Émile Zola Nana Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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4001 12| floated by in time to the rat–tat of the measure, a little 4002 10| looked out from under a tattered kerchief—a blue, seamed 4003 8| Fontan had begun beating a tattoo on a windowpane; the thought 4004 1| fiery red wig, bare arms tattooed with arrow–pierced hearts 4005 9| longer heard the stinging taunt about his wife’s adultery 4006 6| anxious to consult old Doctor Tavernier, who never goes out now, 4007 3| chief clerk, his nose in a teacup, seemed never to be going 4008 10| and Georges joined him and teased her and badgered her so 4009 6| Muffat waited, twirling a teaspoon between his fingers. Then 4010 4| the sideboard in search of teaspoons, which were lacking. Several 4011 14| face! It’ll suit us to a tee!”~The idea that Rose might 4012 11| black. In front of the two telegraphs, which hung very high up 4013 10| a man who adores me and tells me everything? Now just 4014 11| not germane either to his temperament or his habits, and Nana 4015 11| Mignon, who was affecting temperance. Henri and Charles were 4016 5| manage to live in such a temperature, madame?”~And conversation 4017 8| civil attentions laughed ill–temperedly, and when Nana, whom the 4018 1| suggested the peristyle of a toy temple, there was a flaring display 4019 5| wash together amid purely temporary surroundings, the dirty 4020 10| could not withstand the temptation to come back and put his 4021 6| conclusive arguments against the temptations of the flesh. But the other 4022 4| shakes of the head and that temptress’s laughter which is peculiar 4023 2| tradesman of economical tendencies from the Faubourg Saint– 4024 6| waveless lake. And Nana grew tenderhearted, felt herself a child again. 4025 6| wished to dwell in a meadow, tending a goat, because one day 4026 5| which you find in miserable tenements. Count Muffat had seen many 4027 3| tones, “Leonide got her tenor down to Montauban. She was 4028 2| tricks she had won with her tens and aces, said cheeringly 4029 12| idleness and a sense of tense enjoyment not less fierce 4030 5| stood out with the unwonted tension. But she was anxious to 4031 8| doors, of shrill disputes terminating in sobs, of petticoats rustling 4032 11| filling gangways, steps and terraces and looming in deep, dark, 4033 9| whirled his stick round in a terrific manner and caught her a 4034 5| being was in turmoil; he was terrified by the stealthy, all–pervading 4035 13| despotically as the God of wrath, terrifying him, granting him moments 4036 6| bleating at the end of its tether. Now this estate, this stretch 4037 3| looking girl of sixteen, the thankless period of life, quitted 4038 11| gates, and beneath a rustic thatched roof a dense throng of people 4039 1| body of the house at the Theatres des Varietes was still all 4040 | Thee 4041 13| appearances and covering the thefts of all in order the better 4042 10| against the new criminological theories. Granted that lovely invention 4043 14| violently combated this theory and with infinite abuse 4044 7| hour, but he was irritated thereat, for now the darkened window 4045 13| been withdrawing small sums therefrom in the hope of being able 4046 13| that her name, too, was Therese and that her fete day was 4047 1| Gods in order to submit thereto the deceived husband’s requests. 4048 7| Luxor obelisks on which thermometers were mounted. But that evening 4049 1| hard by the box office a thickset man with an extensive, close– 4050 10| an hour. Besides, if he thinks he’s calling on a tottie 4051 13| but he was growing visibly thinner, and sometimes he seemed 4052 13| was becoming a veritable thoroughfare, so continually were boots 4053 | Thou 4054 7| dreadful!”~She advanced threateningly toward him, and while she 4055 2| by refusals of credit and threats of eviction.~Nana was sleeping 4056 2| driven to stow them away in threes and fours, which was a course 4057 6| walking and, considering her threescore years, was very active. 