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1001 XIII| appreciate. She is also educated and reads a good deal. In
1002 Int | And just as the author of “Éducation sentimentale” seems to have
1003 X | of track that was almost effaced now that the grass was sprouting
1004 XI | You will soon feel the effects of the divine mercy,” he
1005 X | bottom, burst open as an egg might do. It was no sooner
1006 Int | that secret place of the ego, where none can enter.”~“
1007 Int | to “sacrifice” like the Egyptians and Greeks....~Thanks to
1008 XI | fallen through, and I am eighty-five thousand dollars in debt.
1009 Int | which the master jostled elbows with his pupils, took on
1010 III | her fingers send out an electric shock, did the emotion of
1011 Int | expressions, to introduce no element superior to the characters
1012 Int | executioners, when he pities the elementary existences, the plants and
1013 III | amid this conjunction of elements; and by degrees the sun
1014 III | something like an immense elephant with its trunk in the water;
1015 I | that is left of my farm at Eletot. I have sold it—so as to
1016 V | brush, compared with the elevations above them.~Sometimes the
1017 III | accentuated the passionate eloquence of his expression which
1018 Int | argument. He wrote the least eloquent and the most diffuse study
1019 Int | familiar, amplifying and embellishing it, yielding to an inborn
1020 VII | By the light of the dying embers she perceived Rosalie’s
1021 VI | following with his glances the emblazoning of his rank.~Presently old
1022 V | dream, a continual series of embraces, an intoxication of caresses.
1023 VII | shook the windows, she would embroider away steadily. Occasionally
1024 V | nature.~Suddenly, as they emerged from this chaos, they saw
1025 Int | Daudet, in the novels of Emile Pouvillon. Maupassant is
1026 IX | château could be seen on an eminence. They were ushered into
1027 Int | difficult to admit, with an eminent academician that Maupassant
1028 V | boring-worms, seemed to emit sounds, to be alive and
1029 Int | and he became singularly emotional. His early faculties were
1030 IV | she were weary of tender emotions. She had no time for reflection
1031 V | ocean, the great captive emperor who belonged to his family.~
1032 X | thin, very short, with an emphatic way of talking, and with
1033 VII | marry you; and as we will employ you both, we will oblige
1034 Int | strange to suffer from the emptiness, the nothingness, of this
1035 IX | drawer of “souvenirs,” and emptying her cherished letters on
1036 XIII| the letter at last came, enclosing two hundred francs. Rosalie
1037 I | the Martins. Beyond the enclosure stretched a long, uncultivated
1038 Int | regretted having published. His encounters with prosody had left him
1039 XI | already, probably, but for the encouragement of a woman of whom I never
1040 | ending
1041 III | could hear only the sonorous endings. He then walked round the
1042 III | and this fact led to an endless conversation about family,
1043 I | forever in the calm of an enduring affection. It seemed to
1044 X | God would smite all his enemies.~Julien wrote a firm, but
1045 Int | wished to work and revive his energies in old-time joys. It was
1046 VII | seemed to give her the energy of despair. She did not
1047 III | of the water, as if the engulfed orb cast a sigh of satisfaction
1048 Int | enthusiasm, but simply to enjoy the delight of grand, pure
1049 V | down to drink.~As they were enjoying the fresh cold water, Julien
1050 I | earth, unfold her soul, enlighten her ignorance through the
1051 IX | handwriting and signed: “Paul d’Ennemare,” whom the baron called,
1052 Int | rest. All is divided into ennui, comedy and misery. I am
1053 VII | be calm, baroness; I can ensure her recovery now. But do
1054 VI | along toward them. His legs entangled in his flowing coattails,
1055 XI | London again, setting an enterprise on foot in connection with
1056 II | planning great agricultural enterprises. Occasionally, also, he
1057 Int | methods, his only object is to entertain his auditors. Amusing and
1058 XI | the suspicion Jeanne had entertained of the priest on the occasion
1059 Int | first interview to young enthusiasts who had listened to Zola
1060 III | the poles to the equator, enthusing over imaginary scenes and
1061 I | up at either side of the entrance, meeting in a bridge on
1062 XIII| Dear Child: I am going to entreat you to come back to me.
1063 X | say to you.”~Jeanne was entreating him to give her a few days
