Chapter

 1 1 |         man took pity on her and tried to heal her, morally and
 2 2 |         enormously rich, who had tried to remove her as far as
 3 3 |       front of the auction table tried in vain to obtain silence,
 4 4 |          words: Armand Duval. ~I tried to think where I had seen
 5 6 |   pretended not to see them, and tried to change the conversation. "
 6 7 |        know which way to look. I tried (sublime childishness of
 7 8 |       been a kept woman, and had tried to go on the stage, had
 8 9 |            with a smile which he tried to render delicately ironical. ~"
 9 9 |        his youth. For a moment I tried to forget myself, to force
10 10|      mouth half open, Marguerite tried to recover breath. Now and
11 13|       goddess, set before me. ~I tried to put in practice the theories
12 14| Marguerite calmed me a little. I tried to persuade myself of the
13 15|      young, ardent, happy, and I tried to make you the man I had
14 17|         the next room, where she tried, as far as possible, to
15 18|          went to the drawer, and tried to open it; in vain, for
16 21|      From that moment Marguerite tried to seem more cheerful. There
17 22|          was deceiving me? No. I tried to get rid of my first supposition. ~
18 23|        in the eyes of others. ~I tried to put on a smiling countenance,
19 23|     Marguerite would be there, I tried to get an invitation and
20 24|         and Prudence entered. ~I tried to assume an indifferent
21 24|        Then I sat beside her and tried to warm her with my caresses.
22 26|       years before I knew you. I tried to win back the duke, but
23 26|         de N. has given her. She tried to insult me by her look.
24 26|        been his mistress, and he tried to make me forget it, too.