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1002 12| by profession, and not by instinct. They are guarded better 1003 2 | Marguerite's belongings, that instinctive indulgence, that natural 1004 7 | round carried his thoughts instinctively to images of joy. He had 1005 5 | whom he gave the necessary instructions; the gardener interrupted 1006 14| mistress, since my income was insufficient for her needs and even for 1007 24| resentment against her, and insulted her whenever she found an 1008 14| deceiving me a trick which was insultingly simple. My self-esteem got 1009 24| dignity in response to the insults which I heaped upon her 1010 25| much for me as for you, an insurmountable barrier. ~I wrote to Prudence 1011 3 | better. The efforts of every intelligent man tend in the same direction, 1012 9 | in getting more or less intelligible sounds out of my throat, " 1013 11| I looked at my watch. I intended to come quite slowly, and 1014 21| hastened off to see Prudence, intending to ask her to go and keep 1015 24| still ready to do to me. Intentionally or not, since your return 1016 1 | attendant, reassured as to my intentions, touched his hat, and I 1017 13| liaison with her, in her interests and in yours, ought not 1018 21| could make nothing of these intermittent paroxysms of distress, which 1019 16| Marguerite, freeing my hand, and interpreting my words according to her 1020 18| took without getting up, interrupting them with laughter and gaiety. 1021 2 | place on the 16th. A day's interval had been left between the 1022 9 | you." ~"We are doubtless intruders," I said, "and now that 1023 4 | mean to you, and that I am intruding upon you something which 1024 7 | I should have known her intuitively. All the same, my heart 1025 7 | the apparent calm of the invalid; but Armand, on the contrary, 1026 2 | went to Bagneres. Among the invalids was the daughter of this 1027 2 | certain to be seen, and she invariably had three things with her 1028 12| her convent; and they have invented the word caprice for that 1029 21| perhaps do me the honour of inventing some new story, so that 1030 4 | somewhat lightened by the investment at four and a half per cent 1031 27| own happiness at the mere invocation of her name. ~I remained 1032 25| Bougival; you remember the involuntary fright that his arrival 1033 6 | Nevertheless, his steps became more irregular; he seemed to walk by a 1034 12| to-day. Now that all is irrevocably ended, they a rise naturally 1035 19| of Paris, a little house, isolated from the main part of the 1036 1 | at the Opera and at the Italiens, and who parade in Paris 1037 18| abroad?" ~"Where?" ~"To Italy." ~"You are tired of here?" ~" 1038 6 | and I went to Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau. There were two 1039 6 | passport, and I went to Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau. There 1040 6 | seemed to walk by a series of jerks; his teeth chattered; his 1041 3 | us indulgence and pardon. Jesus was full of love for souls 1042 2 | countenance. The hair, black as jet, waving naturally or not, 1043 18| without resistance, but the jewel cases had disappeared, along 1044 9 | more scandalous was the joke. ~Nevertheless, this hilarity, 1045 18| another lover. ~"Enough joking," I said to Prudence; "tell 1046 14| the situation was that my judgment was against me; as a matter 1047 25| another proof of my own justification. ~You remember, Armand, 1048 7 | In a book of Alphonse Karr entitles Am Rauchen, there 1049 9 | sit down, tell them in the kitchen not to open to anybody if 1050 7 | one requires a certain knack, and I had not had the opportunity 1051 15| meditating. I went to her, knelt down, took her two hands, 1052 10| here." ~If she had thrust a knife into me she would not have 1053 6 | want to weep." ~His chest laboured, his eyes were injected 1054 12| in order to disturb the labourers in the field, was one day 1055 15| me; it showed me that you lacked the intelligence of the 1056 1 | 1847, I saw in the Rue Lafitte a great yellow placard announcing 1057 16| to recall the verses of Lamartine or to sing the melodies 1058 4 | childish enough if they saw me lament like this over a dead woman 1059 16| the island on which we had landed, I let my thought wander, 1060 16| admirable finish to the landscape. Beyond that, Paris in the 1061 22| with clouds. An autumn rain lashed the windows. The empty bed 1062 2 | veil these eyes with lovely lashes, which, when