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1002 I, III| become fully developed!”~He enlarged upon this idea that the
1003 I, IV | called out, drank and ate, enlivened by the wines and inundated
1004 I, I | unusual things quite frankly, enlivening them with irony; and presently
1005 II, IV | theater, a little feeling of enmity toward the gentleman who
1006 II, II | running. He looked at her, enraptured, as one watches the dawn,
1007 II, VI | He felt that he had been enrolled in the battalion of old
1008 I, III| musicians. Four gentlemen, ensconced in armchairs, were waiting
1009 I, I | physical charms of her who will enslave him; and Madame de Guilleroy,
1010 II, V | them he felt powerless, enslaved, imprisoned. Becoming more
1011 II, IV | gentleman who is passing or who enters with a lovely girl on his
1012 I, III| he replied, smiling. “You entertain me very much; you are very
1013 II, I | place where one goes to be entertained.~Someone should change my
1014 I, III| I have chosen a special entertainment suited to my tastes. As
1015 I, III| liqueurs, applauded him enthusiastically, and mentioned the young
1016 I, I | him anything in return, enticing him only to refuse him,
1017 II, V | offered her whole being, her entire existence, all, everything
1018 I, IV | strange impression of a double entity, old and young, wise yet
1019 II, II | complexion that had dazzled and entranced the painter when they met
1020 II, V | suffering. She compared his entrances, his manner, his bearing
1021 II, V | alone with him, praying, entreating him to speak, to confess
1022 II, V | Oh, why?” she murmured, entreatingly.~“Because this is not my
1023 II, VI | Bertin begs you earnestly and entreats Madame la~Comtesse de Guilleroy
1024 II, IV | a gaze full of doubt and entreaty.~“It is true,” said he.~“
1025 I, III| of good family, with the entree to all salons, though suspected
1026 I, I | your masterpieces. I would entrust it to you willingly if I
1027 I, II | speaking to her only to enumerate the names of the persons
1028 I, I | the heroine. When he had enumerated, in his gallant and easy
1029 II, VI | a fever.~He tore off the envelope, unfolded the paper, uttered
1030 I, I | him with admiration and enveloped him in flattery, so that
1031 II, I | CHAPTER I~A WILLING ENVOY~“Paris, July 20, 11 P. M.~“
1032 I, III| sake, as she was a refined epicure; and in spite of strong
1033 II, V | created a sensation of the epidermis, the sensation of growing
1034 II, V | Harrison, the little Prince Epilati, Baron Flach, and others.~
1035 II, II | the present; she confused epochs, dates, the ages of his
1036 I, I | parvenu who is treated as an equal by princes and princesses,
1037 I, III| then what becomes of our equality, liberty and fraternity?”~
1038 II, V | and the Duchess was almost equally pleased with the emotion
1039 I, I | agility as a swordsman and an equestrian, had added further attractions
1040 I, II | which are the glory of the equine race.~Bertin, irritated
1041 I, III| opened upon this stream of equipages wide and wondering eager
1042 I, I | but what? He scribbled, erased, tore up and began anew
1043 I, III| inscription. The stone shafts erected on the lawns hardly suggest
1044 II, IV | evenings, those evenings of errant fancy, when he had allowed
1045 II, VI | that she should commit no error during their absence, she
1046 II, V | without you.”~His next words escaped him so quickly that he could
1047 II, III| full of secret anguish, escorted his friend, pale and almost
1048 II, III| convictions always followed established opinions, marveled in their
1049 I, I | round on her son-in-law’s estate at the castle of Roncieres,
1050 I, I | receive, to smile, to chat, to estimate character, and how to adapt
1051 I, III| Fleurs du Mal, Le Rouge et le Noir, La Femme au XVIII
1052 II, III| other room. I will take some ether to her.”~He went out, ran
1053 I, II | hesitating over a detail of etiquette, they had succeeded in passing
1054 I, III| the Arc de triomphe de l’Etoile in the midst of a sea of
1055 I, II | Bertin, accustomed to these eulogies, to which he paid hardly
1056 II, III| admired, she was so sure of eulogistic phrases, which she had little
1057 II, I | his domestic happiness, he eulogized the Countess in the highest
1058 II, VI | Painting.” It was a dithyrambic eulogy on four or five young painters
1059 I, II | princesses, and duchesses of European aristocracy, and the sworn
1060 I, III| she would make no reply, evaded his questions, looked at
1061 II, I | with us a few hours and evaporates amid new surroundings.~The
1062 I, III| the doings, the trifling everyday details of the simple life
1063 I, III| existed for these sudden evocations—a natural and simple cause,
