1778-child | chimn-embod | embra-hollo | homel-money | monta-redou | redun-succe | succi-zones
bold = Main text
Chapter grey = Comment text
1503 II | place. He grew calm in that homely quiet. A sense of something~
1504 I | the~reverence due to the Homer of music. From among all
1505 IX | arranging to read her a~homily and to hold a consultation
1506 VII | calculations. With angelic honesty of purpose, he looked within,~
1507 X | travelled to~Spain as Lady Julia Hopwood's maid, that she had left
1508 VI | journey near at hand; the horizon line of sand was vast as~
1509 IX | did I not hear~young de Horn say, after supper, `If my
1510 X | to take the bull~by the horns. They would make a way to
1511 VII | mine ' words which seem horribly~selfish to a woman for whom
1512 VIII| Antoinette; but a host of horrid doubts are~fermenting in
1513 X | she heard nothing, and~was horrified when she came back to find
1514 VI | enabled him to survive~the horrors of that captivity; but his
1515 VIII| have her like an extra horse--for show. The match between
1516 IX | young men rushed about on horseback to make sure that the~carriage
1517 VI | for a mark and flinging horses'~knuckle-bones at his head.~ ~
1518 VI | betrayed into the hands of a hostile~native tribe. Then, stripped
1519 II | and confirmed his Spanish hosts in the high opinion they~
1520 IX | of you, my~forehead burns hotter than your fire!"~ ~Armand
1521 X | chocolate,~and a set of house-breaking tools. They climbed the
1522 VI | bright damosel flies that~hover now over water, now over
1523 X | Hudson~Lowe. To raise a hubbub over carrying off the Duchess
1524 X | more redoubtable than Sir Hudson~Lowe. To raise a hubbub
1525 IV | for instance, among the Huguenots, the~Coadjuteur in the time
1526 VI | in~his own esteem as he humbled himself to her; how to reward
1527 X | believe~yourself so great; in humbling you with the calm, indulgent
1528 VI | this?" the General asked~humbly when he had pressed that
1529 VI | adorers, and a means of humiliating~those who boasted of their
1530 VIII| with a great dignity and~humility in her bearing.~ ~"You are
1531 VI | But to be melancholy with~humorists, gay with the frivolous,
1532 II | realises that nothing save this~hundred-voiced choir on earth can fill
1533 IX | absurd rumour. There are hundreds of ways of~explaining things;
1534 IX | imagine the dull, frenzied hunger in the Duchess's eyes. As
1535 IX | sorry. He is a very good hunter. Do you~know how the Duchesse
1536 II | precious thing; and after hunting through his papers,~ransacking
1537 VII | happiness. Let them reign or be hurled~from the throne, little
1538 VI | more than a boy, into the~hurricane of Napoleon's wars; his
1539 X | Langeais the Duchess~was hurrying on foot through the streets
1540 V | than one demure~feminine hypocrite to instruct her in the art
1541 V | on~the part of complacent hypocrites. For women know how to say~
1542 IV | the Restoration. ~She was hypocritical as a rule in her passion,
1543 II | the~woman before him.~ ~An ice-cold hand, belonging, no doubt,
1544 IV | things that the man should be identified with the company in~which
1545 VII | afraid to try; he persecuted~ideologists. If you want to keep people
1546 VII | whole world besides, to us? Idle~words compared with my happiness.
1547 VII | untiring~devotion, to be idolised at every moment; some for
1548 VI | persisted.~ ~"When a man idolises you, how can he have vexed
1549 X | thought and misfortunes of no ignoble~kind? Is there not a beauty
1550 IX | too far? Alas! I sinned in~ignorance. I was as sincere in my
1551 II | II~Who has not known, at least
1552 III | III~But I shall endure it for
1553 II | joists and cross-beams of ilex wood. As the two~windows
1554 III | to headquarters, pleaded~ill-health, asked for leave of absence,
1555 IX | to her;~she stopped its ill-omened garrulity. The twelve strokes
1556 VII | a fierce demand for his illegally legitimate rights. ~The
1557 IX | recover the property from illegitimate~children? Every court of
1558 X | and again the attempted illusion~faded, the spell of his
1559 VII | you; you will see only one image there."~ ~"Do you talk about
1560 II | to the fullest extent the~imagery of that burning symphony;
1561 IX | flame which quickens the images of things, giving~to them
1562 VIII| could set him dreaming, imagining,~longing for the bliss of
1563 IX | attempt to say how~many imaginings the heart can condense into
1564 X | Chinese, an essentially~imitative people, were the first to
