Émile Zola Nana Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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501 9| the air, snorted like a bull and shouted:~“Good God! 502 8| Latin, used to take Nana to Bullier’s and the public houses 503 3| eh? I’m of the party, my bully!”~“Indeed!” muttered Fauchery 504 11| collapse for him, and the bulwark of his credit and the lofty 505 1| baby, with a wicker–work burlet on her head and a short 506 11| it’s a bad sign. Jove! Burne’s riding Spirit. I tell 507 9| was lit up. A flaring gas burner on a support, which was 508 8| not a dressmaker; I’m a burnisher,” Satin brazenly declared.~ 509 6| very good boy to come and bury himself in the country with 510 6| silently gazing at the enormous bush which stopped up the gateway. 511 6| threw himself among some bushes and got out of the park 512 4| theater and elsewhere with the businesslike severity of a faithful steward. 513 4| There was a considerable bustle round the table, and the 514 1| would make her appearance, bustling along with tickets in her 515 6| out into complaints. The butchers, she said, were becoming 516 14| home with blows from the butt ends of their muskets. What 517 8| everything for his three francs—butter, meat, early fruit and early 518 1| low, gardenias in their buttonholes, pointed their opera glasses 519 8| votaries prowl in muddy bystreets under the restless flicker 520 13| naked limbs, an altar of Byzantine sumptuousness, worthy of 521 6| bursting out:~“It’s full of cabbages! Oh, such woppers! And lettuces 522 13| carriage when he slanged the cabbies at a block in the traffic, 523 13| to buy up all Europe or Cabinet ministers with plump fingers 524 10| style. There were Italian cabinets, Spanish and Portuguese 525 11| mingled with lamentable cabs which jolted along behind 526 12| the quadrille unrolled the cadenced symmetry of its figures.~“ 527 11| in the uniform of a naval cadet. But what most astounded 528 10| endless jokes against the “cads,” the quarrelsome set who 529 9| shadow. A canary, whose cage hung on a shutter, was trilling 530 9| photographer had perched a big cagelike construction of blue glass. 531 13| the ghost of yet another calamity; the bed with its gnawed 532 7| even hit upon a grimace calculated to tide him honorably over 533 11| to imagine people are so calculating. Where would his interest 534 8| rage!” said Nana. “Why, the calculation’s easily made! You haven’ 535 2| declarations. And as to the callers, they might go about their 536 5| Bordenave savagely.~Then calming down and endeavoring to 537 1| Meanwhile Fauchery, with extreme calmness, was looking at the women 538 13| and he would climb his Calvary with the deep and solemn 539 6| jacket, which was a long cambric garment trimmed with lace. 540 6| upright as of old, the hoary campaigner, and that despite her age, 541 6| the park he carried her campstool and her sunshade. Besides, 542 1| began to knock off a mad cancan, Simonne, who was playing 543 9| shouting he suddenly offered to cancel their arrangement in view 544 1| which were at once soft and candid.~She wore a dress of faded 545 7| contours shone like silk in the candlelight. He thought of his old dread 546 10| accents of extraordinary candor.~“You swear?” asked Muffat, 547 2| little plaits, had a long canine face, at once livid and 548 8| ve done with him! Oh, the canting thing! It’s learned some 549 11| scandal began to be openly canvassed. That poor fellow Vandeuvres 550 2| called attention to the great capabilities of the flat, every room 551 4| Saint–Aubin–sur–Mer in the capacity of maid while the lady’s 552 13| pavement; her senses would be captivated, her imagination excited. 553 11| It’s sickening! Oh, the carcass! My ten louis damned well 554 4| dancing had ceased, and the cardplayers alone persisted in their 555 8| be no end of disputes and carking anxieties if she attempted 556 3| vocation, had just entered the Carmelite Convent. Mme Chantereau, 557 5| she put two large dabs of carmine on her lips. Count Muffat 558 13| brightly over a field of carnage, the actual woman remained 559 4| course, consisting of a Rhine carp a la Chambord and a saddle 560 10| staircase, with their soft carpets and seats. Her individuality, 561 11| off out there!”