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1501 1 | snake's heard, and spoke in dulcet tones; a few shrewd ones 1502 1 | protest, or out of sheer dulness, I disown you. Make your 1503 1 | certainly did not look like duns, creditors, sheriff's officers, 1504 3 | rosary of leeches, between Dupuytren's bistoury and Prince Hohenlohe' 1505 2 | slow agony of ten years' duration can be brought to memory 1506 3 | him like a shadow in the dusk; a perverse freak of the 1507 1 | had been heaped up in his dusty showrooms. He seemed to 1508 1 | Portraits of French sheriffs and Dutch burgomasters, phlegmatic 1509 3 | the other, phlegmatic as a Dutchman. "I am going to show you, 1510 3 | off by heart, with all my duties written in it - a regular 1511 1 | before you. After countless dynasties of giant creatures, races 1512 1 | if you please. We bear an eagle or, on a field sable, with 1513 3 | cried, "and you will have earned millions." ~"Then I should 1514 2 | uttered, perhaps, more in earnest than in jest. ~"My good 1515 1 | gambled away his meagre earnings day by day. Like some old 1516 2 | from earth, even in the earthlier aspects of love, the fairer 1517 1 | would deck her out in soft Eastern fabrics, though he and she 1518 3 | gnaws him, you know; it eats him away; it will be the 1519 1 | the laws which confine the ebb and flow of civilization; 1520 3 | strength, the last effort of ebbing life, he broke down the 1521 2 | actress or a run of luck at ecarte might set him up with an 1522 3 | should try to bring a uniform eccentric force to bear on every molecule; 1523 1 | half amused by its bizarre eccentricities, to the influence of this 1524 2 | forth a whole life - like echoes of the cries of a soul in 1525 3 | what in the way of mocking eclecticism. ~The fourth doctor was 1526 3 | experience treasured up by the Ecole de Paris, a generation that 1527 2 | my childhood. ~" 'Be very economical, Monsieur Raphael!' ~"The 1528 2 | himself to concentrate it, to economize it, and to project continually 1529 1 | ordinary functions of my economy. In a word, it is not in 1530 2 | the motto, "Ici l'on peut ecrire soi-meme." He is acute enough 1531 3 | shape was irregular, and the edges were scalloped like the 1532 1 | majestic, thrice holy, and edifying appearance of this amiable 1533 2 | But you are about to be editor-in-chief of a newspaper; so be quiet, 1534 2 | with the quickness of an eel escaping through a broken 1535 3 | problem of mechanical science effected during the interval; to 1536 1 | bloodthirsty drama, and just as effective. The rooms are filled with 1537 2 | formulas to us, more or less effectively,' she answered, still smiling. ' 1538 3 | it nipped his soul more effectually than the east wind grips 1539 3 | darkness. There was a kind of effeminate grace about him; the fancies 1540 2 | schoolboys say. Though by nature effeminately attached to Oriental indolence, 1541 2 | in a precarious state of efficiency. It had been neither strikingly 1542 2 | with a leaden pall. Any effusive demonstration on my part 1543 1 | ever drew from an enchanted eggshell. She had come up noiselessly, 1544 1 | is consumed by a horribly egoistic feeling, the leprosy of 1545 1 | myriads, in whole generations. Egypt, rigid and mysterious, arose 1546 3 | That one is the famous eider duck that provides the down, 1547 3 | that provides the down, the eider-down under which our fine ladies 1548 1 | all decorated and gilt by eighteenth century artists. ~"Thousands 1549 2 | with an income of nearly eighty thousand livres, who has 1550 3 | commiseration - he now heard hostile ejaculations and muttered complaints. 1551 1 | prematurely, only to be ejected from it by law proceedings 1552 2 | slumber had disordered the elaborately arranged hair and toilettes 1553 1 | he were in some desert, elbowed by men whom he did not see, 1554 1 | sat at one end, with his elbows on the table, seeming to 1555 2 | strong enough to bear with my elegy, if you cannot put up with 1556 2 | other blows fit to kill an elephant, at sight of all the pleasures 1557 3 | only have a very slight elevating power. ~"Now," said Planchette, 1558 2 | never made her wince nor elicited a sign of vexation. She 1559 3 | scalpel, deceives the surgeon, eludes the drugs of the pharmacopoeia, 1560 2 | miserable depths beneath an elusive surface of luxury; I was 1561 Epi| at a white form that rose elusively out of the mists above the 1562 3 | when he learned at the Elysee the strategical blunder 