1565 VIII| not a man~gained ground immensely when a woman thinks about
1566 IX | spreading~from end to end of the immensity of Time steeps it all for
1567 VIII| folds between her brows;~immersed in bitter thoughts in that
1568 X | discovered by Cachin, the immortal creator of the harbour at~
1569 II | battle?" But if a woman immures herself in the cloister,~
1570 VIII| thought in his mind with~the impartiality of a man who is conscious
1571 IX | that will never be judged impartially until some poet~shall arise
1572 III | the thin, white, but~still impassioned face of the nun. All the
1573 VI | it to~pieces, with jerky, impatient movements that seemed to
1574 VIII| added she, "with a little~imperious air, go out of the room,
1575 II | daughter!" said the Mother~imperiously. The General slipped aside
1576 VIII| penitence. But if you~had the impertinence to ask in earnest for the
1577 I | with broad slabs of stone~impervious to sun or storm or gales
1578 VI | illusions, frankness, and~impetuosity into middle age, his first
1579 X | on women's faces by~the impetuous stirrings of thought and
1580 II | with pathetic weakness, is~implied by a woman's choice of the
1581 III | not call me Antoinette, I implore you. Memories of the past~
1582 IV | large for narrow minds; the importation required time, and in~France
1583 V | everything else about her imposed her~will upon others. Her
1584 I | fine, bold front gives~an imposing and picturesque look to
1585 VI | romantic figure, was even more impressed when she learned that~this
1586 IV | real force~of character, impressionable rather than enthusiastic,
1587 I | memories; the strongest impressions are dulled, till the sorrows~
1588 I | beauties peculiar to the style~improperly called Gothic.~ ~The larger
1589 IV | justices of the peace, by improving the~land, by opening out
1590 IV | reflecting never, or too late; imprudent to the~verge of poetry,
1591 X | sister left in charge had imprudently left~her post; there were
1592 IX | might apply the scourge with impunity~to a discreet friendship
1593 VIII| of restlessness and utter inability to move; she felt~as if
1594 X | convent at the most~seemingly inaccessible point; like General Lamarque,
1595 VII | The words give but a very inadequate idea of the discourse which~
1596 IV | lesson, and~through an utter incapability of regarding its interests
1597 VIII| passions, is not pride alone incapable of~engendering anything
1598 VI | fascination~in her swift, incessant changes of attitude. She
1599 III | attracts them;~they like the incisive sayings that hold the greatest
1600 VIII| reaching her heart.~ ~He inclined to think that there was
1601 VII | thoughts. How else explain the incomprehensible~mystery of her continual
1602 VIII| boudoir and~the house would be incontinently shut upon you. The tender~
1603 VI | contributed not a little to increase her reputation as an~extremely
1604 IX | time of tempest, while it~increases and multiplies the sweetest
1605 II | He declined, on a plea of increasing indisposition, to preside
1606 IX | s men could~ask such an indecorous thing of a woman of fashion.
1607 VI | of life that has not felt indefinable~rapture in his secret soul
1608 VII | on moral~grounds for an indefinite period; the material struggle
1609 VI | despot about him, and an indescribable suggestion of the security~
1610 VI | the next day in smoking an indeterminate~quantity of cigars in his
1611 III | always be the most infallible index of national~character. In
1612 VI | the scarcely~perceptible indications in the lie of the sands,
1613 VII | her; I will make myself indispensable; all the bonds of~habit,
1614 II | on a plea of increasing indisposition, to preside at~the banquet
1615 IV | In short, however effete individuals might be, the~party as a
1616 IV | If a man is indolent, the indolence shows itself in everything~
1617 IV | going on.~ ~If a man is indolent, the indolence shows itself
1618 VI | beyond cavil one of the great~inducements to the sentiment. Love would
1619 X | youth you must~feel some indulgence for women."~ ~"None whatever,"
1620 II | soul, who has not known the ineffable pleasure of finding that~
1621 IV | passion or semi-passion,~the ineffectual high aspirations, the actual
1622 VII | of God, and then of the inevitable~consequences. But I will
1623 X | within them~there is an inexhaustible wealth of tenderness and
1624 VII | bliss of love. And from inexperience, for want of the painful~
1625 VI | yet it gave the Duchess inexpressible~happiness to see that this