~The whole carriageload again burst out with phrases 562 6| wheels whirled away the carriageloads of girls more gaily than 563 12| contract on the Place du Carrousel? This was the outcome of 564 7| by the rain and cut up by cart wheels, the chalky soil 565 11| through the Porte de la Cascade. There were big omnibuses 566 14| of glass, shone like day. Cascades of diamonds were flowing 567 1| seen her somewhere—at the casino, I imagine, and she got 568 6| them as they thought of the castle lost to view in surrounding 569 4| when her dress caught on a castor and tore upward. At this 570 13| the course of his remarks casually let slip the information 571 13| She was ringed round with catastrophes. There was the furious immolation 572 5| drawers, and the dressers, catching sight of the two men, drew 573 12| go to hell. Scraps of her catechism recurred to her remembrance. 574 3| person for sweetmeats and Catherine for ices. Mme Chantereau, 575 5| the chaste heart of the Catholic and amid the dignified traditions 576 5| moreover, peculiar to good Catholics, whom the fear of hell torments 577 1| Marquis de Chouard had become catlike phosphorescent, full of 578 8| wont to treat women like cattle, and the idea of a man bothering 579 2| After the cutlets came cauliflowers and the remains of a cold 580 11| still remained unoccupied cavaliers kept trotting, and black 581 5| of the stage, of the Etna cave hollowed out in a silver 582 10| seamed face with a toothless, cavernous mouth and fiery bruises 583 13| and communicated, while a ceaseless struggle raged within him, 584 10| business would oblige Muffat to cede him his place. Soon, however, 585 12| slumbered beneath the lofty ceilings.~Meanwhile near the hearth, 586 4| the thing. She wanted to celebrate her great success as an 587 10| housewarming was being defiantly celebrated in a grand mansion positively 588 12| On the evening after the celebration of the church marriage Count 589 1| Ganymede, aided by a troupe of celestial attendants, sang a chorus 590 5| progressing finely, for the cellarlike hole under the stairs was 591 10| take the little girls into cellars!”~“I remember him perfectly,” 592 4| now, though platefuls of cepes a’ l’italienne and pineapple 593 11| racecourses and posted at the Cercle Imperial on the very evening 594 5| he had done and he bowed ceremoniously, promising at the same time 595 6| she sent him a doctor’s certificate. When once the idea had 596 8| over heels into all the cesspools of vice still caused Nana 597 2| furniture and hangings and chairbacks of figured damask with a 598 11| driving a little basket chaise decked with orange and green 599 11| a pavilion built like a chalet, with a wide balcony furnished 600 7| cut up by cart wheels, the chalky soil had become a lake of 601 4| consisting of a Rhine carp a la Chambord and a saddle of venison 602 1| gravity.~“I visited the Champ de Mars today and returned 603 9| be rehearsed. And so it chanced that old Bosc went grumbling 604 5| had the parchment skin and changeless features peculiar to old 605 8| balls at Montmartre and La Chapelle. It was very hot; the servant 606 13| experiences in sumptuous chapels, he there re–encountered 607 2| was Nana’s old friend, chaperon and companion. Mme Lerat’ 608 11| children! Oh, how those little chaps are dressed up!”~The Mignons 609 5| a word, the whole of the characters in the second act, who would 610 10| wanted her denial to the charges therein contained, she resumed 611 10| themselves at the same time for charging a matter of twenty thousand 612 14| candle. She was fruit of the charnel house, a heap of matter 613 13| debauchery, he suggested the charnelhouse amid the glory of the woman’ 614 11| melancholy reflections. Bijou, chased from the skirts of the young 615 13| animal, threshing him and chasing him to an accompaniment 616 1| the soft green decorations chastening its effect beneath the too– 617 3| as a woman of religious chastity, while others pitied her 618 12| embraced, and their teeth chattered they knew not why, as the 619 13| wasn’t her fault! But she checked her lamentations of her 620 11| spread along the barriers, checkered by the light coats of white 621 5| her arms. Simonne asked cheerfully if it was for her, but the 622 13| in fragments, she laughed cheerily again and with flushed cheeks 623 11| of the Bois.