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503 VIII| always supposing that the chimney~takes fire). The steel feminine
504 VII | beat a tattoo on the marble chimneypiece, and~only looked composedly
505 X | slippery~sides of a plain china vase. Still there was a
506 X | weaves about a tree. The Chinese, an essentially~imitative
507 X | was~streaming through the chinks of the door. M. de Ronquerolles~
508 IV | nothing very glorious nor chivalrous truly about its fall.~ ~
509 X | poniard, a provision of chocolate,~and a set of house-breaking
510 VI | herself in the~objects of her choosing; they revealed her life
511 II | return to God. The~final chord was deep, solemn, even terrible;
512 II | as a prima donna's in the chorus of a finale. It~was like
513 II | rise again as the bride of Christ.~ ~The organ is in truth
514 VII | her edition of Le Genie du Christianisme,~adapted for the use of
515 VI | give sensible advice to his~chums with unshaken coolness;
516 II | replied the venerable churchman, "the rule is strict. ~A
517 V | de~Montriveau, one of the ci-devants who served the Republic
518 VIII| you would be~less than a cipher for her. She would wipe
519 X | the brilliant eyes, now circled with~dark shadows.~ ~The
520 VI | which people were pleased to circulate~concerning the General put
521 IX | the tinsel jargon which circulates among the upper ranks~in
522 X | refuted the scandals that were~circulating with regard to the Duchesse
523 VI | the wiles with which they~circumvent the strongest men and corrode
524 IV | liberal allowances from the civil list were wholly expended
525 VII | be said to be the epoque civile of this sentimental~warfare,
526 IX | to be~the spoilt child of civilisation, would be to attempt to
527 VII | de Montriveau, you cannot claim, I think, to penetrate the~
528 III | the doors within as they clanged.~ ~"Ah! she loves me still!"
529 II | tramped~noisily up the nave, clanking his spurs till the vaulted
530 IX | Resistance?" she cried, clapping her hands for joy. "Oh no,~
531 VIII| to me?--What do you say, Clara?"~ ~"It is a dangerous speculation,"
532 IX | held her hand in a tight clasp.~ ~"We are not under the
533 IV | the~following cause.~ ~The class-isolation so strenuously kept up by
534 IX | her~cheeks with Martin's classic rouge. An appalling amiability
535 II | baffle lynx eyes and tiger's~claws! Sister Theresa came back.~ ~"
536 III | agreement.~ ~No nation has a clearer conception of that idea
537 IV | the part of loftier and clearer-sighted men who set~their faces
538 III | taken over by the people; clearness~of thought, the intellectual
539 X | vase. Still there was a cleft, a straight~line of fissure
540 VII | furious tide over his face, clenched his fists, and set him~chafing
541 IV | of the Regency, filling cleverer~women with something like
542 III | every institution has its climacteric periods, when words lose~
543 II | the height of this lofty climax. And what in~truth could
544 X | house-breaking tools. They climbed the outer walls~with scaling-ladders,
545 IX | second existence, so that we cling as closely to the~pure essence
546 IX | change; it means so close a clinging of the heart, and an~exchange
547 VIII| for you. If your head were~clipped close, would you feel no
548 II | the fixed thought of the cloister--a~thought which you felt
549 I | of such a city, with its close-huddled roofs, arranged~for the
550 VI | interest, I should have closed my door. I am~exceedingly
551 IX | existence, so that we cling as closely to the~pure essence as to
552 VI | told his love~to one of his closest friends. Is there not always
553 X | would hide himself in a closet for six weeks, like Lauzun,
554 VII | careless whether the~Abbe, then closing the door, heard her or no.~ ~
555 VIII| coverlet flung over it--a red cloth with~a black key border--
556 VI | disguise, could have wound a cloud of gauze about the dainty~
557 IX | acute. He was~dining at the club the other day with that
558 IV | clutches, and now~forsooth must clumsily proceed to the slaying of
559 IV | never was mismanagement so~clumsy; and La France, like a woman,
560 IV | to~seize the authority, clung with fatal obstinacy to
561 X | arm, sprang into a hackney coach, and by a quarter to~eight
562 IV | among the Huguenots, the~Coadjuteur in the time of the Fronde,
563 IV | knight-banneret of old wore a coat of chain armour~and a hauberk,;
564 IX | restored her~picturesque coiffure.~ ~"Well, dear Antoinette,
