Émile Zola Nana Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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1 14| Oh, it’s this way: 405, 403. We ought to be there. Ah, 2 14| 401!”~“Oh, it’s this way: 405, 403. We ought to be there. 3 14| my dear. And then came ‘48! Oh, it was a pretty disgusting 4 13| pretty!”~And he loved his abasement and delighted in being a 5 6| comforted him to the best of her ability. Oh no, he was quite beside 6 10| front of her chateau amid abjectly reverential villagers. Then 7 5| hers utterly: he would have abjured everything, sold everything, 8 10| Tatan Nene, all of them ablaze with finery; and while the 9 7| of it.”~In a fit of self–abnegation she was severe on womankind, 10 3| personality in that ancient abode, black with the damps of 11 11| Filth belowstairs, filth abovestairs, filth everywhere. That’ 12 5| appeared for some moments to absorb his attention. The feeling 13 6| and gave evidence of the absorbing curiosity with which notorious 14 1| churchlike sense of self–absorption which the place inspired, 15 13| and admired her in silent abstraction while she finished buttoning 16 13| his heavy heart and the absurdity of this life of pleasure 17 6| corner of the park wall abutting on the highroad.~All of 18 13| as to reproduce her very accent.~“’Tonfound it! Ickle man 19 5| proffer of a pinch and its acceptance allowed him a minute’s rest 20 13| such refusal had made her accessory to his act. She sank down 21 1| applauded; the clappers shouted acclamations. Then little by little the 22 5| dressing room was too small to accommodate everybody, and it became 23 12| by reason of this kind of accommodating spirit that a society sinks 24 4| with the somnolence which accompanies a long vigil, and the lamps 25 13| offer with all the grand accompaniments—sighs and tears and vows! 26 11| humble smile befitting an accomplice. “I had to attract the people 27 3| that he was observed to accost men and to engage them in 28 10| interference would have been accounted for by your age and the 29 12| without her ever dreaming of accounting for them. Twice Muffat ventured 30 5| receipts which would have accrued had His Highness only consented 31 12| suddenly ignited ruins of accumulated wealth, while Nana, although 32 6| defended himself against the accusation; he denied that it was Nana, 33 4| close quarters, the former accusing the latter of consorting 34 4| but I must say my heart ached a little—when I thought 35 7| That’s what’s good for the aches!”~And when she had turned 36 13| that did not matter; he had achieved smartness; the Figaro had 37 5| you answer to the name of Achille?”~“Exactly so! And I’m going 38 5| occasionally relieved by the acid scents of toilet waters 39 1| passes—”~Still the same acidulated voice, only that now it 40 13| round of the lake, beginning acquaintanceships which ended elsewhere. Here 41 13| mouthful Nana swallowed an acre. The foliage trembling in 42 8| enjoys after forty years of activity, and as she sat there she 43 13| Foucarmont he suffered so acutely, he thought the treachery 44 4| disfigure the young man’s name ad infinitum.~But La Faloise 45 8| for Mme Robert’s strict adherence to the proprieties. She 46 10| too–frequent visits, thus adhering to the ceremonious policy 47 5| heels while stooping to adjust the folds of her skirt. 48 4| increase their fortunes by administering the money gained by Rose 49 8| Nay, he even displayed an admirable spirit of comradeship. He 50 13| And they both stood and admired her in silent abstraction 51 11| intuition and damned Nana admiringly as became an experienced 52 1| silences full of pantomimic admissions, caused great amusement. 53 13| account. But before resignedly adopting extreme measures she tried 54 3| explain the poor child’s adoption of the religious life. Besides, 55 9| up her hands and pouted adorably at the dark and empty theater, 56 1| destroy the whole crowd of her adorers and yet sustain no injury.~ 57 5| gilded sphinxes by way of adornment in the style of the First 58 1| with their gilt–surrounding adornments. Every few seconds an attendant 59 6| whose advances she still adroitly resisted, was beseeching 60 3| was endeavoring with much adroitness to elicit news about a movement 61 7| sobs. She was being taken advaatage of when all was said and 62 13| wife’s husband infinitely advantageous to him. He would leave all 63 1| turvy by that big damsel’s advent. Rose Mignon, his star, 64 10| imaginable.