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1501 III| as an actor rehearses the scene which he is going to play.~
1502 III| appears in dreams in fantastic scenes.~Just then a voice below
1503 I | among them, just as you scent the perfumes at a hairdresser’
1504 I | Parisian, furthermore, light, sceptical, changeable, captivating,
1505 III| hit upon a plan, an entire schedule of conduct and a system
1506 II | indifferent to plan the schemes with which they charged
1507 I | entirely artless. Strange scion of an adventuress, cast
1508 II | sound of voices, a heavy, scolding clamor announced the proximity
1509 I | door to look at them. A score of couples were whirling-the
1510 IV | woman’s face. She began to scorn the country in the fanciful
1511 IV | her right, while her squad scrambled upon the whirling beasts
1512 IV | that led you into a pretty scrape! Come, you must promise
1513 II | who wants to kiss it.”~“Scratch out number two. There still
1514 III| what she was doing, she screamed with all her might, in a
1515 III| outlined this role, like one of Scribe’s or of George Sand’s. It
1516 I | type of a race, like those sculptured forms which are sent to
1517 IV | dear mother, pardon.”~She sealed the envelope, and addressed
1518 I | feeling of a troubadour. Come, search your heart, and confess.”~
1519 II | hours: twelve. He had been searching through the island for two
1520 II | left the drawing-room to seat themselves at the table
1521 II | they continued for some seconds looking into each other’
1522 II | the sweet milk which they secrete, as we keep cows in our
1523 I | other important or shameful secrets.~“You can’t imagine what
1524 I | No. She disquiets me, seduces and disturbs me, attracts
1525 IV | clad as a prince, came to seek her, to take her to a bull-fight.~
1526 III| unknown support which a person seeks in hours of tears and despair.~
1527 I | perversity that I have ever seen, she certainly is the most
1528 IV | young man began to swim, and seizing the floating stick in his
1529 I | and that is the knack of selecting especially those adventuresses
1530 IV | distracted, and threw her self upon her.~“Tell me what
1531 III| be endued with devotion, self-abnegation, greatness of soul, tenderness;
1532 I | everything and of nothing; selfish by principle and generous
1533 III| We will go away: you will sell your jewels; we will work,
1534 III| her mother’s hand with the semblance of respect; all their friends
1535 I | week the New Book Store sends her, on my orders, everything
1536 II | soul and to seize all the sensations which her words might awake.~“
1537 IV | was not already dead. Her senses seemed more acute, more
1538 II | the wave, throbbing with a sensual delight, raising herself
1539 IV | careless thoughts had a sensuous charm: she experienced a
1540 I | sculptured forms which are sent to the Salons. Too handsome,
1541 II | exalted, violent, dramatic, or sentimental character.~She was one of
1542 II | continually kept trying to separate herself from him, trying
1543 III| the rain, but the couple separated, disturbed. And one of the
1544 II | one seemed to absorb the serenity of the already sleeping
1545 IV | Servigny. I choose you as sergeant; you will keep outside the
1546 III| natural continuation of some serial story, begun the evening
1547 II | Muscade. I should take it seriously, and that might cost you
1548 IV | and strong, which should serve as an example: so she resolved
1549 IV | As soon as the coffee was served she went to her room again.~
1550 II | minutes. Then as they were serving the trout, Servigny remarked:~“
1551 II | and that twilight for a setting, breathing that pure and
1552 II | Perhaps it is our dreams that settle it for us, and it depends
1553 II | time he looks at me.”~“That settles the third. So the lightning
1554 II | caught an ant on the end of a severed blade of grass, she amused
1555 II | is set out as a park and shaded with great trees. Couples
1556 I | each other important or shameful secrets.~“You can’t imagine
1557 III| As she advanced she drew shapes in the sand, letters perhaps,
1558 III| astuteness, keenness, and sharpness of a woman, understanding
1559 I | Austrian with his whiskers and shaved chin, a Russian general
1560 IV | decided. She first took a sheet of paper and wrote:~“Bougival,
1561 II | Yvette. Servigny took care to shelter what she bore to her mouth,
