Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 11, 2025
Ten several times did Lucien repair to the Rue Feydeau in search of Andoche Finot, and ten times he failed to find that gentleman. He went first thing in the morning; Finot had not come in. At noon, Finot had gone out; he was breakfasting at such and such a cafe.
Andoche, who has a great deal of wit, he got it all out of the heads tiled by his father, he is in literature; he does the minor theatres in the 'Courrier des Spectacles. His father, an old dog chock-full of reasons for not liking wit, won't believe in it; impossible to make him see that mind can be sold, sells itself in fact: he won't believe in anything but the three-sixes.
Andoche accepted Popinot's perturbation as a compliment. "Now then, before dinner, let's get to the bottom of the prospectus; then we can drink without an afterthought," said Gaudissart. "After dinner one reads askew; the tongue digests." "Monsieur," said Popinot, "a prospectus is often a fortune." "And for plebeians like myself," said Andoche, "fortune is nothing more than a prospectus."
Finot, Andoche Cesar Birotteau A Bachelor's Establishment A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Scenes from a Courtesan's Life The Government Clerks A Start in Life The Firm of Nucingen Gaudissart, Felix Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Cousin Pons Cesar Birotteau Honorine Popinot, Anselme Cesar Birotteau Cousin Pons Cousin Betty Translated by James Waring To Monsieur le Comte Ferdinand de Gramont.
He took two full-hearted sighs, pushed the carafe slightly in the direction of the Sapeur-Pompier, and added: "Sit down, my good Andoche. I have need to be a little gay. Suppose we talk of Paris." It was the cue for Andoche to slip gratefully into a chair, possess the carafe and prepare to listen.
"Like you, I have marked some fools for cutting down," replied Lucien in the same tone. "Then Monsieur has a review a newspaper of his own?" Andoche Finot retorted, with the impertinent presumption of a chief to a subordinate. "I have something better," replied Lucien, whose vanity, nettled by the assumed superiority of his editor, restored him to the sense of his new position.
"Well, Monsieur le Comte," Francine said at last with a sigh, "I'll take them for twenty francs. It's not good round silver, and there's my little girl " "Enough!" exclaimed de Bonzag, dismissing her with an angry gesture. "I am making you an heiress, and you have no gratitude! Leave me and send hither Andoche."
"A provincial judge," remarked Constance. "Monsieur Cardot, father-in-law of Camusot, and all the Cardot children. Bless me, and the Guillaumes, Rue du Colombier, the father-in-law of Lebas old people, but they'll sit in a corner; Alexandre Crottat; Celestin " "Papa, don't forget Monsieur Andoche Finot and Monsieur Gaudissart, two young men who are very useful to Monsieur Anselme."
To have money is nothing; the self-made man only finds out all that he lacks after six months of flatteries. Andoche Finot, the self-made man in question, stiff, taciturn, cold, and dull-witted, possessed the sort of spirit which will not shrink from groveling before any creature that may be of use to him, and the cunning to be insolent when he needs a man no longer.
Finot wrote a superb comedy in one act for Mademoiselle Mars, most glorious of the glorious! ah, there's a woman I love! Well, in order to get it played he had to take it to the Gaite. Andoche understands prospectuses, he worms himself into the mercantile mind; and he's not proud, he'll concoct it for us gratis.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking