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1001 1 | and endowed the phantoms conjured up from that inert and plastic 1002 1 | the magnificent power of conjuring up the whole world within 1003 1 | we are going to come off conquerors, too, and walk over everybody 1004 3 | society; his first care, consequently, was to find a lodging at 1005 3 | it, and to lie within the conservative and despotic jurisdiction 1006 1 | s-his-name, the Republican, considers a landowner's head a sacrifice!" 1007 3 | helplessness that must perforce consign its desires to the depths 1008 3 | Marquis, Foedora would have consigned them all to the oubliettes 1009 1 | and troubles, my life will consist of two separate parts - 1010 2 | Very often my sole diet consisted of the scanty provision 1011 1 | sane species of lunatic who consoles himself in his misery by 1012 1 | begun a two-edged policy, conspiring against all systems, without 1013 3 | likewise silent. The uneasy and constrained feeling grew to a height. ~" 1014 1 | the voice of poetry which constrains them, and studied with pleasure 1015 3 | seemed to move about without constraint or difficulty. He had carefully 1016 2 | import, the words might be construed as expressive of either 1017 1 | moment at the other. Then construing the stranger's silence as 1018 1 | Senatus Populusque Romanus; consuls, lictors, togas with purple 1019 1 | turn the cards over and consume them. The grandest hours 1020 2 | part, and I thought her a consummate actress. Then all at once 1021 1 | Christ, for He alone has consummated the triumph of spirit over 1022 2 | asked himself: ~"Am I not consumptive? Did not my mother die of 1023 2 | like people who fear the contagion of the plague. ~"As I waited 1024 2 | you extol the ideas it contains. Such an one is treacherous 1025 2 | with all the insight of contemned love. ~"I can see now that 1026 2 | What are the memoirs - contemporaneous, ancient, or memoirs of 1027 2 | tasks that we thought so contemptible, but which taught us application 1028 3 | to the volume of liquid contents by means of the little vertical 1029 3 | made, and on the slightest contractions of their brows. His last 1030 2 | her, and it pleased her to contradict me. ~"As it fell out, the 1031 2 | attractive by reason of its contradictions; a life that afforded all 1032 2 | slumber. I hesitated among contradictory opinions and decisions without 1033 1 | any one else begins, and contradicts every one who says what 1034 3 | enchantment of the light or by the contrasting shadows; and this was the 1035 2 | notorious, and who even made it contribute to his success, took up 1036 1 | instrument in the orchestra contributes his share. You would see 1037 3 | Raphael was no longer able to control his thoughts; memories of 1038 3 | hallucination of apparent convalescence, which is not unlike the 1039 2 | wan and pale as any artist convalescent after a work, how could 1040 1 | so much as a nail for the convenience of suicides. The floor is 1041 3 | very nice and pleasant and convenient for us great folk! But, 1042 1 | woods, and vineyards of his convent. Pausing before some work 1043 1 | made by the guests, and conversations began, as varied in character 1044 2 | over her face. This mute converse passed between soul and 1045 2 | statesmen, surprise their convictions, try to interest them in 1046 1 | opposite the bank, like old convicts who have lost all fear of 1047 1 | drawn thither by that most convincing of Jean Jacques' eloquent 1048 1 | multitudinous corners and convolutions of these objects of various 1049 2 | mysterious, some inward convulsion seemed revealed by her glittering 1050 2 | tobacco smoker is seized with convulsions, and goes through a kind 1051 3 | vehemently, with an almost convulsive caress. Pauline drew her 1052 1 | clutching the talisman convulsively, as he looked at the old 1053 3 | and don't I tremble! The cook would forfeit the annuity 1054 2 | about the blue coverlet, the cooking pots and furniture. The 1055 2 | that I might win her, some cool-headed coxcomb, some self-possessed 1056 3 | Magic Skin at last. It grew cooler as the red glow of the sunset 1057 2 | like a sparrow-hawk round a coop of chickens. Tormented by 1058 1 | timid embarrassment with coquettishness and a sort of expostulation 1059 3 | had been inundated with cordial wishes, which the people 1060 2 | present; she received me less cordially perhaps than when I was 1061 1 | movement, unstrangled by the cords of time, unclogged by the 1062 1 | divinities, the pride of some Corinna, scarcely drew a smile from 1063 1 | Saint-Simonize, classify, and cork up in your phials, but here 1064 2 | shagreen. It is a cure for corns, and efficacious remedy. 