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1 V | Poplars.” It was now the 15th of October.~Jeanne, affected
2 I | hated instinctively the year 1793, but being a philosopher
3 I | date of the current year, 1819. Then she marked with a
4 Int | born on the 5th of August, 1850, near Dieppe, in the castle
5 Int | calm him, console him.~In 1870 he lived in the country,
6 Int | In the month of April, 1880, an article appeared in
7 Int | on the 1st of January, 1892, he felt he was hopelessly
8 Int | desperate fight, on the 1st of January, 1892, he felt
9 IX | promised to be there on the 20th of May and it was now the
10 I | of each saint up to the 2d of May, the day that she
11 Int | that he was born on the 5th of August, 1850, near Dieppe,
12 IX | of May and it was now the 7th.~She awaited their arrival
13 IX | and Julien, somewhat taken aback, endeavored to be agreeable,
14 VIII| is it? You would like to abandon it now!”~Julien, amazed
15 XII | that looked sad at their abandonment, and whose history, whose
16 I | girl.”~The storm began to abate. The vault of clouds seemed
17 VIII| Her sufferings presently abated a little, but she was filled
18 I | harnessed.” The rain was not abating; one might almost have said
19 VI | that the painter had great ability, and if circumstances had
20 Int | inevitable death, but by certain abnormal conditions, by certain mysterious
21 Int | celebrated oculist spoke of abnormality, asymetry of the pupils.
22 Int | that it monopolizes. It aborts all sincere sentiment by
23 IV | they could scarcely walk abreast.~Jeanne felt an arm passed
24 IX | recalled Gilberte’s nervous abruptness, her exaggerated affection
25 IX | reason of Julien’s frequent absences, the renewal of his former
26 XII | s time Rosalie had taken absolute control of everything and
27 Int | banished from his writings abstract and general types, “romanticized”
28 Int | Maupassant cultivates the usual abstractions of the modern Round Table:
29 V | despair.~These tears seemed absurd to him, and thinking only
30 V | fearlessly leaning over the abysses. Julien followed her, somewhat
31 Int | to admit, with an eminent academician that Maupassant must be
32 Int | contempt for Orders and Academies is well known.~In a letter
33 Int | impress other minds.... In his accent, in his language, in his
34 Int | for these contradictions accentuate all the more the pain of
35 III | His long, thick eyelashes accentuated the passionate eloquence
36 III | handed it to Jeanne. She accepted it, more astonished than
37 IX | opened an ordinary note, accepting an invitation to dinner,
38 Int | without superfluous words, acclaimed him as a master.~He undertook
39 VIII| and I was very pleased to accommodate the baron who was giving
40 XI | package of business papers accompanying the letter gave the details
41 X | reforms which he intended to accomplish, as a prince might have
42 III | places where great deeds were accomplished.”~The vicomte, less enthusiastic,
43 III | the beach, Père Lastique accosted him, and without removing
44 Int | silent and persistent, he accumulated manuscripts, poetry, criticisms,
45 Int | his style, it is limpid, accurate, easy and strongly marked,
46 Int | were not satisfied, and accused Maupassant, somewhat harshly,
47 VII | Then she awoke, weary, aching, but quiet. She felt weak,
48 VI | embarrassed, they would not acknowledge to one another what was
49 Int | the same time it must be acknowledged that there were some who,
50 Int | activity. “It is strange,” he acknowledges, “what a different man I
51 VI | them, but Julien did not acquiesce, and the baron sent for
52 Int | transform, to renew himself. He acquires a desire to learn the secrets
53 XII | you believe he would have acted as he has done if you had
54 IV | mysterious cause of this action, had contented themselves
55 IX | of little details, little acts, little caresses, words,
56 VI | any more advice.~She had adapted herself to these changes
57 III | to the other. He seldom addressed Jeanne directly, but his
58 Int | or a Rabelais.” And he adds: “The world makes failures
59 XI | affected, cut short the adieus by dragging his daughter
60 IX | Their property of Remenil adjoined the large town of Cany.
61 VII | his name I implore you, I adjure you to forgive M. Julien’
62 X | He took Jeanne’s hand and adjured her to open her eyes and
63 V | gun, and before I could adjust mine, he fired.~“Jean leaped