1562 I | for her as I long for a sherbet when I am thirsty. I yield
1563 II | plates, and while eating to shield the food with infinite precautions.~
1564 II | sweethearts, the latter in their shirt-sleeves, with coats on their arms,
1565 II | stirred the branches, no shiver of wind ruffled the smooth
1566 III| over her body, and her soul shivered in frightful distress. A
1567 III| her first grief, the cruel shock of surprise, had already
1568 II | choice, but nobody seemed shocked or surprised. Yvette did
1569 III| skirts, stockings, and wet shoes; then she went away carrying
1570 II | dear. I saw that book in a shop. They told me that it was
1571 I | pay five sous, at their shops, for what costs two sous
1572 II | their deep croakings on the shores. Then he wandered from thicket
1573 IV | delight of the public, who shouted jokes at them. Monsieur
1574 II | swimmers, followed by the shouts of the crowd thronging in
1575 II | dressed in a plain gown which showed her strong, full lines,
1576 III| her, drenching her like a shower-bath. She did not move, thinking
1577 I | obeying, in the end, his own shrewd man-about-town judgment,
1578 III| with all her might, in a shrill voice: “Mamma!” as a person
1579 III| wan light the four faces shrouded in darkness. Then a far-off
1580 III| love is threatened, and she shuddered, ready to ask for pardon,
1581 IV | and made her cough.~Then shutting her mouth, she began to
1582 IV | peculiar manner, with a shy and mischievous glance,
1583 I | at little tables on the sidewalk, which were covered with
1584 II | aside the army of vulgar sighers. I’ll only take the principal
1585 IV | pungent liquid.~Then he made a sign to the maid to unlace the
1586 II | those of the steamboats signaling their approach to pass the
1587 I | shrugged his shoulders, signifying his ignorance.~“I don’t
1588 I | let us find your friend.”~Silently he offered her his arm and
1589 III| herself enveloped in a drama similar to all those of her reading.
1590 II | nothing. I am neither a simpleton nor an emperor. A man must
1591 I | too big, too strong, he sinned a little from the excess
1592 II | will climb the hill and sit on the grass and read.”~
1593 IV | the room.~Then Servigny, sitting-by the bed, took Yvette’s hand
1594 III| which she worked five or six times a year, on dull days,
1595 II | play games of strength and skill among themselves, the young
1596 I | man who was known to be a skillful thief. to her presence I
1597 IV | had nothing more on than a skirt over her chemise, he raised
1598 II | mediocre at the sport.~But she slackened her pace, and then, turning
1599 I | I am your most devoted slave.”~Yvette cried: “Ah, Monsieur
1600 II | Suddenly he stopped and, slipping to the deck, lay flat, beneath
1601 I | It is because he always slips through my hands. Now I
1602 II | both mind and body. The sluggish words would not leave the
1603 II | of Yvette all through his slumber. An odd noise awoke him.
1604 I | affection. Jean de Servigny, small, slender, a trifle bald,
1605 IV | Any what, Monsieur?”~“Any smelling-salts.”~“Yes, Monsieur.” “Bring
1606 I | hair, full of dreams and smiles, rendering her mysteriously
1607 II | book from her pocket and smilingly said: “Muscade, you are
1608 III| astride folding-chairs, smoked their cigars.~The hours
1609 II | rejoining his friend who was smoking astride an iron chair, inquired: “
1610 II | shiver of wind ruffled the smooth clear surface of the Seine.
1611 III| hide her views, to lay her snares, and who, without hurrying,
1612 III| a single exception?”~He sneered with that insolent air which
1613 III| But Yvette, her candle snuffed out, had returned to her
1614 III| precautions, these garments, soaked as the clothes of a drowned
1615 I | connections, and by that sociability, amiability, and fashionable
1616 I | men dishonest. I love that social mob of buccaneers with decorations
1617 II | their organization into societies, their vast communities,
1618 II | table everyone was joyous. A softened gaiety filled their hearts,
1619 II | enveloped her in the floating softness of the material. Her bodice,
1620 II | victors with such tender solicitude that the latter even lose
1621 III| storm in the air. Great solid clouds rested upon the horizon,
1622 II | you must be taking me for somebody else.”~She kept looking
