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2503 VI | many young men who carry a~redundance of such sweet memories in
2504 IX | already. But for an exquisite refinement of~accent, an urbane courtesy,
2505 IV | brilliant~life and gaiety, reflecting never, or too late; imprudent
2506 II | surface of the wood was a bad reflector, the light in the place~
2507 IX | salons know how one mirror reflects another. ~The Duchess, with
2508 I | the first~rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious~
2509 VI | them to avoid banalities, refrained from~overwhelming him with
2510 VII | brave~the consequences of refusal without some motive; nothing
2511 VII | her stock of excuses for refusing herself to~his love. He
2512 X | Maufrigneuse triumphantly refuted the scandals that were~circulating
2513 IX | in~stature? The giant had regained the height that he had lost
2514 VI | everything even his own death, is~regarded simply as a means to the
2515 IV | up the traditions of the Regency, filling cleverer~women
2516 X | the dressing-room of the~Regent's daughter at the risk of
2517 IX | cannot recollect, under any~regime, a love worth the price
2518 IX | every zone. ~In the higher regions they must perforce talk
2519 X | had caused you a single~regretBut, no, I will not tell you
2520 I | enthusiasm,~that not a single man regretted that he had come to the
2521 VII | coxcombs come here~just as regularly every afternoon between
2522 IX | no one can deny, but--ill regulated to the last degree. Well,~
2523 VIII| in that boudoir where she reigned a queen,~the Duchess would
2524 IV | If the noblesse meant to reinstate themselves, the better to~
2525 VIII| nothing? ~Onlookers know the rejected lover by various signs and
2526 IX | by Love. Mme de Langeais, rejoicing in~this power of speech,
2527 IV | It was the time~of the rejoicings over the Duc de Berri's
2528 IX | long time of waiting. A relapse of~intense agitation set
2529 IX | the Princess; "they are related to all the~noblest houses
2530 III | Scene into their present relation to each other.~ ~ ~The thing
2531 IV | Under the eyes of great relations, with the~light of a prudish
2532 IX | But his brother turned the relationship to good~account during the
2533 X | possibly you~will be the last relative, the last friend whose hand
2534 X | many families where the relatives~have courage enough to teach
2535 VIII| breath, and enjoyed the relief for a~moment, she found
2536 II | very plausible stratagem relieved him of all~responsibility
2537 VII | to constitute the~epoque religieuse had also its crisis and
2538 VIII| his victim, and~killed him reluctantly, and in fear of the scaffold;
2539 IX | little remained save a remarkably prominent slender~nose,
2540 IX | to understand that these remarks might leave a~wrong impression
2541 IX | confidence, your children have no remedy~against him; and they are
2542 I | certainty with the vague~reminiscence of a sad, delicious melody,
2543 X | know of no confessor who remits the~pains of poverty. I
2544 IX | But, my dear little girl," remonstrated the Vidame, "life is~simply
2545 VIII| wall, in a corner almost as remote from intrusion as~the desert
2546 VI | him; but she had not the remotest intention of~being his.~ ~
2547 IV | held on a tenure of service rendered to~the sovereign, and here
2548 V | the next day brought its~renewed sensations, superficial
2549 X | beforehand when it comes to~renouncing your income. I know of no
2550 IX | of~several great lords, renowned no less for their wit than
2551 IX | forgiveness? No way of making reparation? ~Repentance is the charm
2552 IX | of the very few who can repay such~exceeding love by love
2553 IX | passion of a great generosity repelled with scorn, "lead me; I~
2554 X | should have the misfortune to repent. When you are~an old woman,
2555 IX | way of making reparation? ~Repentance is the charm of love; I
2556 II | upspringing~with the impulse of repentance--blended with the myriad
2557 VIII| pain would he inflict? She~repented of her conduct. There were
2558 VII | Duchess grew weary of vain repetitions; the Deity, bound~hand and
2559 IX | call on Mme la~Duchesse," reported Julien.~ ~She fled lest
2560 VI | movement succeeded to~complete repose. She turned to M. de Montriveau,
2561 VI | problems. In spite of the representations made to him~by the guide
2562 IV | pretty certain to find some~representative figure, some central personage
2563 IX | phrase.~ ~Such were the representatives of the great noblesse that~
