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1 1 | 1. The Talisman~Towards the 2 1 | desk, made at the cost of 100,000 francs, and sold for a hundred 3 1 | the blood spilt here since 1793. ~There is something great 4 2 | during the years 1814 to 1817; in that case my mother' 5 2 | the end of the autumn of 1826, at the age of twenty-two, 6 2 | fit for some romance of 1827, perfumed by the exotic 7 2 | Flaharty, who died in August 1828 at Calcutta." ~"An incalcuttable 8 2 | 2. A Woman Without A Heart~ 9 3 | 3. The Agony~In the early 10 1 | distinguished by the number 36, without too much deliberation. ~" 11 2 | vainly desired, which set me a-dreaming of unutterable felicity; 12 1 | gowns keep a shuttlecock a-going. Suppose that God is everywhere, 13 2 | to humble himself and go a-masquerading! I was ready to give my 14 2 | brain, setting the blood a-tingle in every vein, fretting 15 3 | in accumulating Xs under Aa-Gg, they succeed in analyzing 16 2 | company, who were rather taken aback by Raphael's behavior, " 17 3 | to the happy days when he abandoned himself without peril to 18 2 | may have been that luxury abased me in my own eyes, while 19 3 | reservations made by the Abbess of Andouillettes, leant 20 3 | at the melancholy looking Abbey of Haute-Combe, the burying-place 21 1 | suffered evil and good to abide in nature, and reserved 22 1 | material possession what abides with you but an idea? Think, 23 3 | doctors in Paris, whose great abilities I know, are mistaken as 24 3 | his normal condition and abnormal states of disease can both 25 1 | one of those philanthropic abodes where the beggars sleep 26 1 | punishment is going to be abolished, they say, in favor of the 27 2 | very dogs; and all this abominable business had to take the 28 1 | life to some person you abominate; you must bring up children 29 1 | principles and ideas." ~"What an abomination! Then you would ruthlessly 30 1 | have been repressed; what abortive masterpieces and vain endeavors! 31 2 | purchased several estates abroad, conferred by the Emperor 32 1 | orgies, he roved among the Abruzzi, sought for Italian love 33 1 | to burst," replied Emile, absently engaged in the harmless 34 1 | human flesh," broke in an Absolutist. "All individuality will 35 3 | kindly expression, but an absorption in scientific ideas engrossed 36 2 | an idea in the space of abstractions as it rises like the morning 37 2 | like belief in her mother's absurd superstitions. ~" 'You are 38 1 | real among the fantastic absurdities before them, or what foundation 39 3 | small metal plate, is an absurdly primitive mechanical device. 40 2 | fortune there now remained abut thirty francs, which I had 41 3 | lymphatic constitution, you are accelerating an expenditure of vitality 42 2 | genius and a fool. His Gascon accent and knowledge of the world, 43 2 | fewer cares at any rate, and accepts such portions of the world 44 2 | all are alike difficult of access. But when man has once stormed 45 3 | Magic Skin, at his sudden accession of wealth, he happened to 46 2 | intoxication, as nature has its accessions of love. ~"For men in private 47 2 | has just received a blow. Acclamation took the form of silence, 48 2 | galley-slave of pleasure, and must accomplish my destiny of suicide. During 49 1 | stonemason will carve 'Passer-by, accord a tear, in memory of one 50 3 | infinite number of pieces, accordingly as we break them or grind 51 1 | Berecillo, of the Seigneur d'Accords, and in ignorance of the 52 1 | reflected it vividly. ~He accounted for this phenomenon categorically 53 3 | in measuring space, or in accumulating Xs under Aa-Gg, they succeed 54 1 | comes of squandering the accumulations of three generations; that 55 3 | sight vie in precision and accuracy with those of man; it is 56 1 | trente-et-quarante. At that accursed hour you encounter eyes 57 3 | him from his chair, on an accusation of Carlism, and the old 58 2 | study of her. I had lodged accusations, in my romantic imaginings, 59 3 | down upon them, and had accused him of haughtiness ever 60 2 | ought to go into society, to accustom people to the sound of my 61 2 | is wonderful, where every ache of the soul is laid to sleep, 62 2 | that is to say, free from aches and pains, because he has 63 1 | quiet, you ass. You are an Achilles for virtue, without his 64 3 | trembling, and perspiring; with aching sides and quivering nerves, 65 2 | cleverest adventurers among us, acknowledge themselves defeated, and 66 2 | I hastily scrawled my acknowledgements, and Pauline took the note. 67 2 | faint-hearted love, and a man who acknowledges his weakness is strong indeed. ~" 68 1 | folly, but good fortune will acquit us. You are laughing at 69 3 | of relief, like a culprit acquitted by a dozen jurors. Still, 70 3 | the meadow might be an acre or two acres in extent. 