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5004 2 | Until last winter I led the uneventful studious life of which I 5005 1 | did not even notice the unexpected flexibility of the piece 5006 2 | Foedora lent herself most unexpectedly to my caress and my flatteries. 5007 3 | discerned by her rivals. Her unfailing consolation had slipped 5008 2 | bound with swan's-down, and unfastened her dress, while Justine 5009 3 | like God is inexplicable, unfathomable, unlimited, incomprehensible, 5010 2 | in this lowly poverty and unfeigned goodness revived me. It 5011 3 | which he dreaded most, their unfettered talk or their silence; their 5012 1 | seemed to reach the ear, unfinished dramas seized upon the imagination, 5013 2 | intellectual metropolis? Unfit to endure the fatigues of 5014 2 | airy sepulchre, and worked unflaggingly day and night; and so great 5015 3 | and powers just about to unfold themselves. ~Very soon a 5016 Epi| essence incomplete and unforeseen, come too early or too late 5017 3 | out over him; moved by an ungovernable spasm of rage, he seized 5018 2 | daylight. Their hair fell ungracefully about them; their eyes, 5019 3 | his luxurious ways; their ungraciousness had been a surprise to him; 5020 2 | laughed. 'I should be finely ungrateful if I felt no friendship 5021 1 | tradesman stagnates in his damp, unhealthy shop, while he builds a 5022 2 | exercised spells and witcheries unheard of; she drew him into her 5023 2 | accounts so as to explain this unhoped-for windfall; but I lost myself 5024 1 | who had just fallen quite unhurt, from his rostrum. Young 5025 Epi| crimson hues, a face with unimaginable delicate outlines, a fleeting 5026 1 | Catholicism." Emile replied, quite unimpressed. "It has drained our hearts 5027 3 | feeling that the almost unintelligible words drew tears from the 5028 3 | dealt to self-love. He had unintentionally jarred on all the small 5029 2 | learned, wrote, and read unintermittingly; my life was one long imposition, 5030 1 | falsehood of Louis XVIII., Union and oblivion. ~The anxious 5031 2 | makes our souls vibrate in unison; but her hand was passive, 5032 1 | origin was in a way physical, unitary, and crude; then as aggregations 5033 1 | substance of fact and to unite its essence to our essence? 5034 Epi| the Ville d'Angers. Thus united they both looked and wondered 5035 1 | destruction of so many past universes, and whether it is worth 5036 3 | inexplicable, unfathomable, unlimited, incomprehensible, intangible. 5037 3 | parasite, uncrowned king of unliveried servants, leave your real 5038 2 | by Rastignac. He began an unmeasured eulogy of me, my performances, 5039 2 | you; I used to steal out unobserved every morning to buy my 5040 2 | great world, true affection, unostentatious but tender, and possibly 5041 2 | instant we become new and unparalleled beings, without any resemblance 5042 3 | natures. He guessed the secret unpardonable crime which he had committed 5043 2 | woman of fashion with an unpresentable hat? I had always cursed 5044 2 | could not possibly have unraveled. All this bliss would cost, 5045 2 | lips; there was something unreal about it all. Yet in all 5046 2 | a look that exposes the unreality of all this; that resigns 5047 1 | night so as to bequeath an unrecognizable corpse to a world which 5048 2 | they recoiled upon me. Unreserved and simple by nature, I 5049 1 | memories of a free Rome, and unrolled before him the scrolls of 5050 1 | Moderation has kept mind and body unruffled. Yet, I have seen the whole 5051 2 | ever, and swelling with unsatisfied desires, to be put in harness 5052 1 | burst of laughter was so unseasonable and abrupt, that his friend 5053 3 | sat motionless, fixing his unseeing eyes upon the bracket of 5054 1 | demanded the reason of his unseemly hilarity. ~"You will hardly 5055 3 | Delightful music, from unseen players in the next room, 5056 2 | window; the weather was very unsettled. If things fell out badly, 5057 2 | hands, till nothing but unsightly refuse is left to her, and 5058 2 | looked at you, something unspeakably mysterious, some inward 5059 1 | them, by the majesty of his unspoken irony, by the refined wretchedness 5060 1 | immeasurable joys of movement, unstrangled by the cords of time, unclogged 5061 1 | grace, his looks told of unsuccess and many blighted hopes. 