Émile Zola Nana Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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2501 7| person singular in open mockery of the count.~“What—what 2502 12| continually beat out its mocking, vagabond rhythm.~“But the 2503 9| that he was looking at him mockingly and pityingly, and he paused 2504 3| the iron hand, the austere mode of existence, that weighed 2505 10| and Portuguese coffers, models of Chinese pagodas, a Japanese 2506 9| Bordenave began talking of a modification of their agreement he burst 2507 8| certainly, for the most modish gentlemen were always the 2508 8| darling; you toil and you moil, when there are so many 2509 6| and began fumbling in the mold with their beringed fingers, 2510 12| yellow velvet hangings, its moldy ceiling through which the 2511 1| its three chandeliers, its moleskin–covered seats and its winding 2512 1| stalls, suggestive of a molting cockerel, cried out with 2513 9| singer. At this Mignon was momenrarily put out, so without denying 2514 7| once had he thought of the monetary question. If she only expressed 2515 4| morality by emptying his moneybags. A big operation in the 2516 4| and lacked the customary monogram; the silver had become worn 2517 10| only brought back the same monotonous hours. Tomorrow had ceased 2518 9| the rehearsal was dragging monotonously on, Fauchery suddenly jumped 2519 3| Leonide got her tenor down to Montauban. She was living in the Chateau 2520 13| as he viewed this lordly monument of wealth, began recalling 2521 5| for a moment or two stood moodily stamping his feet. His hands 2522 10| When he came to her in a moody condition she cheered him 2523 14| lamp glass threw a round, moonlike patch of light upon the 2524 7| anger changed into a fit of moralizing. He fancied himself a deputy; 2525 10| carriage did she make a mordant attack on her, threatening 2526 8| Louiset with her, she grew mortally dull. Thus one Sunday, when 2527 1| It was a deputation of mortals whom Ganymede and Iris had 2528 12| threshold of the entrance hall mosaics set off with gold were glittering 2529 2| paint. A rich merchant from Moscow, who had come to pass a 2530 8| Robert lived in the Rue Mosnier, a silent, new street in 2531 12| this appearance of serious motherhood in a career of pleasure, 2532 8| family parties—fathers, mothers and daughters— who were 2533 11| front seat among such a mountain of bouquets of white roses 2534 4| chair!”~Thereupon everybody mourned over Bordenave’s absence. 2535 11| colored chestnut with a mouselike trot, the shaft horse a 2536 5| and there he stayed, with moveless limbs and vacant eyes, in 2537 8| plunged her back into the muddiest depths of her calling. She 2538 9| But the count, with a multiplicity of nods, bade him accept. 2539 12| while the crowd of guests, multiplied in the surrounding mirrors, 2540 7| count, by way of answer, mumbled something insulting. Nana 2541 7| as he went along he kept mumbling inconsequent phrases. That 2542 11| show you Mamma. Eh? Look at Mummy out there.”~And as Bijou 2543 10| regretting the time when she munched apples! Oh, what bosh that 2544 10| question as to how far a murderer subject to chronic alcoholism 2545 12| instead of being at home murdering both of ‘em.”~Muffat had 2546 10| rest, felt outraged and murderous at the thought that Philippe 2547 7| broke at last. It was the murky dawn that follows winter 2548 1| annoying the public. Their murmurings began again.~“It’s going 2549 12| but she had not moved a muscle; her eyes were still turned 2550 14| from the butt ends of their muskets. What was this bad Frenchwoman 2551 1| on her head and a short muslin frock and had just sighed 2552 4| footstools. Nana could not have mustered a dozen napkins out of all 2553 9| the chair down in person, mutely weathering the storm as 2554 13| encountered precisely the same mystical sensations as when he knelt 2555 8| fright, for if she were to be nabbed again there was a clear 2556 4| she said, “when he goes nagging at other people like that 2557 9| light cast by some lantern nailed up in a railway station. 