Chapter
1 I | knot of patrons drinking at little tables on the sidewalk,
2 I | too strong, he sinned a little from the excess of everything,
3 I | the boulevard?”~Saval, a little perplexed, inquired: “What
4 I | are always pretty, with a little flavor of foreign knavery,
5 I | am in the lead, and some little distinction is shown to
6 I | monstrous thing: And I have a little fear of her, as well, the
7 I | black hair, encroaching a little upon the temples.~She was
8 I | tall, a trifle too large, a little too stout, over ripe, but
9 I | black eyes. Her nose was a little narrow, her mouth large
10 I | dropping her fan on its little gold chain, she gave the
11 I | just like the limbs of the little clowns born of mountebanks.
12 I | hand. She ran with quick little steps as women do in crowds,
13 I | neck, which was still a little thin.~She seemed to move
14 I | see me you must diminish a little if you please. I prefer
15 I | applauded them.~She was a little flushed, with strange eyes,
16 I | were looking at them from a little distance.~Said Servigny
17 I | looking on. There was very little conversation. At times the
18 II | especially Yvette. She talked but little, and seemed languid and
19 II | Marquise?”~She turned a little toward him and answered:~“
20 II | murmur to his face: “My dear little Pierre,” or “My divine Pedro,
21 II | bow-wow’s head to your dear little girl, who wants to kiss
22 II | ardent, submissive, full of little attentions and considerations,
23 II | although she tried, by little pushes, to extricate herself,
24 II | on the cheek. She gave a little start aside, and said with
25 II | shining point; it seemed a little red coal.~“Well, a cigar!”
26 II | resumed:~“Decidedly, that little girl worries me. Fancy my
27 II | behind the eyes. I care little for the contents, but much
28 II | ceaselessly reiterating a tender little theme.~“It is time to go
29 II | about the life of these little insects while you see them
30 II | custom of domesticating little blind insects which clean
31 II | feeding themselves.~And little by little, as if a maternal
32 II | themselves.~And little by little, as if a maternal tenderness
33 II | the children flocking like little chicks about their parents.
34 II | having become serious, a little disturbed, a little chilled
35 II | serious, a little disturbed, a little chilled to see her so much
36 II | playing the part of a simple little girl, and the role does
37 II | merely moving their hands a little, to steady themselves. She
38 III| really knew no more than a little girl raised in a convent;
39 III| discover anything more, and little by little, weariness overcoming
40 III| anything more, and little by little, weariness overcoming her,
41 III| certain point, but only a little scorched from having lived
42 III| excepted.”~She blushed a little, but calmly asked: “Well,
43 III| had already worn off a little, in the confused remembrance
44 III| horrible discovery seemed, little by little, like the natural
45 III| discovery seemed, little by little, like the natural continuation
46 III| do not know, it matters little—I want you to be an honest
47 III| and stammered:~“My poor little girl, my poor little girl,
48 III| poor little girl, my poor little girl, if you knew, how you
49 III| her impatience gaining a little. It was too much. This big
50 IV | of the people, seemed a little disgraceful, unworthy of
51 IV | druggist, from whom she asked a little chloroform for a tooth which
52 IV | Belvigne.”~Yvette turned a little pale, but did not reply.
53 IV | with her pockets full of little bottles.~She began the same
54 IV | How pretty she was! that little Yvette,” and nothing more.
55 IV | You shall be my escort, my little Malmsey. I will take you
56 IV | to nerve herself, and two little glasses of brandy, and she
57 IV | as she left the table, a little bewildered, heated in body
58 IV | Monsieur de Belvigne, a little confused, said in a low
59 IV | doors; the travelers on the little railway which runs from
60 IV | picked up from the ground a little piece of wood, and throwing
61 IV | near the window, drew a little table within reach of her
62 IV | floating in the dark sky, a little ragged at the left, and
63 IV | uncorked it, and poured a little of the liquid on the cotton.
64 IV | saturated once more the little piece of wadding; then she
65 IV | thousand forgotten things, little details of her childhood,
66 IV | The Marquise said: “I am a little uneasy! That foolish child
67 IV | window.”~Clemence waited a little, then knocked louder, and
68 IV | which seemed nevertheless a little ironical: “You may come
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