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351
354
AND
OTHER
STORIES
out
(ix)
not
of
the
broadly
human
once. And
people
who
was
into this
all,
must
chiefly
fasten.
It
was
society
of
Bouchardy
or
Eugene
Sue.
the
Comedie
of the
pleasant
dream.
I
think,
indeed,
frequently
combine
early
and
late
work
in
the
same
volume.
The
question
is
certainly
in-
reserved
for
another
yolvune.
du
Departs-
went,
of
Les
Parisiens
en
Province
was
given
to
it.
G.S.
color,
are
dwellers
between
the
heights
of
Montrouge
and
Montmartre,
in
a
vale
of
place
where
the
sound
of
wheels
comparison
holds
good
of
art,
for
heavy
iron
grating.
case,
the
steps
being
constructed
partly
of
wood,
partly
of
tiles,
bluish
marble
clock
in
the
very
worst
taste.
VOL.
1325
civiliza-
tion
drift
into
hospitals
for
incurables.
You
expect
in
such
places
as
these
slipping
away
for
milk in
tainted
year.
garret
where
the
linen
was
hung
to
dry,
and
a
couple
of
attics.
Christophe,
the
man-of
-all-
work,
slept
in
one,
and
Sylvie,
the
stout
cook/
in
lips.
Dramas
the
thin,
blue-stockinged
legs
trembled
like
those
of
a
beasts of burden
in
the
Kue
Neuve-
disinherit
his
daughter,
and
had
converted
all
his
real
estate
into
personalty,
that
he
might
future.
The
poor
wardrobe,
only
taking
last
year's
clothes
into
daily
wear,
still
upon
occa-
sion
he
could
issue
soon
readiness to
shop
had
unsullied
marble
of
a
monument.
pieces
of
plate,
all
weighing
no
incon-
in
a
lordly
way,
like
a
man
who
knows
that
his
snuff-box
is
always
likely
to
third
floor),
cordially
approved
by
Mme.
de
PAmbermesnil
Magasin
de
la
Petite
Jan-
VOL.
1326
to
their
housemates,
Yauquer's
aversion
was
naturally
more
energetic
than
her
friendship,
for
her
came
less
frequently,
and
at
last
he
was
scarcely
absent
from
the
dinner-table
twice
a
month.
went
on
'Change
and
dabbled
(to
was
a
skinflint.
M.
Goriot
went
curtain,
as
the
sun.
was
Chining
into
Goriot's
eyes.
a
the
sun
was
t's
eyes.
portly
Sylvie,
who
did
not
recog-
nize
the
lady
of
the
first
visit.
four or
be,
after
meeting
one
of
these
Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve
he
was
no
rest,
the
current
of
life
in
Paris
daily
awaited
them,
and
swept
them
away
with
it;
so
they
left
the
Rue
Neuve-Sainte-Gene-
stimu-
lated
by
a
difficult
position,
that
for
the
time
being
they
rise
above
the
ordinary
level.
Rastignac's
first
year
of
study
for
the
preliminary
ex-
for him.
He saw
He
began
ties
might
still
hold
the
prettiest
figures
temper,
whom a
other,
beholding
a
radiant
vision
was
nearly
finished.
fists.
When
a
young
man
makes
up
his
VOL.
1327
the
milk
destined
for
the
boarders'
breakfast
for
her
own,
has
any
one
told
you
anything
about
him?
with
a
knife.
the table.
Jew,
a
Greek;
it
would
be
baid
Mme
Vauquer,
turning
to
Mme.
Couture.
mut-

told
you
her
name,
M.
Vau-
the
twelfth
on
her
list,
and
she
cruel
speech
Goriot,
cried
the
student.
Well,
and
if
you
don't,
broke
in
Yautrin,
we
are
not
woman
who
can
give
them
the
dainties
they
like.
You
might
offer
these
last
all
the
women
them at
lender. Father
Goriot has
went
out,
and
her
head,
Couture
and
Victorine
with
a
Ladies,
you
seem
melancholy.
soupe
aux
choux.
Corn-el.
uproarious
because
poor
others
with
a
puzzled
look,
like
a
foreigner
trying
to
catch
the
mean-
ing
of
words
in
a
language
which
he
does
not
understand.
Corn? . .. .
he
said,
turning
to
Vautrin,
unmis-
VOL.
1328
his
trousers
brushed.
servant,
with
money-
of
the
latter.
An
so vio-
thoughts.
She
came
back
almost
immediately.
She
had
noticed
the
compelled
to
study
their
husbands'
characters
in
he
looks
at
you.
He
will
make
you
a
declara-
tion,
and
compromise
you,
and
then
you
will
compel
me
to
kill
him/'
Sir,
he
cried,
you
might
have
called
him
'Monsieur
Goriot'
The
Countess
turned
pale
at
first
at
the
sight
of
her
hus-
band's
vexation,
then
she
reddened;
clearly
she
piano,
and,
sitting
have to wear
already,
the
old
scoundrel.
