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Chapter
501 IX | animal reared, plunged and champed the bit. The comte, uneasy,
502 Int | he suddenly appeared at Champel and astonished everyone
503 IV | the first court, the bal champêtre was beginning, and through
504 IV | self-possession until she was in the chancel of the church during the
505 V | spring conducted into a channel made of a piece of hollowed-out
506 Int | ballad, of the pantoum or the chant royal, Maupassant also desired
507 VIII| marry her. He is an honest chap and we can make a satisfactory
508 IV | for the family, the family chaplain, and the priest from Yport,
509 Int | take a cure. After a very characteristic attack of optimism, he suddenly
510 Int | from any “anthropocentric” characteristics. It is universal suffering
511 Int | chiefs, or colleagues, Xavier Charmes and Leon Dierx, Henry Roujon
512 Int | butterflies, dragon flies, chasing each other amid the willow
513 X | from henceforth to eternal chastity, in gratitude to the vague
514 VI | himself at the neighboring châteaux if the coat-of-arms of the
515 IX | long-trained dress, like a chatelaine of olden times. She looked
516 Int | islands in the Seine between Chatou and Port-Marly, on the banks
517 IX | within the past five months, chatted and smiled quietly and familiarly.~
518 I | remember. They walked home, chattering like two children, carrying
519 XI | dilapidated pocketbook, saying: “Che un betit bapier bour fous,”
520 VI | seeing them again, a sort of check of affection, until the
521 II | every moment an enormous checked handkerchief and passed
522 IX | mount, spurring it and then checking it abruptly. They heard
523 VI | soles, he rubbed his hands cheerfully as he said: “I think it
524 VI | had become of the sunlit cheerfulness of the leaves and the poetry
525 V | took them to their room, a cheerless room of bare stone, but
526 IV | were bread, sausages and cheese. Every one swallowed a mouthful
527 Int | him the secrets that make chefs-d’oeuvre immortal. It was
528 I | her soul and that he would cherish her with all his strength.
529 XIV | one is ashamed, although cherishing it in one’s soul—her son’
530 IX | horse and called him “Le Chevalier Trébuche,” and he smiled
531 Int | spring nights, are valuable chiefly inasmuch as they reveal
532 Int | more onerous and he had as chiefs, or colleagues, Xavier Charmes
533 I | other. Later, seized with a childish joy, they started on a tour
534 IX | Baronne is very bad!”~A cold chill seemed to run down her back
535 VI | dressing. The baroness, who was chilled, sneezed constantly. Julien
536 III | giving them a sensation of chilliness. There was no grass, owing
537 VIII| near to us that its breath chills our hearts.~The room was
538 VI | place to place with a little chilly cry, seeking a shelter.~
539 VII | were to be seen; only the chimneys of the cottages gave evidence
540 I | another on the right of her chin. She was tall, well developed,
541 XII | it was I who broke that china cup a few evenings before
542 III | certain peoples like the Chinese and the Lapps; but they
543 I | occasionally the bright chirp of a bird as he dried his
544 Int | and becoming a knight of chivalry. The apologist of brutal
545 X | vibration in her soul the chord of religious poetry that
546 XII | they never saw those who chose them, bought them, owned
547 VII | conversation, his nascent love, the christening of the boat; then she went
548 VI | paying any more calls.~At Christmas they invited the curé, the
549 VI | sneezes, a sort of constant chuckling, told that the baroness
550 VII | out together to smoke a cigar.~The patient, overcome,
551 Int | rapid methods the master “cinematographed,” if I may use the word,
552 III | with their wings unfurled, circled about in the blue heavens,
553 Int | hovering over his head, it is circling round him as around Gustave
554 VI | pencil and tracing a design, citing examples, describing all
555 XIII| feeling of being in a strange city, kept her awake. About two
556 IX | their position, of showing civilities to the inferior nobility
557 XIV | along rapidly, the peasant clacking his tongue to urge on the
558 VIII| to twenty-five years old, clad in a brand-new blue blouse
559 V | two thousand francs. She clapped her hands. “I shall commit
560 IV | accompaniment of two violins and a clarinet, the players seated on a
561 XIII| longer resist the desire to clasp her son in her arms, and
562 IX | raise his wife. But she was clasping the dead body and kissing
