Émile Zola Nana Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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1001 8| s acquaintance make her debut in a part of some ten lines. 1002 10| pointed, it was feared, to decay of the bones of the skull. 1003 6| suddenly solicitous for the decencies of family life. She even 1004 5| some curtains half to for decency’s sake. The wild stampede 1005 3| seen him with the Baroness Decker, at whose house at Viroflay 1006 13| abominable traces and themselves decomposed whatever they had broken. 1007 4| A fat gentleman with a decoration and a serious cast of countenance 1008 12| Genoa velvet, and a huge decorative design by Boucher covered 1009 4| paying less attention to decorum than before. The women began 1010 7| now, and that was Nana’s decreasing kindness. She no longer 1011 13| lay wallowing a shameful, decrepit thing, a comic and lamentable 1012 10| in these black recesses, dedicated to the town’s lowest depravity. 1013 12| according to the terms of the deed, could not alienate the 1014 11| choose Hazard, the most defective of the lot, a horse nobody 1015 8| the certain absence of all defenders. Saint–Lazare she pictured 1016 5| through the crowd of deeply deferential little women.~“Immediately, 1017 6| the shortest leave and had deferred her holiday till September 1018 10| her housewarming was being defiantly celebrated in a grand mansion 1019 13| while he had covered the deficit with false money. Thanks 1020 1| summons all the Olympians defiled before the lovers with ohs 1021 5| whose limbs are clearly defined by the irreproachable cut 1022 13| the man would have to be definitely got rid of. A dozen times 1023 1| in the right quarter so deftly that momentarily it caused 1024 7| They aren’t even clean! I defy you to find me one who would 1025 11| mastery over this elegant, degenerate son of an ancient race. 1026 5| follow me—would His Highness deign to come this way? His Highness 1027 4| him as very pretty and, deigning at length to show contentment:~“ 1028 5| can. Now if His Highness deigns to follow me—”~Count Muffat 1029 14| with a smile of gloomiest dejection.~Two more women arrived. 1030 6| and threw the blame of the delays upon her husband’s shoulders. 1031 1| Prulliere played with great delicacy. Petted by Diana, who wanted 1032 1| surprises his wife in FLAGRANTE DELICTO, appeared at the back of 1033 13| brains, plunged them into the delirious imaginations of the flesh. 1034 1| who brought with her the delirium of sex and opened the gates 1035 7| abandon not Thy creature, who delivers himself up to Thy justice! 1036 7| fun of herself for she was dellghted to see that she was looking 1037 11| and there ensued a sudden deluge. Huge drops, perfect sheets 1038 11| replied evasively; doubtless a demand for her had arisen. She 1039 12| addition to Nana’s novel demands, his home expenses were 1040 10| resplendent ladies would demean themselves with a vengeance, 1041 12| friendliest way with the demimonde ladies with whom, however, 1042 6| turn and turn about while demolishing a pot of preserves they 1043 6| Daguenet indulged in a similar demonstration while the Marquis de Chouard 1044 9| subtlely, closed her eyes demurely and managed her skirts with 1045 3| talking again. Mme du Joncquoy demurred; Mme Chantereau knew for 1046 4| he met a woman near his den would carry her off thither 1047 6| against the accusation; he denied that it was Nana, the fact 1048 2| from the Faubourg Saint–Denis, while the other was a Walachian, 1049 8| even more afraid of being denounced, for her pastry cook had 1050 11| chairs the toilets were densely massed, and in the blithe 1051 1| air had grown constantly denser as they hung motionless 1052 11| gesticulating like itinerant dentists while their odds were pasted 1053 8| even more angry than she in denunciation of the male sex.~“Oh, the 1054 14| burst forth into furious denunciations of the Republicans and talked 1055 9| francs the moment he let her depart. The husband, on his part, 1056 12| luxuriant splendor of the departing winter was there—the overtolerant 1057 13| the manager of one of the departments in a large, fancy emporium. 1058 11| their voices, announced departures and arrivals. In this place, 1059 5| curtain of the same material depended from a copper rod and formed 1060 1| didn’t even know how to deport herself on the stage: she 1061 8| mornings he had forgotten to deposit the three francs on the 1062 10| dedicated to the town’s lowest depravity. Accordingly even Nana’s 1063 8| and feeling so deliciously depressed and wearied and submissive 1064 1| with a vengeance.