~Suddenly a cheering influence warmed the hundred 624 2| her tens and aces, said cheeringly to her in her soft voice:~“ 625 11| black of whose jockey were cheerlessly Britannic. Valerio II scored 626 8| couple of rooms which a chemist had furnished for her in 627 13| years of intense labor. At Cherbourg he had seen the new harbor 628 13| house.~Meanwhile Nana had cherished her latest caprice. Once 629 11| issued from innumerable chests before the advance of the 630 2| colored fabric and contained a cheval glass framed in inlaid wood, 631 14| askance, while Fauchery chewed his cigar nervously, for 632 8| slapped Nana, he went on chewing solemnly, for the thing 633 3| as yet unforgotten “tres chic” of the Blonde Venus first 634 12| a gift from Nana it was chiefly with the hope of being able 635 1| the reflection of their chignons. At the end of the room, 636 9| afraid lest he might behave childishly and give way to sighs and 637 13| recesses of churches, his knees chilled by the pavement, he would 638 10| long hairpins rang a little chime on the shining metal.~ 639 9| another like a couple of chinaware dogs. We’ve both been in 640 5| knees drawn up to their chins, and Prulliere stretched 641 6| sensations experienced by chits of girls, and at night when 642 6| evening, of an old romance of chivalry discovered by her on the 643 4| Papa the moment they were chock–full. The waiters behind 644 10| artistic surroundings of the choicest kind and of the most extravagantly 645 7| Montmartre, where a sugar–chopping machine in front of a grocer’ 646 13| another rival less! You’re chortling today. But he was becoming 647 12| rejoined. “He jolly well choused himself, he did, if he thought 648 10| far a murderer subject to chronic alcoholism is responsible 649 9| stage, where they had been chuckling, grumbling and saying fiercely 650 8| the sake of pleasing the chums who were standing the dinner. 651 1| light of the luster, the churchlike sense of self–absorption 652 3| was very humble. He was churchwarden at the Madeleine Church 653 7| thighs as milk is monthly churned by housewives. And it was 654 7| disorganizes all Paris, churning it between her snow–white 655 12| thousand francs had been put in circulation after being once renewed, 656 11| course some hundred meters in circumference, where a stable help was 657 13| him, she began with much circumlocution, informing him that M. Venot, 658 1| which was as narrow and circumscribed as a gallery in a mine, 659 14| dresses and linen. Prices were cited—the five days’ sale produced 660 10| off her presents and in citing prices which quite stupefied 661 14| was on the frontier all citizens ought to rise up in defense 662 11| big brown bay, the harsh citron color and black of whose 663 5| yet another interchange of civilities. Bosc, having dipped his 664 1| Faloise said to him with civility. “The whole of Paris will 665 11| cry despite the garb of civilization, grew ever more distinct:~“ 666 10| entire freedom of action and claiming her caresses only on certain 667 11| m proud of it!”~The men clambered up on the landau, and Bordenave 668 2| Rambouillet. This woman was clamoring for the sum of three hundred 669 9| there’s any more talking I clap on fines all round!”~They 670 1| Cloud Fair, wheezings of clarinets and playful trills on the 671 3| prevailing severity and clashing with it.~“So we shall have 672 13| besought her not to go, clasping his hands together and blurting 673 4| street sweepers passed with a clatter of wooden shoes. As she 674 5| of feet as these people clattered down the five wooden steps 675 8| herself and thought about cleaning up a bit, chair rails and 676 9| not to mention other less cleanly things! She opened the window 677 13| lies with everybody and cleans out some and drives others 678 7| because now you see the clearance’ll be quite complete. Now 679 1| eyes, which were of the clearest blue. When she came to certain 680 11| clouds of fine rain. A blue cleft opened in the stormy mass, 681 6| for the whole body of the clergy, struck them in the light 682 8| return to the attack with the cleverest maneuvers and with infinite 683 4| to that extent,” and he clicked his thumbnail against the 684 5| up above him there was a clicking of ewers and basins, a sound 685 10| order to oblige his lady clients. The count put himself into 686 11| and on and attained its climax in the imperial stand, where 687 13| increased, and he would climb his Calvary with the deep 688 1| Lucy kept repeating as she climbed the stair.