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Just then Goriot came in, and Bianchon and a few of the boarders likewise appeared. "That is just as I intended." Vautrin said. "You know quite well what you are about. Good, my little eaglet! You are born to command, you are strong, you stand firm on your feet, you are game! I respect you."

How such a fantastic creation can be so treated as to do less violence to the laws of artistic harmony and reserve may be seen in Hugo's Valjean, which was undoubtedly suggested by Balzac's Vautrin.

The first, Bourignard or Ferragus, is, of course, another, though a somewhat minor example Collin or Vautrin being the chief of that strange tendency to take intense interest in criminals, which seems to be a pretty constant eccentricity of many human minds, and which laid an extraordinary grasp on the great French writers of Balzac's time.

"Round a pretty woman's neck, you mean," said Mlle Michonneau, hastily. "Just go away, M. Poiret. It is a woman's duty to nurse you men when you are ill. Besides, for all the good you are doing, you may as well take yourself off," she added. "Mme. Vauquer and I will take great care of dear M. Vautrin." Poiret went out on tiptoe without a murmur, like a dog kicked out of the room by his master.

In designating Bixiou to his aunt as the recruiting-officer of the dinner, Vautrin knew that through the universality of his relations with writing, singing, designing, eating, living, and squirming Paris, no one was as capable as he of spreading the news of the dinner broadcast.

The scene is laid at Paris, just after the second accession of the House of Bourbon, in 1816. It is therefore an opportune time for Vautrin to manufacture scutcheons as occasion may demand. Since this story of Vautrin is not included in the Comedie, it will not be found among the biographical facts recorded in the Repertory.

Here was a strange being who, a moment ago, had talked of killing him, and now posed as his protector. "You would like to know who I really am, what I was, and what I do now," Vautrin went on. "You want to know too much, youngster. Come! come! keep cool! You will hear more astonishing things than that. I have had my misfortunes. Just hear me out first, and you shall have your turn afterwards.

Vautrin came in while she was speaking; he did not make a sound, but looked for a while at the picture of the two young faces the lamplight falling full upon them seemed to caress them. "Well," he remarked, folding his arms, "here is a picture! Youth is very charming, Mme. Couture! Sleep on, poor boy," he added, looking at Eugene, "luck sometimes comes while you are sleeping.

He came back to this quarter of the world, to the Rue des Gres, and went into a money-lender's house; everybody knows him, Gobseck, a stuck-up rascal, that would make dominoes out of his father's bones, a Turk, a heathen, an old Jew, a Greek; it would be a difficult matter to rob him, for he puts all his coin into the Bank." "Then what was Father Goriot doing there?" "Doing?" said Vautrin.

Neither of the two chief dramatis personae was capable of properly interesting a theatrical audience. The character of Jules is contemptible from beginning to end, and that of Pamela ceases to attract after the trial. The conclusion of this play, as that of Vautrin, is an anticlimax and leaves an unsatisfactory impression. Why did Balzac write his Monography of the Parisian Press?

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