5062 3 | believe, a word which reveals unsuspected depths of selfishness and 5063 3 | unconcernedly, and interrogated him unsympathetically. Politeness did not conceal 5064 1 | enough that his mind was yet untainted; and the little old man, 5065 | UNTO 5066 1 | one look and a denial with untold raptures. She has not hung 5067 1 | teachings of the past. The untroubled peace of the divine eyes, 5068 3 | containing an insult couched in unusually keen language, he replied 5069 2 | which set me a-dreaming of unutterable felicity; yet, for all that 5070 3 | define it. That disposed of, unvarying phenomena have been observed 5071 2 | carefully when she was at last unveiled. Her maidenly form, in its 5072 1 | boon companions, witty, unwarped by prejudice, merry to the 5073 3 | exciting his curiosity. Unwilling to become their dupe, or 5074 1 | amusement of winding and unwinding Euphrasia's hair, "you would 5075 2 | and Pauline must not be unworthy of the fair future promised 5076 2 | intolerable disgust; she upbraided me for bringing her there. 5077 3 | in a sort of Mene, Tekel, Upharsin! No, by Heaven, I will not 5078 2 | decoration to one of the best upholsterers. I bought horses. I plunged 5079 2 | glitter of the world, the upper world of Paris with its 5080 1 | four-winged steed of a frantic and uproarious orgy. Let us ascend to the 5081 3 | water, every one pressing upwards as if they were impelled 5082 1 | among the schists of the Ural range, the soul receives 5083 2 | would I flatter you, nor urge myself upon you like a fool; 5084 3 | and necessary, and more urgently required than for the lungs. 5085 2 | standing of everybody, and uses every one for his own benefit. 5086 Epi| boat before the Chateau d'Usse. You might have thought 5087 3 | to find visitors to this usually lonely part of the lake; 5088 3 | organs, are agreed as to the utility of the previous course of 5089 2 | A whole life lay in that utterance, a life of wealth or of 5090 1 | these places, where pain utters no cry, where wretchedness 5091 3 | breathing-hole, studied the vagaries of a slender dragon-fly, 5092 1 | lying in the hospital, the vagrant lives of ruined folk, inquests 5093 2 | the man in me and all my vainest susceptibilities were wrung 5094 1 | of Valence in France, and Valencia in Spain, rightful heirs 5095 1 | newspaper that very morning. A valet-de-chambre in black opened the doors 5096 3 | the costume of Mlle. de la Valliere, amorous and coy; and all 5097 2 | fetes and the tinsel of its vanities. The woman brought before 5098 2 | alternately victor and vanquished, in a world where everything 5099 2 | Foedora spoke. Every slight variation in her beauty made a new 5100 3 | intensity of its action varies according to the abundance 5101 3 | the dewdrops, or at the variously shaped petals of the flower-cups? 5102 2 | belongs to me - a little varlet of a king! Arabia is mine, 5103 3 | Society with its polish and varnish grew loathsome to him. He 5104 1 | gold, by the chasing of the vases. Poussin's landscapes, copied 5105 1 | of hogsheads, casks, and vats; and each made noise enough 5106 1 | Oh! oh!" cried Cursy, the vaudevilliste; "in that case, gentlemen, 5107 1 | atmosphere, and several vaudevillistes shed rays like the sparking 5108 3 | gaily, looking at the blue vault of sky above, at the waters 5109 3 | but salicine, asparagine, vauqueline, and digitaline are not 5110 3 | forests, and take the form of vegetable refuse, never stirring from 5111 3 | poultry from scratching up the vegetables and pot-herbs. It seemed 5112 2 | men in private life, for a vegetating Mirabeau dreaming of storms 5113 3 | the sprouting seeds and vegetation, gave color to the flowers, 5114 3 | natural emotions, and of the vegetative life into which we sink 5115 1 | the other with incredible vehemence. ~"I had resolved my existence 5116 1 | Murillos, and pictures by Velasquez, as dark and full of color 5117 1 | the column