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2003 IV | While Lamartine,~Lamennais, Montalembert, and other writers were
2004 III | splendid hotel in the Rue~Montmartre in the reign of Louis XIV,
2005 III | notion~that M. le Prince de Montmorency, for instance, should continue~
2006 III | Marie Stuart and the Rue Montorgueil. ~Sint ut sunt, aut non
2007 X | compelled to wait till the~moon passed out of her last quarter.~ ~
2008 X | poetasters,~scribblers, and moralists, who hung about our waiting-women,
2009 VII | lead a nation by ideas of morality than by fear of~the scaffold,
2010 VIII| presence weighed upon her morally and physically with a sense
2011 VIII| witty, clever, and what was more--courageous;~he set the fashion
2012 VI | between the~pairs in these "morganatic" unions. Her mocking disdain~
2013 IX | She was still in her loose morning-gown; and even as she came in,~
2014 VIII| Marquis looked sullen and~morose, was it not plain that she
2015 X | that I am still only on~the morrow of your vengeance. And now
2016 VI | the~very qualities that mortify them. So long as my reputation
2017 III | the same~everywhere, in Moscow as in London, in Geneva
2018 I | nun seemed to have chosen~Moses in Egypt for special study,
2019 III | wife; no love, not even~motherhood, could give me absolution...
2020 II | cell. The Visitor or the Mothers Superior can alone~give
2021 II | precipice. A woman has but one~motive--she is a woman still; she
2022 X | Tomorrow~we will all of us mount and ride. The police will
2023 I | closer to~God, seeking Him on mountain peaks, in the depths below
2024 I | mid-air on the steepest~mountainsides, set down on the brink of
2025 VI | lived to~comfort those that mourned, to encourage high virtues,
2026 X | granite seemed~impossible; a mouse might as well try to creep
2027 X | bears your name ought to be moved by~sentiments which do not
2028 IX | while it~increases and multiplies the sweetest joys; for they
2029 IV | bound today, as of old,~to multiply its points of action, so
2030 I | church itself, built by the munificence of a Spanish family,~is
2031 X | merchant brig, fitted~out and munitioned for active service, set
2032 VI | guide--he had deceived him, murdered him; tears of rage and~weariness
2033 VIII| his dearest~beliefs. The murderer simply lay in wait for his
2034 VIII| him on the plank, where~murderers pay for their crimes with
2035 IX | I was yours wholly," she~murmured in his ear. "I felt a longing
2036 VI | short,~deep-chested, and muscular as a lion. There was something
2037 II | music? Religion, love, and music--what are they~but a threefold
2038 VIII| fell naturally enough to musing over M. de Montriveau's~
2039 VI | prove it? His tongue~was mute, it was frozen by the conventions
2040 IX | your daughters~suitably!" muttered M. de Navarreins, addressing
2041 VII | And so they parted, mutually content. The Duchess had
2042 VIII| necessary to~respect the mysteries of its boudoirs, where many
2043 X | saint or saints and the mystical words which every nun takes
2044 VIII| is permitted to certain mystics, in ecstasy, to~behold the
2045 VII | mind to issue your Edict of~Nantes; or if, when it is issued,
2046 VIII| I will take you by the nape of the neck, Mme la Duchesse,
2047 I | French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars; but as this~island
2048 IV | were all the rage. But the narrow-minded leaders of a time of~great
2049 I | of France. The~musician's nationality was revealed.~ ~"We find
2050 VI | his manners, and kindly natured;~although it seemed as if,
2051 VIII| Light of God. Love would be naught without the belief~that
2052 VII | grumbling, you will not be~naughty; tell me so, my friend?
2053 VI | curse.~ ~The guide came nearer, silenced him with a steady
2054 VIII| thrusting him back~as he came nearer--"in the first place, you
2055 VII | caresses, but~she had her nec plus ultra of passion; and
2056 III | their manner of living,~necessarily implies that in the highest
2057 IV | the cause of religion~and necessitated a good deal of hypocrisy;
2058 VIII| and the rest of her almost neglected. Is not~this true to the
2059 IX | him,~and remarked to his neighbour--~ ~"So you have sold Tornthon?"~ ~"
2060 IV | they wished to rise to the neighbourhood~of the throne, and mingle
2061 IX | not~here to talk about my nephew, but of your own interests.
2062 VIII| him as~Poppaea played with Nero--many women, like the wives
2063 IV | woven themselves into a network over~the country, they could
2064 VIII| with their heads. Then the~newspapers inform everyone, rich and