1064 II, V | early love, to drown it in evoking his first and great passion.
1065 I, III| silver, quite modern, of an exaggerated severity, in which English
1066 II, VI | ability as colorists, and exaggerating them for effect, now pretended
1067 I, I | reveries and with poetic exaltations. But his feeling, on the
1068 I, III| fashion of a young lover, exalting her in his heart, and feeling
1069 I, III| he lifted it, handled it, examining it with dreamy indifference,
1070 II, IV | Annette a sympathy a little excessive because of his love for
1071 II, IV | thought: “I am becoming excessively nervous to have worked myself
1072 I, III| there was an incessant exchange of salutations, smiles,
1073 II, IV | instinctive desires that excite all the faculties of charming,
1074 I, I | which revived his love in exciting his vanity. Then, realizing
1075 I, IV | them until now in an almost exclusive way; but to-day he was distracted
1076 II, VI | irritated at their assumption of exclusiveness, and disputed their doctrines.
1077 I, IV | bishop of the early Church excommunicating a barbarian king, an Oriental
1078 II, I | the country~air and the excursion she has had. How beautiful
1079 I, II | entered, shook hands warmly, excusing himself in unctuous words
1080 II, VI | not understand! But how he execrated that man in tights, who
1081 I, I | intelligent and adroit, which executes whatever one wills— books,
1082 I, I | of his mind, remarkable executive ability and great versatility,
1083 I, II | all his limbs were better exercised than his head, and that
1084 I, I | They shook hands.~“You were exercising, I see,” said the lady.~“
1085 II, V | shrewder, more secret, exerting itself to kindle affection
1086 II, II | trees tremble, and the earth exhaled imperceptible vapors which
1087 II, I | the eye or of the brain, exhaustion of the artistic~faculty
1088 II, V | very well concerning the existing situation and of the embarrassments
1089 I, IV | the ladies at the door of exit, Madame de Guilleroy whispered:~“
1090 I, III| yet dormant, should have expanded and developed amid the life
1091 II, I | give you news of us. He expects to take you to dinner somewhere,~
1092 I, I | his hesitations and his experiments in all styles of his art.
1093 I, I | Conservative deputy, they were experts in that sport of brilliant
1094 I, II | knew how to forget at once explanations that were too technical
1095 II, I | silhouettes on the asphalt, expresses~the fatigue of the roasted
1096 I, IV | face are softer, yet more expressive; her complexion is clearer.
1097 II, III| awoke weary and overcome by extreme lassitude, and then within
1098 II, VI | round, very well dressed, extremely polite, came to meet them.
1099 II, III| turn with a little less exuberant ardor.~The Countess’s heart
1100 I, II | appeared, notwithstanding his eye-glass, never to see anyone; and
1101 I, II | imperceptible movement of cheek and eyebrow, he allowed to drop the
1102 I, I | eyes beneath heavy gray eyebrows, while his luxuriant moustache—
1103 II, II | the eyes, beautifying the eyelashes. At last, when she went
1104 I, IV | President of the Republic faced the entrance; while on another
1105 I, III| speech. He had noted their facial resemblance with a friendly
1106 II, II | smiling, with a sort of factitious pride in remaining beautiful
1107 II, IV | desires that excite all the faculties of charming, that make the
1108 II, I | exhaustion of the artistic~faculty or of the optic nerve? Who
1109 II, VI | Musadieu’s own favorite fads, he continued:~“She will
1110 II, VI | category of those that never fail to go where everyone else
1111 II, II | face.”~She felt ready to faint.~“Yes, a little pale,” said
1112 II, V | muscles as well as in his fainting soul. The walls of the apartment
1113 II, IV | Boulevard, perceiving the fairylike illumination of the Parc
1114 I, III| the story was an odious falsehood, one of those shameful lies
1115 II, V | bringing you something,” he faltered.~“What is it?”~“A stage-box
1116 I, I | a struggling soul, of a faltering will, which seems to say: “
1117 I, II | the faithful and chosen familiars of the royal house of France,
1118 I, I | his reminiscences, in a fanciful way that was peculiar to
1119 II, IV | square boxes, wherein all the fancifulness of their settings were displayed
1120 II, IV | expressing his intoxication in fanfares of frank and triumphant
1121 II, IV | doing?”~“She was studying a fantaisie.”~Annette rose to go to
1122 I, III| emeralds, a microscopic fantasy that seemed to have been
1123 I, I | his attitude, and with a far-away look upon his face he begged
1124 I, I | society, and was always far-seeing and compliant. When the
1125 II, VI | Olivier thought: “What a farce! There is Faust, the mysterious
1126 I, III| horse-dealer, for a part of the farm at Roncieres was devoted
