his carriage, and
2604 8,5| who spend their time in ridiculing them, and torturing their
2605 5,4| take such a step. She is so ridiculously antiquated in her notions."
2606 2,1| costume, a walking costume, a riding-habit, two morning-dresses, a
2607 14,5| s what I am after! It's rightfully mine, and I'm determined
2608 16,2| intellect, his muscular rigidity alternating with utter relaxation,
2609 5,1| thinness to a system of rigorous training; and the owners
2610 3,2| something you possess - rings ominously in people's ears.
2611 9,6| she needed the advice of a riper experience than her own,
2612 10,6| breaks the silence is the rippling of the water as its smooth
2613 11,2| at the corner of the Rue Riquet, where there are such splendid
2614 5,4| was by no means an early riser, and only some very powerful
2615 1,1| brain, and the foam of anger rises to the lips; no obstacle
2616 15,1| birth. I knew that I was risking my reputation, the spotless
2617 13,8| Pascal shook his head. "One risks nothing by advancing twenty-five
2618 8,4| of gentlemen, the envy of rivals, the consciousness of one'
2619 5,3| dropped in, the wine flowed in rivers; and after dinner they danced.
2620 5,6| was dangerous to let him roam about Paris with half of
2621 10,3| dangerous." He thought of roaming sound about M. de Valorsay'
2622 13,4| infamous manoeuvres, to rob him of the woman he loved. "
2623 13,8| person incurs no risk in robbing Kami-Bey?" ~"Had I been
2624 6,4| Bois d'Ardon, by Madame de Rochecote, her five daughters, and
2625 3,2| enormous sum, and that I used Rochecotte's, Kervaulieu's, and Coralth'
2626 15,1| imagination with visionary and romantic fancies. The only conversation
2627 8,3| Crimson with anger to the very roots of her coarse, sandy hair -
2628 5,2| jostling one another beyond the ropes which limited the course.
2629 2,1| decidedly the best of the row. He has furnished the goods,
2630 16,3| even think of retreat. The Rubicon is passed." ~"Alas! that
2631 2,2| that flounces, puffs, and ruches - - " ~"Naturally! Total,
2632 3,2| that there is nothing so ruinous as a racing stable. It's
2633 8,4| this lonely girl, and then rule her through the tastes she
2634 8,1| shrill voice rose above the rumble of the wheels, as she chronicled
2635 8,2| hanging over the side of the rumpled bed, and on the mantel-shelf
2636 2,1| What is the cause of the rumpus? That Fernand, no doubt -
2637 17,4| through the post." ~The ruse was not particularly clever,
2638 9,6| heard of a barouche which a Russian prince had ordered but didn'
2639 2,1| sculptors of renown. On a rustic bench sat a couple of tall
2640 13,1| costly statuary, when a rustle of silk resounded near him.
2641 8,1| choose at all. He placed his rusty candlestick on one of the
2642 11,5| hit just in the bull's-eye. Zounds! there's a woman
2643 8,3| rolled his "r," as he said, "Sacr-r-r-r-r-e bleu!" even more ferociously
2644 14,5| conduct of her son. In this sad-eyed, haggard-faced woman, clad
2645 9,6| of purchasing a beautiful saddle-horse, which they let him have
2646 7,1| poor opinion of his pupil's sagacity. "That woman d'Argeles,"
2647 13,5| over the desert sands of Sahara could not impart greater
2648 15,3| latter, whose vessel was to sail at the end of the same week,
2649 15,3| familiarity of manner, and the sailors' ironical glances whenever
2650 18,4| to enter the mysterious saloon in which the illustrious
2651 15,3| this cursed ship, eating salt cod twice a day, and living
2652 19,1| and a bottle of smelling salts, and Marguerite soon recovered
2653 12,2| reproach Marguerite for sanctify her in my eyes." ~ ~
2654 13,1| led him into his private sanctum, separated from the large