2065 IV | the deficiency. They stood nice about M. de~Talleyrand's
2066 IX | s duty to look after his nieces, he ought to~have a position;
2067 X | last quarter.~ ~For two nights Montriveau, wrapped in his
2068 VI | discovery to the sources of~the Nile, he had had an argument
2069 X | and~vigils; the woman of nine-and-twenty, who had passed through~
2070 VI | Very well--go."~ ~"No--go on. I will stay. Your
2071 III | street which~bears that nobleman's name; or that M. le Duc
2072 VII | should not have~invented some nobler way for a man to confirm
2073 IX | they are related to all the~noblest houses of Burgundy. If the
2074 X | The philosophists--the nobodies~whom we admitted into our
2075 II | only man there. He tramped~noisily up the nave, clanking his
2076 III | Montorgueil. ~Sint ut sunt, aut non sint, the grand words of
2077 VIII| revealed by the Duchess's~nonchalance, and his heart swelled with
2078 II | fro along the quay in the~noonday heat. Thither the priest
2079 X | the brig lay to off the north-west shore~of an island within
2080 IX | have heard it said that his~northern kinsfolk were most kind
2081 X | your Werthers, none of your notabilities, as they are called,~never
2082 IV | And this was even more~notably the case in 1820. The Faubourg
2083 X | which corresponded with a notch made~in a pole that reached
2084 VIII| As the Duchess~finally noted that the pattern was the
2085 VI | sheer happiness~through such nothings as these! Oh, the Duchess
2086 IX | foul revenge.~ ~Another noticeable trait in all the four was
2087 VIII| Parisienne. Have~you ever noticed a grisette tripping along
2088 VIII| drop these~romantic boyish notions of yours. If when once you
2089 IV | now~counted absolutely for nought. Now when a literature lacks
2090 IV | which the~feminine nature is nourished, and remain mistress of
2091 X | underfoot as you have~just done. Novelists and scribblers brought the
2092 V | fell by Joubert's side at Novi. Bonaparte had placed his
2093 IV | undoubtedly the~sovereigns nowadays. The times are changed,
2094 VI | upon his~guide; but the Nubian hoisted him on his shoulders,
2095 VI | Montriveau was~among her numerous train of adorers, and a
2096 I | the~island was the only nunnery in Spain which had baffled
2097 X | is at~home." The Vidame, obedient after the manner of the
2098 IX | how joyfully the nobles obeyed the King~though their heads
2099 IX | when I resisted~love, I was obeying all the instincts of woman'
2100 V | balls and subsequent visits,~objectless triumphs, and the transient
2101 VI | Langeais herself in the~objects of her choosing; they revealed
2102 IV | squeamish sense of noblesse oblige which~suited well with the
2103 VI | dialects, his discoveries, and observations. ~One story will give an
2104 IV | authority, clung with fatal obstinacy to its shadow,~and over
2105 IX | wrong, is there no~way of obtaining forgiveness? No way of making
2106 III | of political~harmony are obvious to the least intelligent
2107 VII | without discussion (as happens occasionally~with some artless souls),
2108 IV | life wholly filled~with occupations which become contemptible
2109 III | and in our time it was~occupied by a banker. Later still,
2110 VI | unexplored Central Africa which occupies the~learned of today. The
2111 VIII| and the elder branch may occupy~high places in peace and
2112 VIII| shadows; but as it did not~occur to her at the time that
2113 VII | one method by~which your odious Revolution could enforce
2114 I | except~the high altar and the officiating priest. The grating itself~
2115 III | Benjamin among his legitimated offspring. And~indeed, for people
2116 I | and silence everywhere;~oftener still there is silence over
2117 X | fourteen letters lying on an~old-fashioned stand, all of them uncreased
2118 IV | shown by the court ladies of olden~time in their wantonness,
2119 IV | artist is in reality an oligarch; he represents a whole century,~
2120 IV | better to~found a strong oligarchy, they should have honestly
2121 IV | when it could~only be an oligarchy--two very different systems,
2122 IX | and a decided taste for~ombre. But to do full justice
2123 VIII| fringed border. Naturally,~the ominous light roused her curiosity;
2124 VIII| Montriveau; and he,~having omitted to consult his cornac, was
2125 II | to heaven, prayer in its~omnipotent moods, prayer tinged by
2126 VIII| only choose to exercise~one--the right of the judge over
2127 IX | remained in her head during one-third of her lifetime; but she~
2128 X | letter, like the preceding ones, remained~unanswered. This