~In the house 689 13| money from the most distant climes. All these savings, the 690 5| Fontan! To Fontan!”~Then they clinked glasses a third time and 691 11| women, imprisoned in the cloakroom, were crying to be set free. 692 1| she had piled up coats and cloaks, from the onward pushing 693 9| umbrellas, Italian jars, clocks in all styles, platters 694 3| marriage she had passed a cloistered existence with her husband 695 5| she saw the gentlemen thus closeting themselves with her friend, 696 13| repeated the phrase by way of closure to all their quarrels.~“ 697 4| other a mutual dose of the clothesbrush, for they were all white 698 5| out in space, like huge cloths hung out to dry.~“Lower 699 9| appearance of great ragged clouts suspended from the rafters 700 1| beatified expression of a man in clover. Finally a grand trio brought 701 8| made into mincemeat by that clown of a fellow?’ I remarked 702 1| the newspapers and to the clubs and then named the dramatic 703 1| who slapped her thighs and clucked like a hen, shed round her 704 10| of horses; he visited the coachbuilders; he guided the young woman 705 5| Whenever the door of this coalhole was opened a violent whiff 706 5| hauling La Faloise over the coals. She had seen Mme Bron giving 707 6| struggled to get free he coarsely and crudely reminded her 708 11| world was wallowing in the coarseness and imbecility of the servants’ 709 3| Your elbow is covered with cobwebs and plaster.”~“My elbow,” 710 13| tribe of cousins, who were cockered up in their homes with cold 711 1| suggestive of a molting cockerel, cried out with great conviction:~“ 712 5| intricate arrangement of cocks; a fireman, leaning against 713 4| t my style. But she’s a cocky slut all the same. If I 714 14| Fontan had played the Prince Cocorico. And their memories once 715 8| out raging about a dish of cod. She had accordingly consented 716 2| the pleasant fumes of the coffeepot which was being kept warm 717 2| lumps of sugar dipped in cognac and sucked them. But Mme 718 10| the last touches to Nana’s coiffure. Labordette also was sitting 719 14| Austerlitz.~“Look here, are you coining up with us?” Lucy asked 720 9| Surprised at his apparent coldness, she began acting a part 721 1| resplendent in turndown collars and the rest, were disputing 722 4| reception. Had she wanted colleagues, she would certainly have 723 3| of ladies, endeavoring to collect himself and soon with perfect 724 4| very pale, very calm and collected, and he lolled back in his 725 9| forgotten dramas had been collecting for half a century.~“Come 726 1| outside, some truant from college, it may be, was straining 727 11| awkward in their ill–fitting collegians’ tunics. But when the landau 728 7| unexpected epigrams and quaint collocations of words went beyond all 729 14| haven’t sent him back to Cologne yet? I want to see how he 730 14| she looked with that rich coloring of hers in the crystal grot! 731 5| the shadows. They looked colorless and unlovely, as became 732 14| had it twice, he violently combated this theory and with infinite 733 6| which had been carelessly combed that morning, but he drew 734 13| business and hiring a house and combining all the delights within 735 1| out their watches; late–comers sprang from their conveyances 736 9| buttoned up to the ears and had comforters on, and they looked up at 737 7| she undertook the task of comforting him.~“I take my oath, darling, 738 10| boredom she suffered amid the comforts of her new home. Nana began 739 11| and was now giving him her commands while he wrote figures in 740 4| indicated Blanche, who from the commencement of dinner had remained in 741 14| they hailed one another and commented loudly on that poor girl’ 742 2| take the letter down to a commissionaire. She had just been talking 743 13| the trades–people give him commissions, and the glaziers never 744 10| wanton waste when Madame had committed a folly which must be made 745 13| negligence of the administrative committee, this fraud had been constantly 746 2| mistress on the verge of committing another foolish mistake.~ 747 10| speak, nothing could be commoner or more natural. But a lie 748 14| furnished with the mahogany commonly found in hotels. On the 749 11| him, for he had come to communicate a matter of importance. 