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2003 VII | Mademoiselle," he said to the shopgirl, who followed him, looking~
2004 II | bow-legged, another was~short-sighted, this one's name was Durand,
2005 V | touched the young fellow's shoulder, saying, "A liberal citizen
2006 III | arranged the tongs and shovel, made~the fire, pulled up
2007 IV | the~deep respect which is shown by English families, and
2008 I | day, as~he came in, the shrewd monarch addressed him thus: "
2009 II | indocility and~ironical shrewdness too often to persevere in
2010 VII | walked alone across the shrubbery~towards an arbor fit for
2011 VII | profession.~ ~Emilie felt an icy shudder, though no one perceived
2012 IV | large rotunda open on all sides, with a~light, spreading
2013 VIII| said the attache, with a sigh, "the poor fellow sacrificed~
2014 III | who were not less clear-~sighted than merciless, would inevitably
2015 VIII| quarrel, and contrived to take~signal vengeance on Emilie's disdain
2016 V | treaty being concluded, and signed by a kiss impressed~on Emilie'
2017 V | Kergarouet could recognize the signs of extreme agitation in
2018 I | attaching himself like a silkworm to the leaves~of the Pay-List.
2019 I | the state of his affairs, similar, as it was, to that of~many
2020 VIII| Duchess was saying, in a simper.~ ~"You have more passion
2021 VII | innocent.~Young men are very simple-minded nowadays! Here it is."~ ~"
2022 V | hand. My word, I am a great simpleton!~Is not that the very young
2023 IV | Most of the women were simply and~suitably dressed. Those
2024 III | and went.~ ~The anxious sinecure-holder did not share his retainer'
2025 I | his three sons each had sinecures enough to enjoy an~income
2026 VI | whether he were a professional singer, he baffled them so pleasantly~
2027 VII | Bareme, draws, dances, and sings well. The~devil's in it!
2028 VII | compulsory on me, from the rather singular position I am~in with regard
2029 V | success of an~enterprise whose singularity may give some idea of the
2030 VII | princes bearing the bar sinister on~their shields."~ ~"Your
2031 VII | trees~which the hues of the sinking sun wrapped in a haze of
2032 VI | envious, and called her "the~Siren." Though Emilie had intended
2033 VIII| little at calling you my sister----"~ ~The lovers, however,
2034 VIII| of the room where she was sitting, playing~piquet with the
2035 VI | of making~a young girl of sixteen talk.~ ~Notwithstanding
2036 II | noble on the verge of his sixtieth year--an~age when men rarely
2037 II | they~not some day enjoy sixty--eighty--a hundred thousand
2038 IV | the~scenes she proposed to sketch in her satirical album.
2039 V | who had dropped from the~skies to pervade and beautify
2040 VI | by her~uncle, who was as skilful in such manoeuvres as in
2041 I | these three daughters so skilfully introduced, under the form
2042 VIII| it was partly due to the skill with which she continued~
2043 VII | Fontaine pulled Emilie by the sleeve, and~pointed out to her
2044 II | seeing his tenderest words slide from his daughter's~heart
2045 III | seemed to be waiting for the~slightest turn of ill-luck to take
2046 IV | Emilie, with your standard of slimness," added the~Lieutenant-General.~ ~"
2047 I | let such a happy chance slip; he told his history with
2048 III | pulled up the heels of his slippers, pulled out his little~queue
2049 II | marble. A father's eyes are slow to be~unsealed, and it needed
2050 VII | happy~thoughts.~ ~After slowing pacing a few steps in long
2051 VII | such sweet nothings, they slowly made their way back to~rejoin
2052 III | virtue in the greater or smaller dimensions of a man's~body?
2053 II | girls were married,~had smarted under Emilie's sarcasm.
2054 VIII| persuaded him that she liked the smell of tobacco,~and read him
2055 IV | their wives with mocking smiles. From that moment~every
2056 VIII| in the midst of clouds~of smoke, which the malicious old
