The comédie humaine . eveloped in him the pride of caste,the vanities of the aristocrat. The poet thought, and notwithout reason, that there was a fortune in his good looks andintellect, accompanied by the name and title of dEspard and Mme. de Bargeton held him fast by thisclue, as a child holds a cockroach by a string. Luciens flightwas circumscribed. The words, He is one of us, he issound, accidentally overheard but three days ago in Mile,des Touches salon, had turned his head. The Due de Lenon-court, the Due de Navarreins, the Due de Grandlieu, Ras-tignac, Blondet, the lovel
The comédie humaine . eveloped in him the pride of caste,the vanities of the aristocrat. The poet thought, and notwithout reason, that there was a fortune in his good looks andintellect, accompanied by the name and title of dEspard and Mme. de Bargeton held him fast by thisclue, as a child holds a cockroach by a string. Luciens flightwas circumscribed. The words, He is one of us, he issound, accidentally overheard but three days ago in Mile,des Touches salon, had turned his head. The Due de Lenon-court, the Due de Navarreins, the Due de Grandlieu, Ras-tignac, Blondet, the lovely Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, theComte dEscrignon, and des Lupeaulx, all the most influ-ential people at court, in fact, had congratulated him on hisconversion, and completed his intoxication. Then there is no more to be said, dArthez , of all men, will find it hard to keep clean hands andself-respect. I know you, Lucien; you will feel it acutelywhen you are despised by the very men to whom you offeryourself,. OHl NEVER MIND THOSE NINNIES, CRIED CORALIE. A Provincial at Paris. 317 Tlie three took leave, and not one of them gave him afriendly handshake. Lucien was thoughtful and sad for a fewminutes. Oh ! never mind those ninnies, cried Coralie, springingupon his knee and putting her beautiful arms about his neck. They take life seriously, and life is a joke. Beside, you aregoing to be Count Lucien de Rubempr6. I will wheedle theChancellors if there is no other way. I know how to comeround that rake of a des Lupeaulx, who will sign your I not tell you, Lucien, that at the last you should haveCoralies dead body for a stepping-stone? Next day Lucien allowed his name to appear in the list ofcontributors to the Reveil. His name was announced inthe prospectus with a flourish of trumpets, and the ministrytook care that a hundred thousand copies should be scatteredabroad far and wide. There was a dinner at Roberts, twodoors away from Frascatis, to celebrate the in
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