563 XI | Society is divided into two classes: those who believe in God
564 Int | story, and the drama.”~A classic, Maupassant undoubtedly
565 Int | must be a great writer, a classical writer, in fact, simply
566 VI | he introduced a special clause into the Couillards’ and
567 Int | to hide, is plain to all clear-seeing people.~He soon begins to
568 Int | sceptical because I am clear-sighted. And my eyes say to my heart,
569 V | waters.~Presently it became clearer, its outline more distinct
570 VI | going to freeze; the sky is clearing in the north, and it is
571 Int | and in a moment of supreme clearness of intellect, like Gerard
572 VII | her back at full length, clenching her teeth to smother a cry
573 Int | uninteresting company of the clerks of the admiralty.~Then he
574 VI | exclaiming: “My! it requires some cleverness all the same to fix up those
575 III | France, with its temperate climate, cool in summer, mild in
576 VII | edges by which one could climb out, into this wretchedness,
577 VI | trees were now leafless, the climbing vines dead.~They entered
578 Int | the evenings in those warm climes, where the fragrance of
579 Int | and their souls! What a clinic for a maker of books! The
580 VIII| a bottle of wine.” They clinked glasses to seal the matter
581 XII | wrapped her up with a big cloak, and holding an umbrella
582 I | kept her severely secluded, cloistered, in ignorance of the secrets
583 V | although her repugnance to a closer intimacy had not diminished.
584 VI | and yellow tints seemed clothed, the one in red velvet and
585 XI | that all that amount of clothing would only be in the way
586 VII | bed and rubbed with hot cloths; then she became unconscious.~
587 XIV | Presently, however, she saw a cloud of white smoke and gradually
588 Int | his powers and a gradual clouding of his intellect. Symptoms
589 XIV | home once more.~The sky was cloudless and the nag, who was inclined
590 X | he concealed himself in a clump of bushes, watching the
591 X | intervention, which she thought clumsy and dangerous, but she did
592 IX | paroxysm of despair, her hands clutching the sheet, her face buried
593 | Co
594 III | Jeanne, seated beside her co-sponsor, was in a sea of happiness.
595 Int | he would wander along the coast, questioning the sailors,
596 Int | the Seine along which he coasted, bending to the oar. Then
597 VI | neighboring châteaux if the coat-of-arms of the De Lamares were not
598 VI | entangled in his flowing coattails, and blinded by his hat
599 VI | buried under his hat with its cockade, his nose alone preventing
600 IV | that happened to the horse “Coco,” who had broken his leg
601 III | marguerites, the clouds, and coins which she tossed in the
602 XI | ending the letters with coldly affectionate expressions. “
603 VI | she was surprised at the coldness that seemed to numb her
604 Int | the war. And the issue, in collaboration, of these tales in one volume,
605 IX | to cry piteously. Then, collapsing, she sank down beside the
606 VI | over, seized him by the collar of his coat, sat him down
607 IV | reached “The Poplars.”~After a collation served for the family, the
608 XIII| with a great effort, she collected her senses and murmured:~“
609 IX | cassock. But vinegar, eau de cologne and rubbing the invalid
610 V | Greek village founded by a colony of refugees who were driven
611 VI | were the Brisevilles, the Colteliers and the Fourvilles.~But
612 Int | literary seasoning, or romantic combinations. The reader finds once more
613 Int | All is divided into ennui, comedy and misery. I am indifferent
614 XIII| three-quarters of a mile.~The house commanded a view of the level district
615 Int | social crimes with such commanding assurance and such calm
616 X | indeed, according to the commandments. You are married, are you
617 XI | looked upon this as the commencement of the consolation promised
618 IV | had sunk into his arms to commend to his care her darling,
619 XI | worried, took them to the commissary of police. Jeanne and her
620 XIII| reached Paris that evening. A commissionaire took her trunk and she followed
621 Int | veiled at first, of the most commonplace, the most vertiginous shuddering
622 Int | conversation, were usually current commonplaces and on ordinary time-worn
623 XIV | then. As they entered the commune of Étouvent Jeanne’s heart
624 XI | refused to admit him as a communicant on the ground that he was
625 XII | dates in our history; silent companions of our sad or sombre hours,
