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2503 XXII | ambitious spirit. Admiration silenced reflection. Only one thing
2504 XXII | achieved the great point of silencing beforehand the malignant~
2505 XIV | in~your heart?"~ ~She was silent, disengaged her hand which
2506 XXIV | the Abbe de~Grancey on a silver tray.~ ~"Pray read it,"
2507 II | their special attention on simpletons~who visit them, and cut
2508 XII | the Mont-Cenis, nor by~the Simplon; he came by sea, by Marseilles,
2509 XXVIII| know that my vocation was sincere; he was so kind as to tell
2510 XIV | for an instant doubted the sincerity of this poetical~flight;
2511 IX | this almost olive skin, sinews of extraordinary strength
2512 XIII | Princess Varese, and~the famous singer Tinti, who was at that moment
2513 XVIII | An accident which should sink that~overloaded bark would
2514 XIII | instinctive nobleness.~The situation and the woman were to Rodolphe
2515 XIV | Mariette was horribly ugly and six-and-thirty, she had~inherited several
2516 XVII | aged me more; but, like Sixtus V., I shall be young~again
2517 XXII | de Chavoncourt~obtained sixty-seven. But the Prefet's party
2518 VI | Savaron.~ ~The portrait sketched by the cleverest of the
2519 VIII | calculates, as a painter~sketches, as a musician creates melodies.
2520 XVI | impossibility of detecting~a plot so skilfully planned.~ ~"Then I had to
2521 IV | like the gout, sometimes skips~over two generations. We
2522 XII | thin~and showing a white skull, with bright eyes, a full
2523 XII | Tito desired the boatmen to slacken, and the two boats pulled
2524 XXII | compromises?--He will be your slave for five~years longer, if,
2525 XXII | morning, Albert, to whom sleep had been unknown for the
2526 VI | While all the world is sleeping, he is awake--like God!"
2527 II | fashion and elegance.~ ~Amedee slept late, dressed and went out
2528 XII | There had not been the slightest shade of frivolity in~Francesca'
2529 IX | at one end~of the walk to slip noiselessly to the other.
2530 XXVI | Watteville had gone down the~slope, lost his balance, and slipped
2531 XIX | Baron died, he left the slopes of the~two Rouxey hills
2532 XV | and~seams which virulent smallpox had left on her flat, parched
2533 II | lion dressed his tiger~very smartly--a short tunic-coat of iron-gray
2534 II | sub-lions, who protested by the smartness of~their trouser-straps
2535 X | revived Rodolphe by making him smell~at them.~ ~"Married!" said
2536 V | flannel waistcoat, and~a red smoking-cap."~ ~"The devil's colors!"
2537 IX | hedge, and crawled like a snake to find~a way between two
2538 XIV | desire~to fight for him, to snatch him from this unknown rival.
2539 XIV | clasped her to his heart, and snatched a kiss.~But she freed herself
2540 XX | dispute, being covered with snow for six months in the year,~
2541 XII | where the sternness of the snowy peaks and their~hard folds
2542 IV | iron-wood, and manufactured snuff-boxes for everyone of his~acquaintance,
2543 IV | faults, if you will have it so--were as deeply buried in
2544 XIII | might some day find himself, socially speaking, on a level~with
2545 V | deep-set eyes, moving in their sockets like burning~balls; but,
2546 XXVIII| Watteville and her~daughter, to soften the impact of those two
2547 V | painting~and the books are the sole decoration of the room,
2548 XV | mind to go into politics solely, to the end that I~may some
2549 XIV | contagious, she had said solemnly to herself, "I~love him!"--
2550 VIII | torrents. Here are austere solitudes and charming~headlands,
2551 XIII | impenetrable enigma,~of which the solution attracted him more and more.~ ~
2552 XXIII | returned~as deputy, I have somebody's fortune to make, and by
2553 XII | assure~you that even that is something--to be thankful for!"~ ~"
2554 IX | which were beginning to be somewhat famous. The permission~was
2555 XIII | see his daughter and his son-in-~law Prince Gandolphini,
2556 XX | got up this action as a sop to his people."~ ~Rosalie
2557 II | two horses, treated with sordid economy,~cost, one with
2558 XVIII | while disguising them I was~sorely afraid of offending you.
2559 XVIII | transformation of your fierce Sormano into Gina make you laugh?~ ~"
2560 VI | workroom, and asked him for all sorts of~information on the art
2561 XXVI | never marry Monsieur de~Soulas--"~ ~"Oh! the /never/ of
2562 II | Amedee-Sylvain de Soulas, spelt Souleyas at the time of the~Spanish
2563 XXII | moment three distinct taps sounded on his door; Albert~hastened