71 1 | launched forth a volume, an acrid book filled with a sort 72 1 | the maleficent power which acts relaxingly upon us by the 73 | actually 74 2 | leisure. My father noticed me. Actuated by some motive that I did 75 3 | such impatience. Hence the adage. The skin that you have 76 Epi| mysterious artist comes and adapts that flame to his own ends; 77 1 | self-denial, you must come and add to her sorrows by trying 78 2 | entertained opinions, an additional lustre hangs about their 79 2 | bargain,' said the other, adjusting his cravat. 'Waiter, my 80 2 | grace a cat displays as it adjusts its toilette in the sun. 81 1 | speeches. A famous musician administered soothing consolation in 82 3 | for her ardent, elderly admirer. She was insolently exhibiting 83 1 | self-appointed critic who admires nothing, and will blow his 84 3 | astonished elderly applicant for admission. ~"What is more, here is 85 1 | existence mythology in a manner admits." ~"As you are an Orientalist," 86 3 | almost regretted that he had admitted him; but just as he was 87 2 | have received this friendly admonition; and with that thought my 88 3 | Raphael to this elderly Adonis would have remarked a young 89 1 | about those bas-reliefs that adorn the walls? And the lustres, 90 2 | faults as you were before adroit in bringing out the virtues 91 2 | Some servants quickly and adroitly set the furniture and everything 92 1 | to her? one more piece of adulation, yet another sigh only prompted 93 1 | aggregations increased, government advanced by a decomposition of the 94 2 | by a just estimate of my advantages. This revival of hope in 95 2 | a liking for all that is adventitious and least woman in woman. 96 3 | dislike was mutual. His late adventure had given him a deep distaste 97 2 | your aunt her due, some old adventurer, or some shady countess 98 1 | He shivered over midnight adventures, cut short by the cool thrust 99 2 | barrier of search, and an adventurous peregrination round my room. 100 3 | Raphael, tell me, did no one advise you about the furniture 101 1 | suspended, as Descartes advises. He was, in spite of himself, 102 3 | management of public business, advocates to the Palais de Justice, 103 3 | closing words of his, the affable doctor's seeming good-nature 104 3 | epigastric region does not affect the brain but the brain 105 2 | him, disclosing, with an affectation of light-heartedness, the 106 2 | any tear in her eyes; an affecting scene in a play left her 107 3 | the brain but the brain affects the epigastric region. No," 108 1 | than of illness. I am not afflicted with a mania for perpetuity, 109 3 | views are to be found there, affording a strong contrast to the 110 3 | teeth of fallen kings the affronts which it fancies it has 111 1 | attraction, set the heart afire. It was like a thicket, 112 1 | of virtue can scarcely go afoot, and vice means, to my thinking, 113 3 | roses. A mat of plaited African grass, variegated like a 114 1 | taken men and affairs in an after-dinner frame of mind. We were innocent 115 3 | that one kiss without an afterthought - the first kiss by which 116 3 | a plump child, who stood agape, and next came a white-haired 117 3 | was intently watching an agate ball that rolled over a 118 1 | bas-reliefs, finely-cut agates, wonderful cameos! Works 119 2 | Three months later, an agent made over to me eleven hundred 120 1 | watch with half-a-dozen aggravating circumstances, after a previous 121 1 | unitary, and crude; then as aggregations increased, government advanced 122 2 | power, is furnished with an aggressive egotism! Everything about 123 3 | steady gaze and turned pale, aghast at the intolerable contempt 124 1 | visions, and unheard-of agility under a load of chains, - 125 3 | a balm there for all the agitations of life. The place keeps 126 2 | one-and-twenty, I repeat, we are all aglow with generosity and affection. 