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3004 IV | are given here both as a succinct~statement of the causes,
3005 VII | word; if she did, she must succumb; and better death than~criminal
3006 VI | strength. In spite of his sufferings, he continued his~march,
3007 V | loves me!" The certainty sufficed her. It is~enough for the
3008 I | taste, and blended vague~suggestions of our grandest national
3009 III | discover that this is a suicidal~measure; and since nations
3010 IV | need to do more than find a suitable~sarcophagus; it were something
3011 IV | of noblesse oblige which~suited well with the kind of life
3012 VII | might not rid her of this suitor, for the man's persistence~
3013 VIII| while the Marquis looked sullen and~morose, was it not plain
3014 VI | it delighted her to see a sullenness that she could conjure~away
3015 VII | victory won swell the meagre sum of lovers' intimacies long~
3016 IV | now it is easy to give a summary of this semi-political~survey.
3017 IV | her in the very centre and summit of social grandeur,~she
3018 IV | place high on the sunlit summits of the new political world.
3019 VI | the~formidable journey. Summoning up courage, already highly
3020 IX | had come thither without a summons. But~she resigned herself.
3021 IV | the constantly maintained~sumptuousness of the furniture; the "atmosphere"
3022 VII | Parisienne's head. Every Sunday she went to Mass;~she never
3023 IV | their~place high on the sunlit summits of the new political
3024 X | General left his post before sunrise, but not before he had~heard
3025 VI | forest lighted up by the sunset. It lay only a hundred paces~
3026 III | Rue Montorgueil. ~Sint ut sunt, aut non sint, the grand
3027 VI | in their hearts, it were~superfluous to follow the story step
3028 IX | outline, slim and slender, supple and agreeable. He~seemed
3029 I | up by the pillars which supported the organ loft; and~this
3030 VI | heart~unknown as yet in its suppressed turbulence.~ ~A strong man,
3031 VII | came out of the atmosphere surcharged with~desires that she drew
3032 X | A~little tinder and the surf of the sea would destroy
3033 II | intolerable emotion that surged like a whirlpool in his~
3034 VII | words, and a divine red surging like new blood under the~
3035 II | had~grown stronger as he surmounted one barrier after another
3036 VI | sought; and succeeded, after~surmounting many obstacles, in reaching
3037 III | its great~gardens, and a surrounding quiet in keeping with princely~
3038 IV | summary of this semi-political~survey. The wish to re-establish
3039 VI | endurance, enabled him to survive~the horrors of that captivity;
3040 II | a sort of~text, which a susceptible or poetic temper, or a sore
3041 VIII| commit against~strength that suspected no evil; you tamed a passive
3042 X | scarcely likely to feel suspicious of her at~once; and besides,
3043 IX | her eyes. ~"But remember, Suzanne, never to come in again
3044 VI | VI~There was no sort of swagger about his fearlessness in
3045 VII | Duchesse de Langeais will be swallowed up in one~disappointed hope.
3046 VI | away. She could show her~swan's neck.~ ~She rang the bell. "
3047 VII | with tyrannous feminine sway. But often, on~the other
3048 IV | For three~centuries it swayed the noblesse, who, in this
3049 II | But at length, after the swaying fugues of delirium, after
3050 IX | sincere in my wrongdoing, I swear to you, as~in my remorse.
3051 VIII| The Duchess was in a cold sweat, but nevertheless she laughed
3052 VII | promise, glad once for all to sweep aside, with all scruples
3053 IV | spiteful word; young and sweet-natured, not so much old at heart~
3054 VIII| last transgression. The~sweets enjoyed by this fair Duchess
3055 VII | Did not~every victory won swell the meagre sum of lovers'
3056 VIII| nonchalance, and his heart swelled with the storm like a lake~
3057 VI | stirred in him by her. ~The swiftest revolutions in a man's outward
3058 IV | her, in~whom the play of swiftly-changing colour made discord only
3059 X | caught!"~ ~With magical swiftness of movement, prompted by
3060 IX | man is as~tipsy as all the Swiss in Switzerland."~ ~The Duchess
3061 IX | tipsy as all the Swiss in Switzerland."~ ~The Duchess made no
3062 IV | in himself, the~general's sword--all these victories, in
3063 VI | retired~within himself, and swore to possess this woman, for
3064 VII | party, you that might be its Sylla if you had the slightest~
3065 II | imagery of that burning symphony; for him the chords reached
3066 VIII| never mistake the genuine symptoms for a coolness such as~some
3067 IV | oligarchy--two very different systems, as any man may~see for
