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1001 IV | and to bed, and by sheer force of will he at last dropped
1002 IX | the storm, all the brutal forces of the universe. As he set
1003 I | from the main-mast to the fore-tops in canvas, white or brown,
1004 I | a line twisted round his forefinger, one to port and one to
1005 V | was rising, driving the foremost rank of visitors gradually
1006 IV | we go!”~They hoisted the foresail and weighed anchor; and
1007 I | consequences which he might not foresee. Sometimes there are debts,
1008 VII | marry; and this motherly foresight pleased her, for it seemed
1009 VI | that it was impossible to forestall or to stop her, and ran
1010 III | enjoying the intoxicating foretaste. It would be hard on him,
1011 III | deciding on a profession, by forfeiting his attempts and beginning
1012 VI | remained at his side, almost forgetful of her promise to Jean,
1013 VI | for he was incapable of forgetting. If only he could have desisted
1014 IV | eating beans, sticking his fork into them one by one as
1015 IX | pain, but the frenzy of a forlorn and homeless animal, the
1016 I | clear.”~“All the necessary formalities have been gone through?”~“
1017 I | all sorts of desirable or formidable contingencies. The father,
1018 I | ravined, cleft and towering, forming an immense white rampart
1019 IX | things. It is wrong. You are forsaking a poor old man who came
1020 IX | implicitly trusted, and who forsook him thus.~He stammered out:~“
1021 III | every guest was ill for a fortnight. Mme. Rosemilly, Jean, and
1022 VI | worth a great deal. Their fortunes were thus approximately
1023 IX | felt himself so sunk in a foul pit of misery. It was as
1024 IV | notions, without a shadow of foundation, about every honest woman?
1025 I | money, it is to go to the foundling hospitals.”~Old Roland could
1026 III | in clear sirup; and the fourth— unheard-of lavishness—black
1027 III | vol-au-vent, then a roast fowl, a salad, French beans with
1028 III | the suspicious eye of a fox smelling at a dead hen and
1029 VI | timid natures. The warm air, fragrant with sea-coast odours—gorse,
1030 VIII| works, in their shining frames, crisp, sharp, and highly
1031 III | luck than you.”~He tossed a franc piece on the table and went
1032 VI | eye—formerly so clear and frank, now so evasive, frightened,
1033 VI | dress was loose to give freedom to her movements, and to
1034 IX | the machinery lowering the freight, the boatswain’s whistle,
1035 IV | had sheltered them, the fresher breeze puffed in the doctor’
1036 VIII| moral disaster. Constant friction against Pierre had certainly
1037 V | papers. It was on Thursday or Friday. Do you remember, Louise?
1038 I | in the evening with these friendly neighbours, who would give
1039 III | my life, always, for our friendship is not one of those which
1040 VIII| fight a duel and who is in a fright. When he knocked at the
1041 V | up edged with a lace-like frill of foam. The bathing-machines
1042 II | out both hands.~His black frock-coat, streaked with stains of
1043 VII | restive under his brother’s frolics, thinking him really too
1044 VII | stairs.~The noise of the front-door closing with a slam roused
1045 IV | was as slippery as on a frosty night after rain, and all
1046 IV | with his hands and feet frozen, made haste home and threw
1047 III | sound of his laugh, in the fuller voice with which he spoke,
1048 III | cheeks.~In him, too, the fulness of joy had now blazed out.
1049 III | meanwhile, to whose head the fumes of the wine were rising
1050 I | the doctor, humiliated and fuming, his forehead dropping with
1051 VI | a face as cheerful as a funeral? This is not the first time
1052 III | his lips the tall crystal funnel where the bubbles were dancing
1053 IX | revolting than the odour of fur or the skin of wild beasts).
1054 VI | with his mother’s help, was furnishing and settling himself; Pierre,
1055 V | glanced up swiftly and furtively at the little portrait of
1056 IX | random, in the scare and fuss of a voyage already begun.
1057 III | tales of adventure on the Gaboon, at Sainte-Marie, in Madagascar,
1058 VII | sake of that goose, that gaby, that simpleton?”~Jean,
1059 VII | he instinctively tried to gain a few minutes.~But the perfect
1060 VIII| up. Meanwhile he would be gaining a living, and asking for
1061 IX | roof which could resist the gale. Now all that, which it
1062 I | thoughts had set off at a gallop—galloping round this inheritance