~Nana had an adventure one evening when this slut 65 13| very hearth. After sundry adventures she had returned home, and 66 3| vast estates in Picardy.~“I advise you to call other people 67 12| Couldn’t he imagine the advocate of the countess amusing 68 3| drawing room. Fauchery, afar off, amused himself by following 69 11| there,” said Philippe in affirmation of this. “And he didn’t 70 7| He bowed his head in the affirmative.~“And that’s why you love 71 8| He had just had a padlock affixed to her door—quite illegally, 72 6| ailments that seemed to afflict the genus courtesan. The 73 7| everything, rebelled at this affront.~“Bitch!” he stammered.~ 74 10| indignation of a grossly affronted woman.~“Sir,” she said, “ 75 9| country. Looking farther afield, her eye fell on the small 76 1| which were all astir and aflare under the fine April night. 77 9| get his Landes saltworks afloat on ‘change. Just at that 78 6| honest women who were walking afoot. Then came Gaga, filling 79 1| which had an unpleasant aftertaste, as of milk turned sour.~ 80 1| straight upright, with mouth agape and face mottled with red, 81 12| her stood Muffat, looking aged and a little pale, but he, 82 11| get about Nana through the agency of friends, a course of 83 2| after that with an insurance agent, but neither place suited 84 5| man’s estate and was now aging, in ignorance of the flesh, 85 4| Paul and Georges always to agree, because it would be so 86 9| husband, leaving him to sign agreements with managers and lovers. 87 1| the lovers with ohs and ahs of stupefaction and gaiety. 88 1| of all Iris and Ganymede, aided by a troupe of celestial 89 7| Mme de Chezelles had been ailing a good deal since the autumn. 90 6| at the everlasting little ailments that seemed to afflict the 91 4| who are lent her.”~“What ails Mignon that he should be 92 12| concluded. “Estelle could have aimed at something much better.”~ 93 9| Just at that time he was airing a new project, namely, a 94 9| little dressing room was airless and full of sunlight, and 95 3| Club amounted monthly to an alarming number of pounds, while 96 3| yourself useful!”~She placed an album in his hands and asked him 97 5| place, indeed, was like an alcove or narrow bathroom, full 98 5| play, constantly on the alert for the bell to ring him 99 12| terms of the deed, could not alienate the property without the 100 13| all these men by merely alighting on them. It was well done— 101 11| their efforts to regain his allegiance, but he left them immediately, 102 13| Muffat even thought of an alliance between them. When he dared 103 4| contents into the piano. His allies were convulsed with laughter.~“ 104 6| sudden intimacies which are allowable in the country. She had 105 2| she lived on a mysterious allowance in a room whither no one 106 10| but Vandeuvres smilingly alluded to his imminent ruin, about 107 5| pulverized him, eh?”~He was alluding to the prince.~In Nana’s 108 7| D’you think I’m begging alms? Now look here, that’s what 109 9| Israelite had puffed himself alongside of Rose in order to get 110 4| certainly given a recitation in Alsatian accents of “Abraham’s Sacrifice,” 111 1| audience when he had a domestic altercation with Juno on the subject 112 1| actresses hung in frames alternating with the mirrors between 113 12| There were corners where an amalgam of laces, bunches and puffs 114 5| the dressing room he stood amazed when he caught sight of 115 4| Bois they all had become Amazons, as though a mania possessed 116 4| she recognized a German ambassador. She could prove it, because 117 9| Beaurivage and makes him amend his way. Then there’s an 118 13| fertile in all kinds of amenities, and they settled down side 119 13| handsome man calling himself an American and owning gold mines in 120 1| of conjugating the verb AMO he had been busy in the 121 13| had monthly table bills amounting to five thousand francs. 122 6| holiday escapade. It was an amour, she thought, with a young 123 8| from the stories and the amours and the jealousies which 124 1| wishes you to, since it amuses him. And you, my dear fellow, 125 1| Prulliere delivered very amusingly with the yell of an angry 126 4| with a stutter about his ancestry. He threatened to send a 127 7| it had hangings of red “andrinople,” and a Louis XIII bed stood 128 8| But this recollection only angered her the more.