2655 13,5| journeying over the desert sands of Sahara could not impart
2656 8,3| very roots of her coarse, sandy hair - amazed to see her
2657 18,1| her, and that made him so sanguine of success? The impression
2658 8,3| said, without a shade of sarcasm in her manner. "I hope they
2659 2,5| then suddenly, in a harsh, sarcastic voice, he interrupted her
2660 2,1| costume with jacket and sash, two train dresses with
2661 2,2| Bois. You sell silks and satins no doubt; but you sell Madeira,
2662 16,4| people perform their duties satisfactorily?" ~"Each of them is as much
2663 4,2| Pascal tried to find a satisfactory answer, but failed. ~"There
2664 9,4| twice during my absence - on Saturday evening and Sunday morning -
2665 1,1| gentleman smack his lips over my sauces when was in the employment
2666 10,3| soon. Don't you scent a savory smell? As you must be greatly
2667 15,2| drew two swords from their scabbards, and throwing one at Arthur'
2668 20,3| that he cannot escape the scaffold, ascends it with a firm
2669 6,4| wretches whose passing luxury scandalizes honest women.'" ~"And what
2670 8,1| while they crossed several scantily-furnished apartments, Madame de Fondege
2671 13,4| past week. A man may be a scapegrace and a spendthrift and may
2672 10,2| of making a false step." Schebel, the German philosopher,
2673 16,3| instrument of your dangerous schemes. Who aided you in defrauding
2674 10,5| instruments, knives, pincers, scissors, and files. "One might think
2675 18,5| near that her hot breath scorched the girl's cheeks, "no one
2676 13,2| being sneered at by my wife, scorned by my daughter, swindled
2677 14,5| could no longer face the scornful glances that Madame d'Argeles
2678 12,2| employer's brother; but she scornfully repulsed him, and his vanity
2679 10,2| more. I can tell you the scrapes he has been in." ~"No doubt;
2680 17,2| taken off his cap and was scratching his head furiously, when
2681 13,4| of having had worthless scrubs palmed off upon him when
2682 9,5| time for reflection, and he scrutinized Mademoiselle Marguerite
2683 11,1| Chupin had spent this time in scrutinizing - in appraising the man,
2684 11,1| nothing to prevent a prolonged scrutiny. The night was very dark,
2685 2,2| Pascal heard a sound of scuffling, a series of oaths worthy
2686 2,1| exquisite statues, the work of sculptors of renown. On a rustic bench
2687 5,2| he had made a very long sea voyage when only a little
2688 16,3| relief. "What an interminable seance!" he growled. And, approaching
2689 6,5| Still, fearing that this seclusion might seem a little strange,
2690 2,2| notified you through my private secretary." ~"I remember, indeed - - " ~"
2691 18,5| been read?" ~"The ribbon securing them together has never
2692 8,1| unknown dangers, perilous seductions, perfidious counsels, and
2693 7,6| the reason of this sudden, seemingly incomprehensible terror. "
2694 13,6| is lost if this creature sees and recognizes me!" he thought. ~
2695 4,1| incoherent thoughts was seething and foaming in his brain. "
2696 17,2| Company, in the Avenue de Segur. Nevertheless it was already
2697 12,1| that grim madness that seizes hold of so many desperate,
2698 11,1| great shop where she could select whatever she chose. She
2699 13,5| Valorsay's sufferings and self-constraint. "You think I am jesting,
2700 12,1| him for his generosity and self-denial. If you knew, my dear mother,
2701 12,1| myself; I don't say it in self-glorification, it's no credit to me; my
2702 5,3| was very wounding to his self-love, M. Wilkie was obliged to
2703 15,6| Argeles had recovered her self-possession. "I only wished to warn
2704 9,3| At last the instinct of self-preservation overpowered her scruples.
