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2504 I, III| little curved sofa. The Revue des Deux Mondes lay there
2505 I, IV | assurance of success, which rewarded him for his efforts.~He
2506 I, I | in the past three years rheumatism had sent him to watering-places
2507 II, II | the corner of her eye with rice powder, and looked at the
2508 II, VI | Montrose’s voice was better and richer than ever!~Bertin had closed
2509 II, IV | bullets, or little rabbits riddled with shot, turning somersaults
2510 II, V | him the animation of his ride, a sort of breath of morning
2511 II, VI | bedclothes, his body grew rigid, his face convulsed with
2512 II, VI | running, aroused by the ringing of the bell. They were alarmed
2513 I, III| indescribably. His imagination ran riot, made drunk by melody, and
2514 II, I | purulent cheese, the fruits ripened on the~premises. I go out,
2515 I, III| the waves of hair began to ripple, and resumed, with an air
2516 I, I | pleasant converse which rippled along bearing nuggets of
2517 II, I | the wooden pavement whence rises the vapor of damp tar~and
2518 I, IV | priest administering the last rites to a dying man; harvesters,
2519 II, IV | possessor of a woman is a rival, a triumphant male, a conqueror
2520 I, I | fashionable life. The little rivalries, the flirtations, either
2521 I, III| discussions of these two rivals, felt a sudden irritation
2522 I, IV | a dying man; harvesters, rivers, a sunset, a moonlight effect—
2523 II, V | slave on whom fetters are riveted that he never can break.
2524 II, IV | had allowed his caprice to roam through imaginary adventures,
2525 I, III| at that young lady who is roaming in the world of fancy.”~“
2526 I, I | and the dull, ceaseless roar of Paris, hardly heard above
2527 II, V | wind.~Suddenly a sort of roaring noise glided over the roofs,
2528 II, I | expresses~the fatigue of the roasted city, slumbering and perspiring
2529 I, III| had remained so pretty, rocked in that landau, in the warm
2530 I, III| and rolled over the pretty rocks; a tree, truncated like
2531 I, I | his fencing every day and rode his horse with assiduity.
2532 I, II | French turbulence and by the rodomontades of the self-styled patriots
2533 II, V | promenading around like a Roman wrestler, proud of his enormous
2534 I, III| her husband should go to Ronces; but that it would be impossible
2535 I, IV | chill silence of his empty rooms. Not being always able to
2536 I, II | praised, had acquired a rooted conviction that he possessed
2537 I, IV | and decorated with red rosettes, enormous or microscopic,
2538 I, III| psychology, Les Fleurs du Mal, Le Rouge et le Noir, La Femme au
2539 I, I | sketches, drawings, and rough drafts that he kept in a
2540 I, III| that he had just said so roughly to Musadieu.~The Count,
2541 II, VI | that pretty youth with his roulades, who showed his thighs and
2542 II, II | guess at what point of the route he must have reached.~Like
2543 I, III| horrible in it.” He would rove about there for hours, knowing
2544 II, VI | him; and she fancied him roving the streets, so sad and
2545 II, V | resting-room, in the center of a row of cells containing the
2546 I, II | houses, of professing their royalist sentiments, pious and correct
2547 I, II | Farandal, of high family and royally rich, and received at her
2548 I, II | spinal column were made of rubber; his legs, crossed one over
2549 II, III| ladies entered Olivier said, rubbing his hands:~“Well, Mademoiselle
2550 II, IV | serpent holding a beautiful ruby between his thin jaws and
2551 I, IV | suddenly desired to say rude and irritating things.~The
2552 II, VI | importance need not mind such rudeness.”~Guilleroy was astonished.~“
2553 I, I | about the Chanteuse des rues?”~“Yes. Ten thousand.”~“
2554 I, I | between the skirt and the rug, and which, a little chilled
2555 I, I | the air, clinging to the rugs and chairs; and no sound
2556 I, II | Mortemain, after almost ruining himself at the gaming table,
2557 I, III| woods that screened the ruins of a temple.~Other statues,
2558 II, II | directions, mastered them, ruled them, separated them from
2559 I, II | sociology for the use of the ruling classes.~Musadieu esteemed
2560 I, III| had gone.~It appeared that rumor said that the Marquis de
2561 I, III| recognized it, it might have rung in his heart all the chords
2562 I, III| a dozen at most—then it runs into sentiment; there never
2563 II, II | the pressure of the earth. Rushing from one to another, barking
2564 I, III| we have learned from the Russians, then offered a cup to Musadieu,
2565 II, II | four peacocks, with a loud rustling of wings, flew up into their
2566 I, IV | and round jackets, or the sack-like garment of the singular
