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INTRODUCTION
BY
GCORGC
SHINTSBURY
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349
THE
SEAMY
SIDE
OF
HISTORY
AND
OTHER
STORIES
gratifying
(a)
was
an
inspiration,
a
vigor,
to
speak
he
he
treated
them
vigorously
and
well,
this
story
will
witness.
Un
Episode
sous
la
Terreur,
together
with
year
rather
amusing
to
think
of
the
the
weapons
in
the
hands
of
those
who
tried
something
unto
pet scoundrel,
to
sing
in
public
and
the
poise
shrinking,
irresolute,
sex-
less
creature/'
almost
at
once,
but
made
an
excursion
Comedie
in
1844.
takes
in
the
past
and
the
present
of
the
city
of
Paris,
Religion
seems
(1)
spoke
had
come,
and
to a
16—32
His
mother,
content
in
has
journalist,
he
got
an
ap-
pointment
where
his
Liberal
ideas,
at
loggerheads
with
the
demands
of
a
newly-established
power,
made
him
but
a
re-
he
might
find
the
rejected.
In
the
first
place,
in
the
opinion
of
these
case-hardened
traders,
the
young
man
must
necessarily
have
face,
he
had
stud-
certain su-
light
thing
to
at
meal-times.
The
lady
would
be
still
glittered
in
the
glow,
and
:
Chanterie.
There
are,
perhaps,
degrees
of
silence.
Godefroid,
struck
already
by
the
tranquillity
of
eighteenth
century.
carmelite
gray,
finely
and
restaurants and
pos-
sible,
as
the
spacious
study.
rule,
up,
and
the
priest
escorted
him
to
the
outer
steps.
A
whistle
sounded,
and
at
the
signal
the
porter
appeared,
lantern
in
hand,
to
conduct
Godefroid
to
the
street
priest.
prudence, shrewdness,
his
family
name,
could
see
how
voice.
her
hackney-coach.
much
white
dimity
would
be
to
re-
On
the
day
after
his
arrival
as
a
boarder
with
Madame
de
la
Chanterie,
he
could
not
help
cross-examining
himself
on
lead
him
this
speech
at
table,
where
Her
five
gnests
were
now
seated.
but
belongs
to
us
all,
and
will
be
the
And
this
greatest
institu-
tions
dignity
conferred
by
his
functions,
behaved
to
her
as
to
a
distinguish,
by
certain
tricks
of
working,
the
habits
of
a
professional
from
those
of
an
amateur.
You
sew,
said
Godefroid,
as
if
you
were
used
to
the
business,
for
our
con-
the
with
whom
you
are
now
living
his
position.
book
in
her
hand.
Here,
my
dear
boy,
said
she,
read on
the back
persons
are
coming
here
who
stormy
two
months
of
his
life;
his
curiosity
especially
had
never
been
so
strongly
excited.
His
eyes
wandered
mechanically,
as
happens
with
Holy
Cross.
Arrange
and
order
all
your
life
as
you
like
or
think
fit,
still
you
will
find
that
you
will
always
have
something
to
suffer,
by
your
own
choice
or
by
necessity;
and
so
you
will
always
breakfast,
had
asked
lingo,
that
call.
16—34
work.
speaks
with
your
away
sums
of
money,
sometimes
rather
considerable.
Mongenod's
cashier
superior
intellect
of
these
three
men,
to
Gode-
froid
as
they
came
out
of
Notrc-Dame.
in
a
la
Chanterie
and
kissing
And
remember
you
are
in
debt.
happy
that
a
faint
flush
an
intimacy
and
constant
intercourse
return;
she
may
be
exe-
Chanterie.
neighbor,
with
the
purpose
of
satisfying
a
curiosity
which
was
more
excited
by
the
incredibility
of
any
catastrophe
in
such
a
man's
wounded
vanity
to
devote
himself
to
foundling
babes?
grass
and
flowers.
If
we
listen
to
one
of
the
mildest
republicans
of
our
day,
the
best
creatures
living
are
cruel
to
something.
But
nut-brown
cloth,
extremely
threadbare,
and
brushed
with
excessive
care,
had
a
rim
of
grease
or
powder
round
the
collar,
and
buttons
off
which
the
When
pleasures
which
my
father's
was called
a finished
whereas,
if
I
should
fail
in
what
count
them/
16—35
looked
at
the
young
lady
I
was
greatly
astonished
wood,
begging
the
'I
only
wish
I
had
never
known
him,
for
he
has
borrowed
three
acknowledgments,
each
for
a
hundred
livres.
begged
me
to
do
not
grant
it
that
of
punishing
them.
A
mere
reprimand
is
suffi-
cient,
and
brings
with
it
cruelty
enough.
So
as
I
listened
to
the
haphazard
opinions
of
a
Parisian,
admiring
my
former
teacher's
acumen,
I
condemned
Monge-
you
think
of
me?'
he
said.
end ?
You
were
my
last
friend.
All
my
friends,
even
our
old
mas-
my power.
francs.'
of a
raised,
I
added
five
hundred
for
me
extremely
to
be
5
thousand francs
in all.
had
more
to
say.
16—36
be
enjoyment
in
thought.
If
you
say
often
without
knowing
it,
deal with them?
miracles to be
Take him
a
very
long
time
since
I
was
at
school,
and
that
I
which are
absolutely pro-
to
son.
This
young
man,
at
the
time
of
his
marriage,
was
five-and-twenty,
and
already
a
Master
of
Appeals;
he
had
indulged
in
numerous

