110-The Red and the Black (Modern Library Classics
1月 21st, 2012 by dabaiarrogance had forever alienated, in 1814.3 They were not aristocrats, and he’d wanted to break
away from the spirit of equality in which they had lived since childhood.
One,rappelz gold, Falcoz, a warmhearted, spirited man, a paper merchant in Verrires, had bought a
printing house in the province’s largest town and launched a newspaper. The Congregation of
the Holy Virgin decided to ruin him: his newspaper had been closed up, his printing license
had been revoked. In these difficult circumstances, he tried writing, for the first time in ten
years, to Monsieur de Ronal. The mayor of Verrires felt it his duty to respond like an old
Roman: “Had the king’s minister done me the honor of asking for my advice, I would have told
him: ‘Have no pity on the printers in this province, ruin them all, and turn printing into a
monopoly, exactly like tobacco.’ ” Monsieur de Ronal remembered the language of this letter
to his old friend?awhich at the time had earned the admiration of all Verrires?awith horror.
“Who would have said that, for all my social standing, my wealth, my awards and decorations,
I’d one day regret it?” He was in the midst of an angry frenzy, directed equally against himself
and everything around him, since he’d spent a dreadful night. Luckily,Fiesta Gold, however,ao credits, he had not
thought of spying on his wife.
“I’m used to Louise,” he told himself. “She knows all my business: if I were free to marry
tomorrow, I couldn’t replace her.” So he soothed himself with the notion that his wife was
innocent. This way of looking at things did not require of him any demonstration of character,
and it set everything in good order. “After all, how many slandered women have we seen!
“What’s going on here?” he suddenly exclaimed,Cheap EQ Plat, while walking wildly up and down. “Why
should I let her, and her lover, laugh at me as if I were a nobody, some barefoot beggar?
Should everyone in Verrires be gloating at how good-natured I am? What haven’t they said
about Charmier (who was a local fellow, a notorious cuckold)? As soon as they hear his name,
doesn’t everybody start grinning? He’s a fine lawyer: Whoever says anything about the
speeches he makes? ‘Ho, Charmier!’ they say, ‘ Barnard’s Charmier’?awhich is what they call
him, since that’s the name of the other fellow, the man who’s disgracing him.”
“God be praised,” said Monsieur de Ronal, at other moments, “that I don’t have a
daughter: however I decide to punish the children’s mother, that won’t interfere with any
doweries. Maybe I can catch the little peasant with my wife, and kill them both. That way, the
tragedy might wipe away all the ridicule.” This idea made him smile; he worked it out in full
detail. “The penal code is on my side and, no matter what happens, the Congregation of the
Holy Virgin and my friends on the jury will save me.” He examined his hunting knife, which
was very sharp. But the idea of blood frightened him.
“I could beat up this arrogant tutor, and run him off. But what a scandal in Verrires, and
even in the whole province! After Falcoz’s newspaper was shut down, and his editor in chief
got out of prison, I was one of those who kept him from getting a job worth six hundred
francs. They say this scribbler has had the nerve to show up in Besan on: he could thoroughly
thump me, in print, and do it so skillfully I could not sue him. Sue him! … The arrogant fellow
would find a thousand ways of hinting that everything he’d said was true. A well-born man
who preserves his social standing is universally hated by the lower classes. I can just see my
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