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1 II, I | WILLING ENVOY~“Paris, July 20, 11 P. M.~“MY FRIEND: My mother
2 II, I | me. YOUR ANY.”~“July 21, 12 M.~“MY POOR FRIEND: I should
3 I, I | his return from Rome, in 1864, he had lived for some years
4 I, I | renown; then suddenly, in 1868, he exhibited his Cleopatra,
5 I, I | both critics and public.~In 1872, after the war, and after
6 I, I | to the Academicians. In 1873 his first medal placed him
7 I, I | the Princesse de Salia, in 1874, made him considered by
8 II, I | WILLING ENVOY~“Paris, July 20, 11 P. M.~“MY FRIEND: My
9 II, I | of me. YOUR ANY.”~“July 21, 12 M.~“MY POOR FRIEND:
10 II, I | OLIVIER.”~“Roncieres, July 24.~“Your letter would have
11 II, I | now.~“ANNE.”~“Paris, July 25.~“MY POOR FRIEND: Your grief
12 II, I | OLIVIER.”~“Roncieres, July 30.~“MY FRIEND: Thanks for
13 II, III| verse. Look for page—page 336, where you will find a poem
14 II, I | heart.~“ANY.”~“Paris, August 4th.~“I can bear this no longer,
15 II, I | OLIVIER.”~“Roncieres, August 8th.~“MY FRIEND: I am ill, and
16 II, III| the world by means of an abbe, the vicar of her parish.~
17 II, VI | hope to find only a simple abdominal contusion without internal
18 I, I | these walls, where thought abides, struggles, and becomes
19 I, I | brought about in him an abnormal feeling of pride, which
20 II, V | perception and terror of that abominable, swift and secret work of
21 I, III| and delicious sensation of abounding life which intoxicated him.
22 II, VI | To this the other agreed absent-mindedly, repeating “Yes, yes, yes!”
23 I, I | personality as a sponge absorbs water; and, in transferring
24 I, I | light shoe, turning it over abstractedly in his hands. He leaned
25 I, II | cannot be disproved—the absurd and triumphant arguments
26 II, II | dizziness at sight of the abyss or be made desperate by
27 I, II | very well with the five Academies, with all the savants, writers,
28 II, VI | monument called the National Academy of Music, squatted under
29 II, VI | mouth there was such an accent of adoration, of transport
30 II, V | unforgettable resemblance, accentuated still further by the imitation
31 I, I | original execution made him acceptable even to the Academicians.
32 II, II | sought to define this new access of melancholy.~Had she experienced
33 II, IV | the charming and delicate accessories of their beauty are to be
34 II, VI | transformed into a sort of accessory to his passion. He threw
35 II, I | brought to~us later by the accidents of life, while this has
36 I, II | his whole frame seemed to accommodate itself to the shape of the
37 I, IV | idea that the Marquis was accompanying Annette and continuing his
38 I, I | quietly, as a woman who has accomplished her mission on earth. This
39 II, V | been fostered by common accord, warmed over the fire of
40 I, I | to his talent the honor accorded to others by their birth.
41 I, I | quite reassured on another account,” said the Countess. “You
42 II, II | hysterics and swooned, all her accumulated grief broke forth in tears,
43 I, III| letters, which had been accumulating there since the beginning
44 I, I | served him in judging the accuracy of a pose, in verifying
45 I, IV | right, that she must judge accurately with the intelligent observation
46 II, III| which combats a shameful accusation, with animated gesture and
47 I, III| respects, no one could justly accuse him or even suspect him
48 II, III| excitement, he defended himself, accusing her in her turn of having
49 II, V | will be necessary for me to accustom myself to it one day or
50 I, II | latter years of his life, his achievements and his glory at a single
51 II, II | little, without daring to acknowledge it even to herself, the
52 II, V | which he persisted in not acknowledging to himself.~What should
53 I, III| hardly suggest better the Acropolis than this elegant little
54 I, IV | coquettish arts of her mother, acting with her, as if by instinct,
55 I, I | should do. To a cocotte or an actress he would have sent flowers
56 II, VI | did not speak between the acts, for he was pursuing into
57 I, I | come it would cause him actual suffering. What should he
58 I, I | Olivier it was a crisis of acute love, sensuous and poetic.
59 II, V | him for a second with such acuteness that he struggled an instant
60 I, I | estimate character, and how to adapt herself to everyone; thus
61 I, IV | man authorized to pay his addresses.~He assumed a curious manner,
62 II, I | club.~“There I always find Adelmans, Maldant, Rocdiane, Landa,
63 I, II | same evening, with Paul Adelmant, Olivier Bertin, and Amaury