1563 3 | reply. He offered her his emaciated arm, and went twice or thrice 1564 1 | thought perhaps due to some emanation from a bubble of carbonic 1565 3 | the same impulse, endless emanations from a measureless Being 1566 2 | which my father in a fashion emancipated me, brought me under a most 1567 1 | him was so deep that he embarked once more in dreams that 1568 1 | The combination of timid embarrassment with coquettishness and 1569 2 | luxury which so marvelously embellishes it; for is it not perhaps 1570 1 | stranger, as he felt the emblematical skin curiously. It was almost 1571 1 | has perchance destroyed. Emboldened by his gaze into the past, 1572 2 | all things; it perpetually embraces the whole sum of life; it 1573 Epi| and chilly gilt ornaments; embracing a piece of metal, a brazen 1574 2 | footstep behind me. ~" 'I have embroidered this purse for you,' Pauline 1575 2 | This feminine enigma in embroideries and cashmeres had brought 1576 3 | in a nook where blue or emerald colored insects were buzzing 1577 2 | so two were left over for emergencies. I cannot recollect, during 1578 1 | his radiance; and these emeritus-professors of vice and shame were ready 1579 2 | very fact that refined the emotional part of my nature till it 1580 3 | inventing names." ~"Most emphatically true, young man." ~"Here," 1581 1 | many epochs, and various empires, the young man came back 1582 2 | I had not learned how to employ speech that says nothing, 1583 2 | he entered his study, he emptied out his purse on the mantelpiece, 1584 3 | you call it? - er - er - en suite. Very well; just suppose, 1585 2 | nature that I have since been enabled to penetrate. I had my back 1586 2 | of this drama that I was enacting, and while my distracting 1587 3 | and white paint. This red enamel, lacking on some portions 1588 3 | hookah lay on his knee; the enameled coils lay like a serpent 1589 2 | office, those stock-jobbers encased in triple brass. They came, 1590 2 | frames, sufferings that encircle every strong passion with 1591 3 | frame where it had been enclosed but lately, drew a line 1592 2 | detraction. His sarcastic encomiums misled the countess, who 1593 1 | did not dare stir, but encouraged his guests' extravangances 1594 1 | must take her prescribed endearments. Then besides, as you know, 1595 2 | possession of these unfortunate endowments. My father plunged me into 1596 1 | a celebrated artist had endued with ideal beauty according 1597 1 | Seine fretted him beyond endurance. ~"May God lengthen your 1598 3 | these strange beasts that endures servitude with such impatience. 1599 3 | unnatural about the meagre, enfeebled frame. In the Marquis, with 1600 3 | expand appreciably, for engineers have remarked somewhat considerable 1601 1 | still in the market. An English-woman seemed like a spirit of 1602 1 | affected the airs of an Englishman, to whom life can offer 1603 3 | absorption in scientific ideas engrossed his whole person. His peruke 1604 2 | involving inventories and engrossing; an inheritance rich in 1605 1 | modesty to heighten and enhance the charms of wantonness. 1606 1 | epicurean work of art was enhanced by the splendors of porcelain, 1607 1 | not care! Next, I bid this enigmatical power to concentrate all 1608 1 | breathed the spirit of prayer, enjoined forgiveness, overcame self, 1609 3 | who devoted his nights to enlarging the limits of human knowledge, 1610 3 | some dark valley - a sad enlightenment, a pitiless sagacity that 1611 2 | are brothers. These social enormities possess the attraction of 1612 3 | the soil was continually enriched by the deposits of loam 1613 1 | frantic travesty of debate ensued, a Walpurgis-revel of intellects. 1614 2 | my dear fellow, you will ensure the success of your "Theory," 1615 1 | to the guests. They were entering a large room which shone 1616 2 | kind, I augured well of my enterprise. An old wooer of Foedora' 1617 2 | heart as the branding-iron enters the convict's shoulder. 1618 3 | young marquis is going to entertain all Paris and the Court!' 