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2001 IV | sought to fathom one another, mutely and persistently. What would
2002 IX | expression of countenance. He muttered: “I was expecting it, I
2003 III | short, night fell with its myriad stars. Père Lastique took
2004 I | became also illuminated by myriads of stars. Suddenly they
2005 V | privet, gorse, laurel, myrtle and boxwood, intertwined
2006 VI | and mother. The heart has mysteries that no arguments can solve.~
2007 X | some days later and hinted mysteriously at one of those shameless
2008 X | and dictatorial abbé. A mystic, he appealed to her in his
2009 Int | day he studies the Arab mystics, Oriental legends, and the
2010 Int | yielding to an inborn taste for mystification which his youth rendered
2011 Int | pleasure of hoaxing and mystifying people.~He appeared besides
2012 Int | romanticized” life itself, and not myths, those eternal legends that
2013 XIV | sky was cloudless and the nag, who was inclined to be
2014 VII | running about the house almost naked, that she pretends that
2015 V | mail steamer which went to Naples by way of Ajaccio, took
2016 V | mountains! The birthplace of Napoleon! It seemed to Jeanne that
2017 Int | attacks, which he soothed with narcotics and anesthetics, which he
2018 Int | inheritor of a formula, he narrated to his contemporaries, bewildered
2019 Int | disciples took turns in narrating some striking or pathetic
2020 Int | aware of the danger to his narration should he indulge in the
2021 VII | their conversation, his nascent love, the christening of
2022 Int | call it in Champagne. The nauseating pabulum of the newspapers
2023 Int | beneath poplars instead of the Neapolitan cypresses dear to the friends
2024 X | shattered hut, he went to the nearest farm to tell of the accident.~
2025 IV | a poor relation, very neat, frightfully timid, even
2026 VII | down the food to the merest necessaries; and as Jeanne since her
2027 IX | enjoyment which did not necessitate thinking.~One morning as
2028 VI | introduced great reforms which necessitated making some changes. The
2029 III | of his ruffle, and a fine neckcloth wound several times round
2030 V | splashed their faces, their necks, their clothes and their
2031 X | that she perhaps might be needing his care, that no one probably
2032 VII | her hands as she plied the needle.~Rosalie, formerly so cheerful
2033 IV | the wool and the knitting needles, she went over and leaned
2034 I | furniture was covered with fine needlework tapestry illustrating La
2035 X | over Jeanne, one of those needs of unbosoming oneself to
2036 XI | She shook her head in the negative. He then rang, and they
2037 VI | that she did not feel this neglect more deeply? Was this life?
2038 Int | intellect, like Gerard de Nerval, he attempted suicide. Less
2039 VII | who was trembling with nervousness, interrupted him, saying, “
2040 V | like a veritable bird’s nest and almost invisible on
2041 Int | aggravated. He was tortured by neuralgia, and by new mysterious darting
2042 Int | in, at first mistaken for neurotic disturbances. He changed
2043 Int | MAUPASSANT~A Study by Pol. Neveux~“I entered literary life
2044 VII | while the nurse held the new-born babe in her arms.~As soon
2045 VIII| joy, with a glimpse of a new-found happiness which had just
2046 I | rabbit, which was still nibbling, a young man lay stretched
2047 XI | them immensely, and the nickname of “Poulet” stuck to him.~
2048 IX | and he smiled also, having nicknamed her “The Amazon Queen.”
2049 V | died at the same time as Nicolas Morali, when they were trapped
2050 VII | the steps, still in her nightdress, and in bare feet, and remained
2051 V | monsters, a menagerie of nightmares petrified by the will of
2052 Int | different in character. In the nineteenth century the Gallic intellect
2053 | ninety
2054 V | they were trapped in the Niolo, after six days of fighting,
2055 Int | new ideas of things. This nobler personality Maupassant owes
2056 Int | the conversation of the noblest minds of the day. Not an
2057 Int | same estimate on a thought nobly expressed as on a sally
2058 III | embroidered stole. He smiled and nodded a greeting; then, with his
2059 VII | the baroness assented by nodding her head. He said in conclusion: “
2060 XI | upset her nerves. She rose noiselessly to take another look at
2061 Int | clerk, the thinker, and the non-commissioned officer.~Maupassant was
2062 Int | as he smiled faintly, and nonplussing them by his calmness.~How
2063 IX | swift vision of the sunlit nook amid the dark foliage in
