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1003 IX | of a dream when the eyes embrace~a world that stretches away
1004 IX | forces of soul and body are embraced and~blended in one. If a
1005 III | spheres of social~activity, emphasised by differences in their
1006 VII | conservative principles~which enable the rich to live in tranquillity.
1007 VII | Shame on you! You are enamoured? Ah! that I well believe!
1008 VI | comfort those that mourned, to encourage high virtues, to reward~
1009 V | warmer admiration, which she encouraged by a gesture or~a glance,
1010 VI | when her corset and~the encumbering costume of her part were
1011 IX | only laughed; he was an~encyclopaedist. But his brother turned
1012 IX | into one thought. As well~endeavour to measure the forces expended
1013 VII | Possibly, the Duchess had ended by resolving love into fraternal~
1014 V | that a girl or woman was~endowed with wealth, or well brought
1015 II | asked for particulars of its endowment and revenues,~as if from
1016 IX | give an~idea of the anguish endured by a woman who might be
1017 VII | all. Both therefore were enduring the~consequences of the
1018 VI | And already he had made enemies;~others were jealous, and
1019 VI | desertions and treaties with the enemy; and her pride would not~
1020 IV | might have absorbed the energetic men among the bourgeoisie,
1021 X | reached the Boulevard d'Enfer, and~looked out for the
1022 II | my voice, my soul shall enfold you, and I shall abide~here
1023 VII | odious Revolution could enforce obedience. The priest~and
1024 II | curtain. The General gave the enforced witness of~their interview
1025 IX | de Langeais's family were~engaged in calling upon one another,
1026 VIII| pride alone incapable of~engendering anything base? Mme de Langeais
1027 IV | dignified a spectacle as English-women of the~same rank. But she
1028 V | of craving, a~passion for engouement and sham enthusiasm, which
1029 X | in the sublime expression engraven on women's faces by~the
1030 VI | suffer another~woman to engross him; but she had not the
1031 VI | men here and there as much engrossed in the work~demanded of
1032 II | expression of angelic~sweetness, enhanced at the same time by the
1033 VIII| the firmament and of earth enlarged. It~seemed to him that his
1034 VIII| said he, "it is my duty to~enlighten you. Just a word; there
1035 IX | them, as to all curious enquirers, the servants~said that
1036 IX | rooms she was beset with enquiries and~regrets. Her world seemed
1037 II | the Magnificat. She had~enriched the music with graceful
1038 X | your person would~have ensnared his heart. All this that
1039 VII | sentimental~warfare, the ensuing phase which might be taken
1040 X | scruple to give a stab to ensure silence.~ ~In two hours
1041 IV | hereditary peerage and law of entail fell before~the lampoons
1042 I | and to find some means of entering it. The undertaking was~
1043 II | saying, "Peace in the Lord,"~enters the least religious soul
1044 X | his life had he felt such enthralling bliss, and in the~few words
1045 IV | Richelieu~lurking in the entrails of the Faubourg; and if
1046 III | surely go~to Rome, I will entreat all the powers of earth;
1047 IV | world. The~privileges above enumerated are the birthright of the
1048 VIII| report of his position,~enumerating with much minuteness the
1049 VI | enjoyed the steady gaze~that enveloped her in light and warmth.~ ~"
1050 VIII| were equally matters of~envy; and neither fortune nor
1051 IV | At the beginning of that ephemeral life led by the Faubourg~
1052 VIII| is a sort of~intellectual epicure, she has a head-voice. We
1053 VII | dignitary of the Church; and~the episcopal violet hue already appeared
1054 VIII| s astonishment was~only equalled by her humiliation. She
1055 IX | and commonplace with their equals, slippery with~the inferiors
1056 VII | dear"; but the "No" was equivalent to "Yes."~ ~"I am a great
1057 IV | small things, a cold prosaic era. Perhaps it takes a long~
1058 VI | tint. Everything~about her erred, as it were, by an excess
1059 II | which broke~out in volcanic eruption, filling his heart with
1060 IX | annoyance over the Duchess's~escapade, but all of them had learned
1061 VI | fearlessness in action;~nothing escaped his eyes; he could give
1062 II | flight forth into space, essaying on~her course to draw picture
1063 IX | cling as closely to the~pure essence as to its outward and visible
1064 X | a tree. The Chinese, an essentially~imitative people, were the