2129 VIII| she had conceded nothing? ~Onlookers know the rejected lover
2130 I | cathedrals, nor~are there openings of any kind in the walls
2131 IV | an army without a base of operation. It had utterly failed~to
2132 IX | Then, pray, what are his opinions?"~ ~"Very unsound."~ ~"Really,"
2133 IV | social force, for which his opponents, by dint of study and~a
2134 III | customs are diametrically opposed. ~ ~Nothing contemptuous
2135 X | upwards and downwards in opposite directions, so~that baskets
2136 VII | But if the time of her opposition on the ground of the marriage~
2137 VIII| physically with a sense of~oppression that scarcely ceased when
2138 VIII| that she took it for an optical delusion.~ ~"Madame," Armand
2139 IX | drink in the sweetness of orange-blossoms or~volkameria-flowers compared
2140 X | who brought her a cup of orange-flower water from~time to time.
2141 IV | famous men of letters, a few oratorical triumphs in the Chambers,~
2142 II | human genius. It is a~whole orchestra in itself. It can express
2143 VI | called~him "Her Grace's orderly." And already he had made
2144 I | had taken refuge in the organ-loft. And yet, in spite of~this
2145 IV | was neither compact in its~organisation, nor consequent in its action;
2146 IV | triumph, if it~but chooses to organise itself under a leader.~ ~
2147 VI | apparent indifference of an Oriental, the scarcely~perceptible
2148 VI | the more smitten with~this original person because he was not
2149 IV | domestic~life of the Duchesse d'Orleans, whose connubial couch was~
2150 V | school at Chalons, with the orphans of other generals who~fell
2151 I | after the taking of Cadiz, ostensibly to require the~recognition
2152 VIII| life long, I suppose. Why, Othello was a mere child compared~
2153 VI | loses her honour, she is an outcast in any~rank of life; and
2154 VIII| you ring~the bell, make an outcry, and turn your lover out
2155 IX | perfect model of~aristocratic outline, slim and slender, supple
2156 VI | vigorous forehead, in the outlines of his~face, the quiet fearlessness
2157 VIII| low. You~possibly think of outrage; for myself, I have no such
2158 VII | you understand the ins and outs of it. You shall~be free
2159 IV | of power. And if from the outset the Crown lacked an adviser~
2160 VII | the misconstructions of outsiders, will make for me;~and at
2161 III | enthusiasm which at first~outstrips sober reason.~ ~So, to begin
2162 III | absolution... What can you say to~outweigh the uncounted thoughts that
2163 X | feet and throw the body overboard; and if~ever you think of
2164 II | by emotion which wellnigh overcame a strong man's~heart? Had
2165 VIII| compromise me. My woman might overhear you. Respect me, I beg~of
2166 VI | heart. ~Montriveau should overleap one difficulty after another;
2167 VII | guess that~society would be overturned if people were always calling
2168 X | time, will live only to overwhelm you with her tenderness;~
2169 VI | banalities, refrained from~overwhelming him with questions and compliments.
2170 IV | in which the~fortunate owner of landed estates (a rich
2171 X | sufficiently explained. The owners of the vessel,~according
2172 VI | sunset. It lay only a hundred paces~away; a vast ledge of granite
2173 X | If it had not been for a pack of poetasters,~scribblers,
2174 VII | The Duchess had made a~pact that left her free to prove
2175 X | tell me where to find the page that~would be cut in pieces
2176 IV | the~battlefield into the pages of history--all these things
2177 VII | convictions, General, I am pained to~think. It would be dreadful
2178 II | satisfaction sought long and painfully is attained~at last, he
2179 VIII| any kind broke the grey~painted surface of the walls. A
2180 I | its riches,~its valuable paintings and shrines so bright with
2181 VI | of a sarcasm between the~pairs in these "morganatic" unions.
2182 IX | that she grew thinner and paler and more dejected~every
2183 I | burning~sky, imagine a few palms here and there, a few stunted
2184 VI | blazed in eyes calm as a panther's, beneath the~lids that
2185 IX | powdered curls, high-heeled pantoufles, a cap with~upstanding loops
2186 IX | sentiment ever conducted on paper~or by word of mouth may
2187 VII | her~mind. She took up her parable and said--~ ~"We have not
2188 IX | after all, is a woman's~parachute, and a husband also stands
2189 VI | before him the earthly paradise of the most~beautiful oasis
2190 IX | entered in duplicate on the parchment of her brain. ~She knew
2191 VIII| nature. The code of their parish gives~them a pretty wide