My
He
began
to
understand,
though
somewhat
tardily,
that
he
must
not
expect
already
appro-
priated,
by
respecting,
with
as
good
a
grace
as
might
be,
this
mor-
ganatic
union.
Any
one
door
against
these
the
Vicomtesse,
he
had
not
found
courage
as
yet
to
say
words that
as
rapidly
as
Virgil's
courser
detected
had
raised
the
forefinger
of
her
right
hand,
and
gracefully
signed
to
the
Marquis
to
seat
himself
beside
heart.
The
most
terrible
catastrophes
VOL.
1329
path
of
her
protege/'
Well,
cousin,
she
said,
laughing,
and
You
must
have
been
very
much
in
the
way,
said
Mme.
de
Beauseant,
smiling
as
she
spoke.
Yes,
indeed.
I
am
a
novice,
and
my
blunders
will
set
she
biting
epigrams
that
lurked
beneath
this
friendly
talk.
You
continue
to
receive,
Duchess.
Anastasie and
moment
the
father,
hand
you
see
a
father
who
has
him,
Langeais
very charming
night.
you
must
be
nothing
more
than
post-horses;
take
some-
tier to come
long
as
you
do
stately
a
hand
over
his
face.
Any
one
change
in
the
disposition
of
his
with
a
champion
capable
of
putting
a
matter
of
fact,
30
ashamed
of
those
letters.
What
power
at-
testing
his
presence,
departed
forthwith.
He
had
been
Mai
son
de
Nucingen.
The
results
of
his
inquiries
may
be
given
briefly
as
follows:
sel;
he
was
a
diplomatist
in
his
quick
comprehension
of
a
trade.
to
him
from
time
to
concerned;
his
love
for
them
made
him
fidgety
and
anxious;
level
a
:
generous
beyond
words
in
this
matter;
she
saw
at
once
how
her,
and
that
kiss
judg-
She
said,
'Let
the
canons
of
grammatical
construction
beginning
upon
them;
and
if
the
had been summoned
a
above
earth;
he
has
forgotten
days
when
the
whole
him,
though,
since
the
sharp
of
Murat,
but
beyond
endurance.
pistols
under
the
lime-trees.
VOL.
1331
he
continued,
pointing
to
the
round
table.
I,
for
instance,
can
hit
the
ace
in
the
middle
of
a
card
five
times
running,
out
of
this,
go
to
Switzerland,
down
yonder,
a
great-aunt,
two
sis-
ters
(aged
eighteen
and
seventeen),
two
young
brothers
(one
;
keep
the
Travaux
forces.
If
you
were
a
pallid
creature
of
men
who
aspire
on
their
sisters).
nest
by
taking
the
common
enemy.
But
do
you
know
score
of
bold
spirits
who
rise
above
the
I
have
fifty
thousand
francs,
which
played
mushrooms
on
toast,
and
then
go
to
the
Ambigu-
For
my
part,
I
don't
being
torn
in
pieces
at
the
Congress
of
Vienna;
and
they
who
should
have
a
the table.
earth
is
free ?
My
youth
success,
but
I
shall
lay
my
head
on
the
pillow
at
night
un-
troubled
by
evil
thoughts.
fact.
languages
for
the
VOL.
1332
a
sublime
pitch;
them.
symbol
of
power.
However
cynical
Vautrin's
words
had
been,
they
had
made
an
impression
on
his
mind,
as
the
sordid
features
of
the
permit
me
to
see
'you
later,
I
can
wait.
Very
well,
come
and
dine
with
me/'
she
said,
a
little
con-
her house is
eyes.
In
the
time
fortified
tain
Italiens
this
evening?
the
Vicomtesse
asked
her husband.
long.
of
the
Chaussee-
d'Antin
love
revenge.
of
my
affairs
so
deep
an
He
adores
you
so
pas-
sionately
that
I
am
jealous
already.
We
talked
about
you
this
It
was
not
can la
such
whis-
pered
words
as
these
a
sinister
cunning
in
his
full-moon
countenance,
you
are
quide
sure
of
being
well
receifed.
Baroness'
thoughts
had
been
wandering;
that
she
was
that,
once
involved
in
this
of
hers
is
a
inside,
and
the
shaving
apparatus.
A
pair
of
shoes
was not a trace
I
like
Mme.
Delphine
the
best,
said
the
law
student,
because
she
loves
you
the
best.
they?);
you
will
cleave
so
gesture
VOL.
13
33
this
friendship
brought
him
closer
to
his
daughter
Delphine;
he
in
her
mind
with
the
vague
hopes
that

enjoy myself
for all sorts of little details about me. I have
found
out
that
she
would
do
anything
in
the
world
to
be
known
medical stu-
read
Eousseau?
two hundred
the
Capuchins.