1064 XI | She was weeping and said entreatingly: “Tell me, Poulet, you will
1065 IX | humanity increasing and enveloping her, and the petty gossip
1066 VIII| was surprised; they simply envied Desiré Lecocq. “He was born
1067 XII | furniture which recalled episodes in her life, old friends,
1068 III | beforehand that it was not equal to a country life, and the
1069 Int | writer, not even Balzac, ever equalled....~He traces what he sees
1070 XI | humblest, are our friends, our equals; the latter are nothing
1071 III | country from the poles to the equator, enthusing over imaginary
1072 Int | follow each other without an erasure.~His language appears natural,
1073 Int | the Alsatian stories of Erckman-Chatrian, in the Provençal tales
1074 III | neck obliged him to hold erect his handsome brown head,
1075 VII | recollection of her husband’s escapades, for she belonged to the
1076 VI | being the newly painted escutcheon.~The baroness came down
1077 Int | wife deceived him, sans espoir d’“heritage.”~Why did Maupassant
1078 Int | more generously does he espouse its suffering. His compassion
1079 Int | proving his theory, in his essay on the “Evolution of the
1080 Int | spirit of criticism. When he essays to demolish a theory, one
1081 Int | frequented Mme. Tellier’s establishment now praises Michèle de Burne.~
1082 II | town of Etouvent. These estates brought him in an income
1083 Int | rich and famous.... He is esteemed all the more as they believe
1084 II | the family of Lamares of Eure. The priest answered, “Yes,
1085 Int | utterance they would perhaps evaporate, and I might no longer have
1086 IV | reflection on the morning of the eventful day. She was only conscious
1087 XIV | CHAPTER XIV~LIGHT AT EVENTIDE~Jeanne never went out now,
1088 Int | slowly undermined. With an ever-growing emotion he relates under
1089 IX | deceived each day about everybody.” Then, almost involuntarily,
1090 XI | recollections of the brief evidences of love shown her by her
1091 IX | hope for her. You always exaggerate everything. She is changed,
1092 IX | nervous abruptness, her exaggerated affection and the kind of
1093 Int | certain dreams, certain exaltations of mind, as I formerly took
1094 Int | desires to experience. He now exalts in his books the passion
1095 VI | tracing a design, citing examples, describing all the aristocratic
1096 VII | becoming more and more exasperated: “It is infamous to have
1097 Int | religious character, which exceeded his horror of life, and
1098 Int | humanity. His pessimism exceeds in its simplicity and depth
1099 IX | As she could see to read excellently, she passed hours reading “
1100 Int | deeply. In all his books, excepting, of course, in the case
1101 X | far and wide, with the exception of Comtesse Gilberte, from
1102 VIII| little mother smiled at this excess of tenderness, but Julien,
1103 VII | seemed to tingle, making her excessively nervous and restless.~Then
1104 III | low tones as one does in exchanging confidences, telling of
1105 VII | He walked up and down excitedly, becoming more and more
1106 IX | visibly annoyed, without any exclamation of sorrow, any appearance
1107 VIII| expression, his indignant exclamations and his refusal to allow
1108 II | of a seabird.~After these excursions she invariably came back
1109 Int | which his youth rendered excusable. The essential point, he
1110 XIII| person appeared; and while he excused himself for disturbing her,
1111 I | liberal by education, he execrated tyranny with an inoffensive
1112 Int | more than ourselves, their executioners, when he pities the elementary
1113 VI | fixed by him; and this would exempt them from their tribute
1114 Int | hidden and inborn, which he exercises almost unconsciously. Living,
1115 XI | it do?~“Let his passion exhaust itself. He will come back
1116 IV | evening in a condition of exhilaration, not knowing what she was
1117 XII | things that appeared to be exiled in a period that is not
1118 IX | happiness in which she seemed to exist latterly and that so pleased
1119 Int | he pities the elementary existences, the plants and trees, those
1120 Int | subject. That is where it exists naturally, almost against
1121 Int | terrifies him.~Then his heart expands. All the sentiments that
1122 III | her husband.~M. de Lamare expatiated on the picturesqueness of
1123 XIII| live without her.~“I shall expect your reply with impatience,
1124 VII | all joy was ended, all expectation at an end; and the frightful
