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1501 IX | Father has the grip; poor Hortense burnt her finger; the cat, ‘
1502 Int | shooting at Saint Julien-l’Hospitalier, across fields, bogs, and
1503 V | Piana they had to beg for hospitality, as in ancient times and
1504 XI | part in the affairs of the household—the dog “Massacre,” who
1505 XII | remembered, and a number of housekeeping utensils unfit for use.~
1506 I | and on the other by a tall housemaid, strong and strapping as
1507 I | this legendary love would hover about her dreams.~It struck
1508 Int | lonely roads. When it is not hovering over his head, it is circling
1509 I | with its triple cape. The howling storm beat upon the carriage
1510 VII | sometimes had an earthy hue. Jeanne would frequently
1511 XI | arms round her neck and hugging her as she kissed her, and
1512 Int | has nothing to do with the humanitarian pity retailed by rhetoricians.
1513 Int | pours out his heart. The humbler the victim, the more generously
1514 XI | Him. The former, even the humblest, are our friends, our equals;
1515 X | knelt at the confessional, humbling herself, feeling herself
1516 I | like sponges, absorbed the humidity, which penetrating to the
1517 V | would make about each item, humiliated at this bargaining, blushing
1518 III | Jeanne seemed to have a humming in her ears from all the
1519 VIII| his hands together good humoredly. “I met them by chance at
1520 VII | other mice, ten, twenty, hundreds, thousands, rose up on all
1521 I | bad weather, and for the hundredth time since daybreak she
1522 IX | country. The comte loves to hunt here. This is a true seignorial
1523 III | sorrow, and who lived as a huntsman in his château of La Vrillette,
1524 X | Sunday from the pulpit he hurled imprecations, curses and
1525 XII | to mention him again. It hurts me too much to think about
1526 VII | else does. Do you know many husbands who are faithful?” And he
1527 IX | twenty years, now quite hushed. The nurse took the child
1528 V | They had to sleep on a corn husk mattress in an old moldy
1529 Int | towards the palm trees of Hyères, or the red bay trees of
1530 Int | with sensuality, where the hymn to the Earth describes the
1531 Int | the truth, it is man, the hypocritical and cunning biped who has
1532 V | countries, a tiny thread of iced water issuing from a little
1533 Int | always an idle word....~To identify Maupassant with his characters
1534 III | and then letting it flap idly along the mast. The sea
1535 XI | to her son.~He became the idol, the one thought of the
1536 Int | conventionality, and bowed before the idols of the cave he had entered....~
1537 XI | mere child in intelligence, ignorant, silly, suppressed between
1538 V | country, where all elegance is ignored. He expressed in his language—
1539 II | CHAPTER II~HAPPY DAYS~A delightful
1540 III | CHAPTER III~M. DE LAMARE~The following
1541 VII | however, keep a woman and her illegitimate child under our roof, don’
1542 IV | night, and by this misty illumination that lighted up the trees
1543 I | fine needlework tapestry illustrating La Fontaine’s fables, and
1544 Int | beings that float through my imagination. I take the same enjoyment
1545 XIV | think best, my girl.”~She imagined herself pursued by some
1546 II | and desires; each heart imagines itself to have been the
1547 III | She looked at her clock, imagining that the little bee on the
1548 I | of age, so that he might imbue her mind with a sort of
1549 VI | the Brisevilles. The baron imitated the husband, and Jeanne
1550 XI | Pol,” which amused them immensely, and the nickname of “Poulet”
1551 Int | that make chefs-d’oeuvre immortal. It was he who compelled
1552 IX | spacious reception room, which imparted a sense of warmth and contentment.
1553 V | They descended an almost impassable path to the shore of the
1554 IX | reading, coming across fresh impassioned declarations, appointments
1555 Int | Living, spontaneous and yet impassive he is the glorious agent
1556 V | might a catastrophe, whom an imperceptible sensation completely upsets,
1557 Int | weak; and form, it is so imperfect. I really have, in an acute,
1558 X | severe toward himself, he was implacably intolerant toward others,
1559 XI | companion, and this silence implied more than if he had filled
1560 III | Jeanne clasped her hands imploringly:~“Oh, papa, let us do it!”~
1561 IX | to be fulfilling the duty imposed on them by their position,
1562 Int | form, the sense of human impotence, and of effort which results