2064 XI | that must be paid before noon the following day; that
2065 Int | him one of those terrible Normans who, all through his novels
2066 Int | gehenna of death, in these nostalgias of the past, in these trances
2067 I | a tiny mole on her left nostril and another on the right
2068 VI | Normandy, rose to their nostrils, or else a strong smell
2069 XII | suffering. Jeanne.”~When the notary arrived with M. Jeoffrin,
2070 IV | little fragments of scattered notes.~Two large barrels surrounded
2071 XI | and the baron was also notified to the same effect. She
2072 XI | was sent on horseback to notify Jeanne, but when she arrived
2073 VI | of ideas, he set to work.~Notwithstanding the cold, the baroness had
2074 VII | his wife, as though he had nourished anger against her ever since
2075 Int | peculiarity of all great novelists. Who experiences this insight,
2076 Int | Boule de Suif. Despite the novelty, the honesty of effort,
2077 X | château about the middle of November. He was changed, aged, faded,
2078 Int | these long years of his novitiate Maupassant had entered the
2079 | nowhere
2080 VI | made her drink a glass of noyau. She then went to the other
2081 IV | way, was useless, and a nuisance, retired into one of those
2082 VI | coldness that seemed to numb her affection, just as if,
2083 XII | replaced by others. She saw numberless knick-knacks that she remembered,
2084 XI | overcome that her grief was numbness rather than despair.~Abbé
2085 Int | coasted, bending to the oar. Then Brittany with its
2086 IX | preparing a chest of “relics” in obedience to a sort of hereditary
2087 Int | Werther and René, Manfred and Oberman.~He had for a long time,
2088 X | forces will make the peasants obey and fear us.”~Jeanne’s religion
2089 XI | recreation at the usual hours, obliging him to work without a change
2090 Int | hope, I know, but I feel obscurely and unceasingly the harm
2091 XI | What does it mean?”~He obsequiously explained: “I will tell
2092 X | contented himself with what observances she gave him, and never
2093 Int | research and to use direct observation and who inculcated in him
2094 Int | impatient to “realize” his observations. He might forget, and above
2095 XI | silence being broken by an occasional sob.~Jeanne wept all the
2096 XI | to respect him for this occult power as well as for the
2097 VI | dreary and appeared long. The occupants of the carriage were silent.
2098 VI | simple, ordinary everyday occupations, awakened in her heart.
2099 VI | what their hosts did to occupy themselves all the year
2100 VI | to one another what was occupying their thoughts. They felt
2101 IV | of economy, and this word occurring several times, astonished
2102 Int | affected, and a celebrated oculist spoke of abnormality, asymetry
2103 Int | secrets that make chefs-d’oeuvre immortal. It was he who
2104 I | children!” She refused all offers of refreshment, but went
2105 Int | and the non-commissioned officer.~Maupassant was always impatient
2106 Int | to day as he haunted the offices of Editors.~As for his style,
2107 Int | step....~He was a minstrel. Offspring of a race, and not the inheritor
2108 Int | and revive his energies in old-time joys. It was at this time
2109 IX | dress, like a chatelaine of olden times. She looked a fitting
2110 I | she noticed that she had omitted to put her calendar in her
2111 IX | had bought at a sale a new one-horse phaeton, so that they could
2112 Int | certainly scarcely more onerous and he had as chiefs, or
2113 IV | bread and butter and a raw onion.~The mayor, who was beating
2114 VIII| been there awaiting his opportunity all the morning, crept along
2115 Int | place a young reputation in opposition to the triumphant brutality
2116 IV | end of the month, after an oppressively warm day, the moon rose
2117 Int | characteristic attack of optimism, he suddenly appeared at
2118 VI | perfume, its sun that ripens oranges and lemons, its mountains
2119 Int | to harmony. He does not “orchestrate,” he has not inherited the “
2120 XI | Easter, according to the rule ordained by the Church; but for boys
2121 III | next began to murmur the “Oremus,” standing alongside the
2122 Int | the suppleness of a living organism.~Very industrious and very
2123 Int | for the first time in Mont Oriol....~But this sentimental
2124 Int | his contempt for frivolous ornamentation.”~He remains a great writer
2125 Int | replaces Macette. In “l’Ostel de Courtoisie,” Maupassant
2126 | Otherwise
2127 Int | like himself, the poor outcast cherished a similar love