1125 IX | countenance. He muttered: “I was expecting it, I felt that the end
1126 II | enthusiastic account of his expeditions, and the baroness in her
1127 XII | which would cover the annual expenditures and the other two thousand
1128 X | concluded that his wife was expiring, and the thought of seeing
1129 VII | child.”~Then Julien’s wrath exploded: “And we should earn a fine
1130 X | explained, timid and unable to express herself clearly:~“I am all
1131 Int | where the impatience of love expresses itself in loud melancholy
1132 IX | brave, be brave.”~Jeanne, extending her arms, threw herself
1133 Int | narrow it down” to some extent, such was his aim. Following
1134 I | room and then regretfully extinguished the candle. Through her
1135 Int | languorous literature, the writer extolled the study of real life,
1136 Int | passion of suffering; he extols self-sacrifice, devotion,
1137 VII | breakfast, he had cut down this extra expense, and condemned her
1138 Int | Lubbock’s work on ants, an extract from which is introduced
1139 V | shall commit all kinds of extravagance,” she said as she replaced
1140 III | and two large straight eyebrows, that looked almost artificial,
1141 III | bluish tinge.~His long, thick eyelashes accentuated the passionate
1142 VIII| colored up slightly while her eyelids quivered.~He began to speak;
1143 I | illustrating La Fontaine’s fables, and Jeanne was delighted
1144 Int | Bédier’s beautiful work, Les Fabliaux, and you will see how, in
1145 Int | vulgarity and a contempt for facility.~Maupassant himself tells
1146 Int | singularly emotional. His early faculties were intensified and refined,
1147 VI | everything seemed to be fading, to be taking on pale, dreary
1148 Int | sorrow, seen his health failing under the attacks of an
1149 Int | he adds: “The world makes failures of all scientists, all artists,
1150 IX | she was shocked and almost fainted. The baroness, in six months,
1151 I | her skin, a skin with the faintest tinge of pink, softened
1152 III | sometimes felt a sudden faintness when she thought of him,
1153 IX | lake, born to inhabit this fairy castle.~The comtesse took
1154 V | peaks gave an appearance of fairyland to the wild landscape, and
1155 IX | treacherous, untruthful and false. And tears came to her eyes.
1156 X | she went away hurriedly, faltering: “I am grateful to you,
1157 IV | treated her with careless familiarity which concealed a sort of
1158 II | slimy backs of the large fan-shaped rays and the fat bellies
1159 VIII| thought—her child. She was a fanatical mother, all the more intense
1160 X | disillusioned as she was, by the fanaticism of this child, the minister
1161 V | deformed, unexpected and fantastic, these amazing rocks looked
1162 X | road, in the middle of the farmyard, a group of children, those
1163 III | look at him. The languorous fascination of his glance impressed
1164 VII | began to cry in a choking fashion, and her convulsive sobs
1165 V | of granite hanging there, fastened on like a veritable bird’
1166 II | fan-shaped rays and the fat bellies of the turbots glisten
1167 XIV | and was like an oriental fatalist, and having seen her dreams
1168 X | the Virgin Mary and the Fathers of the Church as though
1169 IV | s being. They sought to fathom one another, mutely and
1170 I | beautiful azure sky, clear and fathomless, spread over the world.
1171 VI | Julien, under pretext of fatigue, having taken another room.~
1172 VII | the priest came, looking fatter than ever, and puffing like
1173 XI | sunlight in Corsica. All his faults diminished, all his harshness
1174 Int | next, he studies the marine fauna, etc. His perceptions have
1175 VI | if circumstances had been favorable would doubtless have been
1176 XI | Poulet” stuck to him.~The favorite occupation of his “three
1177 Int | creature of instinct, the fawn escaped from his native
1178 V | rolling away beneath her feet, fearlessly leaning over the abysses.
1179 XI | Yport, in spite of Jeanne’s fears, so that he might amuse
1180 III | repeat that name!”~When the feast was over, the courtyard
1181 XI | she sought to examine her features by the dim light of the
1182 IV | presently Lison, was considered feeble-minded. The gentle contempt which
1183 V | could not understand these feminine attacks of “nerves,” the
1184 Int | that the horseman and the fencer feel after a period in the
1185 X | All the parish was in a ferment. Soon the young men all
1186 V | intertwined with clematis, huge ferns, honeysuckle, cytisus, rosemary,
