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1503 I, I | supposed them to be at once immoral and shallow, hypocritical
1504 II, V | vapor, but it was only the impalpable vapor of a reality now dead.
1505 II, VI | his face. It was relaxed, impassive, inanimate, indifferent
1506 I, III| that day, he hurried as impatiently as a schoolboy ready for
1507 II, IV | fur.~The attraction that impelled him toward this girl a little
1508 II, II | than a kiss, correcting imperfections, underlining the eyes, beautifying
1509 I, II | been a commissioner of the imperial museums, and had found means
1510 I, II | banded together against our impetuosity. M. de Guilleroy concluded
1511 II, II | or of triumph, and flew impetuously from one end of the court
1512 II, II | dog, carried along by the impetus of a rush that he could
1513 II, III| guess at what his words implied. She caught at the last
1514 II, VI | die!”~“Hush, Olivier, I implore you!”~He continued, without
1515 II, V | and, with lips closed, but imploring with that voice of the soul
1516 II, VI | time of a wedding, is very important. I will lend you mamma,
1517 II, II | be made desperate by her impotence.~She lived, then, smiling,
1518 I, II | A group of new artists, impressionists in a state of intoxication.
1519 I, III| image of their two faces imprinted on his vision.~Silence followed;
1520 I, IV | to-day. Really, Nanette has improved very much. She has actually
1521 II, V | girl and the passionate impulses of the young woman. Nothing
1522 II, V | imprisoned in that black attire, inactive and vanquished. For a whole
1523 I, III| allowed the names of his inamoratas to be guessed by unmistakable
1524 II, VI | was relaxed, impassive, inanimate, indifferent to all misery,
1525 II, II | of having profited by her inattention. Julio, trained to seek
1526 I, II | of intelligence. They are incapable of attaching themselves
1527 I, III| since Annette had gone, was incensed at this recital, and declared,
1528 II, II | guilty intimacy, largely from inclination, a little from a leaning
1529 II, I | heads, for the same walls inclosing our lives, the same~interests
1530 II, I | benches and chairs of the inclosure up to the little stage,
1531 I, II | patronized the whole world, including dethroned princes, with
1532 II, IV | the soul of youth into the incoherent canvas of an unfinished
1533 I, II | blonde Marquise de Lochrist incomparably charming, while Bertin esteemed
1534 I, II | require address and agility, incompatible with corpulency. But the
1535 I, I | even, a little cold and incomplete, and that if others also
1536 II, IV | and he now felt afraid, incomprehensibly afraid, of this little girl.~“
1537 II, V | heart was escaping her by an inconceivable, horrible, and monstrous
1538 I, II | society. This he did with inconsistent and irrefutable arguments,
1539 I, I | that impatience which delay increases from second to second. She
1540 I, I | roses that flourish for an indefinite time up to the moment when,
1541 II, V | if to assure herself, the indelible mark of the years. At first
1542 II, II | will not obey, which has independence in its veins, that sweet
1543 II, VI | her, that young girl as independent as a young animal. But down
1544 I, III| which thrilled body and mind indescribably. His imagination ran riot,
1545 I, I | twenty years triumphant and indestructible, careful above all things
1546 I, III| that, also, familiar books, index to the heart and mind of
1547 II, I | must be a sun-stroke in Indian~summer. What I feel is so
1548 II, III| but drink beer. I will indicate an excellent brand. Do not
1549 II, VI | So soon as she shows an indication of turning to look at or
1550 I, III| made her pay dearly for her indiscretion.”~Then Bertin, with his
1551 I, IV | microscopic, according to individual conception of elegance and
1552 I, I | surprising vital force, an indomitable power of resistance, and
1553 II, I | was impossible for me to induce her to return here.”~“What
1554 II, V | whom a continual prurience induces to scratch himself, the
1555 I, I | did not allow himself to indulge in daring pleasantries and
1556 II, IV | at her, without thinking, indulging himself with the sight of
1557 I, IV | pilgrimage to the Palais de l’Industrie that day. As early as nine
1558 II, II | light of the fields the ineffaceable marks of sorrow and of life
1559 II, V | charms, as captivating as the inert grace of her daughter, she
1560 II, II | her adoration to God, the inexorable God who has made all poor
1561 II, V | between them, something inexplicable, intangible, invincible,
1562 II, I | me wearies and~bores me inexpressibly. Then I drag my melancholy
1563 II, III| of such villainy, of an infamy so unqualifiable; and he