in the Place Vendome, would you try flinging 5118 1 | perpetuity, nor have I a great veneration for human nature, such as 5119 2 | and outrageous schemes of vengeance without end. ~"I often used 5120 2 | propensities. ~"I made several ventures in literature, which were 5121 3 | much for me. It is that verbena, perhaps." ~Pauline flew 5122 3 | Raphael recalled to mind the verbose eloquence and elegant circumlocutions 5123 1 | of life within him. Two verbs cover all the forms which 5124 3 | their ideas and frame their verdict. ~"May I not be present 5125 1 | prejudice, merry to the verge of madness! Let one wine 5126 3 | think he is. He wants to vergetate. Only yesterday he was looking 5127 3 | There is my own life - I am vergetating, my poor Jonathan.' Now, 5128 1 | morals are relaxed, and vice versa. ~"Let us drink to the imbecility 5129 1 | together all the fair women of Versailles, who since morning had perfected 5130 1 | sleepy as a woman at her vespers." ~"You silly fool!" said 5131 2 | green bronze sheath of a vestaholder; a woman's portrait lay 5132 1 | made of various lavas from Vesuvius and Etna, his fancy fled 5133 2 | music, which makes our souls vibrate in unison; but her hand 5134 1 | murmur of admiration, which vibrated like a soft musical note. 5135 3 | Thence, by continuous fevered vibrations, the disorder has reached 5136 1 | the hues of the numberless vicissitudes of human life. When the 5137 2 | over and over, alternately victor and vanquished, in a world 5138 3 | touch. Its powers of sight vie in precision and accuracy 5139 1 | powers, his first picture vied with the glories of Imperial 5140 2 | charms of this industrious vigil and peaceful interior. The 5141 3 | region. No," he went on, vigorously slapping his chest, "no, 5142 3 | pleasant chateaux, hillside villages, roads with their fringes 5143 Epi| in his, went on board the Ville d'Angers. Thus united they 5144 2 | sacrifice! So when M. de Villele exhumed, for our special 5145 1 | intellectual capacity, in order to vindicate that of hogsheads, casks, 5146 3 | be seen for branches of vine and sprays of rose and jessamine 5147 3 | streaked with red veins like a vine-leaf in autumn, the angular features, 5148 3 | Between the Halle des Vins, with its extensive assembly 5149 Epi| the midst of those flaming violet and crimson hues, a face 5150 1 | Euphrasia's glance was like a viper's, as she said, with an 5151 1 | who have known their De Viris illustribus for years past, 5152 3 | and not in the physical viscera. A doctor is an inspired 5153 Epi| secret of his own he draws a visionary face in the midst of those 5154 3 | without difficulty, and visited the higher valleys, the 5155 1 | to sparkle yet under the visor. ~This sea of inventions, 5156 3 | enthusiasms, the head of the "Vitalists," a romantic champion of 5157 3 | the seat of vitality, has vitiated the whole system. Thence, 5158 2 | poverty. Perhaps this is a vitiation due to that malady of mankind 5159 2 | Galatea, the fair Helen. ~"Ah, vive l'amour! But let it be in 5160 3 | the fly that some Grand Vizier or other had on his nose. 5161 2 | am the Pope." ~Raphael's vociferations had been hitherto drowned 5162 3 | talisman down a well. ~"Vogue la galere," cried he. "The 5163 1 | heartless corruption and voluptuous cruelty. Heedless enough 5164 2 | horses. I plunged into a vortex of pleasures, at once hollow 5165 2 | this day is lost, and I vote for breakfast." ~At this 5166 1 | the first floor, with its votive shields, panoplies, carved 5167 1 | serve as a warning to man, vouchsafed by some mocking power?" 