1187 VI | life, with fragrance, with fertilizing pollen, existed no longer!~
1188 Int | demand his inspiration, fervent and eager as a boy’s love;
1189 Int | Distinction and Moderation; Fervor and Delicacy. We see him
1190 III | and Madame Adelaide, in festal array, descended the staircase,
1191 X | to communicate a all the festivals. “You and I,” he said, “
1192 IV | wholesome and boisterous fête made the melancholy watchers
1193 Int | Everywhere he was sought after, fêted, petted.... But Maupassant
1194 VI | polish and elegance as a fiancé.~He always wore the same
1195 VII | a pledge of his future fidelity. Can you remain apart in
1196 XIV | together.” And she added fiercely: “Well, what would you say
1197 V | Corsican stallions with fiery eyes, thin and unwearying,
1198 IV | place in six weeks, on the fifteenth of August; and that the
1199 Int | polemical dissertation in the Figaro and carried away his colleagues.
1200 V | Niolo, after six days of fighting, and were about to die of
1201 II | adventures in which she always figured as the heroine. Her new
1202 IX | felt, in addition to her filial affection, the need of opening
1203 Int | period when Alexandre Dumas, fils, wrote to him thrice: “You
1204 V | did not give her time to finish.~“Yes, of course. Whether
1205 VI | December, just as they were finishing breakfast, they saw an individual
1206 I | through the branches of the fir trees, the moon rising,
1207 IX | threw them all into the fireplace, those of her grandparents
1208 IV | by the peasants, and the firing did not cease until they
1209 I | separated, showing the blue firmament, and then, like the tearing
1210 X | extreme tension, and he walked firmly up the steps of his great
1211 XI | her with gentleness and firmness, and she fell asleep from
1212 I | doorways mending linen; brown fish-nets were hanging against the
1213 IV | intimation of this seizure. They fished her out half dead, and her
1214 I | They bought a brill from a fisherman and another sailor offered
1215 XII | turned round to shake her fist at him, while the priest
1216 III | side by side, watched the fitful gleams in the wake of the
1217 Int | most vertiginous shuddering fits of fear, as old as the world
1218 IX | olden times. She looked a fitting lady of the lake, born to
1219 IX | Her heavy cheeks had grown flabby and purple, as though the
1220 III | sail and then letting it flap idly along the mast. The
1221 IX | immediately became a certainty, flashed across Jeanne’s mind: He
1222 XIII| lights before her eyes, flashes of flame, as though a gun
1223 III | helper were taking out large flat baskets which emitted an
1224 I | There were some very old Flemish tapestries, with their peculiar
1225 I | silk, embroidered in gold fleur de lys. When Jeanne had
1226 IX | flame of the tapers which flickered at every breath made her
1227 Int | white butterflies, dragon flies, chasing each other amid
1228 Int | of humanity, disquieting flights towards the supernatural,
1229 III | streamers of ribbon that floated in the breeze, and the name, “
1230 XI | the dim light of the wick floating in oil in a tumbler of water.~
1231 VI | morning by a bright light that flooded her room. She put on a dressing
1232 XII | convulsions accompanied by floods of tears.~When she was a
1233 V | went to Leghorn, visited Florence, Genoa and all the Cornici.
1234 Int | forget, and above all, the flower of the sensation might lose
1235 V | walls. A roaring torrent flows through the gorge. The air
1236 I | Thoroughly fatigued at last, she flung herself down and slept till
1237 I | and fruit, and four finely fluted columns, terminating in
1238 VI | where yellow butterflies fluttered as though held by invisible
1239 I | splendor of nature overcame her fluttering heart. It was her sun, her
1240 Int | mysterious current veiled in fog or sparkling in the sun
1241 Int | brain,” contracted amid the fogs on the Seine....~Vainly
1242 Int | school, or a bout with the foils.~Such, in very broad lines,
1243 II | of her heart into every fold of these valleys. She became
1244 XIII| old trunk, but as she was folding a dress, one of those she
1245 III | cloaks falling in large folds from their shoulders, knelt
1246 Int | literature. His heroes, little folk, artisans or rustics, bureaucrats
1247 XIII| You will forgive all my follies and we will all live together
1248 VI | him working, and then her foot-stove, for her feet were freezing.
1249 V | wild landscape, and on the foothills immense forests of chestnut
