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InfluenceThe word influence actually comes from the latin word influentia which was used about stellar (astrological) effects on humans, caused by the stars. Nowadays, it is used for any general cases where distant effects of some sort may be manifest.See also: influenza If you
continued, with half-paternal jocularity, "you must have three.html">three
evening; you should spend altogether about nine thousand francs
if you spent no more than three thousand francs with your tailor,
a hundred more to your hatter. As for your laundress, there goes
make a great point of his linen.html">linen; if your linen comes up to the
the Church demand a fair altar-cloth. That is fourteen thousand
presents.html">presents; it is impossible to allow less than two thousand francs
about these expenses. Add the cost of necessaries next; three
roost in. well.html">Well, my boy, for all these little wants of ours we had
or we shall find ourselves in the kennel, and people laughing at
bye to your mistress! I am forgetting your valet and your groom!
mean to employ the stationery you use at present? Suicidal
bass voice growing louder at each syllable. "Either take up your
about the thing in a different way."
Vautrin winked and leered in the direction of Mlle. Taillefer to
proposals by which he had sought to corrupt the student's mind.
Several days went by, and Rastignac lived in a whirl of gaiety.
wherever she went, only returning to the Rue Neuve-Sainte-
go into the Bois with Delphine if the day was fine, squandering
as eagerly to learn the lessons of luxury, and was as quick to
the fertilizing pollen. He played high, lost and won large sums
that young men lead in Paris. He sent fifteen hundred francs out
presents as well as the money. He had given out that he meant to
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