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3004 I, I | which hardly loosened the tie that united the Comtesse
3005 I, I | desired and himself, had been tied in a few moments that mysterious
3006 II, II | a cuirass, another in a tight-fitting coat, this a powdered officer
3007 II, II | white flannels, fitting tightly over the hips, a white shirt,
3008 II, VI | he execrated that man in tights, who was illuminating the
3009 I, III| his high gray felt hat, tilted a little toward the back
3010 II, VI | second time the vibrating tinkle broke the stillness of the
3011 I, I | movement of her face, all the tints of her flesh, every shadow
3012 II, I | restaurant where bald, fat, tired-looking men are~eating, with half-opened
3013 II, V | forehead, the weakening of the tissues of the cheeks and throat,
3014 II, II | thought: “I feel better today. I must be less pale.”~“
3015 I, III| whose bright and striking toilette diffused among the carriages
3016 I, II | Authoritative, brusque, barely tolerating any other opinion than her
3017 I, III| column, supported an ivy; a tombstone bore an inscription. The
3018 II, IV | been written in a foreign tongue. He was determined, however,
3019 I, I | reputation to those whose tongues have become supple in this
3020 I, I | led him back to the sole topic that interested them.~By
3021 II, V | rising in spirals up to the tops of the buildings. The wind
3022 II, II | love even my anxieties, my torments, my jealousies, the pain
3023 II, II | her; then, when she had torn open the despatch and recognized
3024 II, V | with the invincible and torturing need of looking at herself,
3025 I, II | played with ideas as one tosses a ball, without perceiving
3026 II, VI | blonde Marguerite replied so touchingly the whole house was moved
3027 I, III| her hotel and then make a tour of the Bois. We must show
3028 II, VI | tresor qui les contient tous—~Je veux la jeunesse.”~And
3029 II, V | irritating and familiar toy that the hand cannot let
3030 II, III| along the Boulevard, and the tradesman’s face so often seen behind
3031 I, I | had been the defender of traditions, and had evoked, like so
3032 II, VI | had seemed so gloomy, so tragic, she understood so clearly
3033 II, II | her inattention. Julio, trained to seek and find the lost
3034 II, VI | diamonds, and whose long trains swept the stairs.~The theater
3035 I, I | love has foreseen the moral traits and physical charms of her
3036 II, IV | it was like the terrible tramping of a prisoner in his cell.
3037 II, V | a single night the last trances of summer.~All along the
3038 II, IV | her swift glances only to transfer them immediately to the
3039 I, I | sponge absorbs water; and, in transferring to canvas that emanation
3040 II, VI | life he had immediately transformed into a sort of accessory
3041 II, V | another face has pleased him, transforming him in a few days almost
3042 II, IV | passionate expectancy that transforms the soul of youth into the
3043 I, I | And when she pardons that transgression, she is not far from love!~
3044 II, V | was one of those days of transition which mark the end of one
3045 I, I | declared that he wished to translate the first impression she
3046 I, I | all the expression and the translucence of her eyes, every secret
3047 I, I | he simply fallen into the trap set by her coquetry, which
3048 II, V | Olivier asked: “Will they travel?”~“Yes, for three months.”~“
3049 II, VI | which might be the last, traveled back through the years,
3050 II, I | become uneasy, exactly like a~traveler that has lost his way in
3051 I, II | whom he served as a sort of traveling bazaar of erudition. As
3052 II, VI | his mind:~“I would have a treasure that embraces all—Youth!”~
3053 I, II | and when they parted, a treaty of alliance had been concluded.~
3054 I, III| over the pretty rocks; a tree, truncated like a column,
3055 I, III| meet one another from the tree-tops, while the sparrows bathed
3056 II, V | through a cupola and through trefoils of colored glass into the
3057 II, VI | now and then, with slight tremors which the Countess felt
3058 II, VI | saying to Satan:~“Je veux un tresor qui les contient tous—~Je
3059 I, I | employing toward him all the tricks of cowardly coquettes who
3060 I, III| boxes of the concierges trilled loudly; only the ancient
3061 II, VI | in their opera-cloaks, trimmed with fur, feathers, and
3062 I, I | exhibited on his return from a trip to Africa, and a portrait
3063 II, I | husband is making some~little trips around the country, and
3064 I, IV | surrounding the father like a triumphal chorus.~On the four great
3065 I, IV | sentimentalities and nameless trivialities of the passing fancy of