4058 8| preferred the days when threshings were, so to speak, in the 4059 5| the latter stammered and thrilled again at the thought that 4060 10| chapel, whose very air was thrilling with devotion, whose very 4061 1| tall mirrors reflected this thronging world of heads to infinity 4062 1| formation two interminable throngs of human beings. Steiner, 4063 13| majesty of the imperial court, throning on high above an abject 4064 7| afterward he decided to throttle them. He returned to the 4065 10| would have been justified in throttling her! But what was the good 4066 12| complaint, and, dear me, if she throws money out of the window, 4067 12| overwhelmed by these home thrusts. She broke off and took 4068 5| you could hear its dull thud as it wedged itself into 4069 5| she could hear the dull thuds caused by the two men. They 4070 14| brilliant the size of one’s thumb. In the retirement of those 4071 4| extent,” and he clicked his thumbnail against the edge of his 4072 2| was free to twiddle his thumbs till night—there wasn’t 4073 4| it. She did not want a “thumper,” for Mimi would play as 4074 9| went, for his heart was thumping, and he was afraid lest 4075 6| a doll, gave him little thumps, made the skirt stand well 4076 9| say!” Bordenave once more thundered.~Then for a minute or so 4077 9| and caught her a sounding thwack to the rearward. At rehearsal 4078 13| walked on them. Hi tiddly hi ti! Nothing was left; everything 4079 8| the air and resembled the ticking of a clock by which they 4080 5| shivering as though someone were tickling her, she continued:~“His 4081 13| and he walked on them. Hi tiddly hi ti! Nothing was left; 4082 9| while from the several tiers of stage boxes on either 4083 7| indeed, only indulged in a tiger skin rug for the hearth 4084 5| sharply, and with that she tightened the folds of her fur cloak. “ 4085 5| sounded as hollow on the tiled floor as in an underground 4086 11| stands of brickwork and timber, rising gallery upon gallery 4087 11| delicate shadows of the timberwork. Nana stared at all these 4088 8| ventured to ask for them in a timid, roundabout way. Whereupon 4089 1| costume. At the very first tinkle of the bell La Faloise had 4090 5| all.~But Father Barillot’s tinkling bell approached along the 4091 7| Passage des Panoramas. The tinsel of the ARTICLE DE PARIS, 4092 2| furious. There were modest tintinnabulations which seemed to stutter 4093 5| in his purple cloak and tinware crown, steadied himself 4094 5| white beard lent that fiery tippler’s face of his a truly venerable 4095 11| amusing phrase. The groups of tipplers were drawing near, and all 4096 11| called him the “King of Tipsters.”~“Let’s see, what horses 4097 11| when she began to say, ‘’Tisn’t you, after all, who’ve 4098 7| received that morning with its tissue of falsehoods, invented 4099 1| laughter. The public were titillated; they were already on the 4100 7| if he is a cuckold!”~And toasted on every side and as hot 4101 5| room!”~Then as she stood toasting her legs in their warm rose– 4102 5| drank, repeating the same toasts.~“To His Highness!”~“To 4103 13| rang like the knell of a tocsin in his ears: “It’s over, 4104 7| distorted.~“Que veux–tu, toi?” asked Nana roughly, using 4105 8| yourself, my darling; you toil and you moil, when there 4106 6| the while. The gentlemen toiled less strenuously. Mignon 4107 4| again Steiner was in the toils, and so deeply this time 4108 5| by overwhelming him with tokens of friendship. Every evening, 4109 9| fact, which that house of tolerance so crudely displayed at 4110 13| flaunted themselves amid the tolerating smiles and brilliant luxury 4111 11| Faloise enthusiastically.~The tolling of a bell was lost in the 4112 4| but she was still such a tomboy! He was astonished to learn 4113 1| with the yell of an angry tomcat. He had about him all the 4114 8| you in swings and played tonneau with you, and so she promised 4115 7| ragpickers’ baskets for holding toothpicks, Vendome columns and Luxor 4116 1| trilling of flutes, a stifled tooting of horns, a singing of violin 4117 5| Catholics, whom the fear of hell torments in the midst of their sin.~ 4118 2| buck up!” said Nana, still torpid with laziness and yawning 4119 7| overcome by a species of torpor which merged into sheer 4120 6| rain was coming down in torrents, and the little white silk 4121 14| were discernible rolling torrentwise along the sidewalks and 4122 7| figure, which suggested the torso of a plump Venus. She bent 4123 6| determined to make an end of the torture. Coming along the highroad 4124 12| and hell, were secretly torturing her. From time to time she 4125 2| dug into her pillow, only tossed her head in reply. Her nightdress 4126 8| not go to sleep and lay tossing to and fro.