626 Int | writings, condensing and comparing them, has been able to give
627 XIII| terrified Jeanne. In her compartment there were two gentlemen
628 IV | Jeanne, surprised and compassionate, could still hardly help
629 VII | find out so that we can compel this miserable man to marry
630 IX | waiting for an answer, smiling complacently, appearing always to be
631 XI | I have nothing much to complain of. I have been happier
632 I | the heart, which kept her complaining continually. The baroness,
633 Int | his new personality; he complains that he no longer feels
634 X | than they are. You are the complaisant wife! There is nothing more
635 XI | Jeanne, jumping from the most complete despair to a kind of intoxication
636 II | but hardly was the task completed when necessity forced him
637 V | This was the “Maquis,” composed of scrub oak, juniper, arbutus,
638 Int | composing in his mind. “Composition amuses me,” he said, “when
639 I | vast Norman residences that comprise both farmhouse and castle,
640 VIII| he might say too much and compromise his own interests.~The other,
641 XI | his “honor would have been compromised” without this little service
642 XI | discriminations, all these compromises with conscience, this general
643 III | and said, smiling:~“Well, comrade, are you ready?”~“But what
644 Int | self-satisfied Middle Ages cannot conceive the possibility of a different
645 X | time he saw the priest he conceived a great aversion to him.
646 X | something with silent and concentrated attention. In the midst
647 X | shrank from the catholic conception of a God with bourgeois
648 XI | liabilities of the De Lamare concern were two hundred and thirty-five
649 VIII| paced up and down, looking concerned, but perfectly calm, and
650 Int | reporters sought information concerning his life. As it was very
651 VII | her voice, be gentle and conciliating, to avoid all argument;
652 XI | months, giving his news in concise terms and ending the letters
653 I | fishing village, with all its concomitant odors. To Jeanne it was
654 Int | intelligently all the writings, condensing and comparing them, has
655 X | loved him, and placed a condescending kiss on the back of her
656 XI | absolution.~He promised her a conditional pardon, as God could not
657 V | and found a little spring conducted into a channel made of a
658 III | the inscription, “Lerat, Confectioner, Fécamp; Wedding Breakfasts,”
659 VII | I wish to know.” Then he confessed that she had not left the
660 X | and then, as if she were confessing herself, she said: “Father——”
661 X | open, as if to speak, to confide some great sorrow to her.
662 III | as one does in exchanging confidences, telling of their daily
663 XIII| she was young then, and confident and brave. Now she felt
664 IX | in a low tone and added confidentially: “All the nobility are here;
665 V | added in her ear, as one confides a sweet and intimate secret: “
666 Int | more simple, and they had confined themselves, beneath the
667 VIII| symptoms of a premature confinement.~Her sufferings presently
668 Int | the struggle between two conflicting minds, that of yesterday,
669 Int | superfluousness of words, perhaps he confounded them all in the same category,
670 XI | bed. She remembered this confusedly.~But had she met her elsewhere
671 IX | as though the blood were congested; her eyes were dim and she
672 VI | to say. So they began to congratulate each other for no special
673 XI | admonishing, restoring to favor, congratulating whenever she saw fit. So
674 III | make a silence amid this conjunction of elements; and by degrees
675 Int | supernatural, distressing conjurations, veiled at first, of the
676 I | called the parish road, connecting the farms, joined the high
677 XI | an enterprise on foot in connection with steamboats under the
678 Int | too simple. All his life, consciously or unconsciously, Maupassant
679 I | have bought nothing of any consequence.” This faculty of giving
680 VII | emotion may lead to serious consequences, for you are enceinte.”~
681 XI | the same effect. She was consequently watched like a prisoner
682 VII | not pardon you so easily. Consider the hell that awaits you
683 XI | haughtily told her the reason. Considering herself, in virtue of her
684 Int | contempt for mankind, yet considers solitude as one of the bitterest
685 XI | the commencement of the consolation promised her by the abbé.
686 VII | of absolution, to kindly consolations, had conveyed by its touch
687 X | He led her to Christ, the consoler, showing her how the joy