2057 V | fighting a duel than of smoking a~cigar? Why, in my time,
2058 V | the sailor harshly,~in a sneering tone that was nothing less
2059 I | above, suggested a carpet of snow. There the~Count met some
2060 II | France had married Monsieur So-and-So with no title to his name.
2061 IV | said Madame de Fontaine, to soften this saucy~retort, "Emilie,
2062 II | stare, or gentleness~by the softness of her gaze, by the set
2063 II | fact that his father had sold firewood. This noteworthy~
2064 III | in France. He must be a soldier--~but I reserve the right
2065 IV | other great men, for the sole~purpose of attracting attention.
2066 VII | natural magic lent a certain solemnity to the moment.~The young
2067 I | noble~gentlemen's views to solicit favors, he yielded to his
2068 I | further received, without any~solicitation, ex officio, the crosses
2069 IV | having a just esteem for the solid qualities by which he~had
2070 VII | this up."~ ~"You speak a soliloquy as if you were on the stage,
2071 II | all nature of~her unreal solitude and her wilful griefs. Strong
2072 II | Those who may~have tried to solve the difficult problem of
2073 III | father says that it~will someday be the highest dignity in
2074 III | beforehand, whoever the son-in-law may be whom you introduce
2075 II | kind advice; but he had~the sorrow of seeing his tenderest
2076 VIII| emptiness and grief of her sorrowing soul;~for the most part,
2077 VI | Mademoiselle de Fontaine seemed~sorry for an ill-judged sally
2078 V | is running; I rated him soundly."~ ~"Oh, yes, uncle; I know
2079 VIII| his rooms at night, to the sounds of a lively~band, would
2080 VIII| of temper, which had its source in sufferings at once~secret
2081 I | The youngest,~appointed sous-prefet, ere long became a legal
2082 II | be its queen; but, like sovereigns, she had no friends, though~
2083 VI | fledged. The man who does not sow~his wild oats in the spring
2084 VII | and narrow-mindedness ever sowed in a human soul. Her face,~
2085 VI | wild oats in the spring sows them in the winter. If I
2086 VI | well born, her black eyes sparkled, and she danced with all
2087 VII | passer-by; but her laughter~was spasmodic. She was more deeply hurt
2088 I | the Count was one of those special envoys~who were sent throughout
2089 I | calculation one of these rash speculations which~promise splendid results
2090 V | looks, or one of your pretty speeches--one of those you~can make
2091 VII | stood motionless, cold, and speechless.~ ~"Mademoiselle," Maximilien
2092 V | the letters one by one, spelling the name of~Longueville;
2093 IV | Sceaux balls at that time a spice of~more amusement than those
2094 VII | received~with mock submission spiced with irony.~ ~"At least,
2095 VIII| amusing herself by saying spiteful things to her uncle, she~
2096 IV | detect a stain or a bright spot which afterwards strikes
2097 IV | all sides, with a~light, spreading roof supported on elegant
2098 V | her caresses. But as he~spun out this pleasure too long,
2099 V | He unexpectedly spurred his horse in such a way
2100 V | her dreams. Though nothing spurs on a~young girl's infant
2101 III | curtains, put those chairs square, shake the rug, and~lay
2102 IV | do not at~first detect a stain or a bright spot which afterwards
2103 VII | not even washed off the stains of his origin. Before~the
2104 VII | sentences, which she had~almost stammered out. During the minute while
2105 III | nowadays no external sign stamps a man of rank, those young
2106 IV | there~are delightful views, stands a large rotunda open on
2107 II | taught her to add terror by a stare, or gentleness~by the softness
2108 II | mothers to give their boys a start in independent and industrial~
2109 IV | for hearing many of the startling speeches~which caricaturists
2110 I | ruined by~confiscation, the staunch Vendeen steadily refused
2111 VII | cotton goods, live there.--Stay, I have it: Longueville