1563 X | from the pulpit he hurled imprecations, curses and threats against
1564 Int | that surrounds me. I am impregnated with it, I yield to it,
1565 Int | expressing itself so as to impress other minds.... In his accent,
1566 II | having always retained the impression of “Corinne,” which she
1567 IV | hand of the young girl, he imprinted upon it a long, tender and
1568 IX | to his appearance and the improvement in his temper? She now recalled
1569 I | proposed to show her the improvements of the castle, of her castle.
1570 IX | defiance, with one of those impulses of a woman whom nothing
1571 X | Leave him. Flee from this impure house!”~“But I have no money;
1572 Int | his heroes.~He never makes inanimate nature intervene directly
1573 Int | nights, are valuable chiefly inasmuch as they reveal the creature
1574 Int | they were celebrating the inauguration of Flaubert’s monument at
1575 Int | understand unknown souls is incessant, involuntary and dominant.
1576 XIV | cloudless and the nag, who was inclined to be frisky, would suddenly
1577 XI | was a light on board an incoming boat, but Paul was not on
1578 Int | that horrible sensation of incomprehensible terror.”~How can one explain
1579 Int | vices and his virtues. He so incorporates himself in him that the
1580 III | day the longing for love increased. She consulted the marguerites,
1581 Int | direct observation and who inculcated in him a horror of vulgarity
1582 Int | really have, in an acute, incurable form, the sense of human
1583 Int | Lorraine ancestors their indestructible discipline and cold lucidity.~
1584 VI | window at the end of the yard indicated the farmhouse.~It seemed
1585 XIII| wedding journey, and the first indication of Julien’s character betrayed
1586 XII | to get them. The servant indignantly refused to bring down “that
1587 IV | preparing in this long, indissoluble tête-à-tête of marriage?
1588 VII | heard a slight sound, the indistinct ripple of the waves over
1589 Int | and Delicacy. We see him inditing love sonnets and becoming
1590 VI | and nothing would have induced him to show himself at the
1591 Int | his narration should he indulge in the transports of a lover.~
1592 VII | then one must be a little indulgent toward the weaknesses of
1593 XI | is a good boy and works industriously. He has been married for
1594 IX | rubbing the invalid proved ineffectual.~“She should be undressed
1595 I | in a word, a kindness of inertia that became almost a vice.
1596 Int | presence of danger, or of inevitable death, but by certain abnormal
1597 Int | morbid solemnity, not an inexact summing up of the brief
1598 X | his youthful and untutored inexperience, his harsh words, and his
1599 Int | unknown, and to search for the inexplicable. He feels in himself that
1600 XIV | put on her hat. A deep, inexpressible joy filled her heart, a
1601 III | short pipe which seemed inextinguishable, although he never seemed
1602 Int | author must be gifted with infallible intuition to follow out
1603 II | these valleys. She became infatuated with sea bathing. When she
1604 XIII| he must have got over his infatuation by this time.~She wrote
1605 IX | showing civilities to the inferior nobility of the region.~
1606 V | if they were leaving the infernal regions. They were thirsty,
1607 XI | harshness vanished, his very infidelities appeared less glaring in
1608 II | heroine. Her new home was infinitely pleasing to her because
1609 X | his harsh words, and his inflexible will, gave Jeanne an idea
1610 X | in all the countryside. Inflexibly severe toward himself, he
1611 Int | Grasping the simple and ingenious, but strong and appropriate
1612 IX | lady of the lake, born to inhabit this fairy castle.~The comtesse
1613 I | a little village as the inhabitants were lighting their lamps,
1614 XIII| elsewhere than in the house inhabited by that baggage.~While awaiting
1615 XI | the details of Julien’s inheritance. Jeanne and the baron handed
1616 Int | Offspring of a race, and not the inheritor of a formula, he narrated
1617 Int | tells us of those severe initiations in the Rue Murillo, or in
1618 XI | white. She asked in her innocence why fate had thus afflicted
1619 VII | Julien pretended to be innocent, denied everything positively,
1620 IV | little family,” she said innocently, and feeling a little more
1621 V | carried the provisions, for inns are unknown in this wild
1622 I | execrated tyranny with an inoffensive and declamatory hatred.
1623 XI | following day he coughed. On inquiry his mother learned that