64 Int | sober Pierre et Jean, that admirable masterpiece of typical reality
65 Int | not tell it.~This agrees admirably with the theory of impassivity
66 Int | company of the clerks of the admiralty.~Then he went into the department
67 III | glance which betrayed tender admiration and an awakened sympathy.~
68 Int | meteor” is at its apogee. All admire and glorify him. It is the
69 I | Jeanne had sufficiently admired it, she lifted up the candle
70 IV | laughing at the idea of an admirer showing tender solicitude
71 III | vicomte, I think our maid admires you.”~The vicomte blushed
72 Int | country houses; has been admitted to “the ladies’ apartments.”
73 Int | human leaven,” without any admixture of literary seasoning, or
74 XI | reverse as occasion demanded, admonishing, restoring to favor, congratulating
75 VI | down expenses, and having adopted the costume of a gentleman
76 I | only knew that she would adore him with all her soul and
77 Int | Roque.~And yet Maupassant adores this nature, the one thing
78 XI | would be kind enough to advance me fifteen thousand francs
79 VIII| Julien then, seeing his advantage, concluded: “Happily, nothing
80 II | in society, and to marry advantageously, without contracting debts
81 VIII| sorrow. She awaited the advent of her child without curiosity,
82 Int | obscure. If the successful adventurer, Lesable, and the handsome
83 Int | belonged to that strange and adventurous race, whose heroic and long
84 II | poplars.~As she had been advised to take exercise she made
85 XIII| protecting yourself from thieves, advising her to sew her money up
86 X | Poplars.” Jeanne saw it from afar. She descried the mattress;
87 XI | innocence why fate had thus afflicted her.~She received a letter
88 III | beach. Once the boat was afloat, they all took their seats,
89 Int | of grand, pure outlines. Africa, the country of Salammbô,
90 VII | mamma. I had the fever afterward; but did he tell you what
91 | afterwards
92 Int | the open sea, outside of Agay and Saint-Raphael that he
93 Int | impassive he is the glorious agent of a mysterious function,
94 III | thin peasant woman, already aging, who kept smiling and bowing
95 IX | aback, endeavored to be agreeable, but although they felt
96 Int | he does not tell it.~This agrees admirably with the theory
97 II | part was planning great agricultural enterprises. Occasionally,
98 VII | to have a fresh baptism? Aha, it will not be a boat this
99 XI | the school room. Jeanne, aided by Aunt Lison, spent the
100 VIII| Jeanne, who was now always ailing, while Aunt Lison, uneasy,
101 II | been used to describe the ailment of the baroness. The baron
102 Int | some extent, such was his aim. Following the example of
103 Int | Brief, quick, he despises aims and methods, his only object
104 V | went to Naples by way of Ajaccio, took them to Corsica.~Corsica!
105 V | he cried, ‘do not go to Albertacce; do not go, Jean, or I will
106 Int | him. It is the period when Alexandre Dumas, fils, wrote to him
107 Int | his mother and his uncle Alfred Le Poittevin. The master
108 VIII| arrival of this noisy and all-powerful tyrant, unconsciously jealous
109 I | examine the tapestries and the allegories they represented. They were
110 XIII| Sauvage, a sort of dark alley. She stopped at a door,
111 VI | to remain silent than to allude to this painful subject.~
112 Int | as the critic to whom I alluded has said, “through the simple
113 V | distance to see what he was alluding to. They at length perceived
114 X | baron, and making veiled allusions, but timidly, to Julien’
115 IX | and suddenly began to read aloud, to read to the dead, as
116 Int | in the Provençal tales of Alphonse Daudet, in the novels of
117 Int | of which fade away in the Alsatian stories of Erckman-Chatrian,
118 VI | able to get a painter to alter the armorial bearings on
119 VIII| stuttered out as he gazed alternately at his cap, which he held
120 V | unexpected and fantastic, these amazing rocks looked like trees,
121 IX | having nicknamed her “The Amazon Queen.” A gun fired beneath
122 Int | found it in Life....~His ambition was not to make one laugh;
123 XI | letters, felt this woman in ambush, the implacable, eternal
124 III | singing ceased after an Amen that lasted five minutes;
125 X | discovered by chance the amours of Julien and Gilberte,
126 Int | with which we are familiar, amplifying and embellishing it, yielding