2705 12,2| being too reserved, and her self-respect had often been mistaken
2706 3,1| Argeles's house - the man of self-satisfied mien and superb assurance,
2707 7,4| for ever. The depths of selfishness and cunning she discerned
2708 13,2| Kami-Bey, a specimen of those semi-barbarians, loaded with gold who are
2709 9,6| horses the stable-keeper sends me, nor to endure the insolence
2710 5,2| by that name. His first sensations were those of hunger, weariness,
2711 1,2| thrust touched Pascal's sensitive mind to the quick; he rose
2712 13,2| small, beadlike eyes, and sensual lips. He was clad in a black
2713 20,3| the former of whom was sentenced to hard labor for life,
2714 7,2| moment had come "to do the sentimental," as he would have expressed
2715 3,3| and in a tone of mingled sentimentality and irony, he said: "I know
2716 1,1| measure the distance which separates the dream from reality,
2717 6,3| disclosures formed, as it were, a sequel to the confidential revelations
2718 9,5| tone of voice revealed the serenity of a lofty soul ready to
2719 11,4| before, clad in a coarse serge frock, with dishevelled
2720 5,5| life have I spoken more seriously," insisted the viscount. ~
2721 8,1| de Fondege, followed by a servant-girl with a turn-up nose, a pert
2722 10,5| he exclaimed. "Here he sets me on the go again. It is
2723 8,4| Paris will be there. On the seventh, there will be a ball at
2724 18,4| more inexorable than the severest judge. ~The essential thing
2725 12,4| Letter-writer, for Both Sexes, in Every Condition of Life." ~"
2726 15,1| in Paris - a real park, shaded with century-old trees.
2727 9,3| a fringe of the various shades in the dress, and forming
2728 10,6| increase the grimness of the shadows, and when the only sound
2729 2,1| out of the water; he just shakes his head and troubles himself
2730 20,1| strolled from group to group, shaking hands with his friends and
2731 | shalt
2732 9,2| of false appearances and sham luxury which is a thousand
2733 13,8| Europe. But though he was shamefully imposed upon, it was not
2734 10,6| bordered with miserable shanties interspersed with some tiny
2735 11,5| in order to retrieve his shattered fortunes. Upon my word,
2736 18,5| the baroness had never shed a tear over her husband'
2737 17,3| waved a soiled and crumpled sheet of paper triumphantly in
2738 2,1| sailor suit, one Watteau shepherdess costume, one ordinary bathing-suit,
2739 11,5| prove that Valorsay hasn't a shilling, and that he has lived for
2740 11,1| stock and fixtures for a few shillings. Four stone jars, and a
2741 13,4| the despairing energy of a ship-wrecked mariner struggling for the
2742 14,2| have seen my condition. My shirt-collar was torn, and my cravat
2743 7,6| had lost his cravat, his shirt-front was crumpled and torn, and
2744 6,5| obliged to go to bed. She shivered with cold, and yet the blood
2745 14,1| Pray don't speak of it. A shocking affair! If it were noised
2746 15,2| practised fencing and pistol shooting with his masters and friends.
2747 18,1| appearance attended by two shop-boys overladen with packages,
2748 9,6| six o'clock when the two shoppers made their appearance, wearied
2749 12,4| self-justification. So, in spite of some short-lived doubts, his love had been
2750 11,1| his veins. "He ought to be shot for this, if for nothing
2751 5,2| made himself conspicuous by shouting. "Now! Now! Here he is!
2752 15,6| last word fell like a cold shower-bath upon Wilkie's exultant joy. "
2753 18,4| At the most, it was very showy, having apparently been
2754 18,2| it to his lips. But she shrank from the contact as from
2755 9,3| lost the day. Nor do the shrewdest always return from these
2756 14,2| scene? For you howled and shrieked like a street hawker, and
2757 3,1| Perhaps so! I think he would shrink from nothing in the way
2758 20,2| any one had noticed him shrinking into a corner, terrified
2759 14,4| and the numerous carriages shrouded in linen covers; when he
2760 5,6| the marquis, quickly. And shrugging his shoulders, he added: "
2761 7,7| paused, not because she shrunk from what she was about