750 10| the male portion of the community. The gentlemen burst into 751 3| were choking with laughter. Companionless in the center of the room, 752 1| ready to desert her for the companionship of Venus. She sang it with 753 6| yet had she felt anything comparable to this. The country filled 754 11| carriages stood about in comparative isolation, looking as though 755 13| anguish the unhappy man was comparatively at peace when he left Nana 756 8| the theater was not to compare with her home. Fontan, who 757 3| with sparkling eyes they compared notes about the table d’ 758 8| she fetched an immense compass before reaching Montmartre.~ 759 2| the hairdresser’s gently compelling touch.~“The deuce,” she 760 9| back and his eyes fixed complacently on his wife, who seemed 761 10| tolerated with an appearance of complaisant lassitude. Amid this species 762 12| share and share alike. This completed the reconciliation, and 763 6| country an occasion for completing his boys’ education. Indeed, 764 4| projected picnic and innumerable complex stories of lovers stolen 765 5| grease paint.~Her task was a complicated one, and the Marquis de 766 3| must have been some sort of complication, for both of them, moving 767 13| disorders led to hateful complications. Nana even fought with her 768 5| But Mme Bron was unable to comply with her wishes all at once. 769 3| seeing her there. People comported themselves better at Caroline 770 3| an authoritative way of comporting herself, which bent everybody 771 8| himself weekly with the composition of glowing pages. Nana loved 772 2| while her nostrils seemed to compress themselves whenever she 773 4| womanly character had been compromised. It was always so with these 774 12| disorganized by the shameful compromises engendered by modern debauchery.~“ 775 6| humor seemed unlikely to compromize her. But now and again, 776 4| good–natured cynicism of a comrade in arms who wishes his friends 777 8| displayed an admirable spirit of comradeship. He had, on his part, nearly 778 4| Thick asparagus soup a la comtesse, clear soup a la Deslignac,” 779 3| ground with embarrassment and conceit:~“I’m of the party. She 780 8| virtued! It was always those conceited prudes who went the most 781 8| nerves, and he began to conceive so fierce a loathing for 782 6| fresh. And then, suddenly conceiving another project, she wrote 783 3| aristocratic ideas and such a lofty conception of his duties at court, 784 14| insulted! Why, this war concerns the honor of France. Oh, 785 10| was returning home from a concert, Nana, on the sidewalk in 786 6| showering on him the most conclusive arguments against the temptations 787 10| back of his neck, and now concretions were forming in his ears, 788 13| were the judge would you condemn me? I certainly didn’t tell 789 8| desire. And he became royally condescending without, however, lowering 790 8| be adored with the utmost condescension. His great nose sniffed 791 5| order to interrupt their confabulations. Nana lifted her eyes and 792 12| to find M. Venot busily conferring with Daguenet, and with 793 8| peculiar to a woman who confesses to an abominable taste.~ 794 3| its daily visits to the confessional, its complete absence of 795 12| week and would anxiously confide to him little infantile 796 9| emphasizing the phrase and confident that it would have its effect.~ 797 3| various groups, said something confidently to everyone and walked away 798 12| betoken a great ultimate conflagration in which the fabric of an 799 4| loudly remarked, they were confoundedly like herrings in a barrel.~“ 800 4| she know? They were always confusing her.~Decidedly the evening 801 13| so she gave Fauchery his CONGE as he now only paid her 802 9| troubles, and was pleased to congratulate Fauchery on his piece. A 803 7| and ragged chorus girls congregate. In front of the theater 804 4| presiding over a diplomatic congress, and Vandeuvres, with his 805 1| dark closet, bidding her conjugate the verb “I love” twenty 806 1| black hole, where instead of conjugating the verb AMO he had been 807 8| too, some of them even connected with the government! Ah 808 5| amid a chaos of iron rods, connecting lines of all sizes, hanging 809 8| expression, as became a connoisseur who could not bear to see 810 5| her bosom with an air of connoisseurship, while the Marquis de Chouard 811 9| process ladies of that sort conquer and retain their husbands’ 812 10| exchanging tender glances, conquering, reigning, in tranquil defiance 813 8| people like that. She had a conscience of her own, she had! And 814 6| were listening to them in consequential silence.