Happiness,
old
man,
depends
on
man's
head
in
this
of
vanity
that
possessed
some
women
nervous
or
sanguine
complexion
a
peer
of
France/'
said
Mme.
Vauquer.
Are
you
going
a-courting?
inquired
Mile.
Michonneau.
Cock-a-doodle-doo
I
cried
the
artist.
the volu-
am
you
about
them,
you
would
shun
me,
himself.
When
the
carriage
stopped
at
last,
the
Baroness
gave
the
in
answer
to
his
inquiry.
hundred francs
me
to
poverty
in
secret
on
purpose.
I
am
too
other
for
way.
I
should
have
driven
him
frantic
at
that
moment.
it to
say.
is
done
there.
Eugene
took
the
Baroness'
hand
in
his,
and
by
some
light
pressure
of
the
fingers,
or
a
closer
grasp
of
the
hand,
they
VOL.
1334
prettiest
and
best-dressed
women
in
Paris
would
be
his;
but,
I have still
it and
it
is
so
pleasant
to
obey
the
voice
of
conscience.
Perhaps
the
story
of
his
your
hatter.
As
for
your
laundress,
there
goes
employ
the
stationery
you
use
dress,
it
is
in
unsavory
thorny
problems
of
his
precarious
situa-
mandarin,
have
we?
said
Bian-
chon
one
day
as
they
left
the
dinner
table.
Not
yet,
he
answered,
but
hurry
to
finish
his
dinner
and
go.
All
through
that
in
the
flower-strewn
realms
of
love,
that
it
was
not
wonderful
that
she
should
wish
to
dwell
a
while
on
the
prospect,
to
tremble
with
false.
This
in-
consistency
is
unfortunately
only
to
be
expected
so
long
as
men
do
he
thought
in
spite
of
his
con-
be
an
engagement
of
marriage
between
fine
young
fellow,
now
and
then,
be realized
torment
me?
god
young
man
whose
every
step
seemed
a
triumphal
progress
in
the
great
world;
it
seemed
to
her
that
he
might.
to this
natural.
Perhaps
the
following
remarks
from
the
hitherto
VOL.
13
35
man
of
business
and
their
banker.
unless
there
done.
The
old
boy
ought
to
pay
people
handsomely
for
listen-
napping.
Then
M.
Nothing
simpler,
said
the
stranger
I
will
send
you
a
whatever,
but
he
will
fall
down
as
if
he
were
in
a
fit.
The
drug
can
be
put
into
wine
or
coffee;
either
will
do
equally
well.
You
carry
your
man
he
is
not
dy-
ing.
Well,
do
you
agree?
gaid
Gondureau,
addressing
the
old
maid.
You
would
spoil
everything,
away
air,
and
you
answer,
'Mme.
Morin/
Who
may
Mme.
Morin
be?
it.
had
ever
been,
but
it
was
full
of
joy,
and
not
of
sorrow.
Poor
child
J
blood
before
his
eyes.
the
student's
back
was
turned,
and
seized
the
opportunity
to
How
pleasant
it
was
to
keep
step
with
his
stomach,
how
happy
place
between
them.
Eugene
felt
5
a
tap
d
la
Goriot
is
inquired
Mme.
Vau-
quer.
You
are
as
merry
as
a
skylark.
wine.
All
at
once
he
made
a
grimace.

time,
and
watched
the
change
her
brother's
money,
a
snug
fifteen
thou-
sand
francs
a
year.
I
have
made
inquiries
already,
and
I
Vautrin
for
a
bit
of
fun
like
this,
said
Sylvie.
There,
just
hark
at
Christophe,
he
is
snoring
like
a
top.
Good-bye,
mamma,
said
Vautrin;
I
am
going
to
a
theatre
on
the
boulevard
to
see
M.
Marty
in
Le
Mont
Sau->
vage,
a
fine
play
taken
head
thought
of
taking
me
anywhere,
the
old
skinflint.
But
he
will
meas-
ure
his
length
somewhere.
My
dissipation
is.
Are
you
close contact.
were
a
woman,
I
(no
not
and
spoke
said
the
widow.
of
the
world,
that
day,
she
made
a
picture
of
her
memories,
and
dwelt
upon
it
until
she
slept,
the
hap-
piest
creature
in
Paris.
while he
The
rogue
will
never
leave
his
chump
in
the
Place
de
Greve.
As
Mile.
Michonneau
seemed
mystified,
Gondureau
ex-
all
the
expense
of
guarding
and
feeding
department.
Yes,
of
course,
we
are
serving
our
country,
and
we
are
very
hardly
used
the
Jardin
difficulty.
Just
M.
Taillefer's
servants;
Mme.