2564 VII | said~Madame de Chavoncourt sourly, as she looked at one of
2565 XVIII | view of~Belgirate from the south, and that of the balcony;
2566 II | year--held him up as the sovereign authority in~matters of
2567 XIII | ground, there is~scarcely space for two carriages to pass
2568 II | the Comte, but very few Spaniards settled there. The~Soulas
2569 IV | dissembler. If by mischance a spark of the true nature of the~
2570 XXVIII| the ballroom, leaving the speaker~at his wits' end to guess
2571 IX | the moment when the two speakers were at one end~of the walk
2572 XVI | commercial questions~are my specialty. This line of conduct attaches
2573 XXIV | glancing at~the girl over his spectacles. He folded up the letter,
2574 III | out~of self-interest and speculation. The Wattevilles, who for
2575 XVII | daughter, who, being under the~spell of her absorbing thoughts,
2576 XXII | different interests, were spellbound by the brilliant~eloquence
2577 II | Amedee-Sylvain de Soulas, spelt Souleyas at the time of
2578 II | Soulas was supposed to be a spendthrift, recklessly~extravagant,
2579 XVII | on my true life, my~own sphere. Shall we not then stand
2580 XI | most like to have~in the Spielberg."~ ~"A bookseller's wife!
2581 XXII | men, his self-appointed spies, affected to be Albert's
2582 XVIII | As you see, I am in~good spirits to-day, I can laugh; that
2583 XXVII | grief. "I, alas! am not your spiritual director; you are not~kneeling
2584 IX | lake, round~and about the spit of land, to Brunnen and
2585 IV | on making wheels with six spokes out~of iron-wood, and manufactured
2586 XXVII | creature who~thought it sport to escape him; he knew not
2587 XIII | is very narrow; in some spots, in~consequence of the configuration
2588 X | Italian girl, "I am not a~spy. You are refugees, I have
2589 XVII | after wrangling in these squalid cases, and~giving them my
2590 V | complexion marbled with red, a square nose, eyes of flame, hollow~
2591 XXVI | second time. Francesca, stabbed to the heart by a girl who~
2592 XVII | morbid and very dangerous stage of enamored infatuation.
2593 II | Switzerland, by coach and in short stages, twice to Paris,~and once
2594 XIX | stirring to its depths the most~stagnant town in France, the most
2595 XXVII | guilty of~such an act has stained his honor beyond retrieving.~ ~"
2596 XIV | where there is a similar stairway, a boat presently~shot out
2597 XXI | Deputies, when an ambitious man~stakes all to win all, or, stung
2598 XVII | fortune in his pocket, bent on staking it at the Cercle des~Etrangers
2599 XXII | Ministry had their candidate, a stalking-~horse, useful only to receive
2600 XIII | XIII~"/Zitto/!" said she, stamping her foot, and looking whether
2601 XIX | from Besancon. The town stands in a~horseshoe circumscribed
2602 XVIII | while you shine like a star set too~high for man to
2603 XX | were not thinking. You were staring at that lawyer's~window
2604 XV | abroad?"~ ~"It is but just started--"~ ~"Well, I will wager
2605 XVII | provincial life, prowling like a~starving tiger round these tradesmen,
2606 XIII | brilliant matches in the~Papal States. Her elder sister had been
2607 XXII | the last fortnight, two~staunch supporters--Girardet's father-in-law
2608 IV | wore a leather vest, the stays of~the /lion/--Amedee, I
2609 IV | out so~many horseshoes and stays--for he wore a leather vest,
2610 XI | half."~ ~Francesca looked steadily at him. This piercing gaze
2611 XVIII | like a perfume, like a steady~chant, like some divine
2612 XXVIII| to be on the Loire in a steamboat of which the boiler burst.~
2613 X | acute pain caused by some steel instrument~piercing his
2614 XXIV | dead!"~ ~The Vicar-General stepped out into the garden, followed
2615 XIX | that of the Savannas or the Steppes, then every~one must exclaim
2616 XXVI | well!" said the Baroness, sternly controlling the rage of
2617 XII | rich in detail, where the sternness of the snowy peaks and their~
2618 XVIII | to~have made myself your steward, or, as that dear tyrant
2619 X | returned with a large piece of~sticking-plaster, which she applied to the
2620 XI | in myself the strength~to stifle a feeling if it were not
2621 VIII | of his~whole being, the stimulus to his imagination, the
2622 XX | advocates of the~people, to stir up this matter, by which
2623 IV | whether the struggle had stirred up some hatred between the~
2624 III | daughter every conceivable stitch in~tapestry and women's
2625 VII | new desire Rosalie set the stitches of her~worsted-work with
2626 XIII | Rodolphe? In a few minutes she stole a glance at the~door, as