64 II, I | the fire that warms me.~“Adieu! Return soon. I suffer too
65 I, II | the street, nevertheless adjusted the reflector lamp placed
66 I, I | the material of the gown, adjusting its folds with the tips
67 I, IV | sitting on a wall; a priest administering the last rites to a dying
68 I, I | is very good. You succeed admirably with pastel work.”~“Do you
69 I, III| hot-houses, and to admire, as one admires the spectacle of life at
70 I, I | handled it tenderly and admiringly. He played with the fingers
71 II, V | however, suddenly, instead of admitting peacefully the slow march
72 II, V | features, while it rendered the adolescence of her daughter absolutely
73 I, III| La Femme au XVIII Siecle, Adolphe.~Beside the books lay a
74 II, VI | intoxication of living and of adoring some one, and of expressing
75 I, II | him, and, interrupting him adroitly, he recounted the life of
76 II, III| when treating women, an adroitness that is surer than medicines.~
77 I, I | the proposed law on the adulteration of food-stuffs.~This rather
78 I, I | Honest and straight in adulterous love as they might have
79 II, VI | bewildered, not daring to advance! Oh, if she had read it!
80 I, I | he felt, in spite of any advances she might make to please
81 I, IV | showed herself to greater advantage. When she was fatigued,
82 I, III| impulse of her hopes, the adventure begun in the book.~Bertin
83 II, III| expressed an opinion in asking advice. She enjoyed even more to
84 II, III| This is all that I can advise you, my fair patient.”~She
85 I, I | of her world, political advocates, financiers, or wealthy
86 I, III| to confess her as to her aerial flights, but she would make
87 II, VI | and handsome, with the affectations of a handsome singer.~A
88 II, II | face lighted up with that affectionate joy with which promises
89 II, III| arrived at home, embraced her affectionately, and said, smiling: “Ah,
90 I, I | of little attentions, of affections, of adoration and flattery!
91 II, IV | similar tastes, by so many affinities of body, of mind, and of
92 I, II | regarded it as his duty to affirm often, with conviction,
93 I, III| conviction; and the more he affirmed, with all the heat of a
94 II, VI | repeated. Immense posters, too, affixed to the Morris columns, announced
95 II, V | tired skin. Like some one afflicted with a consuming disease,
96 II, VI | and complicated, such an afflux of miseries, such inevitable
97 II, V | beds, with a parterre of African plants and a little fountain
98 I, IV | long time, during these after-dinner evening visits, he had often
99 II, I | the great heat we have had aggravated my condition and~threw me
100 I, I | nevertheless prudent and aggressive enough never to allow an
101 II, VI | love.~Their minds, in this agonizing meeting, which might be
102 II, VI | by a wave of unimaginable agony that he could not suppose
103 I, II | that enabled him to say agreeably the most ordinary things,
104 I, I | know.”~“Have you come to an agreement about the Chanteuse des
105 II, VI | apart from politics and agriculture M. de Guilleroy was interested
106 I, I | Normandy country squire, agriculturist and deputy; that she was
107 II, V | An Arab was passing.~“Ahmed, are you at liberty?”~“Yes,
108 I, III| A moi.” “Passe!” “J’en ai!” “Touche!” “A vous!”~In
109 II, III| nature of this feminine ailment, he sounded her, examined
110 II, III| all her moral and physical ailments.~Indeed, she felt so ill
111 II, I | longer walk without some~aim. The bare thought of walking
112 I, I | toward what ideal he had been aiming. He had won the Prix of
113 II, II | threads. He sang little airs from the opera. Several
114 II, IV | which several seasons at Aix had not cured him, ran through
115 II, III| stress on the matter, her alarmingly ill appearance. After listening
116 II, VI | meditation, seated in his alchemist’s laboratory.~He had already
117 I, I | competition with his Juive d’Alger, which he exhibited on his
118 I, III| Only ourselves,” said he, alighting from the carriage, “and
119 II, IV | settings were displayed in alignment on the velvet. The painter
120 II, V | invite the Marquis, and so allay the Countess’s suspicions,
121 I, II | they parted, a treaty of alliance had been concluded.~At the
122 I, II | everything—his arguments, his alliances, that union of peoples banded
123 I, III| gesture, as if they two were allied against some danger, and
124 I, I | details of his artist life, allowing himself to give free scope
125 II, III| disadvantageous comparisons, where she allows the entrance of her equals
126 I, I | it vexed her whenever he alluded with a touch of familiar