1127 II, II | was tender, tenacious, and farseeing, content with the present,
1128 I, I | heart a growing desire to fascinate him, and yielded to it.
1129 I, I | always the most agreeable and fascinating subject for a chat.~When
1130 I, IV | There was the clan of the fashionables, of the curious, and of
1131 I, I | brush changing and delicate fashions, in revealing feminine grace
1132 II, II | racket between her knees, fastened them up in place, thrusting
1133 II, VI | hooking, clasping, tying, and fastening at hap-hazard; then, before
1134 II, VI | may have an immediate and~fatal result. M. Bertin begs you
1135 I, II | a prominent figure. As a father-in-law of the Marquis of Farandal,
1136 II, I | ties or refuge. Everything fatigues me, bores~me and irritates
1137 I, IV | attempts to please her by his fatuous and affected gallantry.~“
1138 II, VI | accused him: “It is not my faulty, Any.”~“I know it well;
1139 II, VI | his bass voice, then of Faure, so seductive with his baritone,
1140 II, V | which at that time were favorable to her. Now she had a furious
1141 I, I | theater, prodigal of their favors with such men as he. One
1142 II, II | brightest bloom had had that fawn-like, supple grace, that bold,
1143 I, III| contrary, but he wished to go, fearing the end of the evening around
1144 II, VI | intoxication of the first feasts of life, and the ardent
1145 I, III| beautiful persons whose feature he had reproduced, as well
1146 I, I | cold day toward the end of February. Olivier had come in early,
1147 I, II | basis of their beliefs, how feeble and indifferent is their
1148 II, II | recollections with which to feed her cruel reveries. Then,
1149 II, II | abandon, partly real, partly feigned, a hunting spaniel, slender,
1150 II, II | as far as their cruppers, feigning to be about to bite them.
1151 II, VI | attraction one feels for a fellow-countryman met in a distant land, for
1152 I, III| amid the smiles of his fellows, adding “Ha! I let something
1153 II, IV | from Nature, that great female, with organs, a form, a
1154 I, III| Le Rouge et le Noir, La Femme au XVIII Siecle, Adolphe.~
1155 I, III| guessing that he should fence well that day, he hurried
1156 I, III| cried for quarter. Then he fenced with Punisimont, and with
1157 I, III| hand, enormous in a large fencing-glove, the thin, flexible foil,
1158 II, IV | and a desire for reverie fermented in his heart. Dreading a
1159 II, V | suffers sometimes from this ferocious and incomprehensible power
1160 II, II | distracted her; and her fervent prayer rose to Heaven, full
1161 II, III| violent crises of religious fervor, and had passionately implored
1162 I, III| sunshine lent to the men a festive air, to the women a suggestion
1163 II, V | trembling old slave on whom fetters are riveted that he never
1164 I, III| hundred francs a year; and the Feuille libre, a thin volume between
1165 II, V | well the influences of the fever-giving costume of evening, and
1166 I, II | intellectual things, how fickle and questionable are their
1167 II, II | mouth, for she could see its fiery-red point— alone, when he might
1168 I, III| ugly, especially in a Louis Fifteenth apartment, where everything
1169 I, III| the only one where, at fifty, if he is sound and well
1170 I, III| lake, it joined the long file of other vehicles at a walk,
1171 II, I | the soft bread, the flabby filet, the warmed-over~vegetables,
1172 II, II | tarnished where the gold fillings shone, and she was disturbed
1173 II, I | streams through which the~filth of her streets is running.
1174 I, III| salons, though suspected of financial intrigues of many kinds (
1175 I, II | speculations, his subtle scent as a financier, his share in the most fruitful
1176 I, I | world, political advocates, financiers, or wealthy idlers, amused
1177 II, II | the dog ran up to put his finely formed head, with its curly
1178 I, II | the eyes of many for the finest flower of high life. Their
1179 II, VI | pillow. Some candles and the firelight illumined it, defined the
1180 II, II | toward the castle with the firm step of a man.~“Oh, heavens!”
1181 II, III| be.~She believed in Him firmly, adored Him theoretically,
1182 I, IV | dishes filled with meats, fish, or fruit.~Under the circular
1183 II, VI | struck him like a blow of the fist full in the chest: “The
1184 II, VI | walked, exhausted by that fit of jealousy which had bruised
1185 II, II | He, in white flannels, fitting tightly over the hips, a
1186 I, III| descend into the hands and fix themselves upon the canvas.~
1187 I, I | painter, the Countess gazed fixedly at him. The ardor of her
1188 II, IV | attention and abstracted fixity.~Then, suddenly, impatience
1189 II, I | ice, the soft bread, the flabby filet, the warmed-over~vegetables,