1624 X | replied: “That man is an inquisitor! He must be very dangerous.”~
1625 III | the courtyard bearing the inscription, “Lerat, Confectioner, Fécamp;
1626 Int | hours watching the frail insects that play on the surface
1627 XI | Massacre,” who became Paul’s inseparable companion.~Rare visits were
1628 XI | Jeanne, perceiving the insinuation, replied: “But may one not
1629 IX | began to ponder on this insoluble mystery.~A tender and curious
1630 Int | headaches, followed by nights of insomnia. He had nervous attacks,
1631 I | on.~Jeanne and the baron inspected everything and returned
1632 I | they started on a tour of inspection through the restored manor.
1633 Int | would presently demand his inspiration, fervent and eager as a
1634 Int | with which this humanity inspires me makes me regret still
1635 XIV | gave the servant minute instructions, making her repeat them
1636 IV | times completely drowned the instruments, and the feeble strains
1637 VII | maid, which is a double insult.”~Julien pretended to be
1638 Int | once more in his splendid integrity the master of yore.~But
1639 Int | Maynial, after collecting intelligently all the writings, condensing
1640 VII | stopped and said: “What do you intend to do with this girl?”~She
1641 Int | His early faculties were intensified and refined, and in the
1642 III | alone——”~He gazed at her intently.~“Two can dream as well
1643 XII | time to time so as not to interfere with my farm work.”~It was
1644 I | which penetrating to the interior, made the walls sweat from
1645 II | the right, she wandered interminably up and down from the house
1646 XI | two women. The baron was interred at twilight without any
1647 Int | which had troubled him at intervals, became affected, and a
1648 Int | never makes inanimate nature intervene directly in human tribulations;
1649 X | now wished to decline this intervention, which she thought clumsy
1650 V | her repugnance to a closer intimacy had not diminished. She
1651 Int | known for some time to his intimates alone? Alas! the explanation
1652 IV | life, her manner, gave any intimation of this seizure. They fished
1653 Int | bureaucratic servility is less intolerable. The daily duties are certainly
1654 II | strong sweet odor of which intoxicated her like the bouquet of
1655 X | at one of those shameless intrigues between persons whose conduct
1656 Int | Evolution of the Novel,” in the introduction to Pierre et Jean.~On the
1657 XI | stammered out: “If I am intruding, I will call again.” She
1658 Int | be gifted with infallible intuition to follow out thus the taints
1659 I | the carriage windows and inundated the highway.~They drove
1660 Int | slow winds; the sunlight inundates his body, “laves the dark
1661 I | shelter amid this general inundation. Beneath the pelting rain
1662 Int | straightforward, they resorted to invention. And thus it is that at
1663 Int | language, an evidence of his inveterate pessimism, I see in it also
1664 IX | ordinary note, accepting an invitation to dinner, but in the same
1665 Int | at full length amid the irises and tansy he would lie for
1666 IX | s trembling horse in his iron grasp. Gilberte was pale,
1667 IX | harrow her feelings like an ironical remark.~She went back to
1668 X | her. He was even almost ironically gallant toward her, and
1669 Int | the objects of his veiled irony, he maintains, or feels
1670 Int | Never was a criticism more irrefutable.~On various occasions he
1671 III | headway. The breeze was irregular, at one moment filling the
1672 XI | for on account of certain irregularities in business methods. Jeanne
1673 X | whose conduct should be irreproachable. It was the duty, he said,
1674 VII | In spite of his constant irritability, her husband had become
1675 XIV | thing out of its usual place irritated her.~Rosalie often obliged
1676 Int | and bewitched him. In the islands in the Seine between Chatou
1677 XIV | Forgotten landscapes in that isle now rose before her in the
1678 Int | episode of the war. And the issue, in collaboration, of these
1679 V | tiny thread of iced water issuing from a little hole in the
1680 V | he would make about each item, humiliated at this bargaining,
1681 V | s rest they arranged an itinerary for their trip, and at the
1682 IV | CHAPTER IV~MARRIAGE AND DISILLUSION~
1683 VIII| hand of the comtesse, whose ivory cheeks colored up slightly
1684 IX | CHAPTER IX~DEATH OF LA BARONNE~As Jeanne’
1685 VI | husband’s arm. “Stop him, Jack!” she exclaimed. The baron