~“Great God, 4127 6| They would thus make the tour of the place while the carriages 4128 13| after, and these sent her touring through the grand restaurants 4129 4| And Labordette appeared, towing five women in his rear, 4130 1| suggested the peristyle of a toy temple, there was a flaring 4131 10| while Vandeuvres nervously toyed with his beard and Muffat 4132 4| Mignon.~Mignon, who was toying with his watch chain, eyed 4133 7| of a glass case full of toys, where he grew absorbed 4134 14| features had ceased to be traceable, they already resembled 4135 6| were busy following in the tracks of Venus—a Venus with the 4136 2| miser’s visits, and as the trader had to be at home by eight 4137 13| strong soup. Julien made the trades–people give him commissions, 4138 8| sniff. Where was Talma’s tradition? Nowhere. Very well, let 4139 1| ever and looked scared.~The traditional three knocks were given, 4140 13| cabbies at a block in the traffic, for then he struck her 4141 12| wont to solve the vulgar tragedies of existence:~“All the same, 4142 13| was still stupefied; the tragedy had frozen him, and his 4143 10| different occasions Nana, tragically furious, as only a jilted 4144 14| crossed the mob like a trail of fire and spread out over 4145 11| touch with the world of trainers and jockeys he had special 4146 4| greased the wheels of the trains at the Gare du Nord; she 4147 2| all when she used to go traipsing about the Rue de la Goutte– 4148 9| want to, but I tell you, I trample on it; I spit on it!”~And 4149 14| form a crowd, and was now trampling along, steeping himself 4150 13| look from Nana’s eyes would transfigure him in a sort of sensual 4151 7| nose, so as completely to transform the lower half of his face. 4152 5| ravished by the perverse transformation wrought by powders and paints 4153 4| deportment. Tatan Nene alone transgressed. They had been telling her 4154 9| stupefied by this sudden transition from anguish to comedy. 4155 6| destination? And the question was transmitted from carriage to carriage 4156 7| globes, red lanterns, blue transparencies, lines of gas jets, gigantic 4157 14| dear, Rose has had Nana transported to the Grand Hotel, so that 4158 8| unhappy when she decided to travel! All the world had suffered 4159 14| amid a perfect stampede of travelers who were hurrying to leave 4160 8| everyone that her mistress was traveling. She never once gave them 4161 8| Madame was at present on her travels. Ah, but Madame had rendered 4162 4| convulsive movements which kept traversing his heavy face. There would 4163 4| with Leoville: it’s less treacherous.”~A heavy warmth floated 4164 9| marquise who is afraid of treading on an orange peel, fluted 4165 3| and as yet unforgotten “tres chic” of the Blonde Venus 4166 8| squarely on his back and in a trice was snoring. But she buried 4167 1| asked, laughing:~“At the Tricons’, perhaps.”~“Egad, it was 4168 4| any merrier. The ladies trifled with their meat, left half 4169 5| all those manifold untidy trifles which, in their hurry and 4170 13| a mania for ceaselessly trimming herself, either by polishing 4171 1| bosom, covered with big gold trinkets, in great evidence. Nana 4172 1| clover. Finally a grand trio brought the scene to a close, 4173 8| had not made one or two trips in the direction of the 4174 12| to visit them on the most trivial occasions, and Nana, who 4175 5| her dresser, who almost trod on her heels while stooping 4176 1| Noire. Masqueraders were trolling a catch, the chorus of which 4177 7| sweepers and early workmen trooping to their destinations, added 4178 5| the disorderly, disbanded troops of girls to be found on 4179 9| Bordenave, deeming himself DE TROP, went away, but the count 4180 14| fast, and while the horses trotted rapidly along the Rue Royale 4181 7| unforeseen catastrophe, at once troublesome and disagreeable. Evidently 4182 5| Your cat’s sniffing at his trouser legs!”~And with that she 4183 13| Satin an outfit, a perfect trousseau this time, some twelve hundred 4184 11| coast between Havre and Trouville, and now he was staking 4185 6| Amelie should sleep on a truckle bed in the dressing room 4186 14| cases some of them, three truckloads of them!” They were all 4187 8| clock when they once more trudged up the heights of Montmartre. 