2558 12| upholsterers were still nailing up hangings, and toward 2559 12| haggard; he had dug his nails into his bosom, and his 2560 | namely 2561 11| another good–humoredly and naming prices as though they had 2562 1| the stage, presenting the nape of her neck to the spectators’ 2563 8| pretense of picking up her napkin, she would throw her glass 2564 4| not have mustered a dozen napkins out of all her cupboards, 2565 6| two years’ residence in Naples, had caused to be erected 2566 3| ensuing silence Steiner’s nasal voice became audible. The 2567 7| treated him to all sorts of nastiness, while she, on her part, 2568 9| being pulled down, a church nave in utter ruin. It was littered 2569 13| thinking of leaving the navy, having saved about thirty 2570 3| details about the court of Nazr–ed–Din.~“Are you out of 2571 7| moving at his side. As he neared each successive gaslight 2572 12| too, certainly.”~She was necessarily very sharp set when she 2573 6| had received letters which necessitated his leaving the following 2574 11| women in outrageous low–necked old toilets, which they 2575 13| was awfully unfortunate in needing an idiot of his sort! They 2576 8| your hands! You’ve got no needle pricks on them: you don’ 2577 9| usually the company were needlessly detained and lost whole 2578 2| was a livery–stable man, a needlewoman, a ladies’ tailor, a charcoal 2579 10| hangings of the finest needlework. Armchairs wide as beds 2580 10| without turning round. Then negligently:~“What did you mean? He’ 2581 3| following this delicate negotiation. Vandeuvres had sat himself 2582 10| at the foot of which a Negro in carved wood held out 2583 4| that six absolutely naked Negroes would serve up Nana’s supper, 2584 1| Minerva to salad bowls of negus, and Neptune sat in state 2585 11| excitement.~Horses were neighing; tent canvases flapped, 2586 2| Blanche was straining every nerve to have her again! Situations 2587 13| a severe fit of feverish nervousness, which verged at times on 2588 11| great deal, had come to nestle, shivering, against the 2589 3| chair had a rumpled look—its nether cushions had been tumbled, 2590 13| first water spread their nets in open daylight and flaunted 2591 1| in the stalls.”~Lucy grew nettled. Did he not dare show himself 2592 13| eat him. She would even nibble his calves for the fun of 2593 7| deuce, but you’re doing nicely! You catch ‘em in the Tuileries 2594 13| to keep you about out of niceness. Yes, I did! You may stare! 2595 2| were wont thus gravely to nickname as “old miser” and “nigger” 2596 14| an account of one of his nieces who had died of it. As to 2597 2| tossed her head in reply. Her nightdress had slipped down on her 2598 1| forgathered again. Old first–nighters, hat on head, seemed familiar 2599 4| them along with her willy–nilly, accompanying her action 2600 2| beneath the hairdresser’s nimble hands, she stayed silently 2601 5| crossed over behind scenes and nimbly mounted three flights of 2602 7| married long?” she asked.~“Nineteen years,” replied the count~“ 2603 4| Lili was entering on her nineteenth year. Gaga became even more 2604 3| at the town house of the Ninth Arrondissement in order, 2605 4| rabbit with truffles and “niokys” and powdered cheese. Bordenave 2606 5| want to touch her.~“He’ll nip you; take care!” said Pluto, 2607 7| wet him too much; he was nipped with cold, but the idea 2608 12| a true believer, such a noblehearted gentleman!”~“It appears 2609 8| only market still open to nocturnal bargains. These last were 2610 9| with a multiplicity of nods, bade him accept. He hesitated, 2611 10| this; it had struck her as “nohowish,” and she was still unsuccessfully 2612 5| again, above the confused noises of the band, a vast breathing 2613 5| and a small veil for the nonce she was affecting the manner 2614 11| on the Paris side, the nonpaying public, herding like sheep 2615 13| Just you get it into your noodle that I mean to be quite 2616 4| the trains at the Gare du Nord; she was thirty–nine years 2617 4| the wheel greaser at the Northern Railway Terminus, used to 2618 3| position. Mme Hugon, widow of a notary, lived in retirement at 2619 11| while he wrote figures in a notebook. Then Clarisse and Gaga 2620 5| something. The prince had just notified a desire to compliment Nana 2621 11| me!” Nana let slip.~But noting his utter astonishment, 2622 10| dear me, for a fellow with NOUS, you’re jolly stupid! What! 2623 6| remembered. Ah yes, it was in novels that she had got to know 2624 | Nowhere 2625 13| which at this very hour lay nudely displayed there in the religious 2626 5| were painted yellow and numbered with great white numerals 2627 10| afternoons together, making numberless endearing little speeches 2628 5| numbered with great white numerals in such a way as to suggest 2629 3| was really loved become a nun?”