1686 I | enthusiastic disciple of Jean Jacques Rousseau, he had the tenderness
1687 I | the night air. The odor of jasmine rose from the lower windows,
1688 XII | the notary arrived with M. Jeoffrin, a retired sugar refiner,
1689 VII | time Rosalie gave such a jerk that she snatched her hands
1690 XII | whipped up the horse, whose jerky pace made the two women
1691 X | with bourgeois instincts, Jesuitical wrath, and tyrannical revenge.
1692 VI | farmyards, the carriage jogging along unevenly with the
1693 Int | reference, which in to Sir John Lubbock’s work on ants,
1694 X | church and the château in joining forces will make the peasants
1695 XII | covers torn in places, their joints shaky, their color faded.~
1696 X | more children,” he said jokingly.~She started. “Why not?”~
1697 VII | dear?” He laughed with his jolly laugh of former days, and
1698 X | dislocated in one of the jolts, and their shattered limbs
1699 Int | These words of Maupassant to José Maria de Heredia on the
1700 I | repeating his name, “Lastique, Joséphin Lastique,” several times,
1701 Int | the latest pessimism. The journal written on board ship, disconnected
1702 IV | with his knife, cried: “By Jove, that is all right; it is
1703 X | He at once laid aside his jovial manner and assumed his priestly
1704 VII | that account? Why should he judge Julien’s conduct so severely
1705 Int | rhymes of a prose writer” as Jules Lemaitre said. To mould
1706 XII | on that terrible day of Julian’s death, to an old elm whose
1707 Int | it was shooting at Saint Julien-l’Hospitalier, across fields,
1708 XI | discussed each sentence.~Jeanne, jumping from the most complete despair
1709 Int | passed, however, and in June he was able to go to Divonne
1710 V | composed of scrub oak, juniper, arbutus, mastic, privet,
1711 Int | chatting with the ravageurs, or junk gatherers, or stretched
1712 VIII| lies of those who preach justice and goodness.~At times her
1713 Int | Guy de Maupassant. After a juvenile diatribe against romanticism
1714 VI | gave her, all at once, a keen sense of the isolation of
1715 VII | quarrels; but she suffered keenly at each fresh manifestation
1716 X | were standing around the kennel of Mirza, the dog, looking
1717 XII | And then I am to keep the key, you understand. As for
1718 VIII| the door, listen at the keyhole to see if he was sleeping
1719 Int | simplified landscape gives the keynote of the story.~In his descriptions
1720 XIV | was away and they had the keys.~She went off alone, and
1721 IX | plunging into a ploughed field kicked up the damp rich earth behind
1722 I | always open in their house—kind-hearted generosity. It dried up
1723 I | his great weakness was his kind-heartedness, which had not arms enough
1724 X | unbosoming oneself to a kindred spirit, of unbending and
1725 IX | autograph letter from the king, under glass, requested
1726 X | on taking possession of a kingdom. Then he requested the vicomtesse
1727 XII | others. She saw numberless knick-knacks that she remembered, and
1728 Int | love sonnets and becoming a knight of chivalry. The apologist
1729 XI | money we are nothing but laborers.”~Jeanne took hold of her
1730 III | at the bosom showing the lace of his ruffle, and a fine
1731 IV | She picked a leaf; two ladybirds were concealed beneath it,
1732 III | account of its chalets and its lakes.~“No,” said she, “I like
1733 IX | hours reading “Corinne” or Lamartine’s “Meditations.” Then she
1734 IX | as mothers do. He always lamented that he had no children
1735 I | inhabitants were lighting their lamps, and the sky became also
1736 V | dispute with the boatmen who landed him.~The first tree Jeanne
1737 IX | with his front feet and, landing again on his feet, gave
1738 III | scarcely any motion. To landward the high cliff at the right
1739 III | like the Chinese and the Lapps; but they arrived at the
1740 I | a veil, the opening grew larger and the beautiful azure
1741 VIII| tender again. And his hair, lately so dull and unkempt, had
1742 Int | hidden as yet, which was latent in him.~Those who first
1743 | latterly
1744 Int | human tribulations; she laughs at our joys and our sorrows....
1745 I | was the dining-room, the laundry, the kitchen, etc.~A corridor
1746 V | mastic, privet, gorse, laurel, myrtle and boxwood, intertwined
1747 V | honeysuckle, cytisus, rosemary, lavender and brambles, which covered
1748 Int | sunlight inundates his body, “laves the dark corners of his
1749 VII | grew angry, threatened a lawsuit, became furious. The baron,