1063 I | had set off at a gallop—galloping round this inheritance to
1064 I | rigging, gave this great gap in the heart of the town
1065 II | spells of silence.~A simple gas-burner was alight over the counter
1066 II | word under the solitary gas-lamp. At last Pierre began, almost
1067 IV | asleep as usual under the gas-light, which kept watch. On recognising
1068 IV | be seen swirling past the gas-lights, which it seemed to put
1069 III | enough, the Normans are the Gascons of the north!”~After the
1070 VI | her chair, and to hear her gasp as if she could not draw
1071 V | looked like a garden full of gaudy flowers. All along the stretch
1072 VIII| families that had got out of gear, at once foresaw the more
1073 III | at the table of a negro general. Old Roland was listening,
1074 VIII| What despair!~Visitors were generally much moved and charmed by
1075 IV | yet undefined, the secret germ of a new pain.~He went out
1076 I | husband, said:~“Well, well! Gerome.”~And the old fellow replied
1077 VII | his eyes fixed on vacancy, gesticulating in a frenzy of despair,
1078 III | crescent-shaped tails—with such droll gesticulation that they all laughed till
1079 II | lights, the children of these giants, marked the entrance to
1080 III | his health, of heaviness, giddiness, frequent and unaccountable
1081 IX | though his heart was full of gladness: “I congratulate you with
1082 IV | accessible at night, and the red glare of the light on the south
1083 VII | mouth half open, his eyes glaring, a prey to one of those
1084 I | undulations on the still and glassy surface of the sea.~There
1085 I | look at her with the cold gleam of an accuser drawing up
1086 VI | sea-weed, and broken by endless gleaming pools. The ebbed waters
1087 VI | lighted up the landscape with gleams of pale gold; the fields
1088 VII | are men who let themselves glide onward like running water.
1089 I | body and soul, to the soft, gliding motion over the waves. She
1090 VII | mandarins, jars, silk hangings glistening with gold, transparent blinds
1091 I | Jean, with wide-open, glittering eyes, laid his hand on his
1092 III | us in dreams, or such a glory as may poetize her vulgarity.~
1093 III | in his cheeks, the very gloss of his beard seemed to proclaim
1094 III | Gradually a pleasant warmth glowed in his frame. Starting from
1095 V | longing to know which had been gnawing at him since yesterday,
1096 III | appearance of these fishes—their goggle gold eyes, their blue or
1097 V | beard and fair hair made a golden patch on the white linen;
1098 III | coming to meet him, said:~“Good-day, monsieur—how are you?”~“
1099 I | Roland flew to meet him.~“Good-evening, my dear Maitre,” said he,
1100 II | him for this commonplace good-fellowship over coffee cups and liqueur
1101 VII | reflected, and with his blunt good-sense saw at once the dangers
1102 III | heart beating, his skin was gooseflesh. And then the recollection
1103 I | awed by the soothing and gorgeous sunset. Roland alone talked
1104 VI | fragrant with sea-coast odours—gorse, clover, and thyme, mingling
1105 VII | is muttering, what every gossip is blabbing— that you are
1106 VIII| little; and never did a grain of dust rest on the shade
1107 III | and who left him that? His grandmother or his aunt?”~“No. An old
1108 I | right; you are waiting.”~“Granted that I am waiting, if you
1109 III | unheard-of lavishness—black grapes brought from the warmer
1110 III | out of bed as though to grasp it on the spot, and he dressed
1111 II | I want to be moving.” He grasped his brother’s hand and added
1112 VI | breakfast under a tent by a grass-plot shaded by apple trees—Parisians,
1113 I | with the pathetic eyes of a grateful mother, she said:~“And now
1114 II | conduct. So it is the most gratuitous jealousy, the very essence
1115 IV | impenetrable; and when his grave was closed, his flesh dust,
1116 III | muttered, as he scored the gravel with the ferule of his stick:~“
1117 IV | they should remain thus graven on her son’s memory.~So
1118 III | of sand with the greatest gravity and careful attention, to
1119 I | number two—a little elbow grease.” Then the one who had been
1120 V | from an ancestor to the great-great-grandson, showing that the whole
1121 VII | shame on us all by your greed.”~“You say—? Say it again—
1122 III | terrors, of weakness and greediness; and then, when he had drained
1123 IX | earth under foot, only the greedy, heaving, complaining sea;
1124 V | the doctor that he must greet his mother before starting.~