2567 I, III| They suffice me!”~“But, sacrebleu!they do mean it,” cried
2568 II, II | completely. I should like to sacrifice myself in some absolute
2569 II, V | almost nothing that causes a sail to float away when the wind
2570 I, III| ignored and ignorant, who was sailing out of port like a vessel,
2571 I, II | colors, a portrait a la Saint-Simon. The man Bismarck was one
2572 II, III| the dresses worn by the salesgirls, who hastened forward to
2573 I, IV | moonlight effect—in short, samples of everything that artists
2574 II, IV | respect, as if before a sanctuary of opulent seduction; and
2575 I, III| this with plates containing sandwiches of pate de foies gras and
2576 II, IV | jeweler’s to choose the sapphire cornflower I promised you
2577 II, VI | heart. Faust was saying to Satan:~“Je veux un tresor qui
2578 II, I | expressions that I have painted to satiety. I make them dress~again
2579 I, II | was so true, although its satire wounded no one present,
2580 II, V | give her, besides other satisfactions, that which she preferred
2581 II, VI | that his condition remained satisfactory.~Guilleroy still hesitated.~“
2582 II, II | before dinner, a woman who satisfies the needs of your heart,
2583 II, V | she never had been able to satisfy—that desire to bring something
2584 I, III| take place the following Saturday.~“And until then when shall
2585 II, I | complexions. Odors of frying, of sauces, of hot food, floated in
2586 I, II | Academies, with all the savants, writers, and learned specialists,
2587 II, III| his show-case. She felt saved. From what? Reassured. Why?
2588 II, I | till night, and~that is saving me. One would really end
2589 I, III| that all the whispered scandals were lies; that the women
2590 II, IV | strains, cutting them short, scanning them, crashing into them,
2591 II, II | and let us take Julio to scare up some partridges.”~“You
2592 II, VI | this singer, who seemed to scatter and to gather love in that
2593 II, II | the cows, which, awake and scenting their enemy, raised their
2594 II, V | might be an obstacle to this scheme, and he sought some way
2595 I, II | share in the most fruitful schemes of the past ten years, and
2596 II, IV | of that?” asked Bertin.~“Schumann,” the Countess replied. “
2597 I, II | study nothing; they are near science, of which they are ignorant;
2598 I, II | popular presentation of scientific facts. He gave the impression
2599 I, I | allowing himself to give free scope to his reminiscences, in
2600 II, IV | two candles lighting the score; but he guessed so well,
2601 II, IV | him; he disdained Hugo, scorned Lamartine, who usually touched
2602 I, III| seated himself and now looked scornfully at the gray knitting-work
2603 II, V | continual prurience induces to scratch himself, the perception
2604 II, VI | armchairs hidden by a small screen of antique silk. They sat
2605 I, III| imprisoned by the woods that screened the ruins of a temple.~Other
2606 I, I | without duties, habits, or scruples, like all men! He was handsome,
2607 I, I | snowy laces. He finished his scrutiny by declaring: “It is a great
2608 I, II | same to me. If I were a sculptor I might complain.”~“But
2609 I, IV | of the day.~Painters and sculptors stood talking in groups
2610 II, VI | a throng of people were seating themselves amid an uproar
2611 I, I | that mysterious bond which secretly links two beings to each
2612 II, III| glad to be at home, in security, in the dim and misty daylight
2613 I, III| cab-horses kept their usual sedate pace.~“Oh, what a beautiful
2614 I, I | She had attracted him, seduced him with girlish ruses,
2615 II, IV | before a sanctuary of opulent seduction; and the counter, covered
2616 II, II | with the same love by the seductiveness emanating from two women.~“
2617 I, I | which thought fell like a seed.~The portrait progressed,
2618 II, I | Monceau to Saint Augustin, one sees five or~six black forms,
2619 II, VI | hostility that had always seethed at the bottom of his proud
2620 II, V | immense pity, immense grief.~Seizing that heavy hair in both
2621 I, II | immoderate love of that which is select, correct, and distinguished;
2622 II, IV | three emeralds had to be selected to make the leaves, then
2623 II, IV | in this pretty work of selection, more captivating than all
2624 I, II | the rodomontades of the self-styled patriots of the League.
2625 I, II | however, helped them to sell pictures, brought them in
2626 II, VI | twisted her hair without a semblance of order, gazing without
2627 II, II | before, hot and feverish, sending nervousness and restlessness
2628 II, IV | powers over the painter’s sensibility.~As soon as Annette had