127 3 | gaming-table only a few months ago. ~He was submitting his 128 1 | because we shall find the agrarian law inside it." ~"Ah, my 129 2 | the man of talent hardly agreeable enough to compensate for 130 1 | the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects 131 3 | the lake for memories; it aids them by lending to them 132 1 | unmoved and imperial with an air-pump thrust into one eye. Portraits 133 2 | of my lodging-house stood ajar. A light streamed from the 134 2 | own; they are something akin to evening gossip round 135 2 | lighted the taper in the alabaster sconce that hung before 136 1 | racket, sir." ~"If noise alarms them, why don't they lay 137 3 | is a laughing goose (anas albifrons), and the other the great 138 1 | into the shop, purchased albums and sets of lithographs; 139 1 | In the language of Maitre Alcofribas, we are about to make a 140 1 | Yes, cashmere, point d'Alencon, perfumes, gold, silks, 141 1 | existence of hell to me by an algebraical equation." ~He flung up 142 1 | death met a young woman alighting from a showy carriage. He 143 3 | detecting salts, acids, alkalis, and gases. After several 144 1 | transformed into some sombre allegory, of I know not what aspect 145 2 | that the street was a blind alley and but little frequented. 146 2 | to stray down the shady alleys, to feel her hand upon my 147 3 | tantalizing grace. Sometimes the Allier, a liquid shining ribbon, 148 2 | surest way. You will make allies in every clique, and secure 149 2 | you. You ought to have an allowance, if only to teach you how 150 2 | lowering his voice, 'that allows us to see this throne of 151 3 | than a woman, there was no alloy in the happiness she enjoyed, 152 3 | knows but himself and God Almighty. It is quite inconciliable!" ~" 153 1 | over pale faces and dark, almond-shaped eyes. He shivered over midnight 154 2 | preparing madame's milk of almonds.' ~"Justine knelt down before 155 2 | thither than have begged for alms. There is something so painful 156 3 | Finally, the subtle perfume of aloes completed the work of Raphael' 157 2 | pride would have kept me aloof from them if contempt and 158 3 | under the shadow of the altar, so Raphael made an effort 159 2 | her features seemed to alter. She had laid the mask aside; 160 2 | a kind of change there, altering its hues and its expression. 161 1 | times to renew itself. The alternations of sound and silence bore 162 3 | persist in living at high altitude, you are running the risk 163 3 | nursling, my child, carus alumnus! I formed his mind, cultivated 164 1 | the Great and the Duke of Alva were embodied systems, and 165 2 | France since July?" said the amateur critic. ~"Are you going 166 2 | dull or gay, and always amaze me with some new effect. 167 3 | physical point of view, so amazing from a moral? Movement, 168 3 | leaves of the book. The amber mouthpiece of a magnificent 169 1 | be as one to us then; the ambergris of the boudoir will breathe 170 1 | dwelling. Troubles, loves, ambitions, losses, and sorrows, as 171 2 | as the explanation of an amendment," cried Emile. ~"Very likely," 172 3 | of Mlle. de la Valliere, amorous and coy; and all of them 173 2 | expenses, all told, only amounted to eighteen sous, so two 174 2 | fair Helen. ~"Ah, vive l'amour! But let it be in silk and 175 1 | Swedenborg, nor by your Oriental amulet, nor yet by your charitable 176 3 | had adopted the child's amusements, and the child had fallen 177 3 | sleep and eat and drink. He amuses himself with the little 178 2 | I set forth my theories amusingly, instead of adopting the 179 1 | least my gorge rises at the anaemic life of our civilization 180 1 | heavy breathing suggests an analogy with the sounds of a storm 181 1 | he went to his death. He analyzed these extravagances, and 182 3 | under Aa-Gg, they succeed in analyzing some natural law, and resolve 183 2 | brouiller instead of mon anche and prouiller, she would 184 2 | remorse. I imitated the anchorites of the Thebaid. If I did 185 3 | continued, "the onager of the ancients, equus asinus, the koulan 186 3 | one wore the "basquina" of Andalusia, with its wanton grace; 187 3 | reservations made by the Abbess of Andouillettes, leant his head against 188 2 | a great man; I said with Andre Chenier, as I struck my 189 2 | of the fable of 'Peau-d'Ane,' a dainty foot peeped out 190 1 | roughly hewn to be seen anear. And yet, in