Chapter

 1        I|          a large man, about fifty years of age, as gnarled and sinewy
 2        I|       been painted out.~ ~“Twenty years ago, Lacheneur was a poor
 3       II|           sum for him who, in two years of toil and privation had
 4       II|  Lacheneur.~ ~Appointed mayor two years later, he left the cottage
 5       II|         received their friends in years gone by.~ ~To those who
 6       II|           upon the future. Thirty years ago, who could have foreseen
 7       II|         was an interval of twenty years.~ ~Twenty years! And it
 8       II|         of twenty years.~ ~Twenty years! And it seemed to him only
 9       II|        agitated France for thirty years, Marie understood, for she
10       II|          I were to live a hundred years, never should I forget her
11       II|       what had become of him. Ten years passed before I could make
12       II|      inhabit the chateau—yes, ten years—during which I had the furniture
13       II|          a young man about twenty years of age, of distinguished
14      III|            This street, in former years, had been unpaved, and had
15      III|          dissipation of his riper years, the great excesses of every
16       IV|       twice as large as in former years.”~ ~“That is to say, for
17       IV|        That is to say, for twenty years, Monsieur Lacheneur has
18        V|    represented the savings of ten years.~ ~He had built it in 1806,
19        V|          an angel, and only three years younger than himself.~ ~
20        V|          my bread for twenty-five years; they will earn it for me
21       VI|         loved each other for many years.~ ~As children, they had
22     VIII|        not crossed for twenty-two years, and which Martial had never
23     VIII|   anything aside during all these years? He has put this money not
24        X|     enchanted him. He felt twenty years younger—the twenty years
25        X|          years younger—the twenty years that had been passed in
26       XI| progressed during the past twenty years. Moreover, people had deceived
27      XII|          to the chateau in former years. The servants will put it
28     XIII|            in a period of fifteen years he has had the misfortune
29      XVI|              For more than twenty years the poor woman had never,
30      XVI|        since you last saw him ten years ago.”~ ~It was true. It
31      XVI|           had been, at least, ten years since the baron had seen
32       XX|     trifle bowed by the weight of years, rose to its full height.~ ~
33     XXIV|          was scarcely twenty-five years of age, tall, fair-haired,
34    XXVII|         which he had not used for years.”~ ~“Ah! that is a remarkable
35   XXVIII|     Marie-Anne, for more than six years. Before I saw you, I loved
36    XXXIV|    astonishment, sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.~ ~But there
37     XXXV|         had been dead for several years. It was evident that the
38   XXXVII|          in men under twenty-five years of age. But no one suspected
39   XXXVII|        cure, who had been for ten years physician and surgeon for
40     XLIV|          shall see each other for years, grant me a few hours. It
41   XLVIII|      insults she had received for years had extinguished every generous
42     XLIX|  discussed the events of the past years.~ ~They never failed to
43        L|       than had visited it for ten years.~ ~She saw the gendarmes
44       LI|         had been accumulating for years fairly choked her; but after
45       LI|         caprice—and she has forty years of humiliation and servitude
46       LI| Courtornieu during the past three years. No one knew he had laid
47       LI|          we have been waiting ten years, slip through his fingers.
48       LI|         been occupied for several years, and required many repairs.~ ~“
49      LII|           then, about thirty-four years of age, a man of medium
50      LII|      discovered at the end of two years:~ ~“Never,” he replied: “
51      LII|      missions. She remained three years in foreign lands.~ ~Each
52      LII|       sufferings were measured by years, Marie-Anne’s by minutes;
53     LIII|           was condemned to twenty years of hard labor, and sent
54     LIII|           good son! just eighteen years old, and such a help to
55     LIII|        been very devout in former years, and now her superstitious
56     LIII|      gleam of reason for ten long years before his death.~ ~“My
57     LIII|           was only intensified by years. He was biding his time
58     LIII|             He had waited sixteen years, when one of his friends
59     LIII|           francs in less than six years.~ ~“Now,” said he, “I can
60     LIII|            for a period of twenty years—two parties had been making
61     LIII|         had been dead for several years, and after a long search,
62      LIV|         his mind. After all these years he saw her yet, cold, rigid,
63      LIV|          not hesitate.~ ~For four years the Duc de Sairmeuse wandered
64      LIV|            But what secret?~ ~The years which had silvered Martial’