1065 2 | and a title, a heraldic coronet painted on window panes, 1066 1 | of Raphael; a figure by Correggio never received the glance 1067 3 | the lobby, and along the corridors, leaving his box, which 1068 2 | plunged into dissipation, into corroding vice, I desired and possessed 1069 2 | gnaws at the heart of a Corsican monk. This is how I carried 1070 2 | been taken prisoner by the Cossacks, at the passage of Beresina; 1071 2 | half-smoked cigar lay in her arms. Costly furniture of various kinds - 1072 1 | public mind, to give fresh costumes to the actors, to put a 1073 2 | in the whole Bonapartist coterie, often goes to spend the 1074 2 | and white watered silk - a couch for a young fairy betrothed 1075 3 | sarcasm containing an insult couched in unusually keen language, 1076 3 | no worse," she said. "He coughed all last night again fit 1077 3 | appointed as headmaster! Couldn't you have asked me for 1078 1 | sovereigns; and from their councils, churchmen with courtesans' 1079 3 | finally the jolly wine-flushed countenances of old peasants. Children 1080 1 | glittered and rang upon the counter. The young man, seemingly 1081 3 | and put leeches on him, to counteract the nervous and intestinal 1082 2 | course in the depths of some counting-house or study, life is poured 1083 1 | you have had to compose couplets to pay for your mistress' 1084 1 | meant to try two or three coups, and then to depart at once 1085 2 | one, not even a noble and courageous Marceline, not so much as 1086 2 | to burst at every chance courteous look. In spite of my readiness 1087 3 | among its fellows in the courtyard sickens, the others fall 1088 Epi| that La dame des belles cousines sought to protect her country 1089 3 | Raphael's life depended upon a covenant that he had made with himself, 1090 2 | trimness about the blue coverlet, the cooking pots and furniture. 1091 1 | its symmetrical line of covers, crowned with their pale 1092 1 | s life is the only one I covet. I don't know that the fancy 1093 3 | soft shadows; the spotted cow with its glossy hide, the 1094 3 | the close atmosphere of a cow-house, adhering all the time to 1095 3 | dupe, or to be taken for a coward, and even diverted perhaps 1096 3 | which to stigmatize such cowardly behavior as yours." ~"That' 1097 1 | beside a gilded hearth, or cower over the ashes in a red 1098 2 | simplicity? In this manner I cowered under as strict a despotism 1099 2 | and spruce as any of the coxcombs about her. For a poet and 1100 2 | one, their crystal sconces cracking in the final flare. Night 1101 3 | a window pane spreading cracks round about it. It took 1102 1 | down from his frame. The craftiness of an inquisitor, revealed 1103 1 | upon works of art, till the craftsman's skill palled on the mind, 1104 1 | anything away after all. ~"The craftsmen of the Levant have secrets 1105 2 | detection if undisturbed by cramp, coughs, or sneezings. To 1106 2 | I sat beside her in the cramped back seat of the vehicle; 1107 3 | sardonic profile and yellow cranium of an old man; he remembered 1108 3 | save through a veil of crape. Everything that but lately 1109 2 | young man, whose nature craved excitement, could renounce 1110 2 | as poetry, and is not for craven spirits. To penetrate its 1111 2 | studious hours; he either craves, like God, the seventh day 1112 2 | curiosity. ~"There was a craze just then for praising a 1113 2 | her nasturtiums; or, in a crazy attic window, a young girl, 1114 2 | flowers, to disarrange and crease a smart toilette at will. 1115 3 | which had been considerably creased, for he stooped and raised 1116 1 | those curving wrinkles and creases that wound about his temples, 1117 2 | once thought so unfortunate created the splendid powers of which, 1118 2 | multiplies them for us, creating a dramatic life within our 1119 2 | along with his endowment of creative power, is furnished with 1120 1 | splendid model, which the Creator has perchance destroyed. 