~It was a deputation of mortals whom Ganymede 1065 10| there were no jars and no derangements. Madame, however, pained 1066 10| Vandeuvres she would certainly derive from eight to ten thousand 1067 5| the whole company had been deriving amusement from a comedy 1068 5| count, for a canvas was descending. They were setting the scenery 1069 8| Then began a series of wild descents upon the Parisian pavement, 1070 5| the open sockets gas was descried burning in the “dock.” Human 1071 14| with them from the current descriptions, but nobody could cite the 1072 5| which it was possible to descry a tin–covered table and 1073 10| not coming. He’s a base deserter!”~The next day, when Georges 1074 7| gesture, for her patience was deserting her. Was the man going crazy?~“ 1075 9| comedian declared. “I certainly deserve to have it.”~Fauchery’s 1076 11| Paul. He’s a nice boy—he deserves it”~And leaning toward Louiset:~“ 1077 13| perverse tastes. As Zoe designedly relaxed her efforts the 1078 4| as Foucarmont failed to desist and even became insulting 1079 1| footlights, the scattered desks of the orchestra. It was 1080 4| comtesse, clear soup a la Deslignac,” murmured the waiters, 1081 5| submissiveness, as though she had despaired of this kiss and were happy 1082 13| under him. And with hands despairingly outstretched he stammered:~“ 1083 13| utterances, the old prayers and despairs, the old fits of humility 1084 13| But Nana grew ever more despondent, for now the memory of Zizi 1085 13| swayed him as jealously and despotically as the God of wrath, terrifying 1086 7| workmen trooping to their destinations, added to his troubles as 1087 7| himself poisoned, his family destroyed, a bit of the social fabric 1088 11| each end of the stand and detached and illumined portions of 1089 8| listened eagerly to a final detail which the other imparted 1090 3| politeness.~Then, as they did not detain him, he moved off and continued 1091 6| to discover some means of detaining her. She was delighted at 1092 14| remember how they used to detest one another— like regular 1093 8| good looks, but now she detested him. If he pinched her again 1094 7| apparent in the almost equine development of her flanks, in the fleshy 1095 3| that it was only we poor devils of outsiders who—”~“Ah, 1096 1| was now bitter, as of a devourer of men.~“By God,” said Fauchery 1097 9| managed her skirts with great dexterity. Then she posted herself 1098 5| mind the pious accounts of diabolic possession which had amused 1099 8| half kill them with their diabolical tricks and suggestions. 1100 14| phenomenal width, a queenly diadem surmounted by a central 1101 11| the race for the Prix de Diane and had not even been placed 1102 5| folds of a great red robe diapered with golden flames. The 1103 12| dispose of oneself as fancy dictated, without all this fuss? 1104 4| according to Vandeuvres’s dictum. This sort of supper should 1105 14| dying of smallpox. The baby dies next day, and she has a 1106 3| Count Bismarck, and opinions differed considerably. Vandeuvres 1107 4| drawing room, the only difference being that the ladies were 1108 10| and to begin another day, differing in nothing from its predecessor.~ 1109 8| common became more and more difficult. From one week’s end to 1110 8| was wont to be blushingly diffident with that bird, as Mme Lerat 1111 9| Nana now quite naturally diffused, Fontan alone remained unmoved. 1112 5| palace chambers to state dignitaries. In every sentence she used 1113 12| the official and the great dignitary. And when at last he lowered 1114 3| duties at court, of his dignities and of his virtues, that 1115 9| doors and noticed the utter dilapidation of the vast chamber, which 1116 4| meantime Foucarmont was diligently attacking the liqueurs. 1117 6| to admire the beautiful dimensions of the sink and the width 1118 9| an artist; nay, it would diminish it. Oh no, no! Glory before 1119 7| to window among the fast–diminishing crowd. The pavement was 1120 5| that face so merry with dimples and so worn with desire, 1121 9| haggling in her behalf! He dinned his words into her ears; 1122 3| Joncquoy, whose brother, a diplomat, had just fulfilled a mission 1123 4| he were presiding over a diplomatic congress, and Vandeuvres, 1124 13| the Rue Miromesnil came direct to the Avenue de Villiers. 