2627 XXVIII| Mademoiselle de Watteville's stomacher, did more for the Comtesse
2628 XVII | thwart my plan;~if, after stooping to the dust of provincial
2629 XXVI | for a year past, he was stopped at once by a sign from Rosalie.
2630 VIII | not surprised to find him~stopping at a village and giving
2631 V | of middle height, neither stout nor thin.~And his hands
2632 V | the floor. The ante-room stove heats~this library as well.
2633 IV | this inheritance from two strains. She was so~severe to her
2634 V | head. Black hair already~streaked with a little gray, hair
2635 III | lived a public life, in the street so to speak, on~purpose
2636 XIV | moon she saw a pair of arms stretched out~from the kiosk to help
2637 I | with an~immense garden stretching to the Rue du Perron. Madame
2638 VII | fidgety," said~Mariette.~ ~"It strikes me," said Rosalie, with
2639 XII | Sicilian kid!" said Francesca, stroking Gina's head with~an expression
2640 XXVIII| remarkable young person, a strong-minded young lady~too! She drove
2641 XIII | needed where the~cohesion is stronger than in the intermediate
2642 X | shirt and sucked the wound~strongly. Francesca, who had left
2643 XX | anything~about it, for she is stubborn; she is capable of flinging
2644 VII | energy of every scientific student in the districts~of le Bugey,
2645 I | from /rupes/. Scientific students of social phenomena will
2646 XV | know how conscientiously I studied, how faithful and useful
2647 III | radiance to the~eyes of the studious connoisseur. She had fine
2648 XXI | stakes all to win all, or, stung by a myriad darts, at a
2649 XXI | reply, so completely was she~stupefied by contending feelings.
2650 XXIII | said Albert, standing stupid with~amazement, after starting
2651 XIX | carriage~drawn by a pair of sturdy hired horses, and accompanied
2652 XII | all were grandiose and suave,~even their love in the
2653 II | some~departments had their sub-lions, who protested by the smartness
2654 XIV | repression to~which they are subjected could neither foresee nor
2655 VII | let drop some great ideas, subjects for articles of which~Alfred
2656 XIX | beings worthy of each other, submissive to fate,~looking to God
2657 VII | and it is a wife's duty to submit to her husband even if she~
2658 VIII | Watteville went in person to subscribe for a year to the~/Eastern
2659 XV | there is not one foreign subscriber as yet. They hope to~get
2660 XXI | her rage, which presently~subsided, for she was determined
2661 I | lathe; he was a turner! As subsidiary to this pursuit, he took
2662 XIII | made Francesca the very~substance of his heart; he felt her
2663 XXVI | very perfectly. She had substituted three letters of her own~
2664 XX | shows how much tact and subtlety~Rosalie must have employed
2665 V | chance a stranger has of succeeding here? The good~folks of
2666 II | the /Elegant/, the three~successes of the /petit-maitre/ of
2667 X | Gina opened his shirt and sucked the wound~strongly. Francesca,
2668 XXVIII| not choose to be the only sufferer," she said to her rival, "
2669 XIX | moderate party he had won the suffrages of one of the makers of~
2670 V | him, in such a way as to~suggest that there was something
2671 VII | hit on the good idea of suggesting a desire for~the literary
2672 III | even to her attitude, was suggestive of those~virgins, whose
2673 VIII | and to~bring her child up suitably, and he was her only hope,
2674 X | grave and solemn melodies suited to the state of Rodolphe'
2675 XXVI | were obliged to spend the summer at les Rouxey; life at the
2676 XIX | hills--little peaks with bare summits known as~the great and the
2677 XVI | out over some gardens. I sumptuously arranged the~mysterious
2678 XIX | pains, and spent~enormous sums to have an unlimited supply
2679 XIV | of her fresh verdure; the sun~was sometimes as powerful
2680 X | to spread~itself in the sunbeams than I have clung to you
2681 VII | discerned in herself a vast~superiority over every one about her.
2682 XI | want nothing; my work amply supplies our luxuries," she replied
2683 XIX | sums to have an unlimited supply of good water in every town~
2684 XI | in a tone, an accent, and~supported by a look which gave it
2685 XXI | of winning~himself some supporters, displayed all the faculties
2686 XXII | last fortnight, two~staunch supporters--Girardet's father-in-law
2687 X | and such as imagination~supposes or pictures, or, if you
2688 VI | Agnes, and you leave this suppressed mind, so fresh and clear-seeing,~
2689 XIII | carry the feeling to its~supremest pitch. In short, to express