1121 1 | nature, grow tragical as Crebillon's dramas, and pensive as 1122 2 | longer. I was ready to give credence just then to superstitious 1123 2 | Fortunately, I owned a fairly creditable black coat and a white waistcoat; 1124 2 | emotions with which I had credited her. ~" 'George must be 1125 2 | family dependent upon him. My creditor might be a living picture 1126 3 | Persian superstition even credits him with a mysterious origin; 1127 2 | superstitions. ~" 'You are very credulous, Pauline!' ~" 'The woman 1128 2 | astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those 1129 2 | frightful. An olive tint had crept over the lymphatic faces, 1130 2 | life was developing in the crescent moon), and was glad to see 1131 2 | spring, that leaves its cresses, its gravel bed and flowers 1132 3 | the whistling duck was a crested one, sir, and you will understand 1133 3 | reservoir somewhere, or a crevice in the large tube " ~"No, 1134 3 | grass were growing in the crevices of the pavement; a terrible 1135 2 | a fool!' ~" 'That way of crimping your hair too much is the 1136 Epi| those flaming violet and crimson hues, a face with unimaginable 1137 2 | money of another man, and cringe to a fool seated on his 1138 2 | growing used to the painful crisis. Very often my sole diet 1139 1 | Metternichs - all the clever Crispins who treat the destinies 1140 2 | handsome, smart, outcravatting Croatia; wealthy men, equipped with 1141 1 | and divine, was mingled. Crocodiles, monkeys, and serpents stuffed 1142 1 | even as some toothless crone might be seized with pity 1143 2 | friendly words were like the crooning lullaby with which a mother 1144 2 | ceiling, with its carved cross-beams of brown wood, was full 1145 3 | get some fun out of it. ~Crotchety spinsters, ladies' companions, 1146 1 | understood his calamity when the croupiers's rake was extended to sweep 1147 3 | mettle by dropping it in a crucible where I have at this moment 1148 3 | green, an "End of Credit," a Crucifixion, and the "Grenadiers of 1149 1 | way physical, unitary, and crude; then as aggregations increased, 1150 1 | supplied the half-tones in a crudely contrasted picture of two 1151 2 | so it begins for us the cruelest trouble of all - the misery 1152 2 | upon, all women have been cruelly treacherous to me. ~"So 1153 1 | mud - worthless, lifeless, crumbling to pieces, going about with 1154 1 | drink, and had tried various crus at this pleasure, so that 1155 3 | yield to the tremendous crushing force which indefinitely 1156 1 | sub-genera, and families; into crustaceae, fossils, saurians, infusoria, 1157 2 | The good fellow was crying. ~"Such were the events, 1158 3 | out that diamonds are a crystallized form of charcoal, at a time 1159 2 | constitution of a colonel of cuirassiers; and in this way you create 1160 2 | No doubt it is very culpable in me not to love you,' 1161 3 | a sigh of relief, like a culprit acquitted by a dozen jurors. 1162 3 | alumnus! I formed his mind, cultivated his understanding, developed 1163 1 | galleries which civilization, cults, divinities, masterpieces, 1164 Epi| piece of metal, a brazen Cupid." ~"But how about Pauline, 1165 3 | the lime-tree, with his curmudgeon's face, scanty hair, and 1166 2 | still directed, all the currents of the age. ~"So I had the 1167 2 | active imagination, that curse of poets, was no doubt the 1168 2 | your way. You have sown curses, and hatred will be your 1169 1 | flung himself back in a curule chair and let his eyes wander 1170 3 | only a repetition of the curve-beaked teal, but for my own part," - 1171 1 | the purpose of the spiral curves that wound towards her. 1172 1 | inquisitor, revealed in those curving wrinkles and creases that 1173 2 | sofa, with her feet on a cushion. She wore an Oriental turban 1174 2 | lay carelessly back on her cushioned armchair beside the fire, 1175 1 | haggard face of his pretended customer with keen eyes. Perhaps 1176 2 | world, of our manners and customs, and seen the dangers of 1177 2 | to the door,' she said, cutting irony in her tones, in the 1178 1 | friend to the gallows foot, a cynical swaggerer with a child's 1179 2 | than take my simplicity for cynicism, my innocent candor for 1180 3 | was represented, quacking, dabbling, and moving about - a kind 1181 1 | APPARATUS. ~A vision of M. Dacheux rose before him, equipped 1182 1 | confectionery, the most tempting dainties, and choicest delicacies. 