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... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ... tresses,” haunted the Baroness all night. Like sick men given over by the physicians, who have recourse to quacks, like men who have fallen into the ... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white... ...ue Barbet a few minutes after Mon- sieur and Madame Hulot, and found seven physicians there, brought by Bianchon to study this unique case; he had jus... ...rought by Bianchon to study this unique case; he had just joined them. The physicians, assembled in the drawing-room, were discussing the disease; now... ...cy as the Church. Lisbeth, stifled by the miasma, went away. She found the physicians still in consultation. But Bianchon’s opinion car- ried the day,...

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...h due allowance, to that of Mistigris, consisted of a shabby surtout coat, American-green in color, much worn, but clean and well-brushed; a black wai... ... cost him nothing to oblige me. It concerns a claim I wish to press on the American government. I should be glad to obtain information about Monsieur ... ...y, to deplore your state, and to ask her for certain remedies, not used by physicians, but known to the common people. I spoke of your feelings before...

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...vinced she alone could have done this. I have little faith in the skill of physicians, but depend greatly on the assistance of real friends, and am pe... ...and ear- nestly on the care of my health, conjured me to consult skil- ful physicians, and be attentive and exact in following their prescriptions wha... ...o delay it, and at length I prepared to obey her. I was convinced that the physicians (who understood noth- ing of my disorder) looked on my complaint... ...y, and treated me accordingly, with their waters and whey. In this respect physicians and philosophers differ widely from theologians; admitting the t... ... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ... prevented my ever being so well as I was before; and I am of opinion, the physicians, to whose care I intrusted myself, did me as much harm as my ill... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,...

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...and in a land that is independent in all but the name, (for that the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe... ...while afterwards she was in a delicate state of health, and ordered by the physicians not to travel; otherwise ’twas well known that the Viscount Cast... ... His “Clotilda,” Castlewood went on to say, “was still deli- cate, and her physicians thought her lying-in had best take place at Paris. He should com...

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...ly precise formula 13 Balzac to all cases, after the manner of judges and physicians. Rabourdin, who said to himself: “A minister should have decisio... ...ed an enor- mous bunch of old trinkets, among which in 1824 he still wore “American beads,” which were very much the fashion in the year VII. In the b... ...ling his cane and of flinging the sort of glance which Bixiou told him was American. He smiled to show his fine teeth; he wore no socks under his boot... ...nd China (where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the American republics, and indeed that of the whole world, to the fact that fo...

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...ful that they used to frighten the timid old gentleman her father, and the physicians declared his fits always occurred after one of her Ladyship’s se... ...y was saved, actually saved, by calomel, freely administered, when all the physicians in Paris had given the dear child up. And then she mentioned how... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was...

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...Enough, in February, 1835, Sterling came up to London, to consult with his physicians,—and in fact in all ways to consider with himself and friends,—w... ...f John Sterling in regard to this Herstmonceux business. The oracle of the physicians, like that of Delphi, was not exceedingly deter- minate: but it ... ...a disastrous shadow hanging over it, not to be cleared away by effort. Two American gentlemen, acquaintances also of mine, had been recommended to him...

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... ashington Irv ing and Benjamin Franklin may have put it in my head by an American association of ideas; but there I was, and the Horse shoe Fall was... ...gateway in their uniforms, as if they had locked up all the balance (as my American friends would say) of the inhabitants, and could now rest a little... ...? He natu rally thought of Callow, at that time one of the most emi nent physicians in London, and he went to Callow. Callow said, ‘Liver!’ and pres... ...nces are obvious. The leather trade will be ruined, by the introduction of American timber, to be manufactured into shoes for the fallen English; the ...

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...d threatened the unhappy Esther, and came back to his first ideas. “We are physicians of the soul,” said he, in a mild voice, “and we know what remedi... ...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ... your passion; you are getting as yellow as a lettuce with- out water. Two physicians came to see you yesterday, your man tells me, who think your lif... ...ent creature.” And Corentin wrote down the addresses of these two fa- mous physicians. At this moment, up the stairs came some one to whom they were f... ...in the maternal instinct, if it can be aroused.” Corentin paid each of the physicians forty francs in gold, and then turned to the Police Commissioner... ...ew hours to his duties, though overwhelmed with fatigue and grief; for the physicians could not yet promise that the Countess would recover her sanity...