565 III | day's calculations never coincide; the one class represents
566 VI | this enough to~move the coldest man's heart?~ ~This, therefore,
567 VII | Thank you,"~she added, coldly; "thank you, Armand. You
568 VII | beside us? Our persistent coldness of heart is the cause of
569 IV | which he belongs;~there is Coligny, for instance, among the
570 VI | He had made a valuable collection of notes bearing~on various
571 VIII| at each other during that colloquy~beneath the wall, in a corner
572 VI | When he reached the French~colony at Senegal, a half-dead
573 II | many~different natures, coloured by meditative ecstasy, upspringing~
574 I | many different harmonies, combining so to~raise the soul, that
575 V | of playing such~dangerous comedies.~ ~So the Duchess had her
576 IV | is true of the Historical Comedy of the Centuries, it is~
577 IV | 1818, M. le Duc de Langeais commanded a division of the army,~
578 IX | old~school, and had been a Commander of the Order of Malta. His
579 I | a man in favour with the Commander-in-Chief might~commit, this one alone
580 VI | various geographical and commercial problems, of which~solutions
581 IX | You will create a fidei commissum perhaps; and if the~trustee
582 VIII| pause, "if some poor wretch~commits a murder in Paris, it is
583 III | more deeply~rooted in the commonwealth, unless, indeed, experience
584 VII | not some influence that~communicates the terror which they express
585 X | of art comes into direct~communication with the spirit of the hearer,
586 IX | without~effort. It is by comparing the fundamental matter of
587 VII | democratic champion is~scarcely compatible with tyrannous feminine
588 X | their enterprise, and were compelled to wait till the~moon passed
589 V | with comment on~the part of complacent hypocrites. For women know
590 IX | nor gout,~nor any other complaint, in consequence?"~ ~"No;
591 I | its carved wooden columns,~completed the line of the arcading
592 IV | How explain a creature so complex? Capable of~heroism, yet
593 VII | his fresh, well-preserved complexion, smooth forehead, and~ascetic'
594 IX | Vidame, "life is~simply a complication of interests and feelings;
595 VII | cunning instruments for the composer, like the wood~and copper
596 VII | with no devotion in her composition, no heart~even, than be
597 VIII| his agitation by complete composure. No man~is strong enough
598 IX | Constituent Assembly was sure to compound with~the Liberals and allow
599 IV | rule in her passion, and compounded, so~to speak, with its pleasures.
600 II | monk's life is scarcely comprehensible. A man seems~confessed a
601 IX | had always been so tightly compressed by a strangulation stock,~
602 X | night eleven of his devoted comrades made the ascent in the~darkness.
603 IX | Yes, to be sure. The Comte de Montriveau died at St.~
604 VIII| to feign, in the hope of~concealing their love. Everyone laughed
605 VIII| moments, he might perhaps have conceived high hopes. ~Of all human
606 IV | will of the statesman who~concentrates a thousand dazzling qualities
607 VI | were pleased to circulate~concerning the General put that warrior
608 IX | not reply. Mme de Serizy concluded from the~Duchess's silence
609 X | tried to hasten them to a conclusion, but his clock was slow,
610 IX | here, lest critics should condemn the puerility of the~opening
611 IX | imaginings the heart can condense into one thought. As well~
612 IV | if, indeed, they could~condescend thus far. In every living
613 IX | discussions of sentiment ever conducted on paper~or by word of mouth
614 II | comprehensible. A man seems~confessed a weakling in a monastery;
615 X | will never know what they~confessed--all the love and the passion
616 VI | disdainful, insolent, or~confiding at will. Her apparent good
617 VI | her hair was loose but confined by a scarf. A hand~indicated
618 I | mass of the convent built~conformably to the minute rules laid
619 IV | to lead a party~without conforming to its ideas? or to shine
620 X | spite of the silence, the confused effect of music was all~
621 II | was over when the Spanish congregation came~pouring out of the
622 IV | Talleyrand's attitude in the Congress, the taking of~Algiers,
623 VII | aside, with all scruples of~conjugal fidelity, her stock of excuses
624 IV | Duchesse d'Orleans, whose connubial couch was~exhibited so absurdly
625 X | storming of Capri, they would conquer Nature. The cliff at the~
626 II | possible, if the Lady Superior~consents, if..."~ ~"Even at the grating
627 VII | is a bond uniting all the conservative principles~which enable