2112 V | have some male relation staying with her," said the~Baron
2113 VIII| Vicomte de Longueville had~the steadfast nature in which a wise woman
2114 I | confiscation, the staunch Vendeen steadily refused the lucrative posts~
2115 VIII| person~here; my brother keeps stealing glances at you; he is dancing
2116 III | horseman who is sure his steed cannot bolt. Luck be with
2117 II | who knew so well how to~steer his bark in the midst of
2118 III | heard his daughter's light step, and she came in humming
2119 VIII| attentions; she brought him his~stick with a persevering devotion
2120 VII | easily forgot the petty stipulations of pride, and the cold~hesitancies
2121 VII | beating spoke to Emilie's arm,~stirred her to an emotion that was
2122 III | father. And having left no stone unturned, he hoped that,
2123 IV | who, emerging from the stony abyss in which~they are
2124 V | whereas if you had but stopped,~one of your looks, or one
2125 VI | the~stranger to unlock the stores of his information, which
2126 Add | personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.~ ~Beaudenord,
2127 II | rule France in the midst~of storms. Perhaps Monsieur de Fontaine
2128 I | royalist leaders during this stormy~period of modern history,
2129 III | noble! he is ill made and stout. He is dark, it is true.--~
2130 IV | merry quadrille; but by a stratagem of the eye,~familiar to
2131 VII | now fresh and velvety, was streaked with yellow lines and red~
2132 V | gendarme on patrol in~the Paris streets. One might fancy she wanted
2133 VI | sweetest sentiment in life, strengthening it~by a thousand little
2134 VIII| Countess was marked by such strictness that~the most clear-sighted
2135 V | his hunting-crop as if to strike his horse, and~touched the
2136 VI | who was about to miss his stroke, rushed in, as much to study~
2137 II | Fine black hair, thick and strongly-arched eyebrows, lent her~countenance
2138 II | fortunes for France. He~strove to convince the families
2139 VII | prey to the most violent struggle that can torture the~heart
2140 IV | dancing-floor. The most stuck-up landowners of~the neighborhood
2141 V | not unlike a gnarled oak-~stump, with a few leaves fluttering
2142 VIII| affected to be with her stung Mademoiselle de Fontaine
2143 IV | owes its fame only to the stupidity~of the Paris townsfolk,
2144 I | harmless enough, which he styled an epigram, in which he
2145 VIII| would be severe enough to subdue~Emilie's nature; but she
2146 II | to please her, and then subjecting them to all her~most contemptuous
2147 VI | kept the conversation to subjects unconnected with~personal
2148 I | armies to count the twenty submerged years of Louis XVIII.'s
2149 VII | admonition was received~with mock submission spiced with irony.~ ~"At
2150 II | self-~confidence. Universal subservience had developed in her the~
2151 IV | COMMON FOLK at this gleeful suburban~entertainment, and promised
2152 I | quote the wittiest and most successful of our diplomates--one of~
2153 I | his determination by these successive favors, due, as he~supposed,
2154 VIII| which had its source in sufferings at once~secret and known
2155 I | which the income barely sufficed to~maintain his children,
2156 I | enjoying the abundance which suffices for the joys of~early youth;
2157 VIII| the Ville de~Paris, M. de Suffren's first expedition, or the
2158 I | government, and can never suit France. Louis XVIII. and~
2159 I | favor, or for money, when it suited them, and~nowadays one cannot
2160 II | up a~programme to which a suitor must conform to be excepted.
2161 V | from~coaxing to sarcasm and sulks; then, urged by curiosity,
2162 IV | spoilt girl's proud and sulky pout to the severe faces
2163 II | crowd as a fetfah of the Sultan by the Turks. She thus~dazzled
2164 I | thought of~inquiring as to the sum of his losses, or of the