that
all
through
the
worst
time
6he
prayed
to
God
for
her
dear
Henri.
by
his
son
pierre,
the
hatred
of
the
department
condemned
him
to
in-
evitable
death.
Madame
de
la
Chanterie
received
a
farewell
letter
announcing
confinement,
taking
with
her
a
few
louis,
which
wife's
humble
lodgings,
and
went
away
with
all
her
her
daughter
spent
every
winter.
Remark :
this
society
consisted
munication addressed
to the
days
of
the
Eevolu-
bosom.
This
devoted,
so
guileless,
so
religious
as
hers,
tested
as
she
had
been
by
every
kind
of
misfortune,
;
strength
and
wil-
that
was
6
at
the
sword's
point
from
37
the
punishment
for
his
misdeeds;
but
it
is
necessary
here
to
refer
to
some
of
his
actions,
as
he
had
great
influence
over
some
of
the
accused
now
awaiting
the
verdict
of
justice,
and
he
is
concerned
in
every
circumstance
of
the
case.
trustworthy
accomplices.
And
it
was
thus,
by
Hiley's
intervention,
that
the
plot
secured
the
co-operation
from
the
first
of
one
Her-
Saint-Savin.
village,
and
sometimes
in
another,
under
the
care
of
Courceuil
and
of
some
men
of
their
acquaintance
formidable
Cibot.
Hiley,
with
Minard,
Cabot,
and
side
of
the
wood
farthest
from
the
scene
of
the
robbery.
The
single
francs' worth
accommodating
woman
Lechantre
the
other
criminals.
Courceuil,
Bois-
heavy
sack.
In
it
she
found
copper
coin
young
fellow-travelers,
the
leader
of
the
maid-servant Godard
armed
and
were
informed
as
to
some
circum-
stances
as
yet
unknown,
but
of
which
justice
will
take
cog-
arrest,
all
prove
her
complicity
from
an
early
in
these
days,
so
full
of
de-
16—38
statement will
pardon.
The
case,
tried
in
the
police
as
Contenson.
who skil-
herself at
the bot-
well
known,
in
constant
correspondence
with
Bryond.
Department
of
the
Seine.
woman
Bryond';
the
Marquis
But
what
was
the
end?
Did
the
Emperor
pardon
her?
No,
alas
said
Alain.
The
unhappy
little
woman
per-
ished
sentence
is
her
condemnation.
So
they
and
Bousseau
were
acquitted.
Those
who
had
got
away
were
all
sentenced
to
death,
with
the
exception
of
the
maid-servant
Godard,
who,
as
you
have
guessed,
is
none
other
than
our
good
Manon.
Caen,
who
succeeded
in
escaping,
Marquis
du
Vissard,
the
unhappy
Chevalier's
same
mind
as
Na-
poleon
as
regards
police
agents.
it was
of
grandeur
and
majesty/'
Each
blow,
each
fresh
pang,
has
but
increased
her
patience
shall
good
old
man,
quite
eyes.
Paris,
1843-1846.
months
in
him,
then,
he
would
apply,
to
obtain
from
the
worthy
man
some
information
as
to
the
sort
of
priesthood
which
these
Brethren
in
God
exercised
in
Paris.
Many
(114)
the
hidden
impulses
of
the
soul,
the
cunning
of
poverty,
the
calculations
of
the
needy
16—39
pass
beyond
this
life,
leaving
a
long
train
of
good
actions
behind
you.
foremost,
unfortunate;
we
do
not
try
to
persuade
not
been
found.
Our
Lord
found
it
hard
to
collect
His
apostles,
said
Godefroid,
and
there
were
a
and,
indeed,
within
that
fortnight
Paris.
hands
and
pressed
them
affectionately,
bidding
him
good-night,
and
promising
to
for-
get
none
of
his
injunctions,
many
generous
emotions
have
been
nipped,
how
many
fervid
germs
have
perished,
how
much
re-
been
created
the
path,
Legion
of
Honor,
but
he
has
had
great
the
money
secured
by
a
mortgage
on
where it
piping
tone
in
speaking
to
Godefroid.
The
girl,
a
sturdy,
red-haired
slut,
came
running
out.
privileges
bestowed
by
white
hairs;
no
houses,
the
waste
ground
and
pair
of
steel-
blue
eyes,
cold,
feelings
seemed
to
have
professor
of
the
college-quarter,
a
learned
man
lost
in
jealous
and
overbearing
meditation;
and
Godefroid
was
filled
with
excessive
the
rooms
you
wish
to
lodge
in
has
yielded
who
come
to
at-
think
I
am
mad
when
I
have
more
particularly
affecting
her
not
see
it;
and
the
methods
of
treatment
suggested
by
her
under
those
conditions,
held
by
these
gentlemen
led
them
to
give
up
all
medicine;
they
of the
her
hands,
my
books,
I
have
to
go
there
every
day
for
my
work.
for
to
some
distance
in
the
country
by
a
rich
patient.
But
Godefroid
was
almost
time
you
will
never
hear
that
dog,
and
you
might
think
they
didn't
keep
one.
the
whole
middle
class.
up
the
pitchers
and
hurried
into
the
her,
trade
would
never
in
my
room,
pray
come
in.
in
some
fresh
eggs
and
milk;
I
will
pay
you
myself
this
evening.
Cartier
looked
somewhat
askance
at
Godefroid.
over
his
neighbor.
Such
a
man
Dimanche
recur
Another
minute,
and
Cartier
to himself.
16—41
thin
upper
mattress;
on
each
there
was
but
had
worn
the
day
before,
spread
by
way
of
a
cover-
ing.

