Chapter

 1 2  |              the beautiful Countess Foedora...~" 'I have never heard
 2 2  |         Rastignac; 'you do not know Foedora? A great match with an income
 3 2  |           refuse an introduction to Foedora. How can the fascination
 4 2  |             of a name be explained? FOEDORA haunted me like some evil
 5 2  |           me, 'You are going to see Foedora!' In vain I reasoned with
 6 2  |          were defeated by the name 'Foedora.' Was not the name, and
 7 2  |       afresh. Here was the Countess Foedora, rich and loveless, proof
 8 2  |             of the time till night. Foedora's name echoed through me
 9 2  |          love. So my observation of Foedora has been quite cool and
10 2  |            of nature. The questions Foedora raised showed a certain
11 2  |           habit of mine, or because Foedora hailed in me a coming celebrity,
12 2  |    incredulous as to her virtue. If Foedora would none of love to-day,
13 2  |             there were two women in Foedora, divided perhaps by the
14 2  |          Faubourg St. Honore, where Foedora lived. Almost all the breadth
15 2  |           And I was to lay siege to Foedora's heart, in winter, and
16 2  |        assurance? ~" 'Bah, death or Foedora!' I cried, as I went round
17 2  |         bridge; 'my fortune lies in Foedora.' ~"That gothic boudoir
18 2  |        movements. These pictures of Foedora and her luxurious surroundings
19 2  |             fully determined to win Foedora. Her heart was my last ticket
20 2  |          temples; in each new phase Foedora spoke. Every slight variation
21 2  |           roof, I still vaguely saw Foedora in her own home, and had
22 2  |           away from him in his joy. Foedora saw me, and grew grave:
23 2  |             showers as we went out. Foedora's carriage was unable to
24 2  |            forward. As we returned, Foedora, in real or feigned abstraction,
25 2  |            the suffering hideous? ~"Foedora did not know it, but in
26 2  |                  Later on,' resumed Foedora, 'you will learn, I hope,
27 2  |           the past three months for Foedora! How often I had given the
28 2  |        possessions. The splendor of Foedora's home did not satisfy;
29 2  |            on the morrow to confide Foedora's strange resolution to
30 2  |          know what brings you here. Foedora has dismissed you. Some
31 2  |          urged the prudent Gascon; 'Foedora has all the sagacity natural
32 2  |          nature - seemed to reflect Foedora's smile for me. ~"As we
33 2  |      fashionable young men who made Foedora's circle. I went home, locked
34 2  |             guess it? - a note from Foedora. The countess asked me to
35 2  |           me as I thought: ~" 'Will Foedora walk or drive? Will it rain
36 2  |            dismiss the vehicle, and Foedora (what agonies!) asked me
37 2  |           on this day. I frequented Foedora's house very diligently,
38 2  | light-hearted and animated?' Yet in Foedora's presence I was as dull
39 2  |           impenetrable character of Foedora. Alternate hope and despair
40 2  |      eclipsed me with her. ~"On him Foedora exercised spells and witcheries
41 2  |         mistress. Then I would take Foedora's hand. I used to scan her
42 2  |            her soul was a desert. ~"Foedora presented herself as a drama
43 2  |         were not yet obliterated in Foedora, in spite of her cleverness.
44 2  |             and had not the wealthy Foedora a right to repulse Raphael?
45 2  |     specious voice said within me, 'Foedora is neither attracted to
46 2  |             it was raining heavily, Foedora had called a cab for me
47 2  |       francs were invaluable to me. Foedora, thinking of the stifling
48 2  |          despair. Unable to analyze Foedora by any other process, I
49 2  |             the Arabian Nights. ~" 'Foedora must be shielded by some
50 2  |     splendid malady of the soul. Is Foedora, like Lady Delacour, a prey
51 2  |            it out. On the days when Foedora received, her rooms were
52 2  |         enterprise. An old wooer of Foedora's came for the last hat;
53 2  |             as my tongue.' ~"One of Foedora's most fervid worshipers,
54 2  |          soothe all our pangs. ~"If Foedora loved me, I thought, she
55 2  |          and higher rose the notes; Foedora's life seemed to dilate
56 2  |               Yes, twice,' answered Foedora; 'are you really growing
57 2  |           that showed how seriously Foedora respected herself, her maid
58 2  |     suddenly modified my opinion of Foedora. Trite or profoundly significant,
59 2  |             many ways of explaining Foedora, that she became inexplicable.
60 2  |           moment's space I pictured Foedora waking to find herself in
61 2  |             towards the end of May, Foedora and I were alone together
62 2  |             manner of a man to whom Foedora must refuse nothing, I showed
63 2  |         which I tried to believe. ~"Foedora lent herself most unexpectedly
64 2  |         hatred, and hurried away. ~"Foedora must be forgotten; I must
65 2  |          brilliant mocking image of Foedora. Something morbid brooded
66 2  |            you were a true prophet; Foedora is killing me, I want to
67 2  |          not thinking of the living Foedora in the Faubourg Saint Honore,
68 2  |             Saint Honore, but of my Foedora here,' and I tapped my forehead. '
69 2  |     Sardanapalus, on my pyre. I met Foedora under the peristyle of the
70 2  |     reputation attaching to me. But Foedora's hold upon her victim was
71 2  |           The contagious leprosy of Foedora's vanity had taken hold
72 2  |             poet replied. "Death or Foedora! On with you! That silky
73 2  |             On with you! That silky Foedora deceived you. Women are
74 2  |         slyboots." ~"No - 'Death or Foedora!' - I have it!" ~"Wake up!"
75 2  |         with gibbets. I can possess Foedora - Yet no, I do not want
76 2  |               Yet no, I do not want Foedora; she is a disease; I am
77 2  |            a disease; I am dying of Foedora. I want to forget Foedora." ~"
78 2  |           Foedora. I want to forget Foedora." ~"If you keep on calling
79 3  |             possessed the beautiful Foedora? And I have obliged that
80 3  |            his box, the Marquis saw Foedora sitting exactly opposite
81 3  |             luckily freed himself. ~Foedora's face lighted up with indescribable
82 3  |              In Raphael, therefore, Foedora saw the deathblow of her
83 3  |             her and at the Marquis, Foedora would have consigned them
84 3  |            and stayed. He looked at Foedora; she seemed to him positively
85 3  |   surroundings. Here, in short, was Foedora, gifted with a great soul;
86 3  |             twice a millionaire, as Foedora had been. When he reached
87 3  |            How stupid your Countess Foedora is! How pleased I was yesterday
88 3  |         type completely realized in Foedora. ~He would no more meet
89 Epi|         with Pauline. But how about Foedora?" ~"Oh! Foedora, you are
90 Epi|           how about Foedora?" ~"Oh! Foedora, you are sure to meet with