2165 IV | accompanied~her sister to the sumptuous villa, less out of affection
2166 III | with me so early?" Having sung~these words, as though they
2167 VII | in the~attitude of a man superior to the disaster that has
2168 VIII| raise a levy of peers~to support the aristocratic party,
2169 III | Amphitryons, and the official supporters of the Villele~Ministry.~ ~
2170 V | tone of voice, "I cannot~suppose, monsieur, as I look at
2171 V | handsome couple, and her~suppositions were at once dissipated
2172 VII | exclamation~she could not suppress, "why ask me if I am of
2173 II | persons of inferior birth.~Supremely impertinent to all newly-created
2174 IV | only he is noble, and he surely must~be----" Without finishing
2175 II | brow~were like the limpid surface of a lake, which by turns
2176 VII | all, the throbbing~of his surging heart, whose hurried beating
2177 VI | figure and grace almost surpassed those of~her imaginary ideal.
2178 VIII| Mademoiselle de Fontaine with a~surprise that was full of perspicacity.
2179 I | old school, in whom still survives the memory of~the League
2180 II | Monsieur de Fontaine--to suspect that she~had a touch of
2181 VII | playing a cruel game of suspense.~He was trying to discover
2182 II | expenses of~their sons, swallowed up the chief part of their
2183 VI | softly to the tide of the sweetest sentiment in life, strengthening
2184 III | perpendicular position; then he swept up the ashes of the hearth,~
2185 II | years of age, can neither sympathize with their young souls,
2186 VIII| to meet each other, the tables were arranged as in a~restaurant.
2187 II | slight~chill in the King's tacit and precarious friendship,
2188 II | which, sooner or later, it takes its~revenge, had added to
2189 VI | concealing a secret. If she talked of~painting, he responded
2190 IV | shall look on anyone~who talks to me of marriage as a foe
2191 II | playing the~part of Celimene. Tall and slight, Emilie de Fontaine
2192 II | instincts~and her mirror had taught her to add terror by a stare,
2193 II | admiration. Hence, often,~secret tears and dumb revolt against
2194 IV | now exclaimed:~ ~"Do not tease my poor little Emilie; don'
2195 VIII| acquired the art of not telling~more than I intend, like
2196 II | his bark in the midst of tempests, soon succumbed. Certain
2197 I | moderation. As soon as the temporary commission was ended,~the
2198 VII | remarks. The three women were tempted to~the drive, less by their
2199 II | loved had been ruined by the tender devotion of the~whole family.
2200 VIII| to a~desert and live in a tent but not to sit in a shop."~ ~
2201 VIII| sheen of satin. The intimate terms on which Longueville~affected
2202 IV | at this rustic palace of Terpsichore~either in dashing parties
2203 II | and re-establish the~old territorial fortune of the family. The
2204 II | mirror had taught her to add terror by a stare, or gentleness~
2205 VII | back by a wish~to know and test the woman to whom he would
2206 VI | Fontaine walked, tete-a-~tete, in the avenues of the garden,
2207 VI | Mademoiselle de Fontaine walked, tete-a-~tete, in the avenues of
2208 IV | fashion, and of being seen by them--and~the hope, less often
2209 VIII| brother? When he is the theme I become~inexhaustible.
2210 III | should~keep his dark hair, then--perhaps----"~ ~"What can
2211 I | the King replied~in his thin sharp tones, "Amicus Plato
2212 III | at his feet, because he thinks them small, and he gazes
2213 VI | ran through the capital at thirty. Oh! with my wife--in decency
2214 VII | thousand-franc note, "take this--it is between ourselves.--
2215 VIII| fact, he ruined a very nice thoroughbred that I~had just given him.
2216 VII | her ear, as he gave~her a thousand-franc note, "take this--it is
2217 IV | was important enough to threaten to~become an institution.
2218 I | escaped all the~dangers which threatened the royalist leaders during
2219 I | warning of a fresh storm,~threatening to overwhelm the legitimate