3066 I, III| and the horses began to trot, from one end of the avenue
3067 I, III| victoria, drawn by a single trotter, bearing along at a reckless
3068 I, II | health of the horses; then trotting through the avenues of the
3069 II, V | daughter away from her, like a troublesome and tenacious guest; and
3070 I, III| with leather vests, their trousers tight around the ankles,
3071 II, VI | the great affair of the trousseau until evening.~The Duchess
3072 I, III| way of expressing life, truer and more original; and suddenly
3073 I, III| the pretty rocks; a tree, truncated like a column, supported
3074 I, III| graceful plane-trees with their trunks designedly polished, set
3075 II, V | hastened to say. “But I trust that Annette will not marry
3076 II, V | would not understand, he trusted to events, to the unforeseen
3077 II, III| the thin board the leaden tubes whence issued slender, twisting
3078 I, IV | hearing only her in that tumultuous throng.~By way of expressing
3079 II, I | Each one has~his own little tune, or tunes, which I have
3080 II, I | his own little tune, or tunes, which I have heard for
3081 I, III| and distant sound of the tuning of violins reached their
3082 I, II | should be provoked by French turbulence and by the rodomontades
3083 I, III| spray thrown over the smooth turf. White statues on their
3084 II, I | that every~night means a Turkish bath of eight or nine hours.
3085 I, I | vague, heavy odor of paint, turpentine, and tobacco was in the
3086 I, I | Sitting on the floor, a la Turque, he seized her shoe and
3087 I, III| The weather was warm, the turtle-doves were cooing among the branches,
3088 I, II | her, and I don’t dare to tutoyer the young lady!”~The Countess
3089 I, III| him of the baths of his twentieth year, when he used to plunge
3090 I, II | This young man, now nearly twenty-eight years of age, was one of
3091 II, I | Guilleroy as during those twenty-four hours of waiting. When he
3092 I, II | CHAPTER II~TWIN ROSES FROM A SINGLE STEM~
3093 II, II | uneasy, and the nervous twitching of their skin, to get rid
3094 II, I | men sat down on a little two-seated sofa in a corner of the
3095 II, VI | clothes, hooking, clasping, tying, and fastening at hap-hazard;
3096 I, I | bachelor a multitude of petty, tyrannical needs, when she had become
3097 II, VI | saying to Satan:~“Je veux un tresor qui les contient
3098 II, II | night, the same joyful and unburdened hearts, the gaiety of which
3099 II, V | She reproached herself unceasingly for feeling that yearning
3100 II, IV | you?”~He began to laugh unconcernedly, as he replied: “Oh. I am
3101 II, IV | and he looked at it with unconquerable indifference, with such
3102 II, V | labored against it with unconscious skill, convinced of the
3103 I, II | evening before.~The artist was unconvinced by this, and with quiet
3104 II, VI | will, she ceased to sob, uncovered her eyes and fixed them,
3105 I, II | warmly, excusing himself in unctuous words for having left them
3106 I, III| lay near it, some of them uncut: the Arts modernes, which
3107 II, II | correcting imperfections, underlining the eyes, beautifying the
3108 I, I | and lifted them to look underneath.~Bertin approached her,
3109 II, VI | the doctor were talking in undertones, discussing the care to
3110 I, III| young persons who posed undraped before the painter at ten
3111 II, I | and go to bed, and while I undress~I think that the same thing
3112 II, V | carpet shivered, stirred, undulated from one sidewalk to another,
3113 I, I | country two governesses, with unexceptionable diplomas, and had visited
3114 II, I | discover anything in the unexplored corner that I~have been
3115 II, VI | he suddenly realized its unfathomable depth, for it seemed to
3116 II, VI | He tore off the envelope, unfolded the paper, uttered an exclamation
3117 I, III| baccarat-table of the club, which unfortunately he knew so well.~He went
3118 II, VI | eyes, she said:~“Oh, how unhappy you are!”~This time he did
3119 II, VI | and the need of talking, unheard, of hearing the thousand
3120 I, I | the usual hour in slow, unhurried fashion.~Several times already
3121 II, V | paralyzed by that black uniform which marked her pallor
3122 II, VI | this moment, by a wave of unimaginable agony that he could not
3123 I, I | sentiments, and he had often unintentionally made her sad, without knowing
3124 II, VI | sort of fairy flight, an uninterrupted mounting of ladies dressed
3125 I, III| the only thing that really unites two lives.”~“My poor friend!”
3126 I, I | which prevents any real unity between artists and fashionable
3127 II, III| admit the existence of the universe without the existence of