1125 I | had it all his own way; he grew eager and warmed to his
1126 IX | feel that some one would grieve at his departing.~He thought
1127 V | were at rest and all the grimace of life put off. Thus he
1128 III | You must be a flat if you grind yourself to death.”~Pierre
1129 V | her child—he would have gripped her by the wrists, seized
1130 IV | intense that he uttered a groan, one of those brief moans
1131 IV | tavern to drink a glass of grog, and when the hot and pungent
1132 II | currants,” or else “Fine Groseille“ or “Groselia,” or again “
1133 II | else “Fine Groseille“ or “Groselia,” or again “Groseline.”
1134 II | or “Groselia,” or again “Groseline.” Pierre did not approve
1135 IV | almost infallibly must, give grounds for the supposition that
1136 VIII| had found a daughter, a grown-up daughter.~When they faced
1137 II | lighted up in the heavens to guide the countless fleet of stars
1138 VI | the rocks.”~So then Jean guided her, supported her, explained
1139 VIII| believe in his mother’s guilt, or think his brother a
1140 VIII| where selfishness put on a guise of honesty, all these specious
1141 VI | Roland, who felt giddy at the gulf before her.~Roland and Pierre
1142 I | this leafless forest the gulls were wheeling, and watching
1143 IV | gusts, the swell rose to the gunwale as if it would overflow
1144 IV | the wind blew harder in gusts, the swell rose to the gunwale
1145 III | stolid, innocent face.~“O—h, nothing. I mean he has
1146 V | to him altered, dim, and haggard.~“Good evening,” said Mme.
1147 I | boat. So she had joyfully hailed this opportunity, and was
1148 II | as a prolongation of his hairless forehead, gave him a melancholy
1149 I | biceps. Pierre’s arms were hairy, somewhat lean but sinewy;
1150 IV | invaluable. When your mother was half-dead with fatigue and I had to
1151 I | fetch you from school on half-holidays, and often took you back
1152 IX | precisely. You must be there by half-past nine at the latest.”~“Hah!”
1153 IV | scarcely visible. Turning half-round, he rested his elbows on
1154 IV | granite parapet. He sat down half-stunned by the sudden shock. The
1155 III | quarter’s rent, or even of a half-year, fifteen hundred francs,
1156 VIII| he saw him, exclaimed:~“Hallo! There you are! Sick of
1157 I | but blue, with a coloured halo round it, a circular rainbow—
1158 VI | so grieved to have thus hammered her with his scorn as her
1159 VI | lowering himself on his hams and clinging on with his
1160 IX | letter announcing it was handed to him one morning by Josephine,
1161 VI | vinegar; he now returned, and handing the bottle to his son he
1162 I | the ladies shook their handkerchiefs, and half a dozen parasols
1163 V | slight effort of turning the handle to open it. He knocked.
1164 V | had seen it, touched it, handled it, gazed at it but a few
1165 I | or of some good fortune happening to one of them, kept them
1166 III | it will really do me much harm?” Pierre had a pang of remorse
1167 I | as “the widow.” The word, harmless in itself, irritated Jean
1168 VIII| arrangement to place them in more harmonious order, more pleasing to
1169 VI | was looking at them, and a harsh laugh suddenly broke form
1170 VI | the clouds of dust.~It was harvest-time. Alternating with the dark
1171 VI | breaking a leg or an arm, she hastened, almost running, plunging
1172 V | to his mother. She cast a hasty glance at it, looking away
1173 VII | me you were maddened, you hated me, you showed it in every
1174 IX | weary of fighting, weary of hating, weary of everything, that
1175 V | sun-shades of every hue, hats of every shape, dresses
1176 IX | exile. He no longer felt a haughty disdain and scornful hatred
1177 VI | in fact, had a wonderful haul. Wet above his hips he waded
1178 V | quite plainly that he was haunted by a fixed idea. So that
1179 I | large crowd, the crowd which haunts the pier every day at high
1180 II | or the brown damsels of Havana. And then one of those involuntary
1181 VI | boat if there should be a head-wind, made them reject his plan,
1182 IX | discomfort and strain of its healing.~He had been sleeping soundly
1183 IX | or lying on the floor in heaps. He could not see their
1184 VII | my boy, before God, who hears me, I should never have
1185 IV | regard, by the domestic hearth of most of the commercial
1186 VIII| was closed upon her she heaved a deep sigh, as if that
1187 VI | say that?”~“In Jean’s, by Heaven! It is immensely funny to
1188 I | supple and slight, had grown heavier.~This day on the sea had