spite of all, 191 2 | scattered through collections of anecdotes; but most of all the prayers 192 2 | attacks you. A diplomatist? An aneurism hangs death in your heart 193 1 | feel as if life had begun anew here." ~"And up above we 194 2 | if she would only say mon ange and brouiller instead of 195 Epi| went on board the Ville d'Angers. Thus united they both looked 196 3 | there in some sheltered angle of their ramparts a clump 197 1 | the human race. I have no animosity against kings, they are 198 1 | fine motto: NON CECIDIT ANIMUS. We are no foundling child, 199 2 | steeped in blood to the ankle. Mankind at large is carried 200 3 | intelligence were completely annihilated for him. He woke later than 201 1 | lubricity. Darkness and light, annihilation and existence, seemed to 202 3 | generally are a source of annoyance to every one here, and to 203 2 | causes of this psychological anomaly. Does there exist in you, 204 3 | comings and goings of an ant, slipped straws into a yellow 205 1 | the destruction of those ant-hills, Babylon, Tyre, Carthage, 206 3 | too late now." ~The two antagonists were placed at fifteen paces' 207 1 | drawing his master into the ante-chamber to whisper to him: ~"The 208 3 | the old crater that some antediluvian revolution had filled with 209 2 | light-headed like the tempted Saint Anthony. Slumber, happily, would 210 3 | burst out laughing at every antic, and by the comical remarks 211 2 | But I do not want to anticipate the state of things that 212 2 | off as a cabin-boy to the Antilles. A dreadful shiver ran through 213 1 | Saint-Germain to the Chaussee de Antin. But this you may not know 214 2 | fear; I am aware of your antipathies; you must have divined me 215 3 | him the appearance of an antiquated coxcomb who still follows 216 3 | some liquid for catching ants; he broke off the bottom 217 3 | flung the skin down on an anvil, and, with all the strength 218 1 | can, he looked calmly, if anxiously, at the croupier, as if 219 | anyhow 220 1 | you saying? They have two apiece at least!" ~"So you want 221 1 | story of the Universe in an Apocalypse that reveals the past. After 222 1 | Some who had arrived at the apogee of intoxication were dejected, 223 3 | to offer me some slight apology; and offer it you must, 224 3 | stooping shoulders, revealed an apostolic nature, and spoke of Christian 225 1 | turbans and demurely enticing apparel. It was a seraglio that 226 1 | their heads, were there like apparitions that a breath might dissipate. 227 3 | de la Sante - auspicious appellation! Arrived at Spieghalter' 228 3 | to me! SHE has never been applauded. Dear, when I felt your 229 2 | was deceived, yet she was applauding her perspicacity. Oh, that 230 1 | cavatina at the Bouffons, who applauds before any one else begins, 231 3 | of the astonished elderly applicant for admission. ~"What is 232 1 | mediocrities, they might apply to themselves the famous 233 3 | metals contract and expand appreciably, for engineers have remarked 234 3 | colleague has so thoroughly appreciated. The epigastric region does 235 2 | exhausting; and, besides, I had apprehended perfectly the bare life 236 3 | of ease, that quieted his apprehensions and soothed his sufferings. ~ 237 1 | silence as an order, the apprentice left him alone in the closet. ~ 238 1 | meant to be hospitable and appropriate. His large face, turning 239 1 | prettiness, at the pale face appropriately framed by the satin of her 240 3 | here Brisset signified his approval; "and in the second, a hygienic 241 2 | pleased then, madame, to approve my silence. You must have 242 3 | lower box, and received an approving smirk from him. Then he 243 3 | with astonishment by the apt simplicity of its construction. 244 2 | recreation. Pauline had natural aptitude; she learned so quickly, 245 1 | foundations of the Maintenon's aqueducts, than the Convention expended 246 1 | manuscript, adorned with arabesques in gold and blue. Thoughts 247 2 | child over a story from the Arabian Nights. ~" 'Foedora must 248 1 | Strong with the might of Arabic spells, the head of Cicero 249 1 | disciple of Gay-Lussac and Arago, who had held the charlatanism 250 2 | parts played by Arsinoe and Araminta, and with the sort of answer 251 1 | himself immediately under the arcades of the Palais-Royal, reached 252 3 | gentlemen," he continued, "the Archeus of Van Helmont, is affected 253 1 | Take a quiet peep at the arena. How bare it looks! The 254 2 | that I must not see her. Ariel glided under my roof in 255 2 | as well as the proceeds arising from sales of timber made 256 1 | Government, that is, the aristocracy of lawyers and bankers who 257 1 | between the unbeliever's arithmetic and the papal Pater noster. 