2629 II, IV | thoughts, all our appetites, sensual as well as intellectual.
2630 II, V | of evening, and the soft sensuousness of morning attire, of the
2631 II, VI | these words at the end of a sentence struck him like a blow of
2632 II, V | hating it as if it were a sentient thing while turning it in
2633 II, VI | very little for all this sentimental delirium, and contented
2634 I, IV | the elegant nothings, the sentimentalities and nameless trivialities
2635 II, IV | human qualities that may separately attract us in others.”~For
2636 I, III| arrived at the pavilion that separates the two gates of the outer
2637 II, V | could she attempt under that sepulchral robe, that convict’s dress,
2638 II, IV | dream, but in a clearer sequel. The sound of the notes
2639 II, II | seeming to have on this serene night, the same joyful and
2640 I, I | lightly, yet with perfect seriousness, telling her of the progress
2641 II, IV | settled upon a little golden serpent holding a beautiful ruby
2642 II, II | stepping softly, began to serve the two silent women, and
2643 I, III| and monumental gate that serves as a sign and an entrance
2644 I, II | him. He rendered them some services, however, helped them to
2645 II, I | see me as I am.~My husband sets out for Paris the day after
2646 II, IV | the fancifulness of their settings were displayed in alignment
2647 II, IV | without stopping and suddenly settle upon the fair face beside
2648 I, I | reputation for cleverness.~After settling her little daughter, she
2649 I, III| modern, of an exaggerated severity, in which English taste
2650 II, I | frightfully through her sewer mouths, the~vent-holes of
2651 II, V | choose and use delicately shaded stuffs, in harmony with
2652 II, II | child.”~But the young girl, shading her eyes with one hand,
2653 I, IV | their turned-down brims shadowing the wearer’s whole chest.
2654 I, III| an inscription. The stone shafts erected on the lawns hardly
2655 I, I | to be at once immoral and shallow, hypocritical and dangerous,
2656 I, I | recall to him that moment of shame.~After he had suffered—for
2657 I, II | accommodate itself to the shape of the chair. His figure
2658 I, IV | were a charge of cavalry; sharpshooters in a wood; cows in a pasture;
2659 II, II | the great grief that had shattered her heart, overwhelming
2660 I, II | hairdresser that came to shave him; then, when taking his
2661 II, I | cooing pigeon when you are~shedding such bitter tears. Pardon
2662 II, V | suffering that, with the sheet gripped between her teeth,
2663 II, II | clouds looked like silver shells. Standing still for a few
2664 II, II | of a group of houses that sheltered the grocer, the baker, the
2665 II, IV | could find, sought among the shelves for the name of some author
2666 I, I | but futile, with a certain shibboleth which gives a particular
2667 II, II | tightly over the hips, a white shirt, and a white tennis cap,
2668 I, II | waistcoat and little diamond shirt-studs; he spoke without gestures,
2669 II, III| gracious reflection. The little shiver that the touch of their
2670 II, III| startled by one of those shocks that make a man forget himself,
2671 II, V | to gaze at herself in the shop-windows, hanging as if by one hand
2672 I, I | complaint that he ordered a shopful of toys to be brought to
2673 II, III| on foot, to finish her shopping. She went down to the great
2674 II, V | he understood that in the shortest time possible she would
2675 II, IV | little rabbits riddled with shot, turning somersaults like
2676 II, III| so often seen behind his show-case. She felt saved. From what?
2677 II, IV | jewelers’ shops he felt for the showcases a sort of religious respect,
2678 II, V | and the sudden flow of the shower-baths. A continuous pattering
2679 II, I | street the sprinklers throw showers of white rain,~splashing
2680 I, III| and white clusters, the showy sycamores, the graceful
2681 II, V | it goes!” and her heart shrank with such suffering that,
2682 II, V | took with her a new form, shrewder, more secret, exerting itself
2683 I, II | chair. His figure seemed to shrink into folds, as if his spinal
2684 II, II | of trees or clusters of shrubbery, a shadow seemed to fall
2685 I, III| said the Countess, with a shrug of her shoulders. “Why,
2686 I, I | that she would not come.~Shutting himself up in his studio,
2687 I, III| eyes met, a little of the shy hesitation with which the
2688 II, I | of honey. Then I enter, sickened~already, the restaurant
2689 I, IV | atmosphere at once heavy and sickening. No one looked at the pictures
2690 I, III| serious face.~He threw her a sidelong glance of appreciation,
2691 I, III| Noir, La Femme au XVIII Siecle, Adolphe.~Beside the books