2128 IV | silhouette of the aunt, outlined by the light of the lamp
2129 V | The sun rose behind it, outlining the jagged crests like black
2130 IX | of home life, so petty to outsiders: “Father has the grip; poor
2131 I | The baroness, gasping from over-exertion, finally reached the doorstep
2132 I | at the splendor of nature overcame her fluttering heart. It
2133 XIII| felt the tears beginning to overflow, and wiped them away with
2134 III | beach side by side, and they overheard Père Lastique say to the
2135 VII | she was seized with an overmastering terror of seeing him, of
2136 Int | I experience a sort of overpowering sense of insight into all
2137 V | woodwork, all eaten by worms, overrun with long boring-worms,
2138 XII | Rosalie was putting on her overshoes, she said in a choking voice: “
2139 Int | of the vulgar.~Perhaps he overshot the mark. By dint of hearing
2140 X | to run. Threatening waves overspread the sea, big black clouds
2141 Int | and refined, and in the overtension of his nerves through suffering
2142 X | ideas having long since overthrown her convictions. Abbé Picot
2143 VIII| interfered with and his overweening importance diminished by
2144 VII | hands from her face, and overwhelmed also with a feverish desire
2145 Int | master’s joy was great and overwhelming. He died two months later.~
2146 XI | tone: “It is to you that I owe it, anyhow; and you know
2147 Int | nobler personality Maupassant owes to those sufferings dear
2148 III | chilliness. There was no grass, owing to the lack of sunlight,
2149 X | dragged it along like an ox, panting as he went. He
2150 Int | Champagne. The nauseating pabulum of the newspapers and low
2151 V | Mathieu appeared at ten paces from us. ‘Jean,’ he cried, ‘
2152 XIII| departure. Rosalie began to pack her mistress’ clothes in
2153 Int | that time on he sealed his pact with the earth, and those “
2154 V | hasty kiss on the ear.~The paddle-wheels struck the water, disturbing
2155 Int | find it revealed in every page, provided you go to the
2156 XIII| arcades. She recognized the Palais Royal. Being tired and warm,
2157 VII | back into the room, looking paler than his daughter, the priest
2158 IX | poor mamma!”~The stars were paling. It was the cool hour that
2159 XII | memories, a copper warming pan, a damaged foot stove that
2160 X | bowed the knee to a sort of pantheistic Divinity, and shrank from
2161 X | dragged it along like an ox, panting as he went. He dragged it,
2162 Int | rule of the ballad, of the pantoum or the chant royal, Maupassant
2163 XIV | recognize, as it had been newly papered and furnished. But the view
2164 Int | intellect. Symptoms of general paralysis set in, at first mistaken
2165 IV | embarrassment seemed to paralyze the guests. The two priests,
2166 I | landscape. Rosalie, with a parcel on her knee, was dreaming
2167 VI | wife then went to undo her parcels. Rosalie, also greatly affected,
2168 XI | come back, my poor girl?”~“Pardi! do you suppose I was going
2169 X | will have to chain up your parishioners; and even that would not
2170 XIII| disgrace to everyone; and the Parisian ladies would take you for
2171 IX | of little mother to the “parloir” of the convent, the manner
2172 IX | she fell on her knees in a paroxysm of despair, her hands clutching
2173 V | resisted and their lips met and parted, and the stream of cold
2174 VIII| She rebelled at the wicked partiality of fate and at the wicked
2175 VI | waistcoat with red stripes partially covered by his working apron
2176 III | hills,” and he began to particularize: There was the Marquis de
2177 XI | You believe, madame, in a partisan God. I believe in the God
2178 VIII| get her on his side as a partner who has been cheated out
2179 IV | tint. Rustics and their partners danced in a circle shouting
2180 III | the baron, followed the party as if it were a procession.
2181 III | a pond. There were a few parvenus among them who had bought
2182 XIII| door, and walking along a passage, saw the janitor’s quarters.
2183 V | beside the Roi-Louis to get passengers.~Julien, who was collecting
2184 V | chestnut leaf that some passerby had placed there to guide
2185 Int | character he describes, with his passions, his hatreds, his vices
2186 XII | quite resigned and obeyed passively. Weak and dragging her feet
2187 Int | besides to look upon art as a pastime, literature as an occupation
2188 III | feeling of respect for their pastor, and after service waited
2189 X | beside a deserted sheep pasture. Two horses were tied to