1065 IX | whenever the bell rang; to estimate the drain of life when a~
1066 VIII| no power on earth could~estrange them.~ ~"My dear Armand,
1067 IX | Paris, is as fine a coup d'etat~for a woman as that barber'
1068 X | growing weaker, it will last~eternally. Ah! I feel a sombre joy
1069 IX | of every noble house in~Europe--princes, dukes, and counts--
1070 II | out a life of work; he is evading a man's destiny in his cell. ~
1071 IX | she will go to~Court this evening--fortunately, today is Monday,
1072 VI | impression~upon a woman's ever-changing fancy.~ ~During M. de Montriveau'
1073 II | presence of the glory~of the ever-living God, became the utterance
1074 VII | demands of religion with~the ever-new sensations of vanity, the
1075 I | and there, a few stunted evergreen~trees mingling their waving
1076 VII | most~certainly tire, and to everlasting punishment for it afterwards. ~
1077 IX | her, you will be mine for~evermore? When you cut me off from
1078 I | the Most Christian King evidently stirred this nun's~heart
1079 VII | carry than the first. She evoked the terrors of religion.
1080 I | eclipsed the glories of the ex-votos of gold and silver hung
1081 IX | lost for~a while, and she exaggerated it perhaps beyond measure.
1082 I | for the heart; the heart~exaggerates everything; the heart weighs
1083 II | Christianity to~express the exaltation of the soul in the presence
1084 IX | can number~particularly excel. And yet only a Duchesse
1085 IX | some few Parisian salons excepted) the curious~observer finds
1086 IX | substance in it is a~rare exception, and boeotianism is current
1087 VI | erred, as it were, by an excess of delicacy.~ ~M. de Montriveau
1088 IX | and~interrupted herself to exclaim, "But this niece, this niece
1089 VIII| Serizy, who could~not help exclaiming, "Dear Antoinette! what
1090 VI | not~supposed to know how exclusive we are in our friendships
1091 IV | now bound to win and keep~exclusively. They must head the new
1092 X | sweet harmonies defects of~execution are lost; the pure spirit
1093 IV | great lady of the new~school exercised no influence at all over
1094 VIII| action, the most strenuous exertion of human energies, the~physical
1095 IV | whose connubial couch was~exhibited so absurdly to visitors
1096 IX | now nothing of that past exists."~ ~The light behind the
1097 VII | the mysterious power of expanding as of contracting~space. ~ ~
1098 II | fact, of that craving for~expansion which stirs in every noble
1099 IX | and enjoyed the feeling of expectation. Her~whole life was concentrated
1100 VI | she added. "They are~all expecting me."~ ~"Very well--go."~ ~"
1101 VII | me~simply speak to you of expediency. Would you forbid a woman
1102 VII | themselves; hope is a lie at the expense of the future; pride, a~
1103 VII | delivered herself of them, she experiences the~sensation which we are
1104 VIII| her, try the demand as an~experiment, insist peremptorily if
1105 IX | to the~card-tables. Her experiments were fruitless. She did
1106 VII | fall a prey to a kind of~expert to whom the vulgar give
1107 VII | perhaps~because the said experts are great PROVERS, and love,
1108 IV | tardy virtues by which they expiated their sins and shed so~bright
1109 X | reefs was now sufficiently explained. The owners of the vessel,~
1110 IX | application of this line explains the nature of the crisis~
1111 X | part in that incredible exploit, while~the nuns in his eyes
1112 VI | district that he wished to explore could only be reached on
1113 VI | of war, drove him on an exploring expedition~through Upper
1114 IV | distance from terrific popular explosions,~coolly judging the passion
1115 VI | man's exterior a better exponent of~his character; never
1116 I | for upon that side the exposure permits of the display~of
1117 IX | which~lent to it a peculiar expressiveness. She still retained a~hundred
1118 IV | of the poorest~creatures extant--the brainless coxcomb, whose
1119 VI | life? And never was a man's exterior a better exponent of~his
1120 VI | within the man, there~were no external signs; in society he was
1121 VI | man, he was now rich; or, externally at~any rate, he had all
1122 VIII| you have given me blank extinction. ~Perhaps you guess that
1123 IV | even~caste-patriotism was extinguished by it, and rivalry fostered~
1124 VIII| Well,~have her like an extra horse--for show. The match
1125 VIII| quite believed that she read extravagant~love in Montriveau's speech.
1126 VI | perhaps in woman a certain~exultation over diminished masculine
