Émile Zola Nana Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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2001 13| men.~“Oh, by God, what an implement!”~Mignon let the words escape 2002 6| brother and advised him to implore heaven for mercy. But he 2003 5| him thus—”~“It is I who am importunate,” said the prince, “but, 2004 3| experience.”~But the company imposed silence on him: he was scandalizing 2005 7| Empire, rendered society an impossibility; that did him good. But 2006 12| It was the cry of his impotence, the cry of that sin against 2007 1| amid the crowd, tears of impotent desire in his eyes. Members 2008 10| delicate elegance of his impoverished race, and as yet these strange 2009 5| entering her dressing room, imprinted a rough kiss on her neck 2010 3| in the days prior to her imprisonment in this old town house. 2011 6| not even her own aunt—make improper remarks in her presence. 2012 4| struck her. In behaving thus improperly at her table, these ladies 2013 13| between the two men constantly improved. In fact, they were happy 2014 6| looking at his sons and improving the occasion.~Then everybody 2015 6| queerest of dinners was improvised thereon. Zoe ran down to 2016 10| pained Zoe extremely with her imprudent acts, her sudden fits of 2017 13| swayed the town with her impudently flaunted splendor and that 2018 7| tainted to his very marrow by impurities hitherto undreamed of. Everything 2019 14| this compact and as yet inarticulate mass. Each member of it 2020 13| very prettily and quite inattentively, just as she would have 2021 11| instruments of the orchestra were inaudible. Nobody was dancing. Stupid 2022 13| for debasing things was inborn in her. It did not suffice 2023 10| troubles agitating Paris, the incendiary articles in the papers, 2024 13| struck him in the light of an incest. When he fancied himself 2025 10| articles in the papers, the incipient popular disturbances which 2026 8| Prulliere behaved with great incivility toward Mme Maloir and did 2027 9| Twice Labordette showed an inclination to chat, but she grew impatient 2028 5| a gentle, “practicable” incline, amid little points of light 2029 8| given up everything, glory included. At times Prulliere and 2030 1| so as to preserve their incognito. Jupiter came on the stage 2031 5| purpose of regulating the incoming stream of people. Nana had 2032 13| exhausted body inclined to incomprehensible fancies and perverse tastes. 2033 7| went along he kept mumbling inconsequent phrases. That girl had been 2034 7| satyrlike head seemed to exude incontinence. It was this man Fontan 2035 5| taken his hat off. What inconvenienced him most was the stuffy, 2036 11| Labordette let a low, incredulous whistle escape him. For 2037 7| before him! Nana still smiled incredulously. She nodded in the direction 2038 12| white lacquer and silver incrustations, loomed vague and wan through 2039 2| wore a dark dress of an indecisive color midway between puce 2040 5| her familiarly.~Thus he indemnified himself. Mignon, however, 2041 6| others had also to stop in Indian file along the roadside. 2042 1| with Mars, made haste to indicate hour and place to Vulcan, 2043 1| Bordenave grew annoyed and, indicating with a jerk of his chin 2044 7| waiting for some sign, some indication, which should bring certainty 2045 7| with the feathers.”~Then, indifferently:~“So you’re seeing me home?”~“ 2046 8| week, regularly, Bosc had indigestion. One evening as Mme Lerat 2047 12| marriage and had inveighed indignantly against the way in which 2048 13| a little from the lesser indignities of their daily life. The 2049 10| soft carpets and seats. Her individuality, with its longing for domination 2050 3| Speech grew more and more indolent, and a sense of lassitude 2051 7| along with you!” he muttered indolently. “You have no cause to be 2052 7| and the fixity of his gaze induced hallucinations.~A shower 2053 12| off entirely: she preached indulgent good nature and suggested 2054 3| is that if the countess indulges in high jinks she’s still 2055 7| And she was once more indulging in a merry fit of laughter 2056 13| falling into the hands of inexperienced girls who were causing her 2057 13| treated herself to a man’s infamy. At first they joked together, 2058 3| his girlish throat. The infant was full of shame and of 2059 5| to him with a caressing, infantine pout.