1189 IX | under foot, only the greedy, heaving, complaining sea; no space
1190 VI | it. But as she scarcely heeded him, and as he was bursting
1191 V | boiled up in him against this heedless and happy sleeper.~Only
1192 IV | the boat, which suddenly heeled over and was running at
1193 III | lofty air, measuring the height of the rooms, sketching
1194 I | dying without any direct heirs, he has left the whole of
1195 VII | us all to the tortures of hell. I know what that torment
1196 VI | coarse worsted stockings and hemp shoes. The men took off
1197 III | a fox smelling at a dead hen and suspecting a trap. He
1198 VI | determination which comes to hesitating and timid natures. The warm
1199 IV | elbows on the granite and hid his face in his hands.~Though
1200 VI | caught blindfold in their hiding-place.~He offered them in triumph
1201 VI | former time rolled from the hill-top. Mme. Rosemilly and Jean
1202 I | understood their meaning and the hint the words conveyed.~Their
1203 II | promised them, sketched them, hinted at them, but never fully
1204 VI | wonderful haul. Wet above his hips he waded from pool to pool,
1205 VI | his plan, and a break was hired for the day.~They set out
1206 IV | soft, crisp sound of water hissing and rushing past. The prow
1207 I | delighted father Roland. He had hitched his line round a row-lock,
1208 IV | them laugh by ingenious hits at their friends. Beausire
1209 IV | old man, off we go!”~They hoisted the foresail and weighed
1210 IV | attracts clients, charms them, holds them fast, commands respect,
1211 VI | thought dragged his net over a hole full of weed. As he brought
1212 I | studies, and came for the holidays from time to time to share
1213 VI | glance, and searching all the hollows hidden under sea-weed, with
1214 V | the tribe of virtuous, home-keeping women were not to be seen.~
1215 II | here. I am Trouville; I am Honfleur; I am the Andemer River.”
1216 I | done.~Mme. Roland did the honours eagerly to their visitor.~“
1217 I | coiled them up, cleaned the hooks and stuck them into corks,
1218 IX | from the desk he waited, hoping that the girl would see
1219 I | lighthouse, upright, like a horn, at the end of it.~Roland
1220 II | the living eyes of the hospitable shore saying, merely by
1221 IX | of the passengers and a host of inquisitive visitors
1222 VI | a smart little house, a hostelry famous in those parts.~The
1223 IX | luxury was that of great hotels, and theatres, and public
1224 I | Villerville, Trouville, Houlgate, Luc, Arromanches, the little
1225 IV | brother will be delightfully housed there. An elegant home is
1226 V | torpid ears of the sleeping household. Pierre had taken to walking
1227 VIII| principal classes, body-linen, household-linen, and table-linen, she drew
1228 VIII| order, more pleasing to her housekeeper’s eye; and when she had
1229 IV | signal mast the strident howl of the fog-horn went off
1230 I | docks beyond, where the huge hulls lay side by side, closely
1231 V | which had held these four human beings together. It was
1232 I | again. Then the doctor, humiliated and fuming, his forehead
1233 II | coloured girls, the lands of humming-birds, of elephants, of roaming
1234 IV | you have no notion how humorous and clever you can be when
1235 III | whose nautical mania was humoured by the old mariner, laughed
1236 VI | with the light hand and the hunter’s instinct which are indispensable.
1237 VI | afternoon among the rocks, hunting prawns.~They made a light
1238 III | evening. I never rise to a hurricane, mind you, never, never.
1239 IX | his face. “Ah!” said she hurriedly. “Is it you? You are pretty
1240 VIII| to call him, my child; it hurts his feelings if we do not
1241 VI | are honesty itself—and all husbands are—betrayed.” And he shouted
1242 VII | the bedside, murmuring:~“Hush, mother, be silent.” She
1243 IX | parapets, a crowd stood packed, hustling, and noisy, to see the Lorraine
1244 V | groups outside the bathing huts, in long rows by the margin
1245 IV | it because they are such hypocrites. Oh, yes, a pretty sort,
1246 I | rather than for you? The hypothesis is very disputable. You
1247 VI | Pierre, “she is a little hysterical.”~And he felt as if it were
1248 V | the first time he clearly identified them all. His anxious attention,
1249 V | trampled by the legion of idlers, the tribe of virtuous,
1250 III | ever dreamed of anything so ignominious?~But the public—their neighbours,
1251 II | CHAPTER II~As soon as he got out, Pierre
1252 III | CHAPTER III~The doctor awoke next morning