1183 1 | dead leaves. Rags or the daintiest finery will be as one to 1184 3 | from la Savonnerie, the daintiness and freshness of every detail, 1185 1 | pieces at night, as with Damiens once upon a time? Were you 1186 2 | shudder; it was the same cold dampness that had laid hold upon 1187 1 | worthy of a pirouetting dancer. Claude Vignon shuffled 1188 1 | burning draughts of punch. Mad dances were kept up with wild energy; 1189 3 | had gathered about it of dandies, young and old, of ministers, 1190 3 | that subject which has been dangerously attacked, nor submit them 1191 1 | on the glutinous soups at Darcet's, and gambled away his 1192 2 | she inspires awe, and none dares to pay his homage to her. ~" 1193 2 | silence was idiotic; and as I daresay I alarmed them by my efforts 1194 3 | looked at each other without daring to communicate their thoughts. 1195 1 | Italian, olive-hued and dark-haired, sat at one end, with his 1196 1 | up the woman in us, and darkens the light in our lover's 1197 1 | but when a great nature is dashed down, he is bound to fall 1198 2 | deceived you. Women are all daughters of Eve. There is nothing 1199 1 | lived. Two elderly waiters dawdled about with their arms folded, 1200 3 | marmots; they ask if day has dawned at noon; and to think that 1201 1 | While intoxication was only dawning, the conversation did not 1202 1 | had made his forehead so deadly pale, a bitter smile carved 1203 2 | moment," cried Cardot, fairly deafened by a chorus of wretched 1204 2 | earliest illusions, the dearest of all. My entire fortune 1205 3 | the moment. ~As Raphael's death-pale face showed itself in the 1206 3 | come except the choking death-rattle in his chest. Each breath 1207 3 | went, Raphael read his own death-warrant. Utterly disheartened, brought 1208 3 | suffering and unmoved by a deathbed; he had not learned to keep 1209 3 | therefore, Foedora saw the deathblow of her influence and her 1210 1 | admiring gaze. At sight of this deathless creation, he forgot his 1211 2 | fire long smothered. I was debarred from the women whose society 1212 2 | fragment after fragment of the debris of a wrecked vessel upon 1213 2 | I was a defaulter. Has a debtor any right to himself? Could 1214 3 | subject to a process of decay. It is quite easy to understand, 1215 2 | of life! What failure and deceit! It was no mere question 1216 1 | knowledge of life. There was no deceiving this man, who seemed to 1217 2 | flunkey, and devoid of all decent feeling." ~"Oh, Raphael 1218 1 | and I could drown myself decently. Who would grudge this last 1219 3 | word; he took a pleasure in deciphering them - a sort of mechanical 1220 1 | mistress in silks, would deck her out in soft Eastern 1221 3 | by flowers and brambles, decked by a little strip of green 1222 2 | to the most impassioned declarations of this kind, that my words 1223 2 | gesture or insolent look. I declare, on my soul and conscience, 1224 2 | finished them, you will decline to publish them in your 1225 3 | that fiendish employment of decomposing all things - the world is 1226 1 | government advanced by a decomposition of the primitive rule, more 1227 1 | looks gay, and despair is decorous? Such thoughts as these 1228 1 | the stormy atmosphere, all decreed that he should die. ~He 1229 1 | arms about them issued decrees of chastity for simple priests. ~ 1230 1 | Jacotot, stood beside a sphinx dedicated to Sesostris. The beginnings 1231 3 | dropping her eyes as the flush deepened on his face. "What became 1232 3 | grave and meditative cast, deepening passion and purifying it. 1233 1 | this - that I am in the deepest, most humiliating, and most 1234 2 | and jeer at it. I was a defaulter. Has a debtor any right 1235 2 | is used in all attack or defence. Official eloquence is one 1236 2 | not what to do; I was as defenceless as a maiden on her knees 1237 1 | friend to his face; but would defend him, if absent, with courage 1238 3 | surprised by any chance, it defends itself against the most 1239 2 | showed her all a lover's deference. Acting in this way, I received 1240 2 | weeping had dimmed her eyes. I deferentially mentioned the amount I could 1241 3 | exhibiting herself with her defiant face and glittering eyes 1242 3 | attractions. A power that can be defied with impunity is drawing 1243 1 | Virtue! we leave that to deformity and to ugly women. What 1244 1 | German prince would not have defrayed the cost of this arrogant 1245 1 | to weeping over my own. I defy any man to give me the slightest 1246 2 | and bore tokens of the degradation of excess. Each disowned 1247 2 | for all, but I could not degrade it in detail. Besides, there 1248 1 | in broad daylight seemed degrading to him; he made up his mind 1249 1 | Catholicism puts a million deities in a sack of flour, that 1250 1 | that separates us from the Deity." ~"Believest thou?" asked 