~“Never mind,” said 815 10| dressing room, and leaving a conservatory, a large drawing room and 816 7| divine help, of superhuman consolation, surprised him, as though 817 2| vulgar sumptuosity of gilded consoles and gilded chairs formed 818 4| former accusing the latter of consorting with people of insufficient 819 9| said furiously:~“What a conspiracy, eh? It’s all owing to jealousy. 820 1| little laundress off into a constellation. And finally they extricated 821 8| the pavements scattered in consternation and fled through the surrounding 822 3| sitting so insignificant and constrained on her footstool. That sepulchral 823 13| and had a winter garden constructed in a corner of her house: 824 13| and there were gossiping consultations, lasting three or four hours 825 5| standing champagne round. Nana consulted the prince with a glance. 826 2| took her departure after consulting a small memorandum book. 827 10| a perpetual passion for consumption and waste, which took pride 828 14| exactly know whether the contagion is to be feared at the beginning 829 12| Invisible. Such dread is contagious, and he reasoned with her. 830 10| or two he was the prey of contending feelings and knew not whether 831 8| rudely jostling crowds, contenting themselves with an occasional “ 832 4| deigning at length to show contentment:~“There, there, my daughter,” 833 1| applause of the clapping contingent rattled out with the regularity 834 12| measure; it was like a shrill continuation of the life of pleasure 835 2| her lips.~And her mistress continuing to question her with her 836 11| were swallowed up in jokes, contradictions and an extraordinarily noisy 837 14| everybody gave the most contradictory and at the same time prodigious 838 3| the Marquis de Chouard’s contribution to the circle, he having 839 6| sudden burst of extreme contrition she kissed her and begged 840 9| extremely embarrassed, and he contrived to let the manager risk 841 9| give her what for. But she controlled herself and, looking like 842 13| was by that time already convalescent in his mother’s keeping 843 6| after her while she affected conventionality in order the further to 844 4| Otherwise when elegantly and conventionally done you might as well feed 845 3| overheard and must respect the conventions here. The door had just 846 3| it and dark, so sad and conventlike, with its great outer shutters, 847 5| peephole of the kind used in convents. Fontan was outside with 848 10| lulled her to sleep in conventual idleness and submission 849 8| of boredom. From the four converging streets they came down into 850 1| cessation of the sound of many conversations, a sound similar to the 851 12| disorders lead to great conversions. Providence would have its 852 13| accompanied her to mass: he was converted, and he raged against his 853 6| Could anyone have been converting Nana? No, it was impossible! 854 1| who treated women like a convict overseer, that clever fellow 855 2| fingers into the vagrant convolutions of her back hair. “I must 856 12| moments, and he was shaken by convulsions so fierce that the bed trembled 857 2| assuming a tender look and cooing like a dove, she suggested:~“ 858 7| ceiling, and a vague smell of cookery hung about the folds of 859 12| let him be. He’s a gone coon!” La Faloise disdainfully 860 8| because she had noticed a copious dinner she was not destined 861 13| them, even down to their coppers. For the last three months 862 13| I did all I knew not to copy them: I was afraid to. Look 863 5| we shall receive you so cordially that you will never return 864 13| ground, sucked him dry to the core, left him so cleaned out 865 7| apples and spitting out the cores, but the two men bowed their 866 11| out of the coach boots. Corks came out with feeble pops, 867 11| had just been run for, and Cornemuse had gained it. Now the Grand 868 7| from a sink, over a whole cornerful of nameless filth amid which 869 1| gas jets flaring on the cornice of the theater cast a patch 870 4| we were on the coast of Coromandel some savages gave us I don’ 871 4| murmured, “my initials and my coronet are worked in the corner. 872 14| foot. During the day the Corps Legislatif had voted for 873 7| Fauchery. Yes, it’s quite correct; they’re in the Rue Taitbout, 874 10| thing was princely in the correctness of its style.