1253 V | fellow-townsmen are stupid and ill-bred, need I follow their example?
1254 III | himself for letting his ill-humour punish the rest.~“No,” said
1255 VI | bells contrived to prevent illicit visitors to his lodgings.~
1256 VII | windows, and decorated to imitate a Chinese lantern. Mother
1257 III | Roland, highly excited, imitated the noise with his tongue
1258 VII | hangings were of Rouen cretonne imitating old Normandy chintz, and
1259 VIII| circular centre-table. The immaculately white curtains hung in such
1260 III | He felt better now, less impatient, less annoyed, and his determination
1261 IV | suspecting his student’s impecuniousness, Marechal had of his own
1262 III | too.”~What strange craving impelled him on a sudden to tell
1263 IX | came on, still under the impetus of her swift exit from the
1264 IX | he loved, whom he had so implicitly trusted, and who forsook
1265 I | evening, something urgent and important must be in the wind; and
1266 IX | theatres, and public rooms; the imposing and commonplace luxury which
1267 VII | All the accumulation of impotent rage, of suppressed malignity,
1268 IX | very eager about this, to impress the voyagers on board the
1269 II | physiological problem of the impression produced on the instinctive
1270 IV | young creature. Shut up, imprisoned in the shop, by the side
1271 IV | of this faint suspicion, improbable as it was, utterly and forever.
1272 VI | the two ladies to make an impromptu change of toilet, so as
1273 VII | Long excursions do not improve her.”~Jean felt his spirit
1274 IX | density something mysteriously impure, as it were the pestilential
1275 IV | Whenever a woman who is above imputation is mentioned in their presence,
1276 III | of his existence and from inaction. How had he spent his time
1277 III | might have sworn it was done inadvertently. And in fact no one took
1278 IX | to murmur in an almost inaudible voice:~“You would not like
1279 VIII| they would bring on him incessant suffering too great to endure.
1280 VI | visiting-cards. And he talked incessantly of all the details of his
1281 III | other physicians and various incidental fees would make up for that.~
1282 III | your build.”~The jeweller’s incipient intoxication had vanished
1283 II | lay a finger on, but which incommode us, tire us, depress us,
1284 II | in jerky gestures, always incomplete; he never quite stretched
1285 I | across the sky in tow of inconspicuous tugs, were coming in, faster
1286 VII | irresistibly convincing; as incontrovertible as certainty itself.~He
1287 V | to end, there was now an increasing flow, slow and dense, of
1288 IV | extraordinary, the more incredible was it that he should have
1289 VI | the fever that had been incubating in him had waited till to-day
1290 IX | felt that it was odious, indecent, and brutal, and yet it
1291 II | to him, from some second, independent, and violent soul, shot
1292 IV | and mysterious. An English India-man, homeward bound.~He saw
1293 VII | lamps hidden among palms, india-rubber plants, and flowers, was
1294 V | spying such imperceptible indications.~He got up to go back to
1295 I | an accuser drawing up an indictment against women—all women,
1296 IV | he had seen pass by him, indifferent to his heart during all
1297 IX | going away.”~And she replied indifferently:~“Indeed. Where are you
1298 V | Hang it all! If I have indigestion now and then I cannot help
1299 III | lurked in that look, the indignant thought of this simple and
1300 III | wasp; but he drove it out indignantly, not choosing to allow himself
1301 VIII| suffered the reaction of rage, indignation, and rebellion which Mme.
1302 IX | seemed to lash every one indiscriminately. But the day before he left
1303 II | the face of this lonely individual, and he recognised his brother.~“
1304 I | sweetness in his eyes was indolence, whose gentleness was stupidity,
1305 II | had been current among the indoor and outdoor patients and
1306 II | tried to discover what had induced this irascible mood, this
1307 III | postage-stamp, and such an indulgence was out of his ken. It suddenly
1308 VII | two hands on his mother’s inert body, and not being able
1309 I | legatee finds himself in an inextricable thorn-bush. After all, I
1310 IV | he might, that he almost infallibly must, give grounds for the
1311 VI | to-day I must naturally infer that you wish to marry me.”~
1312 VIII| conceived, of that father’s inferiority, with his brother’s constant