~“Good evening, baby,” 2060 13| spare him the pain of her infidelity. It was over, quite over. 2061 13| presence of his wife’s husband infinitely advantageous to him. He 2062 4| the young man’s name ad infinitum.~But La Faloise grew wroth 2063 1| thronging world of heads to infinity and magnified the narrow 2064 13| sudden terror as became an infirm old man. This last night 2065 6| in order the further to inflame him. Well, well! He would 2066 1| Venus, who was assuredly inflaming their good ladies with an 2067 10| once more. Then she grew inflexible. No, the thing was out of 2068 7| the painful anxiety he was inflicting on himself. Since those 2069 13| death; it was an abominable infliction!~In his jealous anguish 2070 5| passing—it was a regular influenza trap, as Fontan phrased 2071 9| eyes she had succeeded in infusing a look of sadness.~“Oh, 2072 1| to make a cast, and by an ingenious twist Venus and Mars were 2073 6| was emptying, and all the inhabitants of Chamont bowed before 2074 12| frightened and made her inhale a little ether. She gave 2075 1| the theater steps and were inhaling the fresh night air in the 2076 14| Lucy asked who was going to inherit it all. Oh, distant relations— 2077 13| eaten up with the rottenness inherited from some unknown father. 2078 3| armchair of formal design and inhospitable padding, which stood by 2079 4| nuisance,” he murmured, “my initials and my coronet are worked 2080 7| regain lost ground and to initiate a plan of action. Accordingly, 2081 10| murmured the lady’s maid in an injured tone.~Straightway Madame 2082 1| adorers and yet sustain no injury.~The piece drew to a close. 2083 9| all styles, platters and inkpots, firearms and squirts, which 2084 2| paper in her bedroom. An inkstand consisting of a bottle of 2085 7| moon had disappeared in an inky sky, whence an icy drizzle 2086 12| up. As became a constant inmate of the house, he had gone 2087 6| fathomed and divined their inmost hearts.~On Friday a fresh 2088 13| gentlemen had ceased to inquire after him otherwise.~“Did 2089 7| him at every turn and cast inquiring looks at his silent face, 2090 6| well now, but the worn–out insatiate expression of a girl who 2091 2| de Beuville, which were inscribed on the cards, calmed her 2092 6| collar up:~“Ah yes, some insect stung me there!”~The Marquis 2093 11| this part of the plain like insects swarming madly under the 2094 8| the stronger.~They became inseparable. Yet Satin never went to 2095 6| a long nightgown with an insertion front, a pair of worked 2096 14| full of phenol exhaled an insipid smell. And every few moments 2097 4| looking light–haired man kept insistently repeating:~“Come, come, 2098 8| to the official medical inspection. The thought of the official 2099 14| infinite abuse of the doctors instanced various cases. But Lucy 2100 7| his steps were patiently, instinctively, leading him through a labyrinth 2101 11| feet some gentlemen had instituted a drinking bar, whither 2102 6| through a course of botanical instruction in a by–path. The two men 2103 11| lack of exact and detailed instructions, had just then gone to him 2104 4| empty his bottle into the instrument. It was a simple process 2105 4| consorting with people of insufficient wealth. They were getting 2106 8| teeth a whole string of insults and all kinds of accusations 2107 2| dentist and after that with an insurance agent, but neither place 2108 13| fancy cost. Nothing remained intact in her hands; she broke 2109 13| the woman’s extraordinary intelligence. Rose was in despair; for 2110 6| over, he went upstairs, intending to shut himself in his bedroom, 2111 5| which he now re–encountered, intensified by the heat under the low– 2112 8| the tact, if possible, to intensify his politeness toward her. 2113 5| altered; she was suddenly intent on her business. With a 2114 8| on, got up and listened intently.~“The police!” she said, 2115 10| point Vandeuvres tried to intercept the ladies’ reminiscences 2116 8| at once offered to act as intercessor. But she refused his help, 2117 3| sentences thus whisperingly interchanged, and he gazed at Fauchery 2118 3| declared Leonide. “I found it interesting.”~Nevertheless, Mme Hugon 2119 8| to keep count of his real interests. When Bosc made his customary 2120 4| Count de Vandeuvres had to interfere in order to assure him that 2121 10| tottie, in which case his interference would have been accounted 2122 8| Nana was on the point of interfering.