4188 11| he was playing his last trump card today. If his horses 4189 8| inmates of a make–believe trumpery oriental bazaar had been 4190 8| himself like that without trumpeting the fact abroad. Nevertheless, 4191 2| I’ve the five hundred! Trumps, Major Quint!”~“Oh, do be 4192 2| the other was not to be trusted either: the veins near his 4193 13| others.” Nowadays he was trusting to the last relics of his 4194 8| this honest lady a few home truths. But the sight of a troop 4195 7| and distorted.~“Que veux–tu, toi?” asked Nana roughly, 4196 5| quite happy. Indeed, he kept tucking up his long legs in his 4197 5| enormous top boots and a vast tuft of plumes.~“Who d’you mean?” 4198 2| A blind of embroidered tulle kept the little room in 4199 12| perfume was exhaled from light tulles and crumpled silks and satins, 4200 11| We look like a set of tumblers.”~She thought him very droll 4201 7| Wait a second. I’ll cook my tummy a bit. That’s what’s good 4202 9| though a thousand things rose tumultuously to his lips. Surprised at 4203 1| s part? Never had a more tuneless voice been heard or one 4204 12| these lights and flowers and tunes, left her quite unmoved.~“ 4205 11| ill–fitting collegians’ tunics. But when the landau had 4206 1| stands the orchestra were tuning their instruments amid a 4207 8| smack his lips before her turkeys and legs of mutton, though 4208 10| rose–colored silk—a faded Turkish rose color, embroidered 4209 14| long meditated visiting the Turks.~Months passed—she began 4210 5| His whole being was in turmoil; he was terrified by the 4211 7| through a labyrinth of endless turnings. At length he lifted his 4212 11| substantially luxurious about their turnout, suggesting rich retired 4213 13| stopped a file of puissant turnouts, wherein sat plutocrats 4214 8| with Fontan. Besides, the turtle doves were kissing so excessively 4215 2| back. “It’s the nigger! ‘Twasn’t any good telling him that 4216 8| but in little more than a twelvemonth she had broken the furniture, 4217 2| and the fellow was free to twiddle his thumbs till night—there 4218 13| love and of faith, those twin levers which move the world. 4219 5| that Muffat felt a keen twinge of annoyance. But directly 4220 5| with a pattern of roses twining over green trelliswork. 4221 1| cast, and by an ingenious twist Venus and Mars were caught 4222 13| heap of nameless debris, of twisted shreds and muddy rags, followed 4223 1| closed eyelids and nervously twisting a great diamond ring round 4224 1| suffering from little convulsive twitchings of the chin, as though he 4225 11| carriage step, and when she twitted him about Gaga he murmured:~“ 4226 1| sound similar to the loud twittering of talkative sparrows at 4227 13| she was unable to finish tying on her petticoats.~“My poor 4228 13| humble he was Nana grew tyrannously triumphant. The rage for 4229 11| over with great patches of umbrageous wood, stretched away into 4230 6| enclosure. It was perfectly unadorned, but the garden possessed 4231 9| no! Even if the part were unassigned I should never give it her! 4232 12| he had suddenly entered unawares, so worked on his feelings 4233 1| which struck the audience as unbecoming and disagreeable. Cries 4234 5| floor had been many of them unbedded, and the old house being 4235 5| she, on her part, laughed unblushingly. Bordenave, however, persuaded 4236 13| imbecile caprices. Undying, unchanging love was what he wished 4237 5| feminine surroundings which the uncleanness of the little place rendered 4238 12| in any case, one of his uncles, who was a great landowner, 4239 13| to pull a curtain or to unclose a cupboard. The bells did 4240 2| laughing smile and clear, unclouded glance. The Count Muffat 4241 9| looked coldly on, pretending unconcern, for he did not think it 4242 5| Mme Jules, with vacant, unconcerned eyes and an expression suggestive 4243 13| the last moment felt an unconquerable desire to see Nana once 4244 5| sunk in thought yet still unconquered by circumstances. There 4245 8| charming in their utter unconstraint; in others, hideous and 4246 6| havoc in that sanguine, uncontaminated nature. The grave man, the 4247 10| the dark sky. They laughed uncontrollably as they watched Muffat’s 4248 8| Labordette doubtless remained unconvinced, for he continued with smiling 4249 5| shoulder in