1313 IV | and stealthy, into the infinite world of ideas, bringing
1314 IX | Company’s offices to obtain information on various particulars,
1315 I | shame of his eagerness to be informed, and he added:~“You understand
1316 VI | beguiled and surprised by her ingeniously gentle pursuit.~Jean now
1317 II | quarter of the town known as Ingouville.~He had known old Marowsko-le
1318 VII | rooms she was so soon to inhabit.~The maid had gone to bed,
1319 III | would have made Jean not inheritor but merely a trustee.~As
1320 I | with flame and gold, an inky cloud was visible against
1321 V | from Rouen, seemed a wide inlet dividing two neighbouring
1322 VI | then it went into a pretty inn yard, and drew up at the
1323 IX | She is coming out of the inner harbour.”~“Cheerily, lads!”
1324 I | or five deep. And masts innumerable; along several kilometres
1325 I | jeweller who had been led by an inordinate love of seafaring and fishing
1326 IX | these busy, bustling folks inquiring for their cabins, questioning
1327 IX | passengers and a host of inquisitive visitors had invaded the
1328 VI | visible, looked like an insect out there. The sky, pale
1329 IX | had risen up against the insecurity henceforth of all his morrows.
1330 III | Then it scorches your inside, upsets your nervous system,
1331 I | tin boxes, those crisp, insipid English cakes which seem
1332 VII | you are to stay, because I insist, because I want you. And
1333 VII | scared, terror-stricken insistence.~“Only for to-night,” she
1334 III | from with scorn. Then he inspected them with a lofty air, measuring
1335 II | brother’s presence. He had an inspiration. “I will go and take a glass
1336 IV | wife, ruling over the desk, inspired by the feeling of a new
1337 VIII| colour mounted at the same instant on the face of both mother
1338 VII | then and there, still he instinctively tried to gain a few minutes.~
1339 V | s wit is nimble, and her instincts suspicious. When this woman
1340 I | speech is as irritating as an insult.~Pierre and Jean, who had
1341 IV | angry as if they were being insulted, and exclaim: “Ah, yes,
1342 VI | overpowered by love and insurgent with passion, as if the
1343 I | minister. He was enthusiastic, intelligent, fickle, but obstinate,
1344 IV | and the joys of living intelligently. On the morrow he would
1345 VIII| works. They were at once intelligible without question or explanation,
1346 VI | more cautious, though fully intending to go in too, presently,
1347 IV | tavern barmaid an odious intention of which she was innocent.
1348 IX | Pierre had scarcely any intercourse with his family during the
1349 VI | discern in her face a lucid interval of peace and with the willingness
1350 IV | it seemed to put out at intervals. The pavement was as slippery
1351 I | fortune are wont to be at any intervention of a lawyer, with its suggestions
1352 IV | again, had chatted, more intimately each time, paying by frequent
1353 II | voice, the lisping note and intonations of a young thing learning
1354 VI | long time. To-day you have intoxicated me and I lost my reason.”~
1355 III | The jeweller’s incipient intoxication had vanished like smoke
1356 VIII| hour than all the doubtful introductions in the world. It would be
1357 V | How could he explain this intrusion?~He stood still, his fingers
1358 V | higher one, since nature has intrusted her with a race. If she
1359 IV | instinct, scent, and subtle intuitions. And this notion had never
1360 V | thoughts, and give him time to inure himself to the horrible
1361 IX | inquisitive visitors had invaded the huge vessel. They pervaded
1362 IV | very true; he was really invaluable. When your mother was half-dead
1363 III | alone once more, resumed his investigations in the apartments to let.
1364 I | that is just like me. I invite ladies because I like to
1365 III | and looking at him with inviting eyes she said:~“Why don’
1366 II | discover what had induced this irascible mood, this craving to be
1367 IV | Pierre. He went down the iron ladder of the quay and leaped
1368 VI | blood throbbing in short irregular leaps.~“You are certainly
1369 VII | suffering that they were irresistibly convincing; as incontrovertible
1370 II | us, tire us, depress us, irritate us—a slight and occult pang,
1371 I | word, harmless in itself, irritated Jean merely by the tone
1372 I | of useless speech is as irritating as an insult.~Pierre and
1373 V | more remote from them, more isolated, more drowned in his torturing
1374 VIII| himself, he looked at the issue from an almost professional