~But at that very moment 2123 13| caused a diversion, a joyful interlude which made the young woman 2124 1| brothel,” Bordenave again interpolated with the frigid obstinacy 2125 13| subject. But at this he interposed.~“Wait a moment; it’s six 2126 12| expression that he dared not interrogate her further for fear of 2127 1| out loudly; others, in an interrogative tone, uttered it as they 2128 11| the avenues of the park intersected one another, filled at that 2129 6| roofs and screens of poplars interspersed with dense masses of elms 2130 10| exasperation, made so bold as to intervene.~“What you’re telling us 2131 12| into the house through the intervening night air. And the garden 2132 6| her to one of those sudden intimacies which are allowable in the 2133 8| theatrical gestures and intonation they discussed their former 2134 13| coaxing way with him and would intoxicate him with furtive kisses 2135 5| was at his post amid an intricate arrangement of cocks; a 2136 6| had his finger in all the intrigues of the priesthood. The two 2137 1| to her house, and I’m to introduce you. You know the thing’ 2138 9| handsome Oscar de Saint–Firmin, introduces her and hopes to be able 2139 11| into an ecstasy over her intuition and damned Nana admiringly 2140 2| from Zoe, and the latter, inured to such confidences, received 2141 6| indignant at such an untoward invasion of her road.~“Oh, that woman!” 2142 12| of her marriage and had inveighed indignantly against the 2143 8| Accordingly she never ceased inveighing against that brutal individual. 2144 3| was not the count who had inveigled thither that nest of voluptuous 2145 13| without workmen, without the inventions of engineers, had shaken 2146 9| him in his marine–stores inventory, as he jocosely termed it.~ 2147 2| her toilet table under an inverted pomatum pot. As she was 2148 13| service, which he wished to invest in the United States. His 2149 14| became a prudent woman, had invested all her daughters’ money 2150 13| fortune thereby, and she was investing all her savings in it. She 2151 12| entertainment. Five hundred invitations had been issued to people 2152 10| latest installation, had been involving all the riotous waste attendant 2153 10| she said in a state of inward ecstasy.~The conversation 2154 10| her hand, and there was an ironical curve about her lips.~“Oh 2155 3| Chantereau, the wife of an ironmaster, seeing the countess shivering 2156 6| their faces against the ironwork. And thus excluded and isolated, 2157 13| Again he was partner in an ironworks in Alsace, where in a small 2158 10| that lovely invention of irresponsibility in certain pathological 2159 1| not wallowed in folly more irreverent. It rested them.~Nevertheless, 2160 4| Name” when He swears, and Isaac always answers with a “Yes, 2161 9| t disturb your mistress, Isabelle; I want to take her by surprise.”~ 2162 6| loomed like little shadowy islands amid a shining and waveless 2163 6| ironwork. And thus excluded and isolated, a feeling of respect began 2164 11| stood about in comparative isolation, looking as though they 2165 11| races continued. The Prix d’Ispahan had just been run for and 2166 9| in which that confounded Israelite had puffed himself alongside 2167 1| the light of exclamations issuing from the stalls. For a long 2168 3| Chantereau stood up for the Italians. The ladies’ voices had 2169 4| platefuls of cepes a’ l’italienne and pineapple fritters a 2170 11| started from the Boulevard des Italiens, freighted with its fifty 2171 4| description of the king of Italy, whom she had once seen 2172 9| seat. Every few minutes he itched with the desire to interrupt, 2173 3| furniture there, a fanciful item introduced amid the prevailing 2174 11| carriages gesticulating like itinerant dentists while their odds 2175 9| CHAPTER IX~The Petite Duchesse was 2176 2| a whole mob of men were jabbing at the ivory button, one 2177 8| where women in dressing jackets seemed to be awaiting them. 2178 4| Sivry, whose real name was Jacqueline Bandu, she hailed from a 2179 11| spoke of them all as sorry jades. Frangipane, Baron Verdier’ 2180 13| day about the middle of January. Muffat was just then in 2181 10| models of Chinese pagodas, a Japanese screen of precious workmanship, 2182 5| she dipped her finger in a jar and began applying the rouge 2183 11| toque with a white feather jauntily upon her chignon, the fair 2184 12| eyes and pushing down her jaw, in order to see how she 2185 11| going to sleep I hear him jawing away again. But the biggest 2186 11| corner of my eye. Oh, he jaws away, and then he crosses 2187 8| stories and the amours and the jealousies which inflamed the female 2188 13| incense. Woman swayed him as jealously and despotically as the 2189 8| buffeted her, answering like a jeering echo to every blow wherewith 2190 4| galantine of guinea fowl in jelly. Nana, annoyed by the want 2191 11| gains! The French may go to Jericho!”