1750 XI | make inquiries, saw some lawyers, some business men, some
1751 VI | covering her life with a layer of resignation similar to
1752 III | de Coutelier, a sort of leader of Norman aristocracy, Vicomte
1753 V | adjust mine, he fired.~“Jean leaped two feet in the air, like
1754 X | hours, taking short cuts, leaping across ditches, breaking
1755 Int | He acquires a desire to learn the secrets of obscure and
1756 Int | he answered simply: “I am learning my trade.” However, under
1757 Int | constructed with “human leaven,” without any admixture
1758 XII | Rosalie’s arm, the latter lecturing her and consoling her with
1759 X | mountain. Then, reaching the ledge of the last ravine, it described
1760 Int | after him he leaves the legacy of his highest thought;
1761 VIII| children before they are legally married. It makes no difference
1762 I | hopes, and every night this legendary love would hover about her
1763 V | her purse.~They went to Leghorn, visited Florence, Genoa
1764 Int | a prose writer” as Jules Lemaitre said. To mould the expression
1765 VI | that ripens oranges and lemons, its mountains with their
1766 X | eyes and understand and lend him her aid.~This time she
1767 Int | colleagues, Xavier Charmes and Leon Dierx, Henry Roujon and
1768 XII | four farms situated at St. Leonard, which, free of all mortgage,
1769 IX | glass, requested the Marquis Leopold-Hervé-Joseph-Germer de Varneville de Rollebosc
1770 III | bearing the inscription, “Lerat, Confectioner, Fécamp; Wedding
1771 Int | the successful adventurer, Lesable, and the handsome Maze are
1772 V | that evening she trembled lest she should still be insensible
1773 VI | become a slave to this dreary lethargy of habit that nothing varies.~
1774 Int | in the “République des Lettres,” poems signed by his name.~
1775 XI | helped her to replant the lettuce, this great big bearded
1776 XI | bailiffs and found that the liabilities of the De Lamare concern
1777 I | philosopher by temperament and liberal by education, he execrated
1778 I | the drawing-room were the library, full of old books, and
1779 IX | tried to deceive, everyone lied, everyone made you suffer
1780 VI | wrapped up in the one whose lifelong companion she had become;
1781 IX | Abbé Picot, they tried to lift the baroness, but after
1782 II | of a belfry or the Fécamp lighthouse, he delighted to remain
1783 I | as the inhabitants were lighting their lamps, and the sky
1784 VIII| into the saddle with the lightness of a bird, while her husband,
1785 XIII| their address.”~Jeanne saw lights before her eyes, flashes
1786 Int | or frogs asleep on the lily-pads.~The rest of his life was
1787 VI | against the sea wind, the lime tree and the plane tree
1788 VI | resignation similar to the lime-stone formation deposited on objects
1789 Int | rays were prolonged without limit, in article after article,
1790 Int | As for his style, it is limpid, accurate, easy and strongly
1791 III | old cantors, one of them limping; then the trumpet (“serpent”),
1792 I | willow, its branches drooping limply, could be faintly distinguished
1793 IV | the moonlit garden.~The linden and the plane tree cast
1794 I | in their doorways mending linen; brown fish-nets were hanging
1795 XIII| her money up inside the lining of her coat, and to keep
1796 I | grass; and yet it was a lion. Then she recognized the
1797 VII | on it. Then, after gazing listlessly for some time, she would
1798 IX | watch, as though they were a litany, the old letters that her
1799 VII | little servant, her face livid, her eyes haggard, was seated
1800 V | dog. They all carried a loaded rifle slung across their
1801 VIII| concealed behind the door of the lobby.~Toward morning Jeanne became
1802 VII | smiling: “One might call it a local custom. So, you see, monsieur,
1803 Int | sufferings to “rheumatism localized in the brain,” contracted
1804 X | shaking his long white locks: “They are not human; they
1805 Int | words, and even of the loftiest intelligences. I cannot
1806 V | peaceful gulf surrounded by lofty summits, the base of which
1807 XIV | stirred, except to put a fresh log on the fire. Rosalie would
1808 VIII| and was convinced of the logic of his argument. The baron,
1809 VII | she got up to put fresh logs on the fire and to look
1810 IX | reached the ears of the loitering couple. The comte would
1811 IX | Gilberte and Julien. The loneliness of the place was beginning
1812 IX | all smiles, and wearing a long-trained dress, like a chatelaine