1250 Int | once at home, on the same footing with him.... More spontaneous
1251 I | she thought she heard a footstep behind the house. “If it
1252 VI | rang out beneath one’s footsteps. In one night all the leaves
1253 VI | The baroness could not forbear smiling in her turn, but
1254 X | and the château in joining forces will make the peasants obey
1255 Int | filled with regrets and forebodings. He has a desire to look
1256 X | delicacy.~What the priest had foreseen finally came to pass. She
1257 XI | grief and reminiscences with forgetfulness, she devoted herself entirely
1258 VII | with her hands idle, and forgetting her surroundings, she would
1259 VI | similar to the lime-stone formation deposited on objects by
1260 VI | and the tail of his coat forming a skirt round his legs,
1261 XII | dwelling she was going to forsake, she went one day up into
1262 Int | The story teller has forsaken rustics and peasants, the
1263 XIII| M. Roussel, who spent a fortnight in the capital every year,
1264 Int | to live; for, the family fortunes having dwindled, he had
1265 | forty
1266 XI | might be about forty or forty-five. She was stout, with a high
1267 IV | lady, though she was only forty-two, and had a sad, gentle expression.
1268 I | daughter, for she was Jeanne’s foster sister. Her name was Rosalie,
1269 VII | be,” she said. “She is my foster-sister, that girl; we grew up together.
1270 Int | unconsciously, Maupassant fought this malady, hidden as yet,
1271 Int | I know that I am running foul of certain admirers of the
1272 X | as a house torn from its foundations might roll from the summit
1273 V | Cargese, the Greek village founded by a colony of refugees
1274 Int | intellect had long since foundered amid vileness and debauchery.
1275 V | graceful, were grouped beside a fountain. Julien called out, “Good
1276 XI | was kept two years in the fourth form. The third year’s work
1277 XI | Che un betit bapier bour fous,” and unfolding as he handed
1278 X | the cliff he let go the fragile dwelling, which began to
1279 IV | at once Jeanne perceived, framed in the window, the silhouette
1280 Int | comrades of the “Repues franches,” for the nobility and the
1281 I | little too sharp, but her frank, sincere laugh spread joy
1282 VIII| exclaimed angrily: “Answer frankly, damn it! Was this what
1283 IX | honest hearts, to talk with frankness to pure-minded people, devoid
1284 IX | doubt, when the soul is freed from the trials of earth.
1285 VI | I think it is going to freeze; the sky is clearing in
1286 Int | wealthy. He who formerly frequented Mme. Tellier’s establishment
1287 Int | whom Theophile Gautier’s frescoes enchanted, were not satisfied,
1288 IV | poor relation, very neat, frightfully timid, even with her sister
1289 XIV | who was inclined to be frisky, would suddenly start off
1290 VIII| not understanding this frivolity, glanced at her angrily
1291 III | appear smaller. His long frock coat, tight at the waist
1292 Int | amid the willow leaves, or frogs asleep on the lily-pads.~
1293 V | long track of foam like the froth of champagne remained in
1294 VII | waited again, shivering and frozen.~The little maid did not
1295 I | fields, in the midst of the fruitful earth, unfold her soul,
1296 Int | to produce those literary fruits that ripen in me, I know
1297 VII | tears, and endeavoring to fulfill his office of a peacemaker,
1298 IX | appearing always to be fulfilling the duty imposed on them
1299 IV | about to enter into the fulfillment of her expectations.~When
1300 V | to pay the guide. Julien fumbled in his pockets. Not finding
1301 XIII| basket in her left, and still fuming, she continued on her way
1302 XI | obtained the necessary funds.~The three dwellers in the
1303 VI | not comical? Heavens, how funny he looks!”~The baroness,
1304 VII | were exhausted, replied furiously: “The father!—the father!—
1305 V | blue gulf, and hot as a furnace enclosed in its curtain
1306 X | as if to curse her in his fury: “Remain in your shame and
1307 VII | The baron, whose anger was gaining ground, seized her arms,
1308 VII | make her a little Norman “galette” for breakfast, he had cut
1309 X | was even almost ironically gallant toward her, and as they
1310 Int | the nineteenth century the Gallic intellect had long since
1311 III | curious shape, rounded, with gaps in it looking something
1312 V | monuments, men, monks in their garb, horned devils, gigantic
1313 I | and as they passed beside gardens or woods they heard occasionally