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... He is nought but a barber,” she exclaimed passionately. “I know there are physicians at the Bath who would cure you; or there’s the little Jew by the... ...nment in London, he had been trans- ported to the plantations, namely, the American settlements, and had fallen in with friends, who took him to Virgi...

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...first edition, the “ Globe “ edition, and about a dozen others English and American. I found many misprints and corrup- tions in all except the editio... ...t we have no slaves in Scotland, and mothers cannot sell their bairns; and physicians attested the employment of tum- bling would kill her; and her jo...

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...o doubt it may be useful in liver complaint. Thence, perhaps, its wide popularity among physicians. One morning early, Jean-Marie led forth the Doctor... ...is an argument exactly suited to your intellectual level – many of them are English and American. Where else should we expect to find a thief? – And n...

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...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ... him so ill as to be of no use, so he was sold again to one of the Moorish physicians, the like of whom may still be seen, smoking their pipes sleepil...

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... Well, my dear, number Two came after lunch. He is such a nice fellow,and American from Texas, and he looks so young and so fresh that it seems alm... ...d has exquisite manners, but he found out that it amused me to hear him talk American slang,and whenever I was present, and there was no one to be sho... ...ngs that you cannot. Let me illus Chapter 14 234 trate. I heard once of an American who so defined faith, ‘that faculty which enables us to believe ... ...aced by accident in the way of his intentions being carried out. To use and Americanism, he had ‘taken no chances’, and the absolute accuracy with wh... ...ing to ponder over in this man’s state. Several points seem to make what the American interviewer calls “a story,” if one could only get them in prope... ...he British Museum look ing up some authorities on ancient medicine. The old physicians took account of things which their follow ers do not accept, ...

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...ne of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back... ...g the strong salt of his similes, likening that rascal and his crew to the American weed in our waters, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, t... ...midshipmite days, whole watches through—don’t you re- member? on the North American station, and in the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean. And that gir... ...ut, for the honour of it. What’s that story they tell of you in one of the American cities or watering-places, North or South? You 153 George Meredit... ...h outstripping each; rudimentary emperors, elemen- tary prophets, inspired physicians, nostrum-devouring pa- tients, whatsoever you will; and still he... ...reak- fast-table to the stables, and gallop away to the station, while the American Quaker gentleman soberly paced down a street in Paris on the same ...

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... successful, no one will ask me who I am. I shall be Mr. Four Millions, an American citizen. I shall be fifty years old by then, and sound and hearty ... ...other complaints under the patronage of the Royal Col- 125 Balzac lege of Physicians! children like it! a remedy for headache, indigestion, and all o...

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...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ...displace the generating fluids. However, the interior of the head concerns physicians. As for the exterior, bring on 92 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birott...

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...v himself is now gener- ally regarded as a universal character. We find an American professor, William Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that... ...ut meeting scores of Chichikovs; indeed, he is an accurate portrait of the American promoter, of the successful commercial trav- eller whose success d... ...et, but positively luscious—a glance akin to the mixture which even clever physicians have to render palatable before they can induce a hesitant patie...

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...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...ful that they used to frighten the timid old gentleman her father, and the physicians declared his fits always occurred after one of her Ladyship’s se... ...y was saved, actually saved, by calomel, freely administered, when all the physicians in Paris had given the dear child up. And then she mentioned how... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was... ...to read an authentic de- scription of vice than a truly refined English or American fe- 658 V anity Fair male will permit the word breeches to be pro...

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...of England, half cured and very weak, determined to embark in spite of his physicians, and did so. The enemy’s vessels hats retired; so, at six o’cloc... ...for Forges only on the 6th of July. On Wednesday, the 21st of August, four physicians saw the King, but took care to do nothing except praise Fagon, w... ... Thursday, the 22nd of August, the King was still worse. He saw four other physicians, who, like the first four, did nothing but admire the learned an... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h... ...ddi- tion to the domestics who served me, one of the best and most skilful physicians in Europe, who, moreover, was capital com- pany, and who did not... ...ll that he was obliged to have assistance. The most celebrated doctors and physicians were called in, with great secrecy. They shook their heads, and ...