1619 2 | somewhat by these commonly entertained opinions, an additional 1620 3 | history of the goats; he was entertaining himself by making out a 1621 1 | myself to make one long entertainment of my life." ~"But does 1622 1 | amusing. Is it nothing to sit enthroned in a room, at a distance 1623 1 | gorgeous turbans and demurely enticing apparel. It was a seraglio 1624 3 | becoming apparent in its entirety to Raphael's eyes. A glance 1625 2 | silent labor where I would entomb myself like a chrysalis 1626 3 | seemed to come from his very entrails. At the last moment, no 1627 3 | central space in the great entrance-court. A few blades of grass were 1628 1 | his Seven Castles, a most entrancing conception? . . ." ~"I say," 1629 3 | spite of their patient's entreaties, declined altogether to 1630 2 | down to her as to a hope, entreating her to let me hear the silver 1631 1 | without the glance full of entreaty for compassion that a desperate 1632 2 | me; giving me les grande entrees, in the language of the 1633 1 | served as if by magic. A huge epergne of gilded bronze from Thomire' 1634 3 | saw how he had shunned the ephemeral intimacies that travelers 1635 1 | delicacies. The coloring of this epicurean work of art was enhanced 1636 3 | put leeches at once on the epigastrium, and reduce the irritation 1637 3 | foreign tongue. ~"He is epileptic," muttered Porriquet. ~" 1638 Epi| Epilogue~"And what became of Pauline?" ~" 1639 1 | Raphael burst in. "Go on epitomizing yourself after that fashion, 1640 1 | pondered over many lands, many epochs, and various empires, the 1641 1 | to me by an algebraical equation." ~He flung up a coin and 1642 3 | oath taken by this kind of Equestrian order, instituted in their 1643 2 | success, with my horses and equipages. It all found her impassive 1644 3 | onager of the ancients, equus asinus, the koulan of the 1645 1 | Cuvier the great poet of our era? Byron has given admirable 1646 2 | My piano is one of Erard's best instruments; and 1647 2 | yet. The dates had been erased, and Bonaparte's head simpered 1648 2 | havoc with an elaborate erection of scented hair; I like 1649 2 | captivates me. The barriers she erects between herself and the 1650 3 | man had been sent on this errand, no doubt, by a flock of 1651 1 | disasters that wait on your erratic whims, compared with the 1652 1 | There he stood like some erring angel that has lost his 1653 3 | Calmet or other, if such erudite hermits yet exist; but I 1654 2 | hundred crowns! The joys of my escapade rose before me at the thought 1655 3 | intrudes upon us, and yet escapes us. It is evident as a fact, 1656 2 | the quickness of an eel escaping through a broken mesh in 1657 2 | mother's portrait in order to escort the countess. Although the 1658 3 | husbands the slip, and were escorted hither by their lovers - 1659 3 | romantic champion of the esoteric doctrines of Van Helmont, 1660 2 | efforts to appeal to her, I essayed to engage her intellect 1661 2 | a system, a system which establishes seldom experienced sensations 1662 2 | formerly purchased several estates abroad, conferred by the 1663 2 | illustrious man.' ~" 'Well, my esteemed and excellent friend, and 1664 2 | this bliss would cost, I estimated, fifty crowns. Was it not 1665 1 | tomfoolery. M. Heineffettermach estimates the number of printed volumes 1666 3 | some place in the general estimations between pity and contempt, 1667 3 | two people looked like two estranged lovers still sulking, still 1668 2 | Cordiers from the Place de l'Estrapade, I saw a girl of fourteen 1669 1 | lavas from Vesuvius and Etna, his fancy fled to the hot 1670 1 | wrought in the fine clay of an Etruscan vase? The Latin queen caressed 1671 2 | He began an unmeasured eulogy of me, my performances, 1672 1 | according to conventional European notions, sustained and carried 1673 2 | s name is oneself' says Eusebe Salverte. After these excursions 1674 2 | buried. Perhaps arguments and evasions, philosophical, philanthropic, 1675 3 | might let it alone in the evenings at least " ~"Your grave, 1676 3 | chances of life and death are evenly balanced in his case. I 1677 1 | civilization and its railroad evenness. I am seized with a passion 1678 3 | always to be seen, a play of ever-shifting iridescent hues like those 1679 3 | Carymara of Rabelais for evermore: my disorder is spiritual, 1680 2 | preserved your youth from the evils that destroy young men in 1681 1 | spells, the head of Cicero evoked memories of a free Rome, 1682 3 | the poet his faculty of evoking nature, and the musician 1683 2 | scholars, men of letters, ex-ministers, and peers of France. The 1684 2 | squandered in obedience to the exactions of the world, which humble 1685 2 | kindness, her pretentious exaggeration was exalted enthusiasm. 