1314 I | sides were carved two wide garlands of flowers and fruit, and
1315 V | side of the mountain like a garment. This was the “Maquis,”
1316 VII | dresses, skirts, and other garments which she piled on the bed.
1317 I | walls sweat from cellar to garret. Jeanne had left the convent
1318 XII | and being now very old and garrulous, they were not of much use
1319 I | continually. The baroness, gasping from over-exertion, finally
1320 IX | cliff that are called the “Gates” of Étretat, and slowly
1321 Int | which black circles of crows gathered in winter.~Maupassant made
1322 Int | with the ravageurs, or junk gatherers, or stretched at full length
1323 Int | delighted, those whom Theophile Gautier’s frescoes enchanted, were
1324 Int | always be alone!”~In this gehenna of death, in these nostalgias
1325 V | that one. He laid low six gendarmes. He died at the same time
1326 VI | heard, thus adding to the genealogical tree which she carried in
1327 III | time came regularly.~He generally arrived about four o’clock
1328 I | their house—kind-hearted generosity. It dried up the money in
1329 Int | the paternal advice of his generous and candid heart. For seven
1330 Int | humbler the victim, the more generously does he espouse its suffering.
1331 V | Leghorn, visited Florence, Genoa and all the Cornici. They
1332 Int | the white cities of the Genoese Gulf, towards the palm trees
1333 XIII| compartment there were two gentlemen leaning back in the two
1334 Int | clearness of intellect, like Gerard de Nerval, he attempted
1335 XI | poorly dressed, inquired in German-French for “Madame la Vicomtesse,”
1336 IX | never is out of humor, never gets angry. I feel that she loves
1337 Int | that the author must be gifted with infallible intuition
1338 I | walking cane through its gills.~
1339 VIII| it if we had to give this girl-mother a dowry? Whose child is
1340 VII | of those romances of her girlhood and be lost in some enchanting
1341 I | mirth in a merry peal of girlish laughter.~The baron picked
1342 VI | Well, little one, are you glad to be back again in your
1343 III | it.~The world! She would gladly have made its acquaintance;
1344 X | repeating his breviary, glancing up at the boats as they
1345 XI | infidelities appeared less glaring in the widening separation
1346 V | brother a bandit?”~With a gleam of pride in his eye, the
1347 II | fat bellies of the turbots glisten on the deck of the boat.~
1348 VII | set in and a hard, smooth, glittering covering of snow extended
1349 VI | large drawing-room with gloom lighted by reflections of
1350 Int | its apogee. All admire and glorify him. It is the period when
1351 X | hesitation, straight to his goal. He crossed the ditch, then,
1352 V | wood for the benefit of the goatherds. A carpet of moss covered
1353 VIII| of August. The baron was godfather and Aunt Lison godmother.
1354 VIII| godfather and Aunt Lison godmother. The child was named Pierre-Simon-Paul
1355 Int | biceps, his cynical gaiety of goodfellowship, his unfailing practical
1356 VIII| I was ready at once, by gosh! and I was very pleased
1357 Int | Buddhist for animals, whom the gospels despise. When he pities
1358 IX | enveloping her, and the petty gossip of the district gave her
1359 XI | suppressed between petticoat government and this kind old man who
1360 VI | room. She put on a dressing gown and ran to the window and
1361 V | slender waists, and singularly graceful, were grouped beside a fountain.
1362 XI | said what she thought, was gracious or the reverse as occasion
1363 Int | received visitors with the graciousness of the courteous head of
1364 Int | diminution of his powers and a gradual clouding of his intellect.
1365 Int | materials were just those of a graduate who, having left college,
1366 IX | first began, “My dear little granddaughter,” then again “My dear little
1367 VI | were strangers, and talking grandiloquently of the most insignificant
1368 IX | trembling horse in his iron grasp. Gilberte was pale, her
1369 XII | the crow, the ant and the grasshopper, and the melancholy heron.~
1370 III | over from the heat. The grasshoppers, as numerous as the blades
1371 VII | fire was burning in the grate; the room was cold; the
1372 VII | boat this time.” And in a graver tone he added: “It will
1373 IV | branches, gave the leaves a grayish green tint. Rustics and
1374 XI | handed it to her a piece of greasy paper. She read and reread
1375 IX | district gave her a still greater disgust, a still lower opinion