~“Fancy they’ 129 4| a saddle of venison a l’anglaise, was being served when Blanche 130 11| were side by side, at an angle, across and across or head 131 6| that tall, silent girl. The angularity of her elbows was disagreeable 132 1| facetiousness and sheer animalism which pass over mobs.~But 133 13| voluptuous yearning for self–annihilation. Pious and habituated to 134 8| his self–possession and to announce himself fortunate in meeting 135 11| pulsing in the sunshine, such announcements were sure to raise a prolonged 136 13| grieve very much because it annoys you. Come now, be nice, 137 3| because, they said, “she’s not answerable for her actions.”~“Oh that 138 7| to the premises of this antiquated Parisian building. Big drops 139 4| dealer in the Faubourg Saint–Antoine, who had been educated in 140 11| long procession of human ants kept coming along the narrow 141 14| beat of hammers upon an anvil.~“To Ber–lin! To Ber–lin! 142 12| since Nana’s made the match! Anyway, she’s one of the family.”~ 143 4| gravely.~The day was breaking apace. An uncertain glimmer of 144 4| candelabra, with ten candles apiece, lit up the supper, and 145 5| about her lips.~“Oh, don’t apologize,” cried Bordenave, “since 146 11| voice to behave politely he apologized. For some time past he had 147 13| the money the day after, apologizing at the same time for not 148 7| very cold, for its heating apparatus had been fireless since 149 13| step over the body when an apparition sent her starting back. 150 13| Himself had responded to his appeal, the count flung his arms 151 4| left off answering him and appealed to Count Vandeuvres.~“Make 152 3| appetite which nothing could appease. His racing stable, which 153 5| all England would want to applaud her, she laughed amiably 154 4| used to treat her to an apple puff on Sundays.~“Oh, I 155 13| what I’m saying doesn’t apply to him. Oh, please do me 156 5| finger in a jar and began applying the rouge below her eyes 157 10| basins and crystal and ivory appointments. A drawn curtain filled 158 6| to which he did not much appreciate coming down to the country 159 10| was seized with despairing apprehension, for he feared the latter 160 8| Satin, who had served her apprenticeship in the Quartier Latin, used 161 9| There was scarcely any appropriate action, and they spoke in 162 5| since these gentlemen approve of your good looks!”~But 163 1| At this Fauchery laughed approvingly, while La Faloise stopped 164 1| spending all his time in the aquarium, which was then in course 165 13| Marseilles they had shown him an aqueduct, the stone arches of which 166 9| young man thought to avoid aquiescence by redoubling the violence 167 12| fever that set his lips aquiver.~“What’s the matter then?” 168 3| farm, now some acres of arable land or forest, which amounted, 169 5| Above and beyond the glowing arc formed by the footlights 170 3| Haussmann, between the Rue de l’Arcade and the Rue Pesquier,” said 171 10| front of shopwindows in the arcades.~A carpet was spread on 172 13| him an aqueduct, the stone arches of which bestrode an abyss, 173 9| don’t want to.”~He looked ardently at her for some seconds 174 1| ladies with an excess of ardor. The chorus, in quaint, 175 4| refusal. He listened and he argued with much gravity, for he 176 7| carried upward and rots the aristocracy. She becomes a blind power 177 10| Persian cat; she was an aristocrat in vice and proudly and 178 7| the neighborhood of her armpit and laughed at the other 179 1| the golden hairs in her armpits were observable in the glare 180 3| curiosity, La Faloise sought to arouse his interest and in a few 181 3| town house of the Ninth Arrondissement in order, as he said, to 182 1| bare arms tattooed with arrow–pierced hearts and all the 183 1| tapping of their heels. This ‘Arryish departure, which nobody 184 6| Do come. Oh, look at the artichokes! They are funny. So they 185 10| in a setting of somewhat artificial originality. Count Muffat 186 8| the shadow of night their artificially whitened faces, their rouged 187 2| we learned that a great artiste lived in this house we promised 188 13| last acquired a complete ascendancy over Nana, who now respected 189 13| lips changed gold into fine ashes, which the wind hourly swept 190 4| upon Labordette, he grew ashy white and fell down in a 191 14| mouth and rolling his eyes askance, while Fauchery chewed his 192 8| pass a day or two at her Asnieries Villa, a country house containing 193 4| herrings in a barrel.