628 IX | before him if he attempts to consider love in all its~developments
629 IX | and rank, and fortune, and consideration for her lover's~sake, and
630 IX | sacrificed me to family considerations. You~may, perhaps, blame
631 VIII| and feet again. All things considered, I~think that you have self-respect
632 II | the grating. The ceiling consisted of bare~unornamented joists
633 X | nearly all human~genius consists.~ ~M. de Montriveau's companions
634 VII | the sight of her afforded~consolations to her lover, who made the
635 VI | character~for virtue was consolidated while she amused herself
636 X | wealth of tenderness and consoling pity~for a creature so gracious
637 IX | these four personages shone~conspicuous in that lofty sphere, of
638 IX | in his~department of the Constituent Assembly was sure to compound
639 VII | which might be taken to constitute the~epoque religieuse had
640 III | outcome of any~charter of the constitution, that however much a Liberal
641 I | re-established there. Some few Constitutional~Spaniards who had found
642 IV | peradventure there was a Constitutionalist Richelieu~lurking in the
643 IX | you always put a malicious construction on things,"~returned the
644 IX | her a~homily and to hold a consultation as to the best way of putting
645 X | henceforth until you have consulted me. ~Tell me all, and perhaps
646 X | now may the will of God~consume me. Between His wrath and
647 IV | Restoration was finally~consummated, which is to say, in 1816.
648 X | Not one of your~little consumptive patients with their tortoiseshell
649 IX | the Vidame de Pamiers, a contemporary ruin. The~Vidame was a big,
650 VIII| Montriveau again; but he contented himself with sending his
651 VII | snatched in the course of~contests that she could stop at her
652 VII | found the reward of~their continence in the temptations to which
653 IV | Faubourg,~with some few gaps in continuity, was always backed up by
654 VII | power of expanding as of contracting~space. ~ ~He opened the
655 VII | eyelids and lashes, in the contraction of the gaze, in~the twitching
656 VII | possessed by the spirit of~contradiction, she dinned religion into
657 IV | match-all~these things should contribute to form a lofty spirit in
658 VII | then, when~both of us have contrived to recover calmness to some
659 VI | sentiment. Love would soon be convalescent,~as the eighteenth century
660 IV | wiser. Their marriage of convention shared the fate of~nearly
661 VI | such strong contrast to the~conventional faces which line the walls
662 I | of Europe there are many convents~magnificently adapted to
663 III | nobles and the upper classes converges towards some particular~
664 IX | listener could have heard~them converse, and seen them on their
665 IV | baseness and sham political conversions, the~public conscience was
666 VI | glances; her~compliments were conveyed in her manner; there was
667 VII | We have not the same convictions, General, I am pained to~
668 IX | which your brothers the convicts wear on~their shoulders.
669 X | hastened downstairs with convulsive~speed, and left orders that
670 VIII| enough to infuriate the coolest of men? There was a sort
671 IV | have held their own; but cooped up in~their Faubourg, with
672 VII | composer, like the wood~and copper wire under the hands of
673 IX | you were sincere in your~coquetries on your sofa, sincere again
674 VI | is more, devoid of~charm! Coquettes will not spare me. They
675 X | Duchess had been lowered by a cord to the foot of~the crags,
676 V | of the humble rivals who~cordially detested her, and went with
677 IX | unsatisfying colours of tulips and coreopsis, but we turn again~and again
678 VIII| having omitted to consult his cornac, was abstracted and ill
679 IX | still hale; both were short, corpulent, flourishing, somewhat~florid-complexioned
680 X | a light deal board which corresponded with a notch made~in a pole
681 X | up their posts along the corridor. Young Henri de Marsay,~
682 X | find their way along the corridors, ascertain~whether the sister'
683 VI | circumvent the strongest men and corrode the steel temper. Their~
684 IV | frankly dissolute; it did not corrupt, nor was it~corrupted; it
685 V | would listen to anything, corrupting~the surface, as it were,
686 VI | delicious mistress when her corset and~the encumbering costume
687 IX | telegraphic speed through~all the coteries in the Faubourg Saint-Germain;
688 II | rang with the sound; he coughed, he talked aloud to himself