127 Int | in his mind. “Composition amuses me,” he said, “when I am
128 Int | art. I am too critical, I analyze it too much. I feel strongly
129 Int | developing stories, weighing and analyzing the imaginary beings that
130 X | threats against the château, anathematizing the baron, and making veiled
131 Int | cherished as a brother, lay at anchor and awaited him. He took
132 V | little Italian boats were anchored in the dock. Four or five
133 Int | never related a typical anecdote, or offered a suggestive
134 Int | soothed with narcotics and anesthetics, which he used freely. His
135 Int | and if by chance he became animated it was to tell some practical
136 Int | and his sombre terror of annihilation.”~At the end of September
137 Int | appeared in the “Le Gaulois” announcing the publication of the Soirées
138 XII | of which would cover the annual expenditures and the other
139 I | twenty thousand livres income annually in land rentals, which,
140 XII | the fox and the crow, the ant and the grasshopper, and
141 Int | or the red bay trees of Anthéor.~It was during one of these
142 Int | haughty, detached from any “anthropocentric” characteristics. It is
143 Int | publishers. In the old port of Antibes beyond the causeway of Cannes,
144 IX | nights, was quite happy in anticipation of these plans, and for
145 Int | Sir John Lubbock’s work on ants, an extract from which is
146 | anywhere
147 XI | young man was found in the apartment of a courtesan of the town.
148 Int | The “meteor” is at its apogee. All admire and glorify
149 II | as she saw him. She made apologies for not having prepared
150 Int | knight of chivalry. The apologist of brutal pleasures has
151 XI | the floor with a stroke of apoplexy.~A man was sent on horseback
152 X | talking of Christ and the apostles, the Virgin Mary and the
153 X | dictatorial abbé. A mystic, he appealed to her in his enthusiasm
154 IX | answer, smiling complacently, appearing always to be fulfilling
155 XIV | about or you will have no appetite again this evening.”~She
156 III | baskets which emitted an appetizing odor.~The Vicomte de Lamare
157 Int | literary verbosity.~For applause and fame Maupassant cared
158 Int | Maupassant produced novels as an apple-tree yields apples. Never was
159 IV | served. Outside, under the apple-trees of the first court, the
160 IX | impassioned declarations, appointments with warnings as to prudence,
161 XIII| manners, which you would appreciate. She is also educated and
162 Int | of Maupassant’s literary apprenticeship.~The day following the publication
163 Int | newspapers, and, later, with the approval and by the advice of Flaubert,
164 Int | which results in wretched approximations.”~For nature, Maupassant
165 Int | death....~In the month of April, 1880, an article appeared
166 Int | said, “through the simple aptness of his terms and his contempt
167 Int | One day he studies the Arab mystics, Oriental legends,
168 XIII| high road.~Four trellised arbors covered with honeysuckle
169 V | composed of scrub oak, juniper, arbutus, mastic, privet, gorse,
170 XIII| another garden surrounded by arcades. She recognized the Palais
171 III | rose in front of the first arch. They reached shore, and
172 X | respectful letter to the archbishop; the abbé was threatened
173 III | a fresh breeze seemed to arise, a little shiver went over
174 III | and vague sympathy which arises so rapidly between two young
175 Int | should most have preferred—an Aristophanes, or a Rabelais.” And he
176 VII | baroness. He sat down in an arm-chair and began to joke, wiping
177 VIII| Little mother, buried in an armchair, was choking with grief.
178 XIV | herself, still staring at the armchairs.~The vision had vanished.~
179 VI | get a painter to alter the armorial bearings on the carriage.~
180 XIV | who are drafted into the army and those who go to America?”~
181 VIII| can make a satisfactory arrangement with him. I will take charge
182 III | Madame Adelaide, in festal array, descended the staircase,
183 IX | invited guests would soon arrive.~Gilberte was the first
184 VII | wounded her as though an arrow had pierced her heart: “
185 X | antique and complicated arsenal of religious controversy.~
186 Int | outwardly at least, the laws of artificiality and conventionality, and
187 Int | His heroes, little folk, artisans or rustics, bureaucrats
188 Int | Italy, Sicily, not with artistic enthusiasm, but simply to
189 III | its worship of the fine arts which existed nowhere else