1125 5| with all the ladies—M. le Directeur had met her a score of times 1126 3| drawing room itself. While directing a footman to clear a round 1127 13| repentance. Afterward, when his director gave him leave to spend 1128 8| knocked in the chairs, dirtied the curtains, and that in 1129 11| to keep out of feminine disagreements.~“By the by,” Nana resumed, “ 1130 11| empty stalls, and Nana was disappointed at discovering only a gendarme’ 1131 12| had begged him to. But he disapproved of her marriage and had 1132 12| She pursed up her lips disapprovingly.~“That’s not very wise. 1133 1| public laughed, as though disarmed and no longer anxious to 1134 10| firmly piled up. Zoe had disarranged it by taking out some oranges.~“ 1135 9| Duchesse proved supremely disastrous to Nana. She was atrociously 1136 5| But amid the disorderly, disbanded troops of girls to be found 1137 1| fact, could be divined, nay discerned, in all its foamlike whiteness 1138 12| while La Faloise, in his discomfiture, felt rather uncertain whether 1139 3| perceptibly, while a look of discomfort, such as headache produces, 1140 4| Steiner, but the latter was disconcerted by Rose’s clear gaze and 1141 9| still greatly agitated and discontented despite everything, put 1142 11| glasses imparted a note of discord to the high–strung gaiety 1143 5| deadened, surprisingly discordant. Farther off again, above 1144 6| Much bored by this moral discourse, Georges appeared in his 1145 11| Nana was disappointed at discovering only a gendarme’s horse 1146 1| stunning!” as though he, too, disdained all argument.~La Faloise 1147 10| said Nana tranquilly, disdaining the onlookers.~And with 1148 8| hooks after all? His nasty diseases kept reappearing and causing 1149 12| trouble in the world to disengage himself. Indeed, he was 1150 4| exceedingly witty thus to disfigure the young man’s name ad 1151 12| how she would look. Thus disfigured, she turned toward the count.~“ 1152 14| t have hurt a soul. It’s disgraceful; I’m ruined by it. And, 1153 13| send her away again. Then, disguised as a man, she would go to 1154 1| inquiry. They had put on disguises so as to preserve their 1155 5| courtyard, he shook himself disgustedly.~“What filthy weather!” 1156 8| fight for her.”~Nana pouted disgustingly. She could not understand 1157 2| empty space between the dishcloths, which were spread out to 1158 8| without linen, while their disheveled tresses were white with 1159 13| worse than the household dishonesty. Yesterday’s food was thrown 1160 12| matter quietly: you’re not dishonored because it’s happened.”~ 1161 2| and the bowl still full of dishwater.~“We said it was three hundred 1162 11| and Nana was again hugely disillusioned, for she had been picturing 1163 11| pluckily.~Nana listened in her disillusionment and could only remark:~“ 1164 6| country with its golden disk of light. A sovereign quiet 1165 12| herself up on her pillow and, dismissing the lady’s maid:~“What! 1166 10| sovereign whom none dare disobey. She set the fashion, and 1167 10| distressing scene for having disobeyed and played Paul Pry behind 1168 7| unwittingly she corrupts and disorganizes all Paris, churning it between 1169 4| opposite had excited his displeasure. He began sneering and giving 1170 12| exasperated her. Why could one not dispose of oneself as fancy dictated, 1171 1| forty years old, with a disproportionately long neck, a thin, drawn 1172 7| woman’s headdress. And he disputed the point with himself; 1173 3| the ladies’ sentimental dissertations on music served to conceal 1174 12| The son had been a little dissipated, perhaps; they said he was 1175 13| which has been spoiled and dissolved by sixty years of debauchery, 1176 11| and now Valerio II was distanced, and she was heading the 1177 11| dresses seemed to lose their distinguishing colors. But Nana was especially 1178 13| ceased suffering from these distresses. Heaven took him out of 1179 10| the lad was treated to a distressing scene for having disobeyed 1180 5| Mme Bron having recently distributed the last of the bouquets. 1181 13| poor, dear Rose! She grew distrustful: she feared some treachery 1182 10| papers, the incipient popular disturbances which followed the calls 1183 12| over the young as over the disunited couple, and he knew that 1184 1| and struck up her grand ditty:~“When Venus roams at eventide.”