127 I, IV | advancing age, took on a new allurement. In order to become as slender
128 I, II | their honor, and even the Almighty by her generosity to the
129 II, III| o’clock on Sundays, gave alms for herself directly, and
130 I, III| prepared for you some crabs a l’alsacienne.”~“Oh, you will awaken a
131 II, II | patient examination of the alterations in her face. With a light
132 II, VI | much did those hollow and altered features resemble those
133 II, VI | ignorant and pretentious amateurs for whom the masters of
134 I, III| the suburbs, in order to amaze the bourgeois passers-by.~“
135 II, VI | uttered an exclamation of amazement, then looked at his wife
136 I, III| its gay cavaliers and fair Amazons, that club where everyone
137 I, II | presentation of a negro ambassador to the President of the
138 II, IV | of excitement, impulse, ambition, of fruitful and facile
139 I, II | fortune, now nursed other ambitions.~He had faith in the return
140 I, I | buy your Baigneuses?”~“An American whom I do not know.”~“Have
141 I, II | even. We have sufficient amiability, as a matter of good taste,
142 I, I | her, after all?—with being amiable, kind, and gracious toward
143 I, III| repeated in a gentle and amicable manner all that he had just
144 I, III| the Marquis de Rocdiane, amicably separated from his wife,
145 II, II | to see her lying so pale amide the whiteness of the bed,
146 I, II | well informed, knew the amount of the enormous fortune
147 I, IV | keep him, she would suggest amusements for him, sent him to the
148 I, I | painting and inquired:~“What amuses you more than anything else
149 I, I | was daily increasing. He analyzed himself minutely before
150 II, V | of bed. Oh, look at that anatomy!”~A little gentleman was
151 II, III| said:~“Yes, we are a little anemic, and have some nervous troubles.
152 I, III| young girl, as pretty as an angel, to love him.”~Landa, finding
153 II, VI | concealed their box, but the angle that was visible, extending
154 II, V | that strange, passionate animosity into which love changes
155 I, III| given by himself on some anniversary; he lifted it, handled it,
156 I, IV | as if he were about to announce that he had won the prize.~
157 II, II | certainly, some little annoyances, in the thousand degrees
158 II, II | well how to play tennis. It annoys me to lose, but afterward
159 I, III| his wife, who paid him an annuity, a director of Belgian and
160 I, III| at the threshold of the ante-chamber to make some trifling explanation,
161 II, II | seeing him.~They met in the antechamber, before the drawing-room
162 II, II | for the first time, could anticipate only something joyful from
163 I, II | in honor of the return of Antoinette de Guilleroy, he found in
164 II, VI | crowd are asking themselves anxiously whether Montrose’s voice
165 I, III| to catch at anything or anybody that chance may offer to
166 II, II | it reappeared through the apertures in the foliage he paused
167 II, VI | who were giving a sort of apotheosis to that coxcomb!~An artist!
168 I, I | better, for the sake of appearances, to act, with Olivier Bertin
169 II, VI | her to see, to know, to appreciate no one else. So soon as
170 I, III| her a sidelong glance of appreciation, which seemed to say: “Ah!
171 II, II | poignant sadness, a causeless apprehension, as tenacious and confused
172 I, III| Parisians moving in their appropriate setting. “It is a park made
173 I, IV | Countess seemed to protect and approve this attitude of a pretender,
174 I, III| the rising of the sap in April; it makes me bring forth
175 I, III| around the ankles, a sort of apron falling over the front of
176 I, II | and gossiping activity.~Apt at everything, as he appeared,
177 II, VI | line under the reserved arcades, and stopped for a moment,
178 II, III| carriage stopped under the arch of the porte-cochere, she
179 I, III| touched with sadness, less ardently than a short time before,
180 II, IV | possession, quick and fleeting ardors, but not real love. That
181 II, III| his loyalty, just as he argued all alone in the street.~
182 II, VI | their manner of singing each aria. Annette, half turned toward
183 II, IV | morning, was silent in the arid light of day; those verses
184 I, I | the purest hearts desire arises like a gust of wind, carrying
185 II, V | shut room, filled with the aroma of coffee, an air of comfort,
186 I, III| dead-and-gone memories, as aromatics preserve mummies.~Was it
187 II, V | consented at once to this arrangement.~He continued, in an indifferent
188 I, I | glass over the two golden arrows turning so slowly, in order
189 I, IV | above all others.”~With artful wheedling, she crowned him