1375 IV | Santa Lucia.”~“Where from?”~“Italy.”~“What port?”~“Naples.”~
1376 I | communicated to me the main item of his will, by which he
1377 IV | CHAPTER IV~These slumbers, lapped in
1378 VII | trifles in china, wood, paper, ivory, mother-of-pearl, and bronze,
1379 IX | CHAPTER IX~Letters of recommendation
1380 I | great boys, take off their jackets and roll up their shirt-sleeves
1381 VII | The widow looked very jaded this evening. Long excursions
1382 V | of which the shock merely jarred us at first, had, during
1383 VII | furniture, its mandarins, jars, silk hangings glistening
1384 I | jealousy, one of those dormant jealousies which grow up between brothers
1385 II | moved and did everything in jerky gestures, always incomplete;
1386 VII | engagement.”~“I forbid any jesting about it. Do you hear? I
1387 III | no more of their talking, jests, and laughter.~Father Roland
1388 IV | Bart hastily hauled up the jib, and the triangle of canvas,
1389 VI | park. In the vehicle, as it jogged on at the slow trot of a
1390 III | liqueurs, and they laughed and joked a great deal. At about midnight
1391 I | remember who it was that Joseph Lebru married for the second
1392 VIII| something on the rocks of Saint Jouain which I am anxious to carry
1393 I | spoil—his fish—with the joyful thrill of a miser; seeing
1394 I | in the boat. So she had joyfully hailed this opportunity,
1395 IV | should be brilliant, and the joys of living intelligently.
1396 I | known from his birth up, and judges worthy of the legacy. If
1397 IV | a little, but in a very judicious way, not too spiteful. And
1398 VII | had run away—she must have jumped out of the window into the
1399 VI | allow of her running and jumping fearlessly on the rocks,
1400 VII | compassion, gentlemen of the jury, to your hearts as fathers
1401 V | nothing sufficiently marked to justify the assertion: “This is
1402 III | old parents, who would be justly proud of his fame. He would
1403 IV | preferred me, to have had a keener affection for me— unless
1404 III | indulgence was out of his ken. It suddenly struck him
1405 VII | cupboard of which she gave the key to Jean; then she went into
1406 VII | away I will enlist and get killed.”~This boyish threat quite
1407 VII | and that of his nearest kin, as though he were casting
1408 IV | medicine. He really had the kindest heart! And when you were
1409 I | was stupidity, and whose kindliness was blindness. His parents,
1410 IV | good fellow, simple and kindly. He called Pierre and Jean “
1411 VII | a touch of tenderness or kindness, not one of those hours
1412 IX | that the last ties to his kindred were broken. He was harassed
1413 VI | dinner washed down with many kinds of wine.~
1414 II | roaming lions, of negro kings, from all the lands which
1415 IV | drains, sewers, squalid kitchens—to mingle with the horrible
1416 VII | forced her into it, and kneeling down in front of her barred
1417 VI | the path and on this she knelt down to put her lips to
1418 I | his teeth set, his brow knit, his legs rigid, his hands
1419 V | lamp stood, embroidered, or knitted, or marked linen.~This evening
1420 III | was needed was a little knowledge of the world; for in the
1421 V | does not treat his family a l’Anglaise, and my brother
1422 IX | Latin names on white paper labels. He took one out and enumerated
1423 V | old man’s snore, short, laboured, and hard, his father beyond
1424 IX | customers, tradesmen, and labourers, for it was a holiday, were
1425 II | from care, released from labouring for his daily bread, free,
1426 III | endeavours are like the labours of those babies,” thought
1427 V | they rolled up edged with a lace-like frill of foam. The bathing-machines
1428 I | the praises of this great lad, whose sweetness in his
1429 IV | Pierre. He went down the iron ladder of the quay and leaped into
1430 IX | inner harbour.”~“Cheerily, lads!” cried Beausire.~Mme. Roland
1431 V | other, they rejoiced and lamented together over the same things,
1432 IX | am hurt.”~When they had landed, Beausire at once took leave
1433 IX | standing on one of the landing-planks lying between the deck of
1434 VI | yellow corn lighted up the landscape with gleams of pale gold;
1435 VI | southward, formed by an ancient landslip. On this long shelf of brushwood
1436 VI | name on the French coast is lanets; they are netted bags on
1437 VII | almost without coherence—the language of a sleep-walker.~He seemed
1438 VII | decorated to imitate a Chinese lantern. Mother and son had here