688 XII | latter lecturing her and consoling her with abrupt and tender
689 VIII| hurriedly told her about the conspiracy to marry off Rosalie and
690 Int | made his fame, in order to construct beautiful romances of love
691 Int | masterpiece of typical reality constructed with “human leaven,” without
692 X | one left whom she could consult. She resolved to go and
693 XI | to make money. He died of consumption.”~Then Jeanne, sitting up
694 V | with the mournful air of a consumptive. He took them to their room,
695 VIII| eyes. The baron caught the contagion, and all three laughed to
696 I | turned gray, large enough to contain a whole race of people.~
697 Int | A being without pity who contemplated suffering.”~He has the deepest
698 Int | as a tree. The author of “Contemporains” has written that Maupassant
699 Int | formula, he narrated to his contemporaries, bewildered by the lyrical
700 Int | was so universal, that no contemporary author during his life ever
701 V | and she poured out the contents on her knees. A golden shower
702 Int | saw Maupassant when the Contes de la Bécasse and Bel Ami
703 Int | mistrusted its disinterestedness, contested the quality of its virtue,
704 II | advantageously, without contracting debts or mortgaging his
705 Int | individuality? ...~Another contradiction. He who says that contact
706 Int | title for the work. Zola had contributed the manuscript of the “Attaque
707 Int | young men gave in their contributions. Each one read his story,
708 X | complicated arsenal of religious controversy.~They walked together along
709 I | represented. They were mostly conventional subjects, but the last hanging
710 Int | laws of artificiality and conventionality, and bowed before the idols
711 III | acquaintance, and began to converse in a well-bred manner. He
712 VII | papa, but we shall end by convicting him.”~For some days she
713 X | long since overthrown her convictions. Abbé Picot contented himself
714 XII | eyes and was seized with convulsions accompanied by floods of
715 Int | for the Gaulois and, in coöperation with his friends, he worded
716 I | deceived. The air became cooler. The day broke. Slowly bursting
717 VI | seeing his son-in-law’s coolness.~The day before their departure,
718 Int | who compelled him to make copious research and to use direct
719 VII | mother was weeping more copiously than ever; but Jeanne had
720 XII | recalled any memories, a copper warming pan, a damaged foot
721 IV | Julien walked through the copse and then up the slope and,
722 Int | poor old Savon, the old copying clerk of the Ministry of
723 I | columns, terminating in Corinthian capitals, supported a cornice
724 V | They had to sleep on a corn husk mattress in an old
725 I | Corinthian capitals, supported a cornice of cupids with roses intertwined.
726 V | Florence, Genoa and all the Cornici. They reached Marseilles
727 IV | other did not accept the correction. “No, monsieur le curé,
728 Int | Rouen, and became a literary correspondent of Louis Bouilhet. It was
729 XIV | she sought to hide at any cost, one of those things of
730 X | put a stop to them at all costs.~He came to see Jeanne one
731 VI | and having adopted the costume of a gentleman farmer, he
732 VIII| thinner and beginning to cough, the doctor ordered the
733 XI | and the following day he coughed. On inquiry his mother learned
734 X | done, and they could take counsel together.~Right in his road,
735 I | live in the future.”~She counted six thousand four hundred
736 VI | around one. Nothing else counts. But supposing we retire.
737 Int | the graciousness of the courteous head of a department, who
738 Int | Macette. In “l’Ostel de Courtoisie,” Maupassant cultivates
739 V | voice: “It is here that my cousin, Jean Rinaldi, was killed
740 I | intertwined. The tester and the coverlet were of antique blue silk,
741 VII | more. She threw back the coverlets, jumped to the floor and
742 X | plucked up courage, like a coward who plunges headlong into
743 XIII| every morning with two thin cows who browsed along the side
744 X | not be seen through the cracks. The horses on seeing him
745 VII | the house, to satisfy his craving for authority and his craze
746 X | crouched on the ground and crawled along on his hands and knees
747 VII | craving for authority and his craze for economy. He was parsimonious
748 II | loved to hear the masts creak, to breathe in the fresh
749 III | Was he, indeed, the being created for her—the being to whom