hard
to
sup-
ply
it
under
thirty
sous.
If
you

student
till
I
saw
you
giving
your
logs
to
old
door,
and
Godefroid,
very
glad
of
the
interruption,
rose
to
open
it.
to
reproach
you.
Forgive
first
instance,
thought
only
of
benefit-

sake
of
ascertaining
what
un-
easiness.
If
you
will
allow
me.
carriage
the

money
stitch,
with
grotesque
foliage
on
a
yellow
ground,
hung
over
elegance
was
lacking,
and
a
few
trifling
toys
for
poor
Vanda's
amusement
showed
that
her
father's
affection
verged
on
mania.
vol. 16—42
voice;
for
conversation
was
so
procure
you
one,
replied
Gode-
the woman in
obligations
to
my
father,
who
was
throws
light
on
life,
Oh,
fatiguing
her
or
ourselves.
your
tact,
monsieur,
and
I
want
to
thank
you,
for
you
understood.
were visible.
the
recovered
his
presence
of
mind.
I
should
go.
Very
well,
monsieur,
spend
my
time
in
rushing
from
one
to
an-
here
this
Sunday,
replied
Madame
de
la
impression produced by
francs.
instance
of
the
kind
that
has
come
before
us?
Twenty
times,
a
hundred
times,
we
have
seen
how
a
family,
a
concern,
could
be
saved.
But,
then,
what
a
sleeping
partner
with
the
unfortunate
is
not
work;
it
is
only
Bank
but
it
is
badly
conducted.
lending
the
money
belong-
ing
16—43
of
his
zeal.
organ
as
a
hungry
man
rushes
who
wants
to
anticipate
the
impatience
of
a
baby.
blame
myself
for
so
often
pro-
No,
monsieur,
said
Godefroid.
Be
perfectly
easy.
No
my
And
this
gentleman
is
your
father?
Yes,
monsieur.
be moved.
Now
I
Paris ?
He
and
happened
—
sort of
as Monsieur
woman's
coaxing
and
insinuating
this
work?
Monsieur
Bernard,
?
at
Caen,
of
the
hideous
drama
that
ended
on
the
scaffold,
and
of
Madame
de
la
Chanterie's
sojourn
in
Bicetre.
He
understood
the
neg-
*3
Madame Vauthier.
your
enemies'
agents.
16—44

her son.
You
blush,
young
man.
You
need
not
you,
monsieur.
I
will
come
again,
with
your
permission,
for
costs
duly
re-
this
will,
I
hope,
indem-
nify
you.
If
you
should
not
after
this
believe
that
I,
who
shall
all
theft,
had
meanwhile
changed
He
supposed
that
the
old
as
bailiffs,
and
he
under-
stood
everything.
his
grandson
get
into
a
hackney
coach
between
three
men.
have
not
seen
my
grandson
since
yesterday.
boulevard.
The
police
not
irremediable.
But
pray,
monsieur,
tell
the
woman
that
my
grandfather
has
probably
not
touched
food
for
these
twenty-four
hours.
three
hours
a
day
will
now
be
enough
to
keep
the
accounts
in
order,
and
during
the
rest
of
your
time
you
can
help
them,
if
you
still
not
heard
a
word,
nor
found
anything
in
the
carriages
that
came
quickly
down
the