1686 3 | we have been called in to examine; and, moreover, I am expected 1687 3 | Cameristus feels, Brisset examines, Maugredie doubts. Has not 1688 1 | delicate tints of these chosen examples of beauty. Sobered by a 1689 2 | wine and punch; or perhaps, exasperated by this symbol of his own 1690 1 | scoffers who can either see excellence anywhere or nowhere, as 1691 2 | no talent either, I am an exception. With the name I bear I 1692 1 | These green peas are excessively delicious!" ~"And the cure 1693 1 | by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase 1694 3 | he seized the Magic Skin, exclaiming: ~"I am a perfect fool!" ~ 1695 1 | These three friendly exclamations quickly followed the insults, 1696 3 | himself from their unanimous execrations. He thought to find a shelter, 1697 1 | capacity of gamblers? The executive is absolutely silent on 1698 3 | No," Raphael answered. "Exegi monumemtum, pere Porriquet; 1699 2 | with her. ~"On him Foedora exercised spells and witcheries unheard 1700 1 | instinctive processes man exhausts the springs of life within 1701 2 | custom that compels us to exhibit the lining of our hats, 1702 1 | railing, suddenly rose and exhibited his features, carved after 1703 3 | admirer. She was insolently exhibiting herself with her defiant 1704 2 | every portrait in every exhibition. She was not listening to 1705 2 | is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys 1706 2 | sacrifice! So when M. de Villele exhumed, for our special benefit, 1707 3 | Grammar must yield to the exigencies of discovery. Nevertheless, 1708 3 | lover's eyes. Not one of her exiled suitors had failed to own 1709 2 | music had fled. I could not exorcise the brilliant mocking image 1710 1 | pity's sake, spare me thy exordium," said Emile, as, half plaintive, 1711 3 | this skin, of softening and expanding it." ~"Ah, sir, you are 1712 3 | in the midst of the grimy expectant crowd. Raphael, looking 1713 1 | nothing; I have waited in expectation of everything. I have walked 1714 1 | comtesse answers that she is expecting monsieur." ~All the wonders 1715 3 | sceptic, the man of desperate expedients, was scrutinizing the Magic 1716 3 | heart. The fashionable world expels every suffering creature 1717 1 | jocularity of a man who is expending two thousand crowns sat 1718 2 | or public lecture. These expenses, all told, only amounted 1719 3 | and gases. After several experiments, he remarked: ~"No taste 1720 1 | been explored in the most expert manner. We bewailed the 1721 1 | white mass. ~One or two experts at the game, shrewd speculators, 1722 2 | directed at you.' ~" 'That explains everything!' I exclaimed. 1723 2 | called forth the wildest explanations. She had promised her first 1724 1 | Paris, good or bad, has been explored in the most expert manner. 1725 1 | outcries broke out like the explosion of fireworks. The boudoir 1726 2 | amid her court, a look that exposes the unreality of all this; 1727 1 | coquettishness and a sort of expostulation was the result either of 1728 1 | eloquent periods, which expresses, I think, this melancholy 1729 2 | words might be construed as expressive of either pleasure or pain, 1730 2 | that is - the Paris of exquisites, millionaires, celebrities, 1731 2 | was in a paroxysm of my extemporized passion by the time that 1732 1 | the croupiers's rake was extended to sweep away his last napoleon. 1733 1 | whole countries, places, extents of sea, the fair faces of 1734 2 | horrible conflict within me by extinguishing love. By the light of warning 1735 2 | is not man an angel of extirpation, a sort of executioner on 1736 2 | book is ill written, you extol the ideas it contains. Such 1737 2 | his brain,' and charitably extolled my faculties at the expense 1738 3 | composition; if you can extract any element whatever from 1739 1 | but encouraged his guests' extravangances with a fixed grimacing smile, 1740 3 | powers - lies between the extremes of theory of Brisset and 1741 2 | life were yet to face. My exuberant self-esteem came to my aid; 1742 2 | man of science; and the exultant lover, on the other hand, 1743 1 | came from under the long eyelashes; the damp, red, half-open 1744 2 | with the heroine of the fable of 'Peau-d'Ane,' a dainty 1745 2 | which should outstrip all fables. At some moments I was ready 1746 2 | ecstatics, and passages in our fabliaux, - these things alone have 1747 1 | You are calling the whole fabric of society to account. But 1748 1 | her out in soft Eastern fabrics, though he and she must 1749 2 | illness. Like Aquilina, I faced the hospital without terror. 1750 1 | to a mirror with numerous facets, each depicting a world. 