1127 V | it he?"~ ~She took up her eyeglass and submitted him to a very
1128 X | with their tortoiseshell eyeglasses~would hide himself in a
1129 VIII| if you so~much as stir an eyelid, if she thinks that she
1130 VII | costume. But in the~effect of eyelids and lashes, in the contraction
1131 VI | will~carry you off to his eyrie if you do not take care."~ ~
1132 IV | of them were worth their face-value.~ ~Not a single one among
1133 VIII| have decided myself for facile beauties;~they are tender,
1134 X | Artillery~Commission to facilitate his departure.~ ~Twenty-fours
1135 IV | century, are princes de facto. A great~artist is in reality
1136 IV | religion as a political factor, combined~with a thirst
1137 X | wrested from~Nature by that faculty of observation in which
1138 X | the convent was~doomed to failure.~ ~At the top of the rock
1139 III | fallen into contempt is a~roi faineant, a husband in petticoats;
1140 X | full of tenderness~sounding faintly from the cell. When he came
1141 III | should have looked the facts fairly in the face, as the~English
1142 VI | one surely, save the old fairy godmother of some princess
1143 X | by a hopeless love, and faithful--not to~memories of past
1144 III | I am not speaking of a faithfulness~that knows no bounds, for
1145 VII | de Langeais, like Hindoo fakirs, found the reward of~their
1146 X | those~lands. Montriveau's familiar knowledge of Eastern customs
1147 VIII| Respect me, I beg~of you. Your familiarity is all very well in my boudoir
1148 X | gradually,~like the sticks of a fan, to the top of the cliff,
1149 VI | dead.~ ~After the Emperor's farewells at Fontainebleau, Montriveau,
1150 VI | to a stand, refused to go farther, and threatened the~guide--
1151 VI | Your Eastern adventures fascinate me.~ ~Tell me the whole
1152 V | virtue. She was amiable and~fascinating; she flirted till the ball
1153 VI | There was an extraordinary fascination~in her swift, incessant
1154 VIII| not choose but wait with a fast-beating heart and eyes~fixed in
1155 IV | blow cut the thread of a~fast-expiring life, and a petty, smug-faced
1156 X | wagtails. She cannot travel faster than three~leagues an hour,
1157 X | worn out with tears and fasting, prayer and~vigils; the
1158 IX | to be for the elder; this fat man with the~little mind
1159 X | sea to a height of thirty~fathoms. Any attempt to climb the
1160 VI | just been furtively~reading Faublas. Of women he had nothing
1161 X | dull,~licentious times. Faugh! it is revolting. Those
1162 VI | exquisite embodiment of faults and fair qualities blended
1163 I | have missed the Theatre Favart in~Spain.~ ~At last in the
1164 VI | into the Guards. All~these favours, one after another, came
1165 VIII| every~thought--this I call a fearful crime!"~ ~"Monsieur"~ ~"
1166 VIII| a furious horse or~other fearsome beast; she will certainly
1167 IX | Bien-aime. Of her past charms of~feature, little remained save a
1168 VI | expressed by strongly marked features. He was short,~deep-chested,
1169 IV | physician; so well aware of~its feebleness, or so conscious that it
1170 IV | rank. But she hesitated feebly among old precedents, became~
1171 II | come to ask me."~ ~"As a fellow-countryman, I should be quite curious
1172 VII | a~lie between us and our fellows; and pity, and prudence,
1173 VI | understood son~metier de femme--the art and mystery of being
1174 I | into Spain to establish~Ferdinand VII once more on the throne,
1175 VIII| host of horrid doubts are~fermenting in my heart."~ ~"DOUBTS?
1176 IX | Family, it was one of those festival days that are long~remembered.
1177 X | glory only for love's high festivals.~ ~The General left his
1178 X | with flowers as~if for a festivity; the dinner was exquisite.
1179 IV | and traditions of bygone feuds~between the nobles and the
1180 VI | went home in the~first hot fever-fit of the first love that he
1181 V | were not many. ~There are fewer officers, in the first place,
1182 IV | success is no better than a fiasco. So far,~moreover, from
1183 VIII| nerves~and softened the fibres that you take to be so pliant
1184 IX | world. You will create a fidei commissum perhaps; and if
1185 IV | There~is a sort of moral fief held on a tenure of service
1186 VI | his life had been spent on fields~of battle. Of women he knew
1187 VI | His guide, like a very fiend, gave him back a cool glance
1188 II | fire of passion burned as~fiercely as in his own.~ ~Vespers
1189 III | century; the Louvre to the~fifteenth; the Palais, the Hotel Rambouillet,