~ 1185 3| of opinions, in which the divers elements of the circle, 1186 12| the winter, and he was now dividing himself between the singer 1187 8| Nevertheless, she dressed with much docility, knowing that argument was 1188 5| descried burning in the “dock.” Human voices and blasts 1189 7| replied slowly, assuming a doctorial expression.~And with that 1190 14| with infinite abuse of the doctors instanced various cases. 1191 1| steam over some advertising dodge, that shouting, spitting, 1192 4| ruse a second time—those dodgers never succeeded twice running. 1193 11| stands. Then there were dogcarts, victorias, landaus, all 1194 8| him with pet names— “my doggie, my old bear, my kitten”— 1195 8| the painful way her niece doled out the sparse, occasional 1196 13| expansiveness rendered her soft and doleful, and her immense distress 1197 10| with another man, while doles of sugar and stray caresses 1198 1| busy in the manufacture of “dollies.” The curtain fell on an 1199 6| tranquil, lordly dignity of the domain.~“It’s getting silly, this 1200 13| monsters whose redoubtable domains were covered with skeletons, 1201 1| of brilliant light from dome to floor. The cardinal velvets 1202 1| third gallery, round the domed ceiling where nude females 1203 10| individuality, with its longing for domination and enjoyment and its desire 1204 13| was simply Madame’s major–domo. Installed as master of 1205 8| wasteful woman, a confounded donkey whom the tradespeople were 1206 10| she dined at Laure’s, she donned her diamonds and occasionally 1207 8| a girl was clinging to doorposts and refusing to budge an 1208 7| dirty gowns appeared on the doorstep. They were munching apples 1209 6| which was transformed into a dormitory with four beds in it for 1210 4| gave each other a mutual dose of the clothesbrush, for 1211 13| loaded him with caresses and dosed him with soft speeches in 1212 1| phrase, as becomes a man who dotes on frank situations.~“Call 1213 5| brought nothing but a certain doubiful notoriety to his household, 1214 2| tender look and cooing like a dove, she suggested:~“A thousand 1215 8| Fontan. Besides, the turtle doves were kissing so excessively 1216 12| able to reduce Estelle’s dower to two hundred thousand 1217 5| were always complaining of drafts. Through the heavy warmth 1218 6| facts, threatened to go and drag him home by the scruff of 1219 11| and she was dripping and draggled, and her sides were trembling 1220 1| Louis Philippe. Nowadays she drags her daughter about with 1221 11| once more set themselves to drain bottles of champagne. Presently 1222 9| afford to make ducks and drakes of it.”~And as he still 1223 9| the debris of forgotten dramas had been collecting for 1224 9| the manager of the Folies–Dramatique Theatre had been making 1225 1| and its winding staircase draped with red. Steiner went and 1226 13| thirty thousand to the linen draper, twelve thousand to the 1227 12| bed of the Venice point draperies, Nana and the count lay 1228 1| curtain, the heavy purple drapery of which had all the richness 1229 2| bell made her jump. Oh, drat it all! Wouldn’t they let 1230 1| her waist.~“You know, she draws up her chemise to put that 1231 6| countess, her eyes fixed dreamily on the blue distances of 1232 6| looks once more plunged into dreamland, where the vision of an 1233 4| stirred each other up, but a dreary species of intoxication, 1234 6| presence. After which she dreed her guests with honorable 1235 4| this time dropped the very dregs of their glasses into the 1236 13| was an old comfit dish in Dresden china, and it had a gold 1237 8| dress!”~“But I’m not a dressmaker; I’m a burnisher,” Satin 1238 4| established a workroom for dressmaking and plain sewing. As to 1239 2| There was a dreadful little dribbling customer for you! But as 1240 14| innumerable hats apparently drifting on their surface. At that 1241 5| was a heroic eater and drinker. Both of them were even 1242 7| which had been wet by the drip–drop of umbrellas, the footsteps 1243 7| inky sky, whence an icy drizzle was falling. Two o’clock 1244 1| nose and addressed him so drolly as “My big daddy!” that 1245 10| and had a sharp downward droop of the mouth and a fitful 1246 6| him when he remembered her drooping, languid state in the austere 1247 5| more softly?” he said. “It drowns your voice, and that’s an 1248 10| would wake from her daylong drowse and drive out or receive 1249 4| the ladies were chatting drowsily together in the corners 1250 5| the place seemed to be drowsing off through very breathlessness 1251 9| rehearsal he used frequently to drub his former mistress. Simonne 1252 8| which was sure to follow the drubbings they talked of. It was the 1253 5| his venerable disguise the drunkard had suddenly reappeared. 