3068 IV | must sooner or later~take a tabouret at Court. So, Antoinette
3069 VI | the~hour kept for him by a tacit understanding.~ ~It would
3070 IX | statesmen know how to tame by a~tactful word, or to humiliate with
3071 V | laugh; at~the scandalous tale that supplied the details,
3072 VI | good-natured friend, and tells no tales."~ ~"Is there to be a ball
3073 VIII| The thought was like a talisman fulfilling the wishes of
3074 VIII| have her in~your eagle's talons you yield a point or draw
3075 VIII| that suspected no evil; you tamed a passive victim, the~better
3076 VIII| insinuating. And~the Duchess tasted the pleasures which she
3077 VII | M. de Montriveau beat a tattoo on the marble chimneypiece,
3078 VII | lessons which would have taught her to value the treasure
3079 VII | yourself~put upon the gift teaches me that I cannot attach
3080 VIII| the moment~had come for teaching the Imperial soldier his
3081 II | which no power on~earth can tear me. You shall never see
3082 VII | entreaty, she replied with a tearful gaze, and a gesture in which~
3083 VI | caprice, just as an insect teased~by children is made to jump
3084 VII | in her purpose to remain technically virtuous, that she~felt
3085 VI | understanding.~ ~It would be tedious, and, for the many young
3086 IX | midnight.~ ~She grew white; her teeth chattered; she struck her
3087 IX | the news was spread with telegraphic speed through~all the coteries
3088 X | range of the most powerful telescope. Eleven days were~spent
3089 VI | good-natured friend, and tells no tales."~ ~"Is there to
3090 VIII| but the woman's nerves and~temperament, for she is both nervous
3091 VI | rather than the lymphatic temperaments, love works a complete~revolution.
3092 IX | a defective institution tempered by love. But when you take
3093 VII | maintained, ought to be a temporal as well as a~spiritual power,
3094 II | Major-General, to~the effect that temporary illness obliged him to leave
3095 VII | man with no delicacy might tempt a~woman of four-and-twenty
3096 VI | nature was real; she had no~temptation to descend to malignity.
3097 I | pre-eminently a Doer, was sure to be tempted by a~deed which seemed to
3098 VIII| might it not seem more~tempting? Armand, the thing I ask
3099 IV | study and~a strong will and tenacity of vocation, are scarcely
3100 VII | no woman would accept the tenderest, most delicate proofs of~
3101 IX | traverse from afar. In her tense~self-concentration, the
3102 IV | of moral fief held on a tenure of service rendered to~the
3103 IV | which he came during~his term of waiting, leaving his
3104 I | with its galleries and terraces whither the~townsfolk come
3105 II | utterance of a heart almost~terrified by its gladness in the presence
3106 VII | scaffold, as in the time of the Terror--the one method by~which
3107 VII | the first. She evoked the terrors of religion. Never~did Father
3108 VI | something quite new there. Terse of speech, like a~hermit
3109 IX | put~Armand's power to the test. "Thrust a soul that suffered
3110 IX | noble, proud nature so often tested~and proved." She bent lower. "
3111 II | even opera music, a sort of~text, which a susceptible or
3112 VIII| tonight?"~ ~"A thousand thanks. M. de Marsay has been beforehand
3113 I | during this very mass of thanksgiving, the most~intimately thrilling
3114 I | who must have missed the Theatre Favart in~Spain.~ ~At last
3115 IV | and will continue to be theirs so long as~their existence
3116 VII | passion, may take up a musical theme, and lo!~heaven is opened
3117 III | agreement of things~among themselves--unity, in short? Architecture,
3118 | Thence
3119 IX | that shuts out the sun. Thenceforth~the facts reveal all. And
3120 VIII| for a game~of chess."~ ~Thenceforward he hid his agitation by
3121 VII | pretension to abolish~God."~ ~Theological and political disputes acted
3122 IV | stand on these.~ ~A fine theorem is as good as a great name.
3123 VII | the boudoir, discussing theories of~absolute monarchy, which
3124 | thereby
3125 X | invocatione sanctae~matris Theresae, and her motto, Adoremus
3126 IX | ill, seeing that she grew thinner and paler and more dejected~
3127 VI | grace in it, and a certain~thinness and fineness that recalled
3128 VI | himself. After~marching for a third of the day, he felt his
3129 X | from the sea to a height of thirty~fathoms. Any attempt to
3130 VIII| women of that sort--the thorough-bred Parisienne. Have~you ever
3131 VIII| charming woman of her; she is a~thoroughbred; whereas, you two left to
3132 III | the bad smells, and narrow thoroughfares of a populous~quarter? The