2192 VI | the commonplaces of which~Parisians are lavish on every occasion.
2193 VII | be yours."~ ~And so they parted, mutually content. The Duchess
2194 II | the~convent, and asked for particulars of its endowment and revenues,~
2195 I | women from the furthest~parts of Europe, women deprived
2196 X | the door at the end of the passage."~ ~He threw open the door
2197 IX | that is~meant by that word PASSION--she suffered. Through all
2198 IX | driven me to find a~singular pastime," replied the Princess,
2199 III | These social~differences are patent in all ages; the fact is
2200 VII | wish to ruin me, you try my patience in endless~ways. Hush, that
2201 X | your~little consumptive patients with their tortoiseshell
2202 IV | and instead of taking the patron's place, like a great man,
2203 V | had distributed her little patronising, friendly, or freezing~bows,
2204 IV | perusal to the list of~the patronymics of the House of Peers.~ ~
2205 VIII| carefully to me," he continued, pausing to add solemnity to his~
2206 VIII| she was under the lion's paws; she quaked, but she did
2207 IX | stimulated to no purpose. She was~paying the arrears of her life
2208 II | not eternal~silence, deep peace--the sense of the Infinite?
2209 I | its wealthy convent and peaceable inhabitants were secure
2210 I | seeking Him on mountain peaks, in the depths below the~
2211 VIII| Ronquerolles burst into a peal of laughter so heartless,~
2212 I | wonderful sound of bells pealing~out over the open sea. There
2213 X | chair by her side.~ ~"My pearl," said she, "in this world
2214 IX | a thin voice that~agreed peculiarly well with their ideas and
2215 II | Surely it is in some sort a pedestal on~which the soul poises
2216 IX | from the street-boy to the peer of~France, that the observer
2217 IV | discourse, the hereditary peerage and law of entail fell before~
2218 VIII| servants, waiting~with her pelisse, went down to order her
2219 II | a lie. How many days of penance must expiate that lie!~
2220 VI | only way of following such Penelope's progress is by~marking
2221 VI | the way;~no traveller had penetrated before into that part of
2222 I | every religious house in the Peninsula, or in Europe for~that matter,
2223 VII | the~charming sins of his penitent. In the ecclesiastic's bearing~
2224 IV | lance well and display his~pennon, and no more was required
2225 IV | taste of the times.~ ~But, pent up together in the Faubourg
2226 I | five years, in~which the pent-up passion, chafing in an empty
2227 IV | themselves inside out to~see if peradventure there was a Constitutionalist
2228 IV | intelligent nation in the world perceived clearly that the~restored
2229 VI | an Oriental, the scarcely~perceptible indications in the lie of
2230 VIII| as an~experiment, insist peremptorily if it is refused. You might
2231 VI | coquette, and education had perfected her. Women envied her, and~
2232 V | witness to her personal perfections. Then~followed the discovery
2233 VIII| chafing-dish from the hearth, burnt~perfumes, and purified the air. The
2234 VIII| VIII, have paid for such a perilous delight with all the~blood
2235 VI | innocence of a maiden soul, the perils of love's voyage, the~thousand
2236 V | for the city is vexed by periodical fits of craving, a~passion
2237 III | particular~spot. It is a periodically recurrent phenomenon which
2238 III | this, they perish as Rome perished, and Venice, and so many
2239 X | gives to the body before it perishes.~ ~"Look here," said Ronquerolles
2240 IV | where he might happen to be~perishing of cold; they should have
2241 III | idea of unity which~should permeate the life of an aristocracy;
2242 V | sort of fever of vanity and~perpetual enjoyment, which turned
2243 II | innumerable thoughts of this kind perplexed his mind, the~voice of the
2244 IX | moralist finds a far more perplexing problem~before him if he
2245 IX | choose carefully. You see~the perplexities of the position. In every
2246 VII | Napoleon was afraid to try; he persecuted~ideologists. If you want
2247 IV | wax~more powerful under persecution than in its day of triumph,
2248 VIII| to spare the rod. Do~you persevere. Ah! when pain has thoroughly
2249 IX | look ahead a little. If you persist in making a scandal--I have~
2250 VI | proofs of affection. She persisted.~ ~"When a man idolises
2251 VII | this suitor, for the man's persistence~was beginning to frighten
2252 IX | her woods to her; so that~personally and in the matter of possessions
2253 VII | interests of all honest people~personified. There, my friend, just
2254 VIII| suddenly the woman felt a cold~perspiration break from every pore. She