1564 II, III| her youth, almost from her infancy, those long sittings before
1565 II, III| numerous and very well known infant asylums, never failed to
1566 II, III| she suspected Olivier of infidelity to her. At such times, without
1567 I, I | although she pleased him infinitely, did not appear to him to
1568 II, VI | To-day, before the ceaseless influx of new artists and new admirers,
1569 I, II | very well, and lent to the information thus gleaned an easy, clear,
1570 I, I | meetings she questioned him ingeniously, without his perceiving
1571 I, II | Olivier Bertin seemed to inhabit, to animate the apartment.
1572 II, I | four or five times a day, injected morphine, which made me
1573 II, VI | she would remain near the injured man, she, for whom it was
1574 I, I | black points, like tiny ink-spots.~Again she murmured: “Truly,
1575 I, I | recent, beside a painter’s inkstand, in which the ink had dried.
1576 II, VI | seeking to read each other’s inmost thoughts.~“I do not believe
1577 II, IV | those intimate pages of the inner book which seemed glued
1578 I, II | at being a gay dog were innocently satisfied by the appearance
1579 II, IV | not be confounded with the inoffensive. Thus he adored animals,
1580 II, IV | coming a second time to inquire how she felt.~She was alone
1581 II, III| after a few tender words and inquiries, another current of thought
1582 II, V | longer.~“But you are simply insane with that idea!”~She seized
1583 II, V | is beginning to live, an insatiable appetite for happiness,
1584 I, III| ivy; a tombstone bore an inscription. The stone shafts erected
1585 II, IV | made.~Time was passing, insensibly and sweetly, in this pretty
1586 I, I | down quickly, turning it inside out, as one would skin a
1587 II, VI | suffered now from the least insinuations as much as from direct attacks.~
1588 I, IV | at the thought that this insipidly good-looking Marquis might
1589 I, III| already, though never so insistently as to-day, he had felt and
1590 II, IV | not too long.”~“Oh, how insolent! Too long, with me! You
1591 I, I | that fact and answer him insolently; she could efface nothing,
1592 I, III| children.~Annette was now inspecting the buildings surrounding
1593 I, I | to the sacred office of inspirer. She found it charming to
1594 I, III| to his friends, where he installs something of himself, added
1595 II, IV | whom, aroused in him an instantaneous hatred for everyone he knew.~
1596 I, I | pass, I should have thought instantly of the terrible remorse
1597 II, VI | moments of silence, those instants when souls seem mingled
1598 I, III| allowance, the legal proceedings instituted by the police commissioner.~
1599 I, III| allowance that he considered insufficient, had discovered a sure if
1600 I, I | all of which seemed to him insulting, odious, ridiculous.~He
1601 II, VI | forestall all accident. To insure this, someone must get out
1602 II, V | contentment, or a gaiety intact. She was agitated incessantly
1603 I, I | of the soul, which passes intangibly across a face.~Months rolled
1604 I, II | see the exposition of the Intemperates?” he inquired.~“No; what
1605 I, I | to overcome him without intending to give him anything in
1606 I, I | mental exaltation due to an intense desire to please, he had
1607 I, I | dumb-bell, meanwhile looking intently at himself.~He had been
1608 I, IV | best to keep it bright and interesting; and when he had made the
1609 I, I | cloud of smoke that rose intermittently toward the ceiling with
1610 II, VI | abdominal contusion without internal lesions.”~“What do you call
1611 II, VI | rest of us,” her husband interposed. “He is growing old quite
1612 II, V | she did not immediately interpret, and she was tortured by
1613 II, IV | persistent silence might be interpreted.~As soon as he found himself
1614 II, VI | been rendered by two such interpreters. It was no longer two illustrious
1615 I, IV | change the order of the interrogations, so that he might recognize
1616 I, II | imbecilities exasperated him, and, interrupting him adroitly, he recounted
1617 I, III| irritation at the stupid intolerance of this little simpleton.~“
1618 I, I | standing, full of deep, ardent, intoxicating joy. He had won her, her!
1619 II, II | like the defenses of an intrenched camp, grew borders of various
1620 II, VI | the first measure of the introduction arose, filling the house
1621 I, I | She had, as it were, an intuition of danger, even before she
1622 II, V | from one of those secret intuitions of the feminine heart which
1623 I, IV | enlivened by the wines and inundated by one of those waves of
1624 I, III| this return of tenderness invaded his heart so suddenly, almost