2690 XVII | heady languor; deep disgust surges up from the depths of my~
2691 XXVII | letter, or of reading it surreptitiously. Every~one, whoever it may
2692 XVII | conquer the~glory that should surround the name that is to succeed
2693 XVIII | the peacefulness of the surroundings has its~effect on the mind.
2694 XIV | Claire de~Bourgogne, the last survivor of the only house which
2695 VIII | at once~so tender and so susceptible, so vehement and so kind.
2696 XIII | augmented by his anxiety and by suspense as to future~events. He
2697 XXIV | Madame de Chavoncourt has no suspicion of my share in all this.
2698 XXIV | Albert went to bed in the swaddling~clothes of power.~ ~ ~ ~
2699 XIV | and again his bark was swamped.~ ~She, and God! These are
2700 VIII | of one of those immense~sweeping reaches which, in this lake,
2701 XXVII | marriage.~ ~"Our poor friend swooned in the church, and even
2702 VII | has the eyes of an eagle--swoop down on~Besancon? Oh, I
2703 XIII | he loved. He~thrust his sword through his own heart ten
2704 XII | answering each other by sympathetic glances full of thoughts.
2705 XIII | the Stopfers'~house. "She sympathized in my sorrow, and I cannot
2706 XVI | marking time.' Now was this~sympathy? Was it a vision of my own
2707 XV | house, he had laid siege systematically to the maid, who was as
2708 XX | will gain your suit, won't you? Well, then, let me~
2709 XX | proceeding which shows how much tact and subtlety~Rosalie must
2710 XIII | girl-wife.~ ~"She has no taint of hypocrisy, and is carried
2711 VIII | night Rosalie devoured the tale--the~first she had ever read
2712 IV | hereditary diseases. Thus talent, like the gout, sometimes
2713 XXII | could~not hold out against a talking-to from a clever Ministerialist,
2714 XIII | above the nonsense the world~talks, I do not choose to be calumniated,
2715 II | of diplomacy which~Prince Talleyrand would gladly have mastered
2716 XVII | surely is a moment when Tantalus rebels, crosses his~arms,
2717 XXII | this moment three distinct taps sounded on his door; Albert~
2718 III | to~grace it. The Baroness taught her daughter every conceivable
2719 VII | extent. Yes, those eyes of tawny brown, shot with golden~
2720 II | no one knew how great a tax on a~man's capital were
2721 IX | his coat~behind him, or tearing deep scratches in his back,
2722 XVIII | first youth. Is it the~/Tedeschi/ that you regret?~ ~ ~"28th.~ ~"
2723 XVII | blazed as the words /Mene/, /Tekel/,~/Upharsin/, did in the
2724 XXI | Rouxey. Les Rouxey,~my father tells me, will be my property;
2725 IV | your astonishment, that tempers, characteristics, wit, or
2726 VI | he~might erect a little temple or Belvedere in which his
2727 V | short; crow's feet~on his temples; deep-set eyes, moving in
2728 XXI | circumstances, a man may temporize, may make his way--"~ ~Alfred
2729 XXVIII| If I had yielded to the temptation to~rehabilitate the man
2730 XIII | turning on her the fixed, tenacious, attracting gaze, charged
2731 I | of madness, regard this tendency towards collecting as a
2732 VIII | musician creates melodies. Tender-hearted, like his~mother, he dashed
2733 XI | tenderness replaced by an equal tenderness----"~ ~"/Povero mio/!" exclaimed
2734 XIII | with~Tinti, with the famous tenor Genovese, and with a well-known
2735 XX | and to immortalize his term of~office. Chantonnit, as
2736 XIX | the last strength of~his terribly overstrung soul. His disinterestedness
2737 XXVII | These words of wisdom terrified Mademoiselle de Watteville.~ ~"
2738 XVIII | stay at Belgirate. Milan~terrifies me. I do not like that odious
2739 XII | that is something--to be thankful for!"~ ~"I do not like to
2740 XVIII | hitherto seemed to me a~Will-o'-the-wisp."~ ~"How he loves her!"
2741 XXII | like a dress rehearsal at a theatre,~is the most deceptive thing
2742 IX | could be no eyes open but theirs.~Rodolphe supposed that
2743 II | small servant aged~fourteen, thick-set, and named Babylas. The
2744 XVIII | dear, are thirty-two, I am thirty-five;~the dear Duke is seventy-seven--
2745 XV | foresaw my fate, at the~age of thirty-seven, with two thousand francs
2746 II | gloves and~his washing, and thirty-six francs a month to keep himself--
2747 XVIII | Francesca. You, dear, are thirty-two, I am thirty-five;~the dear
2748 XVIII | here--I forget to tell you this--I~fancied that you were
2749 II | dark, with a very prominent thorax, well-made shoulders, rather
2750 IX | crowned by a thick hedge of thorny acacia, by the side of which~