~“Thick asparagus soup a la comtesse, clear 194 5| surroundings, the dirty aspect of which has ceased to concern 195 5| ravished by the dramatic aspects of the scene and began dreaming 196 6| dense masses of elms and aspens. Was there no end to it 197 1| short black shadows on the asphalt. Mignon, a very tall, very 198 14| They all repeated this aspiration, and Blanche confessed that 199 9| second time. She, in fact, aspired to an honest woman’s part. 200 1| themselves in a general assault upon seats; and the hustling 201 4| it was full of a motley assemblage of round tables, sofas and 202 11| fashionable women therein assembled. She thought them fearfully 203 1| never to be going to finish assembling the Council of Gods in order 204 7| deputy; he was haranguing an assembly, loudly denouncing debauchery, 205 2| answered them with little assenting movements of her head, making 206 4| present, Maria Blond alone asserting that, for her part, she 207 3| who had just repeated an assertion she had heard made in Alsace, 208 4| gave vent to fragmentary assertions, as thus: “He’s the son 209 10| carried her off in triumph, so assiduously had she loaded Satin with 210 14| though the poison she had assimilated in the gutters and on the 211 12| all seems lost.”~He was assisting peacefully at the downfall 212 12| ruin. Fauchery’s fears were assuaged, and when he saw the frank 213 5| little look. The latter would assurely have to pay for Rose’s bravado.~ 214 14| Fauchery. “A medical I know was assuring me that the hours immediately 215 1| boulevards, which were all astir and aflare under the fine 216 1| and as this name seemed to astound his cousin, he added:~“You 217 1| that the divine band, let astray by Iris, who falsely bragged 218 8| Louiset arrived on the scene astride upon a broomstick, Prulliere 219 2| she left the kitchen, that asylum of steaming warmth, where 220 9| disastrous to Nana. She was atrociously bad and displayed such pretentions 221 4| Farther off, on a sofa, an attache had slipped his arm round 222 4| Foucarmont was diligently attacking the liqueurs. He continued 223 3| practicing Christian and had attacks of faith of such fiery violence 224 6| from view.~“That’s what one attains to when one has methodical 225 8| carking anxieties if she attempted to save her furniture from 226 5| have struck her. But in attempting to take up a brush Nana 227 13| rock–crystal flask in her attempts to unstopper it.~“Oh, you’ 228 2| s court. But she did not attend and said:~“I’ll take you 229 9| third. With that he left off attending to the rehearsal and greeted 230 7| her neck and was looking attentively in the mirror at a little 231 6| trimmed with lace. Thus attired and with his delicate young 232 3| their voices were discreetly attuned, while light trills of laughter 233 4| had brought up from Saint–Aubin–sur–Mer in the capacity 234 6| on. Toward the close of August he spoke of October. Nana 235 3| felt a wish to know Queen Augusta,” she said. “They say she 236 10| Vandeuvres under Philip Augustus. He was mad for ruin and 237 8| not such a fool as to keep aunts and likewise children who 238 11| had come back just at the auspicious moment. Now then, ‘tenshun! 239 12| atmosphere of religious austerity with its massive First Empire 240 14| suggestive of Bonaparte at Austerlitz.~“Look here, are you coining 241 4| Lea favored the emperor of Austria, and all of a sudden little 242 14| syllables. It was a young Austrian couple, and Gaga told how 243 2| couple of cards and said authoritatively:~“I told them that Madame 244 12| property without the count’s authorization. The day before he had indeed 245 7| ailing a good deal since the autumn. The carriages in the roadway 246 8| we stand?”~All his sordid avaricious instincts came to the surface. 