689 X | late yet if you choose."~ ~"Couldn't we find some good fellow
690 X | latter course in the~secret council held before they left Paris,
691 IX | wish to be?"~ ~"What do you counsel, Armand?"~ ~"There is no
692 VIII| Marquis de~Ronquerolles's counsels had cured Armand of sheepishness;
693 IV | expression of a time, now~counted absolutely for nought. Now
694 IV | points of action, so as to counterbalance the~weight of the masses
695 IX | victim~of love's marches and countermarches.~ ~"What did M. de Montriveau
696 VI | Such talk is the moral counterpart of the~toilette. You take
697 IX | Europe--princes, dukes, and counts--and could put her hand on
698 IX | all Paris, is as fine a coup d'etat~for a woman as that
699 IX | might~have taken them for a couple of bankers. Any such mistake
700 VIII| clever, and what was more--courageous;~he set the fashion to all
701 IV | she had all the~vices of a courtier, all the nobleness of developing
702 VIII| very low bedstead with a coverlet flung over it--a red cloth
703 VII | Why, half a dozen young coxcombs come here~just as regularly
704 VIII| all her affectations of a~coyness which she did not feel,
705 VIII| interested her even more than the crackling of the~mysterious flames.~ ~"
706 VI | was full of confidence or craft; her moving~tenderness would
707 X | daring workers drove iron cramps,~specially made for the
708 IX | yearnings towards joys that she craved with a vain continual~longing--
709 IX | calculations, the fevered cravings, and all that is~meant by
710 IX | mind is amusing himself by creating difficulties, and how~his
711 X | by Cachin, the immortal creator of the harbour at~Cherbourg.
712 VIII| knees, her feet; but for~the credit of the Faubourg Saint-Germain
713 IV | attitude for a submissive credulity.~ ~How should any portrait
714 VI | vainly protesting against the creeds of the duchess.~ ~You might
715 X | mouse might as well try to creep up the slippery~sides of
716 II | shook out her veiling of~crepe, and seemed to sink again
717 VI | the sky~the palm-trees and crests of hill that should tell
718 VI | simulated distress.~ ~Like Crillon listening to the story of
719 IX | mark, when you set your crimson brand on her, your slave
720 VII | voice grown faint in the crises of inward struggles, through~
721 VI | nobody would venture to~criticise him. You do not know the
722 IV | for~which he is afterwards criticised by this or that historian~
723 VII | she tortured him, she was~criticising him, watching every slightest
724 IX | feelings.~ ~And here, lest critics should condemn the puerility
725 II | unornamented joists and cross-beams of ilex wood. As the two~
726 III | as far as possible from crowded~streets. When the Duc d'
727 I | picturesque harbour,~and crowned by a glorious cathedral
728 I | a Spanish family,~is the crowning edifice of the town. Its
729 IX | mighty little gold to the crucible when~washed in the ashes
730 II | scarcely see the great black crucifix,~the portrait of Saint Theresa,
731 VI | listening to the story of the Crucifixion, he was~ready to draw his
732 VIII| vengeance of any kind. The cruellest~revenge of all, I think,
733 VI | one by one; and now she~crushed it into a ball, and flung
734 X | very much~put out. She was crying like a Magdalen, but she
735 VIII| when all your hopes and cultivation will come~to nothing."~ ~
736 X | Cherbourg. Against this cunningly devised line the angry surge~
737 X | woman, who brought her a cup of orange-flower water from~
738 VIII| Ronquerolles's counsels had cured Armand of sheepishness;
739 IX | exception, and boeotianism is current coin in every zone. ~In
740 VI | strength enough for a last curse.~ ~The guide came nearer,
741 VII | the change in you beyond a curt, `I have ceased to~care
742 VIII| drapery hung from an ordinary curtain-rod. As the Duchess~finally
743 VIII| had entered was likewise curtained, but the~drapery hung from
744 IX | prominent slender~nose, curved like a Turkish scimitar,
745 VI | gracefully tossing aside a cushion that covered her feet.~ ~"
746 VI | leant her~elbow on the cushions, did him the honour of a
747 VII | table of the Lord when it is customary to take the~sacrament at
748 VI | courage enough, here is my~dagger."~ ~Startled by this dreadful
749 X | travelling hawker to brave the daggers of a Duke of~Modena, and
750 II | leap back into the~past, to dally there now with laughter,
751 IV | queen of fashion she had~her dames d'atours, her ladies, who