5168 1 | be gulled by any smile or vow, and I have set myself to 5169 2 | when one sets out for some voyage in China. But what becomes 5170 2 | loving exercise and sea voyages as I did, and haunted by 5171 3 | spirit that a breath might waft away, as she sat there all 5172 2 | scramble on to a ledge of the wainscoting, hanging on by the fastening 5173 2 | at need have girdled my waist with spikes, that physical 5174 3 | Could you have had white waistcoats and clean shirts twice a 5175 2 | good beginning; and as the waiting-maid might come to draw back 5176 2 | against this invisible waiting-woman, a tall, well-made brunette. ~" ' 5177 1 | sleeping powers of good to waken. For this work of Raphael' 5178 3 | to be back again when he wakes at four. I am mistress of 5179 2 | of other days and other wakings; pure and innocent days 5180 2 | bed, and armchair, the odd wall-paper and furniture seemed to 5181 3 | We must have the door walled up, put bars across the 5182 2 | carry a treasure in your wallet, and not find even some 5183 1 | little old man, who had wallowed from his youth up in the 5184 2 | down before me, all of you, wallowing on the carpets like swine 5185 1 | travesty of debate ensued, a Walpurgis-revel of intellects. Between the 5186 1 | greatness of life. He began his wanderings again, turning towards the 5187 2 | the genii. ~" 'Isn't it wantonly bad taste, insolent and 5188 1 | and enhance the charms of wantonness. So the venerable Taillefer' 5189 2 | the shabby condition of my wardrobe, linked his arm in mine, 5190 1 | landscapes, copied on Sevres ware, were crowned with graceful 5191 1 | detecting the secrets of the wariest heart. ~The wisdom and the 5192 3 | water, its rocky sides took warmer tones, the extinct volcano 5193 2 | fire. Justine went for a warming-pan, turned down the bed, and 5194 2 | me. Did I not faithfully warn you about my nature? Why 5195 3 | came to know that I had warned you " ~"And who would tell 5196 2 | soul to them in a glance! A warped bit of beading often met 5197 3 | breathing. ~"That is my death warrant," he said to himself. "If 5198 1 | Only the loud voice of wassail could be heard, a voice 5199 1 | for his hat; but the old watch-dog, who had noted its shabby 5200 1 | silent, motionless crowd watches the headsman in the Place 5201 3 | glossy hide, the delicate water-plants that hung down over the 5202 3 | studied the laws of the watercourses and their beds, and had 5203 3 | your ball will go into the waterfall there, and mine will speed 5204 3 | flower-pot. Next, by means of a watering-pot, he poured in sufficient 5205 1 | prefect of police to the watermen. As a corpse, he was worth 5206 3 | monotony of vineyards, the watermills of a little valley would 5207 3 | enveloped and carried away by a waterspout. ~"Ha!" remarked Planchette 5208 3 | movement of every living wave; all eyes were turned upon 5209 2 | first tier. My look did not waver; my eyes saw her at once 5210 2 | Yes, really, madame; that wavy style only looks nice in 5211 3 | is every bit as pale as a waxen Christ. DAME! I watch him 5212 1 | had her gladiators, Paris waxes proud of her Palais-Royal, 5213 2 | and flitted away like a wayward, capricious child. Poor 5214 3 | it makes our weakness weaker still. It is as if distress 5215 1 | ditches must have been a weakling, for society is only useful 5216 2 | I have not been able to wean her from her literary enthusiasms; 5217 1 | curious pistols, and disguised weapons had been flung down pell-mell 5218 2 | like a commercial Nemesis, wearing his master's livery - a 5219 2 | dreams upon a pedestal, weave crowns for his head, and 5220 2 | suspended like a spider in its web. The white-watered silk 5221 3 | coat when he orders his wedding outfit, the authorities 5222 3 | height looks to be a mere weed; wide valleys look as narrow 5223 3 | quickened his brain; the past weeks appeared before him in a 5224 2 | Instead of feeling things, I weigh and consider them " ~"You 5225 1 | brain, binding feet, and weighing down hands. The clamor increased. 5226 2 | a miser scrutinizes and weighs his gold pieces. No; experience 5227 1 | s prison, the prisoners welcome him respectfully, and these 5228 3 | rate contributed to the welfare of a good and worthy man." ~ 5229 1 | nobodies it is their own well-being?" ~"You are very fortunate, 5230 3 | still containing, among well-bred people brought together 5231 3 | at his notary's house. A well-known physician had told them 5232 2 | invisible waiting-woman, a tall, well-made brunette. ~" 'Did madame 5233 2 | coffee after an excellent and well-ordered repast, a young dandy entered, 5234 1 | first approached by a tall, well-proportioned