190 II, V | Countess and the Count would artfully praise him, saying everything
191 I, II | His hair and moustache, artistically dyed, with a few white locks
192 I, III| did not have the lovers ascribed to them; that the men never
193 II, II | turned, confused, surprised, ashamed, and the servant, guessing
194 II, III| said precipitately. “He asks it! You do not feel it,
195 II, I | gray silhouettes on the asphalt, expresses~the fatigue of
196 II, V | in which the perfumes of asphyxiated flowers was evaporating.
197 I, II | of Jules Verne, bound in ass’s skin!”~The two men shook
198 I, II | continued, “that they say the assassin of Marie Lambourg has been
199 II, VI | recoiled as if she had seen the assassination of a human being; then she
200 II, II | maid, who was called to assist her to bed, seeing her red
201 II, II | but he did more and more associate the daughter with the new-born
202 II, I | whom we have recently been associated, that subtle emanation of
203 II, III| existence of a creator. But associating, as does everyone, the attributes
204 I, III| table, where was also an assortment of syrups, liqueurs, and
205 II, VI | breath of jealousy; but, assuming a consoling tone, she said:~“
206 II, VI | was irritated at their assumption of exclusiveness, and disputed
207 I, IV | a thrill of pleasure, an assurance of success, which rewarded
208 I, I | combated it with prodigious astuteness and innumerable resources.~
209 II, III| and very well known infant asylums, never failed to attend
210 I, IV | laughed, called out, drank and ate, enlivened by the wines
211 I, I | his artist’s taste and his athlete’s muscles in depicting with
212 I, II | intelligence. They are incapable of attaching themselves in anything to
213 I, IV | the buffet, upholding or attacking the same ideas that were
214 I, II | would become also, by that attainment alone, one of the props
215 II, V | my dear Any!”~Then she, attempting to smile, and speaking in
216 I, IV | Annette and continuing his attempts to please her by his fatuous
217 I, I | dinners and soirees he had attended, and to repeat all the conversations
218 I, III| her perceiving them, so attentively did she follow the distant
219 I, I | reproaches of her reason she attributed it to fatality.~Drawn toward
220 I, III| Rouge et le Noir, La Femme au XVIII Siecle, Adolphe.~Beside
221 II, VI | attention. The remembrance of Aubin, so dramatic with his bass
222 II, VI | passion; and nothing was audible in the room save the crackling
223 I, I | the golden hair, with the austere black of her garments.~She
224 I, III| gras and little English and Austrian cakes.~The Count approached
225 I, IV | the devoted air of a man authorized to pay his addresses.~He
226 II, V | float every day upon the autumnal awakening of brilliant and
227 II, II | the Pater Noster and the Ave Maria. She would not have
228 II, III| that must justify him and avenge him for such a suspicion.~
229 II, II | cropped the grass with avidity, and four peacocks, with
230 I, IV | As much as possible, she avoided comparison with her daughter
231 II, VI | will do him good, for he awaits you with great impatience.”~
232 II, VI | through that music which awakens profound perception in the
233 I, I | piquancy to her existence, awaking in her a mysterious joy.
234 II, VI | his face convulsed with awful grimaces.~“Olivier! My God!
235 I, I | of limitless heights of azure, across which passed flocks
236 I, II | necessary to a deputy, the A B C of sociology for the use
237 I, I | him, with no indiscreet babble to annoy her, she really
238 I, III| place; we will look at the babies and nurses.”~“Yes, I should
239 I, III| of the evening around the baccarat-table of the club, which unfortunately
240 II, VI | I believe, however, that bachelors usually go to pieces suddenly.
241 II, II | of the crows against the background of blue sky. Then she passed
242 II, IV | caress their soft, undulating backs and kiss their electric
243 II, II | from that black and ominous bag hanging from the side of
244 II, V | nor soften their tone:~“Bah! You do well enough without
245 I, I | that wishes to buy your Baigneuses?”~“An American whom I do
246 II, II | sheltered the grocer, the baker, the butcher, the wine-merchant,
247 I, III| suggestion of love; the bakers’ boys deposited their baskets
248 I, I | situation we must strike a balance between good and bad.~Launched
249 I, III| Amaury Maldant, a thin little bald-headed man with a gray beard, said,
250 II, IV | exaltation and expectancy. Balzac, whom he loved, said nothing
251 I, I | chatter, amiably satirical, banal, brilliant but futile, with