1254 11| fire during an evening of drunkenness in order to see whether 1255 4| looked sedate and remarked dryly that she would have given 1256 9| since you can afford to make ducks and drakes of it.”~And as 1257 8| withdrawing from the scene in high dudgeon because she had noticed 1258 4| Foucarmont had twice fought duels, and he was in consequence 1259 5| disdain.~“He’s a bit of a duffer all the same,” he said to 1260 11| pretty doing awaiting the duffers who were being taken in 1261 1| Your theater—” he began in dulcet tones.~Bordenave interrupted 1262 4| table grew ever yellower and duller. Now and again, when a women 1263 11| had risen amid a mist of dun–colored dust, but toward 1264 7| has flown up out of the dung, a fly which sucks in death 1265 8| lady—yes, the lady in the dustbin! She now felt sure she had 1266 6| girl she had long wished to dwell in a meadow, tending a goat, 1267 10| which greatly excited the dwellers in the solitary street. 1268 6| Sabine, in high good spirits, dwelt on various childish memories 1269 1| however, the buzz of talk dwindled softly down among occasional 1270 8| become. And her anger began dwindling down as though the blow 1271 11| the sudden sunlight was dyeing the chestnut filly the brilliant 1272 13| walk on the gold, on the eagles, on the decorations, and 1273 13| Madame,” and for the sake of earning a few louis all those women 1274 14| There were finger rings, earrings, bracelets, a REVIERE of 1275 6| smoked over their coffee. An earsplitting noise of merrymaking issued 1276 5| pails and coarse yellow earthenware crocks. There was an array 1277 13| called him a fool for no earthly reason. She was always squabbling 1278 8| laughter was not of the easiest kind.~“Ah, he’s with Rose 1279 3| fulfilled a mission in the East, was giving some details 1280 10| beautiful objects—lovely Eastern hangings, old credences, 1281 5| who, indeed, was a heroic eater and drinker. Both of them 1282 8| bled. Besides, when one eats a cake isn’t it usual to 1283 9| there was no need for the eavesdropping Mme Bron to listen. The 1284 6| her power of resistance ebbing away, and that despite her 1285 9| made the actors look like eccentric phantoms and set their shadows 1286 8| answering like a jeering echo to every blow wherewith 1287 7| houses.~His boot heels re–echoed, and he saw nothing but 1288 10| in which the theatrical echoes and the fashionable news 1289 8| wondering at Nana’s total eclipse. People were asking for 1290 4| pride, was a pupil at the Ecole de Marine. Then ensued a 1291 3| in a tone of refined and ecstatical admiration. Mme du Joncquoy 1292 10| great boy! But he had had an eczema on the back of his neck, 1293 3| about the court of Nazr–ed–Din.~“Are you out of sorts, 1294 11| veritable tumult, a mob, an eddy of hats, surged round the 1295 13| dramatic notes. Then the editorial staff having been turned 1296 9| melancholy and mysterious effacement. Near the ceiling dense 1297 9| interview were gradually effacing themselves. He no longer 1298 10| was already white with the effects of uncertainty and constraint. 1299 4| skipping her lines she had effectually shortened the third act 1300 10| and drink left her lolling effortless for whole days, lulled her 1301 12| arm. He laughed and was effusively affectionate toward her, 1302 4| Foucarmont a wink in order to egg him on against Labordette, 1303 9| Yes, to be sure! It’s an eggeup,” the count repeated.~“Excuse 1304 13| spun, and he barred her egress. He cried; he besought her 1305 7| telling us about her trip in Egypt. Oh, it’s screaming! There’ 1306 3| upholsteries of which were soft as eider down. It was the only piece 1307 6| built at the end of the eighteenth century, stood in the middle 1308 10| her life in the following ejaculation, which recurred incessantly 1309 13| him, uttering fragmentary ejaculations.~“Oh, my brother, how I 1310 3| With a languid movement she eked out the thought that was 1311 10| hair before beginning the elaborate manipulations of the afternoon.