247 7| as a dunghill plant, she avenges the beggars and outcasts 248 11| with the countess. While avenging her own wrongs, Rose was 249 13| hundred thousand francs on an average, she ran up that same year 250 2| looked at him; then they averted their gaze mutually. They 251 6| his door. These gentlemen avoided mutual explanations, though 252 6| the carriages would go and await them in the village square. 253 9| off the count, tranquilly awaited results.~“Then everything 254 11| slowly revolving on her own axis, saw beneath her a surging 255 5| three pushed each other and babbled little phrases which redoubled 256 7| swears you were still like a babe when you married your wife. 257 3| minutes the conversation was a babel of opinions, in which the 258 7| Yes, it’s true; you’re a bachelor tonight,” she murmured. “ 259 8| them, much as old amorous bachelors might have done. As to the 260 11| they would go and pick up backers. But as the three young 261 13| to “spit on such women’s backsides,” so utterly would they 262 6| followed by a piece of bacon. Then Nana rummaged in her 263 11| leaving you if you must needs badger me with your idiotic questions.”~ 264 5| looked as if it had been baked, and a lamp burned amid 265 11| gesture.~That evening at the Bal Mabille Nana obtained a 266 5| suddenly thrown Mignon off his balance. He had launched forth into 267 6| would often croon a favorite ballad of Mme Lerat’s, which was 268 1| by the final curve of the balusters. The audience from the cheap 269 11| His hair was in little bandeaux, and he affected a weary 270 14| for twenty minutes past, bandied from waiter to waiter, and 271 11| masses of greenery. As the bandstand presented an obstacle to 272 4| real name was Jacqueline Bandu, she hailed from a village 273 6| where great clouds were banked up.~“Oh, do look, Zoe! There’ 274 7| verge of being declared bankrupt on ‘change, so much so that 275 11| was a settled matter—the banns were being published. At 276 14| fortune acquired among the barbarians.~One evening in July toward 277 14| escapade, a flight into barbarous regions. Before her departure 278 8| chemise flying and her legs bared to the night air she vanished 279 12| sat for a moment or two, barelegged, on the edge of the bed. 280 8| tell Nana; “he hasn’t the barest notion of the very smallest 281 8| emptying boulevards fierce bargainings took place, accompanied 282 8| still open to nocturnal bargains. These last were openly 283 13| having been smitten with a baritone in a music hall and having 284 3| the eldest daughter of the Baronne de Fougeray, who, under 285 14| turn to the right. What a barrack of a house!”~“Wait a bit; 286 4| confoundedly like herrings in a barrel.~“Thick asparagus soup a 287 13| Heaps upon heaps of men, barrowfuls of gold, failed to stop 288 7| from a chocolate dealer’s basement, the savor of musk blown 289 8| pavement, plunges into the baser sort of vice, whose votaries 290 9| stake! Starting from this basis, the discussion grew interminable. 291 9| dirty little room as it basked in the pale sunlight. Then 292 14| from the Madeleine to the Bastille. Carriages rolled slowly 293 8| of the charwoman, who was basting the fowl, and said that 294 7| followed the Rue de la Grange Bateliere as far as the Rue du Faubourg 295 5| like an alcove or narrow bathroom, full as it was of the steam 296 5| sceneshifters’ maneuvers. A batten had just been lowered, and 297 3| reminded her of a bout of battledore and shuttlecock they had 298 4| flat! I’ve had to fight my battles too. The other two came 299 10| moment they clapped eyes on a bayonet. But Georges that evening 300 1| under the wide–vaulted bays with their gilt–surrounding 301 8| believe trumpery oriental bazaar had been sent forth into 302 12| thickly embroidered with jet beads clothed her in what looked 303 5| illuminated the stage with a wide beam of light. Muffat, who had 304 13| rose in a halo of glory and beamed over prostrate victims like 305 8| cut and handed round. The bean had fallen to the lot of 306 8| led up to one subject—the beastliness of the men. Nana was overpowering 307 8| things. Louiset was gazing beatifically at the roasting process.~ 308 8| you might put up with the beatings but that I would never have 309 5| her paws out in a state of beatitude while the big tortoise–shell 310 9| just been snapped.