252 I, I | more indulgent toward these banalities. As she looked at him she
253 I, IV | revealing to Annette his real banality, veiled by a mask of elegance
254 II, II | could not remove the gummed band to open the little blue
255 I, II | alliances, that union of peoples banded together against our impetuosity.
256 II, IV | women, who would not be banished.~Having forbidden himself
257 I, III| of Belgian and Portuguese banks, carried boldly upon his
258 I, I | been inclined to satirical banter, that tendency of the French
259 II, V | her he had received that baptism which reveals to man the
260 II, VI | Faure, so seductive with his baritone, distracted him a short
261 II, II | spaniel, growing bolder, barked louder and ventured as far
262 I, II | Monsieur le Baron and Madame la Baronne de Corbelle.”~They were
263 II, II | hum-drum of daily life, had barricaded itself in the happiness
264 I, I | indicated a certain social barrier.~The admirable and ceremonious
265 I, III| bakers’ boys deposited their baskets on the benches to run and
266 II, VI | Aubin, so dramatic with his bass voice, then of Faure, so
267 I, IV | over his little peasant bathers in the remembrance of the
268 II, VI | had been enrolled in the battalion of old painters of talent,
269 I, III| you!” cried the Baron de Baverie.~“I am with you, my dear
270 II, II | little low table in the bay-window; Annette went up to her
271 II, II | the ceiling, and large as bay-windows, were opened wide. A breath
272 I, II | served as a sort of traveling bazaar of erudition. As a matter
273 II, VI | terrible than a vulture’s beak, a little blonde face rending
274 II, II | man who was approaching, bearer of a few written words that
275 II, V | the excitement of an angry beast.~The newspapers, which he
276 II, II | trying to rouse the three big beasts, which did not wish to get
277 I, I | after this catastrophe; it beat slowly, softly, after the
278 II, VI | husband’s door her heart was beating so violently that she could
279 I, III| agreeable representation of the beauties of nature given in the heart
280 II, II | imperfections, underlining the eyes, beautifying the eyelashes. At last,
281 II, VI | stammered from behind his bed-curtains.~In another minute he appeared
282 II, VI | Then he writhed under the bedclothes, his body grew rigid, his
283 I, IV | on another wall a general bedizened with gold lace, sporting
284 II, III| drawing-room, then to that of her bedroom. There she remained standing
285 II, III| strengthening food, take beef-tea, no water, but drink beer.
286 II, II | honey. Besides this, the bees, whose hives, thatched with
287 I, I | pray?”~“Oh—no doubt on beets or on rape-seed oil, as
288 I, I | irreparable misfortune had befallen her, horror-struck, like
289 II, I | Yes, she perspires, the~beggar, and she smells frightfully
290 II, I | one handshake to the next, begging for a little~friendship.
291 II, I | come by~chance, while this begins at birth; all the others
292 II, VI | fatal result. M. Bertin begs you earnestly and entreats
293 I, I | reproach him for having behaved like a villain!~He returned
294 II, V | as a deceived husband who beholds his wife’s crime. A confusion
295 II, IV | strolling along; now and then a belated cab passed; a man, sitting
296 I, III| an annuity, a director of Belgian and Portuguese banks, carried
297 I, I | though a grave air, which was belied, however, by her smiling
298 II, II | the soulless body of her beloved old mother. That grief,
299 I, III| beauty, surrounded by a belt of princely mansions.~Along
300 II, I | my own generation for my benefit, for my~eyes, my ears, and
301 II, II | one would say that some benevolent god had changed his soul. “
302 I, I | hour, lying on a couch, benumbed, not wishing to agitate
303 I, IV | Gervex, and many others, by Beraud, Cazin, Duez—in short, a
304 II, IV | not prevent himself from bestowing on the latter a little tender
305 I, III| Countess rose, prepared the hot beverage with the care and precaution
306 II, III| escape it. And you will beware. Now let us talk of something
307 I, III| phrase or a word that had bewitched her heart. Undoubtedly she
308 II, VI | her, when he sang in his bewitching voice phrases so full of
309 II, VI | them; let us seize them to bid each other good-by. I have
310 II, II | by telegraph, settled her bills in the country, gave her
311 I, IV | engulfed by a great wave. A bishop of the early Church excommunicating
312 II, II | feigning to be about to bite them. They began to grow
313 I, III| perfume-bottles he had often found bits of his former existence;