752 X | minutes, if it pleases you to damn yourself;~well and good;
753 VI | warrior in mind of the bright damosel flies that~hover now over
754 IX | besides."~ ~He listened, damping his cigars with his lips.~ ~"
755 IV | Richelieu~under Louis XV, Danton during the Terror. It is
756 VIII| came past him, his~eyes darted down upon her eddying face;
757 VIII| Would~that bull-necked man dash out her vitals by flinging
758 I | His hopes were cruelly dashed at once. Mass, it is true,
759 IX | you take to settle your daughters~suitably!" muttered M. de
760 VI | up and on his way before dawn next day,~and his guide
761 IX | is Monday, and reception~day--and you must see that we
762 II | malady. How day by~day she deadened the senses, how every night
763 VIII| thoughts badly; the wounds you dealt~me are too painful as yet,
764 VIII| was best in his life--his dearest~beliefs. The murderer simply
765 VIII| deserve~to die a thousand deaths. Be wholly mine, and I will
766 VI | surely~the most extraordinary debate in the annals of travel.
767 X | more gratitude or sense~of decency than to make an inventory
768 X | dear cousin, tonight will decide my fate; and whatever~happens
769 IX | bend, she will~take one decisive resolution after another
770 II | grandeur~unknown before, are decked with new glory and might.
771 VI | He burst in upon her to declare his~love, as if it were
772 VIII| seemed to pervade it. No decoration of any kind broke the grey~
773 IX | petticoats were taken as final decrees. People came to~consult
774 I | sure to be tempted by a~deed which seemed to be impossible.~ ~
775 VII | to the world by words and deeds~that M. de Montriveau was
776 VI | features. He was short,~deep-chested, and muscular as a lion.
777 II | reduced to ashes. The sadness~deepened shade after shade through
778 IV | so much the more easily defeated because it was~concentrated
779 IV | Perhaps this is a national defect. The Frenchman is less given~
780 IX | know that marriage is~a defective institution tempered by
781 VII | presence. There was a languid defence; then she~grew less unkind.
782 IV | might have supplied the deficiency. They stood nice about M.
783 IX | While the physiologist can define love promptly by following
784 III | position of the head is well defined in every organism. If~by
785 VII | annihilated by a~word, and definite resolves died within him
786 III | that admits of a precise definition. There are great houses~
787 IX | discussion in the world can never deflect. A~rigid application of
788 IV | hesitated till her scruples~degenerated into artifice. With more
789 VII | they borrowed extremes of degradation from the~licence of her
790 VIII| punish, I do not think you so degraded that you cannot~comprehend
791 VII | of vain repetitions; the Deity, bound~hand and foot, was
792 IX | thinner and paler and more dejected~every day. The vague ardour
793 VIII| I should start with the deliberate purpose~of" His voice sank
794 VI | came understanding of the~delicacies of feeling, of the soul'
795 VI | such a woman was not this a delightful presage of a new interest~
796 II | after the swaying fugues of delirium, after the~marvellous rendering
797 II | as the Mother is, for a deliverer of our holy religion and~
798 VII | delusion; I am expected to delude myself, to be willing to~
799 III | never deserts them until demagogues stir them~up to gain ends
800 VII | democrats; the attitude of democratic champion is~scarcely compatible
801 VII | Few women~venture to be democrats; the attitude of democratic
802 V | modesty in him; he found any demonstration of vanity intolerable.~
803 VIII| friendliness~by passionate demonstrations; but as it was, Armand de
804 VIII| believe in such complete depravity.~ ~"If there is no executioner
805 I | furthest~parts of Europe, women deprived of all human ties, sighing
806 IX | land. The whole Cabinet des~Chartes was entered in duplicate
807 III | M. le Duc de Fitz-James,~descendant of the royal house of Scotland,
808 IX | put her hand on the~last descendants of Charlemagne in the direct
809 X | the top of the cliff, and descended~in the same fashion to its
810 IV | habit of mind~which never descends to calculate the petty workaday
811 III | who are fain to observe or~describe the various social zones;
812 VII | serve you as~a reason for deserting me. I have no wish to be
813 VI | always the~cause of the man's desertion. If you had loved me sincerely,
814 VI | keen-sighted enough to see these~desertions and treaties with the enemy;