~Nana was scandalized. 2192 1| annoyed and, indicating with a jerk of his chin the public who 2193 5| respectable expression and jerked out this phrase:~“My husband’ 2194 14| had happened to Nana in jerky, breathless sentences.~“ 2195 4| at the Ministry. Fauchery jestingly inquired whether the minister 2196 11| impossible! Why, the man’s a Jesuit!”~“Precisely; I spotted 2197 6| management of which the Jesuits had entrusted him in days 2198 10| tragically furious, as only a jilted woman can be ran off in 2199 2| shape of the man of whom she jobbed her carriages. He had settled 2200 9| stores inventory, as he jocosely termed it.~Presently, when 2201 8| she continued. “A pretty Johnnie for Rose to go and treat 2202 13| brother; he’s another pretty Johnny, he is! He promised me two 2203 12| him well–nigh stunned. The joints of his fingers used to crack, 2204 6| extremely excited till a sudden jolt brought her down to the 2205 11| with lamentable cabs which jolted along behind sorry old hacks, 2206 10| days when we went to Mother Josse’s school in the Rue Polonceau!”~ 2207 9| phrase.~“Oh, I don’t care a jot for Rose; I’ll give her 2208 11| conveyances, shouted odds and jotted down amounts right furiously. 2209 1| emerging from the Passage Jouffroy; individuals stood waiting 2210 2| Figaro.”~He had brought the journal. Mme Lerat put on her spectacles 2211 14| nervously, for despite his cheap journalistic chaff he was really touched. 2212 1| pleasure. There were many journalists, several authors, a number 2213 4| retire to a little house at Jouvisy, which she had long had 2214 11| trouble, eh?” said Philippe joyously. “He’s going badly.”~“In 2215 13| and remorse redoubled the joys of sin and of repentance. 2216 1| with less art. Her manager judged of her excellently; she 2217 13| afford explanations to the judges which would touch them, 2218 1| bulky critic was sitting in judgment on the piece in presence 2219 7| turning and cooking in my own juice, eh?”~And she was once more 2220 6| succession of little cries and jumps, the ecstatic behavior of 2221 10| true he would have been justified in throttling her! But what 2222 7| he is. Nothing seemed to justify the painful anxiety he was 2223 14| paying for my little house at Juvisy. Ah, God knows what trouble 2224 5| was scanning the gentlemen keenly, while the dresser, Mme 2225 13| were like spasms in their keenness, in return for hours filled 2226 2| might keep the livery–stable keeper company—it would amuse the 2227 12| it was all a very funny kettle of fish!~The buffet was 2228 6| Chamont, which were some seven kilometers distant. Five carriages 2229 7| No, thank you! She was kindhearted, but not to that extent.~“ 2230 10| had she loaded Satin with kindnesses and presents. In order to 2231 4| to drink a quiet glass of kirsch, was seen to shrug her shoulders. 2232 8| doggie, my old bear, my kitten”—and whenever he passed 2233 4| s offers rose with every kittenish movement of her shoulders, 2234 12| she’s calling ‘em her dear kitties. Oh, those family scenes 2235 9| Nobody’s got my little knack of looking like a duchess 2236 13| received, when both should kneel before God the Father. Every 2237 2| one hand, she pressed the knob of an electric bell by her 2238 3| Steiner, an ugly little knot against which Mme Hugon’ 2239 11| silk gown trimmed with red knots and with puffs; she was 2240 13| progress, after sneering knowingly at the baker. They didn’ 2241 5| paint brush in a pot of kohl, and with the point of her 2242 4| understanding between them: she labored hard to the full extent 2243 13| Viewing the fruit of her labors, he once more experienced 2244 8| at the corner of the Rue Labruyere for nearly half an hour, 2245 7| instinctively, leading him through a labyrinth of endless turnings. At 2246 11| nice!”~Gaga had adopted a lachrymose expression.