1251 2 | soul. Is Foedora, like Lady Delacour, a prey to a cancer? Her 1252 2 | not bear the tortures of delay; I borrowed a novel, and 1253 3 | tedious to describe had delayed their marriage, which was 1254 3 | you will understand that I deliberated no longer. We only lack 1255 1 | tempting dainties, and choicest delicacies. The coloring of this epicurean 1256 1 | upon the snowy marble, the delicately carved surfaces of bronze, 1257 1 | yet hung about his meagre, delicately-shaped form, and his scanty fair 1258 2 | wrath upon me; at my first delinquency, he threatened to ship me 1259 2 | find in her society the delirious emotion that now thrilled 1260 3 | Poor boy! how easy it is to delude a clever man! Could you 1261 Epi| of snow with your eager, deluded hands, once twine the golden 1262 2 | prospect, rocked as they are by delusive hopes. But when I woke, 1263 2 | our life, and imperatively demanding a prompt and enormous expenditure 1264 3 | importance of the case that demands my presence there will excuse 1265 2 | wrought by heated passions. ~Demoniac laughter broke out when 1266 2 | leaden pall. Any effusive demonstration on my part was received 1267 3 | formulae of algebra, the demonstrations of anatomy, and derides 1268 2 | Debauch, are all forms of demoralization, equally remote from the 1269 3 | exertion of body and mind has demoralized the whole system. It is 1270 1 | of gorgeous turbans and demurely enticing apparel. It was 1271 2 | picturesquely; it was like a den where a brigand has heaped 1272 1 | drink in one look and a denial with untold raptures. She 1273 1 | morasses of indigestion, denied the possibility of movement. 1274 3 | ear, and sharp tongue, all denoted the species. ~"How many 1275 1 | drama at the theatre, the denoument of every play, the foundation 1276 1 | is every bit as vulgar as denying the existence of God. So 1277 2 | in its wonted place, and departed. I was almost at the end 1278 1 | at La Force! Government departments, cafes, libraries, lists 1279 2 | me before I noticed her departure; the sound of her words 1280 2 | meritorious old man with a family dependent upon him. My creditor might 1281 1 | with numerous facets, each depicting a world. After this first 1282 3 | whose recent loss we are deploring, as you doubtless know, 1283 3 | continually enriched by the deposits of loam which storms washed 1284 3 | least," he said, with a deprecatory gesture, "and I give it 1285 2 | and like one completely deprived of reason. ~"The devil take 1286 3 | the billiard-room. ~"I am deputed, sir," he said coolly addressing 1287 2 | worth that amount. Sheriff's deputies rose up before me, turning 1288 2 | could buy you all, even the deputy snoring over there. Scum 1289 2 | betrayed my secrets, and derided my pretensions and my hopes, 1290 3 | demonstrations of anatomy, and derides all our efforts; a sort 1291 1 | dear!" cried the attorney Deroches. ~"Aren't they a bore with 1292 3 | which compels the liquid to descend in the vertical tube; and 1293 1 | no foundling child, but a descendant of the Emperor Valens, of 1294 3 | old Jonathan laboriously descended from it, in the first place, 1295 2 | with my thoughts. ~"Sudden descents into the world from the 1296 3 | said the seconds, who soon descried a caleche coming along the 1297 3 | of all when the pity is deserved. Hatred is a tonic - it 1298 3 | take from us here?" ~She designated the room as she spoke; the 1299 1 | charitably paired them off, designing, no doubt, to convert them 1300 2 | cushions surrounded by the most desirable creations of Oriental luxury; 1301 2 | where she was to have been, desiring to see the play she had 1302 3 | pictures of wild and barren desolation, contrasted strongly with 1303 2 | came to life; slowly and despairingly they seemed to pace towards 1304 2 | I lost my head, and fell desperately in love. ~"I am not very 1305 3 | thing!" cried Raphael, in desperation. "Is no human power able 1306 2 | him, blight my spirits, despoil me of my cheerfulness, of 1307 3 | in order to live; he had despoiled his soul of all the romance 1308 1 | enter a gaming-house the law despoils you of your hat at the outset. 