2564 VIII| Montriveau was capable of taking reprisals in some~unheard-of way proportioned
2565 V | decidedly Liberal, not to say Republican; and~the Emperor, feeling
2566 VII | accused and convicted of repudiating the~Charter, which is simply
2567 IX | their shallowness, and the repugnance felt by men of~ability for
2568 VIII| for whom he felt a kind of repulsion whenever~he met him in other
2569 IX | himself.~ ~"M. le Marquis requested me to tell Mme la Duchesse
2570 VI | aspects, satisfies his every requirement, a thrice perfect woman?~ ~
2571 VI | of feeling, of the soul's requirements. To love: what~was that
2572 VII | delicious poetry of sentiment, requires a little more~geometry than
2573 X | that~there was no hope of rescuing or carrying off Sister Theresa
2574 VI | gave him a~strikingly close resemblance to General Kleber; and the
2575 VIII| expect no feeling, nothing resembling~it. If I chose, I might
2576 IV | from its listlessness and reserve.~ ~This was the real beginning
2577 IV | Versailles ceased to be the royal residence--the Faubourg,~with some
2578 IX | seems to me that when I resisted~love, I was obeying all
2579 IV | the exiled Princes, nobly resisting all the~temptations of glory
2580 VII | by a~word, and definite resolves died within him on the threshold.
2581 II | beside him; he~knew its clear resonant soprano. It was her voice,
2582 VIII| villainies demand a display~of resource quite above the comprehension
2583 X | hand.~ ~But the greatest resources which society has ever placed
2584 VI | pressed that dangerous hand respectfully to~his lips.~ ~"Yes, but
2585 II | the gentleman presents his respects to you, and~begs you to
2586 III | from its influences who respond to them and take~their place
2587 VI | Montriveau; his nature~only responded to the sonorous vibration
2588 VIII| compromise the Duchess by responding to her show of friendliness~
2589 VIII| is conscious of all the~responsibilities that love lays on him while
2590 VIII| a nightmare~sensation of restlessness and utter inability to move;
2591 IX | Montriveau himself, and could not~restrain the movement of joy at the
2592 VI | he felt~nothing of the restraint that weighed on his spirits
2593 IV | is~equally true in a more restricted sphere in the detached scenes~
2594 IX | of the poet the advantage rests~with the lower classes,
2595 IV | noblesse~brought about fatal results during the last forty years;
2596 VIII| full meaning of my words. I resume."~ ~As he spoke the Duchess
2597 I | sensation! To hope for the resurrection of~a lost love, to find
2598 IX | expressiveness. She still retained a~hundred and fifty thousand
2599 VII | with Fate; I~can advance or retard destiny, so far as men are
2600 VI | Montriveau was about to retire discreetly, when the Duchess~
2601 VI | of indifferent things, he retired~within himself, and swore
2602 IX | sun. Thenceforth~the facts reveal all. And the facts are these.~ ~
2603 II | for a moment. Slowly the reverberations died away; it~seemed as
2604 I | extent, will receive the~reverence due to the Homer of music.
2605 II | at the grating and in the Reverend Mother's presence, an~interview
2606 VIII| may be on earth,~and as reverent as it was passionate; fond
2607 VIII| card in the~morning were revived at night. Our lives are
2608 VIII| made upon her were suddenly revived--she~recollected his air
2609 VII | is issued, you publish a Revocation; if~you should one day be
2610 VII | had so pretty~an art of revoking the grant of yesterday,
2611 IX | humiliation; rise gracefully in revolt;~scold without giving offence;
2612 X | licentious times. Faugh! it is revolting. Those are the~brothels
2613 IX | would owe him honours and rewards and a~salary, exactly as
2614 VII | preacher's~commonplaces, no rhetorical amplifications. No. She
2615 II | gladness~throbbing through the rhythm of each. In such brilliant~
2616 II | him, throbbing with the~rhythmical pulse of the sounds. Then,
2617 VI | her hair,~appeared by the richness of its hue to lend substance
2618 VII | see whether~God might not rid her of this suitor, for
2619 VII | yet has really~read the riddle of man's heart."~
2620 X | could not endure disdain or ridicule;~mine can endure all things
2621 X | a~significant cut of the riding whip to his mare, who sped
2622 VII | France and the crown and~rightful sovereigns, and the whole
2623 VI | character. In everything he was rigorous as arithmetic; he never~
2624 I | preserved with all the first~rigour of the reformation brought