1751 3 | a dandy of the Romantic faction. ~Euphrasia began to smile. 1752 1 | siren that yet can create factitious treasures of passion and 1753 2 | thousand francs, and had not a faggot; he kept a tilbury, and 1754 3 | kinds of feebleness, between failing powers well-nigh spent and 1755 2 | death. I had condemned my faint-hearted love, and a man who acknowledges 1756 2 | flatteries. Do not accuse me of faint-heartedness; if I had gone a step beyond 1757 2 | indeed, not to admire her faintly flushed transparent hands, 1758 1 | of this almost Oriental fairyland penetrated eyes now heavy 1759 1 | and they drew after them faithless men, broken vows, and pleasures 1760 1 | to themselves the famous falsehood of Louis XVIII., Union and 1761 2 | white. ~" 'I thought,' she faltered, 'that you had hurt yourself! 1762 1 | genera, sub-genera, and families; into crustaceae, fossils, 1763 2 | attic window, a young girl, fancying herself quite alone as she 1764 2 | of those pleasures with fangs that bury themselves in 1765 1 | surprise some coin rattling fantastically in his pocket. ~A smile 1766 2 | had Pauline among these far-fetched imaginings? Could she bring 1767 3 | heights, a promised land, a far-off time of blessing. ~"Here 1768 2 | still crave for that Lenten fare, so long as we have not 1769 1 | the Oise), a substantial farmer. "You, sir, who took blood 1770 1 | terrifies you, faces that fascinate, glances that seem as if 1771 2 | graceful sleeves, and all the fascinations of her form and movements. 1772 3 | It hung there before him, fastened down upon some white material, 1773 2 | wainscoting, hanging on by the fastening of the shutters with my 1774 3 | man before. He was thin, fastidiously cravatted, booted and spurred 1775 3 | that is the shoveler - that fat, brownish black rascal, 1776 1 | fool, without a college of fathers to promote them to those 1777 3 | their inmost thoughts as he fathomed their natures in this way. 1778 2 | was not happy. While I was fathoming the miry depths of life, 1779 2 | keen in detecting their faults as you were before adroit 1780 3 | peristyle of the Theatre Favart. The passers-by make way 1781 3 | and soon returned with a favorable answer. He led the old gentleman 1782 2 | Raphael kept silent, fearing the banter of the company; 1783 2 | intellect invests it. Even these fearless champions, accustomed to 1784 2 | furniture, the courtesans, the feast itself, and the surrounding 1785 2 | calculating morality. A debt is a feat of the imaginative that 1786 2 | dressed in white, and held a feather fire-screen in her hand; 1787 2 | lawn, and the hairdresser's feats of skill; a love of wax-lights, 1788 3 | morning towards the end of February, at the time when the brightening 1789 3 | was his foster-mother, I fed him myself with the milk 1790 1 | whistling Di tanti Palpiti so feebly, that he himself scarcely 1791 1 | is left for his heirs to feed upon? There is style, isn' 1792 2 | returned, Foedora, in real or feigned abstraction, answered all 1793 2 | proof of my system, or a felicitous word by which to render 1794 1 | the midst of millions of fellow-creatures, in the presence of a listless 1795 3 | remarked; "speak to him." ~Fellow-feeling of some kind, or curiosity, 1796 2 | foot on a bronze bar of the fender as if to warm it, took off 1797 2 | There was an indescribable ferocious and stolid bestiality about 1798 3 | live without exciting its ferocity. He bore patiently, therefore, 1799 2 | said smiling. 'There is a fervency about your pleadings.' ~" ' 1800 2 | superfluous nature of my fervent toil. Stores of that sort 1801 3 | the unalloyed and sacred fervor of that one kiss without 1802 2 | borne a part in delightful festivals in realms unknown? Has Europe 1803 3 | the hardihood to spoil its festivities, and to trouble its joys. ~ 1804 2 | their doors as if it were a fete-day in some country town. At 1805 2 | Paris with its brilliant fetes and the tinsel of its vanities. 