1190 IX | still retained a~hundred and fifty thousand livres of her great
1191 IX | Grandlieu. Both were men of fifty-six or thereabouts, and~still
1192 X | wire-cables, not unlike the filaments which a certain species~
1193 I | doorways, belfry towers, and filigree spires, is a~spectacle surely
1194 II | donna's in the chorus of a finale. It~was like a golden or
1195 VI | of royalty, of kings, of~finance during their short reign
1196 VIII| a score of~women in the financial world, any one of them a
1197 VI | and a certain~thinness and fineness that recalled the portraits
1198 VIII| she devotes all her~care, finery, and vanity to her head.
1199 IX | her feet, which drove the~finest ladies of the young generation
1200 IV | to find~him, even in the fireless garret where he might happen
1201 II | represent~surrounded with the fires of love and seistrons of
1202 VI | if it were a question of firing the first shot on a~field
1203 VIII| have had the bounds of the firmament and of earth enlarged. It~
1204 VIII| of your clutches like a~fish, and you will never catch
1205 X | approach in this direction. If~fishing vessels or the people on
1206 X | cleft, a straight~line of fissure so fortunately placed that
1207 VII | over his face, clenched his fists, and set him~chafing and
1208 V | city is vexed by periodical fits of craving, a~passion for
1209 III | name; or that M. le Duc de Fitz-James,~descendant of the royal
1210 X | Montriveau hoisted the flag of the United States~before
1211 VI | over a word, or when words~flagged behind her thoughts, she
1212 VIII| crackling of the~mysterious flames.~ ~"Madame," he went on
1213 VII | growling and lashing of the flanks, and sprang~upon his prey;
1214 VI | complete~revolution. In a flash, with one single reflection,
1215 VI | threefold perfection that flatters his pride is no~argument
1216 VI | each~one his little dole of flattery--it seems to me that this
1217 I | those times by the English fleet,~its wealthy convent and
1218 IX | shaken off its bonds of flesh; whereas in~amorous ecstasy
1219 VIII| light from~the room beyond flickered below the fringed border.
1220 VI | marble to~Montriveau by the flickering light of a single candle
1221 VI | mind of the bright damosel flies that~hover now over water,
1222 IX | and led her up and down flights~of stairs, he was studying
1223 IV | which the nineteenth century flings~down in the market-place.
1224 II | once spoke so lightly and flippantly struck the General dumb~
1225 V | amiable and~fascinating; she flirted till the ball or the evening'
1226 VI | Montriveau turned, saw her~flit like a shadow across the
1227 IX | after thought rises~and flits across her brain, as clouds
1228 VI | loose ends of her scarf floated about her, putting~that
1229 X | pieces and buried under the floorboards for one~kiss on the Konigsmark'
1230 IX | corpulent, flourishing, somewhat~florid-complexioned men with jaded eyes, and
1231 IX | both were short, corpulent, flourishing, somewhat~florid-complexioned
1232 IX | rich like their lives to flow by easily and without~effort.
1233 X | the act of slipping on his flowered~dressing-gown, thinking
1234 VII | mystery of her continual fluctuations? Every morning she~proposed
1235 VII | reply to~the torrent of flute notes was a silence filled
1236 II | for her love, her melodies fluttered as a bird flutters about
1237 II | melodies fluttered as a bird flutters about her~mate. There were
1238 X | Ronquerolles. "Duchesses do~not fly off like wagtails. She cannot
1239 I | with its~white fringes of foam in contrast to the sapphire
1240 VIII| Lightnings flashed from the foiled lover's eyes, his face was~
1241 IV | methodical as the~Chevalier de Folard himself, gave himself up
1242 IX | together in despair, and~folded his arms.~ ~"Then, cannot
1243 I | the motionless flowers~and foliage of carved stone; look out
1244 IV | them, these petty great folk took a~dislike to any capacity
1245 III | working power. It naturally follows that these~forces are differently
1246 V | friend~Mme la Vicomtesse de Fontaine, one of the humble rivals
1247 IX | its appetite for common food. She reached home, at any
1248 IX | world, philosophers and fools, alike continually confound.~ ~
1249 VIII| was brought in, and a dim~foreboding crossed her mind, but the
1250 II | Superior here. Among other foreign~sisters there is one Frenchwoman,
1251 VI | reputation of a~fool is to be a foreigner in one's own country. Vehement
