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...ions begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...ovinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Ba... ... Mademoiselle Mars. By calling to mind the most charming Celimene that the Theatre-Francais ever had, an excellent idea of Severine Grevin’s appearanc... ...e, which he wore in youthful style, twirled to a sharp point by means of a Hungarian cosmetic, which also pre- served to a certain degree its primitiv... ...nt the servant threw open the door and announced dinner. After dinner, the theatre was proposed; that is one of the amusements that Parisians miss the... ...urmuring. Left alone, the signora rapidly resumed her usual dress, and the directors’ carriage took her back to the hotel where she had stayed since a...

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...equently not at home her- 24 The Lesser Bourgeoisie self. She went to the theatres, where boxes were sometimes given to her; and she would send word ... ...ssion. The government clerks of his division at the minis- try, the office directors, and even the heads of divisions came to his concerts; now and th... ...but final re- hearsals. Thanks to Madame Colleville’s intimacies, both the theatre and the ministry lent themselves kindly to the needs of this indust... ...me. Mere Cardinal, who to entertain a neighbor had taken her to the Bobino theatre, recognized in the leading lady her 157 Balzac own daughter, whom ... ...fortunes of the Odeon, that fatal theatre which, for years, ruined all its directors. Right or wrong, the quarter in which this dramatic impossibility... ... never seems a name at all.” “It is a Magyar, or to speak more commonly, a Hungarian name. Our own name, if we wanted to discuss it, might be said to ... ... the tuition world, where we have earned an honorable position; while this Hungarian countess, who makes, as they say, the 213 Balzac good and the ba... ...t dwelling on the election business, which is still a distant matter, this Hungarian count- ess is becoming, every day, more and more a necessity to B...

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...ty, I thought everything attainable: I entered with confidence on the vast theatre of the world, which my merit was to capti- vate: at every step I ex... ... My turn came a month after; for all this time was thought necessary by my directors, that they might have the honor of a difficult conversion, and ev... ... retrenching it; going to the coffee-house but every other day, and to the theatre but twice a week. With respect to the expenses of girls of easy vir... ... regularly dedicated, at Maugis, the evenings on which I did not go to the theatre. I became acquainted with M. de Legal, M. Husson, Philidor, and all... ...rom any quarter the least justice to expect, I gave up the affair; and the directors of the opera, without either answering or listening to my reasons... ... in which my heart was really interested: this was that I had with a young Hungarian who came to live at Neuchatel, and from that place to Motiers, a ... ...ernois wrote to me from Geneva, putting me upon my guard against the young Hungarian who had taken up his residence in my neighborhood; telling me he ...

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...ine of supplies, and Bloch is back upon his pedestal so far as the Eastern theatre goes. Bloch has been equally justified in the Anglo-French at- temp... ...s, politicians, mono-lingual diplomatists, bishops, schoolmasters, company directors, and 80 What Is Coming? remittance men, are even now dead. Quite... ...—and the clergy. Buildings, libraries, empty labo- ratories, empty lecture theatres, vestiges, refugees, neutrals, khaki; that is Cambridge to-day. Th... ...d. But the future of Poland is not really separate from that of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, nor is that again to be dealt with apart from that of t...

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... for articles of a smaller nature, such as visiting cards, memorial cards, theatre tick- ets, and things which Chichikov had laid by as souvenirs. Thi... ...ed Nozdrev. “And one for me as well,” added the flaxen-haired man. “At the theatre,” went on Nozdrev, “there was an ac- tress who sang like a canary. ... ...r luncheon, and how he called for a bottle of wine, and how he went to the theatre in the evening! In short, he did himself thoroughly well. Next, he ... ...on to grumble, seeing that, now that bribe-takers had ceased to exist, and Directors had uniformly become men of honour and integrity, secretar- ies a... ...the soup had been consumed, and glasses of an excellent vintage resembling Hungarian wine had been poured out, Chichikov said to his host: “Most worth...

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...daughter: violins and clarionet; how funny; 185 George Meredith something Hungarian. And in the Second Part, Schubert’s Ave Maria—Oh! when we hear th... ...gently does a maternal Old England let them down. Projectors of Companies, Directors, Founders; Railway mag- nates, actual kings and nobles (though on... ...es. Visibly, that man Jarniman was disposed of with ease. As in the street-theatres of crowing Punch, distance enlisted pan- tomime to do the effectiv... ...ext day at eight of the evening I shall be address- ing our meeting in the Theatre. Simeon speaks. Beaves Urmsing insists on coming, T ory though he i... ...r lips—too much a resurrection smile. There was talk of the Meeting at the theatre: Simeon Fenellan had spoken there in the cause of the deceased Mem-...