~He did not wait for an 2630 1| and Minerva as a Norman nursemaid. Loud bursts of merriment 2631 7| designed knickknacks, such as nutshell workboxes, ragpickers’ baskets 2632 13| his feet discovered the nymph sleeping, tired with dalliance, 2633 6| over which two venerable oaks cast dark masses of shadow. 2634 9| wont to trust everything obediently to her husband, leaving 2635 5| in a series of obsequious obeisances. Then the prince made his 2636 7| Vendome columns and Luxor obelisks on which thermometers were 2637 4| they’re going to write my obituary notice?”~There was a shout, 2638 10| Good heavens! I’ve no objection. I’ll shove you on! She’ 2639 9| cold and raised various objections, he grew angry at once.~ 2640 9| s an eggcup,” Bordenave obligingly came and remarked.~“Yes, 2641 5| Indeed, he obtained an oblique back view of the scenery 2642 7| gaze and gaze in complete oblivion of all around her. Passion 2643 10| alcoves, invited to slumber oblivious of the flight of time and 2644 8| gentlemen were always the most obscene. All the varnish would crack 2645 5| arched up in a series of obsequious obeisances. Then the prince 2646 8| heights of Montmartre to the observatory plateau they scoured the 2647 12| why, as the same imbecile obsession over–mastered them. They 2648 2| Truly, life was beset with obstacles, averred Mme Lerat. The 2649 1| her stage box laughed so obstreperously that Caroline Hequet silenced 2650 3| representative of a mighty force, an occult power, which was felt to 2651 1| the bouquets. Many of the occupants of the stalls turned smilingly 2652 2| coming it was because her occupations detained her; wasn’t it 2653 9| him. Childish ideas would occur to him; he imagined that 2654 13| little amounts; she was odiously stingy with every minute 2655 8| dignified manner becoming an offended queen remarked:~“What’s 2656 11| there was a “deal” in the offing. Allusion was made to well– 2657 13| three months these little oft–renewed loans mounted up 2658 10| hear them mentioned any oftener than death. She felt distinctly 2659 1| apoplexy; at Labordette, ogling away with the highly astonished 2660 6| they both ate away like ogres and, while they satisfied 2661 1| defiled before the lovers with ohs and ahs of stupefaction 2662 13| got enough to pay for hair oil. Yes, he’s leaving me in 2663 8| men, headed by a little oily–mannered, fair–haired commissary 2664 1| triumphant summons all the Olympians defiled before the lovers 2665 8| Whenever, however, he had omitted to leave behind the three 2666 11| Cascade. There were big omnibuses such as the Pauline, which 2667 6| lettuces and sorrel and onions and everything! Come along, 2668 8| ladies made an especial onslaught on the boiled fowl and rice: 2669 13| a tiny stain which was oozing down into his waistcoat. 2670 1| nibbling burnt almonds. A box opener was chatting maternally 2671 10| expressed desire for a simple, openhearted existence, to be passed 2672 3| Leonide, who strummed none but operatic airs on her piano.~Meanwhile 2673 9| preferred to reserve her for an operetta, which was to be put on 2674 1| thing; only he ventured to opine that she would be better 2675 6| snatching some delightful opportunities if occasion offered. As 2676 7| morning. Muffat dared not oppose her. Yet as he did not in 2677 10| together; such vile thoughts oppressed him that shame mingled with 2678 14| falling, and the hour was oppressively melancholy, for now the 2679 8| sat enthroned in all the opulence which a hotelkeeper enjoys 2680 6| eh?”~“Oh, SHE’LL work the oracle! But it’s no go, my dear 2681 6| the kitchen garden and the orchard, stopping in front of every 2682 4| The mother, a model of orderliness, kept the accounts and noted 2683 13| way to the intoxication of organ music and incense. Woman 2684 13| only anxiety was how to organize this riot until she had 2685 8| accompanying the lists, the originals of which were on no account 2686 9| A cousin, the handsome Oscar de Saint–Firmin, introduces 2687 1| whole house seemed to be oscillating, to be lapsing toward dizziness 2688 7| fountain, its back view ot the kitchen stove and the 2689 | ours 2690 7| he believed he was really ousting him, but he did not dare 2691 8| she still suspected an outbreak and now was mistaken enough 2692 1| down among occasional fresh outbursts of rough speech. And amid 2693 7| avenges the beggars and outcasts of whom she is the ultimate 2694 12| Carrousel? This was the outcome of the new code of manners, 2695 11| mind—it’s done it!”