1190 II, V | little Prince Epilati, Baron Flach, and others.~Suddenly Rocdiane
1191 I, III| watched, had been surprised in flagrante delictu, and was compelled
1192 II, V | bow-legged, with thin arms and flanks, the sight of whom caused
1193 II, II | adversary.~He, in white flannels, fitting tightly over the
1194 II, II | and red, whose curly ears flapped at every bound, was trying
1195 II, VI | throats and ears scattered flashing rays from their diamonds,
1196 II, III| He went out, ran to get a flask from his room and returned.~
1197 II, I | little wild-flowers that flavor~the air with a suggestion
1198 II, V | flock, a mad flock that fled before it, flying toward
1199 II, VI | seemed dead except a tall Flemish clock on the stairs, which
1200 I, III| mysteries of psychology, Les Fleurs du Mal, Le Rouge et le Noir,
1201 I, III| fencing-glove, the thin, flexible foil, extended and recovered
1202 I, III| as if the keen wind had flicked them like a whip.~The Countess’
1203 II, V | an animal-like desire to fling himself on Farandal.~He
1204 I, I | The little rivalries, the flirtations, either well known or suspected,
1205 II, VI | caused her charming image to flit beside them in the night.~
1206 I, I | cries of the swallows that flitted above the open skylight,
1207 I, I | azure, across which passed flocks of birds in rapid flight.
1208 II, III| twelve years, an irresistible flood of emotion overwhelming
1209 I, III| now like the gliding of a flotilla in which were seated very
1210 I, I | his eye seized, and which flowed like a wave from his thought
1211 II, II | vegetable-garden, covered the flowery field in their yellow, buzzing
1212 II, IV | comprehension of the emotion that flows through sounds. It was indeed
1213 I, I | executed a pirouette and flung his cigarette high in the
1214 II, II | with sparkling eyes and flushed cheeks, tired, out of breath
1215 II, II | furtively toward the two flute-like notes of the bird, Annette
1216 II, II | catch the yellow butterflies fluttering over the lawn, as if they
1217 I, III| knee in the hand. A cascade foamed and rolled over the pretty
1218 I, III| containing sandwiches of pate de foies gras and little English
1219 I, III| fencing-glove, the thin, flexible foil, extended and recovered
1220 I, III| corridor a continuous clash of foils, the sound of stamping feet,
1221 I, I | supplications of Olivier, who held a fold of her skirt.~As soon as
1222 I, II | Mortemain.”~Between the folding-doors appeared a tall, large woman,
1223 I, III| the Eden, and Landa the Folies-Bergere, when a light and distant
1224 II, VI | understood and approved all the follies that he was able to create,
1225 I, III| the fingers which the eye follows without a thought.~At the
1226 I, III| reflection of their mutual fondness.~“I should like so much
1227 I, I | law on the adulteration of food-stuffs.~This rather tiresome talk,
1228 II, IV | movement, muttering: “Old fool!” Then he returned to bed
1229 I, III| topcoat and cane to a group of footmen, who had risen like soldiers
1230 II, IV | not be banished.~Having forbidden himself to go to see them,
1231 II, II | You know that your father forbids it.”~“Oh, but since papa
1232 I, II | themselves to assume, to forecast all combinations, the chances
1233 II, I | waistcoats and moist, shining foreheads.~The food shows the effect
1234 II, IV | they had been written in a foreign tongue. He was determined,
1235 I, II | events.~Madame de Mortemain, foreseeing and divining his plans,
1236 II, I | Malesherbes seems like~a forest path imprisoned in a dead
1237 II, VI | there within an hour, to forestall all accident. To insure
1238 I, III| little park recalled wild forests. It is the charming and
1239 II, V | heart which enable them to foretell that of which they are ignorant?~
1240 I, III| their own appearance was so forlorn.~More than ever was Olivier
1241 II, V | discovered and understood the formidable flight of the minutes. She
1242 II, I | one sees five or~six black forms, unimportant passers, tradesmen
1243 II, II | having also murmured the formulas, sank into a reverie, for
1244 II, IV | reincarnation of herself. And he formulated this decision with the reassuring
1245 II, II | passes under a cannon of a fort? Good heavens! when I saw
1246 I, III| standard.~“What, is it you? How fortunate!” exclaimed the Countess.~“
1247 I, IV | slight or stocky, wearing foulard cravats and round jackets,
1248 I, II | opinion than her own, and founding hers solely on the consciousness
1249 II, V | African plants and a little fountain in the center. He had a
1250 I, I | physiognomy.~In the midst of the fourth sitting, he suddenly ceased
1251 II, VI | danger of being run over by a fractious horse, to seize her by the