3128 II, III| of having suspected him unjustly.~She let him talk for some
3129 | unless
3130 | unlike
3131 II, I | new subjects seemed to me~unlimited, and in order to express
3132 II, I | for me under the~sun. An unmarried man should be young, curious,
3133 I, III| inamoratas to be guessed by unmistakable hints—society women whose
3134 II, V | the Republic; the Marquis, unmistakably in love, answered him brightly,
3135 II, VI | this, you will torture me, unnerve me, drive me mad. Think—
3136 I, IV | destined to share his bed, unnerved and revolted him, as if
3137 II, II | willingly to the pleasure of unpremeditated and exquisite sensuous delight.
3138 II, III| villainy, of an infamy so unqualifiable; and he resolved, when the
3139 II, III| hide what he will; and the unreasoning memory of the dazzling glare
3140 II, II | change of influence become unrecognizable from one day to another.
3141 I, III| Along the wide walks, which unroll their massive and artistic
3142 I, I | the past of this liaison unrolled itself before him. He recalled
3143 I, III| his mind was still full of unsaid things, his heart still
3144 I, III| houses, furniture, sweet or unsavory, the warm odors of summer
3145 II, III| reentered the studio. Annette, unsuspicious, had resumed her reading,
3146 II, II | riper bloom but was less untamed. First, a child of the city,
3147 II, VI | With a spontaneous, almost unthinking, movement he took the copy,
3148 I, I | painter seldom succeeds in unveiling— that reflection, that mystery,
3149 I, II | history, studying dates unweariedly, but mistaking the lesson
3150 II, III| against the Countess, utterly unwilling to concede that she had
3151 I, III| sofa at the end of a long, unwound thread, he looked at the
3152 II, VI | note to write, my child. Go up-stairs, and I will join you in
3153 I, IV | in front of the buffet, upholding or attacking the same ideas
3154 I, I | suffering, as a loyal and upright man—he would remain in future
3155 II, III| is sufficient. I know the uprightness of your heart. I know that
3156 II, VI | seating themselves amid an uproar of voices.~From the stage-box,
3157 I, III| her knees, her eyes gazing upward, her soul having apparently
3158 I, III| their brethren, the street urchins; the dogs appeared in a
3159 II, V | hasten Annette’s marriage too urgently, because of their recent
3160 II, IV | of an irritated man who uses ten matches to light his
3161 | using
3162 I, II | sources, from household utensils to the popular instruments
3163 I, III| women whose names he did not utter, so that their identity
3164 II, II | hesitating, and earnest utterance of the consecrated words
3165 II, V | CHAPTER V~A WANING MOON~Fixed ideas
3166 I, I | Your concierge’s lodge was vacant, and as I know you are always
3167 I, III| There were all the nocturnal vagabonds of Paris, idlers and workers,
3168 II, VI | moments of terror the most valiant of creatures.~Turning to
3169 II, V | mother had disappeared, vanished, leaving in her place that
3170 II, II | earth exhaled imperceptible vapors which threw a light, transparent
3171 II, IV | the world, distracting and varied as a play, stirring also
3172 I, IV | high double ladder of the varnishers, who cried: “Make way, Messieurs!
3173 I, IV | present at the pretended varnishing of three thousand four hundred
3174 II, III| attempt to make them her vassals, she saw plainly that her
3175 II, IV | passing three times before the Vaudeville, he asked himself whether
3176 II, I | flabby filet, the warmed-over~vegetables, the purulent cheese, the
3177 II, IV | smoke cigarettes, with the vehemence of an irritated man who
3178 I, I | yet imagined beneath its veiling folds of drapery!”~Sitting
3179 II, III| practitioner who lifts all veils that she was consulting
3180 I, III| passed through the Avenue Velasquez and entered the gilded and
3181 II, I | through her sewer mouths, the~vent-holes of sinks and kitchens, the
3182 II, VI | authoritative tone to which no one ventures a reply, the necessities
3183 II, III| you?”~She seemed on the verge of hysterics.~“Leave me!
3184 I, II | the impression of being a veritable storehouse of ideas, one
3185 I, III| alike that the latter was veritably a continuation of the former,
3186 I, II | the encyclopedia of Jules Verne, bound in ass’s skin!”~The
3187 I, I | executive ability and great versatility, due in some degree to his
3188 II, V | tear from her body those vestments of death which made her
3189 I, III| gray linen, with leather vests, their trousers tight around
3190 II, II | excited, uttered cries of vexation or of triumph, and flew
3191 II, VI | CHAPTER VI~THE ASHES OF LOVE~On the