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...and the virtue of Alexander appears to me of much less vigour in his great theatre, than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure employment. I can ea... ... she? Being the wife of a living and healthful em- peror, and at Rome, the theatre of the world, in the face of the sun, and with solemn ceremony, and... ...of them. I will only say this, that very lately, in our fathers’ time, the Hungarians made very advantageous use of them against the T urks; hav- ing ... ... quod in illo nascitur amni....” [“How often have we seen the stage of the theatre descend and part asunder, and from a chasm in the earth wild beasts... ...eliefs, not to regulate them: that part concerns divines and philosophers, directors of con- sciences; and therefore it was that this companion of his...

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...ong by a babble of impossible forms, as fantastic as any that our Lon- don theatres have traditionally ascribed to English rustics, to English sailors... ... when every week sees the town banker drawn from our rural gentry; railway directors in ev- ery quarter transferring themselves indifferently from tow... ...e to modifi- cation from personal qualities, inasmuch as there is no great theatre (as with us) for individual display. Forensic eloquence is unknown ... ...e irresolute Christian in the fascinations of the public amuse- ments. The theatre, the circus, and, far beyond both, the cruel amphitheatre, constitu... ...d pomp of that age, were arrang- ing themselves for one of the magnificent Hungarian dances, which the emperor’s court at Vienna had transplanted to t... ...ir floating plumes and jewelled caps, glided through the fine mazes of the Hungarian dances. All was one mag- nificent and tempestuous confusion, over... ...s more easily obeyed than at first sight seemed possible. At this time the Hungarian dances, which required a certain number of partners to execute th...

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...m a gold box adorned with the portrait of the Princess Goritza,—a charming Hungarian, celebrated for her beauty in the last years of the reign of Loui... ...le houses” full of mistresses, in which were given splen- did fetes to the Directors of the Republic. 19 Balzac The citizen du Bousquier was one of B... ...ocratic portion of the community. It was like Paris when the audience of a theatre disperses. Certain persons who talk much of poesy and know noth- in... ...this:— Under the secret inspiration of du Bousquier the idea of building a theatre had dawned on Alencon. The henchmen of the purveyor did not know th... ...wn concep- tion. Athanase Granson was one of the warmest partisans for the theatre; and of late he had urged at the mayor’s office 67 Balzac a cause ...

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...reat Trentino offensive, which exhausted Austria, wasted the flower of the Hungarian army and led directly to the Galician disasters and the intervent... ...nk of the German type: to begin with, it was certainly dominated by German directors; it was a bank of stimula- tion, and its activities interweave no... ...got by combing out the cavalry, the brewing and distilling industries, the theatres and music halls, and the like unproductive occupations. The under-... ...e his hearers the sort of stuff that is handed out so freely by the Cinema Theatres, White Slave T raffic talk, de- nunciations of “Night Hawks”—whate... ...nts and gambling gentlefolk may think in terms of profit; capable business directors certainly do nothing of the sort. I met a British officer in Fran...

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.... I am a careful watcher of the market. I have friends—brokers and railway Directors. I can rely on them.’ ‘Pray,’ interposed Lady Dunstane, ‘specify—... ... Emma as they drove home. ‘The princess’s partner in the first quadrille … Hungarian, I suppose? He was like a Tartar modelled by a Greek: supple as t... ...of the requirements of poor English travellers entertained by the Seigneur Directors of the class above them, was that they differed from cattle in st... ...at mine was named, and the rush for allot- ments. She knew a couple of the Directors. They vowed to her that ten per cent. was a trifle; the fortune t... ...when celebrated impressively, it seemed. ‘Tony calls the social world “the theatre of appetites,” as 323 George Meredith we have it at present,’ she ... ...r drencher. But a pretty woman in a right-down ter- magant passion is good theatre; because it can’t last, at that pace; and you’re sure of your agree...

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...into the Strand. He had been to take a box for Armida at Madame V estris’s theatre. That little Armida was folle of Madame V estris’s theatre; and her... ...nights in the week at least, in the narrow, charming, comfort- able little theatre. Godfrey had the box. He was strolling, list- lessly, eastward; and... ...by the august approach. It was indeed the Emperor, who, returning from the Theatre Francais, and seeing the Marquis’s windows lighted up, pro- posed t... ...lars of no interest to the public:—Memoranda of City dinners—meet- ings of Directors—fashionable parties in which Mr. Jeames figures, and nearly alway... ...eller as he was, the Clubb paper to a prodigious igstent. All the Railroad directors, his friends, helped him to shares—the allottments came tumbling ... ...ore quar- ter will be given them than they would get if they were peaceful Hungarian citizens kidnapped and brought to trial by his Maj- esty the Empe...