190 V | then turned to the right to ascend the gloomy Val d’Ota.~But
191 VI | along the road, mounting the ascent slowly. They were silent,
192 IX | When they were reduced to ashes she went back to the open
193 III | the vicomte lifted Jeanne ashore so that she should not wet
194 IX | Paul, whom Julien looked at askance, uneasy and annoyed. Often
195 I | her ignorance through the aspect of love in nature, through
196 Int | wished to see her under all aspects, and travelled incessantly,
197 XIII| midst of this brilliant assemblage, and got up to make her
198 Int | resists the temptation of asserting his personal view. He will
199 X | making up her mind to be assiduous in attendance the first
200 VII | ground, in the position assigned to Magdalens, her cap awry,
201 Int | master had consented to assist the young man, to reveal
202 IX | Simon and Ludivine. With the assistance of Abbé Picot, they tried
203 X | the old man, who had been associated with all her recollections
204 Int | very musical. Repetitions, assonances, do not always shock Maupassant,
205 Int | presentation of his character, assumes an authority that no writer,
206 II | when within three feet and, assuming a smiling air, cried: “Well,
207 XI | wrote: “This will give me an assured fortune, and perhaps great
208 XIII| it should be he! Yes, it assuredly was, although she would
209 IX | nothing he might do could astonish her. But the double treachery
210 II | thanks to the unconscious astuteness which the guiding of souls
211 Int | oculist spoke of abnormality, asymetry of the pupils. The famous
212 Int | traits of character show that atavism is not always an idle word....~
213 Int | some practical joke, some atelier hoaxes, as if he had given
214 III | the glorious centuries of Athens. Then they were silent.
215 Int | it should be so. And the attachments that I have in life act
216 Int | contributed the manuscript of the “Attaque du Moulin,” and it was at
217 Int | pulverized, the awkward attempts of his pupil whose success
218 X | mind to be assiduous in attendance the first few weeks, out
219 IX | day passed in the usual attentions to the dead. The baron arrived
220 IX | home to dinner, smiling and attentive, and appeared interested
221 III | general, discussing the attractions of each country from the
222 VIII| looked handsome, elegant, and attractive as on the day of their betrothal.
223 III | exclaimed: “As for me, England attracts me very much; there is so
224 Int | they taught, persisted in attributing his sufferings to “rheumatism
225 Int | unfolding in lyric formula audacious methods, or to the soothing
226 XI | shrunk in horror at the audacity of bringing up a child outside
227 Int | object is to entertain his auditors. Amusing and witty, he cares
228 XI | would say: “Where is He, auntie?” “Up there,” she would
229 VI | hardly had she left those austere walls, where her illusions
230 IX | pedestal of the column an autograph letter from the king, under
231 VI | soaked by the constant autumnal downpours, were covered
232 Int | low and dreary skies, then Auvergne, with its scattered huts
233 III | on foot for the Chambre aux Demoiselles, a grotto in
234 XIV | the road.~She soon became averse to all movement and stayed
235 III | sensation at the quickly averted glance which betrayed tender
236 VII | wanted to kiss her, but she avoided it by keeping her face covered.
237 VII | dark corner, some way of avoiding him. She hid under the table.
238 Int | minds of the day. Not an avowal, not a confidence, that
239 Int | only author whose books I await with impatience.”~The day
240 VII | Consider the hell that awaits you if you do not always
241 II | first beings, and that will awaken the hearts of the last.~
242 XI | disturbed condition of one awaking from a feverish sleep after
243 IX | no doubt sat down there awhile and then walked away leaving
244 VIII| her husband, after bowing awkwardly, mounted his big Norman
245 V | beau cavalier” made his awkwardness and timidity all the more
246 VII | assigned to Magdalens, her cap awry, her apron on the floor,
247 VII | nurse held the new-born babe in her arms.~As soon as
248 X | bothering everyone. Another baby! No, thank you!”~At the
249 IV | two arms, almost falling backward as she did so.~“Let us go
250 XI | men, some solicitors and bailiffs and found that the liabilities
251 XIII| Finally she went into a bakery and bought a crescent and