3192 II, III| by means of an abbe, the vicar of her parish.~She had often
3193 I, III| titles, qualities, and vices, as if they all lived in
3194 II, IV | the little one; I am the victim of a resemblance.”~However,
3195 I, IV | Oriental street full of dead victims of the plague, and the Shade
3196 II, III| like! Give her a volume of Victor Hugo.”~“’La Legende des
3197 I, III| distanced suddenly by a rapid victoria, drawn by a single trotter,
3198 II, II | She had succeeded, always victorious in that struggle. Her heart,
3199 I, I | amused by this game, this victory that was becoming more and
3200 I, II | sometimes requested to go to Vienna or to London to crown in
3201 II, II | all three set out for the village.~They were obliged to go
3202 I, I | for having behaved like a villain!~He returned home full of
3203 II, III| dared suspect him of such villainy, of an infamy so unqualifiable;
3204 II, VI | s door, in the Avenue de Villiers, Bertin asked: “Will you
3205 I, III| separate drive for cabs—that of Vincennes, for instance.”~“You are
3206 I, III| distant sound of the tuning of violins reached their ears.~“Ah,
3207 I, I | Drawn toward him by her virgin heart and her empty soul,
3208 I, I | kisses, and I am no longer a virtuous woman. A few seconds in
3209 I, II | distinguished; by dint of visiting only the most princely houses,
3210 I, I | dazzling blue, a bright vista of limitless heights of
3211 I, I | themselves a surprising vital force, an indomitable power
3212 II, IV | write verses. Quick and vivacious phrases rose to his lips,
3213 I, IV | the crudity of new color, vivified by fresh varnish, blinding
3214 I, II | and had met the Grand Duke Vladimir, returning from Cannes,
3215 II, V | a passionate impulse of voluntary servitude; he was beginning
3216 II, V | appetite for happiness, more voracious even than before, and a
3217 I, III| J’en ai!” “Touche!” “A vous!”~In the fencing-hall the
3218 I, III| extended itself to a long voyage, with the two women always
3219 I, I | attention at the man who was vulgarly loquacious in his interest
3220 II, VI | and, more terrible than a vulture’s beak, a little blonde
3221 II, VI | disappeared between two wings, waddling a little, his legs stiff,
3222 I, III| many of them. Now, I’ll wager that, down in the bottom
3223 II, II | jaws, and brought it back, wagging his tail.~The painter now
3224 II, I | eating, with half-opened waistcoats and moist, shining foreheads.~
3225 I, IV | which ran the distracted waiters, holding along their arms
3226 II, IV | compliments, that little wake of flattering emotion which
3227 II, IV | in his heart. Dreading a wakeful night, one of those enervating
3228 I, II | breakfasting with the Prince of Wales, on his way through Paris,
3229 I, II | to London to crown in the waltz some princely ball. Although
3230 II, IV | in the street a desire to wander took possession of him,
3231 II, II | more ecstasy, only selfish wants. And then I know quite well
3232 II, I | bread, the flabby filet, the warmed-over~vegetables, the purulent
3233 I, II | Guilleroy entered, shook hands warmly, excusing himself in unctuous
3234 II, I | I eat and the fire that warms me.~“Adieu! Return soon.
3235 I, I | overcome her. She might try to wash away that fact and answer
3236 I, III| of nurses or the anxious watchfulness of mothers. Two enormous
3237 I, IV | galleries where the drawings and water-colors are hung, overlooking the
3238 I, I | rheumatism had sent him to watering-places at some distance, which
3239 II, II | of the carriage, Olivier waved his handkerchief as he saw
3240 II, II | to which she responded by waving him a salutation from the
3241 II, V | wrinkles upon her forehead, the weakening of the tissues of the cheeks
3242 II, VI | only by right of birth and wealth.~Until the end of the performance
3243 I, I | advocates, financiers, or wealthy idlers, amused her as actors
3244 I, IV | turned-down brims shadowing the wearer’s whole chest. Others were
3245 II, IV | liaison, of which he had not wearied, proved it to him beyond
3246 II, I | walking straight before me wearies and~bores me inexpressibly.
3247 II, V | irresolute as a whirling weather-vane.~In seeking some distraction
3248 II, VI | dressmaker, at the time of a wedding, is very important. I will
3249 I, I | rings one by one, and as the wedding-ring fell in its turn, he murmured
3250 II, VI | tenderly, that her heart was weighed down by sad presentiments.~
3251 II, II | recollection of the dead weighing on their spirits. Arrived
3252 I, I | extended her hand in graceful welcome.~“And so it is true,” said
3253 I, I | and whom the Institute welcomes thenceforth. He had entered