2255 X | aerial descent~which should persuade the nuns that the Devil
2256 IV | material superiority, was fully~persuaded of his intellectual superiority.
2257 VI | reflections that had yet perturbed his mind, Armand de Montriveau~
2258 IV | he gives an intelligent perusal to the list of~the patronymics
2259 VIII| character and thoughts~seemed to pervade it. No decoration of any
2260 VI | flower, pulling away all the petals one by one; and now she~
2261 IX | de Montriveau died at St.~Petersburg," said the Vidame. "I met
2262 IV | high~sphere known as le petit chateau. Thus surrounded,
2263 IV | neither the antecedents of~the petits maitres of the time of the
2264 VII | fun of them;~they stand my petulance and insolence pretty quietly,
2265 IX | they~had experience of such phenomena of nervous power; at a later
2266 III | a periodically recurrent phenomenon which presents~ample matter
2267 VI | soldier, wax enthusiastic with~philanthropists over the good of the nation,
2268 X | of all the mischief. The philosophists--the nobodies~whom we admitted
2269 VII | conscious that the alphabet and phraseology of~music are but cunning
2270 VIII| weighed upon her morally and physically with a sense of~oppression
2271 IV | a hand to any political physician; so well aware of~its feebleness,
2272 IX | sake alone.~ ~While the physiologist can define love promptly
2273 X | fellow in the family to pick a~quarrel with this Montriveau?"
2274 II | still see the~Superior's piercing eyes. He was afraid of her;
2275 I | further strengthened by~huge piers placed at intervals. Inside,
2276 IV | house take up~arms from the pile of weapons which the nineteenth
2277 I | itself~was divided up by the pillars which supported the organ
2278 IX | flight without~draggling her pinions in humiliation; rise gracefully
2279 X | attracted by young, smooth,~pink-and-white beauty, or, in one word,
2280 IX | success. The Duchess might be piqued, the vain Parisienne might~
2281 X | the~town and convent, like pirates, and leave not a single
2282 X | pleasures.~ ~An extremely light pirogue, made at Marseilles on a
2283 VII | her curiosity to such~a pitch that she scarcely rose to
2284 VIII| return, he is not to be pitied, he has no right to complain.
2285 IX | bartering their ideas for such pitiful small change.~ ~The Duke
2286 IV | sarcophagus; it were something pitilessly cruel to burn the dead~body
2287 VII | can draw tears of joy or pitying~laughter at the will of
2288 X | have you owe the gift to~pityWhat is this that I have written?~ ~"
2289 VII | other ears, as the solitary plaint of some~mateless bird dying
2290 VII | your purpose definitely planned~out. You say--`For a certain
2291 IV | advantage of the peace to plant itself in the heart of~the
2292 X | the cliffs, and was firmly~planted in the beach at their feet.
2293 VII | resigned himself; he~talked of Platonic love, did this artillery
2294 II | sounded, but it was another player, and not the nun of~the
2295 VI | scarf to pieces, as a child plays with a~flower, pulling away
2296 III | returned to headquarters, pleaded~ill-health, asked for leave
2297 X | salvation in two minutes, if it pleases you to damn yourself;~well
2298 III | with which the ambitious plebeian is apt to cover his~designs,
2299 IX | spent our~lives in hearing plebeians say IF. IF brought about
2300 VII | Charter, which is simply a pledge given to maintain the interests~
2301 VI | whole future is solemnly~pledged to fulfil it, and everything
2302 VII | gesture in which~a terrible plenitude of emotion found expression.
2303 IV | a minister. ~There were plenty of nobles fitted to serve
2304 VI | Lope or a Calderon with~the plot of the Dog in the Manger.
2305 VI | much for~you."~ ~She had plucked her scarf to pieces, as
2306 VI | and lay it aside with the plumed~head-dress. Do you call
2307 VII | caresses, but~she had her nec plus ultra of passion; and when
2308 II | as for the sister, the poem meant future,~present, and
2309 I | were, but one series of poems in action, a~man who all
2310 X | had not been for a pack of poetasters,~scribblers, and moralists,
2311 IX | different conditions which poets and men~of the world, philosophers
2312 VI | off a declaration of love point-blank at one so far above~other
2313 IX | long while. The man that pointed~out the Court to his wife
2314 IX | of love, while you were~pointing to death... Strength and
2315 II | pedestal on~which the soul poises for a flight forth into
2316 VIII| long as~his life lasts, by poisoning every hour of it and every~
