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276
THE
THIRTEEN
( )
bankrupt
ledgers
matters
of
high
majority
of
cases,
an
exceedingly
com-
for which
we Britons
are re-
before
their
absorption
at
the
usual
time
in
the
Comedie.
G.S.
calculations;
the
red
light
of
blazing
towns.
(1)
apparently
young
man
with
incognito
of
genius?
To
write
an
Itineraire
de
Paris
a
Jerusalem
is
acquainted
raised
by
the
programme.
Trage-
dies
dripping
with
gore,
comedies
piled
up
with
horrors,
tales
id est
the
rebuilding
ambitious,
he
takes
to
building
houses,
makes
a
fortune,
and
leaves
the
guild.
Trempe-la-
Soupe
pleasures
by
all
the
vehement
strength
of
newly
awakened
and
long
dormant
forces.
One
of
these,
chancing
about 1830.
Man
of
the
Mountain,
to
give
those
episodes
in
the
History
of
the
Thirteen
which,
by
reason
of
the
Parisian
flavor
of
the
details
or
the
strangeness
of
the
contrasts,
pos-
sessed
a
peculiar
attraction
for
him.
Paris,
1881.
great
empty
mansions
is
enough
to
account
melancholy
which
settles
on
your
nerves.
The
He
Saint-Louis,
a
corpse
(9)
from
the
ball
has
scarcely
died
away
before
Its
arms
begin
to
stir
a
little
expen-
sive
luxury.
How
refuse
to
spend
a
few
minutes
in
watching
the
dramas,
the
accidents,
the
faces,
the
picturesque
chance
cannot
go,
unless
cruelly
injurious
constructions
shall
be
put
upon
her
errand.
If
she
is
a
wealthy
woman
the
truth
of
the
local
color.
Still,
cess
with
women.
Nevertheless,
loved
the
woman
because
she
was
virtuous.
Her
virtues,
her
dainty
kindles
imagination
to
go
beyond
the
truth.
And
then,
the
senses
are
stirred,
movement
which
all
innocently
brings
the
beauty
of
the
most
attractive
shape
into
relief.
passage,
parlor
or
dining-
it
brunette;
the
marabouts
impart
just
the
fluffy
touch
which
is
wanting.
Her
Grace
the
Duchesse
de
Langeais
says
that
a
sxi-
that
might
prove
as
interesting
as
Le
Doyen
de
Killerine
back,
he
could
assume
the
airs
and
opinions
political
creeds;
blind
and
brought
him
up
on
disasters
of
his
heart,
while
he
all
these
early
furtive
survey
of
others,
no
doubt,
who
are
strange position.
existence,
of
the
high
personal
dignity
which
inspires
awe
in
others,
and
of
that
quiet
noble-
seldom
are
they
permitted
to
voice,
was
enough
to
give
Jules
recog-
nized
status;
her
name,
Clemence,
and
her
age
were
attested,
not
by
a
certificate
of
birth,
but
by
in which
for
her
dress
and
indeed,
pure
love,
and
more
than
this,
quiet
scorn
of
existence,
the
clouded
countenance
worn
existence constitutes
a sort
Baron,
before
addressing
her,
kept
his
eyes
on
husband
and
Mme.
Jules
laughed
again.
in
your
hair
at
this
mo-
ment?
Sir,
said
she,
if
you
are
capable
of
following
a
woman
about
to
detect
her
secrets,
you
will
permit
me
give
himself
up
to
all
the
felicity
of
Menars
to
the
Rue
days
after
de-
tection.
So
he
the
house-roofs,
or
at
the
fitful
discharges
of
the
wet,
foaming
a
gigantic
chimney
shaft.
There
by
the
porter's
wife,
a
toothless
crone
of
great
experience
in
storms,
who
seemed
to
bless
the
degradation
and
degraded
about
him,
something
too
of
poverty
peculiar
:
the
wrong
you've
done
me.
I
know
beforehand
that
you
are
that
hardened
by
vice
to
all
feeling;
is
it
not
deaf
to
the
cry
of
nature?
Not
that
it
matters
much.
I
know how
?
retorted
the
Baron.
No,
sir.
to
warrant.
And
lastly,
he
caught
a
glimpse
hat,
went
downstairs,
and
back
to
his
own
home.
military
fever,
every
one
turns
out
in
a
National
Guard's
uniform,
and
goes
through
the
that
was
being
an
event
in
the
quarter.
It
got
into
the
newspapers.
from his
had
had
a
sufficient
warning.
The
weak
condi-
de Maulincour's
his
repentance.
In
this
way
he
would
conclude
a
tacit
peace
the tenderest
upon
myself.
And
indeed,
a
week
afterwards,
when
M.
de
Maulincour.
now
perfectly
recovered,
was
breakfasting
with
his
grand-
mother
and
the
Vidame,
Justin
appeared
to
make
his
report.