1806 1 | of time, unclogged by the fetters of space; the joys of beholding 1807 1 | comfit-boxes belonging to feudal times. A carved ivory ship 1808 2 | it? I will wrestle with fevers - yellow, blue, or green - 1809 2 | maybe, than the rich; he has fewer cares at any rate, and accepts 1810 2 | from college, a babyish fiasco. Your jokes clipped the 1811 1 | furniture, works of art and fiascos, made for him a poem without 1812 2 | of the law,' is for him a fib at the head of the Constitutional 1813 2 | now thrilled through every fibre in me, throbbing through 1814 2 | an one is treacherous and fickle, slips through your fingers 1815 1 | sham bill of exchange on a fictitious uncle at a sham address, 1816 3 | yet a wish to silence the fiddles, annihilate the stir and 1817 2 | complexion; a man of few words, fidgety as an old maid, exacting 1818 3 | operator; for chemistry - that fiendish employment of decomposing 1819 2 | burned in me glowed too fiercely from the face I turned upon 1820 1 | poured out, was a scourge of fiery sparks to these men; released 1821 2 | If I do not return by the fifteenth of November, you will come 1822 2 | intricate than the Marriage of Figaro, which he could not possibly 1823 1 | with purple fringes; the fighting in the Forum, the angry 1824 3 | levers, valves, girders, files, and nuts; a sea of melted 1825 2 | as juicy as the trembling fillet of beef in which their host 1826 3 | Planchette, as he gave a fillip to his bits of stick, "let 1827 1 | but all at once a mystery fills your mind, and you think 1828 1 | disorder, and brought light films over the vision of those 1829 2 | and the Morgue too, are filthy.' ~" 'A pistol-shot?' ~" ' 1830 2 | light-heartedness, the state of my finances. ~" 'Yesterday evening,' 1831 1 | came classic bas-reliefs, finely-cut agates, wonderful cameos! 1832 3 | fascination; it has a glossier and finer coat than our handsomest 1833 2 | the 'English system' at my finger-ends, and I very soon saw myself 1834 2 | for this year,' he added, fingering a pile of gold, as if to 1835 3 | work on endless things, and finishing none of them; the evening' 1836 3 | patience. ~"Substance is finite," the mathematician put 1837 1 | Come, come, you pair of fire-eaters!" ~"You are another!" said 1838 2 | white, and held a feather fire-screen in her hand; a group of 1839 3 | surface of the water; Raphael fired at random, and shot his 1840 2 | In short, I concealed the fires that consumed me, and with 1841 3 | deceived you all round - over firing, oil, and even money. O 1842 1 | from the heavy gray sky. ~Fitful gleams of light gave a foreboding 1843 2 | into a brown velvet that fitfully caught the light. Such things 1844 1 | purchased slave, at the rate of fivepence a line. ~"Perhaps Moses, 1845 2 | green cloth. ~"That evening fixes the date of a first observation 1846 3 | chair, and sat motionless, fixing his unseeing eyes upon the 1847 1 | his mind, like tattered flags fluttering above the combat. 1848 Epi| face in the midst of those flaming violet and crimson hues, 1849 2 | own housework, and wore flannel shirts so as to reduce the 1850 2 | sconces cracking in the final flare. Night threw dark shadows 1851 1 | changes, one after another, flashed like lightning over every 1852 2 | to the table, and took a flask from it, from which she 1853 3 | crank energetically. ~"Lie flat, all of you; we are dead 1854 2 | when some donkey or other flattered and complimented her. And 1855 2 | unexpectedly to my caress and my flatteries. Do not accuse me of faint-heartedness; 1856 2 | in literature, which were flatteringly received. Great men who 1857 2 | must have had a pleasanter flavor than Seine mud. When we 1858 3 | species lying dead, and flee away. The dislike was mutual. 1859 1 | smoke-begrimed cap with these Flemings, to drink their beer and 1860 2 | it was a scene such as Flemish painters have reproduced 1861 1 | of gossamer scarves that flickered like beacon-lights; of black 1862 3 | can face the sun without flinching, a deeply tanned complexion, 1863 3 | caricatures, and in this way flings in the teeth of fallen kings 1864 2 | the presence of the most flint-hearted, atrabilious, and frigid 1865 3 | above grotesque faces in the flinty rock surface, - all these 1866 2 | was quite stupified by the flippancy and ease with which he had 1867 1 | leave its place gravely or flippantly, gracefully or awkwardly, 1868 3 | that held the bread, the flitch that hung from the ceiling, 1869 1 | you find a work of genius floating above the seas of literature 1870 3 | this errand, no doubt, by a flock of his rejoicing patients. 