~“My dear, it’ 2247 4| silent way, watched with lackluster eyes the untoward finish 2248 9| ruin. It was littered with ladders, with set pieces and with 2249 1| quick time. Steiner, my laddie, you know that my wife is 2250 4| still the smartest and most ladylike woman there.~“Do tell them 2251 3| at the same time seeing lakes, forests and sunrises over 2252 4| say, Monsieur Falamoise, Lamafoise, Mafaloise!” shouted Foucarmont, 2253 13| fault! But she checked her lamentations of her own accord in order 2254 14| shadows in which lanterns and lampposts gleamed like sparks. But 2255 12| was supported by gilded lances. “You might fancy yourself 2256 13| His inheritance was in landed estate, houses, fields, 2257 6| peasants, belated in the lanes, turned and looked at the 2258 13| who murdered the French language and paid to be amused, engaging 2259 1| And Nana, in front of this languorous public, these fifteen hundred 2260 3| Poor Estelle has grown lankier than ever. What a nice lath 2261 5| said Simonne. “It’s the lanky one by the side of the stove. 2262 9| clothes shop in the Rue de Lappe in process of selling off, 2263 2| room.~It was as though she lapped them in her laughing smile 2264 14| round, but when after the lapse of ten minutes Maria Blond 2265 5| prince made his appearance. Largely and strongly built, light 2266 6| Mme Lerat and Louiset. The largest was devoted to the Gaga 2267 13| was now ready to die at Lariboisiere, to such a damnable state 2268 7| eyes fixed on some plucked larks and on a huge salmon laid 2269 4| eyelids with their blackened lashes blinked and wavered while 2270 7| which simply shut with a latch. At that hour of the night 2271 8| things like that.” Thus their latent affections would be stirred, 2272 8| apprenticeship in the Quartier Latin, used to take Nana to Bullier’ 2273 3| Chantereau, however, was all for Latinville. Speech grew more and more 2274 12| That he might have the laughers against him.~“What will 2275 13| smartness. He needed a woman to launch him properly; it was the 2276 13| and she treated him as a lawful wife would have done. Mignon 2277 5| and paints and filled by a lawless yearning for those young 2278 6| man’s wealth. It was a big lawsuit with the management of which 2279 2| like a countess who haunts lawyers’ offices. Then she effaced 2280 2| Nana, still torpid with laziness and yawning and stretching 2281 2| warm bedclothes with the lazy movements of a cat who is 2282 11| harnessed tandemwise, the leader being a little warm–colored 2283 6| the side of the road which leads from Orleans to Paris and 2284 11| paulownias, whose rosy, leafless tops were one stain of brilliant 2285 6| weary of seeing nothing but leafy recesses through every opening 2286 5| apart because a pail was leaking and letting a whitish flood 2287 11| waved their sunshades; men leaped and spun round, vociferating 2288 9| over the velvet–covered ledges in front of the various 2289 2| sent her such a blooming leech of a man?~“Chuck ‘em all 2290 4| There are a couple of leeches for you!” she muttered.~“ 2291 8| who was answering for her legality, was acting the honest woman 2292 14| During the day the Corps Legislatif had voted for war, and now 2293 1| part at a sitting of the legislature. In order to explain their 2294 3| have something to do in his leisure time. Deuce take it, the 2295 10| capital, he was in search of a lender, for he did not dare to 2296 9| would even be possible to lengthen a scene out.”~“Well then, 2297 10| lady’s maid grew gradually lenient, for she had noticed that 2298 11| was by The Truth out of Lenore. A big bay horse he was, 2299 5| three yards at most, by a leprous–looking wall against which 2300 7| for she wished thus to lessen the cruelty of her blow. 2301 10| he had already seriously lessened his capital, he was in search 2302 13| suffered not a little from the lesser indignities of their daily 2303 8| silly—’how is it that Madame lets herself be made into mincemeat 2304 14| reflections over the gilt lettering of the shop signs.~Beneath 2305 6| cabbages! Oh, such woppers! And lettuces and sorrel and onions and 2306 4| the reproof had just been leveled at him. Oh, it was all silly 2307 13| and of faith, those twin levers which move the world. And 2308 7| the Scriptures, at once lewd and wild. Nana was all covered 2309 2| that he had too many big liabilities. He won’t go beyond his 2310 8| Indeed, that was how their liaison ended.