drooped, cast 1063 10| I think." ~"And that has lasted since ?" ~"Since the day 1064 27| remembrance of her friend. ~Lastly, we went to Marguerite's 1065 8 | hasn't been looking so gay lately." ~"Hush," said Prudence, 1066 | latter 1067 14| tone did she say that?" ~"Laughingly, and she added: "He has 1068 7 | when one is very young, and laughs at soon afterward. ~For 1069 3 | hand is stretched out to lave them and set them in the 1070 16| front of the house, a green lawn, smooth as velvet, and behind 1071 4 | eyes very wide when the lawyer wrote to her that she had 1072 13| once," she said; "they are laying the table, and we'll have 1073 7 | and the sort of life she leads isn't exactly the thing 1074 4 | and remembered the first leaf of the copy of Manon Lescaut. 1075 12| will of the senses, and learns without expecting it the 1076 5 | gentleman wants a perpetual lease and a bigger plot of ground; 1077 2 | three things with her on the ledge of her ground-floor box: 1078 25| ready to abandon to you the legacy of his mother. If he accepted 1079 4 | two words were scarcely legible. I returned the letter to 1080 12| their own redemption by once lending a sovereign to a poor devil 1081 7 | fortunate that the imagination lends so much poetry to the senses, 1082 27| during her illness she had lent her a lot of money in the 1083 4 | can render you is able to lessen your trouble a little, tell 1084 12| me, I shall profit by the lesson." ~"I was wrong; forgive 1085 26| who is looking after me, lets me write these few lines 1086 19| me take you on your own level, but insist on taking me 1087 26| completely, has contracted liabilities which she can not meet, 1088 24| cowardly persistence of a woman licensed by the authority of a man. ~ 1089 6 | they began to unscrew the lid. The humidity of the earth 1090 12| love seriously. They have lied so often that no one will 1091 19| think that my real happiness lies in the trifles that mean 1092 1 | been on sale during her lifetime. For the rest, there were 1093 4 | pages. "Well, sir," said he, lifting his head, and no longer 1094 22| window in the house was lighted up, and when I rang no one 1095 4 | sadness which was somewhat lightened by the investment at four 1096 23| who had formerly been so lighthearted, had suddenly become so 1097 24| noticed it. Olympe herself was lighting the way, and I was going 1098 2 | after her death, and the likeness was so astonishing that 1099 26| and now the use of her limbs. ~What our poor friend suffers 1100 9 | Friends," and Marguerite lingered over the word, as if to 1101 16| wander, free from the human links that had bound it, gathering 1102 4 | him to allow me to see the list of the things sold and of 1103 8 | you.' She, who generally listens to me, turns her back and 1104 18| days, and with what loving listlessness one drifts into the morrow. 1105 24| a point I must have been literally mad. I was like a man drunk 1106 21| hope that her mirth and liveliness would distract her. I entered 1107 4 | and nevertheless I felt so lively a sympathy for the young 1108 24| both awake. Marguerite was livid white. She did not speak 1109 11| anything more." ~"Shall I lock the door?" ~"I should think 1110 18| it; in vain, for it was locked. When I opened the drawer 1111 12| enough, mothers have no locks strong enough, religion 1112 5 | I entered the keeper's lodge, and asked him if on the 1113 3 | Twelve," said a voice after a longish silence. ~"Fifteen," I said. ~ 1114 2 | his friends, always on the lookout for some scandal on the 1115 13| And here you are taking lordly airs and talking big words. 1116 16| the woman whom one loves loses something of her perfume 1117 3 | fact. There was a sound of loud laughter; the auctioneers 1118 11| Boulevard, went up the Rue Louis-le-Grand, the Rue de Port-Mahon, 1119 19| replied, pressing her hands lovingly, "you knew that one day 1120 13| category of those who, in a lower stage of society, make a 1121 23| basest self-interest; I was lowered in my own esteem as well 1122 16| great reputation there for loyalty, thanks to which he was 1123 26| delirious; but delirious or lucid, it is always your name 1124 6 | than brain fever, and very lucky it is for him, for I firmly 1125 15| you advice which is not lucrative. It means little enough 1126 16| and the island of Croissy, lulled eternally by the trembling 1127 14| going to lunch. ~Instead of lunching at the Cafe Foy, at the 1128 13| toward supplying all the luxuries