2692 II, VI | pressed it, uttering a deep sigh! Then she resigned herself
2693 II, II | far away, rang the first signal for breakfast, it seemed
2694 II, IV | danger from afar, and had signaled it before it even existed.
2695 II, IV | paused a moment, then added, significantly:~“And you?”~He began to
2696 I, II | an irresistibly amusing silhouette. Once could see the fine
2697 II, I | branches, and of their gray silhouettes on the asphalt, expresses~
2698 I, III| spread out her knitting on a silk-covered chair beside her; then she
2699 II, VI | And the tenor appeared in silken doublet, a sword by his
2700 II, IV | and could not see their silky fur without being seized
2701 I, III| hand-mirror, a masterpiece of the silversmith’s art, the glass being turned
2702 I, IV | amusement, they acquired such a similarity of gait and gesture that
2703 I, II | laugh. I tell you that we simulate everything, even laughter.”~
2704 I, III| a pan, a cigarette-case simulating a loaf of bread, a coffee-pot
2705 I, III| with a movement almost simultaneous, drew up over their arms
2706 I, II | either depth, ardor, or sincerity; that, their intellectual
2707 II, I | little stage, where the singers, in the mingled light of
2708 II, VI | mysterious and sublime Faust who sings the horrible disgust and
2709 II, I | mouths, the~vent-holes of sinks and kitchens, the streams
2710 I, III| men never committed the sins they were accused of; and,
2711 II, VI | invented the useless labor of Sisyphus, the material thirst of
2712 I, I | leading by the hand a little six-year-old girl.~Madame de Guilleroy
2713 II, II | was twenty; now it is only sixteen!”~They remained a long while
2714 I, III| of thirty from a man of sixty? Pshaw! what nonsense! She
2715 II, IV | he had had coffee, and a sixty-point game of billiards with the
2716 I, II | how men can admire your skeletons. In my time they demanded
2717 I, III| every day.~But Liverdy, more skeptical, and pretending to know
2718 I, I | was being praised to the skies by both critics and public.~
2719 II, II | feathers, of down, of the skins of unknown animals, made
2720 II, IV | by one, from the narrow slits that held them. He deposited
2721 II, II | to the castle. Along the slope that formed a boundary on
2722 II, III| to be more clear.”~Then, slowing raising her hands, she took
2723 II, IV | suddenly, impatience at the slowness of time, at the interminable
2724 I, III| subjects, and opened the sluices of his eloquence. The Count
2725 I, I | to grow soft and dim, to slumber among the hangings and die
2726 II, I | fatigue of the roasted city, slumbering and perspiring like a~workman
2727 I, III| gray beard, said, with a sly expression:~“I, too, always
2728 II, I | superlatively correct, and he slyly questioned Olivier about
2729 II, VI | for the stings of jealousy smart afresh like reopened wounds.
2730 II, I | perspires, the~beggar, and she smells frightfully through her
2731 I, I | in its turn, he murmured smilingly:~“The law! Let us salute
2732 I, III| the spray thrown over the smooth turf. White statues on their
2733 II, II | corrected so many times, smoothing away the marks of fatigue,
2734 II, VI | waiting, watching the almost smothered flames as they crept up
2735 I, I | out, as one would skin a snake. The arm appeared, white,
2736 II, III| issued slender, twisting snakes of color, he turned from
2737 II, VI | read for yourself.”~She snatched from his hand the letter
2738 I, III| negress! I believe that they sneer at us. Look at the Comtesse
2739 I, IV | preventing himself from saying sneering things about the Marquis,
2740 II, II | slowly on her four legs, sniffing loudly. Seeing her erect,
2741 I, II | which melt before reason as snow before the fire, yet which
2742 I, I | velvet and silk, or hidden by snowy laces. He finished his scrutiny
2743 I, III| of chased gold, miniature snuff-boxes, ivory statuettes, objects
2744 II, VI | visage,”~in the notes that soared from his mouth there was
2745 II, VI | effort of will, she ceased to sob, uncovered her eyes and
2746 I, III| aristocratic, through all societies, all classes, all hierarchies,
2747 I, II | to a deputy, the A B C of sociology for the use of the ruling
2748 I, I | stair-carpet seemed the softest her feet ever had pressed.
2749 I, II | the chandelier a moonlight softness and brightness. In the center
2750 I, I | about all the dinners and soirees he had attended, and to
2751 I, I | before. Moreover, Annette’s sojourn at the castle was rendered
2752 I, III| the heavy landaus, the solemn eight-spring vehicles, passed
2753 II, V | stated, a magnificent musical solemnity, for the tenor Montrose,
2754 I, I | distinguished women in Paris solicited the favor of being reproduced
