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501 II, V | you.”~The shadow of the clouded sky that precedes the twilight
502 II, II | heavens a few long slender clouds looked like silver shells.
503 II, IV | turning somersaults like clowns, going heels over head four
504 I, III| could not guess their age; clubmen, horsemen, swordsmen, whose
505 II, II | she returned, with a large cluster of flowers, he drew a deep
506 I, I | gave her address to the coachman and returned home, profoundly
507 II, VI | crackle like flesh over hot coals, stood in the back of the
508 II, II | Oh, mamma,” said Annette, coaxingly, “let us stay a few days
509 I, I | what he should do. To a cocotte or an actress he would have
510 I, I | the beginning of old age, coddling and caressing him.~Under
511 I, II | opinion formed a sort of code of correct form and their
512 I, III| simulating a loaf of bread, a coffee-pot to hold matches, and in
513 II, V | looked at that narrow board coffin in which lay the mass of
514 I, I | and all of which she was cognizant alarmed her. At each of
515 I, I | her comprehend, by a few coldly polite words, that he was
516 I, III| Punisimont, and with his colleague, Amaury Maldant.~The cold
517 I, II | from that of most of his colleagues. No, he did not believe
518 II, II | in line on the walls, a collection of deceased Guilleroys,
519 II, II | the French Guards, that a colonel of the Restoration, hung
520 II, VI | whitish facade and marble colonnade of its balcony, illuminated
521 II, V | and through trefoils of colored glass into the immense circular
522 II, VI | gifted with real ability as colorists, and exaggerating them for
523 II, VI | omnibus.~He said in that colorless voice he now had: “Do not
524 I, III| de Landa, a good-natured colossus, proud of his figure and
525 I, I | of some other person, she combated it with prodigious astuteness
526 II, III| would be too much!” And, combating with ingenious and loyal
527 II, III| vivacity of innocence which combats a shameful accusation, with
528 II, IV | form, a heart, a mind, a combination of attributes which like
529 I, II | assume, to forecast all combinations, the chances and the precautions
530 I, I | himself, the hypocritical comedy of indifference and forgetfulness,
531 II, V | aroma of coffee, an air of comfort, intimate, familiar, and
532 II, II | the grass to pet him more comfortably, spoke gentle words to him,
533 II, III| irresistible longing to be comforted again, to be succored, to
534 II, IV | recreation—these goings and comings across the large room, brightened,
535 II, II | contrary, of being able to command preference, in the ripe
536 II, I | regarding all your wishes as~commands. I have thought of you with
537 I, II | opinion as a connoisseur commissioned by the State having the
538 I, I | received congratulations and commissions, and played the gallant
539 I, III| them; that the men never committed the sins they were accused
540 I, II | prevent your wife from committing this folly.”~The Count,
541 I, III| made her talkative and communicative.~She walked slowly, chatting
542 II, II | necessary for that cruel communion that brought no response
543 II, I | together, the need of that community~of hopes, griefs, pleasures,
544 II, IV | where he found the usual companions. He was received with open
545 II, I | separation. No~other affection is comparable to that, for all others
546 II, III| care all disadvantageous comparisons, where she allows the entrance
547 II, II | seeing her red eyes said with compassion:~“Ah, Madame is going to
548 II, VI | her playful flights, to compel her person to remain beside
549 II, VI | cruel! I feel as if you were compelling me to burn both our hearts!”~
550 II, III| which, hardly brightening, compels one to guess as well as
551 II, II | toward sentiment itself as a compensation for the prosaic hum-drum
552 I, II | with an air of convincing competence and familiarity that made
553 I, I | medal placed him beyond competition with his Juive d’Alger,
554 II, II | therefore accepted with the complacency of a pretty woman the agreeable
555 I, I | muscular arm, watching with a complacent expression its evidence
556 I, I | with his own home, always complaining of his solitary life, and,
557 I, I | so touched by this first complaint that he ordered a shopful
558 II, II | accepting love later as the complement of a happy existence, after
559 I, I | was always far-seeing and compliant. When the Count de Guilleroy
560 II, VI | be surprised to find any complication now. Let us go to him. It
561 I, I | pursued, because of the complications it might bring into his
562 II, II | only one woman beside him, composed of this mother and daughter,