750 Int | many others, a power of creating, hidden and inborn, which
751 Int | and trees, those exquisite creations, he unbends and pours out
752 IX | lower opinion of her fellow creatures.~The immorality of the peasants
753 Int | poets, one finds only one credited reference, which in to Sir
754 Int | challenge, or the utterance of a creed.~In fact, however, the beginnings
755 VIII| opportunity all the morning, crept along the Couillards’ ditch,
756 XIII| into a bakery and bought a crescent and ate it as she walked
757 Int | carouse and commit social crimes with such commanding assurance
758 Int | Maupassant undoubtedly is, as the critic to whom I alluded has said, “
759 Int | loving my art. I am too critical, I analyze it too much.
760 Int | accumulated manuscripts, poetry, criticisms, plays, romances and novels.
761 Int | Murillo, or in the tent at Croisset; he has recalled the implacable
762 IX | burnt her finger; the cat, ‘Croquerat,’ is dead; they have cut
763 V | horses, so as to be able to cross any difficult pass, and
764 Int | horizon of landscapes, and it crosses his path on lonely roads.
765 XI | another. The stranger said crossly: “What! are you up? You
766 XII | the stork, the fox and the crow, the ant and the grasshopper,
767 Int | around which black circles of crows gathered in winter.~Maupassant
768 Int | during one of these idle cruises on the open sea, outside
769 VI | certain disillusion, a certain crumbling of her dreams.~She rose
770 III | the baroness’s father, M. Cultaux, and this fact led to an
771 Int | become a devotee of the “culte de la Dame.”~Everywhere
772 XI | gentleman farmer of him. He can cultivate his land, as many of the
773 IX | while the valley itself was cultivated. After an abrupt turn in
774 Int | Courtoisie,” Maupassant cultivates the usual abstractions of
775 I | supported a cornice of cupids with roses intertwined.
776 XII | the kitchen table, some cups of café au lait were steaming.
777 XIII| drivers, stumbling on the curb of the sidewalk, and tearing
778 Int | go to Divonne to take a cure. After a very characteristic
779 X | Mirza, the dog, looking curiously at something with silent
780 III | covered its painted cheeks and curly wig with kisses. And as
781 X | raised his hand as if to curse her in his fury: “Remain
782 VIII| compared their conditions and cursed God, whom she had formerly
783 X | he hurled imprecations, curses and threats against the
784 I | leaned her head against the cushions and closed her eyes. The
785 X | several hours, taking short cuts, leaping across ditches,
786 Int | his unwearying biceps, his cynical gaiety of goodfellowship,
787 Int | instead of the Neapolitan cypresses dear to the friends of Boccaccio,
788 V | huge ferns, honeysuckle, cytisus, rosemary, lavender and
789 Int | become active. He desires to dabble in science. One day he studies
790 VI | dandelions, poppies and moon daisies bloomed and where yellow
791 XII | a copper warming pan, a damaged foot stove that she thought
792 Int | devotee of the “culte de la Dame.”~Everywhere he was sought
793 VIII| angrily: “Answer frankly, damn it! Was this what you came
794 IV | was falling fast, and the dampness made them shiver a little.~“
795 IV | Rustics and their partners danced in a circle shouting a wild
796 VI | of the green grass, where dandelions, poppies and moon daisies
797 Int | neuralgia, and by new mysterious darting pains. His suffering was
798 Int | the sound of the bells and dashed against the window panes
799 IX | on a planet where such dawns were found, there should
800 VII | feet, and remained in a dazed condition. She heard Julien
801 III | setting sun left a wide dazzling train of light which extended
802 X | abbé had been appointed Dean of Goderville.~Jeanne was
803 VI | on all the recent births, deaths and marriages of which she
804 Int | foundered amid vileness and debauchery. In the provinces the ancient
805 Int | years preceding his literary début. His worthy biographer,
806 Int | I have not the soul of a decadent, I cannot look within myself,
807 IX | death. Everyone tried to deceive, everyone lied, everyone
808 VII | future full of torture, of deception, and of despair appeared
809 Int | for the victims of the deceptions of society, for the sufferings
810 XI | to rescue Paul, but could decide on nothing. A voyage to
811 XI | baron spoke up loud and decidedly: “Jeanne, you have no right
812 Int | beneath the trees of Médan, to deciding on a general title for the
813 VII | until we can come to some decision—promise me this?”~“I will