2762 12,4| was now explained. She was shuddering at the thought that she
2763 11,3| his zeal in opening and shutting the doors of the carriages
2764 5,5| seigneur. All money questions sicken me. I am careless, liberal,
2765 8,3| dining-room which, with its huge side-boards, loaded with silver and
2766 5,1| Naturally enough, M. Wilkie sided with the marquis, whom he
2767 10,5| concierge, after exchanging a significant glance with the valet, said
2768 2,2| from the Bois. You sell silks and satins no doubt; but
2769 19,2| knelt before this grand but simple-hearted mother had she dared; she
2770 12,3| rigid prejudices that this simple-minded and heroic woman had derived
2771 5,5| him with a fortune, the simpleton ought certainly to give
2772 5,5| wouldn't a man promise in all sincerity of soul to a fellow mortal
2773 2,4| her everywhere, and loudly sing her praises. This is what
2774 20,2| just heard is true. I was sinking, and I tried to save myself
2775 6,5| now, and I condemn it. I sinned for my son's sake, more
2776 6,3| held responsible for the sins of her parents? I - I declare
2777 18,1| lady," said she, "I am the sister-in-law of your old friend, the
2778 3,3| that rich Turk - and as our sittings are eight or ten hours long,
2779 15,5| a place of shelter. For sixteen francs a month, which I
2780 9,6| would make three hundred and sixty-five thousand francs a year." ~
2781 11,1| shop itself was of a fair size, but most wretched in its
2782 2,4| yesterday the Baroness Trigault skated in the Bois. Yesterday she
2783 2,3| Evidently there was some skeleton in this household - one
2784 5,1| Perhaps so," replied the skeptical bystanders. "But people
2785 10,6| some boatman propelling his skiff through the canal. ~"The
2786 9,6| obliged to blush for the skinny horses the stable-keeper
2787 20,3| oozing from his fractured skull, and his right hand still
2788 9,4| passers-by. She saw this, and slackening her pace, tried to become
2789 14,4| on his head and went off, slamming the door noisily behind
2790 19,2| opportunity to exercise her slanderous tongue? Thus the puritanical
2791 2,3| attend masked balls, and talk slang! Noble ladies! the idiots
2792 16,3| motionless in an arm-chair, he slapped him on the shoulder, exclaiming: "
2793 7,6| clinched fist descending like a sledge-hammer on M. Wilkie's head. ~The
2794 10,2| and prevented you from sleeping, wouldn't you give something
2795 5,1| orange jacket with green sleeves. They were firmly convinced
2796 7,5| And if any fool speaks slightingly of you, you can reply: '
2797 13,2| intended to give me the slip." ~The baron frowned, and
2798 10,5| dressing-gown, his fur-trimmed slippers, and even his elaborately
2799 1,2| method of proceeding would be slow and inconvenient in the
2800 12,2| tones frightened Pascal. Her slowness tortured him, and still
2801 1,1| than one fine gentleman smack his lips over my sauces
2802 2,1| that's monsieur; he has smashed two or three hundred francs'
2803 19,1| fresh water and a bottle of smelling salts, and Marguerite soon
2804 10,2| sometimes I fancy that he smiles at me. All this is very
2805 18,2| feeling. I was never so smitten in my life - and I said
2806 6,1| mistaken." ~But would the smooth-spoken visitor have declared that
2807 13,2| accompanied by a disdainful snap of the fingers, the baron
2808 7,3| greatest indifference, he snapped his fingers, and exclaimed: "
2809 13,1| dignity, and who did not snatch at a twenty-franc piece
2810 10,5| and the valet, and heard snatches of sentences that enlightened
2811 20,2| Baron Trigault took the so-called Maumejan by the hand and
2812 2,5| sigh that was very like a sob, and without paying any
2813 5,6| with him until he becomes sober again." ~So he followed
2814 10,5| dozen - brushes hard and soft, brushes for the hair, for
2815 5,4| every pretext that could soften the hearts of obdurate relatives,
2816 6,3| her for a moment with a softer expression, tears came to
2817 17,4| Chupin darted toward him, and softly called, "M'sieur Ferailleur!" ~
2818 11,1| coal-dust which forms the soil of the Quai de la Seine.