314 I, I | cabs and omnibuses, with a blank gaze that saw nothing; she
315 II, V | been detached by a long blast of wind. Their red and yellow
316 II, VI | terror, she asked: “Did you bleed?”~“No. I am only a little
317 II, IV | before the other, mingled, blended together, forming only one
318 II, III| was somewhat solaced by blending her grief with that sweet
319 II, I | distracted, rejoiced, or blinded by all that passes before
320 I, I | within her against her own blindness and her weakness. How had
321 II, III| Oh, Madame la Comtesse, blondes should never leave off mourning”
322 I, III| damp grass or the chestnut blossoms that thus reanimated the
323 II, II | wheat and the oats a blue blouse appeared to be gliding along
324 II, VI | shouting, machinists in blouses, gentlemen in evening dress,
325 II, II | capricious wind of heaven was blowing through Annette’s head that
326 II, V | one sidewalk to another, blown by puffs of the rising wind.~
327 II, VI | betrayed his torture.~The three blows were struck, and suddenly
328 I, I | Bertin received a little blue-tinted note, delicately perfumed,
329 II, IV | sitting on a bench in a bluish bath of electric light,
330 II, I | conquests, however, they boast of them and congratulate
331 I, III| them bodies of steel, they boasted of being younger in every
332 I, III| reminiscences, from reminiscences to boasts, and then to indiscreet
333 I, II | gratification of a refined bodily necessity, for usually their
334 II, II | excited spaniel, growing bolder, barked louder and ventured
335 I, III| Portuguese banks, carried boldly upon his energetic, Don
336 II, IV | whole shall form a union of bonds. That which we love, in
337 I, IV | There is a remarkable Bonnat, two excellent things by
338 II, III| right light. He opened his bookcase to get a book, then asked,
339 I, I | women, or to discern the border of sacred ground, as he
340 II, II | order on a muslin scarf bordered with lace, before a beautiful
341 II, I | replies which betrayed all the boredom of his solitude, spoke of
342 I, III| ten francs an hour.~As the bottle became empty, all these
343 II, II | could not check in time, bounced so close to one cow that,
344 II, II | the slope that formed a boundary on three sides, like the
345 I, II | see laughter. Go among the bourgeoisie, when they are amusing themselves;
346 I, II | was the influence of the Bourse! Bismarck alone might have
347 II, V | little gentleman was passing, bow-legged, with thin arms and flanks,
348 I, III| suggestion of love; the bakers’ boys deposited their baskets
349 I, III| doll’s jewelry—necklaces, bracelets, rings, brooches, ear-rings
350 II, IV | said he. “I will take the bracket seat.”~They set out, and
351 I, III| their own.”~The conversation branched off on the subject of women,
352 II, III| will indicate an excellent brand. Do not tire yourself by
353 II, II | become red, let her hair fly, brave anything, dare everything,
354 II, VI | clapping, stamping, and bravos swept like a storm through
355 II, VI | to pieces suddenly. Their breaking-up comes more abruptly than
356 II, II | room and fell into a dream. Breaths of warm air stirred the
357 I, I | He is really very well bred!” This surprise, although
358 I, IV | plumes, and wearing red cloth breeches, hung in pleasant proximity
359 I, III| Roncieres was devoted to breeding; but she appeared to trouble
360 II, II | with freshness, the soft breeze made the trees tremble,
361 II, I | food, floated in the slight breezes from the chestnut-trees,
362 I, I | before leaping from a high bridge into the water.~But from
363 I, III| stairway, meeting another brigade of servants in knee-breeches,
364 II, III| of Paris, which, hardly brightening, compels one to guess as
365 II, V | unmistakably in love, answered him brightly, while gazing at Annette;
366 I, II | a moonlight softness and brightness. In the center of the principal
367 I, I | because of her beauty and brilliance, she was admired and courted
368 II, IV | since black attire had added brilliancy to her daughter’s beauty,
369 I, IV | with their turned-down brims shadowing the wearer’s whole
370 II, V | torpor of thought which brings about the revival of that
371 II, II | for saying that, she said brokenly,~“Ah, dear friend, dear
372 II, IV | newspaper, at the foot of a bronze mast that bore the dazzling
373 I, III| necklaces, bracelets, rings, brooches, ear-rings set with diamonds,
374 I, IV | peasant-girls taking a bath in a brook—they found a group admiring
375 I, III| miniature, a blond with brown eyes, whose grace and beauty
376 II, VI | which seem to be always bruising a loving heart. He recalled