1626 IX | delight in kindling the inextinguishable fire in her veins. She~all
1627 IX | your forehead~the brand of infamy which your brothers the
1628 IX | equals, slippery with~the inferiors whom courtiers and statesmen
1629 X | Thirteen, with all their~infernal power, could reach the foot
1630 VIII| what kind of pain would he inflict? She~repented of her conduct.
1631 VIII| licks the wounds she has inflicted?"~ ~The Duchess burst out
1632 III | far~enough away from its influences who respond to them and
1633 I | his hopes of gaining some information as to the~sisters in the
1634 IV | the~world, and the soul informs the body.~ ~The women of
1635 VIII| effect? is it not~enough to infuriate the coolest of men? There
1636 I | that~hitherto the most ingenious and persistent efforts made
1637 X | beach at their feet. With ingenuity worthy of~these men who
1638 VIII| could find utterance~for ingenuous love. To listen to her words
1639 VIII| come~to nothing."~ ~Armand ingenuously made a kind of general report
1640 VI | occasion. And I forgave your~ingratitude in advance. An explorer
1641 I | wealthy convent and peaceable inhabitants were secure from~the general
1642 X | holding vinegar for her to inhale.~ ~"A carriage; quick!"
1643 V | general causes, other reasons, inherent in Armand~de Montriveau'
1644 IX | livres that you have~just inherited from your maternal great-aunt
1645 VI | world by the attempt to initiate him into the vanities of
1646 III | to~see money, power, and initiative in their leaders, hands,
1647 IV | wounded~in secret. Insult and injury in the face of the world
1648 VII | that you understand the ins and outs of it. You shall~
1649 VI | right to kiss his lady's~insatiable hands. Wherever Mme de Langeais
1650 X | Theresa's door and read the inscription, Sub invocatione sanctae~
1651 II | glance, and met the dark, inscrutable~gaze of an aged recluse.
1652 VI | her caprice, just as an insect teased~by children is made
1653 VI | heart-breaking hardness and~insensibility. Yet how paint her as she
1654 VI | side glance to express her insidious~friendship, for he was dumb
1655 IV | instead of flinging away the insignia which offended the people,~
1656 VIII| fever; he grew eloquent, insinuating. And~the Duchess tasted
1657 IX | bronze," said they;~"he insisted on making this scandal,
1658 VIII| tonight,~this morning, this instant. Go up to her, try the demand
1659 VI | combined to give her that instinctive coquetry which seems to~
1660 VII | playing with him; he divined instinctively that a devoted~love, a responsive
1661 X | determined to~search, or to institute a search, for her through
1662 I | Carmelites, where the rule~instituted by St. Theresa is still
1663 IV | proceed to the slaying of old~institutions.~ ~There are examples and
1664 V | demure~feminine hypocrite to instruct her in the art of playing
1665 X | interview, and no~doubt received instructions of some kind. Afterwards
1666 VI | feeling that he was only an instrument~on whom this woman played,
1667 II | sea; yet held apart by an intangible,~unsurmountable barrier!
1668 IX | of the kind in which the~intellects of the ten thousand Sevignes
1669 IX | according to her fancy, that is intelligible enough, but you have~a pretty
1670 III | Nothing contemptuous is intended by this statement. An~aristocracy
1671 VII | he came back to his place~intending to make a scene, a single
1672 VI | was innocent of any such intent. The famous explorer~spent
1673 X | probably guessed the Princess's intentions;~they took their leave.
1674 X | of~the organ, listening intently for one voice among the
1675 II | Sanctuary. The music is the one interpreter strong enough to~bear up
1676 VI | Montriveau during the brief interval before the~Duchesse de Maufrigneuse
1677 I | by~huge piers placed at intervals. Inside, the nave and its
1678 I | the flying buttresses~and intervening chapels which adorn almost
1679 VII | the meagre sum of lovers' intimacies long~denied, and at last
1680 VII | she was~steeped in the intoxicating bliss of repressed desire.
1681 VI | a woman to yield to~such intoxication when she must not and cannot
1682 IV | existence. There~was a certain intrinsic merit in all these people,
1683 V | not to return them.~ ~"Do introduce him; he ought to be interesting."~ ~"
1684 VIII| corner almost as remote from intrusion as~the desert itself, it
1685 VIII| aid that rapid power of intuition~which passion will develop
1686 IX | given to~these wonderful intuitions. Religious ecstasy is the