814 II | the turbots glisten on the deck of the boat.~At each meal
815 I | with an inoffensive and declamatory hatred. His great strength
816 IX | across fresh impassioned declarations, appointments with warnings
817 X | to say. She now wished to decline this intervention, which
818 IX | never out of her thoughts, declined. He insisted, and as she
819 V | reaching the summit of the declivity, as the road was so winding
820 VII | away?” And each time he deducted a few sous from some one’
821 XII | month later, she signed a deed of sale, and also bought
822 III | to see places where great deeds were accomplished.”~The
823 XI | excited and his voice seemed deeper. And suddenly, as though
824 VII | he added: “It will be a defender of the country; unless”—
825 V | something gray, not clearly defined in the early dawn; a sort
826 V | round, twisted, hooked, deformed, unexpected and fantastic,
827 Int | bewildered by the lyrical deformities of romanticism, stories
828 IX | console her. He spoke of the defunct, praised her in pious phrases
829 IV | everything so lightly and delicately.~She arrived about the middle
830 VII | the snow, in an attack of delirium, at the very beginning of
831 VII | poor girl had just been delivered of a child. He looked round
832 XI | the reverse as occasion demanded, admonishing, restoring
833 Int | resigns himself to listen to demands, allowing them to talk as
834 III | foot for the Chambre aux Demoiselles, a grotto in a cleft at
835 Int | criticism. When he essays to demolish a theory, one is amazed
836 VII | pretended to be innocent, denied everything positively, swore,
837 X | And I should be guilty of denouncing them! Oh, never that, never!”~
838 III | sunlight penetrating the dense foliage brought them into
839 VI | the lime-stone formation deposited on objects by certain springs.
840 Int | morality, art and literature depreciated, and seeing him preoccupied
841 VI | dreaming, scarcely thinking, depressed to the very soul, longing
842 Int | thoughts that I feel in the depths of my being. I feel them
843 II | this word had been used to describe the ailment of the baroness.
844 X | ledge of the last ravine, it described a circle, and, falling to
845 X | Jeanne saw it from afar. She descried the mattress; she guessed
846 XIII| recognized him from the description they gave her.~About nine
847 X | man, and prevent him from deserting the mother. Get them married,
848 Int | bookish than himself. He was a designer, and one of the greatest
849 I | horses, enjoyed gazing at the desolate landscape and feeling herself
850 Int | animals, whom the gospels despise. When he pities the animals,
851 Int | intelligences. I cannot help despising thought, it is so weak;
852 XI | surrounded him, and he ruled as a despot. A kind of jealousy even
853 II | over their fellows. Toward dessert he became quite merry, with
854 X | shred of confidence had been destroyed with the destruction of
855 Int | philosophical and haughty, detached from any “anthropocentric”
856 VI | feeling that everything detaches, separates, draws one far
857 Int | seizes on the principal detail, the essential peculiarity
858 VII | know what to think, what to determine, or what to answer. He took
859 X | was, however, very soon detested in all the countryside.
860 Int | smell were perfected, to the detriment of the sense of hearing
861 XI | CHAPTER XI~THE DEVELOPMENT OF PAUL~Jeanne did not leave
862 VII | money and send her to the devil with her brat.”~The young
863 III | longer, and murmured: “It is devilishly persistent!” whereupon Jeanne
864 V | monks in their garb, horned devils, gigantic birds, a whole
865 III | being to whom she would devote her existence? Were they
866 XI | with forgetfulness, she devoted herself entirely to her
867 Int | brutal pleasures has become a devotee of the “culte de la Dame.”~
868 II | Scott, which she had been devouring for some months. On rainy
869 Int | Maupassant. After a juvenile diatribe against romanticism and
870 X | this delicate, upright and dictatorial abbé. A mystic, he appealed
871 Int | recalled the implacable didactics of his old master, his tender
872 Int | 5th of August, 1850, near Dieppe, in the castle of Miromesnil
873 Int | Xavier Charmes and Leon Dierx, Henry Roujon and René Billotte,
874 Int | least eloquent and the most diffuse study of Flaubert, of “that
875 XI | his aunt.~He now loved to dig in the ground, and all three
876 III | The crucifix had lost its dignity in the hands of the acolyte,