563 II, IV | springtime.~“Who is the composer of that?” asked Bertin.~“
564 II, IV | and light, one of those compositions that seem to have inspired
565 I, II | illumined by the happiness of comprehending it.~The Baron de Corbelle
566 I, II | that made them as readily comprehensible as the popular presentation
567 I, III| vision is clearer and more comprehensive, when one feels a keener
568 I, III| a doubtful and possibly compromising thing, pleaded his ignorance
569 I, I | treated her as a friend, a comrade; he talked to her of his
570 II, VI | Goethe had been able to conceive the heart of Faust.~He had
571 II, V | was warm with that first concentrated heat of newly-lighted furnaces,
572 II, II | Countess ceased to eat, concentrating her thoughts on the man
573 II, I | gay refrains of open-air concerts were beginning to sound.
574 I, III| hanging in the boxes of the concierges trilled loudly; only the
575 I, II | the existence of God. In concluding, he compared fashionable
576 I, I | slowly, he arrived at this conclusion by small arguments, precise,
577 I, III| proceeded toward the Place de la Concorde.~He sang to himself softly,
578 I, II | should be respected, by condemning all that should be condemned,
579 II, III| rivalry under any kind of conditions.~But, as she had one of
580 I, I | not more indignant at his conduct, how she could still come
581 II, II | better. They guided him, conducted him, and he walked straight
582 I, III| sitting or standing.~The conductor tapped his desk with his
583 II, III| From what? Reassured. Why? Confident. Of what?~When the carriage
584 II, III| At such times, without confiding to Heaven the cause for
585 I, II | probability of an approaching conflict, unless it should be provoked
586 II, III| toward the Church, she had conformed punctiliously to this light
587 II, I | they boast of them and congratulate one~another on them!~“After
588 II, VI | that he did not in some way connect with his love.~Now he listened
589 I, IV | informed on all matters connected with painting, and as preoccupied
590 II, I | enough of it. They still make~conquests, however, they boast of
591 I, I | anxious, without his being conscious of it; it influenced his
592 II, II | earnest utterance of the consecrated words of the Pater Noster
593 II, II | things of earth, and, after consenting to a brilliant marriage,
594 I, I | as the elegant wife of a Conservative deputy, they were experts
595 I, IV | the other of this great conservatory, filled with statues set
596 I, I | simplicity of realism; and, in consideration of the demands of fashionable
597 II, III| who watches over us and consoles us.~And, now behold! to-day,
598 II, VI | jealousy; but, assuming a consoling tone, she said:~“My poor
599 I, I | assailed by fears for Bertin’s constancy. Nothing held him but his
600 II, VI | of papers, already half consumed, twisting and turning black,
601 II, V | some one afflicted with a consuming disease, whom a continual
602 II, III| thought and emotion, would contain more philosophy. If pretty,
603 I, III| the Countess.~The painter contemplated both mother and daughter
604 II, II | obscured the pale image she was contemplating. She was compelled to take
605 II, IV | painter, professed a profound contempt for the fields. Rocdiane
606 II, V | leaving her not a pleasure, a contentment, or a gaiety intact. She
607 II, II | the game, animated by the contest, pleased to find himself
608 II, VI | Je veux un tresor qui les contient tous—~Je veux la jeunesse.”~
609 I, III| the latter was veritably a continuation of the former, made of the
610 I, I | spoiled him. Discreetly but continuously she heaped praises upon
611 II, III| Countess’s heart seemed to contract, little by little, as if
612 II, VI | attempted to continue, by contradicting Musadieu’s opinions, the
613 I, I | him in many ways, and had contributed much to his glory.~His grace
614 I, IV | constantly, and set her wits to contriving plans whereby she might
615 II, VI | only a simple abdominal contusion without internal lesions.”~“
616 I, II | having been nourished on conventionalities instead of realities, they
617 I, I | attended, and to repeat all the conversations and chit-chat. Both were
618 I, I | this stream of pleasant converse which rippled along bearing
619 I, I | he had almost raised the convex glass over the two golden
620 II, V | that sepulchral robe, that convict’s dress, which must cover
621 II, VI | frightfully—hush!”~A quick convulsion passed over his face; when
622 II, II | costume, awaited the ball coolly, judged its fall with precision,
623 II, V | and yellow attendants with copper-colored legs moved about, something
624 I, I | all the tricks of cowardly coquettes who seem always on the point