1687 IX | woman's~heart so suddenly invaded by Love. Mme de Langeais,
1688 X | Eastern customs made~him an invaluable travelling companion, and
1689 V | commanding officers~were not invariably the most remarkable men
1690 IV | the~world; but after the invasion of France, the return of
1691 VIII| leave me; I wish I could~invent some tie that might bind
1692 X | decency than to make an inventory of our hearts, to traduce
1693 IV | power was in its hands. It inverted the~terms of the proposition
1694 X | woman should wish to live, invested with all noble~feelings,
1695 VI | by some thread like~the invisible tie between the condemned
1696 VI | until ten o'clock."~ ~The invitation was given with such irresistible
1697 II | man, the worthy magistrate invited the confessor of the~convent
1698 X | read the inscription, Sub invocatione sanctae~matris Theresae,
1699 IV | life~for which all parties involuntarily respected them. But,~unfortunately,
1700 VII | to my~shame, and" With an involuntary gesture she interrupted~
1701 VI | pleased the sprightly lady to involve a rough soldier in a~labyrinth
1702 IX | unintentionally condemned me to irreparable~misfortune when they sacrificed
1703 VIII| might bind us to each other irrevocably."~ ~"Ah!" she said, under
1704 VI | She was harsh, exacting, irritable, unbearable; Montriveau~
1705 II | expenditure of the liveliest irritation of~soul, who has not known
1706 III | be.~ ~And in this way the isolation of the great, the sharply
1707 VII | Nantes; or if, when it is issued, you publish a Revocation;
1708 VIII| with a coverlet flung over it--a red cloth with~a black
1709 III | every convent in France, Italy, Spain, Sicily, and~America.
1710 IV | which alienated them from itself--all these~things combined
1711 IV | IV~These ideas demand further
1712 IX | IX~"Armand," she began, "it
1713 IX | as he always has~been, a Jacobin under the Lilies of France."~ ~"
1714 III | glow, as of a porcelain jar with a faint light shining~
1715 IX | And, in~truth, the tinsel jargon which circulates among the
1716 IV | were brought together; they jarred upon each other; there was~
1717 X | was more passion in M. de Jaucourt's little finger~than in
1718 IV | their faces against Court jealousies; and the disaffection of
1719 VI | pulling it to~pieces, with jerky, impatient movements that
1720 III | the grand words of the Jesuit, might~be taken as a motto
1721 VIII| conscience by some private, Jesuitical ukase of her own; Armand'
1722 II | The piece of admirable Jesuitry told of such love and regret,~
1723 X | to the Liberals, to those Jesuits of~Robespierre's that are
1724 II | prayer. The alcalde coming to join his guest found him in tears~
1725 X | entreaty of~the rest he had joined the expedition; the Minister
1726 X | amounts to nothing when your jointure and~position and independence
1727 II | consisted of bare~unornamented joists and cross-beams of ilex
1728 VI | to be seen, till people jokingly called~him "Her Grace's
1729 V | Republic nobly,~and fell by Joubert's side at Novi. Bonaparte
1730 III | Again~and again I made long journeys with a false hope; I have
1731 VIII| bitter~smile, sometimes the Jovelike knitting of the brows; or
1732 X | not to~memories of past joys--but to a love that was slighted.~ ~"
1733 IX | noblesse that will never be judged impartially until some poet~
1734 IV | popular explosions,~coolly judging the passion and ferment
1735 VII | more cruel~than the old judicial torture. But as for going
1736 VI | teased~by children is made to jump from one finger to another,
1737 IV | by~raising the dignity of justices of the peace, by improving
1738 X | you think. Listen to my justification, I owe it~to you; and you
1739 X | well-conducted age. I am justifying the century~and not its
1740 X | specially chosen for her shallow keel and light mastage, so that~
1741 VI | she so~ready-witted that a keen-edged jest never brings her into~
1742 VI | Langeais. The Duchess was keen-sighted enough to see these~desertions
1743 VI | forth. The greatest joy, the~keenest anguish, that he had yet
1744 IX | smitten with that little Mme Keller, Gondreville's~daughter;
1745 II | whose hands touched the keys. It was all~colourless and
1746 VIII| This man is capable of killing me if he once finds out
1747 X | axe, mine is God's; yours kills, mine saves. Your~love was
1748 IX | nature, took a~delight in kindling the inextinguishable fire
1749 I | spoliation. The storms of many kinds~which shook the first fifteen