2755 I, I | ones wore away. But, always solicitous, she watched over the painter’
2756 I, II | was necessary to give a solid foundation to this glory
2757 I, I | and decided that any other solution was impossible.~She would
2758 II, II | trees in the park. Their somber mass appeared like a great
2759 II, IV | riddled with shot, turning somersaults like clowns, going heels
2760 II, V | she had long periods of somnolence that made her more tranquil,
2761 I, IV | silence that was slightly somnolent, and was accustomed to fall
2762 I, II | horse, leaving a widow and a son. This young man, now nearly
2763 I, I | all the year round on her son-in-law’s estate at the castle of
2764 II, VI | filled with pretty little songs, and actors of talent whose
2765 I, III| him dream.~As soon as the sonorous wave from the instruments
2766 I, IV | recognized by their activity, the sonorousness of their voices, and the
2767 II, III| she regarded merely as the sons of peasants revolting from
2768 II, VI | him, and they seemed to soothe and refresh him, for his
2769 I, III| habit of calling all women Sophie.”~Olivier Bertin, very reserved,
2770 II, IV | decision with the reassuring sophism: “One loves but once! The
2771 II, IV | library to choose a good and soporific work; but his mind, aroused
2772 II, II | approaching dangers and inevitable sorrows.~Annette, with closed eyes,
2773 I, I | is strange: I am hardly sorry even!”~Then she began to
2774 II, II | overwhelming her before the soulless body of her beloved old
2775 II, III| was about to become the sovereign. How strange had been that
2776 I, II | which her teeth seemed to sparkle.~He was seated beside the
2777 I, III| the tree-tops, while the sparrows bathed in the rainbow formed
2778 I, II | savants, writers, and learned specialists, to whom he listened with
2779 II, VI | a few moments, and were specially thanked by a discreet bow
2780 II, IV | happened often that in that species of hallucination in which
2781 II, II | a little cloud of black specks, dancing and buzzing around
2782 II, VI | become this thing, this specter! “Oh, my God!” she murmured
2783 I, II | about his always successful speculations, his subtle scent as a financier,
2784 I, I | daring pleasantries and spicy jests in their society,
2785 II, II | sports.~It was Annette that spied her mother first.~“Good
2786 II, I | like liquid, as if water~spilled there were drying. The stillness
2787 I, II | shrink into folds, as if his spinal column were made of rubber;
2788 II, V | whirling, and rising in spirals up to the tops of the buildings.
2789 II, I | throw showers of white rain,~splashing the wooden pavement whence
2790 II, V | then Landa continued: “Splendid weather for sweating!”~“
2791 I, I | with her personality as a sponge absorbs water; and, in transferring
2792 II, VI | curious to read it.”~With a spontaneous, almost unthinking, movement
2793 I, IV | bedizened with gold lace, sporting a hat decorated with ostrich
2794 I, II | and the gait of an English sportsman. It was evident, at first
2795 II, II | blue dotted with tiny black spots, raised to his, he spoke
2796 II, V | yellowish wave of papers spotted by red seals, and he inhaled,
2797 I, III| by the sunshine and the spray thrown over the smooth turf.
2798 II, I | shade of the plane-trees spreads over the burning sidewalks,~
2799 II, IV | by her freshness, by that springing of beautiful clear life,
2800 II, V | leap within him as if on springs, and all the tenderness
2801 II, I | empty. On the street the sprinklers throw showers of white rain,~
2802 II, IV | without a name, something sprung from Nature, that great
2803 II, VI | National Academy of Music, squatted under the black sky, exhibited
2804 I, I | wife of a Normandy country squire, agriculturist and deputy;
2805 II, I | the vapor of damp tar~and stable refuse; and from one end
2806 II, VI | revived in their memory the stagnant recollections of their love.
2807 I, I | with impatience, and the stair-carpet seemed the softest her feet
2808 I, IV | displayed on the walls of the staircase, where they hang the special
2809 I, I | passionately because she had staked upon it all her will, her
2810 I, IV | of perspiring humanity, a stale smell of old gowns and coats,
2811 II, V | pressed it there tight, stammering: “Oh, do not lie! I suffer
2812 I, II | another girl of the same stamp, the door of the large drawing-room
2813 I, III| metal, on a high and slender standard.~“What, is it you? How fortunate!”
2814 II, IV | eyes on those vibrating stanzas, he felt that his soul was
2815 I, I | he had just risen like a star on the horizon of artistic
2816 II, II | saw her.~“Well, are you star-gazing, Countess?”~“Yes,” she answered. “