such a way as to uncover the gold–laced cloak of 4250 10| Then with bosom still uncovered, she began laughing:~“Only 4251 10| who that was with all the unction of a nation saluting its 4252 8| spoke slowly and rather unctuously and uttered but this one 4253 4| end the company remained undecided. Nay, they were already 4254 3| appearance is boorish and underbred. Besides, so far as I am 4255 9| no idea what I’ve got to undergo with that lot, Monsieur 4256 5| the tiled floor as in an underground vault. It was crowded with 4257 5| visions of white skin and wan underlinen were observable through 4258 3| set himself secretly to undermine the deputy, whom he held 4259 11| appearance which, though undermined, he still kept up, would 4260 10| a Parisian workgirl who understands the elegancies of life by 4261 4| she would certainly have undertaken to ask them herself. No, 4262 13| nothing of her father; the undeveloped, insignificant girl had 4263 7| He was conscious of his undoing; he recognized in her stupidity, 4264 5| in the presence of this undraped courtesan.~He, who had never 4265 7| marrow by impurities hitherto undreamed of. Everything was now destined 4266 1| dress, she sitting slim and undulant beside him while her eyes 4267 5| in her opening number an undulating movement seemed to run from 4268 7| thigh added their slight undulations, ran from one of her elbows 4269 14| had raised their voices unduly Rose Mignon, still sitting 4270 4| their meat, left half of it uneaten. Tatan Nene alone partook 4271 9| of dust an inch deep. An unendurable odor of old iron, rags and 4272 6| to the men, they behaved unexceptionably. Fauchery and Daguenet looked 4273 5| away!” shouted the foreman unexpectedly.~And the prince himself 4274 5| him, leaving her sentence unfinished. At that moment Mme Bron, 4275 3| of the famous and as yet unforgotten “tres chic” of the Blonde 4276 8| laughed tenderly and said that unfortunately this was not the case. She 4277 12| while the marble staircase unfurled, as it were, a delicately 4278 2| of the room, the little unfurnished one. There’s only one of 4279 3| appeared so withered and ungainly at her side. When she drew 4280 13| Rue Cardinet, he went up unhindered. In the drawing room upstairs 4281 4| Ah well, the stomach’s unhurt, you’ll see.”~Other guests 4282 6| for long months had been uninhabited, with exclamations and bursts 4283 13| nation. Then there were unions of a night, continual passages 4284 6| Fauchery Mme Hugon behaved unjustly too. The former especially 4285 8| tall, burly fellow with an unkempt beard, who said to her:~“ 4286 7| masses of yellow hair were unknotted behind, and they covered 4287 7| without giving them time to unlace their arms. For one moment 4288 | unlikely 4289 1| came from the stage, the unlit footlights, the scattered 4290 4| threatened to end in the unloveliest way. In a corner by themselves 4291 8| If you were free—”~Nana unluckily failed to hear more. The 4292 8| it, you have!”~Nana was unlucky enough to shrug her shoulders, 4293 6| and the soft touch of that unmanly garment, in the folds of 4294 12| been foreordained that all unmarried women who held conversation 4295 12| further for fear of a too–unmistakable answer. If he were taking 4296 14| without even having time to unpack one’s traps?” Then she had 4297 13| in order to get an old unpaid straw bill settled, while 4298 5| your voice, and that’s an unpardonable crime.”~This time Nana did 4299 12| her shoulders and her hair unpinned, she again threw herself 4300 10| these that she kept him in unquestioning and docile submission. She 4301 14| into the shadows, surging unquietly to and fro like flocks being 4302 1| as an access of positive unreason. Everybody wanted to see 4303 11| Nana a chance?”~A sudden, unreasonable burst of anger overpowered 4304 9| chipped and broken and in unrecognizable heaps under a layer of dust 4305 6| again added to her sweet unrest. With hesitating hand she 4306 7| world and began his long, unresting march through the streets, 4307 12| overcrowded rooms the quadrille unrolled the cadenced symmetry of 4308 8| with triumph. But Nana was unskillful; she still suspected an 4309 9| face seemed contracted in unspeakable suffering.~“Why? Hang it 4310 5| rap. Then dragging himself unsteadily along in his greatcoat, 4311 13| flask in her attempts to unstopper it.