2317 X | corresponded with a notch made~in a pole that reached to the top
2318 X | of us mount and ride. The police will put us on her~track
2319 IV | of a novel and~spirited policy--these men, to repeat, were
2320 X | s~sword after Sancho had polished it up.~ ~But, at two o'clock,
2321 VI | with the frivolous, and politic with ambitious~souls; to
2322 X | darkness. Each man carried a poniard, a provision of chocolate,~
2323 VI | shoulders, and showed~him a wide pool of water with greenness
2324 IV | meant to please one of the poorest~creatures extant--the brainless
2325 VIII| child; to play with him as~Poppaea played with Nero--many women,
2326 III | pulled down at once by the populace. The people always wish
2327 III | France if~this idea could be popularised. The benefits of political~
2328 III | importance to the working population. And what is order,~reduced
2329 III | narrow thoroughfares of a populous~quarter? The very habits
2330 III | a~burning glow, as of a porcelain jar with a faint light shining~
2331 VIII| perspiration break from every pore. She had thought all along~
2332 X | hurried home to ask~the porter whether he had seen a lady
2333 IV | Antoinette, a beautiful and portionless girl, was married to M.~
2334 VI | fineness that recalled the portraits of the Middle~Ages. Her
2335 IV | Faubourg~Saint-Germain grew positively older.~ ~Etiquette, not
2336 IX | personally and in the matter of possessions she was a woman of no~little
2337 IX | so that there will be~no possibility of hiding the mark with
2338 X | barefooted,~took up their posts along the corridor. Young
2339 VI | body of the~letter; the postscript with the principal thought
2340 IX | strangulation stock,~that his cheeks pouched over it a little, and he
2341 IX | old white glove. Add~a few powdered curls, high-heeled pantoufles,
2342 VII | After all, the Duchess was practically separated~from her husband;
2343 VII | theory~was but scanty; in practice she knew nothing whatever;
2344 VII | evening with a woman whose prattle amuses you?--a woman whom
2345 I | world, the convent stood out~pre-eminent for a stern discipline which
2346 VII | by her voice. She used no preacher's~commonplaces, no rhetorical
2347 X | French history.~ ~"This preamble, my dear child," she continued
2348 X | them, disguised by way of precaution~in a Carmelite's robe, exactly
2349 IV | hesitated feebly among old precedents, became~a bigot by force
2350 X | Montriveau. That letter, like the preceding ones, remained~unanswered.
2351 I | set down on the brink of precipices, in every~place man has
2352 IX | could; while~there was a precision and a grace about the movements
2353 VIII| over M. de Montriveau's~prediction. Arrived in her own courtyard,
2354 IX | up to a certain point our predominant~tastes are conditions of
2355 VI | be introduced. She would~prefer him above the others; she
2356 IX | senses?~ ~Mme de Serizy's "preferences" had always been for commonplace~
2357 IV | undermining~authority; they preferred instead to fight, and to
2358 IV | heartless, but too often he prefers to~listen to his intellect.
2359 IV | continually obliged to bow to the prejudices~and follies of its rear;
2360 VII | slightest danger for her in~preliminaries fraught with peril for a
2361 X | Eleven days were~spent in preparation, before the Thirteen, with
2362 X | tried to look on all these preparations as a~young woman's jest;
2363 VIII| to other feelings which~prepare the way for love. And then--
2364 III | none the less think it a preposterous notion~that M. le Prince
2365 VI | was not this a delightful presage of a new interest~in her
2366 VI | on therefore according to prescribed~rule. The anecdotes which
2367 I | faint those so~unaccountable presentiments might be, never was human
2368 VI | trifles, while the habit of~preserving his self-respect before
2369 II | increasing indisposition, to preside at~the banquet given by
2370 IV | against a kind of innate presumption in themselves. ~Perhaps
2371 IX | gesture,~thinking that the pretence of harshness was over.~ ~
2372 VI | from duty on any plausible~pretext, nor blinked the consequences
2373 IV | recognition? Nothing. If the prettiest of~women were left alone
2374 X | beauty, or, in one word, by prettiness. In some~faces love awakens
2375 VIII| feel the emptiness of his~previous existence? There was a terrible
2376 II | the~mass of singing as a prima donna's in the chorus of
2377 IV | Etiquette, not an institution of primary necessity, might have~been
2378 IX | Quinze. In her beautiful~prime, so it was said, she had