2625 VII | at any~rate," she said, ringing the bell.~ ~"Mme la Duchesse
2626 VI | future opened out by early ripened passion, he~catches glimpses
2627 X | highest height~to which we can rise--to give all and receive
2628 VI | confusion? beautiful enough to rival any woman?--Is it such a~
2629 IV | extinguished by it, and rivalry fostered~among themselves.
2630 IX | Dulmen branch of the Arschoot~Rivaudoults should come to an end in
2631 III | for good, and crossed the river to~breathe freely in the
2632 X | her whether she is on the road~or hidden in Paris. There
2633 IV | the~land, by opening out roads and canals, and taking an
2634 X | precaution~in a Carmelite's robe, exactly like the costume
2635 I | nuns not so much as their robes; while he~had merely heard
2636 X | Liberals, to those Jesuits of~Robespierre's that are doing all they
2637 VI | is going to marry Mlle de~Rochefide, it seems), that affair
2638 X | but for every one, the rogues set down ten, like the~gazettes
2639 III | fallen into contempt is a~roi faineant, a husband in petticoats;
2640 X | would seem today that the roles are exchanged, and~women
2641 I | his life long had lived romances instead of writing~them,
2642 III | day will be more deeply~rooted in the commonwealth, unless,
2643 IV | principles which lie at the roots of national existence. What~
2644 I | the great stained-glass~rose-window suspended by a miracle of
2645 I | belong to the school of~Rossini, the musician who brings
2646 IV | good as a great name. The Rothschilds, the~Fuggers of the nineteenth
2647 II | never quailed under a triple row of guns, now trembled before~
2648 II | Fountains, green trees, and rows of arcading maintained a
2649 IV | Bourbons seemed to every Royalist mind the only possible way
2650 VI | which falls nothing short of royalty, of kings, of~finance during
2651 IV | the axe. In spite of M. Royer-Collard's admirable~discourse, the
2652 VIII| bed-foot stood open; gleams of ruddy light from~the room beyond
2653 IX | give a certain~character of rude poetry to their thoughts.
2654 IX | so high an~opinion of her ruins had she), wore long gloves,
2655 I | conformably to the minute rules laid down as to the shape,~
2656 II | even terrible; for the last~rumblings of the bass sent a shiver
2657 III | she cried with a quick rush of~feeling. "He was generous
2658 VII | the Autocrat of all the Russias. I have a compact with Fate;
2659 II | her heart?" when a faint~rustling sound made him quiver, and
2660 IV | that historian~sitting at a safer distance from terrific popular
2661 X | she might lie at anchor in safety half a league away from
2662 X | port to ship her crew, and sailed that day.~ ~Montriveau,
2663 I | little~gardens; add a few sails down in the harbour; and
2664 III | Place Royale, the Faubourg Saint-Honore, and the Chaussee~d'Antin,
2665 III | continue~to live in the Rue Saint-Martin at the corner of the street
2666 III | times; it is what the Hotel~Saint-Paul was to the fourteenth century;
2667 VII | that she was a pure and sainted woman; he resigned himself;
2668 X | the picture of a~saint or saints and the mystical words which
2669 IX | honours and rewards and a~salary, exactly as if he were in
2670 X | whom we admitted into our salons--had no more gratitude or
2671 X | as Mambrino's~sword after Sancho had polished it up.~ ~But,
2672 X | inscription, Sub invocatione sanctae~matris Theresae, and her
2673 IV | admission to those inner sanctuaries. Being as~yet simple dominations,
2674 VII | sat down to the piano,~and sang the most exquisite songs
2675 VI | than the reasoners, the sanguine~rather than the lymphatic
2676 VI | through Upper Egypt; his sanity or impulse directed his~
2677 I | foam in contrast to the sapphire sea; and then~turn to the
2678 VI | the two-edged blade of a sarcasm between the~pairs in these "
2679 IV | more than find a suitable~sarcophagus; it were something pitilessly
2680 VI | throat, so that the dazzling satin skin beneath should gleam~
2681 VI | soul, and social~aspects, satisfies his every requirement, a
2682 VI | the desert, the slave of savages,~threatened with death at
2683 IV | the policy that might have~saved it. In short, however effete
2684 X | God's; yours kills, mine saves. Your~love was but mortal,
2685 X | two hours the bars were sawn through. Three men stood
2686 VII | definitely planned~out. You say--`For a certain length of
2687 III | they like the incisive sayings that hold the greatest number
2688 I | woman's glove in~the same scales, and the glove is nearly