~ 1312 10| colors and designs. On the elaborately upholstered bed, which was 1313 6| a quarter of an hour had elapsed Muffat took his departure, 1314 7| sound of voices. Passers–by elbowed him at every turn and cast 1315 5| They went jostling and elbowing along, casting apprehensive 1316 8| all known rules, they had elected to sit side by side.~“Devil 1317 4| she had at last made her election. “You were quite right; 1318 10| workgirl who understands the elegancies of life by instinct, she 1319 3| opinions, in which the divers elements of the circle, whether Bonapartist 1320 9| about as gracefully as an elephant might have done, while Fauchery 1321 10| set her dreaming and would elevate her soul. Then allusion 1322 4| Perhaps you were a little elevated.”~Then Nana fell a–laughing. 1323 6| interspersed with dense masses of elms and aspens. Was there no 1324 1| she’ll go far! Oh yes, s’elp me, she’ll go far! A skin— 1325 12| fancied he saw her in a grave, emaciated by a century of sleep, and 1326 13| themselves at their good lady’s embarrassing situations. He had just 1327 13| The staffs of all the embassies visited her, and she, Lucy 1328 10| was a landau with silver embellishments, which for the moment occupied 1329 4| taste for her, owing to her embonpoint. Then Daguenet added a rapid 1330 6| its rich verdure and high–embowered trees broke the monotony 1331 3| continued the discussion in the embrasure of a window. Fauchery was 1332 5| the prince in a shrug of eminently philosophic disdain.~“He’ 1333 2| would be free then! And she emitted sighs of relief, as though 1334 8| silence and only occasionally emitting a little contemptuous sniff. 1335 4| assured her that Victor Emmanuel could not come to the exhibition. 1336 13| listlessness suggestive of an emotionless marionette. He so annoyed 1337 4| the other kings, the other emperors, who were shortly expected. 1338 3| and added with a peculiar emphasis on the words:~“You’ve worked 1339 4| and she did not see them. Emphatically she was now falling back 1340 8| yet he did not know how to employ his evening. He turned briskly 1341 4| referred, of course, to her employer’s old admirers, the tradesman 1342 12| the madness of drink which empties the wretched beds. Here 1343 5| reappeared. His was the haggard, empurpled face of the old actor who 1344 5| sort of solemn farce was enacted under the hot flare of the 1345 11| avenues and among the people encamped under the trees, till it 1346 11| declared Nana in perfect enchantment.~Gaga and Clarisse had called 1347 10| to assume the role of an enchantress in the outer world. Her 1348 6| seven or eight acres of land enclosed within a wall. Then the 1349 7| Haussmann. He skirted the enclosures round the opera house in 1350 1| caught on,” for there was an encore. The singers’ heads were 1351 6| recognition. The short critical encounter seemed to have been going 1352 6| was used to all kinds of encounters, but the gardener, who brought 1353 3| embarrassed silence, but both men encouraged one another and would doubtless 1354 1| He—he never let a woman encumber him for any length of time; 1355 13| up with Mme Lerat and her encumbrances, with Louiset and the mournful 1356 10| together, making numberless endearing little speeches and mingling 1357 7| under the buffetings of mine enemies!” Nothing answered: the 1358 11| neck, she smacked her thigh energetically, lost all self–possession, 1359 4| come forward in order to enforce respectful behavior toward 1360 13| language and paid to be amused, engaging them by the evening with 1361 13| without the inventions of engineers, had shaken Paris to its 1362 11| between Spirit and Lusignan. Englishmen, plainly recognizable as 1363 13| through her hands as if engulfed by an abyss. Even fishing 1364 8| opulence which a hotelkeeper enjoys after forty years of activity, 1365 13| tailor. Though she had not enlarged her scheme of expenditure, 1366 12| she pressed her cheeks, enlarging her eyes and pushing down 1367 11| the body and bulged out enormously behind her waist, thereby 1368 5| Marquis de Chouard snugly enscounced on a chair between the two 1369 11| figure, with her noble face enshrined in its long curls, she dominated 1370 9| packed in such a way as to ensure applause. Besides, he was 1371 2| her hair, unfastened and entangled, flowed over them in masses.