377 I, II | Madame Mandeliere, with her brunette complexion, low brow, her
378 I, II | while the child, hardly budding, was only beginning to be
379 I, I | favor of the public, and had built up a quarter with magnificent
380 II, IV | of feathers under their bullets, or little rabbits riddled
381 II, VI | lonely, fleeing under his burden of woe.~Up to the time of
382 II, I | before I loved you more! How~burdensome it is to me to-day! For
383 II, V | darkening the drawing-room, burying them little by little in
384 II, II | the grocer, the baker, the butcher, the wine-merchant, and
385 II, VI | the night before, when the butler appeared, carrying three
386 II, II | run, to catch the yellow butterflies fluttering over the lawn,
387 II, VI | strength pressed the electric button that summoned her maid.
388 I, II | mother; you won’t be so bad by-and-by, when you have acquired
389 I, II | necessary to a deputy, the A B C of sociology for the use
390 II, VI | and found herself facing a cab-driver in an oilskin cap. He held
391 I, III| loudly; only the ancient cab-horses kept their usual sedate
392 II, IV | walks from the door to the cabinet, covered with ornaments.
393 I, III| little English and Austrian cakes.~The Count approached the
394 I, IV | s silvery hair, and the calming touch of time, she had not
395 I, III| accused, suspected, and calumniated with deplorable facility!
396 II, II | defenses of an intrenched camp, grew borders of various
397 II, II | space, separated it into two camps.~Annette, on one side, with
398 I, III| hurry to go somewhere; the canaries hanging in the boxes of
399 II, II | were closed, and two large candelabra with six candles each illumined
400 II, VI | the wood with her metal candlestick. The Count was asleep and
401 I, III| club, threw his topcoat and cane to a group of footmen, who
402 I, II | Vladimir, returning from Cannes, the evening before.~The
403 II, II | a frigate passes under a cannon of a fort? Good heavens!
404 II, I | corner of the studio, under a canopy of Oriental stuffs, and
405 II, VI | the opportunity. In his capacity as Inspector of Fine Arts,
406 II, VI | talent. He had visited every capital, in the midst of feminine
407 II, II | the persons or things that captivate and intoxicate our eyes.
408 II, II | walking between them, held captive between their shoulders,
409 II, IV | even it had not been wholly captured. He had adored one woman!
410 I, I | would receive a despatch, a card, a servant or a messenger.
411 I, III| salon, a billiard-room, a card-room, and finally reached a sort
412 II, VI | found three of the painter’s cards. He had written on them
413 I, II | than his head, and that he cared only for such occupations
414 II, VI | superannuated functionary whose career is ended—what intolerable
415 I, III| in which he lived, that carelessness of the satisfied man whose
416 I, II | the avenues of the Bois, caring only about saluting and
417 I, IV | two excellent things by Carolus Duran, an admirable Puvis
418 II, V | wind. Their red and yellow carpet shivered, stirred, undulated
419 II, V | the heat of draperies, carpets, and walls, in which the
420 II, V | a large figure of Christ carved in oak, a gift from Olivier,
421 I, III| to hold matches, and in a casket a complete set of doll’s
422 I, III| kitchen stove, and upon it a cat drinking from a pan, a cigarette-case
423 I, I | and peaceful after this catastrophe; it beat slowly, softly,
424 II, IV | adored animals, especially cats, and could not see their
425 II, II | but poignant sadness, a causeless apprehension, as tenacious
426 II, III| her and dressed her again, causing her to turn gently around
427 I, III| morning hours with its gay cavaliers and fair Amazons, that club
428 I, IV | immense room were a charge of cavalry; sharpshooters in a wood;
429 I, IV | many others, by Beraud, Cazin, Duez—in short, a heap of
430 II, IV | as he evoked them, after ceasing to reflect and reason, and
431 II, II | their accustomed perch in a cedar-tree under the windows of the
432 I, I | this severe room, with high ceilings and draped walls, before
433 I, III| forgot the society women to celebrate the charms of simple cocottes.~“
434 II, V | lighted up as if for a celebration. At last, unable to tolerate
435 II, IV | tramping of a prisoner in his cell. If only he could have slept,
436 II, V | in the center of a row of cells containing the beds, with
437 I, III| artists in that condition of cerebral activity called inspiration,
438 I, I | barrier.~The admirable and ceremonious gravity of the painter a