625 I, III| atmosphere of peace and cordiality.~Two servants noiselessly
626 I, III| She extended her hands cordially.~“We never see you any more.
627 I, II | cook calls a nice little corn-fed chicken. It is not fat,
628 II, II | her arms surmounted by a coronet. There they were, innumerable,
629 II, I | soon as I have no~more this corpse-like face which frightens me,
630 I, II | agility, incompatible with corpulency. But the women’s case is
631 II, II | pallor which she had already corrected so many times, smoothing
632 II, II | touches softer than a kiss, correcting imperfections, underlining
633 I, III| heard at the end of the corridor a continuous clash of foils,
634 II, III| dressmaker, the milliner, or corset-maker, was to her a person of
635 I, III| bought only because of its cost, the subscription price
636 I, III| kinds, useless, pretty, and costly, lay scattered about in
637 II, I | displayed their striking costumes and their rosy complexions.
638 I, II | most popular leaders of the cotillion in Europe, for he was sometimes
639 I, II | for he had led so many cotillions that he knew young girls
640 II, VI | short all movement, all coughing and whispering; then, after
641 II, VI | crouching, as if he had counseled her to do something cowardly.~“
642 I, II | future throne, one of the counselors of the King, one of the
643 II, VI | seemed a museum of familiar countenances, society men, artists, journalists,
644 II, VI | she felt so keenly the counter-stroke of that grief, she loved
645 II, IV | born of her, almost her counterpart. He could not prevent himself
646 II, II | heard them from a distance counting the points. One after the
647 II, VI | their lowered windows.~The coupes and landaus formed in line
648 I, II | elegant, and very dark.~This couple occupied a peculiar situation
649 I, I | impossible.~She would go to him courageously the next day, and make him
650 II, IV | come to him, for a fever coursed in his veins, and a desire
651 II, II | her veins was no longer coursing so rapidly as on the day
652 I, I | brilliance, she was admired and courted by many men without ever
653 II, V | convict’s dress, which must cover her for a whole year? A
654 II, V | little by little like the covering of a piece of furniture.
655 I, III| thin volume between blue covers, in which appear the more
656 II, II | bounced so close to one cow that, in order not to fall
657 II, VI | sort of apotheosis to that coxcomb!~An artist! They called
658 I, III| have prepared for you some crabs a l’alsacienne.”~“Oh, you
659 II, II | heard in the distance the crack of a whip; she ran to the
660 II, VI | some pieces of furniture cracked.~All was silent in the house;
661 II, VI | where the heart seems to crackle like flesh over hot coals,
662 II, V | winter. All that dead foliage crackled under the feet, and massed
663 II, VI | audible in the room save the crackling of the fire.~Suddenly, as
664 II, IV | them short, scanning them, crashing into them, like a monotonous,
665 I, I | come, because there all his cravings were satisfied at the same
666 I, III| streams, groups of children crawl in the sand, run about,
667 I, II | own ways of thinking, and credits them with a readiness to
668 II, VI | sprang up again, and went creeping on and on. Soon, all around
669 II, VI | smothered flames as they crept up from all sides on that
670 II, II | to time; the song of the crickets filled the air. Never before
671 I, III| surprised his wife in a criminal situation, and has made
672 I, I | yielding so long as the man who cringes like a dog before them dares
673 II, V | the cold air, that first crisp cold of the early frost,
674 I, II | and pleasant, friendly and critical, and, as the dinner was
675 I, I | praised to the skies by both critics and public.~In 1872, after
676 II, II | standing with drooping heads, cropped the grass with avidity,
677 I, III| carriages, a little less crowded than below the Arc de Triomphe,
678 II, VI | directed the movement of the crowds, and the innumerable carriages
679 I, II | to Vienna or to London to crown in the waltz some princely
680 I, IV | With artful wheedling, she crowned him anew, having known well
681 II, II | slow, black flight of the crows against the background of
682 II, II | portraits of many ancestors, crudely painted, one in a cuirass,
683 I, IV | glittering frames, the crudity of new color, vivified by
684 II, I | friendship. I gather up my crumbs, but they do not make a
685 II, II | ventured as far as their cruppers, feigning to be about to
686 I, II | having every interest in crushing us and in hastening that
687 I, I | embrace him as one embraces a crying child. He repeated in a
688 I, I | for he had discovered and crystallized that inexpressible something