My
father
will
give
proud
of
you
lodged
with
the
governor.
The
worthy
doctor,
who
did
not
get
Auguste's
beautiful,
sublime
stranger.
Only
yesterday,
Halpersohn
was
interceding
for
him
my
father's
sufferings,
and
how
he
had
sold
the
diamonds
off
his
snuff-box
hysterics,
and
dragging
him
into
a
drawing-room
of
which
own,
which
shook,
if
you
want
to
kill
my
mistress?
Come,
Manon,
let
the
gentleman
pass,
said
Monsieur
Alain.
through
like
a
shade,
and
said
45
Consolation.
Vieezchovnia,
Ukraine,
December
1847.
very
illustrious
Marquise,
with
whom
(213)
buy
wither
and
come
to
nothing;
the
the
wonderful
young
manhood
of
Rusticolis
came
to
France
with
His
spine
was
slightly
curved,
and
his
son
was
wont
to
say
of
him
laughingly
refait
(contrefait)
later
have
The one
them
V
A national fund
period
of
the
refuses
any
odds,
dropped
it.
'It
ing
to
do,
he
will
sooner
get
into
it;
the
studious
or
unappreciated,
and
the
ardent
or
passionne.
'the un-
May
we
meet
again
in
a
better
world.
'Charles
Edward/
to
his
escort.
Any-
few
words.
secret
malady
natures
by
degrees
more
and
more
strongly
each
46
you/
for
it,
and
found
it
as
I
promised.
shall
guess.
A
an order
what
I
am
thinking.
and with that
cut
with--
out
leave
from
the
Comte
de
Palferine.
Bianchon
went
to
But
one
day
La
Palferine
said,
'If
you
wish
to
be
the
mis-
tress
of
one
La
Palferine,
poor,
penniless,
and
without
pros-
most
influential,
steady,
and
clever
of
niece
to
whom
he
is
indebted.
in
some
unaccount-
able
way
at
Dieppe,
or
Baden,
or
Saint-Germain;
he
gave
woman,
and
very
days
when
they
lived
on
raw
apples,
to
quote
the
expression
of
a
journal-
for
any
observer,
even
not have
arbitration
way
of
showing
your
strength.
to
go
16—47
to
me
that
I
had
been
horribly
ungrateful.
I
told
myself
that
I
had
been
unkind.
Ah«
f
that
woman
has
the
gift
of
rousing
me.'
'But
we
shall
ruin
ourselves/
closely.
She
had
a
splendid
carriage.
Du
niece
forty
thou-
of
Bavaria,
the
Papal
Order
of
green-room
of
the
Opera
I
have
only
set
names
to
the
masks
for
Baudraye's story.
and
Beatrix.
1839-1845.
Young
La
Palferine,
See
Lafausse
Maitresse.
(251)
try
to
before
the
fire,
and
gave
themselves
up
you
think
that
you
know
a
thing
or
two,
he
continued,
glancing
round
at
Nathan,
Bixiou,
La
Palferine,
and
Lousteau,
but
the
king
of
the
ground
is
a
talk
of
one
Claparon?
at
last,
and
he
wallowed
in
the
mire,
continued
Desroches.
In
1833
he
went
into
partner-
ship
with
one
Cerizet
gambler
who
overreached
himself,
and
in
consequence,
in
July
1830,
his
capital
foundered
in
the
shipwreck
of
the
Government.
describes
them),
this
partnership
of
dabblers
partnership
dissolved
four
months
later
centimes,
for
postage
16—48
you,
sir,'
replied
Maxime.
and
lay
late
of
a
morning,
never
showing
her
face
at
the
desk
until
the
afternoon,
some
time
instalment
of
days
after
Cerizet's
visit
to
Maxime.
'I
hold
my
relations
in
horror.
They
are
peasants
in
the
dimly
lighted
back
room,
reconnoitred
the
seven
or
eight
customers
through
the
the amount
fancy;
and
be-
than ever.
Glabaron/
he
said,
seeing
Maxime's
astonishment.
costs.
Now,
as
the
costs
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