~“Oh, you’re too nice!” 4312 10| nohowish,” and she was still unsuccessfully seeking for new colors and 4313 11| the same! He seems quite unsuspicious.”~“Bah,” muttered Philippe, 4314 1| scalloped hangings, remained untenanted. The house with its white 4315 2| worth about three sous stood untidily on one of the pieces of 4316 10| violets and that species of untidiness which became her in her 4317 2| sniffed and left her plateful untouched. She finished her lunch 4318 10| declaring the whole thing to be untrue and expressing angry dislike 4319 13| emerging from her bedroom at an unusual hour, he made a scene about 4320 4| haggard and white. It was unutterably slow, as it always was, 4321 10| death. She felt distinctly unwell when a policeman looked 4322 10| acts, her sudden fits of unwisdom, her mad bravado. Still 4323 8| bed. And Satin, deeming it unwise to let the plain–clothes 4324 7| leaven of destruction, and unwittingly she corrupts and disorganizes 4325 5| chemise stood out with the unwonted tension. But she was anxious 4326 7| To think of his being so unworthily cheated by a vile wife! 4327 6| table she once more gently upbraided the Countess Sabine for 4328 4| there was now a general uprising against him. The table grew 4329 6| as I didn’t wish to go upstream as far as Gumieres, I crossed 4330 6| treated him like a naughty urchin, never taking his declarations 4331 3| exact state of feeling that urges a young girl to enter into 4332 6| muttered M. Venot. “He uses every method to assure His 4333 7| after ringing for Zoe to usher in the other man, who was 4334 4| hired for the evening was ushering the guests into the small 4335 10| denouncing the blackguard usurers to whom, they declared, 4336 5| scattered, ivory toilet utensils and the damp sponges, appeared 4337 13| accompanied by the old stammering utterances, the old prayers and despairs, 4338 5| CHAPTER V~At the Varietes they were 4339 7| But sheer weariness and vacancy began lulling him to sleep 4340 11| Price hanging lifelessly and vacantly over her neck, she smacked 4341 8| Boulevard Saint–Michel. But the vacations were drawing on, and the 4342 2| plunged her fingers into the vagrant convolutions of her back 4343 9| Monsieur le Comte. Each man’s vainer than his neighbor, and they’ 4344 12| way through the crowd. The valet’s full voice was no longer 4345 12| a magnificent property valued at half a million, which 4346 6| the house two shadows were vanishing into the dark depths of 4347 7| had been to fetch at the Varieties every day for a week past, 4348 8| the most obscene. All the varnish would crack off a man, and 4349 11| lit up the harness and the varnished coach panels and touched 4350 10| hands. Bronzes and Chinese vases full of flowers, divans 4351 11| were ending, and the Prix Vaublanc was run for. Carriages began 4352 4| life, when the conversation veered fatefully back to Count 4353 10| Satin came and whispered vehemently in her ear. She was full 4354 5| shabby players and showmen of venal beauty. Bordenave was simply 4355 7| for holding toothpicks, Vendome columns and Luxor obelisks 4356 11| charmed her than otherwise. A vendor of ices had set up a large 4357 12| in the great bed of the Venice point draperies, Nana and 4358 10| francs’ worth of POINT DE VENISE lace. The furniture was 4359 5| resembled a deep, square venthole, while in lanterns fastened 4360 7| oriental dancer in the danse du ventre.~Muffat sat looking at her. 4361 7| seemed like so many chilly Venuses among the yellow foliage 4362 11| jades. Frangipane, Baron Verdier’s horse, was by The Truth 4363 6| Paris and with its rich verdure and high–embowered trees 4364 7| by the old shoes of some verger or other who was dragging 4365 7| nothing and requiring the veriest details. And she laughed 4366 11| frock coat should have done verifying his weight. At the door 4367 13| background to her blonde vermeil–tinted skin. However, the 4368 13| saints who were devoured by vermin and in turn devoured their 4369 5| a portrait of the actor Vernet—hung yellowing in the hot 4370 1| to certain rather lively verses a delicate sense of enjoyment 4371 10| speak, momentary fits of vertigo overcoming a brain already 4372 6| that proud way of hers! Vespers were just over, and for 4373 5| beneath the gaslight in the vestibule, where he had grown slightly 4374 12| suspicious, and the last vestige of his dignity was crumbling 4375 7| flushed and distorted.