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Chapter 4 No.4

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somewhat breathless from the rapidity at which he had asc

ld shrink from scaling Mont Blanc? Well, well. I have been meditating on your business ever since we parted. But I would fain know

ope, though vaguely, entered into his heart. Willingly he accepted Frederic's invitation, and the young men were soon rapidly borne along the Champs E

vely. "Then Gandrin has g

from him this morning ask

it to me. Gandrin ought to help you; he transacts affairs in a large way. 'Belle clientele' among the millionnaires. But hi

Hebert told me tha

f the Kings of Finance, Ah! obse

two cavaliers whom he had conjectured

said Frederic; "they would decline my acquaintance because my

mistaken, then

ons of that mocker of ma

p a shop! You

ey don't serve at the counter; they only invest their pocket-money in the speculation; and

uch birth! How shocked the C

e the date of Castor and Pollux. Their tastes indeed differ-Raoul is religious and moral, melancholy and dignified; Enguerrand is a lion of the first water,-elegant to the tips of his nails. These demigods nevertheless are very mild to mortals. Though Enguerrand is the best pistol-

you mean to imply that men of the

use their skill; and I must add that, though they are sleeping partners in a shop, they wou

tners in

may form some idea of the spirit of the age. If young nobles are not generally sleeping partners in shops, still they are more o

N

have time yet for the Bois. C

ng money without working for it must have its vent, and that vent is the Bourse. As instead of a hundred wax-lights you now have one jet of gas, so instead of a hundred hells you have n

s at a place destined to guard them, and the Marquis follows Frederic up a flight of stairs till he gains

hed some friends, whom he

nglish contested election in the market-place of a borough when the candidates are running close on each other-the

confusion, a Babel, which it seems absolutely impossible to reconcile to the notion of quiet mercantile transactions, the purchas

r. Vane. "This is the heart o

rse in Londo

olis unknown to fashion, but in some elegant square in St. James's or at Hyde Park Corner, I suspect that our national character would soon undergo a great change, and that all our idlers and sporting-men would make their books there every day, instead of waiting long months in 'ennui' for the Doncaster and the Derby. At present

find that what he considered a blot on his countryme

way to rebuild a 'noblesse' in France, and give it a chance of power be side an access to fortune? But to how many sides of your national character has the Bourse of Paris magnetic attraction! You Frenchmen are so brave that you could not be happy without facing danger, so covetous of distinction that you would pine yourselves away without a dash, coute quo coute, at celebrity and a red ribbon. Danger! look below at that arena: there it is; danger daily, hourly. But there also is celebrity; win at the Bourse, as of old in a tournament, and paladins smile on you, and

d not given the Englishman credit for the

taking him aside, said, "But you promised to go to the Bois, and in

yet; you said three. 'Soyez tranquille;' I dr

ke with you that very

owever, if Rochebriant occasions you the pang which your humble serv

ery much obliged to any one with whom she would fall in lov

y struck Alain: the air was more dignified, the expression keener; there was a look of conscious power and command about the man even at that distance; the intense, concentrated intelligence of his eye, his firm lip, his marked features, his projecting, massive brow, would have impressed a very ordinary observer. In fact, the man was here in his native element; in the field in which his intellect gloried

ce the Cousin, the Guizot, and the Victor Hugo of speculation. Philosophy, Eloquence, audacious Romance,-all

s recent lesson in English names. "Alain underrates that

t Paris, in order some day or other to know how to act in Londo

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Contents

Chapter 1 No.1 Chapter 2 No.2 Chapter 3 No.3 Chapter 4 No.4 Chapter 5 No.5 Chapter 6 No.6 Chapter 7 No.7 Chapter 8 No.8 Chapter 9 No.9 Chapter 10 No.10 Chapter 11 No.11
Chapter 12 No.12
Chapter 13 No.13
Chapter 14 No.14
Chapter 15 No.15
Chapter 16 No.16
Chapter 17 No.17
Chapter 18 No.18
Chapter 19 No.19
Chapter 20 No.20
Chapter 21 No.21
Chapter 22 No.22
Chapter 23 No.23
Chapter 24 FROM ISAURA CICOGNA TO MADAME DE GRANTMESNIL.
Chapter 25 No.25
Chapter 26 FROM ISAURA CICOGNA TO MADAME DE GRANTMESNIL. No.26
Chapter 27 No.27
Chapter 28 No.28
Chapter 29 No.29
Chapter 30 No.30
Chapter 31 No.31
Chapter 32 No.32
Chapter 33 No.33
Chapter 34 No.34
Chapter 35 No.35
Chapter 36 No.36
Chapter 37 No.37
Chapter 38 No.38
Chapter 39 No.39
Chapter 40 ISAURA.
Chapter 41 No.41
Chapter 42 No.42
Chapter 43 No.43
Chapter 44 No.44
Chapter 45 No.45
Chapter 46 No.46
Chapter 47 No.47
Chapter 48 No.48
Chapter 49 No.49
Chapter 50 No.50
Chapter 51 No.51
Chapter 52 No.52
Chapter 53 No.53
Chapter 54 No.54
Chapter 55 No.55
Chapter 56 No.56
Chapter 57 No.57
Chapter 58 No.58
Chapter 59 No.59
Chapter 60 No.60
Chapter 61 No.61
Chapter 62 No.62
Chapter 63 No.63
Chapter 64 No.64
Chapter 65 No.65
Chapter 66 No.66
Chapter 67 No.67
Chapter 68 No.68
Chapter 69 No.69
Chapter 70 No.70
Chapter 71 No.71
Chapter 72 No.72
Chapter 73 No.73
Chapter 74 No.74
Chapter 75 No.75
Chapter 76 No.76
Chapter 77 No.77
Chapter 78 No.78
Chapter 79 No.79
Chapter 80 No.80
Chapter 81 No.81
Chapter 82 No.82
Chapter 83 No.83
Chapter 84 No.84
Chapter 85 No.85
Chapter 86 No.86
Chapter 87 No.87
Chapter 88 No.88
Chapter 89 No.89
Chapter 90 No.90
Chapter 91 No.91
Chapter 92 No.92
Chapter 93 No.93
Chapter 94 No.94
Chapter 95 No.95
Chapter 96 No.96
Chapter 97 No.97
Chapter 98 No.98
Chapter 99 No.99
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