3133 VIII| every hour of it and every~thought--this I call a fearful crime!"~ ~"
3134 IV | aristocracy is scarce a~thousandth part of the body social,
3135 VII | the Duchess more than a threat of~suicide could have done;
3136 VII | calamities with which you~threaten him?--Listen," she continued
3137 VI | his every requirement, a thrice perfect woman?~ ~And if
3138 IV | much a dominant passion as thrift in the Dutch. For three~
3139 I | thanksgiving, the most~intimately thrilling drama that ever set a man'
3140 VIII| nature was more~responsive to thrills of hate than it had ever
3141 VII | whose soul vibrates~with the throb of passion, may take up
3142 IX | love. Her pulses must have~throbbed fast when he spoke with
3143 IX | Armand's power to the test. "Thrust a soul that suffered in
3144 VIII| place," said she composedly, thrusting him back~as he came nearer--"
3145 II | choir in response to the thunder of the organ, a veil is
3146 VII | out~all his soul, all the thwarted forces that passion had
3147 IX | self-concentration, the ticking of the clock grew hateful
3148 VII | thought burst in~a furious tide over his face, clenched
3149 VIII| lodging, her hands and~feet tied with silken cords. In spite
3150 IX | while she held her hand in a tight clasp.~ ~"We are not under
3151 VIII| Are you like the~desert tigress that licks the wounds she
3152 VII | Armand. You have given me timely~warning of imprudence; committed
3153 VI | Her long, blue eyes turned timidly to Armand; and by~the look
3154 X | twenty-two days of toil. A~little tinder and the surf of the sea
3155 X | joy blended with the slow tinkling of a bell that~began to
3156 IX | laughing. And, in~truth, the tinsel jargon which circulates
3157 IX | Lorraine cross, fastened to the tip of a steel rod.~ ~"Two of
3158 IX | coachman, the man is as~tipsy as all the Swiss in Switzerland."~ ~
3159 VII | for she~raised herself on tiptoe, and laid her forehead against
3160 V | interesting."~ ~"Nobody more tiresome and dull, dear. But he is
3161 IX | the less. Thinking is a tiring exercise,~and the rich like
3162 VI | de~Pamiers had said. " 'Tis a first cousin to the eagle;
3163 VIII| worth your while than that titled courtesan, who does with~
3164 IV | back recognition of their titles by unremitting~attention
3165 X | them twenty-two days of toil. A~little tinder and the
3166 IX | minute attention to her toilet mean when these are undertaken
3167 X | a set of house-breaking tools. They climbed the outer
3168 IV | body of it with fire of Tophet.~ ~But though the surgeon'
3169 VI | good and bad, when this topic had once been started; the
3170 I | above the houses and the tops of the trees in their little~
3171 IX | express. She wrote letters and tore them all up, and invented
3172 IX | you left in~me. You would torment me again; you would always
3173 VI | place by its~mischievous tormentor. And yet it gave the Duchess
3174 II | the curtain; he~would have torn a hole in it if he had been
3175 IX | neighbour--~ ~"So you have sold Tornthon?"~ ~"No, he is ill. I am
3176 IX | day in a state of moral~torpor, troubled by a physical
3177 X | consumptive patients with their tortoiseshell eyeglasses~would hide himself
3178 VII | lover's eyes. Even as she tortured him, she was~criticising
3179 IV | great system of English Toryism was far~too large for narrow
3180 VI | now," she said,~gracefully tossing aside a cushion that covered
3181 V | when her eyes fell upon a total stranger. Something in~the
3182 IV | individual will win, that he may tower above the rest of the~world,
3183 I | sublimest on earth. Religion~towering above daily life, to put
3184 I | Gothic doorways, belfry towers, and filigree spires, is
3185 VI | reached on foot~across a tract of desert. Only one of his
3186 IV | Never was~nation in a more tractable humour; La France, like
3187 X | inventory of our hearts, to traduce us~one and all, and to rail
3188 II | what in~truth could be more tragic? How much must pass in the
3189 IX | revenge.~ ~Another noticeable trait in all the four was a thin
3190 II | be the only man there. He tramped~noisily up the nave, clanking
3191 X | recollect that a~single duchess trampled the proprieties underfoot
3192 VII | enable the rich to live in tranquillity. Religion and the~rights
3193 X | as if her dead face was~transfigured for him by that unearthly
3194 VIII| latitude short of the last transgression. The~sweets enjoyed by this
3195 VIII| a sort of excitement~and transport which redoubled Montriveau'
3196 II | the place of the trifle;~transpose the monomania into the key
3197 X | chance that his daughter had travelled to~Spain as Lady Julia Hopwood'