1625 II, II | become like the habit of an invalid; it is a binding up of the
1626 I, III| a swift pace toward the Invalides, crossed the Seine, and
1627 I, IV | where all artistic Paris invites all fashionable Paris to
1628 II, V | he had just expressed of inviting the Marquis to the performance
1629 II, II | before this day, in a sort of invocation to her mother, a despairing
1630 I, I | that the despair she had invoked would not come, she shook
1631 II, VI | Only his fingers moved involuntarily now and then, with slight
1632 II, V | taste unforgettable hours of inward triumph.~He had loved a
1633 I, II | drops of ink, on the blue iris. But it was their opinion
1634 II, V | insomnia and grief hasten irremediably the horrible work of fleeting
1635 II, II | face that was distorted and irreparably ill.~In order to see herself
1636 II, V | agitated by his nervousness, irresolute as a whirling weather-vane.~
1637 I, I | a little nervous, often irritable. He had his moments of impatience,
1638 II, I | fatigues me, bores~me and irritates me. I am ceaselessly thinking
1639 II, V | house. The Countess alone, isolated in her sorrow, which was
1640 II, III| the leaden tubes whence issued slender, twisting snakes
1641 II, V | an indescribable sort of itching, the slow march of wrinkles
1642 II, II | crystal, all her little ivory-handled instruments of coquetry,
1643 I, III| like a column, supported an ivy; a tombstone bore an inscription.
1644 I, III| Touche!” “A moi.” “Passe!” “J’en ai!” “Touche!” “A vous!”~
1645 I, IV | foulard cravats and round jackets, or the sack-like garment
1646 II, VI | that. Anything you like. James,” she added, “be ready in
1647 II, V | About the beginning of January. I ask your pardon for not
1648 I, I | sound of the wheels and the jarring of the cab. She looked at
1649 II, II | anxieties, my torments, my jealousies, the pain I feel when I
1650 II, VI | contient tous—~Je veux la jeunesse.”~And the tenor appeared
1651 I, III| a complete set of doll’s jewelry—necklaces, bracelets, rings,
1652 I, III| quickly, to the silvery jingle of the harness, under the
1653 II, IV | a sort of glittering and jingling, an echo of gaiety. They
1654 I, I | of pedestal of glory, a Jocaste a bold subject, classed
1655 I, II | up on their beds over the jokes of some funny fellow. But
1656 I, III| What sort of weather is it, Joseph?”~“Very fine, Monsieur.”~“
1657 I, IV | and at times came a great jostling of the crowd as it was forced
1658 II, VI | countenances, society men, artists, journalists, the whole category of those
1659 II, I | I think of that silent journey you made, sitting~opposite
1660 II, IV | The dinner was lively and jovial as usual, animated by discussions
1661 I, I | this attitude, she assumed joyfully the part of counselor, flattered
1662 I, I | mirror, which served him in judging the accuracy of a pose,
1663 I, I | beyond competition with his Juive d’Alger, which he exhibited
1664 I, II | He is the encyclopedia of Jules Verne, bound in ass’s skin!”~
1665 II, II | Pushing back her chair, she jumped up and ran to the window,
1666 I, III| swiftness of mechanical jumping-jacks.~Others rested and chatted,
1667 I, IV | the Institute and of the jury, exchanged opinions with
1668 II, VI | known! Ah, that was like the justice and the intelligence of
1669 II, III| arguments and phrases that must justify him and avenge him for such
1670 I, III| comprehensive, when one feels a keener joy in seeing and feeling,
1671 I, IV | little the Countess, with the keenness of feminine instinct, comprehended
1672 II, VI | her heart—remorse for not keeping Olivier near her, for driving
1673 II, VI | the curtain rose on the Kermesse.~Helsson’s passage was superb.
1674 I, III| steamed in a pretty, shining kettle over the blue flame of an
1675 II, VI | impatient, nervous, she kicked the door, and heard a sleepy
1676 I, III| or purchases the means of killing time. He was accustomed
1677 II, V | secret, exerting itself to kindle affection between the young
1678 II, IV | flame of a new desire is kindled within him. No, the child
1679 I, III| acquired red faces, and their kindling ardor awakened new desires.~
1680 I, I | them with gentleness and kindness, with the weary and languid
1681 I, II | make me think of the lean kine of Egypt. I cannot understand
1682 II, III| paid to Annette. In that kingdom, the house of a pretty woman,
1683 I, III| taste appeared: a diminutive kitchen stove, and upon it a cat
1684 II, I | vent-holes of sinks and kitchens, the streams through which
1685 II, II | sport, like the play of kittens jumping after paper balls,
1686 II, IV | seemed to have lost the knack of painting, as if they