2751 XI | neutral ground. All~this being thoroughly understood--Oh!" she went
2752 XI | recurred to his mind; he became~thoughtful after having been trampled
2753 XX | which certainly betrays more~thoughtfulness than is due at your age."~ ~"
2754 VIII | mother, still handsome at three-and-forty, had~inspired Leopold with
2755 XV | them. Oh! why was I but~three-and-thirty, and why did I not apply
2756 IV | quarrel lasted three hours and three-quarters. Rosalie noted the~time.
2757 VII | Review/, had to pay up only three-tenths of their~shares. Two hundred
2758 II | would have done honor to a thrifty~housewife. At Besancon in
2759 XIII | into Rodolphe's. A slight thrill quivered~through that superb
2760 V | horse-~hair; a round white throat like a woman's; a splendid
2761 XIV | which set Rodolphe's pulses throbbing. The month~of May spread
2762 | throughout
2763 XVII | his~arms, and defies hell, throwing up his part of the eternal
2764 XIII | by the woman he loved. He~thrust his sword through his own
2765 V | insinuating, but a voice of thunder when needful, and lending
2766 XIII | of trickery!" thought the thunder-~struck lover to himself.~ ~
2767 XXVII | portraits. This was the thunderbolt that fell~on Albert's head,
2768 XVII | come to if anything should thwart my plan;~if, after stooping
2769 IV | classified, known,~pigeon-holed, ticketed, and numbered, as in Besancon,
2770 XX | signing to the~gardeners to tie up the boat; "will you come
2771 XIII | with melancholy~moods, with tiffs and quarrels even more delightful
2772 VIII | doubt~had the result of tightening the bond that united them.
2773 XIX | and neglected~forests of timber. It was all wild and deserted,
2774 XVII | cases, and~giving them my time--the time I might have spent
2775 III | serious, more than serious--tiresome; we resent being amused,
2776 XV | Leopold Hannequin.~ ~"Yes, 'tis so, my dear friend; I am
2777 XX | is an usurpation, with no title-deed~but lapse of time. And,
2778 XXIV | in any of the arts of the~toilet. In country towns these
2779 XXV | caught as she was in the toils of her impatience and~rage,
2780 V | showing that he had been a tool in the hands of the real~
2781 II | waistcoat, polished~~leather top-boots, a shiny hat with black
2782 XVIII | a beam of~light from the torch of Hope, which has hitherto
2783 XXI | after the pattern of the Tories against the Whigs in England.~
2784 XVI | Well, my life has been a torment of that kind, extending
2785 XVII | evening lasted, she was~tormented by remorse and scruples.
2786 XIX | spent the winter of 1834-35 torn by secret tumults; but in
2787 XVI | When I was a small boy and tortured cock-chafers,~the poor insects
2788 XXVIII| but avenging Savarus by torturing her rival.~ ~Mademoiselle
2789 XII | whoever he may be. Tito tossed a little leather bag to
2790 II | and you will see a~grand total of three thousand francs.~ ~
2791 III | hard of digestion as~the toughest disquisitions in the Revue
2792 XXIV | Fitz-James is to be nominated at Toulouse."--"You will~enable Monsieur
2793 VII | enlightenment as well as of trade? The leading~questions relating
2794 XVII | starving tiger round these tradesmen, these electors, to secure~
2795 XIII | for he~believed in the tradition which ascribes to Italian
2796 VII | Besancon, the town where the traffic should~meet between Mulhouse
2797 XV | Mass, fell into her own train of thought.~ ~"Dear, dear,
2798 XI | thoughtful after having been trampled on, as it were, by Francesca'
2799 XII | delicious~peace, supreme tranquillity. Certainty is the basis
2800 XVIII | from my pen. Did not the~transformation of your fierce Sormano into
2801 IX | worked to~maintain him, translating English books, and writing
2802 XIX | opalescent colors and a translucency that~makes it one huge diamond;
2803 XXVII | seven~months Albert had traveled in pursuit of a cruel creature
2804 XVII | without many groans over this treachery, a letter~of which the address
2805 IX | regarded as the warders of his treasure, he~went all over the grounds,
2806 I | The Baron~de Watteville treasured shells and geological fragments
2807 XIV | May spread before them the treasures of her fresh verdure; the
2808 XIII | both at~once. Love is a treasury of memories, and though
2809 XI | consecrate my love, you would treat me as a~friend. Ought I
2810 XXVI | spite of the intelligent treatment of the Rouxey~doctor. The
2811 XI | Then monsieur accepts the~treaty?"~ ~"Yes," said he. "I can
2812 X | prince's daughter. And I tremble as I confess to you the
2813 XIII | struck lover to himself.~ ~He trembled lest he should have been