~“Que veux–tu, toi?” asked Nana roughly, 4376 13| my pet—I’m sorry if it vexes you—I loved that baby! I 4377 7| one care now was to avoid vexing her.~“As you will,” he murmured.~ 4378 6| CHAPTER VI~Count Muffat, accompanied 4379 11| universal spread of cold viands and a fine disorderly display 4380 2| there were bold rings which vibrated under some rough touch and 4381 2| its quick and tremulous vibration. Zoe returned, murmuring 4382 14| had made a conquest of the viceroy; she was reigning, in the 4383 4| at length he became the victim of anxiety; somebody had 4384 13| and beamed over prostrate victims like a mounting sun shining 4385 12| her lips wore a delicate, victorious smile. But Dr Boutarel made 4386 11| assumed her old pose as Venus Victrix.~But somebody touched her 4387 8| in reply. He was wont to vie with the other in point 4388 13| admirably, and each man vied with the other in his efforts 4389 10| to express such excellent views. Both, indeed, understood 4390 11| beside them. They had an ever–vigilant glance, and they booked 4391 5| on the ear, an actual, a vigorous, box on the ear. This time 4392 7| CHAPTER VII~One December evening three 4393 8| CHAPTER VIII~We are in a little set of 4394 7| recognized in her stupidity, vileness and falsehood, and he longed 4395 8| or two at her Asnieries Villa, a country house containing 4396 10| amid abjectly reverential villagers. Then as Satin whistled 4397 8| still capable.~“Ah, ah, the villains,” he continued with a wink, “ 4398 10| was then in garrison at Vincennes. Georges, who was hiding 4399 5| the tart perfume of toilet vinegars heated and bewildered him 4400 13| fields of ripe grain, the vineyards so golden in September, 4401 12| their little flutes; their violins sent forth more swooning 4402 3| Decker, at whose house at Viroflay he sometimes spent a day 4403 8| game! Oh yes, she’d get virtued! It was always those conceited 4404 3| his dignities and of his virtues, that he behaved like a 4405 2| But as she continued her visitation in a calmer frame of mind, 4406 13| seemed to be gnawing his vitals from which he could not 4407 4| a mixture of pepper and vitriol, and that didn’t hurt me 4408 9| the tall houses in the Rue Vivienne, the backs of which rose 4409 12| April evening had heard the vocal expression in the sound 4410 11| men leaped and spun round, vociferating as they did so, while others 4411 4| obedience to the loudly voiced orders of the manager. They 4412 7| surprise, Nana remained voiceless.~“I suspected it,” she said 4413 8| country hotel and consisted of vol–au–vent a la financiere, 4414 10| vengeance took no hold of her volatile brain. What did maintain 4415 14| which was a red velvet Voltaire. In front of the fireplace 4416 9| ground. He had remained voluntarily ignorant of Fauchery’s assiduous 4417 1| which swayed to and fro voluptuously, her whole body, in fact, 4418 8| baser sort of vice, whose votaries prowl in muddy bystreets 4419 13| began to sing and dance and vote existence delightful. Zoe, 4420 6| burst forth anew as the voyagers began jesting and glancing 4421 7| supreme ecstasies over cheap, vulgarly designed knickknacks, such 4422 5| with the odor of women, wafted amid floods of light and 4423 5| while the Marquis de Chouard wagged his head involuntarily. 4424 3| raising her voice, “that Wagner’s music was hissed last 4425 1| up in the stalls, their waistcoats cut very low, gardenias 4426 6| arms round each other’s waists, and finally went and laid 4427 10| not indignant was an ever–wakeful lust of expenditure, added 4428 7| pavement and starting into wakefulness with the icy shudder of 4429 2| off the coffee; it would waken them up. Sitting hunched 4430 12| fancies would thrill her with waking nightmares. She continued:~“ 4431 1| theatrical public had not wallowed in folly more irreverent. 4432 9| she looked at the stained wallpaper, the greasy toilet table, 4433 8| it afresh and put up new wallpapers. Besides, the sun shone 4434 8| kissed Nana gallantly and waltzed with the chairs. And she 4435 4| Mimi would play as many waltzes and polkas as the company 4436 9| the dirty panes and hung wanly under the low ceiling. In 4437 7| front of the mirror on her wardrobe door, which reflected her 4438 9| his mouth and gazed at the warped steps, the iron balustrade 4439 6| desire and fear and anger warring in his anguished members. 