~“No, it beats me; I can’t understand it,” 311 3| living in the Chateau de Beaurecueil, two leagues farther off, 312 8| Monsieur le Comte, at her beck and call’—for between you 313 10| and begged him to go to Becker, the jeweler, and bring 314 5| seemed to hesitate. Then she beckoned to Simonne, and the rapid 315 4| out of an open door and beckoning to him. And in the bedroom 316 10| a little, smiling, much–becurled butler, and a married couple, 317 10| already she had done the bedchamber up anew: on the first occasion 318 9| theater or no. His piece was bedeviled, and he was seeking how 319 11| of the day, while amid a bedizenment of ribbons and laces the 320 1| pilasters, the stage boxes, bedraped with long–fringed scalloped 321 8| house containing seven spare bedrooms. But she used to refuse; 322 8| restaurants, bars and ham–and–beef shops were brightly lit 323 5| Bordenave’s round back and beefy neck, which bobbed down 324 10| dread catastrophe would befall, that blows would be struck, 325 13| old fits of humility which befit an accursed creature who 326 2| francs a month. The nigger’s beggared just at present; I expect 327 9| with refinements of desire beggaring description. He was, in 328 13| made a position for the beggarly fellow after keeping him 329 8| gestures, for they were only beginners in their art, who had started 330 4| princes. Since Lucy had begnn taking a daily morning ride 331 11| bringing dishonor upon us. Begone!’ And it was done. I consented 332 2| bowwows sitting round on their behinds. Yesterday’s success was 333 6| swarm of people under the belief that none of them would 334 5| wholly ceased. The ideas and beliefs of the last forty years 335 11| always to look as if he believes in his horses.”~“Oh, bosh! 336 11| like; that won’t prevent me believing what I do believe! Only 337 5| nestled against their mother’s belly, and the latter was stretching 338 10| their faces she told her beloved the story of Queen Pomare. 339 11| all up with honor! Filth belowstairs, filth abovestairs, filth 340 8| contours were tightly laced by belts and corsets. Women kept 341 8| petticoats which had been bemired last night hung over the 342 4| formed that she seemed to bend under Bordenave’s rude weight. 343 1| glass as though she had been benumbed by long and fruitless waiting. 344 2| daughter of a midwife at Bercy who had failed in business. 345 8| rooms.”~He lodged in the Rue Bergere close by. But she straightened 346 6| fumbling in the mold with their beringed fingers, shouting gaily 347 11| had just been run for and Berlingot, a horse belonging to the 348 4| spirit with a certain wild berry; you think you’re swallowing 349 7| sort of secret anguish that besets people when they are trying 350 1| whom a score of men were besieging with their queries. “You’ 351 11| have sobered him. A man so besotted about the women and so utterly 352 13| every movement and liberally bespattering her with the filthiest of 353 7| Taitbout lay in shadow, bestarred at intervals by bright splashes 354 13| themselves into a thirst for bestiality, a furious longing to walk 355 8| she had no notion where to bestow her charms. Then began a 356 13| the stone arches of which bestrode an abyss, a Cyclopean work 357 3| English made tea. He often betook himself to England, where 358 8| was too fond of Fontan to betray him with one of his friends. 359 11| Blanche, Caroline and the rest betted on Lusignan. Lucy Stewart 360 12| fireplace. “That bad woman has bewitched the unfortunate man. And 361 10| to leave the last golden bezants of his coat of arms in the 362 13| toward the count, for he was biding his time. He had even succeeded 363 11| giving. “He’s a regular bigot at bottom, so he says his 364 13| That was her way now of binding him more closely to her. 365 3| portrait’ with the help of biographies which had been published 366 10| had hair on his arms and a birthmark on his shoulder. So thoroughly 367 5| showing each other their birthmarks. One of them, a very young 368 10| of the seats. Only two “biscuit” statuettes, a woman in 369 10| aunt and of oranges and biscuits for the child, the kind 370 7| last window on the left was bisected by a brilliant band of lamplight 371 13| got him down and took two bites at a time in order the quicker 372 13| throw himself on the bed, biting the coverlet, shouting infamous 373 2| the women, whose little bits of business he arranged 374 10| la Goutte–d’Or, she began blackguarding her own class with all the 375 11| distance like a slim dash of blackness, not having lowered his 376 1| was got up as a village blacksmith, fiery red wig, bare arms 377 6| the ladies, had plucked a blade of grass and was rolling 378 13| and was dragging at the blades so that the silk was torn 379 6| Count Muffat reappeared with blanched cheeks and eyes reddened 380 11| the women refused point–blank. “Thanks,” they said; “to 381 13| funny and yet proving so blase and so worn out that they 382 7| presented her side to the blaze a droll idea struck her, 383 6| fortifications she had seen a goat bleating at the end of its tether. 