2689 X | climbed the outer walls~with scaling-ladders, and crossed the cemetery
2690 IV | But though the surgeon's scalpel is ruthless, it sometimes
2691 IX | you persist in making a scandal--I have~seen the animal before,
2692 V | had made her laugh; at~the scandalous tale that supplied the details,
2693 X | triumphantly refuted the scandals that were~circulating with
2694 VII | knowledge of theory~was but scanty; in practice she knew nothing
2695 IV | When an aristocracy is scarce a~thousandth part of the
2696 VIII| curtain with a black and~scarlet border was suspended by
2697 X | quite as good as the Widow Scarron, and the more agreeable~
2698 VIII| that I have to say; I will scatter all your~fears with a word.
2699 IV | restricted sphere in the detached scenes~of the national drama known
2700 VI | hand, still moist from~the scented bath, has a soft freshness,
2701 IV | times when she~quitted her sceptical attitude for a submissive
2702 II | snatch her away--a rash scheme,~which appealed to a daring
2703 IX | nose, curved like a Turkish scimitar, now the principal ornament~
2704 IV | pre-eminently French. The scion of the Faubourg~Saint-Germain,
2705 IV | a nation. ~The Faubourg scoffed at a minister if he was
2706 IX | rise gracefully in revolt;~scold without giving offence;
2707 I | music. From among all the scores~that we owe to his great
2708 IX | axe, and how deeply~they scorned the guillotine of '89 as
2709 IV | Faubourg had good taste, it was scornfully fastidious, yet there~was
2710 III | descendant of the royal house of Scotland, should have his hotel~at
2711 IX | only be a~black-hearted scoundrel. I can see Monsieur exactly
2712 IX | that she might apply the scourge with impunity~to a discreet
2713 IX | submission to the terrible scourging of passion, while~passion
2714 IX | with which she received the scourgings of love. As this~change
2715 VIII| orders are to kill you if you scream," a voice~said in her ear.~ ~
2716 II | church and knelt~close to the screen, with his forehead touching
2717 X | especially as they would~not scruple to give a stab to ensure
2718 III | to break them all without~scruple--for you."~ ~"Are you speaking
2719 IV | social triangle on which the scutcheon of power is~blazoned; our
2720 IX | his mistress,~and under seal of secrecy told her of this
2721 IV | honestly and~diligently searched their Houses for men of
2722 II | witness of~their interview a searching glance, and met the dark,
2723 VIII| without any of your social seasonings. A woman that haggles~over
2724 VIII| shall be my victim for a~few seconds, and you are going to be
2725 IX | mistress,~and under seal of secrecy told her of this strange
2726 III | neither a Quarter, nor a sect, nor an institution, nor
2727 V | Fontainebleau disaster. In his~section of the service the chances
2728 IX | heresies of the endless sects that divide the church of
2729 IV | branch would have been as securely seated~on the throne as
2730 VI | indescribable suggestion of the security~of strength in his gait,
2731 VI | one after another, came to seek the Marquis de~Montriveau;
2732 II | and,~furthermore, let the seeker be a man of ardent temper,
2733 | seeming
2734 IX | tall, and spare man, a seigneur of the old~school, and had
2735 IV | calmly did as the grands seigneurs of the eighteenth~century
2736 II | with the fires of love and seistrons of gold--music~and light
2737 IV | allowed the bourgeoisie to~seize the authority, clung with
2738 VI | sort of childish~impatience seizes him, he wants the thing
2739 IX | badly rolled," she cried, seizing on a cigar~and devouring
2740 VII | a woman less sure of her~self-command. After all, the Duchess
2741 IX | from afar. In her tense~self-concentration, the ticking of the clock
2742 VI | perhaps~there was a trace of self-consciousness in her changes of~movement,
2743 VII | could~not utter. He was self-convicted. In his despair he longed
2744 III | its "reasons of state" are self-evident; it is~at once cause and
2745 X | vessel,~according to the self-styled boatswain's mate, were looking
2746 IX | would have given an air of~self-sufficiency, but in the Vidame it was
2747 VIII| to his arms in complete self-surrender.~ ~Every night before she
2748 VII | self-examination found nothing but selfishness in all his~thoughts and
2749 IX | steeps it all for us in~the selfsame hue; life takes the tint
2750 IX | now! There are women who sell themselves for money; there
2751 IX | thinking of no one but your two selves. We old~gentlemen know all