252 IV | of the first court, the bal champêtre was beginning,
253 VII | but God in His mercy has balanced it by a great happiness,
254 Int | the imperious rule of the ballad, of the pantoum or the chant
255 XIII| wind, making a sort of blue balloon; sometimes a slow-moving
256 Int | nor slow moving waves, nor balmy nights.~At the end of his
257 V | she hastily unwound the bandages around the helpless arm,
258 V | Corsica! Its “maquis,” its bandits, its mountains! The birthplace
259 X | Those inside screamed and banged with their fists on the
260 VII | the room in exasperation, banging the door after him and exclaiming: “
261 Int | the first troubadours, he banished from his writings abstract
262 VIII| secrecy and as soon as the banns were published the wedding
263 XI | pocketbook, saying: “Che un betit bapier bour fous,” and unfolding
264 X | woman. He had married her, baptized Paul, and buried the baroness.
265 VI | extended beneath the shivering bareness of the almost leafless poplars.
266 VIII| M’sieu le Baron; it is a bargain. Whoever draws back is a
267 XII | on his stiff legs, and he barked like the wooden dogs that
268 VI | occasionally followed by a barking wolf-hound.~At length they
269 V | country seemed perfectly barren. The sides of the hills
270 Int | grass, beneath rocks of basalt; and, finally, Corsica,
271 Int | known.~In a letter to Marie Bashkirtseff he writes as follows:~“Everything
272 Int | that this was the inborn basis of his personal psychology.
273 III | but the baron preferred to bask in the sun on the beach.~“
274 V | but Julien.~On arriving at Bastia, they had to pay the guide.
275 I | country was like a soothing bath. She felt as though her
276 Int | Then Brittany with its beaches, where high waves rolled
277 IX | affection and the kind of beaming happiness in which she seemed
278 III | slight mist, and as its beams grew stronger, they were
279 XI | lettuce, this great big bearded youth who had a will of
280 XI | The priest is the standard bearer of the Church, madame. Whoever
281 VI | painter to alter the armorial bearings on the carriage.~The old
282 IX | to be carrying the heavy beast between his legs and to
283 IX | riding whips lay on the beaten-down grass. So they had no doubt
284 V | His very appearance of a “beau cavalier” made his awkwardness
285 Int | Maupassant when the Contes de la Bécasse and Bel Ami were published
286 Int | recent works; read M. Joseph Bédier’s beautiful work, Les Fabliaux,
287 VII | of her. They climbed the bedposts, ran up the tapestries,
288 Int | mourning—the great, sad beeches weep in autumn for the soul,
289 III | blending in one, would beget love?~She did not as yet
290 VII | protecting vice, harboring beggars; and decent people would
291 XI | small neighboring hotel, begging the proprietor to go himself
292 Int | creed.~In fact, however, the beginnings had been much more simple,
293 Int | clear-seeing people.~He soon begins to be filled with regrets
294 Int | any longer, he hurriedly begs for tenderness and remembrance.~
295 XI | needed, and he refused, on behalf of the directors, to let
296 VII | you have a child you must behave yourself. No doubt madame
297 VI | spite of Julien’s brutal behavior of the morning which still
298 II | of rocks, the roof of a belfry or the Fécamp lighthouse,
299 III | uncultivated, and whose beliefs and prejudices were not
300 V | There were peaks, pillars, bell-towers, wondrous forms molded by
301 II | fan-shaped rays and the fat bellies of the turbots glisten on
302 IV | if blown out by a pair of bellows, seemed to come from her
303 V | of his native country. He belongs to my family.”~And the captain,
304 VI | Why did this house, this beloved country, all that hitherto
305 | below
306 V | They will be safer in my belt, and it will avoid my having
307 V | hollowed-out wood for the benefit of the goatherds. A carpet
308 VII | instinctively, and crouched down, bereft of thought and of will power.~
309 III | lips moving in prayer, his beretta well over his forehead,
310 XI | pocketbook, saying: “Che un betit bapier bour fous,” and unfolding
311 VI | the hall above them that betokened unaccustomed haste. The
312 X | from a distance and would betray us.” One evening as they
313 VII | tell me the name of her betrayer. I did not succeed. You
314 XI | as he was when they were betrothed and as she had known him
315 XIV | wagon to the station at Beuzeville to meet Rosalie.~She stood