384 10| of the room was old gold blended with green and red, and 385 5| which she wore as Iris.~“God bless me!” she said. “It isn’t 386 12| came up she gave them her blessing and said to Daguenet, ‘Listen, 387 10| glass, she talked of the bliss of poverty. The men were 388 11| densely massed, and in the blithe open air their bright colors 389 11| with two postilions jogging blithely on the near horses and two 390 3| whom he held in a state of blockade in the corner of a settee. 391 6| was tired of hoaxing that blockhead of a Tatan Nene with a story 392 13| carpet in order to remove the bloodstains before they dried.~“Oh, 393 14| mistake this war is! What a bloodthirsty piece of stupidity!”~At 394 13| a bunch of roses in full bloom, and then comes a garland 395 13| being and to bear but one blossom on the tree of his existence. 396 6| s white flower once more blossomed forth in a nature which 397 14| distinguishable and a pale blotch which might be the face. 398 1| came in view, clad in a blouse, a high, bulging workman’ 399 5| all the scurry the whistle blower even took a few turns, stepping 400 6| dining room, eh? What big blowouts you might give in Paris 401 8| honeymoon. After her grand blowup, when she had turned the 402 10| and great people stood blubbering on her stairs! Now she was 403 11| too much of a nuisance: he blubbers; he talks about remorse. 404 9| night. Here, in order to bluff her into a bargain, he plunged 405 6| band of visitors suddenly blundered into Nana’s idyl. She had, 406 8| lacking in respect. She would blurt out awful things in front 407 13| clasping his hands together and blurting out:~“Oh no! Oh no!”~“I 408 8| for she was wont to be blushingly diffident with that bird, 409 4| he used to come for the boar hunting. Both women, looking 410 8| to pay for little Louis’s board and lodging. Doubtless she 411 8| he was as exacting as a boarder; he wanted everything for 412 1| cherub, the truant from the boardingschool, who sat with his fine eyes 413 5| back and beefy neck, which bobbed down and arched up in a 414 10| there with a broom!”~“Mother Boche—she’s dead.”~“And I can 415 1| stopped them.~“Come and take a bock with us, eh?” they said.~ 416 4| between the light–colored bodices, and bare shoulders, half 417 1| doing there, Satin?”~“I’m bogging,” replied Satin quietly 418 11| fun of them. When Georges boldly presented himself before 419 6| plunge his teeth into his bolster, while with sobs of exasperation 420 14| an attitude suggestive of Bonaparte at Austerlitz.~“Look here, 421 9| rate look like a pair of boobies.”~He tried to interrupt 422 2| Then give ‘em to me, booby!”~But as she took the bouquet 423 10| pleasantly! In the matter of books and of plays Nana had very 424 8| and was enjoying a real boom: And Steiner? M. Steiner 425 10| questioning eyes and craved no boon at all, she, in her turn, 426 3| please me. His appearance is boorish and underbred. Besides, 427 13| twelve thousand to the bootmaker. Her stable devoured fifty 428 13| away some of it on their bootsoles. And Muffat, whom the bloodstain 429 5| remarking to Fontan in his boozy voice:~“I pulverized him, 430 4| Caroline Hequet, born at Bordeaux, daughter of a little clerk 431 5| die out in the trailing border of her tunic. When amid 432 13| he went away in a state bordering on imbecility, feeling as 433 13| abandoned the intention of borrowing the hundred and thirty–three 434 13| performance in aid of old Bose, who was tied to his armchair 435 13| thrown Simonne over. His Bosphorous scheme was getting shaky, 436 9| namely, a tunnel under the Bosporus. Simonne listened with the 437 6| sons through a course of botanical instruction in a by–path. 438 13| an uncle whose mania was botany. He was pasting his specimens 439 4| exasperation.