2817 II, VI | DE RIVIL.”~The Countess stared at her husband with great,
2818 II, V | would be, the newspaper stated, a magnificent musical solemnity,
2819 I, I | appreciated their functions, their stations, and their titles.~The painter
2820 I, III| miniature snuff-boxes, ivory statuettes, objects in dull silver,
2821 II, II | days. How many times have I stayed at your house for whole
2822 II, VI | too late.”~The thought of staying there alone, after the anguish
2823 II, II | sufficient strength and steadiness of nerve necessary for that
2824 I, I | now felt himself strong, steady, and master of the situation.
2825 I, III| which the boiling water steamed in a pretty, shining kettle
2826 I, II | TWIN ROSES FROM A SINGLE STEM~When Bertin entered, on
2827 II, V | houses, as if all their stems had just been cut from the
2828 I, I | the technic of art. She stepped back, advanced, made a shade
2829 II, II | was peeling. Two servants, stepping softly, began to serve the
2830 II, VI | waddling a little, his legs stiff, one hand on his hip, in
2831 II, I | which suffers so much, which stifles~you, making me suffer also
2832 II, VI | midnight excitement which stirs the Boulevards when the
2833 I, I | through the almost transparent stocking, he said: “Ah, that is what
2834 I, IV | short, active, slight or stocky, wearing foulard cravats
2835 II, V | little jealous, and he had stolen and kept her handkerchief,
2836 I, I | acquired the protruding stomach of an old wrestler, although
2837 I, III| bore an inscription. The stone shafts erected on the lawns
2838 II, II | surprised.~“What, a brooch?”~“In stones of the same color; in rubies
2839 I, I | down his palette on the stool and take little Annette
2840 II, VI | handful, with swift movements, stooping and rising again quickly,
2841 II, II | used to wear, as if she had stored her memory with relics;
2842 I, II | impression of being a veritable storehouse of ideas, one of those vast
2843 I, III| something of himself, added a strain of egoism to his sentiments
2844 II, II | that he had experienced the strangest, the most puzzling, yet
2845 II, I | and~larger, stifling me, strangling me. The physician that was
2846 II, II | whose hives, thatched with straw, lined the wall of the vegetable-garden,
2847 I, I | OF HEARTS~Broad daylight streamed down into the vast studio
2848 I, I | cigarette, whistled a popular street-song, bent down and picked up
2849 II, III| above all, you must eat strengthening food, take beef-tea, no
2850 II, III| without laying too much stress on the matter, her alarmingly
2851 I, I | Olivier Bertin of it, in strict confidence.~“Then your husband’
2852 II, III| in life indicating more strictly her apparent duties toward
2853 II, V | thought, he walked with long strides through the vast room, lighted
2854 II, VI | sunken as if drawn by a string from within.~He saw the
2855 I, III| an old banker to a young stripling. Does she know or reflect
2856 I, III| letter aroused him like the stroke of a whip. It was three
2857 I, I | walls, where thought abides, struggles, and becomes exhausted in
2858 II, VI | painting. Bertin showed some studies, and begged Musadieu to
2859 II, VI | Count, dazed, followed her stumblingly, feeling his way with his
2860 II, VI | her stop. His heart was stung by a new torment. He did
2861 II, III| reflector, and said:~“Isn’t this stupefying?”~The Duchess was so greatly
2862 I, I | and feared to commit some stupidity. He cut short the sitting
2863 II, VI | Faust, the mysterious and sublime Faust who sings the horrible
2864 II, V | definitely hers, conquered, submissive, passionately devoted for
2865 I, I | it! I closed my eyes. I submitted for a few seconds, a few
2866 I, III| because of its cost, the subscription price being four hundred
2867 I, III| breakfast with him, in some suburb of Paris, as she had already
2868 I, I | something which a painter seldom succeeds in unveiling— that reflection,
2869 II, VI | yes!” several times in succession, without his mind having
2870 II, III| husband, she asked Him to succor her. When her father died,
2871 II, VI | cheeks seemed to have been sucked in from the interior of
2872 II, V | anger and mingled emotion suffocated him, revealing to him the
2873 I, II | you will see them laugh to suffocation. Go to the soldiers’ quarters,
2874 II, II | outside, where she was giving sugar to the horses:~“Yes, yes,
2875 I, I | foot; and what mystery it suggests: the hidden limb, lost yet
2876 I, III| the day after to-morrow suit you, my dear Duchess?” asked
2877 I, III| a special entertainment suited to my tastes. As I paint
2878 I, IV | smiling like an accepted suitor, caressing with his glances