3198 IX | silence~which sounds may traverse from afar. In her tense~
3199 V | indiscreet, and not unfrequently treacherous. Mme de Langeais~had distributed
3200 VII | may be the victims of your treachery--I,~never! Nothing gives
3201 III | complain of them, as of treason against those sublime~ideas
3202 X | that the brig~was manned by treasure-seekers, a gang of men whose hobby
3203 VII | for you, I give all the treasures of my soul to~you, and you
3204 VI | see these~desertions and treaties with the enemy; and her
3205 VI | the thing the more, and trembles~or cries. Wherefore, the
3206 IX | society~does not want such tremendous natures. Men of that stamp
3207 II | her voice, with that~faint tremor in it which gave it all
3208 IX | there is one broad and trenchant line of difference in doctrine,~
3209 X | had passed through~heavy trials, was loved more passionately
3210 IV | points~mark out a social triangle on which the scutcheon of
3211 I | this warmth into a~graceful tribute paid to the victorious arms
3212 VI | developed his energy even in trifles, while the habit of~preserving
3213 VII | discourse which~the Duchess trilled out with the quick volubility
3214 VIII| pretty cap, fresh cheeks, trim hair,~a guileful smile,
3215 II | Wherefore the holy human trinity finds a place amid the~infinite
3216 I | glorious cathedral front with triple-arched~Gothic doorways, belfry
3217 VIII| ever noticed a grisette tripping along the street? Her face~
3218 X | the Duc de~Maufrigneuse triumphantly refuted the scandals that
3219 I | amid the joy of those that~triumphed. Terrible sensation! To
3220 VII | obstacles; was he not gradually triumphing over them? Did not~every
3221 VI | consequence to the most~apparently trivial actions. His merits and
3222 IX | can. We are not~talking of troubling your felicity, but of reconciling
3223 X | in yellow kid gloves and trousers that~disguise the poverty
3224 VIII| to you; love as pure and true-hearted as may be on earth,~and
3225 VII | illusions. Nothing could be truer, I see; I am expected to~
3226 IV | developing womanhood. ~She trusted nothing and no one, yet
3227 IX | commissum perhaps; and if the~trustee betrays your confidence,
3228 III | Theresa, a creature~who trusts in the Divine mercy." She
3229 X | presentiment of your answer; our trysting place shall~be--in heaven.
3230 IX | unsatisfying colours of tulips and coreopsis, but we turn
3231 VI | as yet in its suppressed turbulence.~ ~A strong man, and violent
3232 IX | slender~nose, curved like a Turkish scimitar, now the principal
3233 X | was to be admitted. For~twenty-four hours she lay in bed, and
3234 X | facilitate his departure.~ ~Twenty-fours hours later the brig lay
3235 X | firm, staircase cost them twenty-two days of toil. A~little tinder
3236 VI | these reflections in the twinkling of an eye. ~And how if,
3237 IX | pliant or rigid at will, and twist and~bend, or rear his head
3238 IX | Armand's glove, which she twisted into her handkerchief.~ ~"
3239 VII | contraction of the gaze, in~the twitching of the lips, is there not
3240 IV | and left a young wife of two-and-twenty~to her own devices. He had
3241 VI | edition~of revenge, laying the two-edged blade of a sarcasm between
3242 IV | stability,~the most perfect type of the aristocratic caste
3243 VII | for gentleness,~others for tyranny. No woman in this world
3244 VIII| some private, Jesuitical ukase of her own; Armand's~love
3245 VII | but~she had her nec plus ultra of passion; and when once
3246 IV | were all spontaneous~and unaffected, and as much the outcome
3247 VIII| Hotel de Langeais, went unannounced up the stairs straight to~
3248 X | preceding ones, remained~unanswered. This time she took her
3249 IV | instead to fight, and to fight unarmed,~for of all that they once
3250 I | the convent; he was quite unaware how absolutely the~Carmelites
3251 IX | said the Duchess; "it is unbearably~hot in the rooms."~ ~"People
3252 II | of him beneath the chill~unceiled roof. Here, as in the grave,
3253 IX | life takes the tint of the unclouded heaven. ~But Passion is
3254 VI | War~Office took fright at uncompromising uprightness worthy of~antiquity,
3255 IX | knew the fierce tumult, the~unconscious calculations, the fevered
3256 III | you say to~outweigh the uncounted thoughts that have gathered
3257 X | old-fashioned stand, all of them uncreased and unopened. He had~not
3258 VI | of the country,~where the undaunted officer hoped to find a
3259 X | trampled the proprieties underfoot as you have~just done. Novelists
3260 III | the~underlying realities undergo no essential alteration.~
3261 VII | Montriveau's temper, and by underhand ways! The thought burst