3254 I, III| in which were seated very well-bred ladies and gentlemen. The
3255 II, V | hips, with the easy air of well-made men, who never feel embarrassed
3256 I, III| Musset, Manon Lescaut, Werther; and, to show that she was
3257 II, II | fell to earth, seeming to wet the leaves that were spread
3258 II, II | invisible path among the wheat and the oats a blue blouse
3259 I, IV | all others.”~With artful wheedling, she crowned him anew, having
3260 II, VI | over by an~omnibus, the wheel of which passed over his
3261 I, I | disuniting them. The chain wherewith she had attached him to
3262 I, III| to fall, and there was a whisper of scandal about the Marquis
3263 I, I | woman.~He felt a desire to whistle, as he did in the presence
3264 I, I | tossed away his cigarette, whistled a popular street-song, bent
3265 I, III| as we grow gray, and the whiter our hair becomes the more
3266 II, II | the eyelids to look at the whites of her eyes. Then she opened
3267 II, VI | before its doors the pompous, whitish facade and marble colonnade
3268 II, IV | drinking her youthful beauty wholesomely, as we drink water when
3269 II, V | a candle again and lie, wide-eyed, thinking how insomnia and
3270 II, I | your orchard full of little wild-flowers that flavor~the air with
3271 II, I | CHAPTER I~A WILLING ENVOY~“Paris, July 20, 11
3272 I, IV | some naked nymphs under a willow-tree, and near by was a vessel
3273 I, I | which executes whatever one wills— books, laces, houses, pyramids,
3274 II, II | and, not being able to win her attention he tried to
3275 II, V | had gone out. Through the window-panes the cold air penetrated
3276 II, II | night air, and leaned on the window-sill, gazing at the moon.~A slight
3277 II, II | baker, the butcher, the wine-merchant, and several other modest
3278 II, II | flies now with only one wing, and mounts less frequently
3279 I, I | clasp in full embrace that winged and magnificent dream which
3280 I, I | allowed him the triumph of winning her back, which revived
3281 II, II | her eyelids grow moist she wiped them away quickly, rose,
3282 II, V | make it enjoyable, were withdrawing from her, because she was
3283 II, VI | She felt her sympathy wither up under a breath of jealousy;
3284 I, IV | constantly, and set her wits to contriving plans whereby
3285 II, VI | fleeing under his burden of woe.~Up to the time of the departure
3286 II, II | in the ripe grace of her womanhood, over that blooming young
3287 I, I | all the desolation of that womanly heart. He was moved to pity,
3288 II, III| hats which she chose were wonderfully becoming; she could not
3289 I, III| stream of equipages wide and wondering eager eyes. Occasionally,
3290 II, I | white rain,~splashing the wooden pavement whence rises the
3291 II, V | lanterns. Then a negro with woolly head, attired only in a
3292 II, IV | The Countess took from her work-table a little gold case that
3293 I, I | Intelligent, enthusiastic, a worker that clung to his changing
3294 I, III| vagabonds of Paris, idlers and workers, all those who from seven
3295 II, I | slumbering and perspiring like a~workman asleep on a bench in the
3296 I, III| curious gold and silver workmanship on the back. Bertin took
3297 I, I | designed and executed by workmen dreaming of love.~He had
3298 I, II | fashionable and the artistic worlds, pluming himself on his
3299 II, V | fact that his heart was worm-eaten with love! All that they
3300 II, VI | Count who repeated:~“Do not worry yourself, my dear. Within
3301 II, II | after them. There he is now, worrying the cows! Oh, how funny
3302 II, III| know how loyal you are, worthy of all esteem and of every
3303 I, III| earlier.~Then when he had woven this hallucination, he turned
3304 II, V | heart.~He undressed quickly, wrapping around his body the light
3305 I, IV | plump flesh began to be wrinkled and took on a yellowish
3306 I, I | which drooped from her wrist. The rings sparkled on her
3307 II, V | inspired!”~She seized his wrists, and looking deep into his
3308 I, II | Academies, with all the savants, writers, and learned specialists,
3309 II, VI | you swore to me.”~Then he writhed under the bedclothes, his
3310 I, III| repeat. He appeared greatly wrought up over the matter, as he
3311 II, IV | short, is not so much Madame X. or Monsieur Z.; it is a
3312 I, III| et le Noir, La Femme au XVIII Siecle, Adolphe.~Beside
3313 II, I | another on them!~“After yawning as many times as there are
3314 I, I | divan where he had made her yield to him.~He remained there
3315 II, VI | voice of the woman that yields; and together they sighed
3316 II, IV | much Madame X. or Monsieur Z.; it is a women or a man,
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