~At the end 875 7| destruction, and unwittingly she corrupts and disorganizes all Paris, 876 8| tightly laced by belts and corsets. Women kept entering in 877 11| trying hard to imitate a coster’s accents, kept pattering 878 13| the wrecks of bouquets and costly knickknacks and was the 879 1| a detailed explanation, couched in phraseology so crude 880 1| particulars. The marquis was a councilor of state; the count had 881 2| morning, to Rambouillet. The counteraction of her sudden fancy spoiled 882 8| epigrammatic witticisms. Fontan counterfeited despair and assumed the 883 6| the trunks were locked, he counterordered their journey on the plea 884 11| s sunshades turned into countless golden targets above the 885 14| retirement of those faraway countries she began to gleam forth 886 6| pointed out to them the countryseat, the park of which stretched 887 12| everything—out of sheer courage. But La Faloise’s imbecile 888 8| her house. Zoe had stayed courageously in the breach because she 889 6| extremely wealthy and greatly courted Nana rose up before her.~ 890 5| said with his customary courtesy.~But meanwhile the tail 891 10| luxurious life and her group of courtiers, Nana was nearly bored to 892 4| We want them to milk the cow before our eyes, you know.”~ 893 8| to the surface. Nana was cowed and scared, and she made 894 1| had been a great deal too coy with him, he averred. Thereupon 895 11| cries and calls and the crackings of whips in the open. When 896 1| of the proscenium, where cracks showed the plaster under 897 10| were, to suffer internal cramps. Despite the incessant infatuations 898 5| and was content simply to crane forward and peer into the 899 13| sweated in the sun while cranes filled the sea with huge 900 1| hiding yourself in holes and crannies—you, a man who never leaves 901 12| rift was growing; it was crannying the house and announcing 902 14| chemise to her back in the crapulous debauchery of Cairo. A fortnight 903 12| evening dress and wore a white cravat and gloves.~“Yes, to be 904 10| suppliant, questioning eyes and craved no boon at all, she, in 905 4| order only, a mere whimsical craving born of an exasperated stomach.~ 906 9| thoughts of her, then fleshly cravings and finally a new set of 907 8| with a sauce and vanilla creams, iced and flavored with 908 3| father, a general, had been created count by Napoleon I, and 909 8| going home late, and poor creatures, exasperated at a night 910 10| lovely Eastern hangings, old credences, huge chairs of the Louis 911 5| intoxicated, but they behaved very creditably. To hide the commotion within 912 2| electric bell sounded. It was a creditor in the shape of the man 913 10| himself, he let his fingers creep forward, for he longed to 914 13| Oh yes, I saved ‘em some crimes and other foul acts! They’ 915 10| pathological cases, and criminals ceased to exist and sick 916 10| deciding against the new criminological theories. Granted that lovely 917 5| turned the door handle; then, cringing again:~“If His Highness 918 12| house kept filling, and crinolined skirts got jammed together 919 8| yours! It would downright cripple him.”~Thereupon Nana burst 920 7| passing through another crisis! She talked of returning 921 6| of recognition. The short critical encounter seemed to have 922 1| That was the sum of his criticism of Nana’s talent. La Faloise 923 1| then named the dramatic critics—a lean, dried–up individual 924 13| his money by hook or by crook.~Nana made a very bad lunch, 925 8| terrible, and he spread out and crooked his great fingers as if 926 6| of dying. She would often croon a favorite ballad of Mme 927 5| gaslights high up among its iron crossbars illuminated the stage with 928 11| he jaws away, and then he crosses himself when he turns round 929 11| sleeves and a sash worn crosswise over the shoulders, the 930 4| all fours and to go and crouch at Nana’s feet like a little 931 8| devoured by them. One single crumb was scorching her and making 932 13| vanished as though they had crumbled deep down in their drawers; 933 11| movement from behind while the cruppers sped away and the legs seemed 934 12| take part in these dazzling crushes. Meanwhile across the garden 935 8| how silly you are to get crusty about things! I tell you, 936 7| second or two. He adopted his crystalline tone of voice, the voice 937 14| Clarisse. “We don’t want to cuddle him, eh?”