~One evening Nana 2311 13| watching her every movement and liberally bespattering her with the 2312 7| sleepy reading room and library, the shaded lamps in which 2313 6| shoulders added a touch of license to her delicate, high–strung 2314 3| all is said and done, Nana licked her to fits!~“Yesterday 2315 13| between her fingers and the lid fell and was broken. She 2316 13| there! ‘That dirty wench who lies with everybody and cleans 2317 6| before them in silence and lifeless solitude. Never had she 2318 11| went off with Price hanging lifelessly and vacantly over her neck, 2319 3| to preserve it during her lifetime. Then returning to the subject 2320 3| violence that they might be likened to accesses of burning fever. 2321 5| stand had been fixed by a limelight man, who was now lighting 2322 8| houses with their small, limited flats were peopled by ladies. 2323 5| Simonne!”~Simonne flung a fur–lined pelisse briskly over her 2324 12| retire, for the latter was lingering round arranging the medicine 2325 3| order to visit him at the Lion d’Or, where he had put up. 2326 7| back with the fell of a lioness.~Bending back thus, she 2327 7| soil had become a lake of liquid mire. But he never looked 2328 4| the globe. Extraordinary liquors some of ‘em, containing 2329 4| affected the infantile and lisped through excess of genteel 2330 9| order to escape from curious listeners he led them into the property 2331 4| evening I drank more than a liter of it, and it didn’t hurt 2332 7| influence of the same lusts, he literally stumbled, and in the road 2333 5| curls and looking as like a litigious great lady as ever.~When 2334 7| down, he would humble his littleness in the presence of Omnipotence. 2335 6| Vandeuvres affected the liveliest astonishment.~“Well, that 2336 6| the Countess Sabine, whose liveliness and gaiety surprised him 2337 11| her four horses and her liveries, she pursed up her lips, 2338 5| Oh, that Nana! They were loading her with flowers! Then when 2339 6| Nana was obstinate. She loathed Paris; she wouldn’t set 2340 14| horrible grin. And over this loathsome and grotesque mask of death 2341 10| delight to dazzle the little local courtesans and to carry 2342 12| The band, which had been located in the garden, in front 2343 13| or one of those swarms of locusts whose flight scours a whole 2344 8| Come up to my rooms.”~He lodged in the Rue Bergere close 2345 9| in some high, windowless loft. The deserted house, whose 2346 10| smiled at the coachman’s loftily dignified demeanor.~From 2347 3| silent, her eyes fixed on a log which was turning into embers, 2348 14| that, while the two were at loggerheads, Gaga began murmuring in 2349 7| could be simpler or more logical! Reasoning in this way, 2350 5| Steiner has gone away to the Loiret,” said Barillot, preparing 2351 11| present triumph caused many loiterers to join her. Indeed, that 2352 8| at a night of fruitless loitering, were unwilling to give 2353 10| their share in her hours of loneliness and boredom.~Doubtless Mme 2354 9| woman and was haunted by longings for her and her alone, her 2355 8| very dark brunette with a longish face and lips pursed up 2356 1| appeared as the Postillion of Lonjumeau and Minerva as a Norman 2357 7| that the count kept a sharp lookout at the very door of the 2358 1| seven colors of the rainbow looped round her waist.~“You know, 2359 5| little peep through an open loophole. The room was empty, and 2360 6| foulard gown which fitted loosely over her shoulders added 2361 11| francs over the filly and a loser to the tune of forty thousand, 2362 3| amount of money; his betting losses at the Imperial Club amounted 2363 4| length of the room. But the loudest din was made by the waiters; 2364 4| shouts to the waiters, the loudness of their voices and the 2365 9| should want you to be the loveliest, the richest, woman on earth. 2366 1| workman’s cap on his head, lovelocks glued to his temples. Shuffling 2367 10| stress on Philippe, who was loyalty itself.~“It’s very true; 2368 7| and were going to sleep. lt was reasonable enough at 2369 4| ladies of the town! A big lubber, who never goes with any 2370 7| to explain herself more lucidly.~“Well, look here! I know 2371 4| played with her griffon dog Lulu. It was enough to make one 2372 11| animated than before. Open–air lunches were arranged in the interval 2373 5| middle of his chest!”