1813 VI | were at once realized. The longed-for lover, met, loved and married
1814 X | gate superintending the lopping of the trees, so he turned
1815 VIII| expression, and suddenly becoming loquacious, said: “Oh, in that case,
1816 X | much worried, prayed to the Lord, entreated her father; but
1817 V | Rinaldi, was killed by Mathieu Lori. See, I was there, close
1818 Int | have inherited from his Lorraine ancestors their indestructible
1819 III | more remarkable than the loss of his nose, he said:~“With
1820 XIII| built in the middle of a lot planted with pear trees
1821 XIII| twenty-eight years.~He gave them lots of advice on how to avoid
1822 VII | the room, she cried in a louder tone: “Rosalie!” and she
1823 IX | becoming pink, a joyous, love-inspiring, enchanting pink. She looked
1824 III | beautiful it is here! How lovely it is in the country! There
1825 VIII| own interests.~The other, lowering his voice, blurted out: “
1826 VII | pardon, and held out his loyal hand to Julien, who refused
1827 Int | reference, which in to Sir John Lubbock’s work on ants, an extract
1828 X | make this out, even in her lucid moments, but she was certain
1829 Int | indestructible discipline and cold lucidity.~His childhood was passed
1830 III | and while the ocean had lulled their thoughts and made
1831 III | approaching the horizon. The lulling motion of the sea had made
1832 VI | seemed to permeate one’s lungs, heart and skin with melancholy.~
1833 VIII| sad face, dreamy eyes, and lustreless, fair hair, looking as though
1834 Int | listened to Zola unfolding in lyric formula audacious methods,
1835 Int | contemporaries, bewildered by the lyrical deformities of romanticism,
1836 I | embroidered in gold fleur de lys. When Jeanne had sufficiently
1837 VI | calling to his wife: “Look at Ma-Ma-Marius! Is he not comical? Heavens,
1838 Int | de Burne.~Ysolde replaces Macette. In “l’Ostel de Courtoisie,”
1839 II | occasions he went fishing for mackerel and, again, by moonlight,
1840 IX | wood on the fire, sent for madeira and biscuits and then exclaimed
1841 Int | prematurely into the abyss of madness and death....~In the month
1842 VII | the position assigned to Magdalens, her cap awry, her apron
1843 X | sought to recall when the old maiden lady had left “The Poplars,”
1844 Int | of his veiled irony, he maintains, or feels a sorrowful, though
1845 Int | souls! What a clinic for a maker of books! The disgust with
1846 XII | something like him in the whole makeup of his face.~The young man
1847 XIII| there anything for me, Père Malandain?” And the man always replied
1848 X | anti-physical” as though it were a malediction.~The priest knew who his
1849 XI | out: “My poor mistress, Mam’zelle Jeanne, my poor mistress,
1850 VII | news.~She presently saw the man-servant running out of the house.
1851 IX | in it. In this way they managed to get her into the house
1852 VII | having taken the entire management of the house, to satisfy
1853 XI | steamboat company failed and the manager was being sought for on
1854 V | holding on to his horse’s mane as it bounced him up and
1855 Int | beside Werther and René, Manfred and Oberman.~He had for
1856 VII | on his knees before her mangled remains, and in a second
1857 VII | suffered keenly at each fresh manifestation of avarice on the part of
1858 Int | took on the appearance of a manifesto, the tone of a challenge,
1859 Int | professes such contempt for mankind, yet considers solitude
1860 VI | enfolded her in such a heavy mantle of misery that she went
1861 Int | Zola had contributed the manuscript of the “Attaque du Moulin,”
1862 Int | accompaniment to the tales of Marguerite’s cavaliers, the master
1863 III | increased. She consulted the marguerites, the clouds, and coins which
1864 Int | words of Maupassant to José Maria de Heredia on the occasion
1865 Int | well known.~In a letter to Marie Bashkirtseff he writes as
1866 Int | Perhaps he overshot the mark. By dint of hearing morality,
1867 XIII| met Rosalie coming from market. The servant suspected something,
1868 Int | without those distinguishing marks of intellect and social
1869 VI | recent births, deaths and marriages of which she had not heard,
1870 I | the sun dries the water in marshes. It flowed, fled, disappeared.
1871 VI | hands in surprise, and Mrs. Martin kissed her on both cheeks,
1872 X | Jeanne an idea of the stuff martyrs were made of; and she let
1873 X | the apostles, the Virgin Mary and the Fathers of the Church
1874 IV | each time afresh by these masculine kisses to which she was