1750 VII | obedience. The priest~and the king--that means you, and me,
1751 IX | it said that his~northern kinsfolk were most kind in every
1752 VIII| She would wipe away your kisses, my~dear friend, as indifferently
1753 VII | am a great ass," he said, kissing her hands. The terrible~
1754 VI | close resemblance to General Kleber; and the likeness~still
1755 VIII| his head still lay on her knee. "Ah! and loved far~more
1756 VIII| bites more deeply than the knife in~the Place de la Greve.
1757 IX | a woman as that barber's knife-thrust, which so affected~Canning
1758 VIII| black and white, queen and knight,~conscientious scruples
1759 IV | so are the~weapons. The knight-banneret of old wore a coat of chain
1760 VIII| sometimes the Jovelike knitting of the brows; or his~leonine
1761 VIII| carefully he untied the knots that bound her feet.~ ~"
1762 VIII| you were giving her~the knout. Duchesses are made of hard
1763 VI | mark and flinging horses'~knuckle-bones at his head.~ ~Montriveau
1764 X | floorboards for one~kiss on the Konigsmark's gloved finger!~ ~"Really,
1765 VII | early one evening, found M.~l'Abbe Gondrand, the Duchess'
1766 VI | involve a rough soldier in a~labyrinth of nonsense, commonplaces,
1767 I | permits of the display~of lacework in stone and of other beauties
1768 IV | aristocracy was still more~lacking in a sense of its wider
1769 IV | nought. Now when a literature lacks a~general system, it fails
1770 VI | a novice in love as the lad that has just been furtively~
1771 VIII| kind of~poor creature a Lais of the intellect. You have
1772 VIII| swelled with the storm like a lake~rising in flood.~ ~"If you
1773 X | inaccessible point; like General Lamarque, at the~storming of Capri,
1774 IV | needed its support. While Lamartine,~Lamennais, Montalembert,
1775 IV | support. While Lamartine,~Lamennais, Montalembert, and other
1776 IV | of entail fell before~the lampoons of a man who made it a boast
1777 X | mist, lighted up by its own~lamps. Then she hailed a cab,
1778 IV | hauberk,; he could handle a lance well and display his~pennon,
1779 X | make a journey to those~lands. Montriveau's familiar knowledge
1780 VI | granite hid the glorious landscape. It~seemed to Armand that
1781 II | he~knows neither of the languages which you speak"~ ~The aged
1782 VI | ingeniously befrilled, lying languidly~stretched out upon a sofa
1783 VIII| tears and affectations~and languors and melting phrases; then
1784 X | With the help of a dark lantern they read the names~luckily
1785 VII | the~effect of eyelids and lashes, in the contraction of the
1786 VII | with a leonine growling and lashing of the flanks, and sprang~
1787 IX | s~daughter; she is only lately married, and has a great
1788 VI | rapture of love surely was latent in the freedom of her~expressive
1789 VIII| gives~them a pretty wide latitude short of the last transgression.
1790 VI | congratulated him, half laughingly, half in~earnest, on the
1791 X | closet for six weeks, like Lauzun, to~keep up his mistress'
1792 IV | many~dukes like the Duc de Laval, whose modesty made him
1793 IX | heirs-at-law~bringing a law-suit to recover the property
1794 IV | and a petty, smug-faced lawyer came forward~with the axe.
1795 IV | cast on the top, like the lawyers of 1830;~and instead of
1796 VIII| responsibilities that love lays on him while he tastes the~
1797 VI | persons whose~sensitive taste leads them to avoid banalities,
1798 X | anchor in safety half a league away from the~reefs that
1799 X | travel faster than three~leagues an hour, and tomorrow we
1800 VI | that he had taken a new lease of life. His~guide, that
1801 IX | elegant~rendering of the legal axiom, "The form is of more
1802 VII | demand for his illegally legitimate rights. ~The Duchess had
1803 III | Maine--the Benjamin among his legitimated offspring. And~indeed, for
1804 X | disguise the poverty of their legs, would cross Europe in the~
1805 VI | second magnitude. And~those lesser powers were delighted to
1806 VII | and at length, when our liaison is taken for granted by
1807 VI | keeps such promises is a libertine. This much I~believed I
1808 VII | of degradation from the~licence of her thoughts. How else
1809 X | they were coarse, dull,~licentious times. Faugh! it is revolting.
1810 VIII| the~desert tigress that licks the wounds she has inflicted?"~ ~
1811 VI | a panther's, beneath the~lids that fell so seldom. The
1812 X | Minister of War~appointed him lieutenant-general, and put him on the Artillery~
1813 VIII| all that was best in his life--his dearest~beliefs. The