3262 IV | to the ambition which was undermining~authority; they preferred
3263 IX | toilet mean when these are undertaken for~love's sake and not
3264 I | means of entering it. The undertaking was~certainly a delicate
3265 VIII| in three moves. Now, if I undertook a~woman of that sort, I
3266 IV | given~than anyone else to undervalue himself; it comes natural
3267 VI | might have shed light over undiscovered~worlds shrunk to the proportions
3268 VIII| caresses; you~left nothing undone that could set him dreaming,
3269 IV | honours. No beauty,~however undoubted, no face, however fair,
3270 IV | in France the people are undoubtedly the~sovereigns nowadays.
3271 X | transfigured for him by that unearthly beauty which the calm of~
3272 III | certain number of families of unequal fortune in any~given space,
3273 IX | or to humiliate with an unexpected phrase.~ ~Such were the
3274 VI | turned his~attention to that unexplored Central Africa which occupies
3275 VII | And so for a time he took unfair advantage of the~rights
3276 IX | a means and not an end;~unfaithfulness may give pain, but the bond
3277 VIII| listening; her meekness was unfeigned; it was no~coquettish device.
3278 VIII| wretches. Here my mind is unfettered. ~Here nobody can turn me
3279 IV | thing for him to pity the unfortunates over whose heads he rises,~
3280 VII | shall have no~suspicion, no unfounded jealousy of you. But if
3281 X | with his eyes fixed upon an ungrated window, for bars were not~
3282 IX | up into men, and~men are ungrateful beings. When I was in Germany,
3283 VII | bear the~heavy burden of an unguessed pain, some man whose soul
3284 IX | My family, father, unintentionally condemned me to irreparable~
3285 VII | of the bliss of a closer union. And~then, doubtless she
3286 VI | pairs in these "morganatic" unions. Her mocking disdain~contributed
3287 VII | you~see, Armand, is a bond uniting all the conservative principles~
3288 VI | because he~wished for nothing unjust. And yet, like all really
3289 X | few words there was that unmistakable thrill of repressed strong~
3290 VI | and the passion~in this unmistakably great man promised her amusement,
3291 VIII| too well bred to make any unnecessary fuss. If~you do not stay
3292 X | all of them uncreased and unopened. He had~not read them. She
3293 II | ceiling consisted of bare~unornamented joists and cross-beams of
3294 VI | as they can do is the one~unpardonable sin. In their feeling towards
3295 IV | philosophy in which she was all unpractised, she had all the~vices of
3296 IV | recognition of their titles by unremitting~attention to local interests,
3297 IX | troubled by a physical unrest, which no words could~express.
3298 IX | soon leave the brilliant,~unsatisfying colours of tulips and coreopsis,
3299 IX | Very well, I reflected. The~unseemliness of your conduct is not inexcusable;
3300 III | life, can there be~more unseemly surroundings than the bustle,
3301 X | sad; but the other, the unseen love that his heart~knows,
3302 IX | are his opinions?"~ ~"Very unsound."~ ~"Really," sighed the
3303 IV | was glad to recognise the unstained loyalty of~the two houses,
3304 VI | gloves, trying to~slip the unstretched kid over all her fingers
3305 II | apart by an intangible,~unsurmountable barrier! Try to imagine
3306 IX | all eyes; and Armand, all unsuspicious of the mirror,~brushed away
3307 VIII| your great nature on that~unthankful stock, when all your hopes
3308 VIII| headache. Besides, I will~untie you. But listen attentively
3309 VIII| you."~ ~Very carefully he untied the knots that bound her
3310 VII | you; other men ask for an untiring~devotion, to be idolised
3311 | unto
3312 VI | would keep it must~make untold efforts.~ ~Montriveau's
3313 VIII| men? There was a sort of~untrammelled freedom about Mme de Langeais;
3314 X | and matins filled him with~unutterable joy. He stood under the
3315 VII | still his desire remained~unuttered.~ ~Nevertheless, one evening,
3316 VII | this--they were both~equally unversed in love lore. The lady's
3317 VI | my door. I am~exceedingly unwell."~ ~"I will go," Armand
3318 V | Montriveau, at that moment all unwittingly the~object of general curiosity,
3319 VIII| grant of~your own will to my unworthiness. I could not stoop so low.
3320 IV | re-establish a large fortune was uppermost~in everyone's mind; a lack
3321 VI | fright at uncompromising uprightness worthy of~antiquity, or
3322 II | memory, and turning his house upside down; after~one or two days
3323 II | coloured by meditative ecstasy, upspringing~with the impulse of repentance--
3324 IX | high-heeled pantoufles, a cap with~upstanding loops of lace, black mittens,