2379 VII | follow the~example of the primitive logician who preceded the
2380 IV | abolition of the law~of primogeniture thought only of itself,
2381 IX | honest~woman, I should be prince-regnant!' `IF?' We have spent our~
2382 III | surrounding quiet in keeping with princely~revenues drawn from great
2383 III | that you would leave your prison for me; that this very night
2384 VI | Until now I have only known privation; now I~know that I can be
2385 VIII| has a plighted lover no privilege whatsoever?"~ ~"But, monsieur,
2386 VII | imagine that I am to be the prize of a crime? Do you want
2387 IX | finds a far more perplexing problem~before him if he attempts
2388 IV | now~forsooth must clumsily proceed to the slaying of old~institutions.~ ~
2389 IX | heroic of Mme de Langeais to proclaim herself so frankly. Now~
2390 VII | by the manifestation of prodigiously vulgar desires. ~We become
2391 IX | soldier's uniform, which~produces an effect upon the feminine
2392 VIII| the words seemed like a~prognostication of a vengeance which her
2393 VI | directed his~enthusiasm to a project of great importance, he
2394 III | the middle classes and the proletariat may be said to be its~organising
2395 VII | any case she was glad to~prolong any quarrel, if it bade
2396 II | Casting about for~a plea for prolonging his stay, it at once occurred
2397 VI | be more~sensible of the prompt attention than I), but the
2398 VIII| and judge in my cause, and~pronounce and carry out the sentence.
2399 VI | Duchess~shows a preference," pronounced Mme de Serizy.~ ~And who
2400 VIII| contempt for Armand's~dark prophecies, was really frightened.
2401 IX | evening, even while you were prophesying evil, I~felt convinced that
2402 VIII| reprisals in some~unheard-of way proportioned to their condition, and
2403 VI | undiscovered~worlds shrunk to the proportions of a she-coxcomb's boudoir. ~
2404 VII | fluctuations? Every morning she~proposed to herself to shut her door
2405 IV | inverted the~terms of the proposition which called it into existence.
2406 X | single duchess trampled the proprieties underfoot as you have~just
2407 VI | already highly strung~by the prospect of dreadful difficulties,
2408 IX | without stopping, and left her prostrate.~ ~"Can he be playing with
2409 II | Was the woman he loved~prostrated by emotion which wellnigh
2410 V | their children under the~protection of the Republic. Armand
2411 IV | hypocrisy; a certain attitude of~protest on the part of loftier and
2412 VII | lost in~right. Political Protestantism has gained an ascendancy
2413 VI | courtesan within her,~vainly protesting against the creeds of the
2414 IV | self-contained; she put herself proudly above the world~and beneath
2415 II | gown of the~colour become proverbial. Her bare feet were hidden;
2416 VII | the said experts are great PROVERS, and love, in spite of~its
2417 VII | blasphemy and railed~against Providence. The Duchess grew angry
2418 X | man carried a poniard, a provision of chocolate,~and a set
2419 VII | our fellows; and pity, and prudence, and~terror are cunning
2420 IV | of his time? The wise and prudent~head of a party is continually
2421 VI | her good graces, for she~publicly gave him preference over
2422 VII | when it is issued, you publish a Revocation; if~you should
2423 IX | critics should condemn the puerility of the~opening of the forthcoming
2424 IV | the noblesse were still so puffed up with~the notion of their
2425 VIII| he returned, gracefully puffing the~last whiff of cigar
2426 VII | amplifications. No. She had a~"pulpit-tremor" of her own. To Armand's
2427 II | throbbing with the~rhythmical pulse of the sounds. Then, in
2428 VI | that is right. I like~punctuality. It is the courtesy of kings,
2429 X | de Montriveau. The Vidame punctually came towards~two o'clock
2430 IX | He is one of Buonaparte's pupils, and he has~a position.
2431 IV | families, who often came of purer descent than the~nobles
2432 VII | sufficiently to~suit her own purposes, she played with it again
2433 VII | she said,~laughing and pushing him back, gently however.~ ~"
2434 VIII| me that the Duchess was a~puzzle to you? I would have given
2435 VII | logician who preceded the Pyrrhonists~and denied movement. Montriveau
2436 VIII| shall be all right after a quadrille," she answered, giving~a
2437 II | hands; and he, who had~never quailed under a triple row of guns,
2438 VIII| joys. He went along the Quais to see the widest~possible
2439 VIII| under the lion's paws; she quaked, but she did not~hate him.~ ~
2440 VI | given the Duchess every qualification for the part of~coquette,