1309 2 | are wealthy in words and destitute in ideas, astonish the ignorant, 1310 2 | observation as keen as my own to detect such signs as these in her 1311 2 | stay in it without fear of detection if undisturbed by cramp, 1312 1 | money of you? Or must the detective, who squats in our social 1313 3 | longer. The progressive deterioration wrought in the epigastric 1314 1 | violent pleasure. Who could determine the point where pleasure 1315 1 | they are in their power of dethroning their reason in this way," 1316 2 | overlooked this method of detraction. His sarcastic encomiums 1317 3 | legs like needles." ~"The deuce!" exclaimed Raphael. ~Planchette 1318 1 | burlesque the Revue des Deux Mondes by acting a squinting 1319 2 | an end at last to these devastating trances; and on the morrow 1320 2 | promised in early life was developing in the crescent moon), and 1321 1 | religions were but the unchecked development of physical pleasure, but 1322 1 | siren that can both kiss and devour; laugh like a devil, or 1323 2 | toil could only spring from devout submission and the lofty 1324 2 | the glittering radiance of dew. Others imagined the family 1325 3 | roof of brown tiles, at the dewdrops, or at the variously shaped 1326 3 | You rely even now on your dexterity, and do not shrink from 1327 1 | went downstairs whistling Di tanti Palpiti so feebly, 1328 3 | whatever from it, I christen it diaboline beforehand, for we have 1329 3 | it on the surface of the dial, then he went to look for 1330 1 | two theories of life so diametrically opposed. If you were not 1331 3 | grace; here was a half-clad Dian the huntress, there the 1332 1 | by transparent gauze and diaphanous silk. The little slender 1333 1 | presentiments of luck that dictate a gambler's "Yes" or "No." 1334 2 | you this warning, which is dictated by friendship rather than 1335 2 | or by words that fashion dictates; and not only so, I had 1336 3 | and harmonious style - the diction of Massillon, of M. de Buffon, 1337 3 | are scratched out of the dictionary. He let out at me once with 1338 3 | skin of an onager. Opinions differ as to the origin of the 1339 3 | have each peculiar organs, differently affected, diversely nourished, 1340 2 | imperfectly arranged and digested that it overtaxed my memory; 1341 1 | tell him, while he is digesting it, that his banker has 1342 3 | atrophied because the man digests no longer. The progressive 1343 1 | sacrificed more lives over digging the foundations of the Maintenon' 1344 3 | asparagine, vauqueline, and digitaline are not really discoveries " ~" 1345 1 | drink the celebrated toast, Diis ignotis!" ~And they drained 1346 3 | girl's throat, her eyes dilated with horror, her eyebrows 1347 2 | frequented Foedora's house very diligently, and tried to outshine the 1348 3 | of suitable strength and dimensions; and if you cover the liquid 1349 3 | the substance, so as to diminish the interval that separates 1350 2 | features, and weeping had dimmed her eyes. I deferentially 1351 1 | liqueurs, and sugar afford to diners who are struggling in the 1352 2 | awaiting its scholar, with its dingy yellow walls and odor of 1353 2 | playing the great lord, dining at Very's, deciding not 1354 2 | seemed to me now full of diplomatic reserve and coldness. She 1355 2 | trouble?' Pauline said, dipping her brush into the coloring. ~" ' 1356 3 | indescribable joy. After directing her lorgnette upon every 1357 2 | its fluid mass in given directions upon other souls. Such a 1358 2 | you, that this scene has a disagreeable effect upon me.' ~" 'I am 1359 1 | authority never makes itself disagreeably felt, because one is so 1360 1 | All individuality will disappear in a people brought to a 1361 2 | laughing. ~" 'I will not disappoint it,' I said quietly, as 1362 2 | like to crush flowers, to disarrange and crease a smart toilette 1363 1 | stopped without another word, discerning in that mournful face an 1364 2 | flew about like the last discharge of rockets at the end of 1365 3 | capacity for dissimulation, her discomfiture was discerned by her rivals. 1366 2 | anxious to share in its discomforts only; they look to find 1367 1 | least!" ~"So you want to discount heaven, a thoroughly commercial 1368 2 | rehearsed my life drama, and discounted love and its happiness. 