~The outcries were smothered by the anxiety 2696 14| accompaniment of strident, outlandish syllables. It was a young 2697 6| the gardener.~But she had outrun him entirely, and she shouted 2698 3| was only we poor devils of outsiders who—”~“Ah, dear boy, one 2699 13| white surface of a wide, outspread petticoat, which alone remained 2700 11| forward dart Georges had outstripped his brother. It enchanted 2701 5| public gave her a veritable ovation.~Behind the scenery she 2702 5| gliding upstairs through the ovenlike place where the air was 2703 13| a perfume, felt himself overborne by a voluptuous yearning 2704 12| increasing, and amid the overcrowded rooms the quadrille unrolled 2705 3| day after the ceremony, so overdone was she with weeping.~“I 2706 4| the thought that she had overeaten herself, was laughing vaguely 2707 8| and her laughter seemed to overflow with tenderness. Gazing 2708 5| most was the stuffy, dense, overheated air of the place with its 2709 5| Count Muffat obeyed an overmastering impulse, and leaving Bordenave, 2710 10| did not spoil her house overmuch; nay, she even added to 2711 14| began little by little to overpower her, as though an intense 2712 13| eagerness peculiar to an idle, overprosperous servants’ hall. Julien, 2713 3| I am accused of being overreligious,” she said in her quiet, 2714 10| child and tried hard to overrule her.~“I wish it, d’you see? 2715 1| treated women like a convict overseer, that clever fellow who 2716 11| which little by little overspread the whole Hippodrome.~The 2717 10| the look of exasperation overspreading the lad’s face, which was 2718 2| dreamed of giving her mistress overt advice, only now she made 2719 13| only trembled, as though overtaken by some horror which was 2720 13| his reason are together overthrown. In an extravagant access 2721 12| departing winter was there—the overtolerant world of pleasure, the scratch 2722 13| filled every gaping hole and overtopped every ruined wall. And Mignon, 2723 9| distinguished expression in order to overwhelm her friends and prove to 2724 5| his legs.~“His Highness overwhelms me,” said Bordenave, still 2725 2| so? Besides, they weren’t overworked—it was comfortable in the 2726 11| between us. You certainly owe it me, eh?”~And he lingered, 2727 1| moved to and fro, their owners seating themselves or trying 2728 13| himself an American and owning gold mines in his own country, 2729 10| to respect the lady who owns it. Respect’s what men need 2730 13| copper and had even taken a packet of cigarette papers with 2731 6| through the operation of packing and finally pushed her into 2732 5| on the edge of a softly padded divan between the two windows. 2733 3| design and inhospitable padding, which stood by the hearthside— 2734 11| there. Then there was the paddock, a small course some hundred 2735 8| landlord. He had just had a padlock affixed to her door—quite 2736 10| coffers, models of Chinese pagodas, a Japanese screen of precious 2737 5| his feet apart because a pail was leaking and letting 2738 10| had been built by a young painter, who was intoxicated by 2739 9| scenery, of which the faded painting suggested heaped–up rubbish. 2740 5| transformation wrought by powders and paints and filled by a lawless 2741 3| try to get Louise from the Palais–Royal.”~“Is it not true, 2742 8| with sleep. She yawned; she palavered and ended by opening the 2743 7| he sought refuge against palings and among scaffoldings, 2744 5| a woman ought not to be palled up to in that fashion! At 2745 3| middle of the room with pallid face and eyes blinking, 2746 4| a dirty gent he is, too, palling up with women like that 2747 11| Englishman’s gained! It’s palpable!” said Bordenave. “Lusignan’ 2748 9| mere scrap of a part, a paltry fifty lines, just as if 2749 4| and they helped him and pampered him and watched over his 2750 13| glaziers never put up a pane of glass at a cost of a 2751 10| stick and gleaming over a panel with glossy silky reflections. 