Chapter
1 I | So they were now having a little rest at home, and both looked
2 I | looked with the eyes of a little petted animal at that other
3 I | petted animal at that other little animal which had suddenly
4 I | constantly quenching the little rivalries between her two
5 I | constantly gave rise. Another little circumstance, too, just
6 I | alert, daring, pugnacious little way with her, which did
7 I | bad one, would touch the little chord, as she expressed
8 I | emotions which brought a little flutter to her soul, otherwise
9 I | one; come, number two—a little elbow grease.” Then the
10 I | went back with an engaging little jerk every time the boat
11 I | Houlgate, Luc, Arromanches, the little river of Caen, and the rocks
12 I | the second time?”~“Yes—a little girl named Dumenil, a stationer’
13 I | might be disappointed, a little grieved, a little saddened
14 I | disappointed, a little grieved, a little saddened if the news were
15 I | suggestion, and Jean was a little ruffled by his brother’s
16 I | they were at dinner in the little dining-room on the ground-floor.~
17 I | puzzled, and all four a little annoyed at having invited
18 I | wife responded with the little movement of pained surprise,
19 I | but I think first of the little ’un.”~They were accustomed
20 I | among themselves as the “little one,” though he was much
21 I | had left his fortune to my little Jean?”~“Yes, madame.”~And
22 I | world. Next she fetched some little gray linen doilies, folded
23 I | having crumbled into it a little cake which was too hard
24 I | up.~“I shall go out for a little walk,” he said.~His father
25 II | had felt his heart beat a little faster. For, indeed, one
26 II | myself with that priggish little goose, who is just the woman
27 II | to think that all those little sparks out there have just
28 II | simpleton; he will marry that little Rosemilly.” He was standing
29 II | lived very poorly in his little shop, selling medicines
30 II | much too wide for his lean little person, and looked like
31 II | reminded him of Marat.~Two little glasses were fetched out
32 III | All that was needed was a little knowledge of the world;
33 III | penny to call his own.~The little fortune his father had saved
34 III | dusty paths. They were fair little things with long hair, and
35 III | hair, and they were making little mounds of sand with the
36 III | beget two or three of these little creatures and watch them
37 III | thinking of women. He knew very little of them, never having had
38 III | memory flashed upon him of a little barmaid at a beer-house,
39 III | yourself!”~“Yes. I have very little time to myself. I am a doctor,
40 III | Captain Beausire, a funny little man who had become quite
41 III | day before dinner; I add a little pitching after my coffee,
42 III | simple and right-minded little woman; for the look said: “
43 III | that he might feel the little sugary sting of the fixed
44 IV | delighted, said to him:~“My little Pierre, you have no notion
45 IV | butt, and Mme. Rosemilly a little, but in a very judicious
46 IV | a glass passage, and a little circular dining-room, perfectly
47 IV | whom we knew then but very little, was of the greatest service
48 IV | Jean. He now remembered a little miniature portrait he had
49 IV | marry, the youth with a little fortune proposed to her
50 V | bewailed her sin, and then, little by little, had almost forgotten
51 V | sin, and then, little by little, had almost forgotten it.
52 V | To him, a medical man, so little would suffice to enable
53 V | the recollection of the little portrait of Marechal, which
54 V | solemn one, as though the little piece of clockwork had swallowed
55 V | really she, and he knew every little detail of her face; still,
56 V | used to have, in Paris, a little portrait of Marechal, in
57 V | evening removed the perilous little picture and had hidden it,
58 V | and looked at the sea. The little steamer, once outside the
59 V | of fashion from the smart little shoe to the extravagant
60 V | And Pierre answered:~“A little likeness of Marechal which
61 V | idle when you have a snug little income. I hope Jean will
62 V | and fetch that portrait, little woman, as you have done
63 V | picture, and holding it a little away from him, he examined
64 V | It belongs to you now, my little Jean, as you are his heir.
65 V | Roland, on a low seat by a little table on which the lamp
66 V | swiftly and furtively at the little portrait of the dead as
67 V | striding to and fro across the little room in four or five steps,
68 V | fixed idea. So that this little portrait, smaller than an
69 V | door opened, he took the little painting and slipped it
70 VI | helping Jean. Give yourself a little rest. Sacristi! The rascal
71 VI | said Pierre, “she is a little hysterical.”~And he felt
72 VI | said the other. “It is a little nervous disturbance, not
73 VI | would come in full of fresh little anxieties, full of the cut
74 VI | up at the door of a smart little house, a hostelry famous
75 VI | calf of a strong and agile little woman. Her dress was loose
76 VI | sure.”~They went down a little ravine, sloping from the
77 VI | and every moment he felt a little more determined, at every
78 VI | of the cliff, they saw a little footpath slanting down the
79 VI | squaring himself on his little legs, gave his arm to Mme.
80 VI | made her way round the little pond, stepping timidly,
81 VI | You are cruel—let us go a little farther, there are none
82 VI | one into her creel, with a little seaweed to keep them alive.
83 VI | That is true. I am a little disturbed.”~They said no
84 VI | was amazed at her being so little disturbed, so rational.
85 VI | He had expected pretty little flirting ways, refusals
86 VI | swiftly passed between them; a little perplexed, indeed, not daring
87 VI | picked up three or four little stones and was slowly and
88 VI | desperation.~At this she led her little Jean farther away, quite
89 VII | lighted by a chandelier and little coloured lamps hidden among
90 VII | Rosemilly exclaimed, becoming a little serious as they entered
91 VII | their eyes.~She had felt a little awkward, however, a little
92 VII | little awkward, however, a little abashed, in this room which
93 VII | Jean had remained in the little outer drawing-room; the
94 VII | He replied: “I? I? How little you know me!” with such
95 VII | whispered in his ear: “No, my little Jean, you would not forgive
96 VII | spoke into her ear:~“My little mother, you are to stay,
97 VII | have you no longer. Oh, my little Jean! Do you think I could
98 VII | and kiss each other, my little Jean, you must believe that
99 VII | wept—for I have wept, my little Jean; oh, yes, and bitter
100 VII | and you must love him a little and we must think of him
101 VII | Save me from him, you, my little one. Save me; do something—
102 VIII| dreamed till daybreak.~At a little before nine he went out
103 VIII| presently said, with some little hesitation:~“If I could,
104 VIII| longed to crumple them a little; and never did a grain of
105 VIII| good man counted for so little.~When Mme. Roland was in
106 VIII| we go to your rooms for a little while. I should be glad
107 IX | where he was received in a little state-room by a young man
108 IX | her skirts with a smart little strut. At last he rapped
109 IX | to take possession of the little floating cabin in which
110 IX | was lying in his berth—a little crib as long and narrow
111 IX | with your women and your little ones.” And his heart ached
112 IX | voice. “We wanted to have a little time to see you.”~He looked
113 IX | persons to sit down in the little room, and he himself got
114 IX | felt she must speak.~“Very little air comes in through those
115 IX | air comes in through those little windows.”~“Port-holes,”
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