girl of stately bearing; 5235 1 | south, with black hair and well-shaped eyes. Lebel might have summoned 5236 3 | politely frigid manner. The well-to-do dislike to be astonished 5237 3 | Such thoughts as these welled up in Raphael's heart with 5238 1 | by the vague light in the west; then all these inanimate 5239 3 | some fanciful picture by Westall; half-girl, half-woman, 5240 3 | skin underwent no change whatsoever. ~"It is not shagreen at 5241 2 | every revolution of the wheels during the journey, thoughts 5242 | whereby 5243 3 | perhaps, consists in asking WHEREFORE? in every connection. But, 5244 2 | had no more strength left wherewith to pilot his head through 5245 2 | find in their lovers the wherewithal to gratify their own vanity. 5246 1 | with their silver domes whetted both appetite and curiosity. ~ 5247 2 | though,' I said to myself; 'whichever it is, can one ever reckon 5248 3 | had stifled every least whim, and had lived so as not 5249 2 | t understand a word of,' whispered Rastignac; 'he is a chemist, 5250 3 | himself to learn to play whist and tric-trac so well that 5251 2 | fantastic imaginings every whit as strange as those of ecstatics. 5252 3 | Raphael of Urbino: a venerable white-bearded man, a beautiful woman seated 5253 3 | stood agape, and next came a white-haired old man of middle height. 5254 2 | a spider in its web. The white-watered silk and muslin of the curtains 5255 1 | pass, his coat had been whitened somewhat by the contact, 5256 1 | sharp contrast of blacks and whites. Broken cries seemed to 5257 1 | Mephistopheles, have engaged to whitewash the public mind, to give 5258 3 | science. So endeavor to live wholesomely; try a trip to Savoy; the 5259 3 | down the flower-pot at the wider end of it, and laid the 5260 3 | the meadowland was at its widest. The roof of this little 5261 1 | to decide whether it was wielded by Gravity intoxicated, 5262 1 | without hesitation in savage wigwams. I have attained everything, 5263 3 | meadows; there is always a wilderness on the one hand and fertile 5264 3 | a painter, an old man, wildly in love, and would perhaps 5265 1 | spirits gallop away into the wilds of argument to which no 5266 1 | had perfected all their wiles, and now came like a troupe 5267 1 | IS MINE, FOR GOD HAS SO WILLED IT.~WISH, AND THY WISHES 5268 3 | around the deep basin, and willows, mountain-ash trees, yellow-flag 5269 2 | have no soul in them. Our wills were opposed, and we did 5270 1 | shrewish and virtuous wife, and willy-nilly you must take her prescribed 5271 1 | SHRINK~EVEN AS THY OWN DAYS.~WILT THOU HAVE ME? TAKE ME.~GOD 5272 2 | keenest irony never made her wince nor elicited a sign of vexation. 5273 3 | youths, and finally the jolly wine-flushed countenances of old peasants. 5274 3 | doubt of the issue. "If I wing him," he went on, "I shall 5275 1 | magnificent Aquilina; but the winning Euphrasia must be repulsive 5276 2 | father's purse, I left my winnings with that honest and worthy 5277 1 | restless face. ~"Even! red wins," said the croupier officially. 5278 2 | of the Rue de Cluny, her winsome ways and laughter amused 5279 3 | paper," she said, as she wiped away the tears that her 5280 1 | folly, would you be any the wiser? Our profound apathy towards 5281 1 | existence. After all, you were wishing to die; very well, your 5282 3 | uttered in melancholy and wistful tones for his benefit. ~ 5283 3 | TONNERRE DE DIEU! old witch," he cried; "let me live 5284 2 | Foedora exercised spells and witcheries unheard of; she drew him 5285 1 | artist was forgotten. The witchery of the lamplight heightened 5286 2 | about me like Macbeth's witches round their caldron; joys 5287 3 | other strong passion, so withdraws us from mundane considerations, 5288 1 | banker threw a ghastly and withering glance at the punters, and 5289 1 | sets wrinkles on our brows, withers up the woman in us, and 5290 1 | rivaling the fantastic scenes witnessed by Faust upon the Brocken. 5291 2 | influencing our destinies; and for witnesses I cited the opinions of 5292 1 | corrupted by the exercise of his wits, and purified by ignorance. 