~He lunged and struck the young man 2374 1| threatening to leave him in the lurch, for she was furious and 2375 13| broken them all. There was a lurid glow in her vacant eyes, 2376 2| electric bell rang more lustily than ever. Every five minutes 2377 7| the influence of the same lusts, he literally stumbled, 2378 7| toothpicks, Vendome columns and Luxor obelisks on which thermometers 2379 12| clinging skirts. All the luxuriant splendor of the departing 2380 13| content to remark:~“Oh, luxuries always pay. You see, I’ve 2381 10| of the courtesan save the luxuriousness of the seats. Only two “ 2382 2| eh?” she cried.~“Hush, ma’am, there are people in 2383 7| in a country house near Macon, where her friend Mme de 2384 11| whispered. “Be careful: don’t madden Rose too much. You understand, 2385 8| running after her like a madman, coming in when Fontan was 2386 8| with the scared look of a madwoman about to jump out of the 2387 4| Monsieur Falamoise, Lamafoise, Mafaloise!” shouted Foucarmont, who 2388 9| come to find out by what magical process ladies of that sort 2389 8| dread of the law and of the magistracy was such that certain women 2390 3| her seat her husband, a magistrate, stood listening with serious 2391 1| of heads to infinity and magnified the narrow room beyond measure 2392 6| she was beset by nervous, maidenly feelings, mingled with warm 2393 5| features peculiar to old maids whom no one ever knew in 2394 5| which opened out of the main body of the house. At first 2395 10| dinners and suppers at the Maison–d’Or or the Cafe Anglais, 2396 11| listening and taking notes majestically.~“And Nana?” said Georges. “ 2397 7| in front of the chocolate maker’s sweet–stuff shows or stood 2398 1| were shattered. Jupiter’s makeup was capital. Mars was a 2399 10| positively overflowing with males and with furniture.~One 2400 13| herself from his grasp.~“He’s maltreating me now! Here’s a young ruffian 2401 7| the ground floor, with the managerial bureau on the left, and 2402 9| to sign agreements with managers and lovers. Now she could 2403 4| la Pompadour were being mangled. The champagne, however, 2404 13| country and live with his maniacal uncle. But that did not 2405 12| the countess had suddenly manifested a taste for luxury, a longing 2406 12| murmured:~“Why despair? God manifests Himself when all seems lost.”~ 2407 5| toothless combs, of all those manifold untidy trifles which, in 2408 5| hare’s–foot and was lightly manipulating it. All her attention was 2409 10| beginning the elaborate manipulations of the afternoon.~At breakfast, 2410 13| three or four successive manipulators. Victorine and Francois 2411 8| headed by a little oily–mannered, fair–haired commissary 2412 2| respectable–looking and mannerly woman, was Nana’s old friend, 2413 10| while scaffoldings round mansions in process of construction 2414 10| proper footing and clearly mapped out the conditions of their 2415 10| caught a glimpse of pale marbles gleaming in the milky light 2416 1| admiring a perfectly shaped mare; at Daguenet, whose ears 2417 13| suggestive of an emotionless marionette. He so annoyed Nana that 2418 14| experience, for he still bore marks of it in the shape of three 2419 13| bothering me with their marriages you’re raging in your corner. 2420 7| himself tainted to his very marrow by impurities hitherto undreamed 2421 1| him glance behind, and he marveled at what he saw in the Muffats’ 2422 5| You sang your numbers marvelously,” said the prince.~And with 2423 1| m blessed! When ye’re a masher it’ll never do not to let ‘ 2424 9| actress on the occasion of a masked ball being given by the 2425 5| make their appearance as masqeuraders in the ball at the Boule 2426 13| treated herself to a general massacre, rapping each successive 2427 14| not going to let myself be massacred in Paris.”~Her mother, as 2428 14| and all the pity of the massacres to come. The people were 2429 1| box opener was chatting maternally with them. Lucy fell out 2430 10| with an air of expanded maternity. Yet notwithstanding all 2431 11| as became an experienced matron.~Meanwhile round the landau 2432 3| have been such ladies of mature age as Mme Chantereau and 2433 4| which he had been gravely maturing. He had been planning, indeed, 2434 7| deserted church, where the matutinal sweeping was unknown before 2435 11| the starter, the Baron de Mauriac,” said Labordette in reply 2436 7| whole string of economical maxims!