1687 I, III| another brigade of servants in knee-breeches, pushed open a door, feeling
1688 II, V | and consolation.~She would kneel, then, before a large figure
1689 I, I | which he kept in his. He was kneeling before her without her taking
1690 II, II | at the grave, the women knelt and prayed a long time.
1691 II, IV | profile of the young girl, who knitted opposite her mother, on
1692 II, VI | oh, yes!—and an omnibus knocked me down and ran over my
1693 I, III| Paris!” said he, a glass of kummel in his hand, “The only city
1694 II, VI | had triumphed already. And Labarriere as Mephistopheles sprang
1695 II, VI | seated in his alchemist’s laboratory.~He had already heard the
1696 II, V | tenacious guest; and she labored against it with unconscious
1697 II, VI | What do you call lesions?”~“Lacerations.”~“How do you know that
1698 I, IV | domestic happiness which he lacked; and she imprisoned him
1699 I, IV | way before the high double ladder of the varnishers, who cried: “
1700 I, IV | allow the conversation to lag, but did his best to keep
1701 II, IV | disdained Hugo, scorned Lamartine, who usually touched his
1702 I, II | say the assassin of Marie Lambourg has been arrested?”~Her
1703 II, III| sadness by the poetic and lamentable story.~“Your mother is indisposed,”
1704 II, VI | soul to the echo of Faust’s lamentations, and the desire to die surged
1705 II, VI | tenor Montrose, who was lamenting over his waning life.~Olivier
1706 II, II | streets and the country lanes.~The Countess ceased to
1707 II, VI | Musadieu related, in veiled language because of Annette’s presence,
1708 I, I | kindness, with the weary and languid manner of a woman who suffers.~
1709 II, V | lighted by two Oriental lanterns. Then a negro with woolly
1710 I, I | her little daughter on her lap, weeping over her and kissing
1711 I, IV | often allowed himself to lapse into occasional silence
1712 II, II | part in a guilty intimacy, largely from inclination, a little
1713 I, II | as to derive from it the largest personal profit.~As a simple
1714 II, II | is happiness!”~“It never lasts,” she answered, approaching
1715 I, I | would go out, but when? What latitude should he allow her? Would
1716 I, IV | surprised at this and had begged laughingly that Annette should not
1717 I, II | of laughter! One hardly laughs, even. We have sufficient
1718 I, II | presenting them, protecting them, launching them. He seemed to devote
1719 I, II | for a minute or two they lavished upon the portrait all the
1720 I, III| with all the heat of a lawyer making a plea, with the
1721 II, V | the other, forming a thick layer of little thin papers. He
1722 II, III| then she mentioned, without laying too much stress on the matter,
1723 I, I | figure it was approaching so lazily. It seemed to him that this
1724 II, III| emptying on the thin board the leaden tubes whence issued slender,
1725 II, VI | little tap of a bow on the leader’s desk stopped short all
1726 I, I | what that sort of thing leads!”~“Oh, but I do not make
1727 II, II | cornflower, with a little leaf in emeralds.”~Annette’s
1728 I, II | self-styled patriots of the League. And he painted Bismarck’
1729 II, I | horseback as far as eight or ten leagues~from Roncieres, and she
1730 I, II | They make me think of the lean kine of Egypt. I cannot
1731 II, V | entered. He felt his heart leap within him as if on springs,
1732 II, VI | stillness of the night.~She leaped out of bed, and with all
1733 I, I | same time.~Not only did she learn to discover all his tastes,
1734 I, II | he had learned, and was learning every day, by much mental
1735 I, I | of a professor giving a lecture; and she listened with interest,
1736 I, IV | must be waiting for us at Ledoyen’s, where she charged me
1737 I, III| round table with a single leg for a foundation, which
1738 I, III| increased allowance, the legal proceedings instituted by
1739 II, VI | his heart, in spite of his legitimate vanity, he suffered more
1740 I, III| been compelled to spend his leisure time in public places where
1741 I, III| of a woman: Musset, Manon Lescaut, Werther; and, to show that
1742 II, VI | equaled that of Bismarck or De Lesseps.~When Faust rushed toward
1743 II, II | where a space had been leveled for a tennis-court, was
1744 I, III| Landa, who was frankly a libertine, grew quite excited at the
1745 II, IV | got up and went into his library to choose a good and soporific
1746 I, III| a year; and the Feuille libre, a thin volume between blue
1747 II, VI | the trivial words of the libretto, through that music which
1748 II, I | yesterday, and since her poor lifeless body has gone~out of this
1749 I, I | the crowd below, and they lift up their arms to receive
1750 II, VI | to the wounded man, and lifting his head tenderly laid it