which a girl like that is 1129 1 | children are useless, and a lying-in is so much time lost. ~Next 1130 24| and weeping woman with the madcap who had made fun of me at 1131 25| also, but, in a moment of madness, he might have lost part 1132 14| I folded this kind of madrigal in prose, and sent it by 1133 3 | them. Thus he said to the Magdalen: "Much shall be forgiven 1134 1 | I discovered that these magnificently chiselled objects bore different 1135 11| me happier than all the maidenly loves in the world. ~But 1136 24| with her maid in the next mail for Boulogne, and who told 1137 7 | took up my position at the Maison-d'or, in one of the first-floor 1138 13| the famous passage in the major which always stopped her. 1139 9 | then because I never can manage to play it myself." ~"What 1140 4 | for the sale, and I only managed to get here this morning. 1141 11| a love which could thus manifest itself she might well do 1142 9 | the count had excellent manners and was very good-tempered. 1143 12| the little gilt key on the mantelpiece, open that door; bring me 1144 16| houses, with red roofs, and manufactories, which, at that distance, 1145 27| when I had finished the manuscript. ~"I understand what you 1146 1 | midst of all the debauches mapped out by her mother, it seemed 1147 1 | knowledge. On the 12th of March, 1847, I saw in the Rue 1148 1 | poor girl who was being marched along by two policemen. 1149 3 | faith. ~Hugo has written Marion Delorme, Musset has written 1150 5 | upright, an iron railing marked the limits of the ground 1151 3 | our modern courtesan; the Marquis de T. hesitated over a piece 1152 24| afterward I embarked at Marseilles. ~It was at Alexandria that 1153 26| two o'clock. Never did a martyr suffer such torture, to 1154 12| look. ~That night she was marvellously beautiful. Was I the cause 1155 17| addressed me officially as their master. ~Prudence had strictly 1156 3 | grand results out of the meagre subject that I deal with; 1157 9 | one of the courses of the meal. But little by little I 1158 21| certain constraint: ~"I only meant that since you are at Paris, 1159 16| myself either in law or medicine. I came to Paris, studied 1160 23| unloaded gun at my side, and meditated. I watched the clouds pass. 1161 15| seated on the sofa, was meditating. I went to her, knelt down, 1162 16| Lamartine or to sing the melodies of Scudo. Marguerite was 1163 6 | physical malady will kill the mental one, and in a month's time 1164 2 | change of colour, which I mention though I can not explain 1165 7 | immediately, for he said to me, mentioning her name: "Look at that 1166 14| to give her rest from the mercenary loves in whose midst she 1167 1 | I said that God had been merciful to the poor child, in not 1168 27| told me. It has only one merit, which will perhaps be denied 1169 13| longer excusable in a man of middle age. It becomes an obstacle 1170 1 | much time lost. ~Next day a midwife, of whom all we will say 1171 17| you're in luck; it's a millionaire who makes your bed for you." ~" 1172 13| on an old man worth ten millions, whose wife and daughter 1173 25| would bid his daughter mingle my name with her prayers, 1174 11| and my love for her was mingled with a great pity. I walked 1175 9 | inquired, pointing to the other miniature. ~"That is the little Vicomte 1176 9 | where she showed me two miniatures hanging side by side, and 1177 13| convenient; she has chanced by a miracle on an old man worth ten 1178 1 | but of the plans that have miscarried, the money that has been 1179 9 | absurd; it was I who was mischievous, as I still am, but somewhat 1180 22| girl, ignorant of all our miseries, you will soon forget what 1181 22| cause could only be some mishap or other. O vanity of man, 1182 16| Beyond that, Paris in the mist! As Prudence had told us, 1183 12| love, for being without mistrust she is without force, and 1184 13| the society in which they mix, know perfectly well, when 1185 24| happy woman, Armand? Do not mock my sorrow, you, who know 1186 7 | accentuated the effects of her mockery. Nothing that dame from 1187 16| My expenses were very moderate; only I used up my year' 1188 17| her friends was a little moderated when she saw the expense 1189 3 | melancholy examples of our modern courtesan; the Marquis de 1190 25| the seclusion to which his modest fortune would condemn you, 1191 26| Julie Duprat. ~February 18. ~MONSIEUR ARMAND: ~Since the day that 1192 11| Provence; I followed the