2220 II | which, by intermarriage, threatens to pervade Europe. The~old
2221 II | lady whose father, twice or thrice a millionaire, had traded~
2222 VI | they felt their finger tips thrill and tremble as they~were
2223 VII | action, and, above all, the throbbing~of his surging heart, whose
2224 | throughout
2225 V | held the card under the thumbs so as to hide it, and~then
2226 I | childhood she had never been thwarted in~the satisfaction of her
2227 VI | themselves~softly to the tide of the sweetest sentiment
2228 III | s intentions, aired and tidied~the room, of course the
2229 VIII| fortune to keep his wife more tightly in hand; but~this was a
2230 V | couple get into~an elegant tilbury, by which stood a mounted
2231 VIII| through all her banter a tinge of~melancholy. It was clear
2232 IV | but a~faint flush already tinged her white cheeks, and her
2233 VI | once they felt their finger tips thrill and tremble as they~
2234 III | repeating such an~effort, and tired, too, of his daughter's
2235 I | political or parliamentary tittle-tattle~--if the expression may
2236 V | drawing-room."~ ~"When, uncle?"~ ~"To-morrow."~ ~"But, my dear uncle,
2237 VIII| that she liked the smell of tobacco,~and read him his favorite
2238 | together
2239 III | wiped his nose, arranged the tongs and shovel, made~the fire,
2240 II | privileges," he would say, "is a tool without a~handle."~ ~As
2241 I | virgins eager to light their torches. The King had too much good
2242 VI | was too fully occupied to~torment other people, she became
2243 I | not~dismiss a servant in a torrent of rain; borrowed on his
2244 VII | violent struggle that can torture the~heart of a young girl,
2245 III | Emilie, with an ironical toss of her head.~ ~"My dear,
2246 IV | enjoined; she turned and tossed her head, gesticulated eagerly,
2247 VII | child, the young man is totally unknown to me; but unless
2248 VIII| Camps, and Mademoiselle des~Touches, she did not yield to the
2249 III | dressed, "take away that towel,~draw back the curtains,
2250 IV | with imagining all these town-~bred figures; she fancied
2251 IV | the stupidity~of the Paris townsfolk, who, emerging from the
2252 VII | heaping on all men engaged in trade the bitterest insults~and
2253 II | thrice a millionaire, had traded~in salt; and the third brother,
2254 VIII| that corner."~ ~"A perfect tragic mask!" said Emilie, after
2255 II | brilliantly; her voice, trained by the best masters, had
2256 VI | in conversation, and the traps she laid to extract from
2257 IV | peopled with artists who have~traveled far, by foreigners who are
2258 I | sometimes sends strange travelers; however, We can~always
2259 VIII| of~those sarcasms whose treacherous zest always let her astray.~ ~"
2260 IV | as her fancy moved her, treating the living pictures and~
2261 II | insulting~politeness which treats an equal as an inferior,
2262 V | lodged in the heart of the tree, fifteen paces away.~ ~"
2263 VII | themselves under a clump of trees~which the hues of the sinking
2264 VI | their finger tips thrill and tremble as they~were married in
2265 III | knees--for he~had dropped all tremulous into his chair again--caressed
2266 VII | sisters have played me~that trick."--"I assure you, monsieur,"
2267 VI | catechizing him on all the~trifles of which a perfect knowledge
2268 III | her arms~over the dainty trimmings of a pelerine a la neige,
2269 I | introduced, under the form of a~trinity. Nay, if report is to be
2270 IV | He had none of the vulgar trinkets displayed by the~dandies
2271 VI | pleasure in a young girl's triumph. She lavished on Clara in
2272 VI | discussion on naval architecture, trivial, it is true, started by~
2273 I | after the affair of the Trocadero a~lieutenant-general with
2274 III | glance at her old father's troubled face, she broke silence.~ ~"
2275 IV | broadsides, without ever~troubling himself to return her fire.~ ~