877 XI | he drew from his pocket a dilapidated pocketbook, saying: “Che
878 Int | him with a sense of the diminution of his powers and a gradual
879 VIII| he came home late, after dining with the Fourvilles. After
880 XIII| s to ask her way, and he directed her differently. She started
881 XIII| she could, according to directions given her, along a street,
882 XI | refused, on behalf of the directors, to let her have another
883 IX | fleeing getting smaller and disappearing in the distance, as if they
884 Int | himself in him that the author disappears, and we ask ourselves in
885 X | to joke about such things disapproved his severity. All the parish
886 I | and good. An enthusiastic disciple of Jean Jacques Rousseau,
887 Int | cavaliers, the master and his disciples took turns in narrating
888 Int | ancestors their indestructible discipline and cold lucidity.~His childhood
889 IX | hours beside this lifeless, discolored body. Jeanne, on her knees,
890 Int | journal written on board ship, disconnected and hasty, but so noble
891 XI | baron was worried at the discontinuance of his studies. Jeanne,
892 Int | I watch myself thinking, discovering, and developing stories,
893 Int | bleeds at all the wounds he discovers. He does not inquire into
894 VIII| and Aunt Lison remained discreetly concealed behind the door
895 XI | indignant at heart at all these discriminations, all these compromises with
896 Int | sorrowful, though somewhat disdainful tenderness, for poor old
897 Int | always close to nature, disdaining all studied rhetorical effect
898 VII | to time made an effort to disengage herself and run away.~Jeanne
899 X | dying or maybe crippled and disfigured forever.~And soon a carriole
900 XII | debt, he would have been disgraced.”~“When you have nothing
901 Int | seek the actor beneath the disguise. No doubt, as Taine has
902 Int | he relates under slight disguises all his physical distress,
903 VIII| what you are saying; it is disgusting. Whose fault was it if we
904 XI | with moistened eyes as the dishes were brought on and taken
905 XI | dollars in debt. I shall be dishonored if I do not pay up—ruined—
906 X | herself be carried away, all disillusioned as she was, by the fanaticism
907 III | women dream and that men dislike. His black, wavy hair shaded
908 X | woman’s jaw was hanging, dislocated in one of the jolts, and
909 XII | s old room, as hers was dismantled. She got up exhausted and
910 IX | close like a queen giving a dismissal.~On the way home Julien
911 IX | be keeping them. She had dismounted. She sat there, leaning
912 Int | of eternal sleep, or the dispersion of the transient individuality? ...~
913 X | better. I was afraid of displeasing you,” continued Julien.~
914 XI | you have no right to make disposition of this life. What you are
915 V | the meagre tip.~He had a dispute with the boatmen who landed
916 Int | his individuality, are not disputed for a moment. With a quick
917 V | too much.”~He was always disputing with the hotel proprietors,
918 Int | that are full of humanity, disquieting flights towards the supernatural,
919 X | not come up to him, and he disregarded her appeals. He went straight
920 IX | had learned suddenly to disseminate, although she received the
921 Int | Wolff wrote a polemical dissertation in the Figaro and carried
922 IX | as though from something distasteful.~The mayor, the doctor and
923 III | forehead and neck seemed to distend.~The motionless, transparent
924 V | clearer, its outline more distinct on the brightening sky;
925 Int | and his kindness makes distinctions.~On the other hand, the
926 VI | stir, and one could hear distinctly the thumping of the baroness’
927 XIII| she is perfect and very distingué. You will love her, I am
928 IX | fast that one could hardly distinguish its rider. Julien remained
929 I | limply, could be faintly distinguished through the mist of rain.
930 Int | essential peculiarity that distinguishes a character and builds round
931 Int | unpolished and without those distinguishing marks of intellect and social
932 XII | sentimentality, at all the disturbance of her poor mind that had
933 Int | first mistaken for neurotic disturbances. He changed greatly. Those
934 X | short cuts, leaping across ditches, breaking through the hedges,
935 Int | the idea of a double. He divines that his malady is on guard,
936 Int | winter.~Maupassant made two divisions of his spare hours, one
937 Int | June he was able to go to Divonne to take a cure. After a