2752 X | hidden in Paris. There is the semaphore. We can stop her. ~You shall
2753 IV | feigned. The passion or semi-passion,~the ineffectual high aspirations,
2754 IV | to give a summary of this semi-political~survey. The wish to re-establish
2755 II | Perhaps she~would like to send some message or to hear
2756 VI | a velvet smoothness that~sends a tingling thrill from the
2757 VI | reached the French~colony at Senegal, a half-dead fugitive covered
2758 IV | the programme which their seniors should~have been following
2759 II | or to see visitors?~ ~"Senor," replied the venerable
2760 III | beneath the semblance of sensibility. You do~not love me; you
2761 VI | manner of persons whose~sensitive taste leads them to avoid
2762 VII | Duchess was practically separated~from her husband; a marriage
2763 IX | volkameria-flowers compared separately, each in its own land, to~
2764 II | cross the Infinite that separates heaven~from earth? And the
2765 VI | worth some ten thousand~sequins.~ ~"A traveller's compliment!"
2766 IV | throne, and mingle with the seraphic powers in the high~sphere
2767 X | position. I feel all the inward serenity that comes when a great~
2768 II | and the Carmelite's coarse serge. She~who had affirmed her
2769 X | had clearly grasped in~the sermon. When Mme de Chauvry was
2770 V | one of the ci-devants who served the Republic nobly,~and
2771 IX | the dreadful power which sets the~whole mind in ferment.
2772 VII | up his wrath by suddenly setting him down a~thousand miles
2773 IX | endless pains you take to settle your daughters~suitably!"
2774 III | as Versailles was to the~seventeenth and the eighteenth.~ ~Just
2775 IX | intellects of the ten thousand Sevignes that Paris now can number~
2776 IX | feeling that she could not shake off. For her, there was
2777 IX | matter with you? You are shaking from head to~foot!"~ ~The
2778 X | specially chosen for her shallow keel and light mastage,
2779 IX | their~emptiness, their shallowness, and the repugnance felt
2780 VI | former life were dim and shapeless. The great~sacrifices made
2781 VIII| could~distinguish strange shapes in the shadows; but as it
2782 X | have been very vulgarly~sharp-witted. It would be a hundred times
2783 I | raise the soul, that the sharpest pain comes to be like other~
2784 VII | voice was raised to say sharply--~ ~"I did not ring. What
2785 III | took such pride had~been shaven; there was a bandage round
2786 VI | to the proportions of a she-coxcomb's boudoir. ~Even he himself
2787 VIII| counsels had cured Armand of sheepishness; and~further, there came
2788 VI | days the children of the sheikh of the tribe amused~themselves
2789 VI | morning.~ ~The loose sand shifted under his feet at every
2790 II | brightness of His attributes shines through it.~ ~And this wealth
2791 IX | Antin were~discussing the shipwreck of aristocratic virtue;
2792 VIII| intellect~invented in the most shocking forms. She had studied him
2793 IV | tree down to the living shoots. But,~in the first place,
2794 III | the lives~of nobles. The shopkeeper and artisan are just going
2795 III | out of their element among shopkeepers, left the Place~Royale and
2796 III | Hush, Armand! You are shortening the little time that we
2797 IX | their conversation by some shorthand process of~his own; and
2798 X | companion laid a hand on his shoulder. A bright light was~streaming
2799 X | carry her away!"~ ~"Quickly" shouted Ronquerolles, "the procession
2800 IV | is a way open to her of showing herself~great; she is a
2801 VI | Langeais felt afraid. The shrewd old noble's words~sounded
2802 I | its valuable paintings and shrines so bright with gems that
2803 VIII| pliant and~yielding; when a shrivelled heart has learned to expand
2804 II | abide~here under the brown shroud in the choir from which
2805 VI | found his ethereal sylphide shrouded in a brown~cashmere dressing-gown
2806 VI | with a little childlike shrug of the~shoulders; the gesture
2807 VI | over undiscovered~worlds shrunk to the proportions of a
2808 VIII| The Duchess could not~help shuddering each time that the card
2809 IX | the grey veil of mist that shuts out the sun. Thenceforth~
2810 V | done his duty. Like all shy men, he was habitually silent;
2811 III | in France, Italy, Spain, Sicily, and~America. Love burned
2812 VI | Faubourg,~the majesty of a sick headache, the bashfulness
2813 X | They might as well set siege to the~town and convent,
2814 IX | Very unsound."~ ~"Really," sighed the Princess, "the King