1623 II | uttering their low, sweet song in the calm and peaceful
1624 IV | and she recognized the sonorous tones of M. de Belvigne,
1625 III| princes of the royal line. Two sons of kings had even come often,
1626 I | pleasure. She will come to it sooner or later, if indeed she
1627 IV | nothing; then that soft and soothing feeling of comfort which
1628 IV | gone, and no one would be sorry, except her mother, perhaps.~
1629 II | peacefulness. Even the gentle sounds of the night were hushed.
1630 II | grains of fire, and seemed to sow them in the river, for the
1631 I | open on his breast, the Spaniard with his black fleece reaching
1632 III| Kravalow is a Russian, who speaks Russian, who was born in
1633 IV | our friends are coming to spend Sunday with us. I have invited
1634 I | half of which, perhaps, spent in a House of Correction.
1635 I | embassies, except to the spies. They are always dragging
1636 IV | Duke.”~Servigny took it and spinning it up, said: “Head.” It
1637 II | roof, dived into the water, splashing the nearest guests, who
1638 II | paddled, swore, coughed, and spluttered, and though sticking in
1639 II | of whom we have not yet spoken. I left myself for the last
1640 I | forced to believe in her spotless purity, and again so incredibly
1641 I | Company made clear and rapid spots when their yellow panels
1642 II | end to the other of the sprig, which she tipped up whenever
1643 II | boatmen’s ball, with its sprightly music, in the deep and solemn
1644 II | maternal tenderness had sprung up in her heart for the
1645 III| busy; she was learning to spy out, to guess at conclusions,
1646 III| conduct and a system of spying. She rose Thursday morning
1647 IV | at her right, while her squad scrambled upon the whirling
1648 III| intelligence and who has squandered it in making phrases, who
1649 III| appeared in the luminous square, two shadows, side by side.
1650 II | a fond, passionate kiss, squarely on the mouth.~She slipped
1651 IV | Muscade, I was so unhappy.”~He squeezed her hand: “And that led
1652 I | infatuation? Her features are so stamped upon my vision that I see
1653 IV | as much wine as she could stand, to nerve herself, and two
1654 II | to love and to be loved. Starting from a very low station
1655 III| do? She was frightened, startled, as a person is when he
1656 III| she knew so well, with a startling and sinister gleam, and
1657 III| if she does not want to starve to death; and there are
1658 I | them. He gave the idea of a statue turned into a man, a type
1659 III| finally, as her daughter stayed quiet, with her hands inert
1660 I | head, my poor Muscade, I am steadier than you,” said Yvette to
1661 II | suburbs, and those of the steamboats signaling their approach
1662 II | going where the banks were steep and bushy and returning
1663 II | back in their chairs at the stern of the boats, and seemed
1664 IV | and seizing the floating stick in his mouth, like a dog,
1665 II | and spluttered, and though sticking in the mud managed to get
1666 I | feature was the beard.~The stiff American with his horseshoe,
1667 IV | and forcing herself to stifle in her mind all thoughts,
1668 I | pleasure in seeing her walk, stir about, bend her head, or
1669 III| official positions, nor with stockjobbing tricks. We have only one
1670 II | placing his great hat on his stomach. A joker following them
1671 I | Every week the New Book Store sends her, on my orders,
1672 IV | had bought from a country storekeeper a workingman’s costume,
1673 I | the entrance to certain stores.”~They turned to the right
1674 III| catastrophes, or sad and touching stories; she jumbled them together,
1675 II | very grave, and looking him straight in the eyes, said:~“Listen,
1676 III| nevertheless, by their very strangeness. Could she be, by chance,
1677 IV | night, above the wood and streams. She was flying with delight,
1678 IV | she said nothing further, strengthening herself to be gay in the
1679 II | and they could see a long stretch of the big river as far
1680 II | dazzled by the bright daylight striking him full in the eyes, still
1681 II | absorbed. From time to time he stroked his pointed beard, trimmed
1682 II | her strength with hasty strokes. He could not keep up with
1683 II | of the island, guests and strollers and everyone they met falling
1684 I | queer fashion. I have the strongest desire for her, and yet