~“ 1372 7| glittering like a precious stone enters the windows of palaces and 1373 8| delightedly, treating their entertainers as lucky people and pretending 1374 1| He had about him all the entertaining fatuity of a young leading 1375 8| delighted when Nana, grown enthusiastic after the letter had been 1376 13| view that she had tried to entice Satin, a little pig at that 1377 7| slowly Fauchery’s article entitled “The Golden Fly,” describing 1378 7| experiences when she feels herself entrapped and must, nevertheless, 1379 6| emotion to yield to his entreaties, she at length promised 1380 10| and called her in tones of entreaty. She got up at once and 1381 4| After the third course the entrees had made their appearance; 1382 2| about it, “I am going to entrust you with this, gentlemen. 1383 2| suited her, and she thereupon enumerated, not without a certain amount 1384 1| every lip. Merely through enunciating it thus, the throng worked 1385 12| expression and seemed to envelop them in his pious sweetness, 1386 4| snake was that Fauchery, an envious sort, a fellow capable of 1387 2| turn out the most feeling epistles. She ran to fetch some good 1388 2| whenever she uttered a gallant epithet. It was a notice by Fauchery, 1389 5| such a blow with laughing equanimity. Whereupon the two men had 1390 11| bells. Every few seconds an equestrian rode by, and a swarm of 1391 11| canvases flapped, while equestrians urged their hacks forward 1392 2| felt that he had lost his equilibrium. He needed air; he was overcome 1393 7| was apparent in the almost equine development of her flanks, 1394 7| the Galerie Saint–Marc, an equivocal corner full of obscure little 1395 8| he was busy on a secret errand. Nevertheless, he was the 1396 10| to perform all sorts of errands which bored the count; he 1397 12| anxious to live down the errors of his youth. Estelle will 1398 4| sole with shallot sauce and escalopes of Strasbourg pate. The 1399 3| its complete absence of escapades and of all that is meant 1400 14| It’s a great wonder he’s escorted me as far as the door. There 1401 13| and the servants were now espousing his cause. Francois kept 1402 4| Close by her ear he kept espying a sweet little satiny corner 1403 9| heads, and then awkwardly essayed the passage, only to pull 1404 2| flowers, with a feminine essence which choked him. And behind 1405 13| others left behind them, the essential smells of fair–haired men 1406 3| respectable slice of his vast estates in Picardy.~“I advise you 1407 9| addressed Nana as “madame” and esteemed himself happy to see her 1408 11| her value. But he replied evasively; doubtless a demand for 1409 8| finishing her education!~One evenlng when she came to call for 1410 7| those shadows, that he was evermore betrayed and alone.~Day 1411 8| had been threatening to evict her. Well then, for whom 1412 2| of credit and threats of eviction.~Nana was sleeping on her 1413 11| mentioned. It was quite evident now: for two years past 1414 8| the other woman did not evince any astonishment but blew 1415 8| with a view to a further examination when she felt it would be 1416 7| subject, but he had begun to exasperate her at last. The matter 1417 13| happy hunting ground par excellence, where courtesans of the 1418 10| francs monthly, presents excepted, and demanded nothing in 1419 6| they discovered a potato of exceptional size. It struck them as 1420 13| torn in two. This seemed to excite her, and in order to show 1421 11| Nana recovered from the excitements of victory. That morning 1422 6| against the ironwork. And thus excluded and isolated, a feeling 1423 4| hostess, she busied herself exclusively with bulky Steiner, who 1424 13| turn devoured their own excrements. When once she had him fast 1425 6| never mind, we’ll get up an excursion all the same!”~They decided 1426 6| lunch and planning various excursions. Fauchery was growing increasingly 1427 2| a good mother anything’s excusable,” said Mme Maloir sententiously 1428 3| Extremely serious. If I don’t execute my commission she’ll tear 1429 10| same mention was made of an execution shortly to take place. The 1430 6| found Georges still hiding exemplarily behind the curtain. The 1431 6| Henri was prodigious at this exercise; he could spout you one 1432 5| Nana’s presence had been exercising over him, and he recalled 1433 13| sweetheart round her, and her exhausted body inclined to incomprehensible 1434 5| assumed the tone of a man exhibiting a bear in the street. In 1435 13| such as had never before existed; it was to be a throne, 1436 10| use to her, she had upset existing arrangements, establishing 1437 1| feet, were making for the exits. The authors were mentioned, 1438 8| boulevards. This was the hungry exodus from the Quartier Breda 1439 10| everyone with an air of expanded maternity. Yet notwithstanding 1440 13| tears. A fit of nervous expansiveness rendered her soft and doleful, 1441 1| then? So long a period of expectancy had ended by annoying the 1442 1| of the pit. A shiver of expectation traversed the house: at 1443 6| season was surpassing their expectations. But Nana was obstinate. 