2815 I | deprived of all human ties, sighing after~the long suicide accomplished
2816 X | Tuileries that morning, that the silly story was set down to~chance,
2817 VI | distressed by the lady's simulated distress.~ ~Like Crillon
2818 VI | secret soul over the woman singled out (if only in~his dreams)
2819 VIII| The man and woman thus singularly placed with regard to each~
2820 II | of~crepe, and seemed to sink again into the grave from
2821 IV | Capable of~heroism, yet sinking unconsciously from heroic
2822 VI | the duchess.~ ~You might sit near her through an evening,
2823 III | Duke, I say,~chose this site for his house, he did so
2824 III | these~forces are differently situated; and of their antagonism
2825 III | the Place~Royale to the sixteenth; and lastly, as Versailles
2826 IX | wherefore without some slight sketch of each~of them this picture
2827 IV | have a capacious~brain-pan. Skill and knowledge and capital--
2828 VIII| He kissed the Duchess's skirt hem, her knees, her feet;
2829 IX | of those~that praise him sky-high would always answer, `He
2830 VI | drops of~energy, and the skyline was a blank, there were
2831 I | roofs, covered with broad slabs of stone~impervious to sun
2832 X | ropes hung just sufficiently~slack, so as to present to the
2833 X | Heaven's name,~aunt, do not slander him!"~ ~The old Princess'
2834 X | waiting-women, and~took down their slanders, our epoch would have appeared
2835 X | another. These wire~ropes slanted upwards and downwards in
2836 VI | men. ~The incidents of his slavery and subsequent escape bore
2837 IV | clumsily proceed to the slaying of old~institutions.~ ~There
2838 II | she said, drawing her sleeve under her veil,~perhaps
2839 VII | nor yield passively to the~slighter demands of passion, only
2840 IX | of~aristocratic outline, slim and slender, supple and
2841 X | gentleman in the act of slipping on his flowered~dressing-gown,
2842 VIII| years old?"~ ~"Why, the smallpox is our Battle of Waterloo,
2843 IX | vague ardour of love, the smart of wounded pride,~the continual
2844 III | the street~cries, the bad smells, and narrow thoroughfares
2845 VI | traveller's compliment!" smiled she.~ ~It pleased the sprightly
2846 X | falling tears on the noisy,~smoky city that lay below in a
2847 VI | soft freshness, a velvet smoothness that~sends a tingling thrill
2848 VIII| spoke the Duchess heard the smothered sound of a pair of~bellows.
2849 IV | fast-expiring life, and a petty, smug-faced lawyer came forward~with
2850 IX | or rear his head like a snake.~ ~The Duc de Navarreins
2851 VIII| scorn. In one moment she~had snapped the bonds which held firm
2852 IX | and know how easily a man~snaps such ties? The bourgeoises,
2853 VII | kind of lore to see the snare ingeniously spread for him
2854 X | My person would have snared his heart; my aunt is right;
2855 VII | beyond the little concessions snatched in the course of~contests
2856 IV | amid~the reproaches and sneers of the Liberal party. They
2857 IX | Princess shook a stray grain of snuff from her skirts. "My~dear
2858 VII | and be~condemned to your so-called pleasures, of which you
2859 VI | the Duchess was an angel soaring back to her particular~heaven.~ ~"
2860 VIII| The Duchess burst out sobbing.~ ~"Pray spare your tears,
2861 III | which at first~outstrips sober reason.~ ~So, to begin with,
2862 X | illusions now. You would soften me if I were not so old. ~
2863 II | veil as she~heard her name softly spoken by the man who had
2864 VII | into exile; she is the~very soil of France. Men die, but
2865 IV | whose handsome face is~his sole merit; it was for such as
2866 II | should harmonise with the solemnities of the Magnificat. She had~
2867 VII | to all other ears, as the solitary plaint of some~mateless
2868 VI | commercial problems, of which~solutions are still eagerly sought;
2869 IX | corpulent, flourishing, somewhat~florid-complexioned men
2870 | somewhere
2871 VII | sang the most exquisite songs of modern music, and so
2872 VI | nature~only responded to the sonorous vibration of lofty thought
2873 X | to suffer. This~thought soothes the anguish of my final
2874 VII | Her words were sweet and soothing. They were~lovers--lovers
2875 II | knew its clear resonant soprano. It was her voice, with
2876 VIII| His Majesty the King of Sorcerers when~I made the mistake
2877 II | susceptible or poetic temper, or a sore and~stricken heart, may
2878 IV | upon each other; there was~soreness on either side; then they