1252 II, II | tender skin the caresses of fragrant powders or of powerful liquid
1253 I, II | not. He proved that, the frail roots of their instincts
1254 I, II | familiars of the royal house of France, he might rise to the first
1255 I, I | charmed him by her good humor, frankness, and simplicity. He had
1256 I, III| our equality, liberty and fraternity?”~Annette made a moue that
1257 I, II | tastes, that instinctive free-masonry which creates between two
1258 II, II | to her that someone had freed her, that a weight had been
1259 I, III| felt such a sensation of freedom and clear-sightedness that
1260 I, I | allowed his fancy to flow freely, as if he had known for
1261 II, II | her lover with a sort of frenzy. Was he not her all—all,
1262 I, I | studios and green-rooms he frequented. He went into the fashionable
1263 II, V | arms crossed over it. A frequenter of the hot baths, he felt
1264 II, II | passed under my gaze, as a frigate passes under a cannon of
1265 II, II | bound, the heavy animal took fright, and first raising her head
1266 II, I | this corpse-like face which frightens me, I will return to be~
1267 I, III| might be criticised for frivolity in certain respects, no
1268 I, III| whole Bois, coquettish, frivolous, and fashionable, shivered
1269 I, I | chic!”~“Yes, I have a new frock. Do you think it pretty?”~“
1270 II, II | no doubt because of the frogs that peopled it; then they
1271 II, V | crisp cold of the early frost, which destroys in a single
1272 I, I | lips, saying, with a slight frown:~“Come, come—work!”~He would
1273 II, VI | inspire love, the tortures of fruitless desire, and, more terrible
1274 II, I | the purulent cheese, the fruits ripened on the~premises.
1275 II, I | rosy complexions. Odors of frying, of sauces, of hot food,
1276 II, II | masses, pinks, heliotrope, fuchsias, mignonnette, and many more,
1277 II, IV | returned, intermittent and fugitive, bringing separate measures,
1278 II, VI | She would thereby simply fulfil her role of friend, her
1279 I, IV | toilettes suitable for a fully-grown young woman, a trifle too
1280 II, VI | life, like a superannuated functionary whose career is ended—what
1281 II, I | that since the day of the funeral I could weep no more,~but
1282 II, IV | the most insignificant furbelows held his attention. In jewelers’
1283 I, I | felt suddenly one of those furies of a lover that change tenderness
1284 II, V | concentrated heat of newly-lighted furnaces, the heat of draperies,
1285 II, II | them from overflowing and furrowing her cheeks she repressed
1286 I, II | he did not wish to speak. Furthermore, he had seen a Minister
1287 II, II | his ears erect, glided furtively toward the two flute-like
1288 I, I | straight line, his great fury against her began to change
1289 I, II | a mysterious function of fusing the fashionable and the
1290 I, I | that a new taste for its gaieties should not be awakened in
1291 I, I | once the advantages to be gained by such a marriage, and,
1292 I, I | Rich, illustrious, the gainer of all honors, he nevertheless
1293 II, V | others, the pleasure of galloping beside him every morning
1294 II, II | expressed itself in graceful gambols.~In the little openings,
1295 I, II | almost ruining himself at the gaming table, had died of the effects
1296 I, III| had lived so much in the gaming-houses), married, but separated
1297 II, III| Olivier as he placed an iron garden-chair in the right light. He opened
1298 I, III| and animated crowd in the gardens.~“Oh, the little love!”
1299 I, IV | jackets, or the sack-like garment of the singular costume
1300 II, VI | window she saw the flying gas-jets, veiled by the falling rain.
1301 II, VI | hesitated, disturbed by the gaslight, which deceived him as to
1302 II, VI | him like this. He remained gasping, and reread the article
1303 I, III| the gilded and monumental gate that serves as a sign and
1304 II, II | the now buried past she gathered all the intimate and trivial
1305 II, II | attract her he talked of gayer things, and at times he
1306 I, II | even the Almighty by her generosity to the clergy and her gifts
1307 II, VI | revolutionists and renovators of genius.~As did all the older painters,
1308 I, I | She acknowledged them with gentleness and kindness, with the weary
1309 II, II | masculine instinct, he tried gentler means, and, not being able
1310 II, II | stammered, in a tone of genuine sadness: “Madame really
1311 II, IV | depths where human feelings germinate before being born. This
1312 I, IV | astonishing Roll, an exquisite Gervex, and many others, by Beraud,
1313 II, VI | five young painters who, gifted with real ability as colorists,
1314 I, III| monuments of leaves, the gigantic horse-chestnuts, whose heavy
1315 II, II | old frames from which the gilding was peeling. Two servants,