Rue du Mont-Blanc, crossed the Boulevard, 1193 18| window, we looked at the moon which seemed to rise with 1194 1 | accept for myself the easy morality of the age. I remember, 1195 19| to going to listen to the moralizings of Prudence. ~We began to 1196 1 | her and tried to heal her, morally and physically; but the 1197 17| had for me. Her nature was morbidly open to all impressions 1198 19| This income came from a mortgage of sixty thousand francs 1199 16| mysterious retreats, where the moss must efface each morning 1200 12| convents are not high enough, mothers have no locks strong enough, 1201 9 | herself on the sofa and motioning to us to sit down, "Gaston 1202 16| this uninhabited house, mounting as high as the first story. ~ 1203 6 | mechanically, but without moving a step. ~I took him by the 1204 7 | holds her dress out of the mud. While he is dreaming of 1205 22| to run, but the earth was muddy with rain, and I fatigued 1206 2 | silk dress, and the heavy muff which she held pressed against 1207 22| has kept her. You will be murdered on the way." ~"There is 1208 6 | only from time to time murmuring, "Did you see her eyes?" 1209 7 | elegantly dressed; she wore a muslin dress with many flounces, 1210 11| the act of polishing her nails. ~"Well," she said, seeing 1211 16| and I leave to it all the naivete of its details and all the 1212 3 | reach the journey's end in a nakedness which is not shameful in 1213 9 | under the pain, and put her napkin to her lips. It was stained 1214 1 | invent, I content myself with narrating, and I beg the reader to 1215 27| a little relieved by the narration of his story, soon recovered, 1216 9 | indicated one of those ardent natures which sbed around them a 1217 25| sometimes in life cruel necessities for the heart, but that 1218 26| ought to be happy, with a needless remorse; and then, what 1219 13| covered with diamonds, she needn't cost you a penny, unless 1220 1 | passport, I saw in one of the neighbouring streets a poor girl who 1221 13| dead; who has only some nephews, themselves rich, and who 1222 12| and good; and now go back nicely to your place, and, above 1223 18| love. ~We often went at night-time to sit in the little wood 1224 11| wearing a coquettish little nightcap with bunches of yellow ribbons, 1225 | ninety 1226 24| not heartless has other nobler things to do than to take 1227 20| She is as noble as the noblest of women. There is as much 1228 3 | of this scene, who would nodoubt ask themselves what my purpose 1229 3 | peace. Never was there a noisier or a more varied gathering. ~ 1230 7 | affecting to speak in a nonchalant way. "I shall never see 1231 | Nonetheless 1232 2 | trace a delicate, straight nose, the nostrils a little open, 1233 25| love another? Would you not-suffer on seeing the hindrances 1234 5 | sir, people have queer notions about dead folk. We see 1235 1 | child," except to bid her nourish her old age as she herself 1236 1 | old age as she herself had nourished her youth, was called Louise, 1237 2 | return; that is to say, in November or December, 1842. ~ ~ 1238 2 | without so much as a tear. ~Nowadays, at twenty-five, tears have 1239 | nowhere 1240 8 | the consciousness of his nullity, the woman tired of her 1241 1 | yet there were already a number of visitors, both men and 1242 5 | resting-place are inscribed and numbered, and replied that on the 1243 6 | world. ~The coffin was of oak, and they began to unscrew 1244 18| read in my eyes whether my oath was sincere; then flung 1245 1 | called Louise, and, being obedient to her mother, she abandoned 1246 20| age when no one any longer obeys a command." ~My father turned 1247 1 | magnificently chiselled objects bore different initials 1248 4 | find me only too happy to oblige you." ~M. Duval's sorrow 1249 3 | woman, and seemed quite oblivious of the fact. There was a 1250 24| when we were alone she sang obscene songs to amuse me. She was 1251 13| do," she answered; "but observe that we are only at our 1252 5 | felt on hearing him. He observed it, no doubt, for he went 1253 13| middle age. It becomes an obstacle to every thing; it allows 1254 22| see if a vehicle could be obtained; but I would hear of nothing, 1255 23| from the event which had occasioned my leaving Paris. ~When 1256 23| made on purpose for such occasions. To cut a long story short 1257 7 | a friend who studies the occult sciences, and he would call 1258 19| and take a new flat. In October we should have been back 1259 1 | the treasures of Aucoc and Odiot. It was a magnificent collection, 1260 6 | coffin was opened. A painful odour arose in spite of the aromatic 1261 16| loves as the blue sky, the odours, the flowers, the breeze, 1262 17| The servants addressed me officially as their master. ~Prudence 1263 27| have been worth the trouble ofwriting it.