439 II, V | Seeing him discontented and chagrined, she insisted, to show that
440 I, I | without disuniting them. The chain wherewith she had attached
441 II, V | animal-like desire to howl like chained dogs, for like them he felt
442 I, II | make people believe that chalk is cheese.~The conversation
443 I, II | doubtful venture, or for the Chancelor to be imprudent enough to
444 II, V | cold. He even ordered the chandeliers to be lighted, as if he
445 I, I | not? She, too, was false, changeable, and weak, like all of them.
446 I, I | to an agreement about the Chanteuse des rues?”~“Yes. Ten thousand.”~“
447 II, V | He is a gladiator, that chap!” Landa murmured.~Rocdiane
448 II, VI | manikin who plays all his characters at so much a night.~“You
449 I, IV | the immense room were a charge of cavalry; sharpshooters
450 II, I | to dinner somewhere,~and charges me to ask you to wait for
451 I, III| really ought to make your charities more elegant, for the sake
452 I, IV | her complexion had that charmingly soft tint obtained by women
453 I, III| of seats being moved and chattering of voices, which dispelled
454 I, IV | Duran, an admirable Puvis de Chavannes, a very new and astonishing
455 I, II | discovers a multiplicity of cheap productions of all kinds
456 I, III| little Marguerite’”—then he checked himself, amid the smiles
457 II, III| the voices took on a more cheerful tone, and everyone began
458 I, IV | year! It is certainly your chef-d’oeuvre.”~He smiled, suddenly,
459 I, II | past ten years, and she had cherished the idea of marrying her
460 I, III| it the damp grass or the chestnut blossoms that thus reanimated
461 II, I | slight breezes from the chestnut-trees, and when a woman passed,
462 I, III| drew up over their arms and chests their wraps lying behind
463 II, VI | irresistible, and sinister Chevalier Faust, who was about to
464 I, II | calls a nice little corn-fed chicken. It is not fat, but plump
465 I, I | and entertainments, her chief interest was within the
466 II, VI | flowers, he had experienced chiefly a brutal desire to check
467 II, I | not only a mother but our childhood itself, which half~disappears,
468 II, II | night. Then she realized the childishness of such a hope, and, after
469 I, I | rug, and which, a little chilled by the air, no longer moved
470 I, III| window.~Musadieu felt this chilly current freezing his flow
471 II, VI | stairs, which regularly chimed the hour, the half hour,
472 I, II | argument that these fears were chimerical, it being impossible for
473 I, III| fire might be lighted in chimney or furnace—saddened him
474 II, I | you remember, mother, the china doll that grandmother gave
475 I, III| room four other lamps of Chinese porcelain, borne by ancient
476 II, V | her desk. In this oval, chiseled frame her whole face was
477 I, I | all the conversations and chit-chat. Both were really interested
478 I, IV | father like a triumphal chorus.~On the four great walls
479 I, III| Parisians, whom his admirers christened “a Watteau realist” and
480 I, III| knows everyone else by their Christian names, their pet names,
481 I, II | relieved herself by discreet chuckles.~“Really, you are too funny!”
482 I, II | clergy and her gifts to the churches.~“Does the Duchess know,”
483 I, III| cat drinking from a pan, a cigarette-case simulating a loaf of bread,
484 II, II | Yes, but in different circumstances, when the house was open
485 I, I | before understood, and, circumvented by his own methods, was
486 I, II | succeeded with everyone. She cited astonishing cases of fat
487 II, VI | dressmaker upstairs who claims me. You understand that
488 I, III| the corridor a continuous clash of foils, the sound of stamping
489 I, I | Jocaste a bold subject, classed Bertin among the daring,
490 I, I | showed the influence of classic memories. Intelligent, enthusiastic,
491 I, III| sensation of freedom and clear-sightedness that all his artistic work
492 I, II | by her generosity to the clergy and her gifts to the churches.~“
493 II, VI | breathing rapidly as if climbing the stairs had exhausted
494 II, IV | desire of the schoolboy who climbs up to the window looking
495 II, VI | and haggard eyes.~When her cloak was over her shoulders,
496 I, I | life of the country to the cloistered life of the city.~For three
497 I, I | happy to do so, Madame.”~Her close-fitting black gown made her look
498 I, I | darkened under the skin by his close-shaven beard. He had somewhat the
499 I, I | and made her look with closer attention at the man who
500 II, IV | deposited them before him on the cloth-covered counter where they were
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