689 II, II | crudely painted, one in a cuirass, another in a tight-fitting
690 II, II | long ago she had liked to cultivate and gather flowers; then
691 II, V | fell from above through a cupola and through trefoils of
692 I, II | triumphant arguments of a country curate who would demonstrate the
693 I, I | desire to sit down on the curbstone, her limbs were so exhausted
694 II, III| help from someone who could cure all her ills, all her moral
695 II, V | tu’ to me!”~His lips were curled in one of those smiles that
696 I, III| at a tiny boy with blond curls, who was looking at her
697 II, V | piece of furniture. The curse of this decay had attached
698 I, III| which stood before a little curved sofa. The Revue des Deux
699 I, III| their massive and artistic curves through grassy lawns, throngs
700 II, IV | entered its central avenue, curving under the electric moons.
701 I, III| opportunities given them by the customs of fashionable society,
702 II, IV | the midst of the strains, cutting them short, scanning them,
703 I, I | upon the divan, with one daintily-shod foot peeping out, giving
704 II, II | prance around them in a dance of triumph, while Annette
705 II, II | little cloud of black specks, dancing and buzzing around the crystal
706 I, IV | plague, and the Shade of Dante in Hell, seized and captivated
707 I, I | cringes like a dog before them dares not carry out his desire.~
708 II, V | twilight by two hours was darkening the drawing-room, burying
709 II, VI | weeping, and led him into the darkest corner of the drawing-room,
710 II, II | brilliant face. Then when she darted away again, he took the
711 II, II | she ran to catch a ball, dashed to and fro, with sparkling
712 I, III| Republic.”~In a light and dashing carriage, the beauty of
713 II, III| her return from Roncieres dated only from the day before,
714 I, I | women appeared to be the daughters or the sisters of those
715 I, III| does. Have you ever had daydreams?”~“Yes, indeed.”~“Of what?”~
716 I, II | reserved for use in the daytime.~It was a vast and well
717 I, III| embalmed within him these dead-and-gone memories, as aromatics preserve
718 I, III| defiled before her.~“Look, dearest, there is the lovely Madame
719 I, III| situation, and has made her pay dearly for her indiscretion.”~Then
720 II, V | sadness—the sadness of the death-struggle or the savor of rising sap.~
721 I, IV | take an active part in the debates, but the things he said
722 II, II | the walls, a collection of deceased Guilleroys, in old frames
723 II, V | to give, about the end of December, a single performance at
724 I, I | again, as if overcome by a deception.~Suddenly he saw her, doubted,
725 II, III| around the truth without deciding to discover it. Finally,
726 II, VI | cannot as yet~say anything decisive as to the probable result
727 I, III| seeing those living dolls, decked out in their dainty ribbons,
728 I, IV | the special category of decorative painters who have sent canvases
729 I, I | signified her wishes, and decreed the situation.~“I do not
730 II, I | and we do not realize how~deep-rooted is that love until the moment
731 II, VI | it, defined the profile, deepened the shadows; and in that
732 II, II | lips as they traversed the deeper shadows, as if the sight
733 I, I | thrilling together with the deepest emotion of life.~He did
734 II, V | fear, anything that might defeat that plan; and she sought,
735 II, III| herself, this unexpected defection, this admiration intended
736 I, I | Prix of Rome, had been the defender of traditions, and had evoked,
737 II, II | on three sides, like the defenses of an intrenched camp, grew
738 I, I | consulting her and showing deference to her, he caused her to
739 II, VI | exclaimed with a sort of cry of defiance, of indignant protest against
740 II, V | think of it—of that infinite defile of little hurrying seconds,
741 I, III| of these people, as they defiled before her.~“Look, dearest,
742 II, II | room she even sought to define this new access of melancholy.~
743 II, VI | firelight illumined it, defined the profile, deepened the
744 II, V | which she had hoped was definitely hers, conquered, submissive,
745 II, I | letter announcing the still delayed return, Olivier was seized
746 I, III| been surprised in flagrante delictu, and was compelled to buy
747 I, I | subtle curiosity of women delights, passing from remarks upon
748 II, V | feeling that yearning need for deliverance, that unspeakable desire
749 I, I | listened. He spoke a long time, demanding nothing, tenderly, sadly,
750 I, I | in consideration of the demands of fashionable modern elegance,
751 I, I | husband with her ordinary demeanor. He appeared, carrying their