3325 IV | showed itself greedy as an upstart. The~most intelligent nation
3326 X | These wire~ropes slanted upwards and downwards in opposite
3327 IX | refinement of~accent, an urbane courtesy, and an ease of
3328 IX | in the Guards, and very useful there. He has not a spark~
3329 IX | disapprove of her conduct, a useless scandal~is a blunder; that
3330 VII | exceeding pleasure that women usually feel in that~close contact,
3331 IX | Charlemagne in the direct line. No~usurpation of title could escape the
3332 III | the Rue Montorgueil. ~Sint ut sunt, aut non sint, the
3333 VIII| many are fain to~take the utmost that Love can give without
3334 I | point of the crags at the~uttermost end of the island. On the
3335 V | V~For the past eighteen months
3336 VII | was quite happy to win the vaguest~promise, glad once for all
3337 VI | high-born courtesan within her,~vainly protesting against the creeds
3338 VI | about her, putting~that valiant warrior in mind of the bright
3339 I | Buried~away in the loneliest valleys, hanging in mid-air on the
3340 X | slighted.~ ~"The Duchesse de la Valliere wept for lost happiness
3341 IX | We are not under the Valois now, dear child. You have~
3342 VI | to initiate him into the vanities of a woman~of fashion.~ ~"
3343 VII | poured like~a flood, was vanquished by the magnetic influence
3344 IX | with men whom they~feared, vapid and commonplace with their
3345 IX | more or less~transparent varnish. Conversation with any substance
3346 X | slippery~sides of a plain china vase. Still there was a cleft,
3347 VI | eyes, and a kind of fiery~vehemence expressed by strongly marked
3348 VI | foreigner in one's own country. Vehement desire~seized on M. de Montriveau,
3349 I | never was human passion~more vehemently excited than the General'
3350 II | understand French?" The veiled figure~bowed her head at
3351 VIII| lifted one by one like the veils that hid her~divine loveliness.
3352 II | Senor," replied the venerable churchman, "the rule is
3353 III | virtues, he was held in such veneration that the whole quarter~turned
3354 VIII| Duchess of yours are so many venial~sins to be washed away in
3355 III | perish as Rome perished, and Venice, and so many other~states.~ ~
3356 VIII| contemptible she is. Nobody has~ventured to bring her face to face
3357 VI | one inn to~another. The verdict which Voltaire passed upon
3358 III | common sense is based on the~verities of social order; and the
3359 IV | maxims of those about her; versed in a selfish~philosophy
3360 X | this direction. If~fishing vessels or the people on the island
3361 VIII| supposed, she~entered a vestibule almost like that of her
3362 VI | VI~There was no sort of swagger
3363 II | gilt-panelled boudoir, began~to vibrate along the aisles of the
3364 II | when that well-known voice vibrated under the arcading,~with
3365 VII | pain, some man whose soul vibrates~with the throb of passion,
3366 II | was borne to him on the vibrating air. The nun's spirit~found
3367 VI | responded to the sonorous vibration of lofty thought and~feeling.
3368 IX | monsieur, if you honour vice~in this way without respect
3369 IV | unpractised, she had all the~vices of a courtier, all the nobleness
3370 X | Duchesse de~Langeais."~ ~The Vicomte bowed, took the letter,
3371 V | an intimate friend~Mme la Vicomtesse de Fontaine, one of the
3372 VII | Simple bourgeoises may be the victims of your treachery--I,~never!
3373 IV | general's sword--all these victories, in short, which a single~
3374 I | graceful tribute paid to the victorious arms of France. The~musician'
3375 X | and fasting, prayer and~vigils; the woman of nine-and-twenty,
3376 X | are doing all they can to vilify the noblesse?~ ~Some things
3377 VIII| the heart to do it! Such villainies demand a display~of resource
3378 X | herself, Auguste was~holding vinegar for her to inhale.~ ~"A
3379 X | and all search for the violators of the convent was~doomed
3380 X | comprehended to the full, and the violence of the passion~awakened
3381 VI | turbulence.~ ~A strong man, and violent as he was strong, he could
3382 VII | Church; and~the episcopal violet hue already appeared in
3383 VII | mateless bird dying alone in a virgin forest.~ ~"Great Heavens!
3384 VI | before, sprang~from this virginity of feeling.~ ~There are
3385 VII | purpose to remain technically virtuous, that she~felt that there
3386 III | and order is a matter of~vital importance to the working
3387 VIII| bull-necked man dash out her vitals by flinging her over his~
3388 VII | which they express with such vivid~magnetic power?~ ~"Ah, if
3389 IV | strong will and tenacity of vocation, are scarcely a match-all~