2814 XV | could feel how Mariette was trembling by the shaking of her~arm.~ ~"
2815 XXVI | de Vilard. I am having a trench made to collect all the
2816 IX | not without a certain trepidation,~known only to persons of
2817 VII | needless to say that the trial number contained a "Meditation"
2818 XIII | this is her last piece of trickery!" thought the thunder-~struck
2819 XVIII | on the mind. What really tries and ages me, dear angel,
2820 XXIV | serious issues turn on such a trifle. The varnish on his boots
2821 XIII | of the one we love; but a trifle--the perfect~touch of two
2822 VIII | charming~headlands, smiling and trimly kept meadows, forests crowning~
2823 II | were well kept, his beard trimmed,~the smallest details of
2824 II | garnished with fashionable~trinkets, and his head furnished
2825 I | twice victorious; it has triumphed in law and also~in politics,
2826 XI | Sforza, Canova,~Visconti, Trivulzio, Ursini; there are Archintos
2827 VII | lifted them as though she trod on~fire. She had, of course,
2828 II | twenty-five francs, and~trousers fitting close to the boots.
2829 XIX | is often no more than a truce.~ ~Les Rouxey, the inherited
2830 VIII | youths were friends in the truest sense of the word. They~
2831 XXVIII| come to the Opera ball on~Tuesday with a marigold in your
2832 XXI | creditably once a week, on Tuesdays, understanding her~business
2833 XIX | Vilard at their head, come~tumbling to join the lovely upper
2834 XVII | his palms, such a fevered tumult in his brain,~such inward
2835 XIX | of 1834-35 torn by secret tumults; but in the~spring, in the
2836 I | national air of England, is a tune~written by Lulli for the
2837 II | tiger~very smartly--a short tunic-coat of iron-gray cloth, belted
2838 I | had been passionate~and turbulent. After living in the /Comte/ (
2839 XVIII | with~yours as the earth turns to the light. /Qual pianto/
2840 XII | Murat, Madame d'Abrantis /e tutte quanti/.~Everything we take
2841 XVIII | We have entered on the twelfth year since that blest evening~
2842 XXI | own influence. Among these twenty-~seven was one who was wholly
2843 XXI | the~assembly consisted of twenty-seven persons in all, men who
2844 III | must have accumulated from twenty-six thousand~francs a year,
2845 XXI | Chavoncourt, a youth of two-~and-twenty, and another
2846 I | were adopted. This fashion tyrannized over the ladies of Europe~
2847 XVIII | steward, or, as that dear tyrant whom we~cannot hate proposed
2848 IX | eyelids~with lashes of very un-British length, hair blacker than
2849 XVI | spread my~wings and yet be unable to fly! That has been my
2850 XVIII | a woman remains pure~and unaltered in the form of their first
2851 XXI | gained--"~ ~"What?"~ ~"The unanimous support of the Royalists,
2852 XXIII | her that your gratitude is~unbounded, that you are hers body
2853 XIII | nature of~a woman as yet unbroken, sometimes struggling against
2854 XVII | things, in which I have unceasingly~poured out my strength and
2855 II | his lodging,~like a man uncertain of the future, in three
2856 II | farms which lent painful~uncertainty to the rents. The lion had
2857 XIII | Let us hide our great and unchangeable affection from the eyes~
2858 XIII | beautiful Roman, who~became unchangeably the beginning and the end
2859 XVIII | insect lives for ever in~unchanging beauty. Thus the heart and
2860 XIX | there were~private interests unconfessed which gave vital force to
2861 Add | The Imaginary Mistress~The Unconscious Humorists~ ~Tinti, Clarina~
2862 XIX | to irrigate the barren, uncultivated valley, and these two hills~
2863 XVI | in words. And while I was undergoing~this secret torture, you
2864 XIX | after eighteen months of underground labor,~the ambitious lawyer
2865 XX | must have employed in an underhand way.~ ~"What can I do for
2866 XIII | soul; she would henceforth~underlie the least efforts of his
2867 XVII | desire, has, so to speak, undermined my vitality. With~all the
2868 XI | All~this being thoroughly understood--Oh!" she went on with a
2869 XV | after so many~abortive undertakings, over which I have shed
2870 XX | that is not done, can be undone. Do not~stake your fortune
2871 XXII | taken, Albert's name would~undoubtedly have come out of the ballot-box.
2872 XXVI | checked.~ ~When he had been undressed, washed, and put to bed,
2873 I | bitterness."~ ~"And where did you unearth this lawyer?" said Madame
2874 X | people without any~sign of uneasiness, and went to his room. When
2875 XXVIII| de Soulas, who had been uneasy as to her daughter's intentions,~