2879 II, II | come,” he replied, rather sulkily. “All the same, what you
2880 II, I | work is exasperating. I~summon my models; I place them,
2881 II, VI | cascade of bare shoulders, sumptuous gowns, and black coats.
2882 II, I | crisis, which must be a sun-stroke in Indian~summer. What I
2883 II, II | her friend’s last until Sunday, and now she wished to go
2884 II, III| attend mass at one o’clock on Sundays, gave alms for herself directly,
2885 II, VI | time.~But suddenly a phrase sung by Montrose with irresistible
2886 II, VI | face, and his eyes were sunken as if drawn by a string
2887 I, IV | man; harvesters, rivers, a sunset, a moonlight effect—in short,
2888 II, VI | evening of life, like a superannuated functionary whose career
2889 I, II | beings, vaguely agitated by superficial cares, beliefs, and appetites.~
2890 I, I | being that judges itself of superior essence. This brought about
2891 I, II | often, with conviction, the superiority of that painting.~“Indeed,”
2892 II, I | with three thin young men, superlatively correct, and he slyly questioned
2893 II, VI | in her soul the shock of supernatural terror, and recoiled as
2894 II, VI | spoken, lashed by vague and superstitious fears; then she went to
2895 I, I | them, some evening after supper, might follow him and please
2896 I, II | ordinary things, with a suppleness of thought that put him
2897 II, VI | burn both our hearts!”~He supplicated her, his face drawn with
2898 II, II | other modest tradesmen who supplied the needs of the peasants.~
2899 II, II | Divine aid, of a superhuman support against approaching dangers
2900 II, III| thing as that on this simple supposition and ridiculous reasoning: ‘
2901 II, III| and loyal arguments that supposititious conviction, he felt indignant
2902 I, II | The Duchess, shaken by the suppressed merriment of fat persons,
2903 I, II | pious and correct to a supreme degree; by respecting all
2904 II, IV | It was indeed one of her surest powers over the painter’
2905 II, V | whenever she saw the polished surface of the dreaded crystal,
2906 I, II | culture or for domestic surgery.~The painters, with whom
2907 II, II | of strange shapes, like surgical instruments for operations
2908 I, III| identity might be the better surmised. The banker Liverdy indicated
2909 II, II | coquetry, bearing her arms surmounted by a coronet. There they
2910 I, I | maintain them, in order to surround him with all the little
2911 II, V | he wished to forget them, suspecting that the marriage had been
2912 II, II | the lawn, as if they were suspended at the end of elastic threads.
2913 II, V | so allay the Countess’s suspicions, and keep for himself a
2914 II, IV | might do or say would appear suspicious to the mother. He reached
2915 I, I | their arms to receive and sustain it. Do you understand?”~
2916 II, IV | Your mother has already sustained that opinion with me a hundred
2917 I, II | furious, tried to make her swallow some mineral water, but
2918 II, III| allowed her feelings full sway, and the Countess was somewhat
2919 I, I | expression of a man when swayed by a gallant fancy.~Then
2920 II, V | continued: “Splendid weather for sweating!”~“Yes, magnificent.”~“Have
2921 II, V | supported by the illustrious Swedish singer, Helsson, who had
2922 I, IV | those waves of joy that sweep over Paris, on certain days,
2923 II, IV | by one, with precision, sweeter even than at the time they
2924 II, III| was one of the best and sweetest little pleasures that belonged
2925 II, IV | passing, insensibly and sweetly, in this pretty work of
2926 II, II | moment she felt her throat swelling with sobs and her eyes filling
2927 I, I | as one who knows how to swim, yet wishes to die, ties
2928 I, I | front of it and began to swing the dumb-bell, meanwhile
2929 II, II | were drawn, her eyelids swollen, her skin looked yellow;
2930 II, II | fell into hysterics and swooned, all her accumulated grief
2931 II, VI | appeared in silken doublet, a sword by his side, a plumed cap
2932 I, I | strength and agility as a swordsman and an equestrian, had added
2933 II, VI | murmur: “Bring her . . . you swore to me.”~Then he writhed
2934 I, II | European aristocracy, and the sworn protector of artists of
2935 I, III| white clusters, the showy sycamores, the graceful plane-trees
2936 I, III| beyond the mere sound of the syllables, though sometimes they awoke
2937 II, II | whose hearts mingle as they sympathize with each other’s grief.~
2938 I, III| Rocdiane and the Comte Landa sympathized with him. Both were older
2939 I, III| was playing one of Haydn’s symphonies, and when Bertin’s eyelids
2940 I, III| was also an assortment of syrups, liqueurs, and glasses;