752 I, III| swimming in the full tide of democracy. But, if you wish to see
753 I, II | country curate who would demonstrate the existence of God. In
754 I, III| gloss of riper beauty; he demonstrated that men of the world were
755 II, II | hearts are easily moved to demonstration.~After dinner, instead of
756 I, II | the Duchess.~And, as he denied having any intention of
757 I, IV | Exposition. There was such a dense crowd in the galleries,
758 II, V | young girl know that it depended only upon herself to marry
759 II, II | caught her.~“I don’t know; it depends upon the difficulties. We
760 I, I | his athlete’s muscles in depicting with slender brush changing
761 I, III| suspected, and calumniated with deplorable facility! All four appeared
762 II, I | half-seen subjects has become~depopulated, my study has become powerless
763 I, I | threw over the city a pale, depressing, unreal light.~After he
764 II, IV | possession of which he had been deprived, drinking her youthful beauty
765 II, V | amuse us much more than the deputies.”~“No, indeed. You will
766 I, II | to be so situated as to derive from it the largest personal
767 I, III| production, when ideas seem to descend into the hands and fix themselves
768 I, III| Along the grand boulevard descending toward the Madeleine all
769 I, III| society.”~He proceeded to describe graphically, as he knew
770 I, II | All the details, cleverly described, made up an irresistibly
771 II, III| nevertheless, that this desertion of herself, this unexpected
772 II, V | attire, of the disturbing deshabille worn at breakfast with intimate
773 I, I | which seem to have been designed and executed by workmen
774 I, III| plane-trees with their trunks designedly polished, set off in a charming
775 I, II | suspicion of his aunt’s designs, and after saluting her
776 II, II | beside the road.~But Olivier, desiring to keep her near him, nervous
777 I, IV | Parisian. He forgot, so desirous was he to reassure himself,
778 I, III| the recollection of his desolate home, still, silent, and
779 I, I | all the remorse, all the desolation of that womanly heart. He
780 II, VI | at our age that one loves despairingly.”~“Does the love you feel
781 II, II | enjoy the elements that Destiny had furnished her with wise
782 II, V | of the early frost, which destroys in a single night the last
783 II, VI | cast a last look upon that destruction, and on that mass of papers,
784 I, II | dogma or hesitating over a detail of etiquette, they had succeeded
785 I, I | design, with no definite determination, she felt within her heart
786 II, IV | a foreign tongue. He was determined, however, and began again,
787 I, I | to her. She must either detest him or pardon him. And when
788 I, I | shock, and in a moment he detested her. Yes, yes, that was,
789 I, III| Watteau realist” and his detractors a “photographer of gowns
790 II, II | thirty, forty, vantage, deuce, vantage, game!”~The orchard,
791 I, III| curved sofa. The Revue des Deux Mondes lay there also, somewhat
792 I, I | passers-by that he need not deviate from a straight line, his
793 I, III| every day.”~He begged her to devise a plan whereby she might
794 II, V | entered in the soul they devour it, leaving it no longer
795 II, V | even than before, and a devouring desire to love.~And now,
796 II, IV | the center like a drop of dew.~Then Olivier, intoxicated
797 II, II | how sweet it is here!”~The dews of evening impregnated the
798 II, IV | the cool freshness of the dewy lawns, he felt himself assailed
799 I, III| himself in running after the Diana fleeing toward the little
800 II, III| perhaps I weakened myself by dieting.”~“Without any doubt. There
801 I, II | think of this folly?”~“Mon Dieu, Madame, I am a painter
802 I, II | all respects, and only the difference in age made them appear
803 I, II | though he held an opinion differing from that of most of his
804 II, II | know; it depends upon the difficulties. We will make the jeweler
805 II, III| be more seductive, would diffuse more charm, and would please
806 I, I | that seductive charm that diffuses itself around a woman in
807 II, II | of her, between her short digressions, and made them with an absent
808 I, II | this friendship never had diminished, and when the Duchess said, “
809 I, III| English taste appeared: a diminutive kitchen stove, and upon
810 II, I | and your husband, in that dimly-lighted~carriage, which bore you
811 II, V | little by little in the gray dimness of an autumn evening.~The
812 I, II | correct, and distinguished; by dint of visiting only the most
813 II, V | Marquis.~All the resourceful diplomacy she had employed so long
814 I, I | governesses, with unexceptionable diplomas, and had visited her mother