2876 XXVI | at the Hotel de~Rupt was unendurable. It thus became known in
2877 XXVI | startled at finding herself unexpectedly defied, "you yourself,~Monsieur
2878 VI | deeply, that~her artifice is unfailing. As a result of this profound
2879 XII | rapidity, and in a~dialect unfamiliar to a man who hardly knew
2880 XXVII | all things, restore this unfortunate man to his innocence~in
2881 XII | received a man's education--an~unheard-of thing in Italy--I should
2882 I | the only offspring of the union~between the Wattevilles
2883 XIX | two cascades; and~these, uniting a few yards below the falls,
2884 VI | in the mother--that the University of France~long since set
2885 IV | such words? Your mother is unjust, no doubt, and according~
2886 | unless
2887 XIX | enormous sums to have an unlimited supply of good water in
2888 XIII | by a single word, by~some unlooked-for proof of affection, will
2889 XIX | imagine les Rouxey.~ ~It is unnecessary to complicate this story
2890 VI | of the pleasure the poor unoccupied man derived from~this scheme,
2891 XVII | inasmuch as it necessarily goes unpunished, the high-minded Albert~
2892 III | pour out to her~all the unseemly gossip which almost all
2893 XIV | impressions; and~truth, even if unskilled, could not fail to touch
2894 XVII | of her solitude, and the unspent~energy of her character.
2895 II | trouser-straps against the untidiness of their fellow-townsmen.~ ~
2896 XIX | town in France, the most unyielding to foreign influence, in~
2897 XVII | words /Mene/, /Tekel/,~/Upharsin/, did in the eyes of Belshazzar.
2898 XVI | name will come out~of the urn. For a long time the unknown
2899 XI | Canova,~Visconti, Trivulzio, Ursini; there are Archintos apothecaries;
2900 XXV | everybody could see. It is useless to~say anything of the commotion
2901 I | suspended on two points--the uses of words and the fashions~
2902 XXIV | watch Rosalie, whose face, usually~pale, wore a feverish flush.~ ~"
2903 IX | little, and you find the usurer. After breakfast, Rodolphe
2904 XIX | disinterestedness~was, in truth, moral usury; he counted on a reward
2905 VII | literary responsibilities were utterly unknown.~Albert quietly
2906 XVI | Paris Bar, seeing how many vacancies had been left by the~promotion
2907 XXVIII| extraordinary manner.~"She has vagaries," people say. Every year
2908 XIV | Rodolphe was ruined. The valiant~lover thought he would seek
2909 XXI | quite~understanding how valuable that candor and innocence
2910 XIV | Madame de Watteville, who valued her highly for her bigotry,
2911 XXI | but in estimating their values they said ten, for men~always
2912 XXII | those moments when the~man vanishes, for you are not to think
2913 XXVIII| bewildering elegance and vanities in order to face the~Duchess
2914 I | in politics, since it has vanquished Liberalism in the person
2915 XIII | and illustrious Princess Varese, and~the famous singer Tinti,
2916 IV | turned egg-cups in every~variety of wood, who set his mind
2917 XXIV | turn on such a trifle. The varnish on his boots is not~dry--
2918 I | to occupy his time and vary his~employments, was his
2919 XI | read the thoughts of this~vassal who was so audacious as
2920 XXI | this instant begun to hate vehemently, she forced the kind of~
2921 XIII | sir."~ ~In that instant a veil fell from Rodolphe's eyes;
2922 X | glance of her liquid eyes of velvety blackness.~A pair of hands
2923 XVI | spot, a little later, in Vendemiaire.~Well, my life has been
2924 VIII | like plumes, deserted but verdant~reaches opening out, and
2925 XIV | the treasures of her fresh verdure; the sun~was sometimes as
2926 XIX | matter of the~two railways to Versailles--as for every standing abuse--
2927 XX | win that of Watteville /versus/ Riceys! Besides," she added,~"
2928 IV | stays--for he wore a leather vest, the stays of~the /lion/--
2929 XIII | Gersau, and~he set out for Vevay by the longest route, starting
2930 VI | VI~The conversation changed,
2931 XX | do for you, Monsieur le Vicaire-General?" asked Savarus.~ ~The Abbe,
2932 VI | by the cleverest of the Vicars-General of the~diocese had all the
2933 II | drawing-rooms to shame. As~to Victor Hugo, Nodier, Fourier, the
2934 I | Thus the chapter is twice victorious; it has triumphed in law
2935 I | pleader,~to whom we owe our victory, a wonderful man--"~ ~"At
2936 XIV | only house which can ever vie with~the royal family of
2937 II | even with the Court of Vienna, for in this the~nobility
2938 II | of Besancon would put the Viennese drawing-rooms to shame.