2752 5| and second floors by low–paneled doors. It was one of those 2753 2| that she could hear them pant. They ought to be looking 2754 9| at work on the mildewed pantiles of the narrow court which 2755 4| whole table to vanish, as a pantomime property might at the sound 2756 1| broken by silences full of pantomimic admissions, caused great 2757 4| brought back with him from the pantry.~“Wait a minute, wait a 2758 5| lit by flaring gas. It was papered with a paper at seven sous 2759 8| sure she had met her at the Papillon, a wretched public–house 2760 13| the happy hunting ground par excellence, where courtesans 2761 11| bottonholes! And what a continual parade of people in the open galleries 2762 1| reserve complimented the paragraphist on his articles in the Figaro. 2763 7| these, which could only be paralleled in the days of the later 2764 9| town house close to the Parc Monceau—I would gladly realize 2765 14| who looked like a dark parcel thrown down on the bench 2766 5| woman of no age. She had the parchment skin and changeless features 2767 3| quite openly, but people pardoned her offense and received 2768 4| in the corridors of their parent restaurant; they jostled 2769 6| slightest noise and dread lest parents should hear her, while making 2770 8| they went to the Bouffes–Parisiens Theatre to see a little 2771 11| everything a visit. This small parklike region, with its green lawns 2772 8| to see the bedroom, the parlor and the very kitchen. Gracious 2773 6| Indeed, he spoke to them of Parmentier!~Dinner that evening was 2774 13| together and, shaken by a paroxysmal shuddering, he kept crying:~“ 2775 13| of despair—nay, the same paroxysms of humility peculiar to 2776 13| who had the tastes of a parrot and gobbled up radishes 2777 13| swagger about, uttering his parrotlike exclamations and affecting 2778 1| liberty, and Vulcan obtained a partial divorce from her. Mars was 2779 11| fierce outburst of colossal partisanship; a hundred thousand spectators 2780 5| and left by large glass partitions and resembled a huge transparent 2781 13| de Villiers. Again he was partner in an ironworks in Alsace, 2782 13| fact, they were happy in a partnership which was so fertile in 2783 4| uneaten. Tatan Nene alone partook gluttonously of every dish. 2784 11| freighted with its fifty passengers, and was now going to draw 2785 4| five years old and very passionless and was held to be one of 2786 9| There is no fighting against passions such as that. Accordingly, 2787 6| fabricate eggs with a mixture of paste and saffron. The distance 2788 13| mania was botany. He was pasting his specimens for him and 2789 14| eh? Doesn’t it all happen pat? But this is the best part 2790 10| the thought that she had patched up a disagreement which 2791 4| he made it a rule to wink paternally at a folly now and again, 2792 10| irresponsibility in certain pathological cases, and criminals ceased 2793 12| dancing floor to the sanded paths of the garden. When the 2794 13| field, she ate up the man’s patrimony very prettily and quite 2795 14| their skirts various little pats. Lucy was again leaning 2796 11| a coster’s accents, kept pattering away:~“’Ere y’re, given 2797 3| is light. Have you heard Patti in the Barber of Seville?”~“ 2798 11| big omnibuses such as the Pauline, which had started from 2799 11| Meudon through an avenue of paulownias, whose rosy, leafless tops 2800 1| Downstairs in the great marble–paved entrance hall, where the 2801 11| little central stand, a pavilion built like a chalet, with 2802 6| a glance. It was a great pavilionlike building in the Italian 2803 13| just as the poor go to the pawnshop.~But as she left her own 2804 2| they HAD been pressing for payment it was only for the sake 2805 3| rewarded. By the by, who pays the piper tomorrow?”~The 2806 6| with a sweet and melancholy peacefulness.