1875 XI | cowardice of all hearts and the mask of respectability assumed
1876 V | the early dawn; a sort of massing of strange-looking clouds,
1877 X | large house, whose former masters were leaving it from time
1878 V | scrub oak, juniper, arbutus, mastic, privet, gorse, laurel,
1879 II | before. He loved to hear the masts creak, to breathe in the
1880 IX | himself, who lay down on the mat outside the door.~He seemed
1881 XIII| Goderville to choose some material, which was given a dressmaker
1882 Int | Can he, the determined materialist, really fear the stupor
1883 Int | the pre-Renaissance). His materials were just those of a graduate
1884 XI | fault, the fault of your maternal selfishness. I feel that
1885 VIII| CHAPTER VIII~MATERNITY~Rosalie had left the house.
1886 | maybe
1887 Int | worthy biographer, H. Édouard Maynial, after collecting intelligently
1888 Int | Lesable, and the handsome Maze are the objects of his veiled
1889 Int | through their most dangerous mazes. The reader does not know
1890 IX | speed.~First it crossed the meadow, then plunging into a ploughed
1891 IV | background, appeared only at mealtimes, and then retired to her
1892 II | containing her “souvenirs,” which meant to the baroness all her
1893 XIV | against the door while they measured his height.~And she kissed
1894 VI | that they never tasted meat.~The baron, inspired at
1895 Int | after eighteen months of mechanical existence, the “meteor”
1896 VI | of this little piece of mechanism that seemed to be alive.
1897 Int | from his mother. He read medical books and, in spite of what
1898 II | souls gives to the most mediocre of men who are called by
1899 Int | chatter of the most decided mediocrities and the conversation of
1900 IX | Corinne” or Lamartine’s “Meditations.” Then she would ask for
1901 III | seemed to be taking part meditatively in the baptism of this boat,
1902 Int | to be in rhythm, like its melopoeia.~“Sur l’Eau” is the last
1903 IV | bones and her blood had all melted beneath her skin, and on
1904 Int | Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of
1905 V | population of monsters, a menagerie of nightmares petrified
1906 I | Women sat in their doorways mending linen; brown fish-nets were
1907 VII | memories passed before her mental vision: the sail with him
1908 Int | different man I am becoming mentally from what I was formerly.
1909 XI | almost fifteen, but was a mere child in intelligence, ignorant,
1910 VI | slowly up and down petite mère’s avenue, alongside the
1911 VII | cut down the food to the merest necessaries; and as Jeanne
1912 Int | the motives of the most meritorious actions.~Some say that this
1913 XII | every instant, weighing the merits of two easy chairs or of
1914 IV | outside to mix with the merrymakers. The guests soon left.~They
1915 Int | pessimism, I see in it also a method of protecting his secret
1916 V | As much as three hundred metres in height, slender, round,
1917 Int | also desired to write in metrical lines. However, he never
1918 Int | Paris and placed in Dr. Meuriot’s sanatorium, where, after
1919 VII | not catch it. Then other mice, ten, twenty, hundreds,
1920 Int | establishment now praises Michèle de Burne.~Ysolde replaces
1921 VI | France, or attending to microscopic duties, as ceremonious to
1922 VI | muslin. An atmosphere of mildew, an atmosphere of former
1923 V | should recognize it five miles out at sea. I belong to
1924 I | beating of their hearts, mingling their love with the sweet
1925 X | fanaticism of this child, the minister of God.~He led her to Christ,
1926 XI | that could tolerate such ministers.~The church was deserted
1927 Int | world.~Study closely these minstrels in recent works; read M.
1928 Int | hallucinations which he describes so minutely were experienced by Maupassant
1929 Int | Dieppe, in the castle of Miromesnil which he describes in Une
1930 VIII| days. His large eyes, the mirrors of love, had become tender
1931 X | standing around the kennel of Mirza, the dog, looking curiously
1932 XI | draught, because he had misbehaved. So she kept him at home
1933 VII | that we can compel this miserable man to marry her.”~But Julien
1934 VIII| apprehension of unknown misfortunes.~A big woman, big as a house,
1935 XIII| That was what she had missed so greatly, the sea, her
1936 XII | whose upper branches were missing, against which she had often
1937 X | prevent them from making mistakes; but you can go and look