2879 III | have given a heart less sorrowful to~God."~ ~"What can I say?
2880 I | impressions are dulled, till the sorrows~of life are laid to rest
2881 VIII| We know women of that sort--the thorough-bred Parisienne.
2882 VI | spent an hour in chat on all sorts of subjects, said nothing
2883 IX | estate to her~niece, Mme de Soulanges, subject to a yearly charge."~ ~"
2884 VI | is~heartless, brainless, soulless; and what is more, devoid
2885 X | voices full of tenderness~sounding faintly from the cell. When
2886 VI | voyage of discovery to the sources of~the Nile, he had had
2887 X | you are beginning to talk sourly already, and~I have no wish
2888 IV | service rendered to~the sovereign, and here in France the
2889 VIII| chimney-piece recalled~the vast spaces of the desert and Montriveau'
2890 I | national airs with her music. A~Spaniard's fingers would not have
2891 I | Some few Constitutional~Spaniards who had found their way
2892 VII | humiliated at being taken for a spaniel."~ ~The tone in which the
2893 IX | useful there. He has not a spark~of ambition. He is just
2894 VIII| his watch, and~in a sudden spasm of dread she went out.~ ~
2895 VIII| suspended by large rings from a spear handle~above a door near
2896 X | filaments which a certain species~of spider weaves about a
2897 VIII| in front of the line of spectators, who were amusing~themselves
2898 X | riding whip to his mare, who sped off like~a bullet down the
2899 VI | by the number of foolish speeches extracted from a~novice
2900 X | attempted illusion~faded, the spell of his fair cousin's charm
2901 VII | the Hotel de Langeais to spend an~evening with a woman
2902 III | between the upper and lower spheres of social~activity, emphasised
2903 VIII| long wanderings; a~huge sphinx-claw stood out beneath the folds
2904 X | which a certain species~of spider weaves about a tree. The
2905 I | belfry towers, and filigree spires, is a~spectacle surely in
2906 IV | generosity of a novel and~spirited policy--these men, to repeat,
2907 IV | heroic heights to utter a~spiteful word; young and sweet-natured,
2908 III | the Duc d'Uzes built his splendid hotel in the Rue~Montmartre
2909 VIII| and if some wag were to spoil your beauty on a~sudden
2910 III | heads; they must be the spokesmen, they must represent the~
2911 I | the general trouble and spoliation. The storms of many kinds~
2912 VIII| her ablutions.~ ~She would sponge love from her cheeks as
2913 III | towards some particular~spot. It is a periodically recurrent
2914 X | character became as clear and as spotless as Mambrino's~sword after
2915 IX | divine breath of desire spreading~from end to end of the immensity
2916 VI | smiled she.~ ~It pleased the sprightly lady to involve a rough
2917 VIII| may enter among the steel~springs of this machinery that turns
2918 II | this excuse, framed on the spur of the moment. ~He declined,
2919 II | up the nave, clanking his spurs till the vaulted roof~rang
2920 IV | controlled them was wanting. She squandered~the wealth of her nature
2921 IX | heart-throbs, a day~when the heart squanders the very forces of life
2922 VI | characteristic of his great, square-hewn head was the~thick, luxuriant
2923 IV | with a~family pride, and a squeamish sense of noblesse oblige
2924 X | would~not scruple to give a stab to ensure silence.~ ~In
2925 IV | reflections, they failed to give stability,~the most perfect type of
2926 X | be very effective on the stage," remarked the Duc de~Grandlieu, "
2927 I | lighted entirely by the great stained-glass~rose-window suspended by
2928 VII | to be frightened by that stale stratagem, the~sword has
2929 VIII| heart and eyes~fixed in a stare. However curious she felt,
2930 III | for people accustomed to a stately life, can there be~more
2931 IV | the strong will of the statesman who~concentrates a thousand
2932 VII | well as a~spiritual power, stating her case better than the
2933 IX | will have no recognised status. While they are~little they
2934 II | alcalde with whom he was~staying. In the all-absorbing joy
2935 IX | risen, and stood looking~steadily at the Duchess, the younger
2936 IV | man~among them with the steel-encompassed brains that can forge a
2937 VII | when evening came, she was~steeped in the intoxicating bliss
2938 I | hanging in mid-air on the steepest~mountainsides, set down
2939 IX | of the immensity of Time steeps it all for us in~the selfsame
2940 VI | follow the story step by step--the progress of a~romance
2941 IX | observation may explain the sterility of the salons, their~emptiness,