1316 II, I | for our little life of girlhood belonged to her as~much
1317 II, V | embarrassed at anything.~“He is a gladiator, that chap!” Landa murmured.~
1318 II, VI | nervous person; at last, glancing a little further down, he
1319 II, III| unreasoning memory of the dazzling glare that bathed the country
1320 II, II | could see by the golden gleam of ripe grain.~“We will
1321 I, I | eye the sensation of flesh gleaming through the almost transparent
1322 I, II | to the information thus gleaned an easy, clear, and good-natured
1323 I, IV | preoccupied air, trying to catch a glimpse of the Marquis’s gray hat
1324 II, VI | all parts of Paris allowed glimpses of creamy light stuff and
1325 I, I | surprise of this triumph, he gloated over it, and, to realize
1326 II, IV | mast that bore the dazzling globe. Other lights on the broad
1327 I, III| youthful freshness is only the gloss of riper beauty; he demonstrated
1328 II, VI | the women clapped their gloved hands, while the men standing
1329 I, I | hand, Any!”~She wore long gloves reaching to the elbow. In
1330 I, III| that he felt, although the glow of his passion had long
1331 I, I | beautiful day, which he knew was glowing without, Bertin sought a
1332 II, IV | inner book which seemed glued together, and which sometimes
1333 II, IV | interminable minutes, began to gnaw him with its intolerable
1334 I, I | by the timid hand of his goddess.~He remained standing, full
1335 II, IV | delicious recreation—these goings and comings across the large
1336 II, IV | the supple fingers of the goldsmith make the jewels roll, displaying
1337 II, IV | Annette appeared very soon.~“Good-day, dear master,” said she
1338 I, III| every way than the enervated good-for-nothings of the new generation.~Rocdiane,
1339 I, IV | thought that this insipidly good-looking Marquis might marry Annette,
1340 II, III| clock.”~“Thank you! You are goodness itself!”~He went away to
1341 II, II | the lawn three heavy cows, gorged with grass and overcome
1342 I, II | enlightened, useless, and gossiping activity.~Apt at everything,
1343 I, III| ignorance and his innocence. The gossips said so many false and wicked
1344 II, II | the celebrated phrase by Gounod: “Laisse-moi contempler
1345 I, I | given her in the country two governesses, with unexceptionable diplomas,
1346 II, V | and the distress of the government. The air of the drawing-room
1347 I, I | were giving herself time, granting herself a respite before
1348 I, III| He proceeded to describe graphically, as he knew well how to
1349 I, III| sandwiches of pate de foies gras and little English and Austrian
1350 I, I | or can succeed only in grasping a phantom, which renders
1351 II, II | tennis-court, was a great, square grass-plot, planted with apple-trees,
1352 I, III| artistic curves through grassy lawns, throngs of people,
1353 I, I | too, was clever, and felt grateful to him for the pleasure
1354 I, II | satisfaction of vanity and not the gratification of a refined bodily necessity,
1355 I, III| whose almost every need is gratified, was leaving his heart by
1356 I, I | tastes, in order that, while gratifying them in her own house, she
1357 I, III| became empty, all these gray-beards, as the younger members
1358 II, III| minute rehearsal in the green-room of Parisian life. She adored
1359 I, I | manners of the studios and green-rooms he frequented. He went into
1360 I, IV | hastened to meet them. As he greeted the two ladies, he said:~“
1361 I, I | which renders still more grievous this pursuit of illusions?~
1362 II, VI | face convulsed with awful grimaces.~“Olivier! My God! Olivier!”
1363 II, V | suffering that, with the sheet gripped between her teeth, she groaned
1364 II, VI | walking straight before me.”~A groan that she could not stifle
1365 II, V | gripped between her teeth, she groaned in despair.~Once, like everyone
1366 II, II | houses that sheltered the grocer, the baker, the butcher,
1367 II, VI | aroused and soon brought some grog; and the talk was for some
1368 I, II | stroll, inquiring of the grooms about the health of the
1369 I, III| another on the borders of the groves, or dreamed there, holding
1370 I, III| to pass the evening with grown-up persons.~Presently a sound
1371 II, VI | world and artists all have a grudge against actors because they
1372 II, II | this sudden departure, they grumbled a little and expressed their
1373 II, III| whose decorations and titles guarantee their ability, whose tact
1374 II, III| duty, as a soldier mounts guard at a general’s door. Sometimes
1375 I, I | above all others, and of guarding him against all others,
1376 II, V | troublesome and tenacious guest; and she labored against
1377 II, II | proximity the better. They guided him, conducted him, and