1871 1 | Do you imagine that my floors are going to open suddenly, 1872 2 | blue streaks mingled as in Florentine marble; their expression 1873 1 | you might say," said the florid shopman; "but you have seen 1874 3 | rejoicing patients. The florid-looking idlers, tedious old women, 1875 1 | million deities in a sack of flour, that Republics will end 1876 2 | signs of a wish to see the floured face of the actor who had 1877 1 | soldiers." ~With a fork flourished above Raphael's head, Emile 1878 2 | itself out to life, as some flower-cup opens slowly to the sun. 1879 3 | variously shaped petals of the flower-cups? Who has not sunk into these 1880 1 | Raphael as he pointed out the flower-stands that made a perfumed forest 1881 3 | colors of the masses of flowering shrubs, the freaks of light 1882 3 | water at the brim of the flowerpot?" ~"Yes, sir." ~"Very good; 1883 2 | aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some 1884 3 | theories; human knowledge fluctuated round the three points. 1885 1 | So you read Sanskrit fluently," said the old man. "You 1886 3 | the actions of solids and fluids. If we set up the conditions 1887 2 | rich together, or he is a flunkey, and devoid of all decent 1888 3 | we will give it a little fluoric acid to drink." ~Subjected 1889 2 | movements, a grace in the flutterings of her dress, remarked the 1890 1 | leather was in itself a focus which concentrated the light, 1891 2 | yellow gleams through the fog, and in each street dimly 1892 1 | Get him to eat a pate de foie gras, any pretext will do." ~" 1893 3 | Cerizier's, the king of foils." ~"There is one last degree 1894 3 | made by the varieties of foliage, the colors of the masses 1895 3 | antiquated coxcomb who still follows the fashions. ~For Raphael 1896 2 | his life to obtaining a footing in the book-trade, and paid 1897 3 | would furnish an admirable footnote for some Dom Calmet or other, 1898 3 | became lost to sight in the footpath that lay between the highroad 1899 1 | giant population from the footprints of a mammoth. These forms 1900 2 | I heard a woman's light footstep behind me. ~" 'I have embroidered 1901 2 | head upon a painted velvet footstool, and her cheeks were mottled 1902 1 | and the child, left the footway, and turned towards the 1903 2 | without conquests, a penniless fop, a nameless gallant. The 1904 2 | country house. Plenty of young fops, sons of peers of France, 1905 1 | Fitful gleams of light gave a foreboding look to Paris; like a pretty 1906 1 | of the arch, and looked forebodingly at the water. ~"Wretched 1907 2 | prayer or a malediction, a forecast or a memory, a fear or a 1908 2 | glance all the love I must forego; she stood there with than 1909 3 | some pathetic song in a foreign tongue. ~"He is epileptic," 1910 1 | flower-stands that made a perfumed forest of the staircase. ~"I like 1911 1 | of the rooms was like a foretaste of Milton's Pandemonium. 1912 2 | imperial decree concerning forfeitures, and had ruined us, I authorized 1913 3 | in the glowing coal of a forge, while, in a semi-circle 1914 3 | ordinary life. A man of genius forgets everything among his intellectual 1915 3 | interrupted himself, "I was forgetting the object of my visit, 1916 3 | you, to sleep beside you. Forgive me for my freak." ~She sprang 1917 1 | in nursery tales, may be forgiven him, seeing that his senses 1918 1 | funds and soldiers." ~With a fork flourished above Raphael' 1919 3 | garments not in every case formally wedded to the button-holes. 1920 3 | in an upright position, forming a second elbow which connected 1921 3 | of the pharmacopoeia, the formulae of algebra, the demonstrations 1922 1 | volumes. If I attempted to formulate those two ideas clearly, 1923 3 | living; in every man it formulates itself distinctly, making 1924 1 | Raphael. ~"I myself have been forsaken for an inheritance," she 1925 1 | hospital." ~"How can you forsee a future in the hospital, 1926 2 | leads an abstemious man to forswear Ruffec pates, because the 1927 2 | swoop. Alas! money is always forthcoming for our caprices; we only 1928 1 | well-being?" ~"You are very fortunate, sir " ~"The first inventor 1929 1 | fringes; the fighting in the Forum, the angry people, passed 1930 1 | abyss of the past? When the fossil bones of animals belonging 1931 1 | it? The jaded elders, the fossilized waiters, the onlookers, 1932 1 | families; into crustaceae, fossils, saurians, infusoria, or 1933 3 | man. "If your wife was his foster-mother, I fed him myself with the 1934 3 | against which he sternly fought. In a little while he felt 1935 1 | more lives over digging the foundations of the Maintenon's aqueducts, 1936 1 | my suspicions were well founded!" said the other, and his 1937 1 | to a dinner given by the founder of the said newspaper, a 1938 1 | stock of the Valentinois, founders of the cities of Valence 1939 1 | CECIDIT ANIMUS. We are no foundling child, but a descendant 1940 3 | found himself in a vast foundry; his eyes lighted upon a 1941 3 | and there, the old wooden four-post bedstead, the table with 1942 1 | this world, by the car and four-winged steed of a frantic and uproarious 1943 2 | Estrapade, I saw a girl of fourteen playing with a battledore 1944 1 | only about the size of a fox's skin, but it seemed to 1945 3 | scarcely acquainted with a mere fraction of the countless numbers 1946 1 | uttered no sound. ~Demure and fragile-looking girls, pictures of maidenly 1947 1 | so biting, the bouquet so fragrant, the example around so infectious. 