~“Oh, I’m expecting company,” 2807 4| just was a basket! Enormous peaches, grapes as big as that, 2808 11| was being cleared, and the pealing of a bell announced the 2809 7| laughed such sudden merry peals which doubled her up with 2810 14| down; strings of brilliant pearls glistened among the stalactites 2811 10| low, and the apples, the pears and the grapes rolled on 2812 1| gods with it. Juno, as a peasant woman, caught Jupiter and 2813 6| serene evening sky while peasants, belated in the lanes, turned 2814 4| had been allowed a little peccadillo. But this time the thing’ 2815 13| radishes and burnt almonds and pecked at the meat upon her plate, 2816 8| inwardly whenever he hit upon a peculiarly tender expression. Nana 2817 5| gazing vacant–eyed from its pedestal. But just then there was 2818 9| of treading on an orange peel, fluted in still more silvery 2819 10| themselves. But Satin, having peeled a pear, came and ate it 2820 9| players’ waiting room, he had peeped through the open doors and 2821 1| opened a little door and, peeping out, had obtained from Fauchery 2822 5| simply to crane forward and peer into the lodge. She certainly 2823 5| begun to laugh—he added in peevish, paternal tones:~“Good heavens, 2824 8| march off along the Rue le Peletier. When they were some hundred 2825 1| attendants, laden with pelisses and overcoats, bustled about 2826 5| little women were racing pell–mell, for they were delighted 2827 5| and didn’t care a pin for penalties. Why, if she chose to be 2828 3| devotional training, his penances and his fasts. But the sight 2829 13| pounds of speculators and the pence of the poor, were swallowed 2830 9| pages of the manuscript, a pencil between his lips.~“Well, 2831 9| region of the stalls with its pendants as to suggest a flitting 2832 9| brightly above them but did not penetrate the cold gloom of the theater. 2833 13| baby you are to spend your pennies in little fakements like 2834 4| child of a countess. Never a penny of income, yet always got 2835 9| resembled the fine dust floating pent in some high, windowless 2836 3| the corner of the Rue de Pentievre. It was a great square building, 2837 8| small, limited flats were peopled by ladies. It was five o’ 2838 4| what sort of a mixture of pepper and vitriol, and that didn’ 2839 11| forgot what she wanted on perceiving a perfect crowd of her acquaintance. 2840 3| His eyelids trembled just perceptibly, while a look of discomfort, 2841 10| of her food and ready to perch and roost on any branch 2842 13| made a habit of this daily perdition and would redeem the same 2843 7| consideration of his project, and he perfected it while waiting for some 2844 2| Lerat played it, and that to perfection. It was no good troubling 2845 5| clasp a little fresh and perfumed hand. The count had dined 2846 7| from the open doors of the perfumers. But he did not dare linger 2847 1| decorations suggested the peristyle of a toy temple, there was 2848 11| After all, wasn’t the thing permissible? An owner was free to run 2849 3| recognized the truant schoolboy, perpetrator of the famous and as yet 2850 7| obstinately, fixedly, with idiotic persistence. On two subsequent occasions 2851 11| the flagstaff was ringing persistently to warn people to leave 2852 8| down to buy fish IN PROPRIA PERSONA in La Rouchefoucauld Market, 2853 14| the opinions of important personages. Then raising her voice:~“ 2854 3| nothing suggestive of her own personality in that ancient abode, black 2855 5| Muffat was beginning to perspire; he had taken his hat off. 2856 9| again when he saw Bordenave perspiringly resuming his seat. Then 2857 8| an hour, with a view to persuading him to come home with her. 2858 5| peaceful, atmosphere again pervaded the greenroom, as though 2859 3| de l’Arcade and the Rue Pesquier,” said Georges all in a 2860 10| heretofore; torn, beaten and pestered by the two women, she would 2861 4| attempt with cries of “You’re pestering me!” and sound slaps of 2862 2| situation, “and tell him he pesters me.”~But suddenly there 2863 7| well of a court, with its pestiferous water closets, its fountain, 2864 1| not to give effect to its petition, for since women had lived 2865 11| the place with a lot of petroleum. And it blazed! You should 2866 1| played with great delicacy. Petted by Diana, who wanted to 2867 9| actors look like eccentric phantoms and set their shadows dancing 2868 14| bed a deep plate full of phenol exhaled an insipid smell. 2869 14| bracelets, a REVIERE of phenomenal width, a queenly diadem 2870 10| built by a Vandeuvres under Philip Augustus. He was mad for 2871 8| she was really quite the philistine outside the pale of her 2872 8| happiness. He declared himself a philosopher who had given up everything, 2873 3| Steiner.~“My word, he’s got a phiz for it!” murmured Fauchery. “ 2874 2| radishes as provocative of phlegm. By and by when Zoe had 2875 1| Chouard had become catlike phosphorescent, full of golden sparkles. 