1814 VIII| soul;~that these must be lifted one by one like the veils
1815 X | more passionately than the lighthearted~girl, the woman of four-and-twenty,
1816 II | lips~that once spoke so lightly and flippantly struck the
1817 VII | retorted, and anger flashed in~lightning from his eyes.~ ~"No, dear";
1818 VIII| ready, heated, and boiling. ~Lightnings flashed from the foiled
1819 X | she said, "I should have liked to spare such of~your illusions
1820 VI | General Kleber; and the likeness~still held good in the vigorous
1821 VI | now for the ball if she likes."~ ~The Duchess probably
1822 IX | been, a Jacobin under the Lilies of France."~ ~"Oh! not quite
1823 VIII| that you had allowed her to lime you. You~are wasting your
1824 III | others, born~within its limits, who may yet be driven forth
1825 X | few words. He wrote a few lines to Ronquerolles, sent off
1826 IV | nobles and the Crown still lingered on, the~aristocracy was
1827 II | And the longer a dreamer listens to those giant~harmonies,
1828 IV | Faubourg roused itself from its listlessness and reserve.~ ~This was
1829 VIII| A black sofa, a table littered with papers, two big easy-chairs,~
1830 IV | strength, its greatness and littleness, might have been found~for
1831 IX | leave us to our~pleasant littlenesses. What do you say, Antoinette?"~ ~
1832 II | set apart in the sublime liturgy of Latin Christianity to~
1833 II | prodigious expenditure of the liveliest irritation of~soul, who
1834 IX | Langeais sent her carriage and~liveried servants to wait at the
1835 IX | the Duchess's carriage and liveries. The first of~these was
1836 VII | up a musical theme, and lo!~heaven is opened for them,
1837 VI | is the fault. You make me loathe the ball~and this world
1838 VIII| came away from the ball, loathing human nature, and even then~
1839 IV | unremitting~attention to local interests, by falling in
1840 IX | to remind~the reader that Locke, once happening to be in
1841 X | experience that, unless you~are locked up (but locking people up
1842 X | unless you~are locked up (but locking people up is out of fashion
1843 VIII| played with~his dark, thick locks, in that boudoir where she
1844 VIII| a couch in a bachelor's lodging, her hands and~feet tied
1845 I | which supported the organ loft; and~this part of the structure,
1846 VI | seems to me," she returned loftily, "that if anyone has a~right
1847 VII | undertake to govern a nation of~logic-choppers? Napoleon was afraid to
1848 VII | example of the primitive logician who preceded the Pyrrhonists~
1849 VI | disbanding~of the Army of the Loire, but the King's government
1850 I | existence. Buried~away in the loneliest valleys, hanging in mid-air
1851 II | that still room, and the~lonely convent in the sea, were
1852 X | men ashore in the~ship's longboat, and made them so drunk
1853 II | and shared an unchanged,~longed-for love, that now she lay dying
1854 IX | craved with a vain continual~longing--all these things told upon
1855 III | compared with the~infinite longings of my love. If your remorse
1856 II | definitely expressed, and looming the larger in the imagination;~
1857 IX | pantoufles, a cap with~upstanding loops of lace, black mittens,
1858 IV | ordered him to be ruthless, to lop away~the old wood, and cut
1859 VI | Duchess's whim as furnished a Lope or a Calderon with~the plot
1860 IX | to you."~ ~He held out a Lorraine cross, fastened to the tip
1861 X | battle when they count up the losses of the~beaten side. And
1862 III | fourteenth century; the Louvre to the~fifteenth; the Palais,
1863 VIII| this moment you are not lovable." ~Then I have still to
1864 VII | and soothing. They were~lovers--lovers only could have been
1865 IX | said that~she appeared in low-necked gowns of an evening (so
1866 X | redoubtable than Sir Hudson~Lowe. To raise a hubbub over
1867 IX | would feel that a woman lowers herself~by this piece of
1868 X | lantern they read the names~luckily written on every door, together
1869 VIII| It~seemed to him that his lungs drew an ampler breath.~ ~
1870 VIII| gnaw his heart out; you lured him with caresses; you~left
1871 VIII| curtain. But Montriveau's lurid face was turned upon her;
1872 IV | Constitutionalist Richelieu~lurking in the entrails of the Faubourg;
1873 VIII| qualifications which add such lustre in Paris to a reputation
1874 IX | felt the loneliness of the~luxurious couch where pleasure had
1875 II | became when love must baffle lynx eyes and tiger's~claws!
1876 VII | Montriveau. "The Restoration, madam, ought~to say, like Catherine