1378 II, II | after taking her part in a guilty intimacy, largely from inclination,
1379 II, II | she could not remove the gummed band to open the little
1380 II, II | disturbed to note the livid gums and the yellow tint of the
1381 II, V | in light waves under the gusts of wind.~This was one of
1382 II, II | another, and in those short, guttural cries used in driving animals.~
1383 I, II | few general ideas to the hairdresser that came to shave him;
1384 II, II | them up in place, thrusting hairpins into the golden mass.~And
1385 I, III| s head. “Your last black hairs have disappeared.”~“Alas!
1386 II, II | but to await him in the half-darkened drawing-room.~She went up
1387 II, V | clasped her close, kissing her half-open lips, as he used to do;
1388 II, V | making the rounds of the Hammam.~He remained barely a quarter
1389 II, V | impulse, toward the little hand-glass mounted in antique silver
1390 I, III| the books lay a charming hand-mirror, a masterpiece of the silversmith’
1391 I, III| an unknown voice, even a hand-organ in the street playing some
1392 II, I | and weary me as much as hand-organs. Each one has~his own little
1393 II, V | in her prayer, she would handle the powders, the pastes,
1394 II, I | friend to~another, from one handshake to the next, begging for
1395 II, V | after him, after the usual handshakes and kisses which the Duchess,
1396 I, II | great lord in one of the handsomest mansions of Paris. She knew
1397 I, IV | the staircase, where they hang the special category of
1398 II, VI | tying, and fastening at hap-hazard; then, before the mirror,
1399 II, III| expense of something else. Happily, that can be soon remedied.
1400 II, IV | his mind was everywhere harassed by the preoccupation of
1401 I, I | a profound, tormenting, harassing necessity for seeing her.
1402 I, III| the silvery jingle of the harness, under the slanting red
1403 II, V | them were the big Duke of Harrison, the little Prince Epilati,
1404 I, I | you—”~She interrupted him harshly:~“Rise! You are ridiculous!”~
1405 I, I | crushed by this unexpected harshness; then he understood, and
1406 I, IV | last rites to a dying man; harvesters, rivers, a sunset, a moonlight
1407 I, IV | appeared at the main entrance.~“Hasn’t the Countess arrived yet?”
1408 II, VI | with her back toward him, hastily writing the address on a
1409 I, I | when he met her.~After her hasty departure—that flight which
1410 I, I | intolerable to her. When a woman hates the man who has conquered
1411 II, V | nervous enough to cry out, hating it as if it were a sentient
1412 I, I | raised to hers, she said haughtily:~“What are you doing, Monsieur?
1413 I, I | showed itself in a bearing of haughty respect, dissembling the
1414 I, III| rid of the husband.~“You haven’t heard, have you, of the
1415 II, V | examination of the quiet, odious havoc.~When she was in bed she
1416 II, II | replied.~She sat down on a hay-stack, mowed that morning in order
1417 I, III| orchestra was playing one of Haydn’s symphonies, and when Bertin’
1418 II, II | lightly veiled by the midday haze which was reflected on the
1419 II, VI | is nothing—only a little headache.”~“Does not Monsieur wish
1420 I, IV | usual, she had convenient headaches by reason of which she excused
1421 II, III| for her breakfast, at its headquarters, in order to obtain it quite
1422 I, III| came he was exhausted as by healthful fatigue, and went to sleep
1423 I, I | Discreetly but continuously she heaped praises upon him; she soothed
1424 I, I | sorrow—a grief that would be heart-breaking.~When she set out from her
1425 I, III| Liverdy, a vigorous and hearty man of forty, said to Bertin:~“
1426 II, V | room, where human flesh was heated, where black and yellow
1427 II, II | roses in masses, pinks, heliotrope, fuchsias, mignonnette,
1428 I, IV | and the Shade of Dante in Hell, seized and captivated the
1429 II, II | having been good, useful, and helpful to you. You have loved,
1430 II, VI | all the depths of secret, helpless, and jealous love, down
1431 I, I | enable her to comprehend that henceforth, until death, he would be
1432 I, I | and after the death of Henri Regnault had made for all
1433 I, I | possibility of possessing her. Heretofore, as soon as a woman attracted
1434 II, VI | affected pose of a theatrical hero.~They began to talk of him.
1435 II, VI | please her, jealous even of a heroic officer wounded in Africa,
1436 I, I | book of which she was the heroine. When he had enumerated,
1437 II, I | making a choice made me hesitate. But now,~alas! Suddenly
1438 II, V | Yes, I hope so,” said he, hesitatingly.~“But do not neglect me
1439 I, I | emotion of that moment; she hid her face in her hands, then
1440 II, II | his heart, as when a cloud hides the sun; and when it reappeared