2941 I, II | explaining to Musadieu the system of a threshing-machine invented
2942 II, III| guarantee their ability, whose tact at least equals mere skill,
2943 I, III| the master of the club, Taillade, against the tall Rocdiane.~
2944 I, III| elegance, but although his tailor turned him out in correct
2945 II, IV | their white bellies and tails at every bound. Except for
2946 II, I | Heavens, yes! I find Paris tainted this summer.”~“Oh, well,
2947 II, IV | the Madeleine to the Rue Taitbout; after passing three times
2948 I, III| dainty ribbons, made her talkative and communicative.~She walked
2949 I, III| those evenings when one talks without fatigue with old
2950 II, I | gather round him that almost tangible something left with us by
2951 II, VI | the material thirst of Tantalus, the devoured heart of Prometheus!
2952 II, VI | suddenly the sharp little tap of a bow on the leader’s
2953 II, V | to read or write in the tapestried drawing-room, her mind,
2954 I, III| standing.~The conductor tapped his desk with his bow; the
2955 II, I | rises the vapor of damp tar~and stable refuse; and from
2956 II, II | court for tennis, and a tarry net, stretched across this
2957 II, VI | as might be this terrible task.~When the fireplace was
2958 I, II | ignorant of the intoxication of tasting the joys of life and of
2959 I, III| drawing-room, bearing the tea-table, on which the boiling water
2960 I, III| what?”~“Tell me what your teachers have taught you. Did you
2961 II, II | more, just two or three. He teaches me so well how to play tennis.
2962 II, V | flowing. And then on those tearful eyes he pressed his lips
2963 I, I | woman that understands the technic of art. She stepped back,
2964 I, II | explanations that were too technical or were useless to him,
2965 I, II | the portrait all the art technicalities of the day in praise of
2966 II, II | for departure, wrote some telegrams, even ordering her dinner
2967 I, IV | joy of throwing into the telegraph-box, on going out at three o’
2968 II, IV | this sudden attack of bad temper? He thought: “I am becoming
2969 II, V | animal-like sound of a passing tempest, and at the same time a
2970 II, V | Your Chamber does not tempt me.”~Annette approached
2971 I, I | free, so susceptible to temptation—he who lived without duties,
2972 II, II | might not see him or be tempted to call to him, when he
2973 II, II | tried to purchase it by tempting her coquetry.~“Tell me,”
2974 II, V | MOON~Fixed ideas have the tenacity of incurable maladies. Once
2975 I, I | to satirical banter, that tendency of the French to mingle
2976 II, II | space had been leveled for a tennis-court, was a great, square grass-plot,
2977 II, V | toilet-table, and with a tension of thought as ardent as
2978 I, I | listening to his thoughts, as we test while listening to detect
2979 I, I | questions that seemed naïve, tested his tenderness while listening
2980 I, I | verifying his perspectives and testing the truth, he placed himself
2981 I, I | expression to the lightest textiles.”~He walked around her,
2982 I, IV | close to her, loving her and thanking her for every word that
2983 II, II | the bees, whose hives, thatched with straw, lined the wall
2984 II, VI | representatives of this work at the Theatre Lyrique, of its half success
2985 | thee
2986 II, IV | to give a meaning to the themes, and to seek a sort of tender
2987 II, III| in Him firmly, adored Him theoretically, feared Him very vaguely,
2988 I, I | uncertain love they spun theories and fancies all the afternoon.
2989 I, IV | reputation as an ingenious theorist of which he was proud, tried
2990 II, VI | roulades, who showed his thighs and displayed his voice,
2991 II, IV | as we drink water when thirsty.~“Well,” said the Countess, “
2992 I, III| after they have passed the thirtieth year. The child is right.
2993 II, V | beside him every morning on a thoroughbred.~They found themselves betrothed
2994 I, I | as if under the shadow of threatening illness, though nothing
2995 I, II | Musadieu the system of a threshing-machine invented in America, had
2996 I, I | had united and mingled, thrilling together with the deepest
2997 II, VI | dressed like queens, whose throats and ears scattered flashing
2998 I, II | the props of the future throne, one of the counselors of
2999 I, III| curves through grassy lawns, throngs of people, sitting on iron
3000 II, II | fastened them up in place, thrusting hairpins into the golden
3001 I, III| Corbelles’. Come over here Thursday, at three o’clock, if you
3002 II, V | its monotonous and regular tic-tac: “It goes, it goes, it goes!”
3003 II, V | silence of the night to the ticking of the clock, which seemed
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