1751 II, V | with her hair a little lighter, her smile a little more
1752 II, IV | his eye the two candles lighting the score; but he guessed
1753 I, I | with a touch of familiar lightness to their attachment, which
1754 | likely
1755 I, III| he said. “Whether one likes her or not, she is charming;
1756 I, II | low. He saluted his aunt likewise, then shook hands with the
1757 I, III| to have been executed by Lilliputian jewelers.~From time to time
1758 I, I | it suggests: the hidden limb, lost yet imagined beneath
1759 II, VI | that he had reached the limit of suffering.~She hastened
1760 II, III| His will, having a very limited confidence in the priests,
1761 I, I | blue, a bright vista of limitless heights of azure, across
1762 II, VI | fever, mingling with the limpid air we breathe a wave of
1763 II, II | hives, thatched with straw, lined the wall of the vegetable-garden,
1764 I, III| swordsmen, dressed in gray linen, with leather vests, their
1765 II, IV | Within their minds still lingered a sort of glittering and
1766 II, IV | for each other, should be linked together in so many different
1767 II, II | one watches the dawn, or listens to music, with thrills of
1768 II, I | recited to the end of his litany of melancholy, and, urged
1769 I, I | dignified presence of the literary lights of the salons, the
1770 II, VI | have?”~“A laceration of the liver, for instance.”~“That would
1771 I, I | laces, houses, pyramids, locomotives, pastry, or caresses, which
1772 II, IV | cured him, ran through his loins, like a warning or a recall;
1773 I, II | requested to go to Vienna or to London to crown in the waltz some
1774 I, IV | that, from pure dread of loneliness, he might marry. This fear,
1775 I, III| left them.~“Let us take the longest way,” said Annette.~“Would
1776 II, VI | and he let his eloquence loose upon the two or three topics
1777 I, I | the man who was vulgarly loquacious in his interest in such
1778 I, II | able to live like a great lord in one of the handsomest
1779 II, VI | already looking through her lorgnette. “That is a pretty debut,”
1780 I, I | means to soften his lonely lot—she feared lest he thought
1781 II, II | growing bolder, barked louder and ventured as far as their
1782 I, III| since the beginning of their love-affair.~Thanks to the opportunities
1783 I, III| of his name.~This little love-quarrel being finished and settled,
1784 II, VI | yes!”~Bending a little lower, she brushed his forehead,
1785 II, VI | fair faces behind their lowered windows.~The coupes and
1786 II, VI | Get up, Any; open the lowest drawer of my desk, the large
1787 II, III| began once more to plead his loyalty, just as he argued all alone
1788 I, III| studio, with clear eye, lucid mind, enthusiastic, alert,
1789 II, IV | hallucination in which he lulled his isolation the two faces
1790 I, IV | for I shall expect you to lunch with us.”~Musadieu hastened
1791 I, I | gray eyebrows, while his luxuriant moustache—the moustache
1792 I, I | first floor of a large and luxurious modern house in the Boulevard
1793 I, III| corner some books that were luxuriously bound but seldom opened
1794 II, VI | this work at the Theatre Lyrique, of its half success in
1795 I, II | when the Duchess said, “Ma petite,” one still heard
1796 II, VI | running about, and shouting, machinists in blouses, gentlemen in
1797 II, V | that imperceptible race, maddening when we think of it—of that
1798 I, IV | duel on a street corner; a madwoman sitting on a wall; a priest
1799 II, IV | attributes which like a magnet attract our organs, our
1800 II, V | hair of that little blonde maiden made him long to fall on
1801 II, II | hanging from the side of the mail-carrier, who saw so many emotions
1802 I, I | she did to watch over and maintain them, in order to surround
1803 II, III| to what this mysterious Maker might really be.~She believed
1804 I, III| psychology, Les Fleurs du Mal, Le Rouge et le Noir, La
1805 II, V | the tenacity of incurable maladies. Once entered in the soul
1806 I, I | her of the progress of his malady, in all its intimate details,
1807 II, IV | is a rival, a triumphant male, a conqueror envied by all
1808 II, IV | envied by all the other males. And then, without considering
1809 I, I | become supple in this sort of malicious small talk.~“When are you
1810 I, I | whose presence hostesses maneuver, and whom the Institute
1811 I, I | hesitated among all the manifestations of art. Rich, illustrious,
1812 II, VI | that nocturnal and painted manikin who plays all his characters
1813 I, II | they must remain, in short, manikins who produce the effect and
1814 II, IV | of a poet who above all mankind was intoxicated with life,