2190 III | the water at its base, and patches of sunlit grass here and
2191 III | under his dainty boots of patent leather, which made his
2192 Int | himself, are tormented on the pathway without hope. The tears
2193 V | his language—the Corsican patois, a jumble of French and
2194 V | received the travellers as the patriarchs must have received the guest
2195 XIII| and mentioned two or three patronized by women, and told them
2196 V | whom they were both after, Paulina Sinacoupi.~“But Jean cried
2197 VIII| shook the comte’s hairy paw, kissed the hand of the
2198 IX | animal reared in anger, pawed the air with his front feet
2199 IX | two families had brought peace and happiness to both. The
2200 VII | fulfill his office of a peacemaker, said: “Come, monsieur le
2201 II | buoys, guiding himself by a peak of rocks, the roof of a
2202 V | large chain of mountains, peaked and weird, appeared. It
2203 I | to her mirth in a merry peal of girlish laughter.~The
2204 XIII| middle of a lot planted with pear trees at the side of the
2205 IX | turning the sea to mother of pearl. The recollection of the
2206 V | happy, took the lead, the pebbles rolling away beneath her
2207 VI | surprised. Mrs. Couillard pecked her on the ears and she
2208 XIV | almost crazy.~She had all the peculiarities of those who live a solitary
2209 IX | of Sèvres ware and on the pedestal of the column an autograph
2210 I | inundation. Beneath the pelting rain the gleaming backs
2211 Int | so with Maupassant, who, pen in hand, is the character
2212 III | that the little bee on the pendulum was beating like a heart,
2213 VII | whole house seemed to be penetrated by the cold; the very walls
2214 X | the week to chat with his penitent. She became enthusiastic
2215 XIII| see you, but I have not a penny. Send me some money and
2216 VI | in her heart. A sort of pensive melancholy, a vague disenchantment
2217 V | said to Jeanne:~“Do you perceive it, that odor?”~She certainly
2218 III | freshness in the air was perceptible, giving them a sensation
2219 Int | a lover.~With an inborn perception, Maupassant at once seizes
2220 Int | of sight and smell were perfected, to the detriment of the
2221 IX | her that she was about to perform a delicate and sacred duty
2222 Int | willingly relegated love to the performance of a function, and suspected
2223 VIII| the use of a hairbrush and perfumed oil.~At the moment that
2224 VI | which so many lives are in peril, is it not, Jeannette?”~
2225 IX | daughter,” according to the periods—childhood, youth or young
2226 VI | damp and icy, seemed to permeate one’s lungs, heart and skin
2227 XIII| ask you to give me your permission to marry her. You will forgive
2228 V | teeth always showing in a perpetual smile, darted forward, kissed
2229 IV | away from her face, said in perplexity:~“Why, what is the matter,
2230 X | young priest, of the kind of persecution which he carried on against
2231 X | this intolerant priest, the persecutor of life.~Jeanne, very much
2232 II | very stout, very red, and perspired profusely. He drew from
2233 IX | joined them. The comte, perspiring, his face red, but smiling,
2234 IX | and as she could not be persuaded, Julien made a gesture of
2235 I | that.” “If you succeed in persuading your mother, I am perfectly
2236 Int | secret of this evolution? The perusal of his works gives us a
2237 VI | new cider which seems to pervade the atmosphere in this season
2238 Int | On the other hand, the pessimist has all the tenderness of
2239 Int | his short stories and his petit bourgeois. “Ah,” he cries, “
2240 XI | silly, suppressed between petticoat government and this kind
2241 IX | in surprise, as at some phenomenon, this radiant break of day,
2242 V | year. You know, my brother, Philippi Palabretti, the bandit.”~
2243 Int | retailed by rhetoricians. It is philosophical and haughty, detached from
2244 XII | Rosalie in the quiet tone of a phlegmatic peasant. The servant kept
2245 III | they saw that the sea was phosphorescent. Jeanne and the vicomte,
2246 IX | defunct, praised her in pious phrases and offered to pass the
2247 Int | visiting Paris to see his physicians and publishers. In the old
2248 V | land.~When they reached Piana they had to beg for hospitality,
2249 XIII| allow that. M. Paul must not pick up that rubbish.”~And Jeanne,
2250 XII | went from room to room, picking out the furniture which
2251 I | meaning underlying this picture, when she saw in the corner
2252 III | Lamare expatiated on the picturesqueness of the country and from