The
dowager
went
back
to
her
rooms,
and
he
began
with
that
false
modesty
which
men
of
genius
affect:
condition.
As
for
the
rest,
he
is
frequently
in
luck,
he
makes
up
the
iffair
without
instructions,
but
keep
an
eye
on
everything
lere,
so
that
urned
to
Maulincour.
Live
as
before,
dear
boy,
he
said,
'and
forget
Mme.
Jules.
the
apology
which
The
antagonists
were
so
far
apart,
that
a
fatal
end
for
M.
de
from
the lives
Maulincour
family,
thus
threatened
by
arrest
which
surely
would
have
supplied
ma-
his
life
was
de
Maulincour,
seiz-
question
put
to
the
Prefect,
Auguste
learned
had be-
And,
after
all,
women
are
so
art-
which reason it
while.
wife,
and
kiss
and
make
it
up
again,
in
a
brougham
or
anywhere
else.
So
married
couples
are
at
liberty
to
quarrel
Maulincour
was
saying
to
me ?
a
vague
dread
put
that
unpleasant
in
any
accidents
of
which
you
heard
Now,
I
should
place.
the
power
ever in
woman
is
always
old
and
unat-
or
eight
lustres,
what
a
weapon
is
it
veins
with
terror,
and
still
caused
her
the
liveliest
oh,
speak
to
me,
if
you
love
me.
you
have
spoken
so
often;
do
not
scold
me;
comfort
me,
I
am
very
wretched.
I
have
How
should
first
time
in
your
life,
you
can
prove
that
your
faith
in
me
is
unbounded,
Let
us
sleep
in
peace,
dear
angel,
question,
with him.
might
be
which
his
wife
used
to
wear
in
the
morning.
Jules
was
a
violent
tein-
yet
those
drops
of
water
shed,
as
it
were,
a
gleam
of
light
which
tortured
his
your
forbearance
in
the
distressing
situation
in
which
our
af-
He
brought
her
bonnet
out
of
the
dressing-room.
jeal-
ousy
violent
anger.
is
filtered
through
half
a
score
of
great
reservoirs
before
it
sparkles
clear
and
pure
in
cut-glass
decanters,
all
its
muddy
sediment
left
than
she
really
river
with
Utrecht
velvet,
of
the
is for
for
others
of
her
class
will
often
exact
M.
Ferragus
every
day?
press,
for
one
fine
woman
place,
he
is
So
does
the
master,
said
the
maid,
taking
her
mistress'
part.
statue.
Jules
came
in.
Where
is
your
mistress
? asked
he.
Madame
has
gone
to
bed,
by
tu.
not
carried
out,
all
physical
suffering
was
forgotten
in
heart
di§-
power
of
that
noble
beauty.
not
see
M.
de
Maulincour,
he
I
supposed
to
say,
monsieur,
in
this
letter?
labyrinth
in
Paris,
hand
straight
and
for
me,
so
as
to
find
paid
his
?
cipher.
Wait.
He
left
Jules
I
have
give
it
you
back
again
secundum
scripturam.
When?
wheels,
the
police
authorities
put
up
at
every
cabstand.
Eh?
said
the
portress,
laying
down
the
stocking
which
back
at
nine
o'clock
to-night.
Fer-
piece
petticoats,
her
worn
slippers,
like
a
suspicious
cat.
truth,
for
these
beastly
business,
sir.
My
neighbor
that
lives
just
above
has
left
her
must come
the old
I
feel
the
to-
morrow,
and
Henri
Bourignard
is
really
dead,
continued
for
my
own
sake
a
father
is
you
do
not
know.
take his own
and live
shape
to
fill,
my
age
that
would
have
patience
to
learn
Portuguese
and
English,

suffered
in
his
pale
face.
leave
this
angel
with
me
she
was
sorry
hear
the
wish
that
he
any
language,
to
quote
Bossuet's
saying.
It
was,
in
truth,
a
white-haired
Gorpse,
a
skeleton
scarcely
covered
by
the
wrinkled,
shriveled,
ravings
he
bewailed

respected
her,
yet
neither
the
fear
nor
the
respect
oppressed
my
heart.
I
was
heart.
When
I
came
out
of
the
profound
solitude;
when
for
his
one
my
death.
have
loved,
Jules,
there
is
sacred
chamber
without
hindrance,
saw
upon
a
priest
been
before
me
and
given
orders
and
paid.
he
broke
out
into
dull
weeping.
Jacquet,
but
you
a
great
curiously
as
the
eight
chanters,
the
priests.
overwhelm
uttered
there.
Unbelievers
themselves
know
not
the au-
in failure.
his
biographer
the
land
by
the
light
of
dust,
would
be
put
up
to
public
auction.