2942 IV | the Fronde, nor the rough~sterling worth of Napoleon's heroes,
2943 IX | have a separation; he will stick to~your money, and leave
2944 X | rose gradually,~like the sticks of a fan, to the top of
2945 I | harbour; and lastly, in the~stillness of falling night, listen
2946 VIII| Try to humiliate her, to sting her vanity. Do NOT try~to
2947 IX | and start~up under the stinging barbs of irony? Then Mme
2948 IX | liking for~him--Langeais is stingy enough, and he does not
2949 II | craving for~expansion which stirs in every noble soul. And
2950 VII | friend?"~ ~"Why, I cannot stomach that Abbe of yours."~ ~"
2951 IX | that there was happiness in store for us both. ~Yes, I put
2952 VI | the next day, after the stormiest~reflections that had yet
2953 X | General Lamarque, at the~storming of Capri, they would conquer
2954 IV | proof of his intelligence. A stout heart was enough in the~
2955 IV | charming insolence. Like some straight-growing reed, she~made a show of
2956 IX | Sometimes she shut her eyes, straining her ears to listen through~
2957 I | of contact with humanity. Strangely~enough, the organ music
2958 IX | tightly compressed by a strangulation stock,~that his cheeks pouched
2959 I | it! And~as for force or strategem--might not any indiscretion
2960 IX | The Princess shook a stray grain of snuff from her
2961 X | shoulder. A bright light was~streaming through the chinks of the
2962 IX | the social scale from the street-boy to the peer of~France, that
2963 VI | capable men to itself and to~strengthen the army, made concessions
2964 I | mass of grey stone further strengthened by~huge piers placed at
2965 VIII| lived~by action, the most strenuous exertion of human energies,
2966 IV | The class-isolation so strenuously kept up by the noblesse~
2967 VI | it seemed as if, in the stress of a great crisis, all~these
2968 IX | eyes embrace~a world that stretches away forever. Only women
2969 VII | He~made one despairing stride towards the door. He would
2970 VI | his face, and gave him a~strikingly close resemblance to General
2971 II | the rule here~is equally stringent. No man may enter a convent
2972 IV | who kept them in leading strings. It was a~day of small things,
2973 VI | hostile~native tribe. Then, stripped of all that he had, for
2974 II | some great singer might strive to find a voice~for her
2975 I | in every place man has striven to draw closer to~God, seeking
2976 II | Cause and the End of all~our strivings?~ ~The French General guessed
2977 VII | exclaimed joyfully, as he strode to and fro in the~boudoir. "
2978 X | struck eight. ~The last stroke died away. The unhappy woman
2979 IX | ill-omened garrulity. The twelve strokes of~midnight sounded from
2980 VIII| spoilt child," she said, stroking the thick~hair, for his
2981 II | borne swiftly away by this~strong-winged spirit; he had followed
2982 VII | line of fortification, a stronghold less easy to~carry than
2983 IX | struggle first. Very well--I~struggled; but here I am!--Ah! God,
2984 VI | So he went on again, struggling to follow the pitiless native. ~
2985 VI | courage, already highly strung~by the prospect of dreadful
2986 III | the angle of the Rue Marie Stuart and the Rue Montorgueil. ~
2987 VIII| the presence of~the fiery, stubborn, exacting lover had never
2988 VI | were all forgotten like his~studies of African dialects, his
2989 VIII| insolence and irony of the tone stung through~the words. The Duchess
2990 I | palms here and there, a few stunted evergreen~trees mingling
2991 III | once. The General, in his stupor, scarcely~heard the doors
2992 X | and read the inscription, Sub invocatione sanctae~matris
2993 VI | in chat on all sorts of subjects, said nothing that~he meant
2994 I | surely in every way the sublimest on earth. Religion~towering
2995 III | cried, understanding all the~sublimity of that cry of hers. "She
2996 IX | upon an unfailing~hope?--a submission to the terrible scourging
2997 IV | a cold heart, a~profound submissiveness to the usages of the world,
2998 V | took up her eyeglass and submitted him to a very insolent~scrutiny,
2999 X | before they left Paris, and subsequently~everything had been done
3000 VI | understood nothing of the~subtleties of flirtation after the
3001 VI | her speculation was fully successful. The General,~poor man,
3002 VII | sweetness of every small~successive conquest on which a lover
3003 IX | difficulties, and how~his successor is to get out of them I
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