1815 I, I | was to the gay and easy manners of the studios and green-rooms
1816 I, III| mind of a woman: Musset, Manon Lescaut, Werther; and, to
1817 I, II | rich, and received at her mansion in the Rue de Varenne all
1818 I, III| stood leaning against the mantelpiece and speaking with the excited
1819 I, III| photographer of gowns and mantles,” often received at breakfast
1820 I, IV | a moving black wave. The marbles rose from this mass of dark
1821 II, II | Pater Noster and the Ave Maria. She would not have had
1822 I, II | they say the assassin of Marie Lambourg has been arrested?”~
1823 I, II | had cherished the idea of marrying her nephew to the daughter
1824 II, V | lifted toward the Divine martyr a sorrowful supplication.
1825 II, III| followed established opinions, marveled in their turn with a little
1826 II, II | painter called her back, marveling at this dark vision with
1827 I, IV | real banality, veiled by a mask of elegance and good form.~
1828 I, I | It cannot be handled by masons in the art of painting.”~
1829 II, I | the sight of this endless massacre would~drive us mad.~“I am
1830 II, II | and cultivated, roses in masses, pinks, heliotrope, fuchsias,
1831 II, V | hear the clapping of the masseurs’ hands on bare flesh and
1832 II, V | approach. They ran before it, massing themselves, whirling, and
1833 I, III| walks, which unroll their massive and artistic curves through
1834 II, IV | at the foot of a bronze mast that bore the dazzling globe.
1835 II, II | thoughts in other directions, mastered them, ruled them, separated
1836 I, I | my poor face, one of~your masterpieces. I would entrust it to you
1837 I, III| sudden reproduction of the maternal speech. He had noted their
1838 I, II | ages, the one a little too mature, the other a little too
1839 I, III| really beautiful only after maturing, when the expression of
1840 I, I | having only just reached full maturity, she seemed like one of
1841 II, II | across the fields, from one meadow to another, and in those
1842 II, II | which was reflected on the meadows impregnated with sunshine,
1843 I, I | flattering things to him which meant “I find you very agreeable,
1844 | Meantime
1845 II, VI | profound silence, the first measure of the introduction arose,
1846 II, IV | fugitive, bringing separate measures, weakened, and far off as
1847 I, IV | arms dishes filled with meats, fish, or fruit.~Under the
1848 I, III| with the agile swiftness of mechanical jumping-jacks.~Others rested
1849 II, II | compared the two, but repeated mechanically, “Yes, it is astonishing,
1850 I, II | in white lace, a creamy Mechlin, resembling each other like
1851 I, I | Academicians. In 1873 his first medal placed him beyond competition
1852 II, III| adroitness that is surer than medicines.~He entered, bowed, looked
1853 I, II | she has attained the happy medium—imitate her.”~They passed
1854 I, I | fashionable artists one meets in the Bois, for whose presence
1855 II, IV | the pastoral symphony by Mehul, the Countess rose, took
1856 II, I | shows the effect of heat—the melon growing soft under~the ice,
1857 I, II | irrefutable arguments, which melt before reason as snow before
1858 II, VI | she had seen simply the melting of the wax seals.~She returned
1859 II, II | seemed to her as painful a menace as anything she might have
1860 II, V | feeling of being pursued, menaced, that the Marquis would
1861 I, II | but who has faith only in menaces and violent means as the
1862 I, III| themselves against some false and menacing opinion. Annette hardly
1863 II, VI | imagined that was charming, he mentally offered to his little friend;
1864 I, III| spend the evening, Bertin mentioning the Cirque, Rocdiane the
1865 I, I | middle-aged men when some one mentions their age; and he murmured: “
1866 I, III| covered with flowers, the menu was carefully chosen, for
1867 II, VI | already. And Labarriere as Mephistopheles sprang up from the earth.~
1868 I, II | were merely intelligent mercenaries charged by God to amuse
1869 I, I | and hospitable Parisian merchant, who had died several years
1870 II, V | glass plates with which merchants ornament their facades.
1871 I, II | shaken by the suppressed merriment of fat persons, relieved
1872 I, IV | way, Messieurs! Make way, Mesdames!”~At the end of ten minutes,
1873 II, II | guess what this hurried message might be. About what? From
1874 I, IV | varnishers, who cried: “Make way, Messieurs! Make way, Mesdames!”~At
1875 II, VI | poem disappeared in this metamorphosis. Thenceforth he saw before
1876 I, I | circumvented by his own methods, was he now under the influence
1877 I, III| bore, who, now put on his mettle, talked at great length,