~ 1264 26| priest anointed with holy oil the feet and hands and forehead 1265 13| Ah, my dear fellow, how old-fashioned you are! How many of the 1266 20| useless for the world to grow older if it did not correct its 1267 25| copy it without adding or omitting a syllable: ~To-day is the 1268 2 | society, that she spoke of it openly, and that they themselves 1269 3 | holding obstinately to the opinions of the world, which hardens 1270 18| and besides I should have opposed it. But it was necessary 1271 22| by little, and began to oppress my head and heart. Perhaps 1272 1 | who parade in Paris the opulent insolence of their beauty, 1273 16| and was perfectly happy in ordering eggs, cherries, milk, stewed 1274 3 | with Mme. de N., a fair ornament of the Champs-Elysees, almost 1275 14| appointed hour, I was acting the Othello, spying upon her, and thinking 1276 4 | And Armand, giving free outlet to his thoughts and his 1277 5 | of money." ~The general outlines were always the same. Nevertheless 1278 6 | covered the corpse, closely outlining some of its contours. This 1279 7 | about them: they either kill outright or are very soon overcome. 1280 3 | question of setting at the outset of life two sign-posts, 1281 2 | it with care. ~Set, in an oval of indescribable grace, 1282 22| in order to cool down the over-excitement which possessed me. ~I took 1283 2 | the art of repairing this oversight of Nature by the mere arrangement 1284 22| phantoms rushing upon me. ~I overtook one or two wagons, which 1285 7 | Duval says nothing: you overwhelm him to such a degree that 1286 13| woman too much not to be overwhelmed by the suspicion. And yet, 1287 22| for an instant, and who owes to you the only happy moments 1288 5 | ears so frequently, and, owing to the circumstance that 1289 26| painfully. ~February 20, 5 P.M. ~All is over. ~Marguerite 1290 23| point to a hare not ten paces off. None of these details 1291 23| and yours, too. I made a package of them and you can send 1292 26| madame, to tell you how pained I am to hear of your illness, 1293 26| not heard her breathing painfully. ~February 20, 5 P.M. ~All 1294 2 | curve that it seemed as if painted; veil these eyes with lovely 1295 5 | time he came here; an old pal of hers, I suppose, for 1296 10| rapidly and violently it palpitated; "it is because I shall 1297 3 | Christianity with its marvellous parable of the Prodigal Son to teach 1298 1 | at the Italiens, and who parade in Paris the opulent insolence 1299 14| two days, was I not like a parasite of love, afraid of having 1300 25| and pardon me, as I have pardoned you for all the wrong that 1301 11| of prey, scorned like a pariah, surrounded by people who 1302 21| nothing of these intermittent paroxysms of distress, which went 1303 13| forget, "but we shall both partake its benefits." ~I could 1304 23| for me. He got up shooting parties with friends and neighbours. 1305 19| in one of the quietest parts of Paris, a little house, 1306 17| and having fallen upon a party of fifteen, who were still 1307 13| balcony. She watched the few passers, I reflected. All that she 1308 26| for it to be an agreeable pastime, and who are thus able to 1309 18| country and lead a dreamy, pastoral life. No, my friend, no. 1310 11| Bring some fruit, too, and a pate or a wing of chicken; something 1311 20| rescue his son out of evil paths. You have not done any harm 1312 16| efface each morning the pathway that had been made the day 1313 5 | they are just thrown into a pauper's grave, and it breaks my 1314 22| others continue without pausing at my distress. ~I was not 1315 26| not answered. ~Prudence is pawning my things again. ~I have 1316 18| money; he was given part payment out of the few thousand 1317 3 | transact their business in peace. Never was there a noisier 1318 2 | skin with the down of a peach that no hand has touched, 1319 7 | door when I heard a third peal of laughter. It would not 1320 2 | Vidal, the only man whose pencil could do her justice. I 1321 5 | flowers, half longing to penetrate the depths of the earth 1322 18| no doubt. ~A sharp fear penetrated my heart. I might indeed 1323 