2253 XI | then took a walk on the pier to look at the ships coming
2254 III | rising sun was beginning to pierce through the slight mist,
2255 VIII| godmother. The child was named Pierre-Simon-Paul and called Paul for short.~
2256 X | they are religious, but pig-headed; be careful. Faith, when
2257 IX | bed and set fire to this pile of letters. When they were
2258 IX | sentimental and superstitious pilgrimage, as though a return to this
2259 V | granite. There were peaks, pillars, bell-towers, wondrous forms
2260 XI | warm and straightened the pillow under her former mistress’
2261 IX | lying on the ground with two pillows under her head. Her face
2262 Int | not inherited the “organ pipes” of Flaubert.~In his vocabulary
2263 IX | window and began to cry piteously. Then, collapsing, she sank
2264 Int | is understood that he is pitiless. But examine his stories
2265 I | the animals, through the placid laws of existence. She was
2266 I | clear that one could see as plainly as by daylight. She looked
2267 VIII| still sitting under the plane-tree.~He took off his cap and
2268 IX | were possible that, on a planet where such dawns were found,
2269 IV | violins and a clarinet, the players seated on a large table
2270 XI | time in his life he now had playmates, and in his anxiety to join
2271 Int | manuscripts, poetry, criticisms, plays, romances and novels. Every
2272 VII | new bond between you, a pledge of his future fidelity.
2273 VII | fall on her hands as she plied the needle.~Rosalie, formerly
2274 VI | in round an immense grass plot, and drew up before a high,
2275 IX | meadow, then plunging into a ploughed field kicked up the damp
2276 X | come, take courage.”~She plucked up courage, like a coward
2277 VII | make love to a little sugar plum like that? I tell you that
2278 X | courage, like a coward who plunges headlong into danger. “Father,
2279 Int | regretting that I have to ply this abominable trade.”~
2280 XI | bronchitis that developed into pneumonia, and she died quietly, murmuring
2281 I | her, and she looked at the pocket-book with the stupid, sleepy
2282 V | guide. Julien fumbled in his pockets. Not finding what he wanted,
2283 Int | better, and read to the poet Dorchain the beginning of
2284 II | but she still remained poetical, having always retained
2285 VII | awakened abruptly, sharp and poignant.~Old memories passed before
2286 Int | I feel them swelling and poisoning me as bile does some people.
2287 Int | and his uncle Alfred Le Poittevin. The master had consented
2288 Int | following day Wolff wrote a polemical dissertation in the Figaro
2289 III | of each country from the poles to the equator, enthusing
2290 VI | farmer, he had lost his polish and elegance as a fiancé.~
2291 I | black from age and highly polished, bore up the bed and seemed
2292 X | first few weeks, out of politeness.~Little by little, however,
2293 Int | of the newspapers and low political intrigue had withered the
2294 VI | fragrance, with fertilizing pollen, existed no longer!~The
2295 I | He always preceded her pompous name of Adelaide with the
2296 IX | earth. And she began to ponder on this insoluble mystery.~
2297 VII | recall the facts, and she pondered over them steadily.~Little
2298 XI | morning, however, an old man, poorly dressed, inquired in German-French
2299 VI | grass, where dandelions, poppies and moon daisies bloomed
2300 I | blue, like those of Dutch porcelain figures. She had a tiny
2301 Int | Seine between Chatou and Port-Marly, on the banks of Sartrouville
2302 Int | bored. I pass the third portion in writing sentences which
2303 IX | Julien explained all the portions of the building to Jeanne,
2304 I | quiet nights. She was like a portrait by Veronese with her fair,
2305 VII | innocent, denied everything positively, swore, took God as his
2306 X | religious poetry that all women possess. His unyielding austerity,
2307 Int | Jean.~On the other hand, he possesses, above many others, a power
2308 Int | heartrending and sublime, that posterity will long shudder at the
2309 XI | Jeanne, pervaded by a sort of posthumous gratitude for this man who
2310 IV | father continued:~“We have postponed our answer for the present.”~
2311 IV | one had said: “The coffee pot, or the sugar bowl.”~She
2312 VI | them from their tribute of poultry.~So the Couillards brought
2313 Int | malady is on guard, ready to pounce on him. He seeks to escape
2314 XI | pardon, as God could not pour down all His favors on a
2315 V | given it a thought, and she poured out the contents on her