815 VIII| candle-sconce of Egyptian design on the chimney-piece recalled~
816 III | plebeian is apt to cover his~designs, he would none the less
817 VI | this moment I have~but one desire--I wish it were in my power
818 X | is foreseen~and ardently desired. Alas, my friend, I can
819 X | I will not tell you what desolation I should~feel. I should
820 VIII| de Langeais, and almost despaired of reaching her heart.~ ~
821 VI | distance out of reach of his desperate victim. At last M.~Montriveau
822 III | whom~I love passionately, desperately, as you could have wished
823 VI | There was something of the~despot about him, and an indescribable
824 IX | wrought in her, she saw other destinies before her, and a~better
825 III | a real~power, and their destruction so soon as that power is
826 IV | restricted sphere in the detached scenes~of the national drama
827 I | fitted for that complete detachment of the~soul from all earthly
828 X | cousin's charm was broken. He~detected a shudder caused by some
829 II | expand as memories shall determine? If a~musician must needs
830 VI | Coquetting?" she repeated. "I detest coquetry. A coquette~Armand,
831 VIII| intuition~which passion will develop at moments in the least
832 VI | Adversity and hardship had~developed his energy even in trifles,
833 IV | These ideas demand further development which form an essential~
834 IX | consider love in all its~developments due to social conditions.
835 VIII| blows; and as suffering develops a heart in women of~that
836 VI | permitted the slightest deviation from duty on any plausible~
837 VIII| unfeigned; it was no~coquettish device. When she spoke at last,
838 IV | two-and-twenty~to her own devices. He had deeply offended
839 X | persuade the nuns that the Devil himself had paid~them a
840 VII | he had loved to see her devising~obstacles; was he not gradually
841 VI | soulless; and what is more, devoid of~charm! Coquettes will
842 VIII| that will be seen, so she devotes all her~care, finery, and
843 IX | herself on her couch to devour her first sensations.~ ~"
844 IX | seizing on a cigar~and devouring all that Armand's lips had
845 VIII| vowed to~love this woman so devoutly, that every day of her life
846 X | Henri de Marsay,~the most dexterous man among them, disguised
847 VIII| that there was something diabolical about~this woman, who was
848 VI | like his~studies of African dialects, his discoveries, and observations. ~
849 III | manners~and customs are diametrically opposed. ~ ~Nothing contemptuous
850 II | the charm that shyness and~diffidence gives to a young girl; her
851 VII | be expected to look while digesting his dinner and the~charming
852 IV | worst,~have presented as dignified a spectacle as English-women
853 VII | stateliness befitting a dignitary of the Church; and~the episcopal
854 I | So at least thought two~dilettanti officers who must have missed
855 IV | should have honestly and~diligently searched their Houses for
856 VIII| ardent lifetime that knows no diminution of passion to the~end; even
857 VI | stretched out upon a sofa in a dimly lighted boudoir. Mme de~
858 IX | he is very acute. He was~dining at the club the other day
859 VII | spirit of~contradiction, she dinned religion into his ears,
860 X | and downwards in opposite directions, so~that baskets of iron
861 II | Sister Theresa; she it is who~directs the music in the chapel."~ ~"
862 IV | Court jealousies; and the disaffection of the~provincial families,
863 IX | day."~ ~"And did they not disagree with him?"~ ~"Not the least
864 VI | these finer qualities must disappear, and the man would show~
865 X | illustrious duchess whose sudden disappearance filled the~minds of the
866 VIII| but the terrible vision~disappeared so swiftly that she took
867 VII | will be swallowed up in one~disappointed hope. I shall have children
868 IX | She~is in the wrong; I disapprove of her conduct, a useless
869 VI | unbearable; Montriveau~disarmed her with angelic sweetness.
870 VI | he was not present at the disbanding~of the Army of the Loire,
871 V | There came a moment when she discerned that not until a woman is~
872 VII | the~short phrases that she discharged at him one by one were very~
873 IX | so many~pretty women left disconsolate, even among princesses,
874 IV | swiftly-changing colour made discord only to~produce a poetic
875 IV | combined to bring about a most discordant state of things~in the Faubourg
876 III | sure sooner or later to discover that this is a suicidal~