2876 8| continued Satin, pointing to a photograph which stood in front of 2877 9| by, and on one of these a photographer had perched a big cagelike 2878 11| now without his growing ‘pi.’ I’ve always been religious. 2879 4| so good as champagne for pianos. It gives ‘em tone.”~“Ah,” 2880 3| slice of his vast estates in Picardy.~“I advise you to call other 2881 1| no wopper! There’s some pickings there!”~In the passage two 2882 5| I should be in a pretty pickle if anything serious happened 2883 4| a coachman, a projected picnic and innumerable complex 2884 5| did not move. Four or five pictures—a landscape, a portrait 2885 11| disillusioned, for she had been picturing to herself something on 2886 7| one!”~Bewildered by her piercing outcry, Steiner stopped 2887 9| shutter, was trilling away piercingly. The sound of carriages 2888 3| and that despite his lofty piety! Fauchery asked if he should 2889 10| had been used and to the piggish behavior of a drunken man 2890 11| resembled an enormous russet pigtail.~Twelve struck. The public 2891 1| the left, between lofty pilasters, the stage boxes, bedraped 2892 13| while amid the general pillage, the sack of the town after 2893 7| cost simply with a view to pillaging him. She had, indeed, only 2894 11| right–hand stand, near a pillar, eh? She’s in mauve, and 2895 11| high up on their cast–iron pillars, the crowd were jostling 2896 8| pulled up in front and the pillows piled up behind, they supped 2897 8| occupied in rolling bread pills on the cloth in front of 2898 1| tickets in her hand and piloting in front of her a gentleman 2899 3| face, looked like a swollen pimple, while his lower lip hung 2900 8| fingers as if they were pincers.~“Hook it or I’ll strangle 2901 5| to him. This proffer of a pinch and its acceptance allowed 2902 9| Oh, that’s where the shoe pinches, I remember! Well, dear 2903 5| out of the inexhaustible pincushion over her heart and pinned 2904 4| cepes a’ l’italienne and pineapple fritters a la Pompadour 2905 8| her, and old friends were pining. And with that he grew quite 2906 1| Mamma! No, Mamma!” in a winy–piny tone, her fingers in her 2907 3| By the by, who pays the piper tomorrow?”~The journalist 2908 7| who came out smoking their pipes between the acts brushed 2909 13| house had got to such a pitch that Muffat did not dare 2910 8| conduct made her tenderly pitiful toward herself. No blackguard 2911 7| shareholders in the Landes Salt Pits and striving to sweat a 2912 13| him. As for him, he was plagued to death; it was an abominable 2913 10| into the glacial, desolate plains of new Paris. But Nana silenced 2914 2| brunette with hair in little plaits, had a long canine face, 2915 5| which the porter was wont to plane such parts of the scenery 2916 6| they would make a thousand plans till daybreak and never 2917 7| superbly grown as a dunghill plant, she avenges the beggars 2918 7| stove and the collection of plants with which the portress 2919 14| as it did, of three POSES PLASTIQUES, each of which represented 2920 8| Montmartre to the observatory plateau they scoured the whole town 2921 2| hesitated, sniffed and left her plateful untouched. She finished 2922 1| out with the regularity of platoon firing. People turned toward 2923 9| jars, clocks in all styles, platters and inkpots, firearms and 2924 1| animal’s fell. Then the plaudits became frantic.~The close 2925 2| brought her mistress the day’s playbill and rehearsal arrangements, 2926 1| wheezings of clarinets and playful trills on the part of the 2927 12| indulged in some facile pleasantries which made them very merry. 2928 10| Madame sent them a louis as a pledge of reconciliation. She suffered 2929 8| much beaten Nana became as pliable as fine linen; her skin 2930 10| such musical purity and pliancy as to have won him among 2931 13| jealousy and proving not less pliant than Mignon himself whenever 2932 5| flames. The little business plied by the good portress must 2933 11| could not possibly die so pluckily.