1252 VI | Quite otherwise. Anyone can foresee the rupture between~Mme
1253 X | oneself to bliss that is foreseen~and ardently desired. Alas,
1254 IX | heaven. ~But Passion is the foreshadowing of Love, and of that Infinite
1255 VI | on every occasion. And I forgave your~ingratitude in advance.
1256 VII | him that here was the~real forger of the Duchess's armoury
1257 IX | he never~comes back, he forgives nothing; and, if you love
1258 III | will see an aristocracy forming under your eyes;~there will
1259 VII | have been reduced to the~formula--"Submit to be mine ' words
1260 VII | deserts an adept in the formulas of feminine algebra. If
1261 IV | executioner's clutches, and now~forsooth must clumsily proceed to
1262 VII | raised a second line of fortification, a stronghold less easy
1263 III | those days. But when the~fortifications were pulled down, and the
1264 IV | extinguished by it, and rivalry fostered~among themselves. When the
1265 II | always a sublime battle fought first?~ ~At length it seemed
1266 X | wreck of a galleon which foundered thereabouts in 1778 with
1267 III | of Louis XIV, and set the fountain at his~gates--for which
1268 II | gallery round the cemetery. ~Fountains, green trees, and rows of
1269 X | was left alone she saw her fourteen letters lying on an~old-fashioned
1270 I | heart weighs the fall of a~fourteen-year-old Empire and the dropping
1271 III | Hotel~Saint-Paul was to the fourteenth century; the Louvre to the~
1272 IX | surely, to the human soul, as fragrance to~the flower that breathes
1273 VII | him back to a Christian frame of~mind; she brought out
1274 VI | boyish beliefs, illusions, frankness, and~impetuosity into middle
1275 VII | ended by resolving love into fraternal~caresses, harmless enough,
1276 VII | for her in~preliminaries fraught with peril for a woman less
1277 III | crossed the river to~breathe freely in the Faubourg Saint-Germain,
1278 VIII| And~yet when she had drawn freer breath, and enjoyed the
1279 V | patronising, friendly, or freezing~bows, with the air natural
1280 IV | qualities.~ ~Not one among the Frenchwomen of that day had the ability
1281 VI | length of a first visit is frequently a compliment, but~Armand
1282 IV | moves easily and without friction; the habit of mind~which
1283 IX | voice that deceived her fair~friend--~ ~"I am sorry to miss him.
1284 VIII| responding to her show of friendliness~by passionate demonstrations;
1285 V | her little patronising, friendly, or freezing~bows, with
1286 VI | exclusive we are in our friendships in the~Faubourg."~ ~The
1287 II | or silver thread in dark frieze.~ ~It was she! There could
1288 VI | heads of the War~Office took fright at uncompromising uprightness
1289 X | the century~and not its fringe. Perhaps a hundred women
1290 VIII| beyond flickered below the fringed border. Naturally,~the ominous
1291 I | the reef with its~white fringes of foam in contrast to the
1292 III | vows?" the General asked, frowning. ~"I did not think that
1293 VI | tongue~was mute, it was frozen by the conventions of the
1294 VII | should receive the earliest fruits. The married woman's~hesitations
1295 IV | name. The Rothschilds, the~Fuggers of the nineteenth century,
1296 VI | at Senegal, a half-dead fugitive covered with rags, his~memories
1297 I | shafts of~light from the fugue, as the sister introduced
1298 II | length, after the swaying fugues of delirium, after the~marvellous
1299 VIII| thought was like a talisman fulfilling the wishes of his~life.
1300 II | end. He understood to the fullest extent the~imagery of that
1301 VII | I am to suppose? I make fun of them;~they stand my petulance
1302 III | performance of different~functions, all of them, however, existing
1303 IX | It is by comparing the fundamental matter of jests, as~you
1304 III | in a body to follow his funeral--when the Duke, I say,~chose
1305 VI | merest Duchess's whim as furnished a Lope or a Calderon with~
1306 IV | maintained~sumptuousness of the furniture; the "atmosphere" in which
1307 II | belied the wrinkles that~furrowed her pale face.~ ~"Mme la
1308 II | key of high passion; and,~furthermore, let the seeker be a man
1309 I | attracted unhappy women from the furthest~parts of Europe, women deprived
1310 VI | the lad that has just been furtively~reading Faublas. Of women
1311 II | Very good. Now, spread that fury of search over five years;
1312 IV | calculate the petty workaday gains of~existence; the leisure;
1313 VI | security~of strength in his gait, bearing, and slightest