1369 3 | pronouncing his initiatory discourse, "is one of the great Pascal' 1370 3 | has worked such wonders by discovering Ronsard!" ~"My work treats 1371 1 | anything; whose perspicacity discovers the intentions of Austria, 1372 3 | water; red potash had been discredited; the galvanic battery and 1373 2 | Since attaining years of discretion, until the day when I finished 1374 2 | woman with whom I could discuss rationally a resolution 1375 1 | were removed, tumultuous discussions began; a pale brow here 1376 1 | strolling on again with a proud disdain in his manner, when he heard 1377 3 | the people for these dogs' diseases. Where did he catch it, 1378 2 | if you miscalculate, you disfigure yourself for life. Listen 1379 3 | a banker's daughter had disfigured herself. ~All at once she 1380 2 | perhaps wish to avoid the disfigurements of maternity. Is not this 1381 2 | thought, she would be sure to disguise her feelings by some mocking 1382 2 | of vice, stripped of its disguises, at being confronted thus 1383 2 | gradually, became affectionate, disgusted me. ~"Well, he called upon 1384 2 | makes a man into a mere disgusting apparatus, a funnel, a pampered 1385 2 | affected woman; all this disgusts an artist. Love in the abstract 1386 3 | own death-warrant. Utterly disheartened, brought all at once to 1387 2 | was never made.' ~"What a disheartening scene for a lover! Here 1388 2 | at last I reached it, as disheveled as any naturalist's wig. 1389 3 | modesty in the midst of dishevelment - to see admiringly her 1390 2 | aspects that are very vilely dishonorable.' ~" 'Yes,' said Rastignac, ' 1391 1 | so perishing, hated and dishonored, in the Place de Greve." ~" 1392 2 | has been quite cool and disinterested, and my remarks must have 1393 1 | embraced their likes or dislikes in men or affairs, had already 1394 1 | matchbox, and religious wars disorderly, fanatical, and cruel, in 1395 3 | passions, have induced serious disorders in that vital mechanism. 1396 1 | out of sheer dulness, I disown you. Make your confession, 1397 2 | degradation of excess. Each disowned his mistress of the night 1398 2 | my inquiry is absolutely dispassionate. Some are born blind, and 1399 3 | talk with Raphael, "I can dispel your uneasiness beyond all 1400 3 | bustle, stop the clamor, and disperse the ill-timed festival; 1401 1 | The infamous monarchy, displaced by the heroism of the people, 1402 2 | the supple grace a cat displays as it adjusts its toilette 1403 2 | only of convention, which displeases you? You would seem to me 1404 3 | All the pleasures of life disport themselves round my bed 1405 3 | rare varieties were there disporting themselves; their colored 1406 3 | large. He was the absolute disposer of his master's fortune, 1407 2 | courts of law, over the disputed possession of these unfortunate 1408 3 | But to resume. There is no disputing the fact that he is ill; 1409 1 | corpse to a world which had disregarded the greatness of life. He 1410 2 | me to look on a cafe as a disreputable haunt, where men lost their 1411 2 | have brought the river into disrepute; they fling themselves in 1412 2 | fight against his evil star, dissatisfied at the prospect of tilling 1413 2 | through and through. She can dissemble far too well to let any 1414 1 | political, or literary dissertations? Man is a clown dancing 1415 3 | your mind, Raphael! Do not dissimulate. I shall very soon find 1416 1 | apparitions that a breath might dissipate. Aristocratic beauties with 1417 2 | brought her back athwart the dissipations of my existence, like a 1418 1 | steadily approaching a social dissolution, with interest as its one 1419 1 | over a corpse; that will dissolve pearls and wreck thrones, 1420 2 | glove, and my whole soul was dissolved and poured forth in that 1421 1 | gradually to experience a dissolving process. He felt the anguish 1422 2 | to describe this outward dissonance between two beings; we are 1423 3 | and both harmonies and dissonances compose a scene for you 1424 1 | and audacious writer, who distilled the quintessence of political 1425 2 | for me,' we kept saying, distilling our joy drop by drop. ~" ' 1426 1 | yet almost impossible to distinguish what was real among the 1427 3 | horror, her eyebrows were distorted and drawn apart by an unspeakable 1428 3 | fairest features by hideous distortions. He had not recovered from 1429 2 | was enacting, and while my distracting disorder was at its height, 1430 2 | destruction by the need of violent distractions in an existence so remote 1431 3 | thorough embodiment of her district; its hardworking ways, its 1432 2 | cry, saw the cause of the disturbance on his feet, tottering uncertainly, 1433 3 | physical cause the serious disturbances that supervene in this or 1434 1 | The first inventor of ditches must have been a weakling, 1435 1 | friends, seated on a silken divan, were first approached by 1436 1 | the oracular answer of the dive bouteille and the final 1437 2 | While I as dressing, I dived about for my money in an 1438 3 | organs, differently affected, diversely nourished, adapted to perform 1439 1 | who have come in search of diversion, for which they pay as they 1440 1 | women are never utterly divested prescribed to them the cloak 1441 3 | flame, which, obeying some divinely appointed law, will often 1442 1 | death, intoxicated him? Dizziness soon overcame him again. 