~“He would gladly be bottleholder, you know,” she remarked 440 11| orange–colored patch in their bottonholes! And what a continual parade 441 12| huge decorative design by Boucher covered the ceiling, a design 442 6| dentist. He had a house at Bougival. No, it’s cold, too, this 443 9| familiar than ever in order to bounce matters through.~“Don’t 444 2| breathlessness became audible. She bounced abruptly in, looking very 445 1| menace. Suddenly in the bouncing child the woman stood discovered, 446 13| gaping at them.~Nana had bounded up, and now she pushed him 447 3| is always in garrison at Bourges.” She had seated herself 448 11| Hazard, thirty to one against Bourn, thirty–five to one against 449 11| Steiner has cleared the Bourse again, has he? I say, isn’ 450 3| countess and reminded her of a bout of battledore and shuttlecock 451 2| hanging out like a lot of bowwows sitting round on their behinds. 452 10| home. Nana began to talk of boxing Mme Robert’s ears; one day 453 7| s window, “what a funny bracelet!”~She adored the Passage 454 14| finger rings, earrings, bracelets, a REVIERE of phenomenal 455 1| astray by Iris, who falsely bragged that he knew the Earth well, 456 11| were afready triumphant. Bramah, a horse belonging to Lord 457 13| squabbling over the straw, the bran or the oats; in spite of 458 5| corridors ran backward, branching sharply off and presenting 459 13| looked clean and solid and as brand new as if she had never 460 9| went beyond all bounds, brandished his cane in the air, snorted 461 11| rising in his stirrups and brandishing his whip, flogged Nana with 462 11| distance of thirty paces the brass instruments of the orchestra 463 13| he said, she ought to be brave; she was quite right; it 464 7| their heads and patiently braved their impudent looks and 465 8| the harder he hit the more bravely she suffered, for she derived 466 11| redoubled uproar of laughter and bravoes, which little by little 467 5| other as though they weren’t breakable.~“Monsieur Bordenave, Monsieur 468 5| armed, bare–shouldered, bare–breasted, in all the adorable glory 469 12| a red thread between her breasts. Only it had been foreordained 470 8| especially blamed his ill breeding, pursing up her lips, as 471 4| terrible German Jew who brewed money, whose hands forged 472 8| Satin proposed various brewery bars, which Nana thought 473 13| master had given him a big bribe and had begged him to go, 474 12| explanations about the young bride and, shutting his eyes, 475 3| Egad, they become the brides of God when they couldn’ 476 13| wandered up and down on the bridges and at the last moment felt 477 6| heap of old stones with briers growing over them and part 478 11| muddy in front of her grew brighter as it stretched away and 479 1| and with a vivid flood of brilliance lit up the curtain, the 480 1| and white under a broad–brimmed hat, and with his restless 481 11| jockey were cheerlessly Britannic. Valerio II scored a success 482 13| care,” he murmured, “it’s brittle.”~But she shrugged her shoulders. 483 11| In eighteen months he had broadened, and with that she entered 484 10| Satin was described in the broadest and most ignoble terms. 485 1| slippers, he cried in a thick brogue.~“Well, I’m blessed! When 486 6| now. A mere child! He was brokenhearted at the thought that she 487 2| sought to imitate Florentine bronze. All of which smacked of 488 5| never left her; he stood brooding over her through half–shut 489 8| Nana showed her a fresh bruise on the white skin she screamed 490 10| cavernous mouth and fiery bruises where the eyes should be. 491 11| account of her son, but it was bruited abroad that Rose Mignon 492 4| with the skirts of his coat brushing the floor. He blushed, seeing 493 3| discussing a knotty point in the budget with Steiner and the deputy.~“ 494 2| murmured Zoe gravely, without budging from her place. She was 495 13| then comes a garland of buds and flowers. The leaves 496 4| fallen asleep. That rum old buffer Bordenave, with his leg 497 8| the same foul expression buffeted her, answering like a jeering 498 9| her eye fell on the small buildings and glass roofs of the galleries 499 11| closely to the body and bulged out enormously behind her 500 1| clad in a blouse, a high, bulging workman’s cap on his head,