~“There’s always 938 7| and fastened to a yellow cuff.~Count Muffat had slowly 939 8| upon her and kicked and cuffed her heartily. Soon he had 940 13| when he had received sundry cuffs and was greatly excited:~“ 941 1| better still if she were to cultivate her voice. Steiner, who 942 7| tainted in her blood by a cumulative inheritance of misery and 943 12| infantile ills which he would cure to an accompaniment of amusing 944 13| not know what anguish this curio had cost him. Seeing him 945 5| hair was damp and out of curl, as though she had just 946 11| since yesterday he had been currently taken at two to one.~“Always 947 1| sea of heads, which two currents, as it were, kept in a continuous 948 2| boring her by muttering quiet curses upon the male sex. These 949 4| himself against the wall and cursing away at the confounded women 950 6| day, a fact which greatly curtailed the scene he was dreading. 951 13| baker and speaking in the curtest way. Then she came upstairs.~“ 952 1| side by side, bowing and curtsying. The audience applauded; 953 13| and buried her face in a cushion. The miseries she felt to 954 3| rumpled look—its nether cushions had been tumbled, a fact 955 10| just look at the figure he cuts down in the street!” The 956 13| which bestrode an abyss, a Cyclopean work which cost millions 957 1| thigh–slapping fellow, that cynic with the soul of a policeman! 958 11| her handkerchief. Then she dabbed it over Bijou, who was trembling 959 1| of women and who now was dabbling in stocks, in order from 960 12| shoulders. A woman had a golden dagger stuck in her chignon, while 961 8| while treating them to dainties, formed a perfect court 962 6| effect that the Parisian dairywomen were wont to fabricate eggs 963 9| affairs had been gravely damaged by two successive failures. 964 7| was for making her pay the damages! No, thank you! She was 965 13| Lariboisiere, to such a damnable state had Mme Robert reduced 966 12| against which, though his damnation was certain, he felt powerless 967 12| the sale of the Chateau de Dampierre. The lusters and the crystal 968 3| ancient abode, black with the damps of years. It was Muffat 969 6| he wickedly enjoyed being dandled in the arms of the great 970 6| He could well remember dandling Lili on his knee. What a 971 5| second act. He was a young dandy, and his habiliments, even 972 1| to get it. Oh, there’s no danger of Lucy coming too early!”~ 973 14| following death are particularly dangerous. There are miasmatic exhalations 974 7| an oriental dancer in the danse du ventre.~Muffat sat looking 975 10| mad expenditure and that daredevil wastefulness peculiar to 976 11| The man at the gate, not daring to stop the woman hanging 977 7| thus, choosing always the darkest corners. Doubtless there 978 6| serious and view one another darkly, as though they had fathomed 979 11| But with a quick forward dart Georges had outstripped 980 11| the three young men were darting off to propagandize, Nana 981 11| part, I think he made a dashing finish; but, oh, you know, 982 11| grown extraordinarily up to date. He wore a low collar and 983 11| brilliant stroke. The story dated from the day before yesterday, 984 3| conscious of a want of up–to–dateness in this outburst of indignation 985 10| most extravagantly various dates. But since the studio, which 986 12| for much bygone raillery, dating from the days when he was 987 11| with silver and drawn, a la Daumont, by four splendid white 988 4| burst of merriment, and it dawned on her that she was being 989 6| make a thousand plans till daybreak and never once hear Mme 990 10| she would wake from her daylong drowse and drive out or 991 10| it was their delight to dazzle the little local courtesans 992 5| staircase and the passages were deadly still.~That choking sensation 993 5| roll of the last carriages deafened him with the name of Nana; 994 5| whole troupe are raising the deafening uproar of some grand finale.~“ 995 8| this did not prevent his dealing Nana sundry sharp smacks, 996 10| lay waiting, silent and deathlike, with her great eyes fixed 997 14| stillness which ensued, a void, deathly stillness which made them 998 12| gift of life amid all the deaths she was spreading around, 999 8| restaurant involved infinite debate. Satin proposed various 1000 8| The sincerity of these low debauches rendered Nana especially