2819 10,6| after passing the Rue de Soissons he espied the red lantern
2820 18,2| would render a prolonged sojourn in the General's house impossible;
2821 5,5| brilliant career as a common soldier in some foreign legion." ~
2822 20,2| were closed. Then, with a solemnity of manner which no one had
2823 15,5| about from door to door soliciting work who know the misery
2824 2,2| this bill in the hands of a solicitor." ~"Send him along - send
2825 15,6| easier to draw water from a solid rock than to, extract a
2826 10,6| But he paused in his soliloquy, and prudently hid himself
2827 16,4| After eight or ten days' solitary confinement and several
2828 13,7| leisure to devote to the solution of this enigma. Time was
2829 10,5| fellow!" The mystery was solved. ~While Chupin changed the
2830 17,1| a voice as clear and as sonorous as crystal. "Ah! you are
2831 13,2| wife, my daughters, and my sons-in-law, I'm like a peer of England
2832 8,4| such worthless aims and sordid desires. But having resolved
2833 2,5| hope of forgetting your sorrows that you spend all your
2834 17,3| the cab-stand in the Rue Soumot on the 16th October. Here
2835 19,2| however, they gave her some soup and cold meat, served on
2836 2,2| obtain money from other sources than their husband's cash-box." ~
2837 15,4| to-morrow, and we will start South. Instead of calling ourselves
2838 13,7| seen an emissary of his sovereign enter the room carrying
2839 17,4| but here in this narrow space, and hemmed in a corner,
2840 6,2| resignation displayed by Spanish women, who, when they hear
2841 13,4| possession of a floating spar. Had he not confessed to
2842 6,1| yet the honest fellow had spared neither pains nor horseflesh.
2843 16,2| his lips to interrupt the speaker, but the physician had already
2844 10,6| which were M. de Coralth's specialty, with a handsome overcoat,
2845 5,6| regretted the delay he had specified. "I must find Wilkie at
2846 13,2| indeed, was Kami-Bey, a specimen of those semi-barbarians,
2847 5,2| and thousands of eager spectators were pushing and jostling
2848 6,2| terrified as if she had seen a spectre rise up before her. Then
2849 6,2| feared, or hated - rose like spectres before her troubled brain.
2850 9,6| Breulh-Faverlay. This excellent speculation had put him in such good
2851 3,1| when a harsh cry held him spell-bound. Baron Trigault was standing
2852 8,4| of that strange man who spends all his time in playing
2853 17,3| station so as to set possible spies on the wrong track, and
2854 10,5| marble table, with its water spigots and its basins, its sponges
2855 15,4| cold chill crept up his spine. However, it was not pity
2856 5,2| gratify every fancy; he would splash mud upon all the passers-by,
2857 14,3| least scandal now would spoil your last chances." ~"I
2858 6,1| me a laborer, and not a spoiled idler, incapable of earning
2859 7,4| always telling me that I was spoiling you, and ruining your future
2860 10,5| spigots and its basins, its sponges and boxes, its pots and
2861 14,4| some measure at least, your sponsor. But I cannot accept this
2862 13,8| patron of the noblest of sports.' At last, I said to myself: '
2863 18,1| Courage!" ~"Well!" said the spurious dressmaker, when she saw
2864 7,3| God!" she exclaimed, "he spurns me; he loathes me. Ah! I
2865 1,2| must not be consoled, but spurred on to fresh efforts; and
2866 15,2| saw this. I saw the blood spurt out upon my lover's hands.
2867 15,6| a man who acts on the square, like myself - the Marquis
2868 7,2| use his own vocabulary, SQUELCHED him completely. "I wished
2869 6,5| The latter's cruel words stabbed her to the heart, and yet
2870 9,6| He had, moreover, hired stabling in the Rue Pigalle, only
2871 5,2| first performances in a stage-box, with the most notorious
2872 15,2| hands. I saw my brother stagger, beat the air wildly with
2873 7,3| pathway to save you from a stain. I renounced all hope for
2874 13,3| a marvel of beauty, was stained in several places, and as
2875 15,6| attached to the hitherto stainless name of Chalusse still more
2876 14,5| dyes as indelible as the stains upon her past. ~She rose
2877 2,5| recourse to cards; and when the stakes are large, and my fortune
2878 5,2| to Pompier de Nanterre's stall. Never had circumstances
2879 14,4| horses neighing in their stalls, and the numerous carriages
2880 7,2| Wilkie could only bow and stammer out an almost unintelligible
2881 20,1| Twenty horses neighed and stamped in his stables; there were
2882 13,1| baroness's brougham, were stamping and neighing in the courtyard;