Couture
recognized
the
livery
at
once.
Mademoiselle,
he
cried,
your
he
is
unconscious.
marry
Mile.
Victorine,
said
Eu-
Goriot.
time, there
only
a
spasm.
His
pulse
is
good.
He
might
be
implicated.
Count
Franchessini,
of
the
Old
Guard,
and
the
Count
put
a
couple

austere
widow.
VOL.
1337
with
cunning
There
are
ladies
present;
I
deny
nothing,
and
surrender.
in
my
The convicts'
horrible,
its
ap-
to
save
myself
an
inconvenient
journey
and
some
loss
of
money,
he
said,
as
they
fastened
the
hand-
(a
nickname
full
of
sombre
poetry,
given
by
prisoners
to
the
guillotine),
be
a
good
fellow,
complete.
Gentlemen,
said
Collin,
addressing
the
lodgers,
they
every
one
in
the
room,
save
Poiret,
was
of
the
medical
student's
opinion,
my
establish-
go
and
dine

the tutor.
poor
young
man's
expense.
Mine.
Couture
and
Victorine
want
me
said
Eugene.
Vau-
spoken
in
a
dream.
eat.
Oh,
it
is
a
long
while
since
I
have
Cafe
des
Anglais.
But,
pshaw
with
her
beside
but be-
light,
and
Delphine
rose
up
secret.
they
say
about
you
were
to
be
compared
with
happiness
been
strengthened
in
him,
your
anything
out.
VOL.
13
38
him with
the record of
for
you,
said
look
at
Eugene,
so
long
We
He
runs
about
after
her
like
a
little
dog.
Lord
hear,
cried
Sylvie.
d'Antin.
Sylvie
cried
the
widow,
this
is
the
last
straw.
Gen-
tlemen,
this
will
be
the
hospital
was
about
to
expire,
would
doubtless
procured
these
Dra-
a
year
ago,
that,
turning
some
power
of
inner
vision
upon
this
lat-
they
to
the
is
not
lost.
Has
some-
with
unshaken
credit.
I
scolded,
your
name
on
my
back,
and
sweated
and
money
and
leave
us
in
the
lurch,
means
by
speculations?
He
my
best
and
VOL.
1339
father.
There,
he
went
that
you,
Nasie
heart.
children.
yes,
yes,
you
love
me,
I
see
that
you
love
me.
pay.
He
has
given
me
I
have
left
in
Eestaud,
looking
at
her
sister.
What
does
it
matter
where
they
were?
asked
Goriot
The
money
is
spent
now.
my
hus-

Delphine.
Ask
would
rescue
Papa
s
signature,
saw
larger
sum,
violent scene.
dark
him on
asleep.
Then
he said.
with
him,
poor
shock,
and
his
mind
has
given
way.
Yes,
there
was,
said
Eastignac,
remembering
how
the
bitterness.
Eugene
was
silent,
the
artless
and
sincere
outpouring
made
an
impression
on
him.
Parisian
women
are
often
false,
intoxicated
with
vanity,
in
the
left,
I
don't
know
why.
He
had
got
himself
up
to
look
quite
young,
been
driving
some
confounded
VOL.
13
40
things
were
between
her
master
and
mistress,
she
was
afraid
of
losing
her
money,
and
came
to
an
understanding
with
the
dressmaker,
and
the
woman
refuses
night
determined
that
she
shall
quarter
of
the
price
it
sells
for
here.
There
is
a
law
against
the
im-
portation
of
grain,
but
the
good
folk
who
made
the
law
for-
the
Her hair
that
obedience
found
a
deep
and
constant
serenity,
unvexed
as her
Burgundy
had
risen
proudly
above
her
pain,
and
moved
till
the
last
moment
like
a
queen
you
will
see
Paris
again.
I
am
taking
my
noble,
fresh-hearted
and
true,
in
this
longer.
Will
you
take
it
to
you
in
the
Rue
d'Artois.
Mme.
de
Nucingen
looked
very
charming
this
fortitude,
shook
husband's
eyes.
The
sight
of
morning
the
rooms
began
to
empty.
A
little
later
the
music
ceased,
and
the
Duchesse
de
Langeais
and
Rastignac
were
left
in
the
great
ballroom.
The
Vicomtesse,
who
thought
to
find
the
student
there
alone,
came
back
had taken
leave of
I
She
took
her
friend's
arm,
and
they
went
together
into
the
affection,
or
live
beyond
the
juris-
diction
of
pain,
as
certain
demagogues
would
have
the
people
believe.
Eugene
returned
on
nearly
complete.
I
come
back.
heat the
authorities
says
that
if
there
brain,
in
which
case
he
will
die
in
the
imbecile
state
in
which
he
is
lying
now.
You
who
spoke.
He
had
world,
he
said;
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