~Nana listened in her disillusionment 2934 10| giving of presents! Zoe plugged her handkerchief into her 2935 14| You can’t imagine it. Nana plumps down out of Russia. I don’ 2936 8| upon the Parisian pavement, plunges into the baser sort of vice, 2937 13| puissant turnouts, wherein sat plutocrats able to buy up all Europe 2938 7| absorbed over an array of pocketbooks and cigar cases, all of 2939 1| religion, a whole world of poetry, appeared in the light of 2940 7| the windows of palaces and poisons the men within by merely 2941 8| with Satin in the Boulevard Poissonniere, the latter suddenly began 2942 8| house ball in the Rue des Poissonniers, where men conquered her 2943 5| with strong cords to the poles already in position. At 2944 10| adhering to the ceremonious policy of an ordinary strange caller. 2945 14| Then they began discussing politics and strategy. Bordenave, 2946 12| room doors, within which a polka was sending the couples 2947 4| play as many waltzes and polkas as the company desired. 2948 12| been discussing afterward polluted the hearth. The ladies complained 2949 10| Josse’s school in the Rue Polonceau!”~When the roast was being 2950 12| stammered. He was certainly no poltroon, but he felt that she was 2951 2| eh?”~“Bring me a pot of pomade and a pound of burnt almonds 2952 10| notes among the powders and pomades, and the bill was signed 2953 2| table under an inverted pomatum pot. As she was in the act 2954 13| away by her irreverence for pomp and by the joy of debasing 2955 4| pineapple fritters a la Pompadour were being mangled. The 2956 6| ending up in the country.~“’Pon my word, yes, if only you 2957 12| monsieur, on the floor in a pool of blood, as though she 2958 6| bordered by a thick screen of poplar trees. Nevertheless, a dull 2959 6| lofty roofs and screens of poplars interspersed with dense 2960 8| the lot of Mme Lerat, who popped it into Bosc’s glass. Whereupon 2961 10| clutches. “But you come popping in without warning. You 2962 2| was blushing as red as a poppy. He did not know what to 2963 11| Corks came out with feeble pops, which the wind drowned. 2964 7| allowed to ferment among the populace is carried upward and rots 2965 11| was swamped by Lusignan’s popularity. But La Faloise flung his 2966 11| continually arriving through the Porte de la Cascade. There were 2967 4| cold blood, told her some portentous anecdotes. This Bismarck, 2968 13| again. And the moment the portiere had closed behind him he 2969 10| very ill, for the thick portieres deadened every sound, but 2970 11| and detached and illumined portions of the seated multitude, 2971 9| and circumspect air of a portly hen that fears to dirty 2972 10| Italian cabinets, Spanish and Portuguese coffers, models of Chinese 2973 8| about it to Fontan and again posed as a sturdy woman who was 2974 14| consisting, as it did, of three POSES PLASTIQUES, each of which 2975 12| affected a bantering tone, posing as the young man who has 2976 13| which men—their worldly possessions, their fortunes, their very 2977 8| perfect hail of kicks on the posterior.~“Oh how smart!” Satin repeated. “ 2978 1| Phoebus appeared as the Postillion of Lonjumeau and Minerva 2979 7| soothed his brain while it postponed the decisive moment. After 2980 3| made him one of those gross postprandial confessions, of which even 2981 4| smilingly submissive withal. He postured there for some moments, 2982 4| treat her as Joseph did Potiphar’s wife.~“Leoville or Chambertin?” 2983 2| looked as if she was going to pounce down on the cards, and so 2984 14| beans, because one day I pounced down on the stakes for fun. 2985 2| me a pot of pomade and a pound of burnt almonds from Boissier’ 2986 5| behind a set of side lights, pounding away at each other as though 2987 5| with a caressing, infantine pout.~“Good evening, baby,” said 2988 10| she talked of the bliss of poverty. The men were in evening 2989 4| truffles and “niokys” and powdered cheese. Bordenave agitated 2990 12| clearly aware of his own powerlessness. He had, indeed, accepted 2991 7| months! He wanted to be practical, and he was going to marry 2992 5| observance of rigid devotional practices and in obedience to a rule 2993 6| What had he said about her prank? Oh, nothing much! After 2994 12| breaking it off entirely: she preached indulgent good nature and 2995 13| he was quite capable of preaching to his wife, and so she 2996 2| back on shabby lovers, of a precarious first appearance of a bad 2997 13| Rose and took all sorts of precautions when he deceived her. He 2998 5| songs.~Fauchery had already preceded him up the staircase, which 2999 6| Mignotte. Ever since in the preceding May Steiner had bought her 3000 5| to a rule of life full of precepts and moral laws. And now