2316 I | bowed and back bent in the pouring rain, was completely covered
2317 Int | creations, he unbends and pours out his heart. The humbler
2318 Int | in the novels of Emile Pouvillon. Maupassant is not one of
2319 Int | of the diminution of his powers and a gradual clouding of
2320 I | Her father and Rosalie had practically to carry the baroness, who
2321 Int | offered a suggestive remark. Praise, even, did not move him,
2322 IX | He spoke of the defunct, praised her in pious phrases and
2323 Int | Tellier’s establishment now praises Michèle de Burne.~Ysolde
2324 X | fell on her knees: “Oh, I pray you not to leave me, tell
2325 X | Jeanne, very much worried, prayed to the Lord, entreated her
2326 IX | the gate; mother lost her prayerbook on the way home from church,
2327 III | The priest, who was not praying now, walked hurriedly behind
2328 Int | primitive” (an artist of the pre-Renaissance). His materials were just
2329 I | Madame Adelaide.” He always preceded her pompous name of Adelaide
2330 Int | error, but is not without precedent. We always like to trace
2331 IX | It was the cool hour that precedes the dawn. The moon was sinking
2332 VII | questions, asked, speaking precipitately:~“But how did it happen?
2333 III | existence? Were they the two predestined beings whose affection,
2334 Int | Cannes, but the fatal day predicted by the physician was at
2335 X | declared his indignation, predicting the approach of the hour
2336 XIII| grief at Paul’s persistent preference for this creature wrung
2337 Int | in the unfoldment of his prehistoric soul. Years went by in an
2338 III | uncultivated, and whose beliefs and prejudices were not those of his class,
2339 IV | desired to waste no time in preliminaries. It was, therefore, decided
2340 VIII| recognized the symptoms of a premature confinement.~Her sufferings
2341 Int | and travels, only to sink prematurely into the abyss of madness
2342 XIII| awaiting a reply she made her preparations for departure. Rosalie began
2343 VIII| just go and make myself presentable.”~Jeanne, much surprised,
2344 Int | round it. He also, in the presentation of his character, assumes
2345 IV | her.~She was continually presenting the baroness with handkerchiefs
2346 IV | She brought a quantity of presents which, as they came from
2347 XIV | calendars which had been preserved after the manner of some
2348 IV | insignificant caresses, pressure of hands, long passionate
2349 Int | away by the tinsel of his prestige, nor the puerility of his
2350 VII | house almost naked, that she pretends that she saw her maid in
2351 VI | was alone, Julien, under pretext of fatigue, having taken
2352 XIII| this hatred alone which prevented her from taking any steps,
2353 VI | cockade, his nose alone preventing it from covering his face
2354 XI | their journey.~They had previously selected his place in the
2355 XIII| at length about moderate priced restaurants, and mentioned
2356 X | jovial manner and assumed his priestly attitude. “Well, my child,
2357 Int | the clear vision of a “primitive” (an artist of the pre-Renaissance).
2358 X | intended to accomplish, as a prince might have done on taking
2359 V | their purchases in Paris, prior to settling down for good
2360 XI | consequently watched like a prisoner at “The Poplars.”~She became
2361 V | juniper, arbutus, mastic, privet, gorse, laurel, myrtle and
2362 V | said: “Le maquis.”~As they proceeded on their course the circle
2363 II | forced him to repeat the process. He was a typical country
2364 Int | Daudet, who scattered with prodigality striking, thrilling ideas,
2365 Int | Maupassant, in the fever of production, became less careful. He
2366 Int | tortures his nerves,” and who professes such contempt for mankind,
2367 VII | closely. Then laying aside his professional tone and manner, he said
2368 Int | those souls they have so profoundly stirred. The worship of
2369 II | very red, and perspired profusely. He drew from his pocket
2370 XI | drawing-room door, showing his progress from month to month. This
2371 X | apart.”~Accustomed to the promiscuity and undignified relations
2372 X | cheerful at the thought of his promotion. “It is a wrench, it is
2373 X | are anti-physical.” And he pronounced the word “anti-physical”
2374 I | land rentals, which, with proper care, would have yielded
2375 III | among them who had bought properties here and there, but the
2376 VII | and asked: “What do you propose?”~“Oh, I? That’s very simple.
2377 VII | The priest explained and propounded his ideas, to which the
