they even count the sticks of wood."
"Well, it can't last long if they go on that way."

"Hush, we're caught! somebody is listening."
"Hey! it is the late Monsieur Rabourdin. Ah, monsieur, I knew your

step. If you have business to transact here I am afraid you will not
find any one who is aware of the respect that ought to be paid to you;

Laurent and I are the only persons remaining about the place who were
here in your day. Messieurs Colleville and Baudoyer didn't wear out

the morocco of the chairs after you left. Heavens, no! six months
later they were made Collectors of Paris."

* * * * *
Note.--Anagrams cannot, of course, be translated; that is why three

English ones have been substituted for some in French. [Tr.]
ADDENDUM

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
Baudoyer, Isidore

The Middle Classes
Cousin Pons

Bianchon, Horace
Father Goriot

The Atheist's Mass
Cesar Birotteau

The Commission in Lunacy
Lost Illusions

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
A Bachelor's Establishment

The Secrets of a Princess
Pierrette

A Study of Woman
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

Honorine
The Seamy Side of History

The Magic Skin
A Second Home

A Prince of Bohemia
Letters of Two Brides

The Muse of the Department
The Imaginary Mistress

The Middle Classes
Cousin Betty

The Country Parson
In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:

Another Study of Woman
La Grande Breteche

Bidault (known as Gigonnet)
Gobseck

The Vendetta
Cesar Birotteau

The Firm of Nucingen
A Daughter of Eve

Bixiou, Jean-Jacques
The Purse

A Bachelor's Establishment
Modeste Mignon

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
The Firm of Nucingen

The Muse of the Department
Cousin Betty

The Member for Arcis
Beatrix

A Man of Business
Gaudissart II.

The Unconscious Humorists
Cousin Pons

Brezacs (The)
The Country Parson

Bruel, Jean Francois du
A Bachelor's Establishment

A Start in Life
A Prince of Bohemia

The Middle Classes
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

A Daughter of Eve
Camps, Madame Octave de

Madame Firmiani
A Woman of Thirty

A Daughter of Eve
The Member for Arcis

Chaboisseau
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

A Man of Business
Chatelet, Marie-Louise-Anais de Negrepelisse, Baronne du

Lost Illusions
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

Chessel, Madame de
The Lily of the Valley

Cochin, Emile-Louis-Lucien-Emmanuel
Cesar Birotteau

The Firm of Nucingen
The Middle Classes

Colleville
The Middle Classes

Colleville, Flavie Minoret, Madame
Cousin Betty

The Middle Classes
Desplein

The Atheist's Mass
Cousin Pons

Lost Illusions
The Thirteen

Pierrette
A Bachelor's Establishment

The Seamy Side of History
Modest Mignon

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Honorine

Desroches (son)
A Bachelor's Establishment

Colonel Chabert
A Start in Life

A Woman of Thirty
The Commission in Lunacy

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

The Firm of Nucingen
A Man of Business

The Middle Classes
Dutocq

The Middle Classes
Falleix, Martin

The Firm of Nucingen
Falleix, Jacques

The Thirteen
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

Ferraud, Comtesse
Colonel Chabert

Finot, Andoche
Cesar Birotteau

A Bachelor's Establishment
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
A Start in Life

Gaudissart the Great
The Firm of Nucingen

Fleury
The Middle Classes

Fontaine, Comte de
The Chouans

Modeste Mignon
The Ball at Sceaux

Cesar Birotteau
Fontanon, Abbe

A Second Home
Honorine

The Member for Arcis
Gaudron, Abbe

Honorine
A Start in Life

Gobseck, Jean-Esther Van
Gobseck

Father Goriot
Cesar Birotteau

The Unconscious Humoriists
Godard, Joseph

The Middle Classes
Granson, Athanase

Jealousies of a Country Town
Gruget, Madame Etienne

The Thirteen
A Bachelor's Establishment

Keller, Francois
Domestic Peace

Cesar Birotteau
Eugenie Grandet

The Member for Arcis
La Bastie la Briere, Ernest de

Modeste Mignon
La Billardiere, Athanase-Jean-Francois-Michel, Baron Flamet de

The Chouans
Cesar Birotteau

Laudigeois
The Middle Classes

Louis XVIII., Louis-Stanislas-Xavier
The Chouans

The Seamy Side of History
The Gondreville Mystery

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
The Ball at Sceaux

The Lily of the Valley
Colonel Chabert

Lupeaulx, Clement Chardin des
The Muse of the Department

Eugenie Grandet
A Bachelor's Establishment

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

Ursule Mirouet
Metivier

Lost Illusions
The Middle Classes

Minard, Auguste-Jean-Francois
The Firm of Nucingen

The Middle Classes
Minard, Madame

The Middle Classes
Minorets, The

The Peasantry
Mitral

Cesar Birotteau
Nathan, Madame Raoul

The Muse of the Department

• monsieur [mə´sjə:] n.先生 (初中英语单词)
• prince [´prins] n.王子；亲王；君主 (初中英语单词)
• addition [ə´diʃən] n.加；加法；附加物 (初中英语单词)
• commission [kə´miʃən] n.委任(状) vt.委任 (高中英语单词)
• distinguished [di´stiŋgwiʃt] a.卓越的，著名的 (高中英语单词)
• imaginary [i´mædʒinəri] a.想象的；虚构的 (高中英语单词)
• unconscious [ʌn´kɔnʃəs] a.无意识的；不觉察的 (高中英语单词)
• provincial [prə´vinʃəl] a.省的 n.外省人 (英语四级单词)
• transact [træn´zækt] v.处理；做交易；谈判 (英语六级单词)