1685 II | herself. But he held her strongly, and placing his other hand
1686 II | man by their anatomical structure, but if we consider the
1687 III| for the devotion and the struggle. She reflected on the means
1688 IV | Then Servigny, seeing his struggling legs which sought a resting
1689 II | made a sudden gesture of stupefaction and cried:~“Servigny! Why!
1690 I | to me a folly, a piece of stupidity, a monstrous thing: And
1691 IV | white aprons looked on in stupor. Two troopers, in red breeches,
1692 II | shoulders, her slightly submerged hips, and bare ankles, gleaming
1693 II | Muscade, be devoted, ardent, submissive, full of little attentions
1694 II | these frail creatures: their subterranean homes; the manner in which
1695 IV | seemed more acute, more subtle, more alert. She heard the
1696 II | citizens of Paris into the suburbs, and those of the steamboats
1697 III| extreme resolutions with the suddenness of her changeable and unrestrained
1698 III| pretty girl must live or suffer—she has no choice!” Then
1699 IV | Almost all of them cause suffering and incite vomitings. She
1700 I | superb. The mother would suffice for me perfectly,” answered
1701 IV | nearly bursting, almost suffocated her. She felt in her a need
1702 II | bodice, with full folds, suggested, without displaying and
1703 IV | common, the poor man’s way of suicide, ridiculous and ugly; and
1704 IV | was coming, and taking a suitable posture, a pose of the dead,
1705 III| She did not estimate or sum up people as her mother,
1706 IV | whirlings. She already had summed up the points of the situation
1707 I | that throng peculiar to summer nights, drinking, chatting,
1708 II | the subject.”~The sun had sunk behind the island, but the
1709 III| reserved, less cordial, and sunny.~But now, all at once, Servigny,
1710 III| perhaps, with the point of her sunshade, and she spoke, without
1711 II | Marquise called out: “And your sunstroke?” she said.~“I did not have
1712 III| distress imploring some superhuman protection, the mysterious
1713 I | mark of distinction and superiority.”~Servigny was obstinate.~“
1714 I | with cards, dancing, and suppers; in fact there is everything
1715 I | locks, nestled against her supple neck, which was still a
1716 II | moment, surprised by her suppleness and her disappearance, then
1717 III| aid of Heaven, the unknown support which a person seeks in
1718 III| brought her up?~Still other suppositions passed through her mind.
1719 II | time from now, and be very sure that he will never marry
1720 I | and when I awake—that is surely a grave indication. Her
1721 II | chance, by one of those surprises of love which place adventuresses
1722 I | incredibly artless that I must suspect that she has never been
1723 III| music. She knew or rather suspected very well what sort of mystery
1724 I | times I imagine that she suspects absolutely nothing of that
1725 IV | him go, he swung there, suspended in the air, moving his legs
1726 II | gray and hopping dust.~They swallowed them in the wine, they ate
1727 II | drinkers around the tables were swallowing white, red, yellow, and
1728 II | the luke-warm water.~She swam with pleasure, with intoxication,
1729 II | tickled by the countless swarm of these tiny insects. They
1730 II | inky darkness. But the sky swarmed with grains of fire, and
1731 II | solemn silence of the night.~Swayed by love as a person is moved
1732 II | ivory keys with great bangs; swaying his whole body and swinging
1733 II | Yes.”~“What nonsense!”~“I swear it.”~“Then prove it.”~“That
1734 I | compliment on his lips, sweeping each low-gowned woman whom
1735 I | the beggar who gives his sweetheart twenty sous gets as much
1736 I | don’t you see, is the real sweetmeat. Oh! they know how to make
1737 I | has had numbers, I shall swell the number. And if she has
1738 I | saying with a decision which swept away hesitation on his part:~“
1739 II | long, slender wherries, swiftly rowed by bare-armed oarsmen,
1740 II | with uproar. Now and then a swimmer, standing on the roof, dived
1741 II | after almost drowning two swimmers, followed by the shouts
1742 II | she fled toward the shore, swimming with all her strength with
1743 II | swaying his whole body and swinging his head covered with that
1744 II | the darkness with a great swishing of skirts, like the whir