1948 2 | sufferings so hostile to our weak frames, sufferings that encircle 1949 2 | gone a step beyond these fraternal compliments, the claws would 1950 2 | incessant agitation of a life fraught with danger at every moment, 1951 2 | their rivals. ~"I became a 'free-liver,' to make use of the picturesque 1952 3 | which Valentin had luckily freed himself. ~Foedora's face 1953 3 | of course forgotten how freely natural emotions are expressed. 1954 3 | fireside. Portionless maids, freeze and burn in your solitary 1955 3 | everywhere; he will find freezing cold in other men's looks, 1956 2 | forth the axiom that 'all Frenchmen are alike in the eyes of 1957 1 | gives itself up to the frenetic joys of liberty. Some who 1958 1 | and drown himself," said a frequenter of the place. He looked 1959 3 | could hardly recognize the fresh-cheeked and rosy pupil with the 1960 2 | dawn of tapers. Pauline was fresh-hearted and affectionate - I would 1961 1 | table, white as a bank of freshly-fallen snow, with its symmetrical 1962 1 | harrowing sight of the Seine fretted him beyond endurance. ~" 1963 2 | a-tingle in every vein, fretting even the tiniest nerve. 1964 1 | tablecloth is worn by the friction of gold, but the straw-bottomed 1965 2 | of other men, and I was friendless. I found I must make my 1966 2 | about my aversions - and my friendships as well,' he added. 'Perhaps 1967 1 | slightest details of gilded friezes, the delicate bronze sculpture, 1968 3 | who was petrified with fright. "Did I put myself in your 1969 3 | felt the touch of the soft frill of lace that went round 1970 2 | her side. And when I had frittered away the day in this way, 1971 1 | phrase; so must even that old frontispiece, The Lamentations of the 1972 3 | white with anger; a slight froth marked his trembling lips; 1973 3 | pressing the old schoolmaster's frozen fingers in his own damp 1974 2 | noiselessly bring me my frugal repast, when she noticed 1975 2 | passed for the hat of a frugally given owner, but its artificially 1976 3 | of the great and mighty fruit-producing organization; he had adapted 1977 3 | smiled. He went up to a fruit-tree and took down a little phial 1978 3 | be peaceful, natural, and fruitful, like the life of a plant. ~ 1979 1 | judgment. What is a feverish fugitive admiration for some more 1980 1 | for a doctor, preparing fumigations, he read the maundering 1981 3 | never lose sight of that fundamental principle; still it can 1982 3 | the direction of an old furnace, which was overthrown, enveloped 1983 3 | multitude of glowing and roaring furnaces. There was a storm of sparks, 1984 3 | hundred thousand francs over furnishing it. That's a good deal, 1985 1 | breath of air as an unknown furry something swept past his 1986 3 | to resist any test; if, furthermore, you give me the power of 1987 2 | cloud! And then I wish for furtive joys, for the security of 1988 2 | to make all their powers futile, and their efforts of no 1989 1 | it might exert over their futures, not one of them was ready 1990 2 | lay beneath the surface of gadding about, and eager efforts 1991 2 | real. I went in for play, gaining and losing enormous sums, 1992 1 | Voltaire, imitating the lagging gait of an idler seeking to kill 1993 2 | she attractive as Homer's Galatea, the fair Helen. ~"Ah, vive 1994 3 | down a well. ~"Vogue la galere," cried he. "The devil take 1995 2 | extravagance of superficial gallantry in the world. But very soon 1996 2 | broken for me. I had become a galley-slave of pleasure, and must accomplish 1997 2 | brought me under a most galling yoke. I entered on a conflict 1998 1 | they let their spirits gallop away into the wilds of argument 1999 1 | influence of this moral galvanism; its phenomena, closely 2000 1 | prevents you from seeing the gambling-demon face to face. The evening 2001 2 | disgust whenever I pass a gambling-hell; take the money and go without