1314 I | impervious to sun or storm or gales of wind.~ ~The church itself,
1315 IX | should come to an end in Galicia, the Montriveaus~would succeed
1316 X | keep her dignity~among her gallantries. Indiscretion was the ruin
1317 VIII| men in Paris. As a man of~gallantry, his success and experience
1318 X | looking for~the wreck of a galleon which foundered thereabouts
1319 IV | had sold their~estates to gamble on the Stock Exchange. Again
1320 X | manned by treasure-seekers, a gang of men whose hobby was~well
1321 IV | Faubourg,~with some few gaps in continuity, was always
1322 X | difficulty in gaining the~convent garden, where the trees were thick
1323 IV | him, even in the fireless garret where he might happen to
1324 IX | she stopped its ill-omened garrulity. The twelve strokes of~midnight
1325 III | set the fountain at his~gates--for which beneficent action,
1326 X | rogues set down ten, like the~gazettes after a battle when they
1327 I | and shrines so bright with gems that they~eclipsed the glories
1328 IX | brain. ~She knew all the genealogies of every noble house in~
1329 VI | strange~and great. Women generally were so much the more smitten
1330 V | with the orphans of other generals who~fell on the battlefield,
1331 IX | finest ladies of the young generation to despair. Her voice had~
1332 IX | fortune, for~Napoleon had generously returned her woods to her;
1333 III | Moscow as in London, in Geneva as in Calcutta. ~Given a
1334 VII | brought out her edition of Le Genie du Christianisme,~adapted
1335 IV | and powerful, the nobles (gentilhommes) could choose their~chiefs
1336 VII | at every moment; some for gentleness,~others for tyranny. No
1337 VI | notes bearing~on various geographical and commercial problems,
1338 VII | requires a little more~geometry than people are wont to
1339 IX | ungrateful beings. When I was in Germany, did I not hear~young de
1340 II | precious words, looks, and~gestures became when love must baffle
1341 III | few words, she was but the ghost~of her former self. ~ ~"
1342 IV | rather than enthusiastic, gifted~with more brain than heart;
1343 IX | are~others to be gained by gifts, it is a vile world! Oh,
1344 IV | s ideas of religion, and gilding it with~poetry, these bunglers
1345 II | rapture of delight in a gilt-panelled boudoir, began~to vibrate
1346 IV | profound solitude in which her~girlhood had been spent to marry
1347 VIII| him, the most simple~and girlish mistress; she was the one
1348 VII | the~whole world for you, gladly; but it is very selfish
1349 VIII| was speaking, the Duchess glanced about her; it~was a woman'
1350 I | eight-sided windows of stained glass beyond the high~altar.~ ~
1351 X | reconnoitring the ground with their~glasses from the masthead, made
1352 VI | should gleam~through the gleaming folds. The Duchess was dazzling.
1353 VI | wholly ethereal; for as she glided towards~Armand, the loose
1354 I | rent sheer away in some globe-cataclysm; it rises~up a straight
1355 I | of the great musician, so gloriously known to Europe, and~the
1356 X | kiss on the Konigsmark's gloved finger!~ ~"Really, it would
1357 IX | pleasure had never yet set his glowing~feet; and over and over
1358 VI | his throat seemed to be glued by the desert~thirst. The
1359 X | through the streets of Paris, goaded by the~dull rage in her
1360 VI | surely, save the old fairy godmother of some princess in~disguise,
1361 II | of love and seistrons of gold--music~and light and harmony.
1362 IX | that little Mme Keller, Gondreville's~daughter; she is only
1363 IX | now, let us bid each~other goodbye. I like to think that you
1364 VI | express my~gratitude for your goodness very badly. At this moment
1365 IV | party. They were~accused of gorging themselves with riches and
1366 IX | year in the~Almanach de Gotha, wherefore without some
1367 IX | he neither the stone nor gout,~nor any other complaint,
1368 VII | Would you undertake to govern a nation of~logic-choppers?
1369 IX | is it not, that one~is governed wholly by one's senses?~ ~
1370 II | telling the alcalde and the governor that, feeling~suddenly faint,
1371 IX | she appeared in low-necked gowns of an evening (so high an~
1372 VI | their progress in her good graces, for she~publicly gave him
1373 IV | tradition of~courtesy, of true graciousness of life, of refined speech,
1374 VIII| occasion to waste your time in grafting your great nature on that~
1375 III | sunt, aut non sint, the grand words of the Jesuit, might~
1376 IV | the Duke calmly did as the grands seigneurs of the eighteenth~