4440 4| through dint of continual washings; the glass was of the kind 4441 2| spoiled exhalations of the washstand, came occasional whiffs 4442 10| expenditure and that daredevil wastefulness peculiar to beauty. She 4443 13| avenged the beggars and the wastrels from whose caste she issued. 4444 3| though he were giving out a watchword in that easy way of his. 4445 7| were dripping from a broken waterspout, and a ray of gaslight slipped 4446 6| islands amid a shining and waveless lake. And Nana grew tenderhearted, 4447 4| blackened lashes blinked and wavered while she spoke of the business 4448 6| treated them with the same wayward tenderness. At night, more 4449 3| after enlisting in a fit of waywardness, had of late very rapidly 4450 10| love that he should grow so weakly? She, his mother, was so 4451 1| costume she was about to wear in the first act.~“By Jove! 4452 8| with handsome costumes, the wearers of which fraternized in 4453 13| She was dragging herself wearily about the little drawing 4454 9| chair down in person, mutely weathering the storm as he did so. 4455 13| pictured her in her widow’s weeds, withering solitarily away 4456 8| Fondettes and comforted himself weekly with the composition of 4457 5| prince as became a woman who weighs a man at a glance. A smile 4458 7| slipped, and he felt the tears welling to his eyes again, but he 4459 11| trees and shut in to the westward by the wooded heights of 4460 6| greenery! Now, is that all wheat? Good lord, how pretty it 4461 1| delivering him up to Vulcan, wheedled by Venus, whom the presence 4462 1| reminiscences of Saint–Cloud Fair, wheezings of clarinets and playful 4463 8| humbly enough amid this whelming flood of petticoats.~“I 4464 4| had lost count of their whereabouts and never once noticed the 4465 | whereas 4466 11| the real Nana reappeared, whereat the gentlemen lent his question 4467 1| them a conveyance, the door whereof he gallantly shut after 4468 13| experiments on La Faloise having whetted her appetite, she treated 4469 11| Stories were told of wild whims and fancies, of gold scattered 4470 4| nervous order only, a mere whimsical craving born of an exasperated 4471 1| had a role of the wildest whimsicality and was got up as a village 4472 6| way of answer the driver whipped up his horse, which was 4473 5| while the shower of hail was whipping the panes of the great window 4474 11| round the course by the whirlwind of the race, which clove 4475 8| night their artificially whitened faces, their rouged lips 4476 1| discerned, in all its foamlike whiteness of tint beneath the slight 4477 5| tearing their hair out and whitening their coats with dust. They 4478 5| was leaking and letting a whitish flood spread over the floor. 4479 14| Gaga kept saying. “It isn’t wholesome here.”~They went briskly 4480 5| struggle within him had wholly ceased. The ideas and beliefs 4481 4| the other could tell such whoppers! As to Lucy Stewart, she 4482 13| a rage and called her a whore right out; his horses, he 4483 1| a delicious baby, with a wicker–work burlet on her head 4484 10| s Queen Pomare with her wickerwork shawl!”~And while a gust 4485 4| light while their burned–out wicks glowed red within their 4486 11| the left, the landscape widened anew and opened out toward 4487 5| them, straining forward and widening the hole with her fingers 4488 6| over the valley. It seemed wider and larger as it opened 4489 9| boxes on either hand huge widths of gray canvas stretched 4490 12| by little grown bolder, wilder, till they had burst forth 4491 4| drew them along with her willy–nilly, accompanying her 4492 7| God, I adore Thee: Thou wilt not leave me to perish under 4493 8| Fontaine.~Nevertheless, some windfalls came in their way now and 4494 5| working of the rollers and windlasses, he came up in order to 4495 9| floating pent in some high, windowless loft. The deserted house, 4496 11| gold scattered to the four winds, of a visit to Baden–Baden, 4497 11| The losers were vexed; the winners shrugged their shoulders. 4498 11| pretty biz if the Englishman wins!” cried Philippe in an access 4499 1| Mamma! No, Mamma!” in a winy–piny tone, her fingers in 4500 4| would teach him greater wisdom!~“You are not going to fight?”