1745 IV | to die!” And her heart, swollen with sobs, nearly bursting,
1746 II | pianist, bewildered, paddled, swore, coughed, and spluttered,
1747 II | shower of gnats fell upon the tablecloth—the tiny gnats which immolate
1748 I | all astonished. When a man takes on greatness, he can’t take
1749 I | formidable and criminal talents.”~“I don’t remember just
1750 II | especially Yvette. She talked but little, and seemed languid
1751 II | nothing beneath a soul which talks to you by a beloved mouth,
1752 IV | newcomers to her, the Comte de Tamine and the Marquis de Briquetot.~
1753 IV | this very funny and in good taste. The two recruits drummed
1754 I | probable with her manners and tastes. She has only one possible
1755 II | light gleamed. It was the tavern of Martinet, restaurant-keeper
1756 II | regained all her gaiety: “‘Teardrop’? Why he weeps like a Magdalene.
1757 IV | should not know of this,” and tearing open the envelope, he devoured
1758 I | Servigny:~“You are always teasing her. You will warp her character
1759 III| heavy, but charged with a tempest. As soon as they had taken
1760 IV | smiled at him now, most tenderly; and, with both her hands
1761 II | she was subject to sudden tendernesses which crept over her like
1762 II | lest the adventure should terminate badly.~The procession still
1763 I | they reached the Vaudeville theater, he asked: “Have you warned
1764 III| say.~Yvette replied with a theatrical energy: “No, mamma, that
1765 II | reiterating a tender little theme.~“It is time to go back,”
1766 I | was known to be a skillful thief. to her presence I have
1767 I | what she is nor what she thinks. But you are going to see
1768 I | for a sherbet when I am thirsty. I yield to her charm, and
1769 III| as I was once, and earn thirty sous a day. You would be
1770 III| the bed, too much affected thoroughly to understand, but guessing
1771 IV | would have been a trite and threadbare method.~The convent was
1772 II | a procession formed and threaded the paths of the island,
1773 III| and painfully under the threatenings of the storm. The hour for
1774 IV | lips, the fumes entered her throat and made her cough.~Then
1775 II | heart beat and his temples throb, and he rose to open the
1776 II | which place adventuresses on thrones.~She had not considered
1777 I | along the boulevard, that throng peculiar to summer nights,
1778 II | the shouts of the crowd thronging in the great floating cafe.~
1779 II | had their faces and hands tickled by the countless swarm of
1780 I | times when you are like a tiger about to spring upon his
1781 II | making sport of me.”~Saval tilted his chair. He said, very
1782 I | strange eyes, ardent and timid, less daring than a moment
1783 IV | of her limbs, even to the tips of her toes and fingers
1784 IV | despair. Servigny, just a bit tipsy, was imitating the common
1785 III| sleep of people who are tired out and have not the energy
1786 I | all sorts of orders, all titled, and all entirely unknown
1787 IV | even to the tips of her toes and fingers and entered
1788 IV | the same chairs, the same toilette articles, but she would
1789 III| uselessness of my acts and a vast tolerance for the mob.”~“Nevertheless,
1790 I | legitimate marriages are tolerated. It is the future, the hope,
1791 IV | pretty I am!” she thought. “Tomorrow I shall be dead, there,
1792 IV | little chloroform for a tooth which was aching. The man,
1793 II | and vociferating at the top of their lungs, feeling
1794 III| She seemed posted on all topics because she had a way of
1795 III| first, but which grew into a tormenting apprehension. She had fled
1796 III| Suddenly the horizon was torn by an immense flash of lightning,
1797 IV | mental sensation, that dreamy torpor, which bewildered her soul.~
1798 III| desire which maddened and tortured her, glided downstairs,
1799 II | society, excepting by a totally improbable chance, by one
1800 III| catastrophes, or sad and touching stories; she jumbled them
1801 IV | speaking, bringing water, towels, glasses, and vinegar. Some
1802 IV | made them buy ridiculous toys which they had to carry
1803 I | find a husband among the trades-people? Still less would that be
1804 IV | roses from a big rosebush trained along the wall and buds
1805 II | could be heard, those of the trains which every Sunday poured
1806 I | that was either naive or traitorous: “We will set all the world