258 1 | young men who were passing arm-in-arm. ~"Brute!" ~"Idiot!" ~Such 259 2 | were my debts, my clock, my armchairs; my debts were inlaid in 260 2 | blue, or green - with whole armies, with gibbets. I can possess 261 3 | yellow-flag lilies, and numberless aromatic plants bloomed about it, 262 1 | this gleam of poetry had aroused his interest. ~"Once I had," 263 2 | can we call upon you to arrange the affair?' ~" 'Oh, well! 264 3 | attractively and fancifully arrayed. One had adopted an Irish 265 1 | they painfully tried to arrest a single thought which might 266 1 | with a sort of literary arrogance, which opened up new ways 267 1 | defrayed the cost of this arrogant display. Silver and mother-of-pearl, 268 1 | monosyllables; but imperceptibly he arrogated the privilege of saying 269 1 | it with the speed of an arrow into the heap of gold before 270 2 | with the parts played by Arsinoe and Araminta, and with the 271 3 | the scalpel for his one article of faith. He would consider, 272 2 | set a high value on the articles of luxury about us, and 273 2 | color, marble, sound, or articulate speech, could ever render 274 3 | paltry device, a clumsy artifice, a piece of priest's or 275 2 | frugally given owner, but its artificially prolonged existence had 276 1 | soldier or the poverty of the artisan; he wished to wear a smoke-begrimed 277 3 | and heedless of the music, artlessly absorbed in the delight 278 3 | just as simplicity and artlessness are the peculiar possession 279 1 | towers of Notre Dame. ~He ascended the inner staircase which 280 1 | dear fellow, it will be ascertained that there are natures as 281 2 | find any one to whom I can ascribe them. It worries me, for 282 3 | onager of the ancients, equus asinus, the koulan of the Tartars; 283 3 | salicine, but salicine, asparagine, vauqueline, and digitaline 284 2 | sort are quite useless to aspirants for fame. Light should be 285 2 | happiness at a small cost. But I aspired to something higher; I wanted 286 1 | monarchy dwells between the assassination of Henry IV. and the trial 287 3 | aristocratic prejudices. ~Assemble a collection of school-boys 288 3 | was Cameristus who nodded assent. ~"These gentlemen," Bianchon 289 3 | another. In Persia they breed asses for the saddle, a cross 290 1 | Convention expended in order to assess the taxes justly, to make 291 2 | turban such as painters assign to early Hebrews; its strangeness 292 3 | head that painters have assigned to Goethe's Mephistopheles. 293 2 | in vain for the heirs and assigns of Mlle. Barbara Marie O' 294 1 | and the silent were oddly assorted. ~For all that, when new 295 2 | are quite old enough to assume the right to commit such 296 1 | with his last thoughts, assured him that he was still alive. 297 3 | without end! This nature, all astir with a life and gladness 298 2 | and destitute in ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep 299 1 | sorrows by trying to lead her astray; and though you are rebuffed, 300 3 | and finally to build an asylum on purpose for impoverished 301 1 | face of such achievements, atheism seems like a barren skeleton. 302 1 | sea-weeds and the storms of the Atlantic. ~The sea was forgotten 303 3 | Raphael, indicating an open atlas to Lavrille; "but it has 304 3 | its progress depends upon atmospherical conditions. Even metals 305 1 | broken vows, and pleasures atoned for in wretchedness. Polite 306 2 | the most flint-hearted, atrabilious, and frigid man on earth; 307 3 | disappeared. The brain is atrophied because the man digests 308 2 | or of an appointment of attache to a minister or ambassador; 309 2 | certain sort of reputation attaching to me. But Foedora's hold 310 2 | come across men, too, whose attachment was so deep and sincere 311 2 | an old soldier? Phthisis attacks you. A diplomatist? An aneurism 312 2 | a cloak that they cannot attain, breathes a perfume of her 313 2 | own sole recompense. Since attaining years of discretion, until 314 2 | and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great 