2883 5,1| poor animal was so nearly starved that he could scarcely stand
2884 10,5| than another, the valet stated as a conclusive argument
2885 19,4| He found it. Passing a stationer's shop, he went in, purchased
2886 2,1| verdure peered forth exquisite statues, the work of sculptors of
2887 13,3| silver cups, vases, and statuettes scattered about on side-tables
2888 1,1| of water; as well try to stay with extended arms the progress
2889 5,1| animal win the race, was steadily gaining credence. ~Large
2890 6,5| mantel-shelf, in order to steady herself, she tottered out
2891 9,3| whole nature revolted. To steal a key, to force an article
2892 19,2| prevent them from casting stealthy glances at each other, and
2893 5,1| world if such things as steeple-chases had never existed. In the
2894 20,3| discarding, by ejaculating, in a stentorian voice: "We are wasting precious
2895 18,5| girl and she was already stepping toward the door when the
2896 10,3| night, I'm making you a stew." ~As customary when he
2897 3,2| in a slightly increased stiffness of his right leg - the limb
2898 1,1| How was he to reach and stifle the slander itself? As well
2899 3,3| have heard the sound of a stifled oath in the adjoining room;
2900 12,4| was an exact copy of the stilted prose of the "Indispensable
2901 20,1| no doubt with a view of stimulating curiosity he had declared,
2902 1,2| weakness she had supplied the stimulus he needed. Now she saw him
2903 3,4| very poor or exceedingly stingy; and as she was exceedingly
2904 19,3| lose sight of her. If she stirs from her shop, he will hasten
2905 16,1| must maintain an air of stoical indifference. He ALMOST
2906 15,1| he ought to assume that stolid and insolent air of boredom
2907 17,3| after paying the charges for storage. This circumstance had been
2908 10,6| are also a few provision stores. In the daytime there is
2909 13,4| this affair a little." ~A storm was decidedly gathering
2910 2,1| admitted him: 'Look out for storms!' I scented one in the air,
2911 18,3| heart, expecting to hear a stormy explanation between his
2912 13,2| with a very red face, a straggling beard, a flat nose, small,
2913 11,4| that he was not an honest, straightforward person; and she would infinitely
2914 3,3| who are talking in this strain?" cried the baron. "You,
2915 13,8| Finding himself in a desperate strait, and feeling that his salvation
2916 11,4| He was in such desperate straits that he had almost determined
2917 19,1| energy. On reaching the street-door, she paused and looked around
2918 12,4| read by the light of the street-lamp; he had handed it to his
2919 12,4| seemed contradictory, now strengthened this belief. "How is it,"
2920 13,4| hope to succeed. He rose, stretched himself, as a man is apt
2921 13,4| sporting newspapers were strewn over the table, the chairs,
2922 11,5| about that! It is not a strictly honest proceeding, perhaps,
2923 2,4| respect!" ~The baron laughed a strident, nervous laugh, which it
2924 11,3| the letter, and utter a string of oaths which would have
2925 9,6| he attack her? Would he strive to ruin her reputation,
2926 14,1| what he had done, and have striven to find some way to conceal
2927 10,3| replied Chupin. And he strode hurriedly away. "Return!"
2928 9,4| atrocious crime!" A bold stroke is in contemplation which,
2929 6,3| she added. ~The baron was stroking his chin, as was his usual
2930 13,4| his self-control. Still he strove valiantly to conceal his
2931 13,3| carriage-house - really elegant structures - stood on either side of
2932 5,3| in spite of his cries and struggles to escape. This person to
2933 2,2| not made of that kind of stuff. I allow Madame Trigault
2934 13,5| The time of old stockings, stuffed full of savings, is past!
2935 8,2| corners, everywhere in fact, stumps of cigars were scattered
2936 8,5| started as if she had been stung by a viper. "Let her wait,"
2937 9,4| was accusing herself of stupidity, when a sudden inspiration
2938 7,6| whose spirit no violence can subdue. "You will obtain nothing
2939 8,3| equanimity. He was silent and subdued; and his relief was evident
2940 3,4| as you may suppose. His submission was due to some secret cause
2941 20,2| when the excitement had subsided a little, and the guests
2942 11,3| compelled to resort to any subterfuge to make her escape from
2943 9,6| outlay - it's an investment." Subtle reasoning that has cost
2944 7,4| rather let you starve than succor you, for I would rather
2945 19,1| energy; but the flesh had succumbed. Every vein and artery throbbed
2946 11,5| have been threatening to sue him for more than six months.