1807 I | character and bring out many bad traits.”~Servigny replies: “Why,
1808 II | walked with difficulty, trammeled by this bond and by these
1809 I | to be the pivot of this transformation.”~“I am waiting. There are
1810 I | mistrust her as I would a trap, and I long for her as I
1811 IV | came to their doors; the travelers on the little railway which
1812 II | for she had to live, as in traveling a person eats at many tables.
1813 II | resisting medium, difficult to traverse. Only Yvette, although silent,
1814 III| chocolate. Yvette put the tray on the table and said:~“
1815 I | has not already begun to tread its primrose path. She cannot
1816 II | They were face to face, treading water, merely moving their
1817 III| some hidden infamy, some treason of a beloved friend, one
1818 II | understand me, and don’t treat me as if I were a fool.”~
1819 II | was astonished. It was a treatise on entomology. A history
1820 I | she were my mistress and treats me in private as if I were
1821 IV | she was doing. Her hands trembled and faltered, and she groaned:~“
1822 III| Madame Obardi said in a trembling voice: “Listen, my, daughter,
1823 I | women are the best of the tribe for us. Don’t you find that
1824 III| out a simple and subtile trick to obtain what she wanted:
1825 I | of her not less probable trickery. I feel myself in contact
1826 III| positions, nor with stockjobbing tricks. We have only one way—only
1827 II | stroked his pointed beard, trimmed in the fashion of Henri
1828 IV | even that would have been a trite and threadbare method.~The
1829 II | I were in love with the triumphal arch of L’Etoile.”~“Then
1830 I | of infamy with a calm and triumphing ease which is either wonderfully
1831 IV | looked on in stupor. Two troopers, in red breeches, laughed
1832 I | poet and the feeling of a troubadour. Come, search your heart,
1833 I | circumstances without taking the trouble to originate them.~His companion,
1834 I | daring than a moment before, troubled eyes, blue, yet with a pupil
1835 II | dressed like jockeys, in linen trousers and colored caps. The odors
1836 II | as they were serving the trout, Servigny remarked:~“Silence
1837 IV | her mind:~Yet fools still trust in womankind.”~THE END~ ~
1838 II | which was groaning—out of tune and rattling as an old kettle.~
1839 I | who gives his sweetheart twenty sous gets as much return
1840 II | that great river and that twilight for a setting, breathing
1841 I | their feet, caused them to twirl. They appeared tireless.
1842 II | the poultry-yards. A bird twittered in a park at the left, ceaselessly
1843 IV | suicide, ridiculous and ugly; and against water because
1844 II | red flannel skirts, with umbrellas, red or blue, opened over
1845 III| said:~“Come, darling, it is unavoidable; what would you have? Nothing
1846 I | conceal his mistrust and his uncertainty:~“No, Mam’zelle. He has
1847 IV | Yvette took the bottle, uncorked it, and poured a little
1848 II | shadows, looking in the underbrush for the white spot her dress
1849 IV | Belvigne, singing:~“I am underneath thy window, Oh, deign to
1850 II | that they would leave her undisturbed. The two young men left
1851 IV | one said: “She ought to be undressed.” And the Marquise, who
1852 II | surface of the river, the undulating lines of her form, her firm
1853 II | from his arms by a quick undulation of the body, and, free from
1854 IV | Marquise said: “I am a little uneasy! That foolish child has
1855 III| had been too harsh and too unexpected to permit her to reflect
1856 II | besides I have a great plan to unfold to you, a plot we are going
1857 IV | made a sign to the maid to unlace the girl, and when she had
1858 | unlikely
1859 II | something foolish. You are as unreasonable as she.”~The young girl
1860 III| her a sudden disquietude, unreasoning at first, but which grew
1861 III| suddenness of her changeable and unrestrained nature. Wednesday she hit
1862 II | extraordinary ability in an unthinking and simple fashion. From
1863 I | drives men to folly, an unwholesome, irresistible charm! They
1864 II | ferryman took his oars, and the unwieldy barge, as it advanced, disturbed
1865 IV | seemed a little disgraceful, unworthy of her. She thought of becoming
1866 IV | lover, and with her head uplifted toward him she cried to