2378 V | disputing with the hotel proprietors, with the servants, the
2379 XIII| here by M. Roussel.”~The proprietress, an immense woman with a
2380 Int | published. His encounters with prosody had left him with that monotonous
2381 XI | speculation that gave every prospect of success has fallen through,
2382 VII | reflection—“it should be the prospective mother of a family, like
2383 XI | him into the hands of a prostitute. Will not you open your
2384 Int | bureaucrats or shopkeepers, prostitutes or rakes, he places them
2385 X | that she swooned and fell prostrate.~When she regained consciousness
2386 VI | elm trees that formed a protection against the sea wind, the
2387 I | bed and seemed to be its protectors. On the sides were carved
2388 Int | emitted dying gleams of protest against a cruel fate....~
2389 Int | Maupassant of former days protests against the bondage of his
2390 IX | and rubbing the invalid proved ineffectual.~“She should
2391 Int | Erckman-Chatrian, in the Provençal tales of Alphonse Daudet,
2392 Int | vileness and debauchery. In the provinces the ancient humor had disappeared;
2393 Int | in setting forth, as in proving his theory, in his essay
2394 V | accompanied them and carried the provisions, for inns are unknown in
2395 II | the waste land, and the proximity of the ocean recalling to
2396 XI | with the deepest interest, pruned branches and cut flowers
2397 III | in surplices were singing psalms; was it not she whom they
2398 III | their eyes fixed on the psalter, sang at the top of their
2399 Int | trade.” However, under the pseudonym of Guy de Valmont, he had
2400 VI | beginning to understand the psychic meaning of things; and these
2401 Int | inborn basis of his personal psychology. I do not believe it. That
2402 XIII| remain any longer without publicly recognizing her love and
2403 Int | to see his physicians and publishers. In the old port of Antibes
2404 VI | windmill, and splashing into puddles of water, and stumbling
2405 Int | of his prestige, nor the puerility of his enchantment. He despised
2406 X | shattered limbs were soft as pulp.~“What were they doing in
2407 X | following Sunday from the pulpit he hurled imprecations,
2408 VII | invisible force, throbbed, pulsated wildly, and her consciousness
2409 VII | to beat with hard, dull pulsations, and at times seemed to
2410 Int | years Flaubert slashed, pulverized, the awkward attempts of
2411 XI | was surprised, knowing the punctiliousness of these neighbors in returning
2412 V | redoubtable in their hands.~The pungent odor of the aromatic herbs
2413 Int | He despised at heart the puppets that moved about him as
2414 IX | to talk with frankness to pure-minded people, devoid of all infamy,
2415 XI | had grown, and for this purpose they made little notches
2416 IX | as if they were two birds pursuing each other to the verge
2417 VII | wicked look on his face, and pushing his terrified wife out of
2418 V | at length perceived some pyramidal rocks which the vessel rounded
2419 I | recognized the story of “Pyramus and Thisbe,” and though
2420 Int | longer to the sound of the Pyrennean streams that murmured a
2421 VII | recriminations, arguments and quarrels; but she suffered keenly
2422 IX | feared to arouse his ugly, quarrelsome temper, and although she
2423 VI | the De Lamares were not quartered with those of the Le Perthuis
2424 VI | Julien made sketches of quarterings. The baroness, all upset
2425 XIII| She then walked along the quays.~After about an hour she
2426 VII | as if overflowing with questions, asked, speaking precipitately:~“
2427 IX | coming to life beneath the quickening rays of the sun. Jeanne
2428 V | ill, you know, and that quiets your blood. And, besides,
2429 X | be crazy. He wore a large quilted cap that he wore only at
2430 Int | preferred—an Aristophanes, or a Rabelais.” And he adds: “The world
2431 Int | hearts, to visit unknown races. He has lost his magnificent
2432 I | which seemed to cast a radiance on her skin, a skin with
2433 XIII| sea with its salt air, its rages, its scolding voice, its
2434 X | them now.” And trembling, ragged and dripping with rain,
2435 I | almost have said that it was raining harder when the carriage
2436 XIII| autumn returned with its long rains, its gray sky, its dark
2437 III | with the faint sound of a rake on the shingle. And the
2438 Int | shopkeepers, prostitutes or rakes, he places them in faintly
2439 XI | restless and worried and would ramble about for whole days in
2440 XIII| crazy, she now walked at random. She had made up her mind