938 Int | and novels. Every week he docilely submitted his work to the
939 V | boats were anchored in the dock. Four or five rowboats came
940 XIII| passersby. Occasionally a dogcart passed rapidly, driven by
941 VIII| time the baron got angry: “Doggone it! you will have the marriage
942 XI | am eighty-five thousand dollars in debt. I shall be dishonored
943 III | having hidden one of her old dolls of former days at the bottom
944 Int | literature and will continue to dominate it until the day when he
945 IX | the same tone as he said “Dominus vobiscum.”~The vicomte in
946 V | little horse, or astride a donkey about as big as a dog. They
947 XIII| that woman standing on the doorsill asking: “What do you want
948 IX | at Julien standing in the doorway, looking horribly pale and
949 I | Yport. Women sat in their doorways mending linen; brown fish-nets
950 XI | selected his place in the dormitory and his desk in the school
951 XI | which drives to church the doubting, the sorrowful, she went
952 XI | said. And all her religious doubts began to torment her conscience.
953 VI | by the constant autumnal downpours, were covered with a thick
954 XI | big, fair young man, with downy whiskers and a faint sign
955 VIII| give this girl-mother a dowry? Whose child is it? You
956 VII | The patient, overcome, dozed off, while the priest and
957 Int | back to Paris and placed in Dr. Meuriot’s sanatorium, where,
958 XIV | how about the sons who are drafted into the army and those
959 Int | powerful sketches, synthetic draftings. Like all great artists,
960 Int | spiders, or white butterflies, dragon flies, chasing each other
961 I | using the furniture and draperies that had been in the storeroom.~
962 XI | church, where there was a draught, because he had misbehaved.
963 V | cold water, Julien tried to draw Jeanne away to tease her.
964 III | which wrought havoc in the drawing-rooms of society, and made peasant
965 XI | day Sunday, as though she dreaded some misfortune, and on
966 XI | château lived silently and drearily, their minds tortured by
967 VI | in order to escape the dreariness of the day.~All at once
968 VII | the fire and to look for dresses, skirts, and other garments
969 I | in their hands as the sun dries the water in marshes. It
970 IV | of the peasants, who were drinking cider beneath the apple
971 X | And trembling, ragged and dripping with rain, he pointed to
972 XI | cowardly hesitation, which drives to church the doubting,
973 I | drowned willow, its branches drooping limply, could be faintly
974 VI | sat before the fire in a drowsy condition, opposite little
975 Int | Ministry of Marine, who is the drudge of the office and whose
976 VI | the reverberations of a drum. The boy screamed, tried
977 XIV | rising the instant she had drunk her café au lait in the
978 VI | the warmth and the mud was drying on his soles, he rubbed
979 XI | all forged. They were all dumbfounded, and stood there looking
980 I | opaque blue, like those of Dutch porcelain figures. She had
981 Int | veiled in mystery.~I will not dwell on Guy de Maupassant’s younger
982 XI | necessary funds.~The three dwellers in the château lived silently
983 Int | the family fortunes having dwindled, he had to look for a position.
984 Int | inspiration, fervent and eager as a boy’s love; it was
985 II | mother, and she listened eagerly to the tales of the latter’
986 IV | trousseau with a singular eagerness, a feverish activity, working
987 XIV | Suddenly she spied the earliest, the one she had brought
988 VII | exploded: “And we should earn a fine reputation, we, with
989 IX | and looked at her mother earnestly. She seemed to be sleeping
990 Int | myself the odious trouble of earning money, since it does not
991 VII | hollow, and sometimes had an earthy hue. Jeanne would frequently
992 XI | sacrament unless it might be at Easter, according to the rule ordained
993 X | smiled, bearing out his easy-going character of a country priest,
994 Int | everyone by his frightful eccentricities. One evening, however, he
995 III | the morning awakened an echo in their hearts.~And all
996 Int | soul. Years went by in an ecstasy of physical happiness. The
997 VII | into this hole without any edges by which one could climb
998 Int | impassivity gives way like an edifice that has been slowly undermined.
999 Int | he haunted the offices of Editors.~As for his style, it is
1000 Int | His worthy biographer, H. Édouard Maynial, after collecting
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