1439 IV | broad light of the electric lanterns, a huge black shadow crept
1440 IV | CHAPTER IV~These slumbers, lapped in Champagne and Chartreuse,
1441 VII | furnished to match. The larger drawing-room—the lawyer’
1442 III | beans with a Pithiviers lark-pie. Mme. Rosemilly’s maid helped
1443 IX | his rough speech seemed to lash every one indiscriminately.
1444 VII | delusive life is! Nothing lasts. Then we came here—I never
1445 IV | driven on by a mysterious latent power. Pierre took the tiller,
1446 IX | of phials ticketed with Latin names on white paper labels.
1447 | latterly
1448 V | lent his brother a phial of laudanum to relieve a fit of toothache.
1449 VII | those strident and scornful laughs which were common with him.~“
1450 VII | Mother and son had here lavished all the fancy of which they
1451 III | and the fourth— unheard-of lavishness—black grapes brought from
1452 I | the way?” he asked. “No lawsuit—no one to dispute it?”~Maitre
1453 I | contracts, inheritance, lawsuits—all sorts of desirable or
1454 I | first vigorous spurt, was lax and panting. Four times
1455 VI | learning. Learning how a man lays himself out to be cozened
1456 I | morning it is all over. The lazy brutes will not bite; they
1457 I | his savings. He retired to le Havre, bought a boat, and
1458 VIII| his words, and to want to lead up to a difficult subject.
1459 II | back to the high-street leading to the harbour.~“Where shall
1460 III | circulation sluggish, and leads the way to the apoplectic
1461 I | dead forest. Above this leafless forest the gulls were wheeling,
1462 VI | throbbing in short irregular leaps.~“You are certainly ill,”
1463 IV | spirit seethed with the leaven of jealousy that was fermenting
1464 V | sorrow we have slept on leaves behind it. It is as though
1465 I | remember who it was that Joseph Lebru married for the second time?”~“
1466 IX | second and a third, a perfect lecture on therapeutics, to which
1467 III | touch it for fear of being lectured again, and he was wondering
1468 VIII| resting her elbows on the ledge of a large steamship quitting
1469 I | otherwise as strictly kept as a ledger.~Since settling at Havre
1470 III | champagne-bottle with a tender leer as it stood, still nearly
1471 II | early life, and all sorts of legends had been current among the
1472 V | these sands, trampled by the legion of idlers, the tribe of
1473 VIII| view, as though he had to legislate for the future relations
1474 V | once, to look at him at his leisure, to surprise him in his
1475 VI | his place and give him a lesson, for life at home was becoming
1476 VII | exasperation at this irony levelled at the woman he loved and
1477 III | strong man it was a powerful lever. They, to be sure, were
1478 I | are debts, embarrassing liabilities, what not! And a legatee
1479 I | just taken his diploma as a licentiate, at the time when Pierre
1480 VII | and from under her closed lids tears were stealing. He
1481 VIII| him, neither during his lifetime nor after his death. It
1482 IX | said, without daring to lift her eyes to his face:~“You
1483 VII | should never see her again; lifting her up in his arms he carried
1484 II | unfettered, happy, and light-hearted, he might go whither he
1485 I | And the fishing barks and lighter craft with broad sails and
1486 IV | caught the top of the sail so lightly as to be imperceptible,
1487 VIII| shore, under a sky shot with lightning, wrung her arms as she gazed
1488 VI | to pool, recognizing the likeliest spots at a glance, and searching
1489 II | spirit and heaviness of limb. He was hurt somewhere,
1490 V | couple of chairs under a lime-tree in front of the house, and
1491 IV | though her intelligence was limited, had certainly a woman’s
1492 II | Out on the deep water, the limitless water, darker than the sky,
1493 VI | their feet in a pool of limpid water while they watched
1494 VIII| on board a Transatlantic liner?”~“Yes—and no. It all depends
1495 III | placent, as we say in the lingo, which is as much as to
1496 II | of elephants, of roaming lions, of negro kings, from all
1497 I | floating on something soft and liquid and delicious which rocked
1498 II | character to his thin voice, the lisping note and intonations of
1499 II | he might go whither he listed, to find the fair-haired
1500 IV | the boat. A coal brig from Liverpool was lying at anchor, waiting
1501 III | and in the next, all free livers talk as you do till the
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