1443 3 | incontrovertible fact made him dizzy. ~"I am mad," he muttered. " 1444 3 | champion of the esoteric doctrines of Van Helmont, discerned 1445 1 | property, there would be no documents to draw up." ~"These green 1446 2 | charcoal fumes?' ~" 'A low dodge.' ~" 'Or the Seine?' ~" ' 1447 2 | such a strict account of my doings, at dinner, that . . ." ~" 1448 2 | the noble one that Carlo Dolci chose for the type of Italy. 1449 2 | make of her the fantastical doll of our drawing-rooms, the 1450 1 | covered with their silver domes whetted both appetite and 1451 2 | tact, she seems to me a domineering sort of person, like every 1452 1 | divinities, masterpieces, dominions, carousals, sanity, and 1453 1 | just as ordinary men play dominoes for Kirschenwasser. We have 1454 3 | melancholy and sad. Emblem of the doom of wealth! He flies across 1455 2 | myself! ~"The sound of the door-bell rang through my heart; while 1456 2 | evening while Pauline hung our door-key in a Bible from her fingers. 1457 3 | and windows; even the very doorways of the village seemed likewise 1458 2 | had never quitted, like a doppelganger in a German tale, and came 1459 3 | soul that had so long lain dormant within him, and kindled 1460 2 | myself in, and stood by my dormer window, outwardly calm enough, 1461 1 | drunk by this time, "that a dose of phosphorus more or less 1462 1 | that the older was in his dotage, and waited in bewilderment 1463 1 | happiness like one of the red dots that flit over the remains 1464 3 | appeared. ~"This is your doing, double-distilled idiot! What made you suggest 1465 2 | windfall. We began with double-napoleons, and came down to the smaller 1466 1 | of their opinion, I have doubted and refrained, and " ~"Have 1467 3 | said the doctor, with a doubtful gesture. "His mind ought 1468 3 | other's side, like a pair of doves, they reached the Place 1469 1 | about suicide. Most people's downfalls are not dangerous; they 1470 3 | water thus compelled to flow downwards would rise in the reservoir, 1471 3 | during the interval; to find dowries for all your cousins and 1472 1 | throb, even when a woman's dowry was the stake. A young Italian, 1473 3 | him. I will say no more to Dr. Bianchon; he should be 1474 1 | the people, was a sort of drab, you could laugh and revel 1475 1 | silver, or copper, notes or drafts, I will make you richer, 1476 2 | Or the Seine?' ~" 'The drag-nets, and the Morgue too, are 1477 1 | all rose, leaning upon, dragging or carrying one another. 1478 3 | the vagaries of a slender dragon-fly, pondered admiringly over 1479 1 | poverty-stricken age, which drags itself thither in search 1480 2 | enough to play at ducks and drakes with pebbles over a pond, 1481 2 | whether I was observed. ~"A dramatist was to read a comedy at 1482 1 | to prey upon my life, I dramatize and expand them; I divert 1483 1 | the wasted arm, thin as a draper's wand, which held aloft 1484 3 | imparted to her form and to her draperies, it seemed to Raphael that 1485 Epi| the countless folds of her drapery to the light; she shot light 1486 3 | misfortune in abhorrence; it dreads them like the plague; it 1487 1 | sight, as he shook off the dreamy fancies and thoughts of 1488 1 | intellects. Between the dreary jests of these children 1489 1 | life; porcelain tureens, Dresden plates, translucent cups 1490 3 | bad form," said Raphael drily. ~"I am not joking," the 1491 1 | champion who ever wrestled in a drinking-bout at close quarters with the 1492 2 | or again, a false lover driving a timid and gentle maid 1493 2 | it! The Brahmin must be a droll fellow, for our desires, 1494 1 | not rise, her eyes did not droop. What was it to her? one 1495 1 | depths of his eye, which drooped, wearied perhaps with pleasure. 1496 2 | of peace? I was growing drowsy when Rastignac kicked the 1497 1 | wretched garments of ragged druggeting, who asked in a thick, muffled 1498 3 | little phial in which the druggist had sent him some liquid 1499 1 | displayed a set smile like a drunkard's. Had not life, or rather 1500 2 | her here in France; the Duchesse de Carigliano, the most-strait-laced