316 Int | torments of existence. And he bewails the fact that he cannot
317 V | blue sky astonishes and bewilders one.~A sudden noise made
318 Int | the sun called to him and bewitched him. In the islands in the
319 VII | would play several games of bezique with his wife, smoking and
320 Int | pleasure of recalling, without bias, what, to him, seems a halfway
321 Int | vanished, for his unwearying biceps, his cynical gaiety of goodfellowship,
322 XIII| him come to see her once, biding her time until the despairing
323 Int | swelling and poisoning me as bile does some people. But if
324 Int | Dierx, Henry Roujon and René Billotte, but his office looked out
325 II | the beach seemed like a billow rocking her spirit.~A love
326 I | sprang open and gold and bank bills were scattered on the floor
327 Int | literary début. His worthy biographer, H. Édouard Maynial, after
328 Int | regarding the budding celebrity. Biographers and reporters sought information
329 Int | hypocritical and cunning biped who has the least share
330 V | bandits, its mountains! The birthplace of Napoleon! It seemed to
331 VI | painter, on all the recent births, deaths and marriages of
332 IX | fire, sent for madeira and biscuits and then exclaimed suddenly: “
333 IX | plunged and champed the bit. The comte, uneasy, shouted: “
334 Int | considers solitude as one of the bitterest torments of existence. And
335 XI | their lives, but without any bitterness, for she was now resigned
336 XIII| neighboring farm. There was a blacksmith’s shop about a hundred feet
337 III | grasshoppers, as numerous as the blades of grass, were uttering
338 VII | his own had not been above blame?~The baroness, still struggling
339 XIII| woman whose character is blameless made her all the more indignant
340 VIII| great that her mind was a blank. She had neither strength,
341 XIV | now rose before her in the blaze of the fire, and she recalled
342 IV | from the north, and the sun blazed down unpityingly from the
343 VI | alone and disturbed by the bleak north wind which beat against
344 X | bodies, bruised, crushed and bleeding. The man’s forehead was
345 Int | make him sad, and his heart bleeds at all the wounds he discovers.
346 III | frequently their glances met and blended smiling; and it seemed that
347 III | beings whose affection, blending in one, would beget love?~
348 III | wedding, a priest was present, blessing them; men in surplices were
349 XII | hardly thought of for months. Blind and paralyzed, having reached
350 VI | his flowing coattails, and blinded by his hat which kept falling
351 X | at full speed through the blinding storm. He ran in this way
352 VI | difficulty the Venetian blinds which were always kept closed.
353 V | encircled by a wall of blood-red granite. And these red rocks
354 VI | poppies and moon daisies bloomed and where yellow butterflies
355 VI | the reins, began to shower blows on the boy’s hat, which
356 VI | It is oil, sugar water, bluing water in a washtub. Look
357 III | the whites of which had a bluish tinge.~His long, thick eyelashes
358 VIII| other, lowering his voice, blurted out: “That matter of your
359 IV | the baron’s sister, who boarded in a convent at Versailles.
360 Int | cypresses dear to the friends of Boccaccio, amid the continuous murmur
361 III | he followed his surpliced bodyguard, walking in the direction
362 Int | Hospitalier, across fields, bogs, and through the woods.
363 VI | heraldic designs, a painter of Bolbec, called Bataille, who was
364 X | frantically pushed back the bolt which closed the hut on
365 XIII| said: “Good-by, madame, bon voyage, and come back soon!”~“
366 III | table covered with boxes of bonbons, and on a chair an immense
367 VII | error. It will be a new bond between you, a pledge of
368 Int | days protests against the bondage of his new personality;
369 VI | of affection, until the bonds of their life in common
370 Int | roses. “Sur l’Eau” is the book of modern disenchantment,
371 Int | Yvette.~No one was less bookish than himself. He was a designer,
372 IX | and he appeared, enormous, booted, followed by two drenched
373 III | strapped down under his dainty boots of patent leather, which
374 XIII| separated by narrow paths bordered with fruit trees.~A very
375 Int | my time in being terribly bored. I pass the third portion
376 VI | presentiment of the long boredom of the monotonous life about
