Chapter

 1 I   |          did not listen to him. A woman, leaning her arms upon the
 2 I   |       promenaders. Occasionally a woman would stop and ask with
 3 I   |       from the fountain.” And the woman would mutter, “Go along,”
 4 II  |           advanced. A young, fair woman received him alone in a
 5 II  |          his arm a tall, handsome woman, taller than he and much
 6 II  |           as he did so, the young woman whispered to him: “Pay Mme.
 7 IV  |        once came upon Rachel, the woman he had seen there before.
 8 V   |          visible of the care of a woman who loves her home. Duroy
 9 V   |          kind. Suddenly the young woman said in surprise: “It is
10 V   |          and with the manner of a woman. The clock struck three;
11 V   |        Duroy said: “When I love a woman, everything else in the
12 V   |      proves you to be a practical woman. But might one ask, what
13 V   |     offered his hand to the young woman. Finally she got out, but
14 V   |          last conquered a married woman! A woman of the world! A
15 V   |      conquered a married woman! A woman of the world! A Parisian!
16 V   |           in the mirror the young woman standing on the threshold
17 V   |          five o’clock.” The young woman replied: “Yes,” with a smile
18 V   |        the brat howling about?”~A woman’s voice replied: “Nicolas
19 V   |            for he had noticed the woman, who was no other than Rachel,
20 V   |         coldly, disdainfully. The woman, her jealousy aroused, followed
21 V   |         not my fault. I knew that woman—long ago—”~She raised her
22 V   |       with the fury of a betrayed woman, she cried disconnectedly: “
23 V   |       gave him the money—for that woman—oh, the wretch!”~For several
24 VI  |         search of Rachel; but the woman was implacable and heaped
25 VI  |           said: “If I had found a woman like you, how gladly would
26 VI  |           the entrance of a large woman, decollette, with red arms,
27 VI  |    Blanche? I fancied her a young woman like you. Is that Patte
28 VII |        manager bade him go to the woman’s house himself, find out
29 VII |          on the subject of an old woman who, he claims, was~arrested
30 VII |          He owns, however, that a woman named Aubert exists,~and
31 VII |     nothing! On account of an old woman who had quarreled with her
32 VII |        thus on account of an old, woman’s quarrel with her butcher!
33 VIII|          kind, my son?”~The young woman rose and said simply: “Let
34 VIII|        had not stirred. The young woman was seated in an easy-chair
35 VIII|           and died. Adieu! man or woman, you will never return to
36 VIII|           is very sad for a young woman like you to be left alone.”
37 IX  |          he had never been by any woman.~“I have been thinking of
38 IX  |           the misery pent-up in a woman’s heart, and stammered: “
39 IX  |          his tone moved the young woman, and leaning toward him
40 IX  |      notwithstanding his age; the woman was tall, thin, and melancholy,
41 IX  |         with stooping shoulders—a woman who had worked from childhood,
42 IX  |         back of his hand. The old woman, in her turn, kissed her
43 IX  |         added: “She is a handsome woman.” He admired his son’s wife,
44 XI  |         to him; she is a virtuous woman.”~Du Roy was surprised: “
45 XI  |          like that of an outraged woman that he was amazed. Her
46 XI  |          drawing nearer the young woman, he said: “Kiss me.”~She
47 XI  |      necessary to win that simple woman gradually, to persuade her
48 XII | refreshing. Here and there an old woman kneeled at prayer, her face
49 XII |         see if anyone noticed the woman at his feet. Finally, seeing
50 XII |        nearer in order to see the woman whose voice he heard. He
51 XIII|     already weary of the dramatic woman, he had simply avoided her,
52 XIII|         the mother of a family, a woman of the world, she should
53 XIII|     without wishing to reply “Old woman,” to take his hat with an
54 XIII|          she exclaimed: “Oh, some woman has left hairs around all
55 XIII|          upon the floor. With her woman’s instinct she had divined
56 XIII|    nervous cry: “Oh, it is an old woman’s hair—here is a white one—
57 XIII|           taken a fancy to an old woman now. Then you do not need
58 XIII|          repeated: “Keep your old woman—keep her—have a chain made
59 XIV |         one’s entire fortune to a woman unless—”~She trembled, and
60 XIV |       loved me a little. But what woman has never been loved thus?
61 XV  |          I bade Suzanne take that woman away that I might have a
62 XV  |          the words of a desperate woman, capable of anything. He,
63 XV  |         would rather be as an old woman to you. I powdered my hair
64 XVI |        light step approach, and a woman’s voice, evidently disguised,
65 XVII|           you; she was like a mad woman; she vowed I should be sent