Others
retorted
that
it
was
to
go
a
long
way.
Any
matter,
moreover,
salary
and
wields
an
immense
power
over
a
population
who
cannot
possibly
as
a
rule;
he
only
comes
forward
if
something
serious
occurs,
if
one
dead
man
is
signing
sovereign
presides
in
his
room.
Possibly
he
by
inconsol-
rows
of
figures
for
him
Ah
(interrupting
himself
as
he
glanced
at
the
bleeding
hearts.
They
so
much
in
everything
save
vanity.
?J>
funeral
pomp
of
Paris
gentleman
of
any
difficulty,
and
among
them
they
converted
the
otiieial
report
into
an
ordinary
certi-
funeral
pomp
and
among
them
they
converted
the
official
report
into
an
ordinary
certi-
the sexton.
to
the
house
in
the
Hue
de
Menars
to
yourself.
On
the
morrow,
other
thoughts,
other
pictures
of
Paris
life
sweep
fairest
ornament
every
ceases,
every
stroke
represents
one
occasion
to
weather
equally
as
a
for him and
he
shouted.
Paris,
February
1833.
the
soul
from
all
earthly
(131)
above
daily
life,
to
put
men
eon-
structure,
with
its
carved
wooden
columns,
completed
the
line
of
the
arcading
small events
for the
through
their
one
point
of
contact
with
had
played
the
prelude
to
the
ballad
in
a
boudoir
in
Paris,
how
air.
Casting
about
for
a
plea
for
prolonging
his
stay,
it
at
once
occurred
to
him
to
make
the
most
of
this
excuse,
framed
on
the
spur
of
the
moment.
He
declined,
on
a
plea
in
itself.
It
can
express
any-
of
the
past,
a
revulsion
the
holy
human
trinity
finds
a
place
amid
the
infinite
she
lay
dying
on
her
hear
my
voice,
my
wholly
disinterested
respect.
He
inquired
with
inquired
the
lover.
He
wall,
on
grating,
and
the
dark
surface
seems
guess
how
tears,
and
prayer,
and
passion,
and
loneliness
had
wasted
the
woman
before
him.
power
and
dignity.
Superior's
piercing
eyes.
He
was
afraid
of
her

the color
ascetic
life
had
left
dark
words,
she
was
a faithful-
eternal
life
is
all
that
trouble
has
left
me
to

who
are
his
splendid
hotel
in
the
Eue
penditure,
the
other
the
receipts.
Consequently
their
man-
ners
and
customs
are
diametrically
opposed.
political
harmony
are
obvious
to
the
least
intelligent
classes.
Harmony
is,
as
it
were,
the
poetry
of
order,
and
order
is
a
matter
of
vital
importance
no
desire
to
perish,
they
set
to
work
at
once
to
grow
a
new
head.
If
they
lack
the
strength
for
this,
they
perish
as
Rome
perished,
and
Venice,
and
so
many
other
states.
details;
the
constantly
maintained
good
as
a
great
name.
The
Roths-
rises,
he
always
groans
in
spirit
to
see
so
many
of
the
noblesse.
It
seemed
to
them
that
as
each
individual
grew
rich,
the
party
as
a
whole
would
And this was
from
their
midst;
and.
lastly,
instead
of
growing
young
again,
the
Faubourg
Saint-
Germain
grew
positively
older.
back
recognition
of
their
titles
by
un-
remitting
attention
to
local
interests,
by
falling
in
with
the
often came
their
sins
and
shed
so
safer
distance
from
quitted
her
sceptical
attitude
for
a
submissive
credulity.
out a
of
the
war.
place
at
Court,
appalling
char-
acteristic
whether for
coquetry
had had
art
of
playing
such
dangerous
comedies.
attention
than
any
of
the
idols
that
Paris
needs
must
set
up
to
worship
for
upon
oc-
valuable collection
of notes
bearing
on
various
geographical
and
commercial
problems,
of wealth.
had
been
aroused
only
the
day
before,
when
she
heard
the
story
of
one
of
M.
de
Mont-
at
glued
by
the
desert
thirst.
The
guide
mean-
it,
and
a
noble
forest
lighted
up
by
by
such
a
conquest,
made
up
her
mind
to
gain
a
her
moving
tenderness
would
give
place
to
a
heart-
a distance
changeful
delight
of
her
The
to
take
what
other
women
have
passed
over.
The
for
among
them
impossible
times
he
asked
himself,
like
a
boy,
Shall
I
go.
by
the
flickering
light
of
a
single
gladness
that
appar-
it
pleased
her
to
make
him
forget
how
time
went.
great
preten-
sion
with
us.
flung
into
the
deep,
while
pains
is
please
you.
over
water,
now
over
Majesty says;
And
the
General
was
well
pleased
that
the
queen
show
her
swan's
neck.
its
outward
and
visible
signs.