2276 IV | and dressed in~nankeen trousers, a blue coat, and white
2277 V | had gained a fairly long truce from the gout, met Lady~
2278 VII | the Comte de Kergarouet.~"Trusting to that crazy child's tact,
2279 I | the pleasantry had some truth in it, as spoken by a man
2280 III | endless frills of white tulle. After a laughing side~glance
2281 II | fetfah of the Sultan by the Turks. She thus~dazzled shallow
2282 VII | Longueville~has but one son of two-and-thirty, who is not at all like
2283 III | position and of ours. You are two-and-twenty, my dear child, and~you
2284 II | most spoiled children,~she tyrannized over those who loved her,
2285 V | am a perfect old woman--ultra you~see. But I do not hinder
2286 VI | Longueville. He did not seem unaccustomed to the~luxury of the Receiver-General'
2287 VII | to take a young girl thus~unawares?" she asked him, smiling.~ ~"
2288 VIII| talk with a lack of reserve~unbecoming in a diplomatist, the fault
2289 IV | mouth seemed ready to smile, unbending the corners of~eloquent
2290 VI | conversation to subjects unconnected with~personal interests,
2291 V | as to hide it, and~then uncovered the letters one by one,
2292 III | breath, and the~old servant, understanding his master's intentions,
2293 V | every~sign of the greatest uneasiness, he told his antagonist
2294 VIII| sometimes, again, she was unendurable. Every one made excuses
2295 V | by their side . . ."~ ~He unexpectedly spurred his horse in such
2296 III | sentiment, bad husbands, and unfit for civilized society. Though
2297 II | was due not merely to~his unfortunate residence in the modern
2298 II | satisfy the pride she had~unfortunately contributed to foster in
2299 VII | had communicated her not~unfounded suspicions as to Emilie'
2300 II | the young despot was, not~unfrequently, the cause of revolts in
2301 II | personal~advantages, that they united in forming a little court
2302 I | point of the jest in the Unity of the three Divine Persons.~ ~"
2303 II | increased her self-~confidence. Universal subservience had developed
2304 VI | not lead the~stranger to unlock the stores of his information,
2305 II | the trouble taken by the unlucky~father. Such an affair,
2306 V | in his~niece, under the unmoved expression she tried to
2307 I | enjoyed by the Count, fell unperceived. Though~the father and his
2308 II | accused all nature of~her unreal solitude and her wilful
2309 II | father's eyes are slow to be~unsealed, and it needed more than
2310 VI | upon the scene the hitherto unseen figure of~Mademoiselle Clara
2311 II | please by self-~sacrifice and unselfishness; but nothing escapes the
2312 III | And having left no stone unturned, he hoped that, among~so
2313 VII | Directors-General? He walks upright. He is a~man.--However,
2314 VI | every profession that has a useful~purpose."~ ~"Well, in that
2315 | using
2316 III | he is!" was with her the utmost expression~of contempt.~ ~
2317 VI | adorer. Though they had not uttered a word of passion, she~knew
2318 II | discovered too late how utterly the education of~the daughter
2319 V | V~Clara made a little pouting
2320 II | as much a~victim to her vagaries as Monsieur de Fontaine--
2321 VII | times in life when such~vagueness pleases youthful minds.
2322 II | mysterious book of life. Vain~effort! He had to lament
2323 III | her views were. While his~valet was artistically decorating
2324 VIII| every heart. But I have a~valid excuse. I have but just
2325 I | revolutionary parvenu, who valued the alliance at a high~figure,
2326 VII | room, but his niece had vanished "like~Saint-Elmo's fires,"
2327 II | and the~festivities and vanities of court life. Like most
2328 VI | information, which proved to be~varied! She perceived that she,
2329 II | She had cultivated a large variety of those turns of the head
2330 IV | after wandering over the vast moving~picture, were suddenly
2331 VII | something more than the vault of heaven and the carpet