877 VI | of African dialects, his discoveries, and observations. ~One
878 IX | scourge with impunity~to a discreet friendship which she had
879 VI | Montriveau was about to retire discreetly, when the Duchess~stopped
880 IX | love in a~lifetime. All discussions of sentiment ever conducted
881 IX | passion is yet happy, and the disenchantment of reality has not~set in.
882 VIII| gracefully wear the tokens of disgrace by which society marks out~
883 VIII| Navarreins; Antoinette, in her disguises, had~gone so far as to appear
884 IV | petty great folk took a~dislike to any capacity that did
885 X | feat of arms that~should dismay all Europe, while the motives
886 VIII| tender~Antoinette would dismiss everything from her memory;
887 VIII| believes, and yet he is very disobedient. Why not~stay as we are?
888 VII | happiness.~ ~"Is it nothing to disobey God?" she asked him, recovering
889 IX | first thought was for her disordered~toilette; in a moment she
890 I | was either destroyed or disorganised by the outbreak~of the French
891 IX | that she was ill, to gain a dispensation from attendance on the~Princess
892 VII | love. Most~women are not displeased to have their code of right
893 X | society has ever placed at the~disposal of statesmen, kings, ministers,
894 III | however much a Liberal may be~disposed to complain of them, as
895 IV | kind. Two more~antipathetic dispositions could not well have been
896 IV | neither wholly abandon the disputed points~which damaged its
897 VII | Theological and political disputes acted like a cold douche
898 IV | displayed neither the proud~disregard of public opinion shown
899 X | the reign of Louis~XV into disrepute. Do not believe them. The
900 VI | seemed to tell of~inward dissatisfaction and deep reflection.~ ~"
901 IX | you will do me a singular disservice."~ ~"Do you really wish
902 IV | completely~moral, nor frankly dissolute; it did not corrupt, nor
903 X | was in the Pope's power to~dissolve Sister Theresa's vows. The
904 III | common end.~ ~Such social dissonances are so inevitably the outcome
905 II | a young girl; her voice, distinct from the~mass of singing
906 IX | her head; this time she distinctly~saw the three masked figures.~ ~"
907 VIII| curiosity; she fancied she could~distinguish strange shapes in the shadows;
908 III | there is real~worth and some distinguishing merit. In any state, no
909 VI | by the lady's simulated distress.~ ~Like Crillon listening
910 VI | General,~poor man, was really distressed by the lady's simulated
911 V | treacherous. Mme de Langeais~had distributed her little patronising,
912 VI | see him grown so small, so distrustful of~himself; the mind that
913 IX | of the endless sects that divide the church of Love,~there
914 VII | was playing with him; he divined instinctively that a devoted~
915 VII | drawing-room, only to hear~divinely sweet chords. The Duchess
916 I | a~mass, at which the two divisions under the General's command
917 I | them, a man pre-eminently a Doer, was sure to be tempted
918 VI | than by~self-interest, the doers rather than the reasoners,
919 VI | Calderon with~the plot of the Dog in the Manger. She would
920 VI | give to each~one his little dole of flattery--it seems to
921 IV | or money; domaine-sol~and domaine-argent alike, the only solid bases
922 IV | upon real estate, or money; domaine-sol~and domaine-argent alike,
923 IV | Some few families led the domestic~life of the Duchesse d'Orleans,
924 IV | substance, is~as much a dominant passion as thrift in the
925 IV | sanctuaries. Being as~yet simple dominations, they wished to rise to
926 IX | member. `Yes,' said he, `I don't go into society now; I~
927 II | mass of singing as a prima donna's in the chorus of a finale.
928 I | of art above the centre~doorway; for upon that side the
929 I | with triple-arched~Gothic doorways, belfry towers, and filigree
930 X | the two men reached the dormitory~cells. They soon saw the
931 VII | the sun to gain power, not doubting but~that he should receive
932 VII | disputes acted like a cold douche on~Montriveau; he calmed
933 IV | that side.~ ~Thence its downfall in 1830.~ ~At that time
934 X | ropes slanted upwards and downwards in opposite directions,
935 IX | in such a flight without~draggling her pinions in humiliation;
936 IX | bell rang; to estimate the drain of life when a~carriage
937 VIII| likewise curtained, but the~drapery hung from an ordinary curtain-rod.
938 VIII| easy-chairs,~a chest of drawers with an alarum clock by
939 I | grasped the reality of his dream-like progress of~glory, or the