2939 XVII | again. I have no power, no vigor left but for happiness;
2940 VII | VII~The Sunday so impatiently
2941 VIII | VIII~"Papa," said Rosalie, "a /
2942 XI | Miss in~the eyes of the villagers, but she brought Gina with
2943 XIII | the hills covered with villas,~and below them a wide expanse
2944 XIV | struggling and courage.~ ~The Villele ministry fell just when
2945 XXVIII| and without a thought of vindictiveness. I will~pray to God to forgive
2946 XVII | already felt shame at~having violated the secrecy of Albert's
2947 XIV | could not fail to touch a virgin soul. Here~lay the secret
2948 VII | clematis, ivy,~honeysuckle, and Virginia creeper. The Baroness desired
2949 III | was suggestive of those~virgins, whose beauty is only revealed
2950 XV | the pits and~seams which virulent smallpox had left on her
2951 XI | shop-doors: Sforza, Canova,~Visconti, Trivulzio, Ursini; there
2952 XXVI | real sorrow, which had no visible outlet; she accused~herself
2953 XVI | this~sympathy? Was it a vision of my own future?--Oh! to
2954 III | any Parisians of~rank who visited the Comte a young man who
2955 III | the garden, and received visitors, sitting with the baroness
2956 XIX | interests unconfessed which gave vital force to this idea. The~
2957 XXVIII| General wanted to~know that my vocation was sincere; he was so kind
2958 XXVIII| some souls makes a vast void~through which the Divine
2959 IV | hill before it becomes a volcano. Madame de Watteville alone,~
2960 X | but it did~not dim the voluptuous glance of her liquid eyes
2961 XXII | Chavoncourt, added to the eighty~votes--the real number--at the
2962 XXII | day. There will be several voting days, and you~will be elected
2963 XXII | society at large than a mere voting-machine? A~statesman carries power
2964 II | Alfred de~Musset:~ ~Avez vou vu dans Barcelone~ ~C'est
2965 II | Alfred de~Musset:~ ~Avez vou vu dans Barcelone~ ~C'est ma
2966 XXII | you are not to think me vulgarly ambitious."~ ~"Oh! I know,"
2967 XV | started--"~ ~"Well, I will wager that it is."~ ~"It is hardly
2968 I | wood-louse in the crack of a wainscot, he had married the heiress
2969 I | 1815, for a year, the long waists~of the English were a standing
2970 IX | Sardinian police. The young lady waits till it is dark~to walk
2971 V | then goes on~working. He walks in his garden, going round
2972 XV | and I felt my own~value! I wandered about, gloomy and hurt,
2973 IX | whom he regarded as the warders of his treasure, he~went
2974 XV | longer~wonder that you so warmly approved of my mother's
2975 VII | and boiled as though its warmth were~doubled.~ ~As soon
2976 XXII | written for two months, but I warned her. Is she~ill? Oh, my
2977 XXVI | When he had been undressed, washed, and put to bed, he was
2978 II | white cotton gloves and~his washing, and thirty-six francs a
2979 XXIII | by sending her husband to~waste his money in Paris. That
2980 XII | mystification, and preserved the watchful~silence of a man who has
2981 IX | went to sit down under the water-worn granite~shelf crowned by
2982 XIX | Romans drank, in a~town watered by the Doubs, is one of
2983 XII | read~them, with a farewell wave of the hand to Tito.~ ~"
2984 XIII | Mediterranean lies beneath the waves. In short, Rodolphe's lightest~
2985 XII | Tito! Tito!" cried she, waving her handkerchief.~ ~Tito
2986 IV | end which required so~much waxing of his moustaches, so many
2987 XXI | temporize, may make his way--"~ ~Alfred Boucher when
2988 XXVII | will~benefit him in other ways, and reduce your share of
2989 IV | girlish soul, apparently so weak and yielding, as the seething
2990 XXVI | eat, I feel my legs get weaker and~weaker--"~ ~"It is from
2991 XXVI | feel my legs get weaker and~weaker--"~ ~"It is from working
2992 XXII | unfortunately, speech, a~weapon only for close warfare,
2993 XVII | strength of her youth, the weariness of her solitude, and the
2994 XV | friend;~but I was horribly weary of Paris. The outcome of
2995 XXVI | married,~saying that the two weddings might take place at the
2996 IV | one day, "if I made him welcome,~should I not be still more
2997 XIII | came forward to meet him, welcomed him~with the best possible
2998 XXVIII| your tender soul, dear and well-beloved Vicar-~General, and your
2999 II | England. He passed as a well-informed traveler,~and could say, "
3000 XIII | tenor Genovese, and with a well-known Italian~Prince then in exile,
3001 II | a very prominent thorax, well-made shoulders, rather plump~
3002 XV | which surprised the country~wench not a little.~ ~"Mariette,"