2332 VIII| Fontaine a prey to the most vehement regret. The young Secretary
2333 VII | but just now fresh and velvety, was streaked with yellow
2334 II | scrutiny. This~enchanting veneer covered a careless heart;
2335 VIII| contrived to take~signal vengeance on Emilie's disdain by making
2336 I | evening he thought he might venture on a witty~allusion to the
2337 IV | person who, as an old sailor,~ventured to stand on her tack, and
2338 II | young thing~pronounced her verdicts and judged the merits of
2339 II | ideas of a noble on the verge of his sixtieth year--an~
2340 VI | boarding-~hooks over the vessel, Longueville slipped away
2341 VI | VI~During this ride with the
2342 II | no title to his name. The~Vicomtesse de Fontaine amused herself
2343 VIII| brother~here. On arriving from Vienna I heard that the poor boy
2344 VII | VII~The speech alarmed Monsieur
2345 VIII| VIII~Every one hoped that this
2346 V | wandered long about the~village of Chatenay without meeting
2347 IV | Emilie," replied the Baron de Villaine, the husband of the~Count'
2348 VIII| Belle-Poule, the manoeuvres of the Ville de~Paris, M. de Suffren'
2349 III | official supporters of the Villele~Ministry.~ ~At the close
2350 VII | thorough knowledge of all our vintages. He is as~good an arithmetician
2351 VII | Fontaine, a prey to the most violent struggle that can torture
2352 I | mention only one by one, these~virgins eager to light their torches.
2353 III | the gift of~recognizing virtue in the greater or smaller
2354 VIII| there was no~outward and visible difference between a merchant
2355 VI | Monsieur Longueville made his visit neither too long nor too
2356 II | drawing-room,~or those whom he visited, how few favorable openings
2357 I | his history with so much~vivacity that a king, who never forgot
2358 I | done every Sunday, to cry~"Vive le Roi" in the hall of the
2359 VIII| but she, no~doubt, found a void at the bottom of the whirlpool;
2360 VIII| very much~surprised," the voluble young secretary went on, "
2361 IV | and after the budget was voted, the~whole family--a perfect
2362 II | play." In short, Emilie vouchsafed to be fond of her parents.
2363 VIII| not know myself. Was I to wait till the~age of seventy-two
2364 VII | cried the old sailor,~waking up. He looked round the
2365 VII | call Directors-General? He walks upright. He is a~man.--However,
2366 IV | wondered at her desire to wander through such a~mob; but
2367 V | of fact, she might have wandered long about the~village of
2368 IV | of genre. Her eyes, after wandering over the vast moving~picture,
2369 V | of her rather~eccentric wanderings. Emilie then saw the attractive
2370 II | when this petty~domestic warfare had become serious, the
2371 VIII| his sister Clara for the~warm and poetic scenes of beautiful
2372 IV | immense composition of French Warriors received by~Ossian. Emilie
2373 I | are ruinous in effect. He was--~to quote the wittiest and
2374 VII | his father has not even washed off the stains of his origin.
2375 VII | midst of woods and fields; wasting his time as~freely as a
2376 IV | the column,~affecting to watch the merry quadrille; but
2377 VI | young people as a~naturalist watches an insect in the microscope.~
2378 VII | than Maximilien had been watching her for a minute,~not probably
2379 III | to becoming richer. The wealthiest member of our~peerage has
2380 VIII| decent French, I~have been weaned from French faces, and satiated
2381 I | daughters, and was afraid of wearying the monarch's~benevolence.
2382 III | days of Longchamps in Holy Week. Besides, my father says
2383 IV | give some account of this weekly~festivity, which at that
2384 II | government, and lent all his weight to encourage the~political
2385 V | That is what I call a well-educated man," cried the admiral
2386 I | ministerial despatch, in which a well-known magnate~announced to him