1867 I | the slightest down on her upper lip, a suspicion of a mustache,
1868 II | ears and brains filled with uproar. Now and then a swimmer,
1869 I | His friend replied: “An upstart, a charming hussy, who came
1870 I | carriage. The cabs of the Urbaine Company made clear and rapid
1871 I | fleeting glance which women use to show that they are pleased.
1872 III| very deep sentiment of the uselessness of my acts and a vast tolerance
1873 III| is?”~Yvette could hardly utter the words: “Oh! last night—
1874 II | numerous nightingales were uttering their low, sweet song in
1875 III| at which she guessed. She vaguely outlined this role, like
1876 II | a call to make.”~And the valet replied: “Oh! yes, Monsieur,
1877 II | consciousness of her daughter’s value.~“I am listening, my child,”
1878 I | passion.~As they reached the Vaudeville theater, he asked: “Have
1879 IV | ragged at the left, and veiled at times by slight mists.~
1880 III| She dreamed, she lifted veils, she imagined unlikely complications,
1881 III| the room. She had in her veins the irascible blood of the
1882 IV | workingman’s costume, with velvet pantaloons, a flowered waistcoat
1883 IV | mild night air coming in by velvety breaths touched her temples
1884 II | had set the table on the veranda which overlooked the river.
1885 II | of tall trees, a mass of verdure, and they could see a long
1886 I | Those are the kind I like. A veritable drum-major—but of the table
1887 II | perhaps a suggestion of vervain.~Whence emanated that indiscernible
1888 II | contents, but much for the vessel.” And Servigny replied: “
1889 I | shall introduce you as the Vice-Roi du ‘Haut-Mississippi,’ and
1890 I | who can not pluck their victims except by exposing their
1891 II | will take care of their victors with such tender solicitude
1892 IV | water, towels, glasses, and vinegar. Some one said: “She ought
1893 II | they were of an exalted, violent, dramatic, or sentimental
1894 II | ears, which became almost violet, and without answering a
1895 I | as they give a bunch of violets to the ladies at the entrance
1896 II | But you have noticed the Viscount Pierre de Belvigne?”~This
1897 I | features are so stamped upon my vision that I see her the moment
1898 IV | way of living, her set of visitors—everything and go and hide
1899 III| Countess de Lammy?”~He replied, vivaciously: “You will permit me not
1900 IV | more. Besides, she felt no vocation for a religious life, having
1901 II | and green liquids, and vociferating at the top of their lungs,
1902 II | And she handed him the volume.~He made a motion as if
1903 IV | cause suffering and incite vomitings. She did not want either
1904 I | and her customs, to the vortex of the most rapid life of
1905 IV | overwhelmed her was lifted, wafted away. Something lively and
1906 II | Well, read!”~“Is it a wager, or just a simple fad?”
1907 IV | velvet pantaloons, a flowered waistcoat and a blouse, and he adopted
1908 I | importance. The Marquise waits and watches. But I think
1909 II | doing all night to make you wake so late? Have you been seeking
1910 II | get up. Every morning, on waking, I can tell just what I
1911 IV | must be used to scaling walls.”~“I give my place to you,
1912 III| illumined with a dazzling and wan light the four faces shrouded
1913 IV | got off.~Then she began to wander among the booths. She forced
1914 II | anthills, and of going to war to capture slaves who will
1915 III| herself in the mirror of her wardrobe, with her wet and disheveled
1916 II | flannel gown he felt the warmth of her flesh. He stammered:~“
1917 I | theater, he asked: “Have you warned that lady that you are going
1918 II | all of a sudden, without warning, had asked one of those
1919 I | always teasing her. You will warp her character and bring
1920 III| sous a day. You would be washing dishes, and your mistress
1921 II | worry, she thought:~“I will watch them more clearly, I will
1922 I | The Marquise waits and watches. But I think that she has
1923 II | those calm evenings at the waterside, full of color yet soft,
1924 II | intoxication, caressed by the wave, throbbing with a sensual
1925 I | breaths of a giant fan, waving somewhere in the sky. Silent
1926 II | the air of a Russian in a wax-figure museum, who has won medals
1927 III| go myself, for I will not weaken.”~“And where will you go?
1928 IV | something of tenderness, of weakness; and suddenly she raised