1376 V | passed through Cargese, the Greek village founded by a colony
1377 Int | like the Egyptians and Greeks....~Thanks to his rapid
1378 III | He smiled and nodded a greeting; then, with his eyes half
1379 IX | of oars was heard, a boat grinding against the stones, and
1380 IX | outsiders: “Father has the grip; poor Hortense burnt her
1381 I | carry the baroness, who was groaning and continually repeating
1382 VII | stairs in her bare feet, and groping her way, she ascended the
1383 Int | with his characters is a gross error, but is not without
1384 Int | yourself, old fellow, you are grotesque, and it hides itself.”~This
1385 III | Chambre aux Demoiselles, a grotto in a cleft at the summit
1386 II | priest took a turn about the grounds and then returned to say
1387 X | middle of the farmyard, a group of children, those of the
1388 III | sailors hurried along in groups. One thought prompted their
1389 XII | vision and her soul, the grove, the mound overlooking the
1390 XII | to go into the stable. A growl made her start. It was Massacre,
1391 XI | gone against me. Fate has a grudge against my life.”~But Rosalie
1392 XIV | But Rosalie, happy though grumpy, stopped her; “Come, come,
1393 Int | divines that his malady is on guard, ready to pounce on him.
1394 III | Did he understand, did he guess, was he, like herself, pervaded
1395 XIII| something, without at once guessing the facts; and when she
1396 V | patriarchs must have received the guest sent by God. They had to
1397 Int | de Maupassant, who had guided her son’s early reading,
1398 VI | rosy summits, its azure gulfs and its ravines through
1399 VI | at once she perceived a gull crossing the sky, carried
1400 III | shingle. And the big white gulls, with their wings unfurled,
1401 X | Fourvilles’ nearly every day, gunning with the husband, who was
1402 V | trickling under the stones, gurgling faintly like a wild animal
1403 VI | the sky, carried away in a gust of wind, and she recalled
1404 Int | circling round him as around Gustave Moreau’s pale youth....
1405 II | the fresh and whistling gusts of wind that arose during
1406 I | roaring of the overflowing gutters filled the deserted streets,
1407 Int | His worthy biographer, H. Édouard Maynial, after
1408 VIII| tenderness, but Julien, whose habitual routine had been interfered
1409 VIII| wave, with the use of a hairbrush and perfumed oil.~At the
1410 VIII| betrothal. He shook the comte’s hairy paw, kissed the hand of
1411 Int | bias, what, to him, seems a halfway and dangerous truth....
1412 III | beginning, as if in a kind of hallucination, to take the appearance
1413 Int | does not know that these hallucinations which he describes so minutely
1414 X | up the steps of his great hallway.~The other wagon had reached “
1415 IX | accustomed to these long halts, she called. There was no
1416 IX | and seizing the letters in handfuls, she threw them all into
1417 IV | presenting the baroness with handkerchiefs she had hemmed herself,
1418 X | about spiritual matters, handling all the antique and complicated
1419 XIV | recognized some of the old hangings. Two easy chairs were drawn
1420 VIII| much too far!”~But Jeanne, happening to look up at her father’
1421 X | in order to prevent those happenings, you will have to chain
1422 III | coming out of the white harbor of Fécamp, and ahead of
1423 VII | we were protecting vice, harboring beggars; and decent people
1424 I | said that it was raining harder when the carriage drove
1425 V | in musical tones in the harmonious language of their own land.~
1426 Int | to quantity as he is to harmony. He does not “orchestrate,”
1427 Int | And if he mourned Miss Harriet, in this unaccustomed outburst
1428 IX | on the lawn. It seemed to harrow her feelings like an ironical
1429 Int | accused Maupassant, somewhat harshly, of not being a “writer”
1430 IX | evening writing to them to hasten their journey.~They promised
1431 Int | its perfume. In Une Vie he hastens to sum up his childhood’
1432 XI | an unappeasable, savage hate, the hatred of a jealous
1433 I | Of aristocratic birth, he hated instinctively the year 1793,
1434 Int | with his passions, his hatreds, his vices and his virtues.
1435 XI | the Marquise de Coutelier haughtily told her the reason. Considering
1436 II | by moonlight, he would haul in the nets laid the night
1437 XIII| son would come back there haunting her continually. The tapestries
1438 Int | He sees it everywhere, it haunts him. He sees it on the horizon
