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1 1 | in memory of their youth, and after dinner they chatted
2 1 | remained intimate friends, and enjoying each other's society,
3 1 | especially of what interested and amused Parisians. Their
4 2 | Parisian life in its fullest and most whimsical manner. He
5 2 | the world in its widest and best sense, gifted with
6 2 | everything he saw, met with and found, anecdotes at once
7 2 | anecdotes at once comical and philosophical, and made
8 2 | comical and philosophical, and made humorous remarks that
9 3 | the after dinner speaker and had his own story each time,
10 3 | upon which they counted, and he talked without having
11 7 | at all that is passing by and all that is going on.~
12 8 | their comparative charms and finally decides according
13 8 | when the sun is very bright and the air warm, it takes away
14 9 | warm. I lighted a cigar and sauntered aimlessly along
15 9 | walk as far as Montmartre and go into the cemetery.~
16 10| cemeteries. They rest me and give me a feeling of sadness;
17 10| feeling of sadness; I need it. And, besides, I have good friends
18 10| longer goes to call on, and I go there from time to
19 11| regrets of all kinds. And I go to dream beside her
20 12| And then I like cemeteries because
21 12| beings take up so much room and make so much noise -- imbeciles
22 13| Cathedral of Rouen. All modern and realistic art has originated
23 14| last grisette, very old and now janitress in the neighborhood.
24 14| Millet, but ruined by dirt and neglect. Sing of youth,
25 15| in Montmartre Cemetery, and was all at once filled with
26 16| the death of the leaves, and the weakened, weary, anaemic
27 16| the sensation of solitude and of finality that hovered
28 17| other, do not sleep together and do not read the newspapers.
29 17| not read the newspapers. And I began to read the epitaphs.
30 17| spleen are these marble slabs and these crosses where the
31 17| happiness of the vanished ones and their hope of rejoining
32 18| solitary, full of great yews and cypresses, the older portion,
33 18| to those dead long since, and which will soon be taken
34 19| soon have had enough of it and that I must place the faithful
35 19| was so dainty, so loving and so white and fresh -- and
36 19| so loving and so white and fresh -- and now -- if one
37 19| and so white and fresh -- and now -- if one should open
38 20| doubtless did not hear, and was moving away when I saw
39 21| her face with her hands and, standing there in meditation,
40 21| shadow of her concealed and closed eyes, she herself
41 21| quick motions of her neck and shoulders. Suddenly she
42 21| They were full of tears and charming, the eyes of a
43 21| looked at me, seemed abashed and hid her face completely
44 21| she sobbed convulsively, and her head slowly bent down
45 21| leaned her forehead on it, and her veil spreading around
46 21| cheek on the marble slab and remained motionless, unconscious.~
47 23| I was affected to tears and redoubled my attentions.
48 23| that she would be polite and grateful. She was, and amid
49 23| polite and grateful. She was, and amid more tears she told
50 23| had married him for love, and being an orphan, she had
51 24| comforted her, raised her and lifted her on her feet.
52 36| And we set off together, she
53 40| alone in one's home, night and day, to have no one on whom
54 41| carriage. She accepted, and in the cab we sat so close
55 45| And, by Jove, I went in. Everything
56 45| rather poor, but simple and in good taste.~
57 46| by side on a little sofa and she began to talk again
58 47| She was really pretty, and she gazed at me with her
59 47| clear eyes, gazed so hard and her eyes were so clear that
60 47| I caught her in my arms and rained kisses on her eyelids,
61 48| She freed herself and pushed me away, saying:~
62 50| kissed her on the mouth and she did not resist, and
63 50| and she did not resist, and as our glances met after
64 51| I became very attentive and, after chatting for some
65 60| on something less sombre, and went into her bedroom. When
66 60| half-mourning, charming, dainty and slender in a very simple
67 60| costume for the cemetery and one for the town.~
68 61| brightened up, grew lively and I went home with her.~
69 62| promise that I would come and see her on my return. She
70 63| things occupied my attention, and it was about a month before
71 64| the Montmartre Cemetery, and I went there.~
72 66| walking toward me, a man and a woman. Oh, horrors! As
73 67| She saw me, blushed, and as I brushed past her she
74 67| Do not recognize me!' and also seemed to say, 'Come
75 69| a wife or a sweetheart, and still troubled by the memory
76 70| And I would have liked to know
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