815 I, III| friends with the wife of a diplomat. Now, one evening when I
816 I, II | any society, and a subtle diplomatic scent that gave him the
817 I, II | was not a false and lying diplomatist, but frank and brutal, always
818 I, III| looks as if she had been dipped in ink.”~The Duchess, delighted,
819 II, VI | insinuations as much as from direct attacks.~But never had any
820 I, III| who paid him an annuity, a director of Belgian and Portuguese
821 II, III| discreet and unceasing care all disadvantageous comparisons, where she allows
822 II, V | desire to hide herself, to disappear, never to show herself again
823 I, IV | the right.”~They were just disappearing among the throng when the
824 II, I | childhood itself, which half~disappears, for our little life of
825 II, VI | him. But Olivier felt some disappointment, for the poignant evocation
826 II, III| much surprised, disturbed, disarmed by this observation. Then
827 I, I | approached her, saying:~“You will disarrange my disorder.”~Without replying
828 I, II | he listened with clever discernment. He knew how to forget at
829 I, IV | in repartee and clever in disconcerting attacks, besides having
830 II, VI | Never had such sadness, such discouragement, such a sensation of having
831 II, II | contempler ton visage,” discovering in it a profoundly tender
832 I, II | never finds rare objects but discovers a multiplicity of cheap
833 I, II | book, or the recital of a discovery.~Tall, stout, heavy, red,
834 II, IV | said nothing to him; he disdained Hugo, scorned Lamartine,
835 I, II | adversary, preserved a politely disdainful silence. But suddenly the
836 II, V | of human vigor to smile disdainfully.~Rocdiane approached them,
837 I, IV | through the doors, and, disdaining the exhibition of sculpture,
838 II, II | were too petty to have thus disheartened her. “I am exacting,” she
839 I, IV | holding along their arms dishes filled with meats, fish,
840 II, II | and pink, with slightly disheveled hair, as when she was playing
841 II, I | already ill, so great a dislike have I for everything I~
842 II, V | to be lighted, as if he disliked the dark corners, and then
843 II, II | jeweler do it quickly.”~A dismal thought suddenly crossed
844 II, VI | awaiting orders. The Countess dismissed them.~“You may go now,”
845 I, I | make to please him, that disparity of rank which prevents any
846 I, III| that is true.”~In order to dispel altogether the slight cloud
847 I, III| chattering of voices, which dispelled this vapor of a dream, and
848 II, II | grain, carrying away and dispersing her attention into space,
849 II, IV | every turn, watching the displacement of the long hand every few
850 II, VI | and displayed his voice, displeased him. This was not the real,
851 I, IV | in the remembrance of the displeasing idea of the Marquis approaching
852 I, IV | daughter. He felt again so much displeasure that he suddenly desired
853 I, IV | her joyous and laughing disposition, wore them with sparkling
854 II, III| had suddenly disappeared, dispossessed, dethroned. Everyone looked
855 II, V | That pained feeling of dispossession which she had had one evening,
856 I, II | fire, yet which cannot be disproved—the absurd and triumphant
857 II, VI | assumption of exclusiveness, and disputed their doctrines. He began
858 I, IV | a lively share in these disputes, being quick in repartee
859 II, VI | thrown aside with outrageous disrespect; and he arose murmuring
860 II, II | self. Yesterday, in Paris, dissatisfied with everything, disgusted,
861 I, I | bearing of haughty respect, dissembling the vanity of the parvenu
862 I, III| which were in some ways so dissimilar that he had not confounded
863 II, V | Annette, whose innocent dissimulation he suddenly understood.~“
864 II, III| saddened them had suddenly been dissipated.~Then Bertin rose, took
865 II, VI | will, and no one should dissuade her from it.~Her reasoning
866 I, III| another over and over again, distanced suddenly by a rapid victoria,
867 I, I | inspiration, outlined itself distinctly before this review of his
868 II, II | woman, a new face that was distorted and irreparably ill.~In
869 II, IV | pleasures of the world, distracting and varied as a play, stirring
870 II, VI | now had: “Do not weep. It distresses me.”~By a tremendous effort
871 I, I | passed, however, without disuniting them. The chain wherewith
872 II, VI | Modern Painting.” It was a dithyrambic eulogy on four or five young
873 II, VI | of suffering so numerous, diverse, and complicated, such an
874 I, I | to her, after these brief diversions, she experienced, as she
875 II, VI | present condition. You must divert your mind; go to the club,
876 I, I | He took her parasol and divested her of her spring jacket