~One ought to be sensible, 2437 3| accepted the post of deputy mayor at the town house of the 2438 6| long wished to dwell in a meadow, tending a goat, because 2439 1| eagerly caught; indecent meanings were attached to them; harmless 2440 13| at once told him of the meanly tragic shipwreck of his 2441 1| and contrasted with the meanness of the proscenium, where 2442 13| resignedly adopting extreme measures she tried her friends and 2443 2| some well–adjusted piece of mechanism. And Nana counted these 2444 12| lingering round arranging the medicine bottles. And when they were 2445 12| atrocious night passed in the meditation of vengeance he had gone 2446 3| with her, continued his meditations. She did not look her age; 2447 9| in her arms again, became meek and coaxing, lifted her 2448 5| little women were racing pell–mell, for they were delighted 2449 1| Nana sounded with all the melodious vivacity of its two syllables. 2450 9| choking with sobs, they grew melodramatic and declared that had they 2451 6| and birds. The song would melt her to tears, and she would 2452 2| after consulting a small memorandum book. When she was once 2453 1| wind, laden with a secret menace. Suddenly in the bouncing 2454 9| him. The young man read menaces in that darkling gaze and 2455 6| beast had escaped from a menagerie and were known to be lurking 2456 9| eggcup, and its stem had been mended with plaster. He kept hold 2457 5| which the portress was busy mending. And in the middle of this 2458 3| off?” asked La Faloise, mentally vowing that once outside 2459 12| gave a sigh and without mentioning Daguenet asked him some 2460 12| roast–meat story! Not a soul mentions it now. Blotted out, done 2461 4| up from Saint–Aubin–sur–Mer in the capacity of maid 2462 8| stock–exchange people and merchants, while men walked hastily 2463 7| days God had been always so merciful toward him. At the least 2464 10| her and badgered her so mercilessly that at last she shouted 2465 11| scandalized. Presently the merits of the several horses began 2466 6| An earsplitting noise of merrymaking issued from the open windows 2467 1| the famous net with iron meshes. For an instant he poised 2468 2| talking with the theater messenger, who had brought her mistress 2469 10| little chime on the shining metal.~ 2470 11| small course some hundred meters in circumference, where 2471 6| attains to when one has methodical habits!” said Mignon with 2472 7| used all manner of delicate methods in order to teach him his 2473 11| toward the blue distances of Meudon through an avenue of paulownias, 2474 4| till then had been having Meursault served, now offered Chambertin 2475 14| particularly dangerous. There are miasmatic exhalations then. Ah, but 2476 8| houses in the Boulevard Saint–Michel. But the vacations were 2477 2| she was the daughter of a midwife at Bercy who had failed 2478 4| whom she had once seen at Milan. He was scarcely good looking, 2479 11| course. Behind the ivy–clad mill to the right, meadows, dotted 2480 13| a stone quarry and three mills disappeared. Nana passed 2481 1| with comically furious mimicry and an exaggerated imitation 2482 10| the right sort; I don’t mince matters. Mamma was a laundress; 2483 8| lets herself be made into mincemeat by that clown of a fellow?’ 2484 9| came swelling back with the mincing gait and circumspect air 2485 6| from a fit of stupid right–mindedness, and she treated them all 2486 13| American and owning gold mines in his own country, a beast 2487 10| well everything and it’s a miracle I didn’t kick the bucket 2488 13| month he struggled on, doing miracles of finance. He filled Europe 2489 9| comedy that the public grew mirthful. They did not hiss—they 2490 13| vanished and that of Philippe’s misdoing had again taken complete 2491 7| or if he did he would be miserably weak. And with that he breathed 2492 7| with him on the score of miserliness. Oh, how gladly she would 2493 13| which were prudential, even miserly, were conquered; he gave 2494 14| was full of beggars and misers, my dear. And then came ‘ 2495 13| Heaven was warning him; the misfortunes of Philippe and Georges 2496 9| little duchess who has been misled into the society of a courtesan, 2497 13| me. It’s too hard to be misunderstood and to see them all siding 2498 8| s fancies. Now don’t go moaning any more; it puts my teeth 2499 1| animalism which pass over mobs.~But above all the din the 2500 8| had purchased a cake, a “mocha,” in the Rue de la Chaussee–