940 VI | Montriveau of whom she had dreamed~during the night. She had
941 II | earth? And the longer a dreamer listens to those giant~harmonies,
942 VIII| undone that could set him dreaming, imagining,~longing for
943 VI | said the man;~"she is dressing, she begs you to wait for
944 X | through which a hole had been drilled. Each bracket~carried a
945 VII | My friend," she said drily, "I do not understand why
946 IX | turn again~and again to drink in the sweetness of orange-blossoms
947 IX | saw his~niece's carriage driving back along the street. The
948 IV | drawing-room, she would~droop. Put her in the very centre
949 II | hidden by~the veil that drooped from the folds upon her
950 I | fourteen-year-old Empire and the dropping of a woman's glove in~the
951 VI | Montriveau had spent his last drops of~energy, and the skyline
952 IX | fact, that her~coachman was drunk--so drunk, that at any other
953 IX | bed," said the Duchess, drying her eyes. ~"But remember,
954 IV | Navarreins by birth, came of a ducal house which~had made a point
955 VI | could go under fire, and duck~upon occasion to avoid bullets.
956 VIII| the thought of a hideous duel~of which she could not speak.
957 V | satisfaction~beyond the most meagre dues. There was more than one
958 I | strongest impressions are dulled, till the sorrows~of life
959 IX | houses of Burgundy. If the Dulmen branch of the Arschoot~Rivaudoults
960 VI | not~suffer her to be the dupe of them. As M. de Talleyrand,
961 X | thought that he had been~duped. He hurried away at once
962 IX | des~Chartes was entered in duplicate on the parchment of her
963 II | the air, and in~the dim dusk of the room; an all-pervasive
964 IV | conscious that it was already dust, that it~refused to touch
965 IV | passion as thrift in the Dutch. For three~centuries it
966 VIII| grandeur of their devotion~dwarfs us. Rising higher in the
967 IV | and palaces where nobles dwell;~the luxury of the details;
968 III | beneath the Sphere~wherein she dwells, yet truly above this world,
969 IX | Her world seemed to have dwindled now that she, its~queen,
970 VI | which~solutions are still eagerly sought; and succeeded, after~
971 IV | education attainable at a much~earlier age; and lastly, the aristocratic
972 X | romantic passion for the East, wished to make a journey
973 VII | to take the~sacrament at Easter? People must certainly do
974 X | read them. She sank into an easy-chair, and for a while she~lost
975 VIII| littered with papers, two big easy-chairs,~a chest of drawers with
976 X | the~delay, then her faith ebbed. She turned to leave the
977 X | If my prayers have not echoed from~my soul through yours,
978 II | and in a~little while the echoes were pouring out a torrent
979 I | bright with gems that they~eclipsed the glories of the ex-votos
980 IX | existence~of the luxuriant ecstasy--the only name that can be
981 IX | drive me forth~out of my Eden!"~ ~Armand shook his head.~ ~"
982 VII | have no mind to issue your Edict of~Nantes; or if, when it
983 I | family,~is the crowning edifice of the town. Its fine, bold
984 I | government could not be effected in the little town without
985 X | all.~ ~"It would be very effective on the stage," remarked
986 IV | saved it. In short, however effete individuals might be, the~
987 IV | noblesse, as of every patrician efflorescence ever formed on the~surface
988 II | more deeply to receive the~effluence of a soul breathed forth
989 VII | that~she loved him. Her egoistic resistance deluded him into
990 VIII| triple~candle-sconce of Egyptian design on the chimney-piece
991 VII | interests do not die.~. . . Eh, great Heavens! what are
992 I | seen nothing~but the tall eight-sided windows of stained glass
993 X | this assignation to your eighty-four years, dear~cousin," she
994 VI | about her throat, leant her~elbow on the cushions, did him
995 IV | marry the Duc de Langeais's eldest~son. The two families at
996 IV | take~lessons in taste and elegance. Their voices, which once
997 IX | manner is everything"; an elegant~rendering of the legal axiom, "
998 III | themselves out of their element among shopkeepers, left
999 VII | doubtless she meant to elicit some confidence, for she~
1000 II | to the quay to watch the embarkation of~the troops. He felt glad
1001 IV | some central personage who embodies the~qualities and the defects
1002 VI | seemed to be a~more exquisite embodiment of faults and fair qualities
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