877 I, IV | interior stairway which divides the galleries where the
878 I, III| to her in a glance, she divined it, and he thought he could
879 II, VI | rare laces—precious bodies, divinely set forth!~All the way along
880 I, II | Mortemain, foreseeing and divining his plans, lent him her
881 II, III| everyone, the attributes of divinity with the nature of the created
882 II, II | might not be seized with dizziness at sight of the abyss or
883 I, I | opera-glass, recognized her, and, dizzy with violent emotion, sat
884 I, I | soul so delicate, open, and docile, into which thought fell
885 II, VI | exclusiveness, and disputed their doctrines. He began to read the article,
886 I, II | mistaken on a point of worldly dogma or hesitating over a detail
887 I, III| that she had said, all the doings, the trifling everyday details
888 II, III| minutes it seemed, from the doleful tones, that everyone was
889 I, III| felt in seeing those living dolls, decked out in their dainty
890 I, I | half their time in this domain, to which a variety of interests,
891 I, III| enormous trees, rounded into domes, like monuments of leaves,
892 II, I | unimportant passers, tradesmen or domestics. The~shade of the plane-trees
893 II, II | being able to charm her, to dominate her, as he had captivated
894 II, IV | Suddenly, impatient at being dominated by a memory, he arose, muttering: “
895 II, V | feared, with a confused yet dominating fear, anything that might
896 I, I | flesh overcome by the slow domination of caresses, little by little
897 I, I | should suffer keenly.~The door-bell rang on the stairway of
898 II, II | eyes, of a similar blue dotted with tiny black spots, raised
899 I, II | their eyes full of tears, doubled up on their beds over the
900 I, I | deception.~Suddenly he saw her, doubted, then took his opera-glass,
901 I, I | sleep would be tortured by doubts. In order to surprise him,
902 I, III| Amaury Maldant.~The cold douche that followed, freezing
903 II, V | fell behind him.~He went downstairs, turned toward the Madeleine,
904 II, IV | clothes, roused him from a doze. Then he went to the club,
905 I, III| dream, and he perceived, dozing around him, his four friends,
906 I, I | sketches, drawings, and rough drafts that he kept in a large
907 I, IV | there laughed, called out, drank and ate, enlivened by the
908 I, I | going now.”~He was playing dreamily with the light shoe, turning
909 II, III| adored the rustle of the dresses worn by the salesgirls,
910 I, III| he was told that she was dressing for a drive in the Bois.
911 II, VI | minute he appeared in his dressing-gown. At the same time two servants
912 II, II | at her face in her large dressing-mirror.~She was stupefied at the
913 I, III| Bertin, passing into the dressing-room to prepare himself.~He had
914 I, I | inkstand, in which the ink had dried. She looked at it all with
915 I, I | called to it and said to the driver: “Drive slowly, and take
916 I, II | of the chair, allowed to droop his pale hands with interminable
917 II, II | three cows, standing with drooping heads, cropped the grass
918 II, VI | moved no more, his chin had dropped to his breast, his mouth
919 II, V | recollection of his early love, to drown it in evoking his first
920 I, III| faded remembrances that are drowned in forgetfulness, and which
921 I, I | opinions, were bearing away and drowning both their minds in that
922 II, IV | as with the thirst of a drunkard, those flowing verses of
923 II, I | water~spilled there were drying. The stillness of the leaves
924 I, III| of psychology, Les Fleurs du Mal, Le Rouge et le Noir,
925 I, II | the widow of General the Duc de Mortemain, mother of
926 I, II | princes, princesses, and duchesses of European aristocracy,
927 I, IV | others, by Beraud, Cazin, Duez—in short, a heap of good
928 II, IV | obedience to the natural duplicity of man he did not allow
929 I, IV | excellent things by Carolus Duran, an admirable Puvis de Chavannes,
930 I, III| took a very low seat, a dwarf armchair, in which he could
931 I, I | quarter with magnificent dwellings, earned by a few strokes
932 I, III| human intercourse, which dwells dormant in every human heart,
933 I, II | moustache, artistically dyed, with a few white locks
934 II, IV | touched his emotions, and fell eagerly upon Musset, the poet of
935 I, III| bracelets, rings, brooches, ear-rings set with diamonds, sapphires,
936 I, I | Though Annette, in her earliest years, had been brought
937 I, I | with magnificent dwellings, earned by a few strokes of the
938 II, II | simple, hesitating, and earnest utterance of the consecrated
939 II, VI | result. M. Bertin begs you earnestly and entreats Madame la~Comtesse