5293 2 | the next day. After any witticism of hers, she would give 5294 2 | with epigrams and trenchant witticisms, and the clatter of cups 5295 1 | giving out the sayings of wittier men for his own. Of all 5296 Epi| united they both looked and wondered long at a white form that 5297 3 | our artists, for sometimes wonderfully fresh and charming views 5298 3 | Raphael saw triumphant pity, a wondering pity in the child's eyes, 5299 1 | vast and teeming society is wondrously represented by some five 5300 2 | chimera that fled from me as I wooed it! In short, my life has 5301 2 | as sheep that leave their wool on the briars of every thicket 5302 3 | same time a careless bit of workmanship. A simple and kindly nature 5303 3 | find it full of gall and wormwood. ~"It is not at all extraordinary 5304 2 | other. Children, moreover, worry me. Did I not faithfully 5305 2 | of Foedora's most fervid worshipers, whose presumption was notorious, 5306 3 | that I wish, and my father worships me; but I will not abuse 5307 1 | you have never yet been worsted. I hope you will not make 5308 1 | for you like so much mud - worthless, lifeless, crumbling to 5309 3 | thunderbolts his science wotted of fell harmless on the 5310 1 | conception? . . ." ~"I say," the would-be critic cried down the whole 5311 1 | shake of the head. ~"Then he wouldn't be an uncle - an uncle 5312 3 | her hair and outlined by a wrapping of Mechlin lace, would have 5313 2 | found for the white muslin wrappings that vaguely define her, 5314 2 | would have drawn down his wrath upon me; at my first delinquency, 5315 3 | teeth; her head with its wreath of flowers was never still, 5316 1 | them. Saturnine faces were wreathed in smiles worthy of a pirouetting 5317 2 | mysteries of dawn, the smoke wreaths from each chimney; every 5318 2 | of wealth, is it? I will wrestle with fevers - yellow, blue, 5319 1 | undaunted champion who ever wrestled in a drinking-bout at close 5320 1 | misgivings; a pitiless demon that wrings larger and kinder natures 5321 3 | or you will weary your wrist, and then you will not fire 5322 1 | hands held the young man's wrists in a grip like that of a 5323 1 | did not heed this warning writ in flesh and blood, put 5324 2 | a good memory ' ~" 'And writes Memoirs,' put in the countess, 5325 3 | door, and saw his mistress writhing upon a sofa. Pauline had 5326 2 | of despair, I opened my writing-table drawer, and found a fair 5327 1 | gentlemen, here's to Charles X., the father of liberty." ~" 5328 1 | Perhaps Moses, Sylla, Louis XI., Richelieu, Robespierre, 5329 1 | Providence." ~"Well, sir, Louis XIV. sacrificed more lives over 5330 3 | space, or in accumulating Xs under Aa-Gg, they succeed 5331 1 | and the trial of Louis XVI., and Liberalism produces 5332 1 | famous falsehood of Louis XVIII., Union and oblivion. ~The 5333 3 | to know who he was. The yapping of the dogs brought out 5334 2 | for a passion for a few yards of lace, velvet, and fine 5335 1 | the seraglio, a Moorish yataghan, a Tartar idol, to the soldier' 5336 2 | she said, repressing a yawn; the wish that she might 5337 2 | per day. The money I spent yearly in coal, if divided up, 5338 2 | absolute; but just then I yearned for her soul, her heart 5339 2 | stamped, and danced, and yelled, and sang; we gave each 5340 3 | willows, mountain-ash trees, yellow-flag lilies, and numberless aromatic 5341 1 | signal given by the devil. Yells, hisses, songs, cries, and 5342 3 | section, ashamed of having yielded to a spontaneous feeling, 5343 2 | Imagination was less yielding; I saw my name bandied about 5344 1 | with two feet of earth that yields bread to us and flowers. ~ 5345 1 | we ourselves, a pair of youngsters full of open-hearted enthusiasm, 5346 3 | flowers about them, excited youths, and finally the jolly wine-flushed 5347 2 | about dying, and that my zeal and prowess should eclipse 5348 3 | bands, very much like the zebra's hide. There is something 5349 3 | faculty for contracting as a zero. You see the amount of surface 5350 3 | the swan and ends with the zin-zin duck, comprising in all 5351 2 | of Rossini, Cimarosa, or Zingarelli called up no emotion, gave