1877 VIII| s sake?"~ ~"In this way, madame--you have touched the axe,"
1878 X | and the passion and the madness~ ~"I will say no more, Armand;
1879 II | Theresa, and a picture of the Madonna which~adorned the grey parlour
1880 X | out. She was crying like a Magdalen, but she never made a~sound,
1881 III | face of the nun. All the magic charm of youth~that once
1882 X | will be caught!"~ ~With magical swiftness of movement, prompted
1883 II | military man, the worthy magistrate invited the confessor of
1884 I | there are many convents~magnificently adapted to the purpose of
1885 VI | certain stars of the second magnitude. And~those lesser powers
1886 VI | the frank~innocence of a maiden soul, the perils of love'
1887 VIII| feel, the General saw all maidenly~beauty in her. He had some
1888 III | Louis XIV for the~Duc de Maine--the Benjamin among his legitimated
1889 I | As he crossed from the mainland, scarcely an hour's distance,
1890 IV | antecedents of~the petits maitres of the time of the Fronde,
1891 IX | the arrears of her life of make-believe.~ ~She went out at last
1892 II | slow course of her moral malady. How day by~day she deadened
1893 X | made at Marseilles on a Malayan~model, enabled them to cross
1894 VI | temptation to descend to malignity. But at each moment her
1895 IX | Commander of the Order of Malta. His neck~had always been
1896 X | clear and as spotless as Mambrino's~sword after Sancho had
1897 V | brought up; that her mother managed~cleverly that in some way
1898 VI | the plot of the Dog in the Manger. She would not suffer another~
1899 VI | realise the dreams of earliest manhood.~ ~Is there a man in any
1900 VI | all women knew the art of manifesting. Yet~her whole conversation
1901 X | gave out that the brig~was manned by treasure-seekers, a gang
1902 IX | do to keep them all?--To manoeuvre carefully~instead of falling
1903 VI | meaningless talk, in~which he manoeuvred, in military language, as
1904 III | Uzes family left their fine mansion, and in our time it was~
1905 III | the splendour of its great mansions, its great~gardens, and
1906 III | life in a mercantile or~manufacturing district are completely
1907 IX | was the victim~of love's marches and countermarches.~ ~"What
1908 X | of the riding whip to his mare, who sped off like~a bullet
1909 III | at the angle of the Rue Marie Stuart and the Rue Montorgueil. ~
1910 III | were pulled down, and the market gardens beyond~the line
1911 IV | century flings~down in the market-place. Young men, shut out from
1912 VI | Penelope's progress is by~marking its outward and visible
1913 VIII| disgrace by which society marks out~the criminal, you may
1914 IV | had made a point of never marrying below its rank since the
1915 IV | command? And what is the marshal's baton~without the innate
1916 IX | raddled her~cheeks with Martin's classic rouge. An appalling
1917 VIII| to pass in a~moment from martyrdom to heaven. Montriveau grew
1918 II | fugues of delirium, after the~marvellous rendering of a vision of
1919 VI | mystery of being a woman--most~marvellously well; she knew, to admiration,
1920 VIII| axe with which a man in a mask cut off Charles the First'
1921 X | her shallow keel and light mastage, so that~she might lie at
1922 X | with their~glasses from the masthead, made certain that though
1923 VIII| extra horse--for show. The match between the~sofa and confessional,
1924 IV | vocation, are scarcely a match-all~these things should contribute
1925 VII | solitary plaint of some~mateless bird dying alone in a virgin
1926 X | their number, a~skilled mathematician, had calculated the angle
1927 X | The singing at vespers and matins filled him with~unutterable
1928 X | Sub invocatione sanctae~matris Theresae, and her motto,
1929 IX | of~these was the Baron de Maulincour. That young officer had
1930 IV | at heart~as aged by the maxims of those about her; versed
1931 VI | by step into a hopeless maze, meaning to~leave him there
1932 II | He went to bed, when the meal~was over, to avoid questions;
1933 III | when words lose~their old meanings, and ideas reappear in a
1934 | meantime
1935 | meanwhile
1936 X | This time she took her own measures, and bribed M.~de Montriveau'
1937 IV | something of the~egoism of Medea in her life, as in the life
1938 VII | to say, like Catherine de Medici, when she heard that the
1939 V | was less to be feared from mediocrities. The~artillery was a separate
1940 IX | on which you had better meditate: A woman~ought never to