940 II, V | himself, then he put it on his easel, and sitting down in front
941 I, II | ordinarily obscured by an easy-going nature, he showed how those
942 II, VI | a bride, the Marquise d’Ebelin, was already looking through
943 II, II | furnished her with wise and economical prudence.~Now, little by
944 I, II | elementary notions of political economy necessary to a deputy, the
945 I, III| Hippodrome, Maldant the Eden, and Landa the Folies-Bergere,
946 I, II | physical activity. He had some education, however, for he had learned,
947 I, IV | when to embrace her at the effective moment, how to clasp her
948 I, II | gaming table, had died of the effects of a fall from his horse,
949 II, I | one of those rare days of effervescence and gaiety in which grave
950 I, III| himself, added a strain of egoism to his sentiments of affection.
951 I, II | think of the lean kine of Egypt. I cannot understand how
952 I, III| Duchess, Annette, you and I, eh, great artist?”~“Only ourselves,”
953 I, III| heavy landaus, the solemn eight-spring vehicles, passed one another
954 I, IV | pasture; two noblemen of the eighteenth century fighting a duel
955 II, IV | the two hours that must elapse before dinner-time. He had
956 I, I | When the ten minutes had elapsed, he felt anxious, as at
957 II, II | suspended at the end of elastic threads. He sang little
958 I, I | rapid and irritated step, elbowing the passers-by that he need
959 I, IV | triumphed again and played the elder sister with the grave modesty
960 II, VI | experienced the mad love of an elderly man for a young girl, how
961 I, II | wife lent to this union an element of intimacy that was very
962 I, II | learned from facts and the elementary notions of political economy
963 II, II | had known how to enjoy the elements that Destiny had furnished
964 II, III| overshadow her, where she eliminated with discreet and unceasing
965 I, II | first by a desire to be eloquent, and urged on by the sudden
966 II, II | love by the seductiveness emanating from two women.~“Ah, what
967 I, III| reminiscences, as if odors kept embalmed within him these dead-and-gone
968 I, I | and dangerous, futile and embarrassing. Among the women of the
969 II, V | existing situation and of the embarrassments of the Republic; the Marquis,
970 II, V | delicious and poetic, which embellish life and make it enjoyable,
971 II, II | heart, and rekindling the embers of cooled emotions, she
972 I, II | struggle with the beginning of embonpoint, over which she soon triumphed.~“
973 II, II | from which she never would emerge.~She had an almost irresistible
974 II, V | opened them vivid memories emerged from them, which stirred
975 II, VI | happened. Your friend, the~eminent artist, M. Olivier Bertin,
976 II, VI | were heard from all lips: “Emma Helsson” and “Montrose.”
977 I, I | him only to refuse him, employing toward him all the tricks
978 I, IV | her fading beauty, and the employment of artificial aid to restore
979 II, VI | when the theaters are being emptied.~Musadieu had a thousand
980 II, III| on his palette, but while emptying on the thin board the leaden
981 I, III| Touche!” “A moi.” “Passe!” “J’en ai!” “Touche!” “A vous!”~
982 I, I | illustrious, Paris suddenly became enamored of him, adopted him, made
983 I, III| comfortable proportions encased in a white waistcoat, his
984 I, I | revealing feminine grace enclosed within a prison of velvet
985 II, VI | everything that he had encountered in life he had immediately
986 I, I | despair after seeming to encourage him. Yet, should it become
987 I, II | said of him: “He is the encyclopedia of Jules Verne, bound in
988 II, VI | on this new idea.~Olivier endeavored to continue the subject,
989 I, II | artists of all sorts. He was endowed with an alert mind and quick
990 II, II | awake and scenting their enemy, raised their heads to look.
991 I, III| younger in every way than the enervated good-for-nothings of the
992 II, IV | wakeful night, one of those enervating attacks of insomnia brought
993 I, III| recent poets, called “les enerves.”~Between the windows stood
994 II, V | went down to the Opera to engage one of the boxes hidden
995 I, III| the Countess, having an engagement at a meeting of the Committee
996 I, IV | natural and assumed, was engendered in the mind and heart of
997 I, III| hardly heard them, she was so engrossed in looking about her. Her
998 I, IV | vessel in distress almost engulfed by a great wave. A bishop
999 II, III| heart.”~“I cannot guess enigmas. I entreat you to be more
1000 II, V | embellish life and make it enjoyable, were withdrawing from her,
1001 I, I | comprehension and such apparent enjoyment of this initiation, that
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