1878 II, II | sky, lightly veiled by the midday haze which was reflected
1879 I, I | which touches the heart of middle-aged men when some one mentions
1880 II, III| military service. Her father, a middle-class Parisian, never had imposed
1881 II, II | pinks, heliotrope, fuchsias, mignonnette, and many more, which as
1882 II, III| peasants revolting from military service. Her father, a middle-class
1883 II, II | to the farms. Through the milky mist that bathed the fields
1884 I, IV | out with exclamations and mimicry of a connoisseur’s energy.
1885 I, II | to make her swallow some mineral water, but in vain; then
1886 I, III| Musadieu was full of news; the ministry was about to fall, and there
1887 I, I | increasing. He analyzed himself minutely before her, hour by hour,
1888 I, III| a hand was stirring the miry depths of his memory.~He
1889 II, IV | answered him with all the mischief and playful shrewdness that
1890 II, VI | complicated, such an afflux of miseries, such inevitable tortures,
1891 | miss
1892 I, I | who has accomplished her mission on earth. This existence,
1893 I, III| thought that it was a great mistake to allow young girls to
1894 I, II | studying dates unweariedly, but mistaking the lesson to be learned
1895 II, V | mischievous, her air a little more mocking; and he felt that he belonged
1896 I, III| of them uncut: the Arts modernes, which is bought only because
1897 I, I | scenes of history; then, modernizing his tendencies, he had painted
1898 I, I | a woman’s toilet as the modiste knows it, having all his
1899 II, VI | march of time in the night, modulating it in divers tones.~The
1900 I, III| exclamations:“Touche!” “A moi.” “Passe!” “J’en ai!” “Touche!” “
1901 I, II | you think of this folly?”~“Mon Dieu, Madame, I am a painter
1902 I, III| sofa. The Revue des Deux Mondes lay there also, somewhat
1903 I, II | Guilleroy, a prudent hoarder of money, who lived in a simple apartment
1904 I, II | despise myself a little, as a mongrel of doubtful race.”~“All
1905 I, II | familiar gesture, he placed a monocle on his right eye and left
1906 I, I | when the painters were monopolizing the favor of the public,
1907 II, V | inconceivable, horrible, and monstrous fatality! Yes, it had suddenly
1908 II, IV | little later they entered Montara’s.~Having passed all his
1909 II, VI | approaching event.~That heavy monument called the National Academy
1910 I, III| and entered the gilded and monumental gate that serves as a sign
1911 I, III| rounded into domes, like monuments of leaves, the gigantic
1912 II, IV | curving under the electric moons. A policeman was slowly
1913 II, I | five times a day, injected morphine, which made me almost~wild,
1914 II, VI | posters, too, affixed to the Morris columns, announced them
1915 II, II | naturally anxious about the morrow, she had known how to enjoy
1916 II, II | laughter, her pretty ways, her motions, brought back to his lips
1917 II, IV | abrupt half turn, without motive, design, or pretext, went
1918 I, III| his eye distracted by the motley and animated crowd in the
1919 I, III| fraternity?”~Annette made a moue that signified “Don’t talk
1920 II, VI | up from all sides on that mountain of envelopes. They attacked
1921 I, IV | long hair, wearing hats of mouse-gray or black and of indescribable
1922 I, III| years already, where all our moustaches have taught her kisses and
1923 II, I | frightfully through her sewer mouths, the~vent-holes of sinks
1924 II, II | sat down on a hay-stack, mowed that morning in order to
1925 II, V | cheeks and throat, and the multiplication of those innumerable little
1926 I, II | objects but discovers a multiplicity of cheap productions of
1927 I, III| memories, as aromatics preserve mummies.~Was it the damp grass or
1928 I, II | Duchess that the jewels of the murdered prostitute had been given
1929 I, II | present by the suspected murderer to another girl of the same
1930 II, VI | listening with all her ears; and murmurs of satisfaction were beginning
1931 II, VI | sitting side by side, seemed a museum of familiar countenances,
1932 I, II | commissioner of the imperial museums, and had found means to
1933 II, VI | consider this exceptional musician! She concluded, laughing: “
1934 I, III| over the gallery of the musicians. Four gentlemen, ensconced
1935 II, II | out in graceful order on a muslin scarf bordered with lace,
1936 I, II | for some time, had been mutually understood and agreed, without
1937 I, III| complicated sensations and mysteries of psychology, Les Fleurs
1938 II, V | high-studded, silent, almost as mystic as a temple. Daylight fell
1939 II, I | think of my poor mamma, nailed in~that box, buried beneath
1940 I, I | fingers, and the narrow pink nails seemed like amorous claws