377 V | worms, overrun with long boring-worms, seemed to emit sounds,
378 IX | cloaks and some rugs they had borrowed, Jeanne said almost involuntarily: “
379 XI | jumble of mortgages and borrowing, and interests unpaid which
380 X | enough, always crying and bothering everyone. Another baby!
381 I | sufficed had there not been a bottomless hole always open in their
382 Int | literary correspondent of Louis Bouilhet. It was at the latter’s
383 I | vessels until they reached the boulevard of Mont Riboudet. Then they
384 XII | pace made the two women bounce about vigorously.~As they
385 V | to his horse’s mane as it bounced him up and down. His very
386 IV | woman. She had crossed that boundary that seems to conceal the
387 IX | its walls and which was bounded by a wood of tall pine trees
388 VI | in the road, running and bounding, Marius was following the
389 XI | branches and cut flowers for bouquets.~Poulet was almost fifteen,
390 XI | saying: “Che un betit bapier bour fous,” and unfolding as
391 Int | the riding school, or a bout with the foils.~Such, in
392 Int | or Flaubert, in Madame Bovary? And so with Maupassant,
393 IV | busy rinsing glasses and bowls in order to refill them
394 XI | and after many ceremonious bows, he drew from his pocket
395 III | drawing-room table covered with boxes of bonbons, and on a chair
396 V | gorse, laurel, myrtle and boxwood, intertwined with clematis,
397 VI | An icy breeze, sharp and bracing, streamed into the room,
398 V | rosemary, lavender and brambles, which covered the sides
399 VIII| twenty-five years old, clad in a brand-new blue blouse with wide sleeves
400 VI | velveteen shooting jacket with brass buttons, that he had found
401 V | apart. The path lies in this breach, between two gigantic walls.
402 III | Confectioner, Fécamp; Wedding Breakfasts,” and from the back of the
403 XIII| every morning, whose air she breathed day and night, the sea which
404 Int | finally call him, and he breathes those distant odors borne
405 X | returned on his tracks, running breathlessly.~On entering the château
406 Int | his new life. Being well bred, he respected, outwardly
407 XIII| scolding voice, its strong breezes, the sea which she sought
408 V | outline more distinct on the brightening sky; a large chain of mountains,
409 VII | saw that it was burning brightly, he kissed his wife on the
410 I | blue ocean. They bought a brill from a fisherman and another
411 X | wish, tell you now what brings me here. Let us go and sit
412 VII | she was so close to the brink, she made no attempt to
413 I | windows, and light whiffs of briny air and of seaweed were
414 Int | bending to the oar. Then Brittany with its beaches, where
415 Int | suffering his perceptions broadened, and he gained new ideas
416 VII | as—mine is—they will be brothers.” Overcome with sorrow at
417 XIII| morning with two thin cows who browsed along the side of the road.
418 X | They found two bodies, bruised, crushed and bleeding. The
419 VI | Julien, looking clean and brushed up, looked a little like
420 Int | because, like Molière, La Bruyère, and La Fontaine, he is
421 IX | visited the springs which bubbled up at the foot of a mossy
422 Int | all the tenderness of a Buddhist for animals, whom the gospels
423 Int | appropriate regarding the budding celebrity. Biographers and
424 Int | lives in misery, that is buffeted about without understanding
425 X | two hours perhaps. The buggy did not come out. He concluded
426 Int | distinguishes a character and builds round it. He also, in the
427 Int | invariably compare to a young bull at liberty, and whose love
428 XIV | carrying a sort of white bundle in her arms.~She wanted
429 II | a long time to find the buoys, guiding himself by a peak
430 X | passed by carrying a strange burden.~It stopped at the château
431 VIII| embarrassed as if he were burdened by some mystery, and after
432 Int | Public Instruction, where bureaucratic servility is less intolerable.
433 Int | folk, artisans or rustics, bureaucrats or shopkeepers, prostitutes
434 Int | establishment now praises Michèle de Burne.~Ysolde replaces Macette.
435 IX | took one of the tapers that burned beside the bed and set fire
436 IX | the grip; poor Hortense burnt her finger; the cat, ‘Croquerat,’
437 VIII| mirth, gave way to little bursts of laughter till the tears
438 XIII| felt more alone in this bustling crowd, more lost, more wretched