2441 VIII| was wanting in his case,~qualifications which add such lustre in
2442 X | Perhaps a hundred women of quality were~lost; but for every
2443 IX | she could,~"You must have quarrelled with M. de Montriveau? He
2444 VII | that man know all about our quarrels and my love for~you?"~ ~"
2445 X | door at eight o'clock; at a quarter-past~eight she had gone. I have
2446 VI | might have done at close quarters with Napoleon. She took
2447 VIII| You will have it?" queried she, and there was a trace
2448 IX | passive in reply to the questionings of~her hand.~ ~At length,
2449 IX | therefore be resumed by two~questions--"Is it passion? Is it love?"
2450 VII | afford to lose time or to~quibble over their joys was still
2451 IX | them of that flame which quickens the images of things, giving~
2452 IX | wreck of the reign of Louis Quinze. In her beautiful~prime,
2453 IV | there were times when she~quitted her sceptical attitude for
2454 X | finger~than in your whole race of higglers that leave a
2455 IX | her~heart stretched on the rack before curious witnesses;
2456 IX | wore long gloves, and raddled her~cheeks with Martin's
2457 IV | shone a divine~brightness, a radiance of youth that blended all
2458 VI | half-dead fugitive covered with rags, his~memories of his former
2459 X | traduce us~one and all, and to rail against the age by way of
2460 VII | himself to blasphemy and railed~against Providence. The
2461 VIII| be never so~little of a rake, he wins in three moves.
2462 IX | you must see that we all rally round her and give the~lie
2463 III | fifteenth; the Palais, the Hotel Rambouillet, and the Place~Royale to
2464 X | they lay below the~ordinary range of the most powerful telescope.
2465 IX | and he does not care a rap for~anyone but himself;
2466 VIII| there came to his aid that rapid power of intuition~which
2467 VIII| attacked by~several men, who rapidly flung a handkerchief over
2468 VI | he would be a very lucky rascal!" ~But the General said, "
2469 IV | semi-political~survey. The wish to re-establish a large fortune was uppermost~
2470 I | the royal~authority was re-established there. Some few Constitutional~
2471 VII | Gondrand on the necessity~of re-establishing the Church in its ancient
2472 VII | the experience of terrible~reactions within himself. A set purpose
2473 IX | perhaps as well to remind~the reader that Locke, once happening
2474 VI | of splendour? is she so~ready-witted that a keen-edged jest never
2475 VI | The Duchesse de Langeais, realising that a fleeting glory was
2476 III | aspect, while the~underlying realities undergo no essential alteration.~
2477 V | she~entered a room; she reaped her harvest of flatteries
2478 III | old meanings, and ideas reappear in a new guise, and the~
2479 X | Ronquerolles when Montriveau reappeared on~deck, "THAT was a woman
2480 III | Saint-Germain, where palaces were~reared already about the great
2481 VI | the doers rather than the reasoners, the sanguine~rather than
2482 VII | want to keep people from reasoning, you must~give them something
2483 VII | they awaken no memories, recall no~ideas. Something nevertheless
2484 IV | the spirit of~the age, by recasting their order to suit the
2485 III | expenditure, the other the receipts. Consequently their manners~
2486 II | beauty.~ ~"She does not reckon years now," the good man
2487 IX | events altogether out of the~reckoning. This being so, fortunately
2488 II | inscrutable~gaze of an aged recluse. The Mother might have been
2489 IX | and crossed the boudoir, recollecting as~she did so how often
2490 VI | colourless before the~bare recollection of the least sensation stirred
2491 VIII| the pleasures which she reconciled with her~conscience by some
2492 IX | troubling your felicity, but of reconciling it with~social usages. We
2493 IX | pretensions are solemnly recorded year by year in the~Almanach
2494 VI | victim. At last M.~Montriveau recovered strength enough for a last
2495 VII | disobey God?" she asked him, recovering a~voice grown faint in the
2496 X | up~all hope. A man never recovers from those feelings. You
2497 VII | from which there is no recovery. My belief in you~was one
2498 III | spot. It is a periodically recurrent phenomenon which presents~
2499 IV | from adopting a policy of redemption, and looking for~new forces
2500 VIII| excitement~and transport which redoubled Montriveau's lowering looks.
2501 X | his eyes were much more redoubtable than Sir Hudson~Lowe. To
2502 VI | raise a certain number of redoubts for him to carry~by storm
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