1938 Int | humanity, that he may have mistrusted its disinterestedness, contested
1939 IV | of the night, and by this misty illumination that lighted
1940 VIII| unconsciously jealous of this mite of a man who had usurped
1941 IV | drawing-room, and then outside to mix with the merrymakers. The
1942 XIV | she became confused and mixed up the letters and formed
1943 III | Allow me, baroness and Mlle. Jeanne, to present to you
1944 VII | caught sight of Rosalie moaning on the stairs, and suspected
1945 I | an air of half respectful mockery. Madame mounted with difficulty
1946 XIII| He spoke at length about moderate priced restaurants, and
1947 VIII| Poplars.” Jeanne was only moderately sad at their departure,
1948 Int | Round Table: Distinction and Moderation; Fervor and Delicacy. We
1949 II | economical and lived in this modest manner for two or three
1950 XI | looked at one another with moistened eyes as the dishes were
1951 V | bell-towers, wondrous forms molded by age, the ravaging wind
1952 V | husk mattress in an old moldy house. The woodwork, all
1953 I | figures. She had a tiny mole on her left nostril and
1954 Int | great writer because, like Molière, La Bruyère, and La Fontaine,
1955 VIII| the wedding took place one Monday morning.~A neighbor carried
1956 V | animals, monuments, men, monks in their garb, horned devils,
1957 IV | which she had embroidered a monogram, saying as she did so: “
1958 Int | all intelligences that it monopolizes. It aborts all sincere sentiment
1959 V | birds, a whole population of monsters, a menagerie of nightmares
1960 XII | Goderville, on the high road to Montiviliers, in the hamlet of Batteville.~
1961 Int | inauguration of Flaubert’s monument at Rouen would scarcely
1962 V | trees, plants, animals, monuments, men, monks in their garb,
1963 V | the same time as Nicolas Morali, when they were trapped
1964 Int | mark. By dint of hearing morality, art and literature depreciated,
1965 Int | he neither censures, nor moralizes; for the self-satisfied
1966 X | look you, the women have no morals. But nevertheless, I loved
1967 Int | round him as around Gustave Moreau’s pale youth.... Can he,
1968 VII | icy foam.~On one of these mornings, Jeanne was sitting warming
1969 XII | Leonard, which, free of all mortgage, would bring in an income
1970 XI | will all your jumble of mortgages and borrowing, and interests
1971 II | without contracting debts or mortgaging his farms. The priest added, “
1972 VII | did not reply, crushed, mortified, exhausted as she was, without
1973 | mostly
1974 VII | kiss Jeanne, kissed his mother-in-law on the forehead, turned
1975 IV | changed around us; even our motions seem to have a new meaning;
1976 Int | function, and suspected the motives of the most meritorious
1977 Int | Jules Lemaitre said. To mould the expression of his thought
1978 Int | manuscript of the “Attaque du Moulin,” and it was at Maupassant’
1979 V | sun. Sometimes they met a mountaineer, either on foot or mounted
1980 Int | rich soils where a frenzy mounts to your brain through the
1981 XIII| bed.~She had no time to mourn for some days, as there
1982 Int | without a word.” And if he mourned Miss Harriet, in this unaccustomed
1983 Int | trees join in the universal mourning—the great, sad beeches weep
1984 IX | her eyes. One sometimes mourns lost illusions as deeply
1985 IV | cheese. Every one swallowed a mouthful from time to time, and beneath
1986 III | their haste, and made their mouths water.~A good breakfast
1987 X | to meet in a shepherd’s movable hut that had been deserted
1988 XIV | soon became averse to all movement and stayed in bed as late
1989 Int | nature, the one thing that moves him.... But, in spite of
1990 IX | the soft breath from the mown hay that lay in the moonlight
1991 XII | ended in a pair of enormous muddy shoes.~Jeanne lowered her
1992 IX | little paper bag of cakes, a multitude of little details, little
1993 IV | large barrels, while they munched a slice of bread and butter
1994 Int | severe initiations in the Rue Murillo, or in the tent at Croisset;
1995 III | it. And without moving a muscle of his face, without anyone
1996 Int | thick neck and salient muscles whom they invariably compare
1997 I | over her. She remained long musing thus, when suddenly she
1998 VI | candelabra were wrapped in white muslin. An atmosphere of mildew,
1999 IX | at the very sight of his mustaches, and she thought: “How one
2000 Int | Marine, where he turned over musty papers, in the uninteresting
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