1929 III| audacity which he used as a weapon, he said: “Present company
1930 I | as men will carelessly wear them sometimes, after they
1931 III| more, and little by little, weariness overcoming her, she closed
1932 I | noticed a solemn looking man, wearing a perfect constellation
1933 I | man-about-town judgment, whose weather-vane logic consisted in following
1934 III| and unrestrained nature. Wednesday she hit upon a plan, an
1935 II | which was moored among the weeds of the shore.~The ferryman
1936 II | which state lasted for some weeks or months, according to
1937 II | gaiety: “‘Teardrop’? Why he weeps like a Magdalene. He goes
1938 IV | forced all her men to get weighed among a crowd of spectators.
1939 III| not laugh; she listened, weighing his words and his intentions;
1940 IV | light, light, as if the weight which overwhelmed her was
1941 I | saying to him: “You are welcome, Baron, all the Duke’s friends
1942 II | instinct of the proper, which a well-born man always preserves even
1943 IV | it sang, it sang with a well-known voice the alleluia of love.~
1944 | whatever
1945 | whenever
1946 II | light craft, long, slender wherries, swiftly rowed by bare-armed
1947 III| aloud, like children who are whipped. The Marquise was silent
1948 II | swishing of skirts, like the whir of a bird as it flies away.~
1949 IV | squad scrambled upon the whirling beasts behind. When the
1950 I | A score of couples were whirling-the men with a serious expression,
1951 IV | silent flight with deep whirlings. She already had summed
1952 I | disappeared with the fury of a whirlwind.~They danced more rapidly
1953 IV | alert. She heard the lowest whisper on the terrace. Prince Kravalow
1954 III| too many jokes had been whispered before her, for her innocence
1955 II | boat, and short or long whistles could be heard, those of
1956 IV | terrace, stretched on a long wicker-chair.~She thought of almost nothing,
1957 II | was clad in pink, with a wide-brimmed straw hat ornamented with
1958 II | her. Never had she been willing to ask herself the question.—
1959 II | on the bank, beneath the willows, for it was too soon to
1960 II | to show off, rowed like a windmill against all the other boats,
1961 II | thought you big enough and wise enough not to have such
1962 IV | was very becoming to her, wishing to look well. Then looking
1963 I | marriage as well as by his wit, his fortune, his connections,
1964 II | long kiss without Yvette withdrawing her forehead.~Then she exclaimed
1965 IV | equivocal jokes, foreign witticisms, vulgar and clumsy. She
1966 I | amusing to listen to, often witty, never commonplace as the
1967 IV | Yet fools still trust in womankind.”~THE END~ ~
1968 II | contented attention to all the wonderful details of the life of these
1969 I | triumphing ease which is either wonderfully profligate or entirely artless.
1970 III| safety,” and at which she worked five or six times a year,
1971 IV | What would she live on? By working? At what? To whom should
1972 II | filled with young people, working-girls and their sweethearts, the
1973 IV | dull and humble life of working-women, daughters of the people,
1974 II | morning?”~As they reached the works at Marly they perceived
1975 III| constrained, discontented, and worried tone in which she had replied,
1976 II | Decidedly, that little girl worries me. Fancy my not being able
1977 III| assume a noble attitude, worthy of herself.~She laid out
1978 III| how she should manage to wrest the truth from the Marquise.~
1979 I | charming youngster or a wretched jade?’ She says things that
1980 III| about her crest, on her writing paper.~Saval and Servigny
1981 IV | took a sheet of paper and wrote:~“Bougival, Sunday, nine
1982 II | boats passed by, a quick yawl or a heavy passage boat,
1983 III| worked five or six times a year, on dull days, seated herself
1984 II | the nearest guests, who yelled like savages.~On the stream
1985 II | quick pace, followed by the yelling crowd. But suddenly, they
1986 I | francs from some Obardi, no younger and no less stupid perhaps
1987 I | wondering: ‘Is she a charming youngster or a wretched jade?’ She
1988 | yours
1989 III| serene confidence of happy youth. Why should she have dreamed,
1990 II | these movements, and went zigzagging along like drunken folk.~
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