1444 3| one? On such occasions one expects the party will number twenty, 1445 12| been able to hit on but one expedient, from which he recoiled. 1446 2| dearie, to give up your expedition at once.”~“No, be quick 1447 14| Frenchmen. They’ve just expelled the little Prussian who 1448 4| noted down receipts and expenditures with severe precision. She 1449 3| have described it as an experiment, marking the birth of an 1450 13| offered heaven, by way of expiatory anguish, the abominable 1451 13| the rooms seemed ready to explode. Then, too, there were instances 1452 3| arguments with downcast eyes and expressionless face. Vandeuvres felt him 1453 14| Blanche, on whose heart the expulsion of her Prussian still weighed, 1454 8| offered to give Madame an extension of time. Nay, they had even 1455 14| Republicans and talked of exterminating them on the frontiers so 1456 6| from the conveyance and extracting then his sons Henri and 1457 6| new obstacle, driven to extremities, bent on some violent act. 1458 7| her flanks, in the fleshy exuberances and deep hollows of her 1459 7| satyrlike head seemed to exude incontinence. It was this 1460 1| entirely in yellow and with an eyeglass stuck in his eye, was forever 1461 5| an old pair of stays, the eyelets of which the portress was 1462 11| Souvigny? You must have good eyesight— eh?—to be able to tell 1463 5| brushed against him and, eying him as a woman in the family 1464 6| making his sons recite a fable by La Fontaine. Henri was 1465 6| dairywomen were wont to fabricate eggs with a mixture of paste 1466 1| line of gas jets on the facade of the theater, and it was 1467 1| those accesses of silly facetiousness and sheer animalism which 1468 12| that they indulged in some facile pleasantries which made 1469 3| reason. It refers to work in factories, and I was anxious for a 1470 6| danced too much did not fade from his face.~“What’s the 1471 7| though she were utterly fagged out by a night in the train. 1472 10| to find excuses for these failings she bluntly informed him 1473 9| damaged by two successive failures. Accordingly Bordenave had 1474 5| The long–drawn sound grew fainter, then louder, and when the 1475 8| there, but at first her faintness and exhaustion were such 1476 6| You’ve no idea! It’s like fairyland!”~Zoe went up, grumbling. 1477 13| was this woman’s continued faithlessness. He could not share her 1478 11| half a head is out of a fakement like that! Do hold your 1479 13| spend your pennies in little fakements like that!”~She scolded 1480 4| compromise me.”~“I say, Monsieur Falamoise, Lamafoise, Mafaloise!” 1481 2| thing; that had never proved fallacious. There could be no doubt 1482 6| conceived the notion of lying fallow for a season, and he was 1483 3| opened, and Hector de la Falois made his appearance. Fauchery, 1484 7| morning with its tissue of falsehoods, invented for the extremely 1485 1| let astray by Iris, who falsely bragged that he knew the 1486 12| brought a faint glow to Fanchery’s pale cheeks, and in his 1487 1| sitting at ease, languidly fanned themselves, following with 1488 1| covered to the elbow and fanning herself with languid hand. 1489 10| Renaissance manner and had fantastic interior arrangements which 1490 3| him as crude, not to say fantastically suggestive, in that dim 1491 6| ever.~While such simple fare as cutlets and boiled eggs 1492 1| wink that she had not two farthings’ worth of talent but that 1493 1| gentlemen in white gloves, fascinated in their turn by Nana’s 1494 8| It was composed of smart, fashionably dressed women who were wearing 1495 8| pretty habits—can’t even go fasting for a week now! And to think 1496 3| training, his penances and his fasts. But the sight of the little 1497 4| the conversation veered fatefully back to Count Bismarck. 1498 14| rise up in defense of the fatherland! And with that he assumed 1499 6| darkly, as though they had fathomed and divined their inmost 1500 7| though he had sunk into a fathomless void.~“My God!” he stuttered