315 2 | idea that, better still, attains gradually like a child to 316 1 | will fill volumes. If I attempted to formulate those two ideas 317 3 | Rastignac, he had been in attendance on the former for some days 318 2 | threw gold to his faithful attendant. ~" 'There is your share,' 319 2 | law studies seriously. I attended the Schools, and read with 320 1 | take it up? Come now, I am attending! If you were going to drown 321 3 | their spare moments. ~An attentive observer looking from Raphael 322 2 | nasturtiums; or, in a crazy attic window, a young girl, fancying 323 2 | attractions and elegant attire, and now he said to me: ~" ' 324 3 | type, with sparkling eyes, attractively and fancifully arrayed. 325 2 | knows no remorse (see L'Auberge Rouge). The picture was 326 2 | now they became suddenly audible. Most of the sleepers started 327 2 | early slumber, I tried to audit my accounts so as to explain 328 1 | tell stories which had no auditors, and repeatedly asked questions 329 1 | and that the academician Auger had sought for his snuff-box 330 3 | expenditure of force, and augment the force by an increase 331 2 | misfortunes of this kind, I augured well of my enterprise. An 332 2 | would have drawn from it an augury of my future, but there 333 2 | O'Flaharty, who died in August 1828 at Calcutta." ~"An 334 1 | motionless tortoise. ~The Emperor Augustus remained unmoved and imperial 335 2 | them - they were like aged aunts that begin with a scolding 336 3 | they have paired rather auspiciously, and I shall await the results 337 1 | two women, the living and authentic types of folly, would you 338 3 | heavy mortification and an authoritative nature; his long, gray hair 339 2 | forfeitures, and had ruined us, I authorized the sale of my property, 340 1 | writers who lacked ideas, and authors of poetical prose by prosaic 341 2 | thirds, or quarters in the authorship of I don't know how many 342 1 | on primitive society and autochthonous races. "The vigor of a nation 343 2 | that carried off all my available cash. But for that trivial 344 2 | causes of those lingering and avenging torments, you will remember 345 2 | always been right about my aversions - and my friendships as 346 1 | hospital, and make no effort to avert it?" ~"What is there so 347 1 | flippantly, gracefully or awkwardly, according to its fashion, 348 3 | place of a striped linen awning. "He is going out; I will 349 1 | Chinese monster, with mouth awry and twisted limbs, the invention 350 3 | plaything for a child, an axe for a Richelieu, and for 351 2 | all at variance with the axioms of society. I had plenty 352 3 | their servants did not babble; so their bliss did not 353 3 | after me as if I were a baby in long clothes,' Yes, sir, ' 354 2 | man fresh from college, a babyish fiasco. Your jokes clipped 355 1 | destruction of those ant-hills, Babylon, Tyre, Carthage, and Venice, 356 3 | Raphael inquired. ~"I took my bachelor's degree on Lepage's shooting-ground 357 3 | sulking, still turning their backs upon each other, who will 358 3 | of Germany, at Toplitz or Baden-Baden. If England is not obnoxious 359 2 | a gray coat and a silver badge; but now I hated the species 360 3 | superior ability; his reserve baffled the inquisitive; his humility 361 2 | process is imperceptible, and baffles the artist's analysis. Its 362 2 | my future lay in a linen bag with eleven hundred and 363 2 | fame. Light should be the baggage of seekers after fortune! ~" 364 2 | You are all as ugly as bailiffs. You won't be fit for anything 365 3 | life and death are evenly balanced in his case. I can't understand 366 1 | young man entered. Three bald-headed seniors were lounging round 367 1 | sky," said a disciple of Ballanche. ~"Why try to fathom the 368 1 | festivity and on the smiles of a ballet-dancer; he heard the francs counted 369 2 | at friends' houses and in ballrooms; never in gaming-houses, 370 1 | stands tastefully made of bamboo, filled the air. Everything, 371 1 | the arm among their merry band. ~"We have been after you 372 1 | a mummy swathed in black bandages; then the Pharaohs swallowed 373 2 | yielding; I saw my name bandied about through every city 374 3 | with more or less tawny bands, very much like the zebra' 375 2 | constant perplexities were the bane of my life. ~"We had once 376 1 | aristocracy of lawyers and bankers who represent