439 IV | munched a slice of bread and butter and a raw onion.~The mayor,
440 III | should like to be a fly or a butterfly and hide in the flowers,”
441 VIII| blouse with wide sleeves buttoning at the wrist, slyly jumped
442 VI | shooting jacket with brass buttons, that he had found among
443 XII | with the man who wants to buy the château. Otherwise,
444 XII | farms belonging to it to a buyer whom she had found, they
445 V | chest.”~He led them on a by-path beneath enormous chestnut
446 XIII| she walked slowly in the by-roads between the farms, she thought
447 XII | child.~They always talked of bygone days, Jeanne with tears
448 XIII| made up her mind to call a cab, when she caught sight of
449 VII | is a wretch, this man, a cad, a wretch! and I will tell
450 Int | of this lament seem to be cadenced by the Mediterranean itself
451 I | But she implored in a cajoling and tender manner, “Oh,
452 IX | her a little paper bag of cakes, a multitude of little details,
453 XII | And then she explained her calculations, her plans, her reasons.~
454 I | she had omitted to put her calendar in her travelling bag. She
455 XIV | opened a box containing old calendars which had been preserved
456 X | from farm to farm an ardent campaign against this intolerant
457 IV | authority, cried: “You mean of Cana.” The other did not accept
458 VI | on it, and the clock and candelabra were wrapped in white muslin.
459 IV | the arm of the chair her canvas with the wool and the knitting
460 IX | adjoined the large town of Cany. The new château built in
461 Int | that would never again be capable of expressing itself so
462 I | box coat with its triple cape. The howling storm beat
463 XIII| spent a fortnight in the capital every year, in order to
464 I | terminating in Corinthian capitals, supported a cornice of
465 III | Lastique were seated on a capstan.~Two other sailors helped
466 V | across the ocean, the great captive emperor who belonged to
467 I | from the wall the little card which bore in golden figures
468 Int | summing up of the brief career during which, for ten years,
469 IV | And little mother, as she carelessly examined the objects, would
470 VI | former wardrobe, and with the carelessness that is frequent with those
471 I | which had not arms enough to caress, to give, to embrace; the
472 V | evening they passed through Cargese, the Greek village founded
473 Int | his novels and stories, carouse and commit social crimes
474 XIII| to think of the past.~The carpenter from Goderville was there,
475 X | disfigured forever.~And soon a carriole passed by carrying a strange
476 XI | made little notches in the casing of the drawing-room door,
477 VI | had to drink a glass of cassis. Then she went home to breakfast.~
478 II | seemed to Jeanne that she was casting a little of her heart into
479 VI | demand at all the Norman castles in turn to make these precious
480 IX | Hortense burnt her finger; the cat, ‘Croquerat,’ is dead; they
481 XI | Lison to take the boy to the catechism class.~All went well for
482 Int | confounded them all in the same category, placing the same estimate
483 VIII| Lecocq. “He was born with a caul,” they said, with a sly
484 Int | port of Antibes beyond the causeway of Cannes, his yacht, Bel
485 I | difficulty into the carriage, causing all the springs to bend.
486 VIII| came round the château, and cautiously approached the baron and
487 V | very appearance of a “beau cavalier” made his awkwardness and
488 Int | the tales of Marguerite’s cavaliers, the master and his disciples
489 Int | before the idols of the cave he had entered....~If Maupassant
490 Int | rainy Sunday when they were celebrating the inauguration of Flaubert’
491 Int | appropriate regarding the budding celebrity. Biographers and reporters
492 I | made the walls sweat from cellar to garret. Jeanne had left
493 Int | nor sympathy; he neither censures, nor moralizes; for the
494 III | else since the glorious centuries of Athens. Then they were
495 IX | which immediately became a certainty, flashed across Jeanne’s
496 XI | accompanied by a doctor’s certificate. They were, of course, all
497 III | Switzerland on account of its chalets and its lakes.~“No,” said
498 III | red and white, who bore a chalice containing holy water.~Then
499 Int | manifesto, the tone of a challenge, or the utterance of a creed.~
500 III | set off on foot for the Chambre aux Demoiselles, a grotto
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