3390 IX | married, and has a great vogue, they~say, in that set."~ ~"
3391 II | love which broke~out in volcanic eruption, filling his heart
3392 IX | sweetness of orange-blossoms or~volkameria-flowers compared separately, each
3393 VI | another. The verdict which Voltaire passed upon his eighty years~
3394 IX | Vidame it was justified by a~Voltairean wit. His wide prominent
3395 VII | trilled out with the quick volubility of a~bird-organ. Nor, truly,
3396 IX | King. The bad brother who voted so wrongly in his~department
3397 VI | extraordinary reception vouchsafed him by the~Duchesse de Langeais.
3398 V | without permission, without vouchsafing any satisfaction~beyond
3399 VI | lived; for among them a vow is a kind of~contract made
3400 VI | therefore,~monsieur le voyageur, that if I accept a man'
3401 X | because they have been very vulgarly~sharp-witted. It would be
3402 VIII| Quite so. Well, and if some wag were to spoil your beauty
3403 X | Duchesses do~not fly off like wagtails. She cannot travel faster
3404 VII | to put an arm about her~waist, Montriveau was holding
3405 X | moralists, who hung about our waiting-women, and~took down their slanders,
3406 VI | you grant me, I sleep and wake in your~heart. And now today,
3407 IX | Duke, stopping~short in his walk. "Nobody but one of Buonaparte'
3408 VIII| the prey in his grasp. The waltz came to an end, Mme~de Langeais
3409 VIII| moment.~ ~Mme de Langeais waltzed that evening with a sort
3410 X | others see her, is pale~and wan and sad; but the other,
3411 IV | ladies of olden~time in their wantonness, nor yet the simple grandeur
3412 VI | impatience seizes him, he wants the thing the more, and
3413 VII | civile of this sentimental~warfare, the ensuing phase which
3414 V | flatteries and some few~words of warmer admiration, which she encouraged
3415 VIII| peace, and the latter are warned~that they must be on the
3416 VIII| love from her cheeks as she washes off rouge. ~We know women
3417 VIII| There is no~occasion to waste your time in grafting your
3418 IV | the front, the vanity that wastes his substance, is~as much
3419 VIII| her to lime you. You~are wasting your affections on her when
3420 III | pure friendship which God~watches over! You do not know what
3421 VIII| to be washed away in the waters of penitence. But if you~
3422 VI | the Duchess by countless wavering reflections.~ ~He could
3423 I | evergreen~trees mingling their waving leaves with the motionless
3424 VIII| he, "I am a child."~ ~"A wayward, much spoilt child," she
3425 X | all things without growing weaker, it will last~eternally.
3426 II | A man seems~confessed a weakling in a monastery; he was born
3427 IX | you have turned all my weaknesses against me, and made so
3428 VII | another woman; but when the wearer of a petticoat has~allowed
3429 VI | murdered him; tears of rage and~weariness flowed over his fevered
3430 X | certain species~of spider weaves about a tree. The Chinese,
3431 X | blocks of wood~could be wedged firmly into it at a distance
3432 X | will be happy that~she may weep and be a power for you still.
3433 III | to you. I am old now~with weeping; I am neither young nor
3434 I | exaggerates everything; the heart weighs the fall of a~fourteen-year-old
3435 VI | one, as if they~had been weighted with the gladness that apparently
3436 X | appeared in~literature as a well-conducted age. I am justifying the
3437 II | in his~heart, when that well-known voice vibrated under the
3438 VI | but his miraculous escape~well-nigh exhausted his energies.
3439 VII | At sight~of his fresh, well-preserved complexion, smooth forehead,
3440 VI | science in Paris, and some few well-read military men. ~The incidents
3441 II | prostrated by emotion which wellnigh overcame a strong man's~
3442 X | Duchesse de la Valliere wept for lost happiness and~vanished
3443 X | Monarchy. Not one of~your Werthers, none of your notabilities,
3444 VIII| remark which the man makes at Westminster when you are shown the~axe
3445 | wherein
3446 | Wherever
3447 VIII| gracefully puffing the~last whiff of cigar smoke. "You will
3448 VIII| put my thoughts into words whilst~you are twisting on the
3449 VII | and his desire save the whims of her who allowed~him to
3450 X | significant cut of the riding whip to his mare, who sped off
3451 IX | her brain, as clouds are whirled by the wind~across the grey
3452 II | emotion that surged like a whirlpool in his~heart, when that
3453 V | the age of twenty into the whirlwind of men~directed by Napoleon;
3454 VIII| of" His voice sank to a whisper over the last words in~Armand'
3455 III | fair contrast of velvet~whiteness and the colour of the Bengal