1941 II | different natures, coloured by meditative ecstasy, upspringing~with
1942 II | earth."~ ~The words were so meekly spoken by the voice that
1943 VIII| Duchess sat listening; her meekness was unfeigned; it was no~
1944 VII | well; now we will go to the~meeting-house.' Now 1815 was your battle
1945 VIII| look at my neck in such a melodramatic way that you seem to~me
1946 VIII| affectations~and languors and melting phrases; then you shall
1947 IX | astonishment, and asked if~he was a member. `Yes,' said he, `I don'
1948 IX | the~Tuileries. The elder members, of Mme de Langeais's family
1949 IX | prevent a descent into the membranes of the nose, which~lent
1950 VIII| Montriveau, and there was~menace in the sound of his voice.~ ~"
1951 VII | laughing within herself over mental anguish far more cruel~than
1952 III | very habits of life in a mercantile or~manufacturing district
1953 VI | It was a fancy, such~a merest Duchess's whim as furnished
1954 X | the torture is, and you mete it out to me! During~those
1955 I | after~kingdom during his meteor life.~ ~In the minds of
1956 VII | time of the Terror--the one method by~which your odious Revolution
1957 IV | de Langeais, by nature as methodical as the~Chevalier de Folard
1958 IV | himself, gave himself up methodically to his~own tastes and amusements,
1959 VI | the Duchess understood son~metier de femme--the art and mystery
1960 III | between a class and a whole~metropolis but visible and outward
1961 I | nuns by lawful means! The~metropolitan or the Pope would scarcely
1962 X | a~cargo of treasure from Mexico. The people at the inn
1963 I | loneliest valleys, hanging in mid-air on the steepest~mountainsides,
1964 I | empty life, had grown~the mightier for every fruitless effort
1965 IX | in every country yields mighty little gold to the crucible
1966 VI | really strong men,~he was mild of speech, simple in his
1967 VIII| but if the brute shows a milder mood and does not~utterly
1968 VII | setting him down a~thousand miles away from the boudoir, discussing
1969 I | stunted evergreen~trees mingling their waving leaves with
1970 X | disposal of statesmen, kings, ministers, bankers, or any human~power,
1971 II | transition from the major to the minor, the organist told her~hearer
1972 IV | forgot the laws which a minority must~observe if it would
1973 VIII| position,~enumerating with much minuteness the slender rights so hardly~
1974 VII | spirit~and senses. Andiamo mio ben can draw tears of joy
1975 I | rose-window suspended by a miracle of art above the centre~
1976 VI | that captivity; but his miraculous escape~well-nigh exhausted
1977 X | fashion to its base. That miraculously light, yet~perfectly firm,
1978 IX | chimney-piece and the tall mirrors, seeking the trace of an~
1979 IX | justice? To put an end to your misapprehensions," continued he,~taking up
1980 X | the~beginning of all the mischief. The philosophists--the
1981 VI | any rate, she looked~up mischievously as the clock struck twelve.~ ~"
1982 VII | bonds of~habit, all the misconstructions of outsiders, will make
1983 V | her. It is~enough for the miser to know that his every whim
1984 X | stirrings of thought and misfortunes of no ignoble~kind? Is there
1985 VI | Armand; and by~the look of misgiving in them, he knew that he
1986 IV | agree to anything; never was mismanagement so~clumsy; and La France,
1987 I | General had asked for the mission to gratify private motives
1988 II | least the General could not mistake--in~this heart, dead to the
1989 IX | great-aunt will go to pay for~his mistresses' amusements. You will be
1990 IX | upstanding loops of lace, black mittens, and a decided taste for~
1991 VI | destroyed the very French quick~mobility of her person. There was
1992 IV | atours, her ladies, who modelled their manner and~their wit
1993 X | the daggers of a Duke of~Modena, and to shut himself up
1994 VI | After this, his habits were modified all at once; contrary to
1995 II | after shade through languid modulations, and in a~little while the
1996 VI | kiss. A woman's hand, still moist from~the scented bath, has
1997 VIII| too am trembling at this~moment--lest the angel of my life
1998 IX | her part to win for that~monarch his appellation of le Bien-aime.
1999 II | nothing if not "catholic and monarchical," took~occasion to inform
2000 I | height, doors, and windows of monastic buildings. From the side~
2001 IX | evening--fortunately, today is Monday, and reception~day--and
2002 IX | the other day with that moneyed~Chaussee-d'Antin set. Your
|