1439 III | expression which wrought havoc in the drawing-rooms of
1440 IX | soft breath from the mown hay that lay in the moonlight
1441 Int | He suffered from terrible headaches, followed by nights of insomnia.
1442 X | like a coward who plunges headlong into danger. “Father, I
1443 III | scarcely seeming to make any headway. The breeze was irregular,
1444 V | stiletto across it, now almost healed, she said: “If I had not
1445 I | Ludivine, the cook, brought a heap of wraps to put over their
1446 V | brother-in-law believes all that he hears. He is jealous for my husband
1447 XI | letters full of the most heartfelt thanks and passionate affection,
1448 V | turned round and laughed heartily as she saw him coming along,
1449 VII | dining-room was never properly heated, he was so economical with
1450 XI | eyes at this lesson from Heaven? God’s mercy is infinite.
1451 II | left foot, which was rather heavier than the right, she wandered
1452 XI | hand of God is weighing heavily on you. You refused Him
1453 VIII| The baron, annoyed at this hedging, exclaimed angrily: “Answer
1454 VII | forehead, turned on his heel, took the arm of the baron,
1455 I | clouds seemed to rise and heighten and suddenly, through a
1456 V | hand toward some of these heights, would repeat a name. Jeanne
1457 V | He, down there, at Saint Helena, he speaks of it always,
1458 VII | so easily. Consider the hell that awaits you if you do
1459 III | wagon Ludivine and a kitchen helper were taking out large flat
1460 Int | share in it. Maupassant is helpful to all those of his fellows
1461 X | asked her to give her aid in helping him to fight, to put an
1462 Int | whole personality of the man helps to produce them....”~That
1463 IV | with handkerchiefs she had hemmed herself, towels on which
1464 Int | Charmes and Leon Dierx, Henry Roujon and René Billotte,
1465 VI | to flight terrified black hens who plunged into the bushes
1466 VI | who made a specialty of heraldic designs, a painter of Bolbec,
1467 II | baroness, who was at home in heraldry, inquired if he was of the
1468 Int | anyone it is Schopenhauer and Herbert Spencer, of whom he often
1469 V | pungent odor of the aromatic herbs with which the island is
1470 Int | Maupassant to José Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable
1471 IX | in obedience to a sort of hereditary instinct of dreamy sentimentality,
1472 Int | deceived him, sans espoir d’“heritage.”~Why did Maupassant at
1473 Int | trace the author in the hero of a romance, and to seek
1474 Int | adventurous race, whose heroic and long voyages on tramp
1475 II | she always figured as the heroine. Her new home was infinitely
1476 XII | grasshopper, and the melancholy heron.~Then, while wandering about
1477 Int | you are grotesque, and it hides itself.”~This describes,
1478 III | rolling its tiny waves, no higher than a finger, with the
1479 I | oak, black from age and highly polished, bore up the bed
1480 I | windows and inundated the highway.~They drove rapidly to the
1481 Int | legends that stray through the highways of the world.~Study closely
1482 III | lowered her eyes. Was it a hint? Possibly. She looked out
1483 X | again some days later and hinted mysteriously at one of those
1484 XI | It was spring and they hired a boat for him at Yport,
1485 XI | day Paul came home with a hoarseness and the following day he
1486 Int | practical joke, some atelier hoaxes, as if he had given himself
1487 Int | himself up to the pleasure of hoaxing and mystifying people.~He
1488 III | from the ocean and they hoisted the sail, veered a little,
1489 VII | memory as though there were holes in it, great white empty
1490 V | channel made of a piece of hollowed-out wood for the benefit of
1491 IX | felt this consciousness of hollowness, this contempt for humanity
1492 Int | voyages of discovery in hollows and ravines, games beneath
1493 Int | Despite the novelty, the honesty of effort, on the part of
1494 VI | they came back from their honeymoon, like an actor who has played
1495 VI | for no special reason, and hoped that these friendly relations
1496 Int | January, 1892, he felt he was hopelessly vanquished, and in a moment
1497 V | men, monks in their garb, horned devils, gigantic birds,
1498 IX | in the doorway, looking horribly pale and with his eyes fixed
1499 VII | motionless for a second, horrified at this discovery, and then
1500 VII | face. I will give him a horsewhipping!”~The priest, who was slowly
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