2441 XII | years you will not have a rap left.”~Jeanne was crushed,
2442 VII | is, we know all, all your rascality since—since the day you
2443 VII | prudence. We must do nothing rash. Try to put up with your
2444 X | frightened at the hail which rattled on the sloping roof of the
2445 Int | sailors, chatting with the ravageurs, or junk gatherers, or stretched
2446 V | forms molded by age, the ravaging wind and the sea mist. As
2447 XIV | head of the guide, Jean Ravoli, haunted her, and she sometimes
2448 IV | of bread and butter and a raw onion.~The mayor, who was
2449 Int | remains concealed from so many readers, it is because it has nothing
2450 Int | comrades of Médan, being readily carried away by precision
2451 XIII| She is also educated and reads a good deal. In fact, you
2452 Int | paternal line the shrewd realism of Champagne, so de Maupassant
2453 Int | depth that of all other realistic writers.~Still there are
2454 VI | expectations of love were at once realized. The longed-for lover, met,
2455 XII | the reins. He presently reappeared, carrying in his arms the
2456 I | the house from front to rear and a staircase went up
2457 V | his kisses. But she was reassured, and this was her first
2458 X | by. Spring had come and reawakened their love. As the foliage
2459 VIII| thought to be just. She rebelled at the wicked partiality
2460 IX | whom one had forgotten and recalls once more. You seem to see
2461 XI | they were terrified at the receipt of a despairing letter:~“
2462 XIII| little thrill of pleasure at receiving this money, and as soon
2463 XIII| longer without publicly recognizing her love and her faithful
2464 XIII| said at the desk: “I was recommended here by M. Roussel.”~The
2465 XI | Poulet seemed to have become reconciled to the separation. For the
2466 X | Julien had lived apart. A reconciliation seemed impossible in their
2467 XI | no one thought she would recover. But she picked up by degrees.
2468 XI | departure for America. At last, recovering herself, she said: “Oh,
2469 VII | baroness; I can ensure her recovery now. But do not talk to
2470 VII | nothing in order to avoid recriminations, arguments and quarrels;
2471 XIII| passed rapidly, driven by a red-faced man, with his blouse puffed
2472 VII | while her cheeks would redden slightly and she would retire
2473 V | old rusty weapons, but redoubtable in their hands.~The pungent
2474 IX | letters. When they were reduced to ashes she went back to
2475 V | bargaining, he had obtained a reduction in price, he would say to
2476 II | her youth and slim as a reed. Now she had grown older,
2477 X | one.~Then M. de Fourville reeled and in a choked voice said: “
2478 Int | finds only one credited reference, which in to Sir John Lubbock’
2479 XII | peasant. The servant kept referring to the subject of unpaid
2480 XII | Jeoffrin, a retired sugar refiner, she received them herself,
2481 VI | drawing-room with gloom lighted by reflections of light from the fire.~
2482 I | She refused all offers of refreshment, but went to bed and immediately
2483 V | village founded by a colony of refugees who were driven from their
2484 VIII| indignant exclamations and his refusal to allow the girl whom he
2485 V | the same purse. I do not refuse you, do I, since I am giving
2486 VII | beside herself, weeping, refusing to enter the room, clinging
2487 VIII| the least, have had some regard for our name and our position.”~
2488 IX | inferior nobility of the region.~Jeanne and Julien, somewhat
2489 V | were leaving the infernal regions. They were thirsty, and
2490 I | round her room and then regretfully extinguished the candle.
2491 Int | begins to be filled with regrets and forebodings. He has
2492 Int | collection that he often regretted having published. His encounters
2493 Int | I sell as dear as I can, regretting that I have to ply this
2494 III | and from that time came regularly.~He generally arrived about
2495 IX | new château built in the reign of Louis XIV. was hidden
2496 IX | so pleased the comte.~She reined in her horse, as she wanted
2497 VII | cliff.”~But the baroness reiterated, “Yes, darling, you have
2498 VII | without letting them see it, rejoiced at her returning reason,
2499 V | They were hungry. The guide rejoined them and led them to one
2500 Int | all he observed, he never related a typical anecdote, or offered
2501 Int | ever-growing emotion he relates under slight disguises all
2502 IV | become “Aunt Lison,” a poor relation, very neat, frightfully
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