2387 I | delighted as~much as in a well-written note, by his brilliant manner
2388 | whence
2389 | whereas
2390 II | But~often, by those sudden whims, which seem inexplicable
2391 III | would seem of indigestion. A whimsical result! his~efforts to get
2392 I | when she rushed into the whirl of fashion.~
2393 VIII| void at the bottom of the whirlpool; luxury was~ineffectual
2394 VII | that way. But here," he whispered into her ear, as he gave~
2395 | whither
2396 | whoever
2397 VII | Palma,~Werbrust & Co., wholesale dealers in muslins, calicoes,
2398 IV | suddenly~found a flower in this wide field--the metaphor is reasonable--
2399 VI | capital at thirty. Oh! with my wife--in decency and~honor. However,
2400 VI | man who does not sow~his wild oats in the spring sows
2401 IV | young peasant girls, as~wily as judges--crowds the ballroom
2402 V | place sheltered from the~wind. Very soon Mademoiselle
2403 III | a little by~opening the window."~ ~The Count multiplied
2404 III | seen no one, then, this winter----"~ ~"No, papa."~ ~"What
2405 III | grains of~snuff, carefully wiped his nose, arranged the tongs
2406 II | Fontaine, in her slender wisdom, had drawn up a~programme
2407 I | Revolution. The Count prudently withdrew from the~venerable group,
2408 VII | not the breath of vanity wither everything? Mademoiselle
2409 V | leaves fluttering about it, withered by autumnal~frosts; and
2410 | within
2411 I | recalled~Monsieur de Fontaine's witticism at the Tuileries. The old
2412 VII | the bitterest insults~and witticisms in the worst taste.~ ~On
2413 VII | her lover~more amiable or wittier: his light figure, his engaging
2414 I | effect. He was--~to quote the wittiest and most successful of our
2415 IV | brothers glanced at their wives with mocking smiles. From
2416 II | tyranny. In the midst of~these woes, which become very real
2417 V | politics. I am a perfect old woman--ultra you~see. But I do
2418 IV | with~the crowd. Everybody wondered at her desire to wander
2419 IV | country-folk, kept apart with wonderful~politeness. In fact, Mademoiselle
2420 VII | admiration, hunts~well, plays wonderfully at billiards, at chess,
2421 III | as yours it~may achieve wonders. In the first place, have
2422 III | Manerville?"~ ~"Oh, he minces his words--he says Zules instead of
2423 II | which, sooner or later, works havoc in a woman's heart,
2424 VII | gold piece to one of the~workwomen with whom he seemed to be
2425 V | Nowadays you think and worry~over everything, as though
2426 I | which cost nothing and are worth millions. One evening, when~
2427 II | his beloved~child, would worthily crown the career the Count
2428 VII | hoped to~inflict a cruel wound on the heart of a lover.
2429 VIII| he replied. "There are wounds which never heal."~ ~"You
2430 II | de~Fontaine roused her to wrath that a perfect hailstorm
2431 VIII| hope so."~ ~"Impertinent wretch!" she exclaimed. "How cruel
2432 VII | the habit of coming, to wring some explanation from~him.
2433 VIII| the lash of an illustrious writer, gave Monsieur Guiraudin
2434 VIII| as devoted as a mother, wrote to~me that he had fallen
2435 VIII| and a woman's smile, had wrung from her one of~those sarcasms
2436 III | the accession of~Charles X., he redoubled his efforts,
2437 VIII| to the courtiers of Louis XV. To hear~her, it was a misfortune
2438 II | the verge of his sixtieth year--an~age when men rarely renounce
2439 VIII| des~Touches, she did not yield to the addresses of the
2440 VIII| amiable wife, whom you may see yonder in that corner."~ ~"A perfect
2441 VI | young~friend, such a man as you----"~ ~"Monsieur le Comte,
2442 V | the~feelings of extreme youth--sweet but cruel mistakes,
2443 IV | of Aesculapius, and other youths~whose complexions are kept
2444 VIII| sarcasms whose treacherous zest always let her astray.~ ~"
2445 III | minces his words--he says Zules instead of Jules; he is
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