2947 13,4| nevertheless true that he suffers fearful anguish of mind
2948 8,3| in this style, and almost suffocated by the necessity of restraining
2949 16,1| vent the pride that was suffocating him, in some way or other,
2950 20,2| embracing him almost to suffocation, censuring themselves for
2951 10,4| circumstances, and so he sulkily replied: "A glass of wine!
2952 12,3| thoughts, Pascal preserved a sullen silence during the repast.
2953 18,4| in a couple of pages she summarized the scene of the evening,
2954 8,2| curtains, from which the sun had extracted most of the
2955 14,5| with household linen and sundry articles of clothing. ~By
2956 5,5| forestall him. ~"You here, at sunrise, my friend!" exclaimed Wilkie,
2957 15,1| necessity of marrying me to some superannuated nobleman who would take
2958 5,3| mother. None of those little superfluities which delight a young man
2959 7,1| precautions might not prove as superfluous as he had at first supposed.
2960 17,3| the report sent in by the superintendent of the cab-stand in the
2961 14,4| he resolved to assert his superiority and to remain cool and unmoved,
2962 10,6| only read and re-read the superscription and smell the paper, which
2963 17,3| sous he dined, or rather supped, like a prince; and as he
2964 5,2| accepted his invitation to supper the evening before, and
2965 5,4| gambles and gives expensive suppers, to a man who drives out
2966 12,4| written with a single 'm,' and supplicate with one 'p.' These are
2967 7,3| hands clasped in an agony of supplication, while he recoiled, frightened
2968 1,2| hesitation and weakness she had supplied the stimulus he needed.
2969 10,2| good mother, they are my supports, my crutches, and with them
2970 20,3| As for her husband, she supposes he is dead or incarcerated
2971 11,2| his discernment - all his suppositions had been confirmed. He had
2972 10,6| the water as its smooth surface is ruffled by some boatman
2973 5,1| merchant, the veterinary surgeon, and the harness-maker.
2974 1,1| first moment, when hatred surges in the brain, and the foam
2975 9,1| hats upon their heads, and surly of speech, like people who
2976 11,4| their confidence. So my surmises are correct; at least you
2977 9,2| seeking for some means to surmount the difficulties which stood
2978 8,3| the General's monogram, surmounted by his wife's coronet. ~
2979 13,3| duplicity, he was resolved to surpass them in cunning, and vanquish
2980 2,3| who pique themselves on surpassing lewd women in audacity,
2981 2,5| I beat my drum, and he surrendered at once.' Yes, that is what
2982 11,1| stillness. The darkness, the surroundings, and the silence were sinister
2983 10,5| thought Chupin, as he surveyed the rooms. "Monsieur's working
2984 20,2| conquered his weakness, and surveying his audience with flashing
2985 14,5| the unfortunate woman had survived the terrible shock which
2986 7,7| lost, love for one's mother survives. Even convicts deprive themselves
2987 13,2| made much of, or else I'll suspend payment. It was one of my
2988 1,2| sentiment of duty which sustains the humble heroines of the
2989 13,6| staircase, Pascal wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. "Ah!
2990 9,1| respect, and his voice became sweeter than honey. They say the
2991 12,2| have I had a more gifted, sweeter-tempered or more attractive charge.'
2992 10,2| scrape; he shall marry his sweetheart after all; and I'll dance
2993 11,4| girl. ~M. Fortunat smiled sweetly. "I have already taken your
2994 5,2| every day, and brought him sweetmeats and playthings. He thought
2995 9,3| every fine afternoon, the swell shops are filled to overflowing
2996 5,1| upon them, and their hearts swelled with joy at the thought
2997 6,3| in a good cause than in swelling the dividends of my friend
2998 9,1| succeeded each other in swift succession, thereupon drew
2999 20,2| But only for a moment. He swiftly conquered his weakness,
3000 20,2| racing stud was a complete swindle!" ~Meanwhile, Pascal's former
3001 13,3| servants step aside, the gate swing back, and M. de Coralth