the country 377 2 | nothing in common with the bankrupt grocer's demise. Tradespeople 378 1 | range himself beneath the banner of Christ, for He alone 379 2 | railers, like the shade of Banquo in Macbeth. I should have 380 3 | though," he added, half banteringly, half sadly. ~The chemist 381 3 | metal, baulks of timber and bar-steel. Iron filings filled your 382 2 | indifference and unconscious barbarity of an inquisitive child 383 3 | would never have adopted the barbarous language of the new school, 384 2 | thoughts pierced me like barbs. I looked out of my window; 385 2 | requirements to real needs and the barest necessaries, I found that 386 3 | no, sir. Mme. Gaudin is a baroness now. She lives in a fine 387 3 | its extensive assembly of barrels, and the Salpetriere, that 388 3 | house Raphael saw a sort of barricade of dead thorn-bushes, meant 389 1 | mediaeval hackbut. Mme. du Barry, with a star above her head, 390 2 | some moments I was ready to barter my whole life for one single 391 2 | uttered. I would then have bartered a couple of years of life 392 2 | imagination suggested numberless baseless projects, and prescribed 393 3 | she liked. She gave me her basement room for nothing, and the 394 3 | trees; the yellowish or gray bases of the crags, the different 395 3 | managed to rid himself of the bashfulness of his early youth, felt 396 2 | theory that borrowing is the basis of credit. To hear him talk, 397 3 | her form; one wore the "basquina" of Andalusia, with its 398 1 | cried Bixiou in a deep, bass voice. ~"Bixiou! Act a classical 399 3 | to the oubliettes of some Bastille; for in spite of her capacity 400 1 | windows followed; it was a bat, he fancied, that had given 401 3 | conflict round which the battle raged, between Spiritualism, 402 1 | part in Salvator Rosa's battle-piece; he ran his fingers over 403 2 | fourteen playing with a battledore at the corner of the Rue 404 1 | spiritualism are a fine pair of battledores with which charlatans in 405 3 | a sea of melted metal, baulks of timber and bar-steel. 406 2 | diplomatists, and Prussian and Bavarian courts of law, over the 407 1 | should like to go to Botany Bay, as we have no Chartreaux 408 1 | a mat, as pretty as the bayadere who once lay upon it, still 409 1 | traces here in this vast bazar of human follies. Here, 410 1 | scarves that flickered like beacon-lights; of black ribbons about 411 2 | glance! A warped bit of beading often met my eyes, and suggested 412 3 | halting between a string of beads and a rosary of leeches, 413 3 | fall upon it with their beaks, pluck out its feathers, 414 1 | mid air. A gray pointed beard concealed the chin of this 415 2 | originality; the panels were beautifully wrought; nothing disturbed 416 2 | seemingly, was at their beck and call; they looked on 417 3 | cried, creasing the silken bed-curtains in Raphael's room between 418 3 | table; it allowed Pauline to bedabble it in coffee; she was playing 419 Epi| against the corner of the bedpost, you have been clasping 420 2 | because I was wet through and bedraggled, and had not so much as 421 2 | the trembling fillet of beef in which their host had 422 1 | Flemings, to drink their beer and join their game at cards, 423 1 | in a murmuring group like bees in a hive. The combination 424 1 | Because, after all, liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to 425 1 | dedicated to Sesostris. The beginnings of the world and the events 426 1 | who spoke on his master's behalf, they all rose, leaning 427 2 | newspaper; so be quiet, and behave properly, for my sake. Have 428 1 | fetters of space; the joys of beholding all things, of comprehending 429 2 | gold chain from which her bejeweled scent-bottle hung. It gave 430 2 | nothing to fear from me, belauded me, not so much on account 431 2 | be deceived in my fairest beliefs, to be punished by ingratitude 432 3 | School, a doctor popular with believers in material and positive 433 1 | separates us from the Deity." ~"Believest thou?" asked Raphael with 434 3 | its own, but society can belittle it and make it ridiculous 435 3 | climbing plants with their bell-like blossoms, and the shot velvet 436 2 | She reached for the bell-pull. I burst into a roar of 437 Epi| thought that La dame des belles cousines sought to protect 438 2 | the Revolution.' ~"Then, bending over this singular man of 439 2 | my