1377 IV | and fine manners~of their grandsires; but something of all three
1378 VII | our liaison is taken for granted by all the~world, I shall
1379 IX | asked the Comtesse de~Granville, the attorney-general's
1380 IV | the people,~and quietly grasping the power, it allowed the
1381 X | is concerned. You are not grateful, my~dear niece. You will
1382 III | saw her face beyond the grating--the thin, white, but~still
1383 VIII| promise."~ ~Montriveau bowed gravely and went.~ ~"So Ronquerolles
1384 IX | inherited from your maternal great-aunt will go to pay for~his mistresses'
1385 IX | They inherit~through their great-grandfather.~ ~"Are you sure?"~ ~"I
1386 IX | de Pamiers (her maternal~great-uncle), and to her husband's uncle,
1387 VI | haughtiness,~and people were greatly taken with it. He was something
1388 VI | wide pool of water with greenness all about it, and a noble~
1389 IX | added, as she turned to greet the Vidame and the Marquis, "
1390 VIII| knife in~the Place de la Greve. Steel against steel; we
1391 II | pouring out a torrent of grief. ~Then on a sudden, high
1392 IX | yourself, child, and to grieve your~family?"~ ~"My family,
1393 VI | man, it would~have been grievous to see him grown so small,
1394 VIII| the~blood in their veins. Grim presentiment! Even as she~
1395 VI | temper. Their~Parisian's grimaces were lost upon M. de Montriveau;
1396 VIII| She lay passive in the grip of~fear. She thought she
1397 VI | could neither cry out nor groan, he lay down on the~sand
1398 IV | heads he rises,~he always groans in spirit to see so many
1399 VII | to whom the vulgar give a grosser name, it is perhaps~because
1400 IX | that belief, however ill~grounded it may be, you will do me
1401 VII | keep the dispute on moral~grounds for an indefinite period;
1402 VI | fell back~again among the groups of men gathered at a distance
1403 VII | politics~with a leonine growling and lashing of the flanks,
1404 X | even while I hear the last growlings~of the storm. When you went
1405 VIII| would last forever; love grows great through constancy. ~
1406 V | themselves, gave promotion~grudgingly in the service. In the artillery,
1407 VII | all that I wish without grumbling, you will not be~naughty;
1408 V | her adorers and~courtiers guaranteed her virtue. She was amiable
1409 VI | loyalty and character~offered guarantees of fidelity. M. de Montriveau'
1410 IX | annuity. She made over the Guebriant estate to her~niece, Mme
1411 VI | farther, and threatened the~guide--he had deceived him, murdered
1412 VIII| fresh cheeks, trim hair,~a guileful smile, and the rest of her
1413 IX | deeply~they scorned the guillotine of '89 as a foul revenge.~ ~
1414 III | ideas reappear in a new guise, and the~whole conditions
1415 IX | as the Bourbons. If the~Guises had shown a little more
1416 V | the first place, among the gunners~than in any other corps;
1417 II | quailed under a triple row of guns, now trembled before~this
1418 IX | soul there rose eddying gusts of tempest, raised~by vanity
1419 V | Like all shy men, he was habitually silent; but~his shyness
1420 X | took his arm, sprang into a hackney coach, and by a quarter
1421 VIII| the Duchess? Her eyes were~haggard in spite of her resolution
1422 VIII| seasonings. A woman that haggles~over herself, my poor boy,
1423 X | its own~lamps. Then she hailed a cab, and drove away, never
1424 IX | or thereabouts, and~still hale; both were short, corpulent,
1425 I | save on this half-European, half-African ledge of~rock could you
1426 VI | French~colony at Senegal, a half-dead fugitive covered with rags,
1427 I | But nowhere, save on this half-European, half-African ledge of~rock
1428 VI | Faubourg."~ ~The gracious, half-murmured words dropped one by one,
1429 IX | clock in the afternoon. At half-past eleven~that night M. de
1430 VI | though he was, was put on half-pay. Perhaps the heads of the
1431 IX | lower lips that had~begun to hang already. But for an exquisite
1432 I | in the loneliest valleys, hanging in mid-air on the steepest~
1433 IV | the throne as the House of Hanover at this day.~ ~In 1814 the
1434 VI | night."~ ~There was not a happier man in the world than Armand
1435 VIII| places in peace and live happily and without cares. Want
1436 X | back for the last time on happiness--to you, and you~only, I
1437 VIII| one~of them would prove a harder matter than the conquest
1438 IX | things, suspense is the~hardest to bear. Just speak; tell
1439 II | held his~little, frail, hardly-won happiness in her hands;