1941 II, I | his heart, had confessed naively how much he would have enjoyed
1942 I, III| She admitted, with pretty naivete, that she had hopes of social
1943 II, VI | in the boxes he noted and named to himself the women he
1944 I, IV | the sentimentalities and nameless trivialities of the passing
1945 II, IV | reading served him as a narcotic! So he got up and went into
1946 I, II | about it,” she replied.~He narrated the details. Musadieu was
1947 II, VI | heavy monument called the National Academy of Music, squatted
1948 II, III| as she had one of those natures which, in all crises, after
1949 I, II | appearance of being surrounded by naughtiness.~The picture was so true,
1950 I, IV | treated any longer like a naughty little girl, she had allowed
1951 II, IV | hours of powerlessness and nausea, the miserable hours, when
1952 II, I | the~premises. I go out, nauseated, and go home to try to sleep
1953 II, III| the cool air of the vast nave, took a chair and sat down.~
1954 I, II | in uttering. He was very near-sighted, and appeared, notwithstanding
1955 I, II | son. This young man, now nearly twenty-eight years of age,
1956 II, II | indefinitely.”~“It does not necessarily follow that we need stay
1957 I, III| complete set of doll’s jewelry—necklaces, bracelets, rings, brooches,
1958 I, III| hand to wipe off faces and necks; others, seated on a square
1959 I, I | is a most delicate art, needing great distinction of style.
1960 II, II | Countess’s heart like a sharp needle, and as soon as the maid
1961 I, III| holding the interrupted needle-work on her knee.~Bertin, who
1962 II, V | hesitatingly.~“But do not neglect me meanwhile.”~“No, my friend.”~
1963 I, III| swooning at the feet of that negress! I believe that they sneer
1964 I, III| they all lived in the same neighborhood or in the same small town.~“
1965 II, II | for tennis, and a tarry net, stretched across this space,
1966 II, V | so quickly that he could nether check them as he spoke nor
1967 II, II | of taking cold and having neuralgia.”~“Oh, yes,” the Countess
1968 II, II | associate the daughter with the new-born remembrances of what the
1969 II, VI | Bertin sneered at these newcomers, was irritated at their
1970 II, V | first concentrated heat of newly-lighted furnaces, the heat of draperies,
1971 II, V | drawing-rooms, arm in arm, like a newly-married pair.~“Good-by, my friend.”~“
1972 II, V | to think of anything.~A news-stand attracted his eye. He bought
1973 II, V | hurrying seconds, which nibble at the body and the life
1974 I, III| were opening, the familiar nightingales of that Parisian garden
1975 I, I | beautiful example of love in the nineteenth century. After a silence,
1976 I, IV | cows in a pasture; two noblemen of the eighteenth century
1977 I, III| said “Yes,” with a little nod of conviction; and the more
1978 I, III| Fleurs du Mal, Le Rouge et le Noir, La Femme au XVIII Siecle,
1979 I, III| cordiality.~Two servants noiselessly entered the drawing-room,
1980 II, VI | pretend to breakfast here at noon, and then go and have breakfast
1981 II, V | for whom the morning and noontimes were reserved, he wished
1982 I, II | nephew to the daughter of the Norman deputy, to whom this marriage
1983 II, II | consecrated words of the Pater Noster and the Ave Maria. She would
1984 I, IV | to gallery, showing them notable canvases and explaining
1985 II, VI | fall into anyone’s hands, a notary, a servant, or even your
1986 II, VI | the horrible disgust and nothingness of everything; and this
1987 I, IV | dainty trifles, the elegant nothings, the sentimentalities and
1988 II, VI | he walked along without noticing his surroundings, imprisoned
1989 II, V | everyone else, she had some notion of the passing years and
1990 I, II | facts and the elementary notions of political economy necessary
1991 I, II | their instincts having been nourished on conventionalities instead
1992 II, VI | the world and himself as nourishment to this fixed idea. All
1993 II, IV | mind and turned toward the Nouveau Cirque, then made an abrupt
1994 I, I | We can certainly say that nowadays it is possible to give expression
1995 | Nowhere
1996 I, I | idea of complete and bold nudity.~She gave him her hand,
1997 I, I | which rippled along bearing nuggets of love like a river whose
1998 II, I | very~long ago, either, the number of new subjects seemed to
1999 I, II | large personal fortune, now nursed other ambitions.~He had
2000 II, V | powder-box, as large as a nut, the interior of which contained
2001 I, IV | proximity to some naked nymphs under a willow-tree, and
2002 II, V | figure of Christ carved in oak, a gift from Olivier, a
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