3456 IV | the~aristocracy was not whole-hearted in its allegiance to the~
3457 X | disguise, dear aunt?"~ ~"Why--yes. The story can always
3458 IX | and political consistency, wickedly amused himself~by taking
3459 IV | lacking in a sense of its wider interests, an instinct which~
3460 VIII| along the Quais to see the widest~possible space of sky; his
3461 X | was quite as good as the Widow Scarron, and the more agreeable~
3462 VII | boudoir. "Dear Antoinette, I wield a more absolute power than~
3463 IV | the captain in the man who wields it?~ ~The Faubourg Saint-Germain
3464 IV | into artifice. With more wilfulness than real force~of character,
3465 IX | all up to you. Misfortune willed that I should be a~duchess;
3466 VI | delicacy.~ ~M. de Montriveau willingly consented to be introduced
3467 VII | hers. And as for him, the~wily Duchess vowed to tire him
3468 I | reason, probably because the winds are~so high, the architect
3469 VI | her manner; there was a winning~grace displayed in her words,
3470 VIII| so~little of a rake, he wins in three moves. Now, if
3471 VIII| cipher for her. She would wipe away your kisses, my~dear
3472 VI | reflection, Armand de~Montriveau wiped out his whole past life.~ ~
3473 X | courage enough to teach the wisdom gained by experience, and~
3474 X | to know how to place it wisely; it is~only a woman's last
3475 IV | apart, the world~none the wiser. Their marriage of convention
3476 IX | to listen through~space, wishing that she could annihilate
3477 IX | Langeais saw hope in Armand's withdrawal from the world;~she wrote
3478 IX | the rack before curious witnesses; yet not to~utter a sound,
3479 VIII| nothing. When I am with her my wits desert me. ~She does not
3480 VIII| in Paris~boudoirs. He was witty, clever, and what was more--
3481 VIII| Nero--many women, like the wives of King~Henry VIII, have
3482 IX | her soul. And, in truth, woe unto those for~whom suspense
3483 III | time, but she is deluded, woman-like,~by generous ideas, by a
3484 X | I had no~conception of womanly devotion and happiness.
3485 X | prayers.~ ~"Perhaps you wonder why I write to you? Ah!
3486 IX | generously returned her woods to her; so that~personally
3487 IX | should have uttered those~words--in vain? She must either
3488 X | these blocks the daring workers drove iron cramps,~specially
3489 X | Strange unaccountable workings of the heart! The nun, wasted
3490 VI | light over undiscovered~worlds shrunk to the proportions
3491 IV | were filled up by~the old worn-out men, who kept them in leading
3492 II | the~voice of the woman he worshipped rang out close beside him;
3493 VI | novice in love feel like a worthless bale flung into the deep,~
3494 IV | it was, there was a daily wrangle over precedence; it ceased~
3495 VIII| thing," she said, hastily wrapping her~dressing-gown about
3496 X | that curve was a secret wrested from~Nature by that faculty
3497 VIII| after a pause, "if some poor wretch~commits a murder in Paris,
3498 VIII| if he were the basest of wretches. Here my mind is unfettered. ~
3499 IX | me!" she~broke off, and wringing her hands, she cried out "
3500 IV | Montalembert, and other writers were putting new life~and
3501 IX | again, while she tossed and writhed~there, she said, "I want
3502 I | lived romances instead of writing~them, a man pre-eminently
3503 IX | I was as sincere in my wrongdoing, I swear to you, as~in my
3504 IX | bad brother who voted so wrongly in his~department of the
3505 IV | woman, would have forgiven wrongs~more easily than bungling.~ ~
3506 X | X~The Duchess silenced the
3507 IV | only~later, when this Louis XI, without the axe, lay stricken
3508 IV | light on the mind~of Louis XVIII. In spite of his surroundings,
3509 IX | Soulanges, subject to a yearly charge."~ ~"It will be a
3510 X | heart! The nun, wasted by~yearning love, worn out with tears
3511 IX | that could touch her, the~yearnings towards joys that she craved
3512 I | glimpse of her after five years--five years, in~which the
3513 X | never a one of your men in yellow kid gloves and trousers
3514 VII | Nevertheless, the Abbe~rose, yielded his place to the General,
3515 IX | upper ranks~in every country yields mighty little gold to the
3516 IX | M. de Montriveau leaves youdear me! do not let us put~ourselves
3517 X | voices more since I heard yours--so gentle at the first,
3518 | yourselves
3519 II | manifested the greatest zeal for the performance of his
3520 IX | is current coin in every zone. ~In the higher regions
3521 III | describe the various social zones; and possibly an enquiry
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