1441 I, III| societies, all classes, all hierarchies, an indolent young woman,
1442 I, I | all these passionate and high-souled thoughts he could find only
1443 II, V | large hot-air room, round, high-studded, silent, almost as mystic
1444 II, I | eulogized the Countess in the highest terms, to which Olivier
1445 II, V | heart, which she prized more highly than her life, over which
1446 I, II | complimented one another there. No Highness passed through Paris without
1447 II, VI | legs stiff, one hand on his hip, in the affected pose of
1448 I, III| same longing for a love hitherto unknown and ever fleeing
1449 I, IV | seemed like an overflowing hive. A confused hum of voices,
1450 II, II | Besides this, the bees, whose hives, thatched with straw, lined
1451 I, II | de Guilleroy, a prudent hoarder of money, who lived in a
1452 I, I | forever was always growing. Honest and straight in adulterous
1453 I, I | illustrious, the gainer of all honors, he nevertheless remained,
1454 II, VI | she threw on her clothes, hooking, clasping, tying, and fastening
1455 II, V | moment of the day of the hopelessness of her efforts.~Everything
1456 I, I | misfortune had befallen her, horror-struck, like a man fallen from
1457 I, III| of leaves, the gigantic horse-chestnuts, whose heavy verdure is
1458 I, III| knew almost as well as a horse-dealer, for a part of the farm
1459 II, V | awakening of brilliant and horse-loving Paris in the avenues of
1460 I, III| guess their age; clubmen, horsemen, swordsmen, whose incessant
1461 I, I | the daughter of a rich and hospitable Parisian merchant, who had
1462 II, VI | No, I prefer to send a hospital surgeon, who will keep a
1463 I, III| breath of some essence, a host of forgotten events. At
1464 I, I | Bois, for whose presence hostesses maneuver, and whom the Institute
1465 II, VI | ecstasies; and the ancient hostility that had always seethed
1466 II, V | Bertin entered the large hot-air room, round, high-studded,
1467 I, III| look at flowers grown in hot-houses, and to admire, as one admires
1468 I, III| at the table of strange hotels. During the whole execution
1469 I, I | magnificent dream which is always hovering over our hopes.~He had finished
1470 I, I | being, the dream of whom hovers over our hearts. Had he
1471 II, V | an animal-like desire to howl like chained dogs, for like
1472 II, II | in order to regain the hue of health.~Above all, she
1473 I, III| take them in her arms, to hug and kiss them—the natural
1474 II, II | compensation for the prosaic hum-drum of daily life, had barricaded
1475 I, III| as a wax figure. Plain, humble, dressed as a modest girl
1476 I, III| seemed to him that a fly was humming in his ear, filling it with
1477 I, I | charmed him by her good humor, frankness, and simplicity.
1478 I, I | find himself asking for the hundredth time that week: “Am I in
1479 II, I | eyes, and give me a sort~of hunger to see you.~“You will consider
1480 II, II | she returned weary and not hungry she forced herself to eat
1481 I, II | same fencing-hall, often hunted together, and met while
1482 II, V | infinite defile of little hurrying seconds, which nibble at
1483 II, IV | me. You know that music hypnotizes me; it drinks my thoughts.
1484 II, III| God with the same naïve hypocrisy that is shown to a husband,
1485 I, I | you could reproduce and idealize.~“Accept, Monsieur, my sincere
1486 II, VI | boxes, with the men, those idiots who were giving a sort of
1487 I, III| listened with curious gaze, her idle hands holding the interrupted
1488 I, I | certain that you did not speak idly, and that you really see
1489 I, III| compromising thing, pleaded his ignorance and his innocence. The gossips
1490 II, II | fields the horizon appeared illimitable, and the soft silence, the
1491 II, III| someone who could cure all her ills, all her moral and physical
1492 II, IV | perceiving the fairylike illumination of the Parc Monceau, and
1493 I, I | grievous this pursuit of illusions?~He was no longer resentful
1494 II, VI | himself in the least; that illusory personification of imaginary
1495 I, I | thoughts reveled. The changing images stood out against the bright
1496 II, IV | directed his mind toward all imaginable ideas, all possible subjects
1497 II, VI | furious anger against those imbeciles, all-powerful only by right
1498 I, II | But suddenly the Baron’s imbecilities exasperated him, and, interrupting
1499 II, II | then a woman, never having imbibed the air of the fields and
1500 I, II | attained the happy medium—imitate her.”~They passed into the
1501 I, II | to laugh. The grimace is imitated well enough, but the real
1502 II, V | accentuated still further by the imitation of tone and gesture they
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