solitary pallet like a Benedictine brother, though woman was 440 2 | of society, give me your benediction! I am the Pope." ~Raphael' 441 3 | humors of your so-called benefactress, carry her lapdogs for her; 442 1 | crowd of sorrowing faces, beneficent and appalling, dark and 443 2 | punished by ingratitude for benefiting others, and to receive uncounted 444 1 | lost in the thoughts that benumbed him at last, like the criminals 445 1 | ugliness. A salt-cellar from Benvenuto Cellini's workshop carried 446 1 | to die at night so as to bequeath an unrecognizable corpse 447 2 | critic. ~"The Major having bequeathed several amounts to public 448 1 | Alexander's horse, of the dog Berecillo, of the Seigneur d'Accords, 449 2 | rags, lifeless and hollow, bereft of the sophistries of the 450 2 | Cossacks, at the passage of Beresina; and when Napoleon later 451 2 | soldier's widow, holding out beseeching hands to me. Terrible creditors 452 1 | in the air; the spectator besought the silence for those captivating 453 3 | eclipsed the loveliest and best-dressed women in Paris. She laughed 454 2 | indescribable ferocious and stolid bestiality about these haggard faces, 455 2 | next day, the fair Aquilina bestirred herself. She yawned wearily. 456 2 | with a scolding and end by bestowing tears and money upon you. ~" 457 1 | wrong both. Suppose society bestows down pillows on us, that 458 2 | myself of my infatuation, and betake myself once more to my lonely 459 1 | plaster-cast faces of theirs betokened blunted sensibilities, and 460 Epi| flame, or perhaps the flame betokens that she exists but for 461 3 | his carriage windows, and betook himself again to slumber. ~ 462 3 | become YOU; henceforward any betrayal of her is a blow dealt at 463 2 | couch for a young fairy betrothed to one of the genii. ~" ' 464 1 | your game The game is made Bets are closed." The croupier 465 2 | none of my acquaintance, betted on a stout, jovial little 466 1 | if every woman could not bewail some lover or other, though 467 1 | the most expert manner. We bewailed the loss of a man endowed 468 1 | of shagreen. ~"Young man, beware!" cried the other with incredible 469 2 | and thoughtful, free from bias and brimful of superstition, 470 2 | gave public lectures at the Bibliotheque or the Museum. I slept upon 471 1 | that had to fall at the bidding of the Revolution? ~The 472 2 | The view of the lake of Bienne, some music of Rossini's, 473 3 | found himself alone, all the billiard players had gone. ~"I have 474 3 | is at best only fit for a billiard-marker in a saloon." ~The next 475 2 | of a crowd of roofs, like billows in a motionless sea. Very 476 2 | penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself 477 1 | of mirage in the brain, binding feet, and weighing down 478 1 | sweep a crossing with a birch broom, or the steps of the 479 2 | the fresh trills of her birdlike voice rang up the staircase. ~" ' 480 3 | hydraulic press broken like a biscuit!" commented Planchette. ~" 481 3 | leeches, between Dupuytren's bistoury and Prince Hohenlohe's prayer. 482 1 | windows, seemed to wish to bite sculptured heads, to chase 483 3 | he gave a fillip to his bits of stick, "let us replace 484 2 | ridiculed her. In vain; my bitterest sarcasms and keenest irony 485 1 | more luckily, you were bivouacking in some boudoir or other. 486 1 | a coach. Hard-headed men blabbed secrets to the inquisitive, 487 3 | only lack the variegated black-capped duck now. These gentlemen 488 3 | filings, white eyes, greasy blackened clothing, and hairy chests, 489 2 | the second kind is that of blacklegs, of kings, and of men of 490 1 | by the sharp contrast of blacks and whites. Broken cries 491 3 | lungs are as sound as a blacksmith's bellows, your stomach 492 3 | great entrance-court. A few blades of grass were growing in 493 3 | erect a colossal statue to Blaise Pascal; to found a prize 494 2 | in which she lived; and blamed myself for my infatuated 495 2 | short, the fortunes of play blanched my face. ~"My father suddenly 496 2 | thought so at least, from the bland tones in which those two 497 1 | in a roar. "So far our blasphemies have been uttered over our 498 3 | beautiful before! Your eyes are blazing But come, I can guess it 499 3 | clouds in the sky. The bare, bleak cliffs, with the fearful 500 3 | land, a far-off time of blessing. ~"Here you are!" ~The words,