1440 VI | his claims. Adversity and hardship had~developed his energy
1441 VI | to share in a brave~man's hardships, and I feel them all, indeed
1442 VII | into fraternal~caresses, harmless enough, as it might have
1443 IV | by young,~conscientious, harmlessly employed energies. It was
1444 II | sounded in~other years amid harmonious surroundings of refined
1445 II | and gravity which~should harmonise with the solemnities of
1446 VI | turn love to~hate. She was harsh, exacting, irritable, unbearable;
1447 V | entered a room; she reaped her harvest of flatteries and some few~
1448 VI | he travels across it in haste from one inn to~another.
1449 X | talking together. He~tried to hasten them to a conclusion, but
1450 X | The carriage came. She hastened downstairs with convulsive~
1451 VIII| unheard-of thing," she said, hastily wrapping her~dressing-gown
1452 X | Armand, between us; and hatred would show~itself quite
1453 IV | coat of chain armour~and a hauberk,; he could handle a lance
1454 VI | shyness was thought to be haughtiness,~and people were greatly
1455 IX | his axe from London~will haunt me even in my sleep. So
1456 VIII| laughed at Montriveau; and he,~having omitted to consult his cornac,
1457 X | the~dress of a travelling hawker to brave the daggers of
1458 VI | hitherto satisfied~by the hazards of war, drove him on an
1459 VI | it aside with the plumed~head-dress. Do you call this coquetry?
1460 VIII| intellectual epicure, she has a head-voice. We call that kind of~poor
1461 IV | new forces as they once headed~the material forces; how
1462 III | the island, returned to headquarters, pleaded~ill-health, asked
1463 VIII| scaffold; but YOU . .~. ! You heaped up every sin that weakness
1464 VI | tenderness would give place to a heart-breaking hardness and~insensibility.
1465 IX | grown sweet, of intolerable heart-throbs, a day~when the heart squanders
1466 VIII| a chafing-dish from the hearth, burnt~perfumes, and purified
1467 IV | aspire to reign over all hearts--often because~it is out
1468 VIII| discovered, it was ready, heated, and boiling. ~Lightnings
1469 IX | at this very moment are heating another~cross, made on this
1470 III | have wasted~my life and the heaviest throbbings of my heart in
1471 IX | many times have we seen heirs-at-law~bringing a law-suit to recover
1472 X | devoted friends who were helping him in his~difficult enterprise,
1473 IX | will not be unkind~to a helpless woman who loves you. If
1474 VIII| kissed the Duchess's skirt hem, her knees, her feet; but
1475 X | along the corridor. Young Henri de Marsay,~the most dexterous
1476 VIII| like the wives of King~Henry VIII, have paid for such
1477 | hereafter
1478 | herein
1479 IX | Still, in spite of the~heresies of the endless sects that
1480 VII | visitors in the morning than heretofore; I mean~to be twice as frivolous;
1481 VI | Terse of speech, like a~hermit or a savage, his shyness
1482 IV | creature so complex? Capable of~heroism, yet sinking unconsciously
1483 VIII| the Duchess would say to herself--~ ~"This man is capable
1484 VII | fruits. The married woman's~hesitations and the religious scruples
1485 I | town, the church completely hides the solid structure of~the
1486 IX | will be~no possibility of hiding the mark with diamonds,
1487 X | were thick enough for a~hiding-place. After such great efforts
1488 X | than in your whole race of higglers that leave a woman to better~
1489 VI | She gave glimpses of the high-born courtesan within her,~vainly
1490 IX | Add~a few powdered curls, high-heeled pantoufles, a cap with~upstanding
1491 I | gnaw at the~stone below high-water mark. Any assault is made
1492 VI | palm-trees and crests of hill that should tell of the
1493 VI | there were no palm-trees, no~hills. He could neither cry out
1494 VII | and Mme de Langeais, like Hindoo fakirs, found the reward
1495 VIII| offence at the slightest hint, you ring~the bell, make
1496 IV | battlefield into the pages of history--all these things were so~
1497 VIII| least sorry that you came hither to find it~against your
1498 X | lent yourself to some cruel hoax,~monsieur?" Montriveau exclaimed. "
1499 X | treasure-seekers, a gang of men whose hobby was~well known in the United
1500 II | special permission from His Holiness, and the rule here~is equally
1501 VI | to sentimental folly with hollow flatteries.~ ~"You will
1502 VIII| feelings of these two had~hollowed out a great gulf between
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