As,
for
instance,
within
a
few
days
of
their
first
meeting,
the
assiduous
General
had
won
and
kept
the
right
to
kiss
his
not
the old Vidame
and
a
woman
who
keeps
such
promises
is
a
libertine.
much
for
you.
Do
not
come
quite
so
often;
I
shall
love
you
none
the
less.
there
in
the
strong
man
in
love.
to
and
fro
in
the
you
;
burning lips.
After
all,
the
Duchess
was
practically
separated
all
to
sweep
aside,
with
all
scruples
made
as
though
and
remorse,
she
cried.
And
Montriveau,
now
at
two
chairs'
distance
from
that
aristocratic
petticoat,
betook
himself
to
blasphemy
and
railed
against
Providence.
The
Duchess
grew
angry
at
such
times.
My
friend,
she
said
drily,
I
do
not
understand
why
you
religion
into
his
ears,
to
see
whether
Qod
might
not
rid
her
of
this
suitor,
malicious
scrutiny
of
the
other's
gaze,
and
greeted
neither
the
lady
nor
the
priest.
The
lover
apart,
on
the
necessity
of
re-establishing
splendor.
And
she
talked
brilliantly.
The
Church,
she
maintained,
ought
to
be
a
temporal
as
well
as
a
spiritual
power,
stating
about
our
quarrels
and
my
love
for
you?
of
sister
or
a
stranger
to
him.
He
woman
could
not
believe
in
a
religion
which
permits
us
to
love
beyond
th.e
grave.
I
issued,
you
publish
a
Revocation;
if
you
should
one
day
be
accused
In
hot
wrath
the
double
expression
of
joys
was
still
far
off.
She,
no
doubt,
was
on
the
verge
not
of
first
to
wait
for
her
bond-slave's
request
to
guess
it
in
six
months,
like
day,
when
ruin
comes,
you
will
give
the
Duchesse
de
Langeais
will
many
sacrifices
anything
to
prevent
her
from
talking
on
for
some
time
to
come,
for
poor
Armand's
to a
nothing by accepting
unfailing
pas-
sion
in
in
a
dif-
ferent
tone.
kill
you,
should
I
not
two o'clock in
I
Duchess
surrendered?
If
so,
I
almost
neglected.
Is
not
this
true
when
the
brain
has
capitu-
Come now
heart
must
needs
begin
to
beat.
The
Marquis
de
Ronquerolles'
counsels
had
cured
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—
prove
a
harder
matter
than
the
conquest
of
Europe.
in
the
conquest
of
Europe.
the
ball
at
which
he
was
sure
of
seeing
the
Duchesse
de
Langeais,
and
almost
despaired
of
is
a
sign
of
love
studied
him
too
well
not
to
dread
him.
hate him.
a
stranger.
us
sincerely.
her
servants,
A
green
the
bedfoot
stood
seconds,
and
you
are
going
to
be
so
affec-
more,
you
innumerable sacrifices
in
them.
Know
heart
as
you
broke
it.
I
resisted
to
feel
when
shall bear
reflects
another.
The
Duchess,
with
every
motive
for
reading
the
depths
of
Armand's
heart,
place
shall
outpouring
woman
her
up
and
down
flights
of
stairs,
he
was
studying
the
throbbing
pulses
of
this
woman's
heart
so
suddenly
invaded
by
Love.
Why,
what
is
the
whether
his
axe
from
is a means
return,
she
could,
You
must
have
quarreled
Mme.
de
Langeais
saw
hope
in
Armand's
withdrawal
land,
to
a
betrothed
bride,
full
of
love,
made
fair
by
the
past
and
future.
vanity.
Even
now
this
spoiled
thought.
for
ever.
These
persons
found
no
difficulty
m
believing
that
the
Duchess
was
ill,
seeing
that
she
grew
thin-
ner
and
paler
and
mose
dejected
every
day.
The
vague
ardor
was
to
that
has
to
the
to
wait
at
the
Marquis
de
Montri-
de
Maulincour.
That
young
officer
had
while
ex-
in
the
old
lady's
eyes,
a
profound
dig-
a
matter
of
fact
there
was
not
much
by
some
shorthand
her
property
in
her
lifetime,
and,
Chev-
Why,
that
is
extraordinary
gout,
nor
any
other
complaint,
in
consequence?
No;
his
health
was
perfectly
good,
and
he
died
through
an
accident.
By
accident
fortunately,
to-day
is
Monday,
and
re-
Then,
pray,
what
are
his
opinions?
Very
unsound.
went
time.
And,
she
added,
as
she
turned
to
greet
the
Vidame
tight
clasp.
We
are
not
under
the
Valois
now,
dear
child.
You
have
you
have
just
inherited
from
your
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