12| becomes for her almost without penitence. When a creature who has 1324 18| duke and was living with a penniless young man; the other creditors 1325 22| back in time for me not to perceive her absence, and had she 1326 9 | colour, and a cough, hardly perceptible at the beginning of supper, 1327 7 | as if you were to offer perfumes to dogs they would think 1328 14| mode of reasoning which permits many women to have many 1329 20| father had probably kept this peroration and this threat for the 1330 5 | young gentleman wants a perpetual lease and a bigger plot 1331 26| to me as if the more you persecuted me the more I should be 1332 24| on Marguerite a continual persecution. Olympe and she gave up 1333 26| their bills with pitiless perseverance. Will the duke answer? Why 1334 1 | They entered a room with Persian hangings, and I was just 1335 19| way; on the contrary, you persist in only seeing in me a woman 1336 24| opportunity, with the cowardly persistence of a woman licensed by the 1337 21| they seemed to hide so persistent and so sorrowful a thought, 1338 3 | over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance," 1339 14| me a little. I tried to persuade myself of the feelings which 1340 12| do for you to come and be pettish here because you have seen 1341 23| the poor creature. Oh, how petty and vile is man when he 1342 8 | street he handed her into a phaeton, which he drove himself, 1343 22| sharply before me like great phantoms rushing upon me. ~I overtook 1344 1 | to heal her, morally and physically; but the last shock had 1345 13| shrugged her shoulders like a physician who has given up his patient. ~" 1346 9 | devil take Weber, music, and pianos!" she cried, throwing the 1347 6 | Suddenly one of the two pickaxes struck against a stone. 1348 19| herself with calling up pictures of her new flat in all its 1349 26| room alive I will make a pilgrimage to the house we lived in 1350 3 | almost always dressed in pink or blue, and driving two 1351 27| and lips that repeat only pious words. She welcomed her 1352 4 | desire to possess the volume, piqued my curiosity; but I feared 1353 15| human being who has ever pitied me. I am going to say a 1354 16| I was winning or losing, pitying those whom I left behind 1355 16| is one of the prettiest places that it is possible to imagine. 1356 10| continued, taking my hand and placing it against her heart so 1357 3 | cent out of her, who had plagued with their writs the last 1358 23| wander over the solitary plains, and from time to time I 1359 19| we should do as she had planned. Thereupon, she went wild 1360 25| is to be respected, must plant himself solidly in a serious 1361 6 | in spite of the aromatic plants with which it was covered. ~" 1362 26| bed again, covered with plasters which burn me. If I were 1363 26| had absolutely no money. Plate, jewels, shawls, everything 1364 11| Nanine entered, carrying plates, a cold chicken, a bottle 1365 16| of making a fortune; one played against money, and if one 1366 24| hundred louis. ~All the players were already on their way 1367 9 | that that idiot of a count plays it without his music, and 1368 2 | that all seemed equally pleased with one another. Nevertheless, 1369 4 | auctioneer, and let it be the pledge between us of a longer and 1370 5 | the new part?" ~"The new plots of ground that are for sale, 1371 23| of having a carriage and plunging into dissipation. So I said 1372 4 | and hid his face in his pocket-handkerchief. ~ ~ 1373 18| that is very pretty, very poetical, but one can't pay one's 1374 11| anticipated for myself, perhaps to poetize it a little, a hopeless 1375 14| of the kind. I had been poetizing too much. She had treated 1376 7 | imagination lends so much poetry to the senses, and that 1377 3 | Fernande, the thinkers and poets of all time have brought 1378 2 | memory in regard to some points which I might not otherwise 1379 1 | being marched along by two policemen. I do not know what was 1380 11| feet, and was in the act of polishing her nails. ~"Well," she 1381 7 | seriously. They do not know what politeness and ceremony are. It is 1382 16| the trembling of its high poplars and the murmur of its willows. 1383 11| Louis-le-Grand, the Rue de Port-Mahon, and the Rue d'Antin. I 1384 25| years, for my daughter's portion, for him, and for the repose 1385 21| violence. She gave me no positive reason, but put me off with 1386 20| sacrificing all that she possesses in order to live with me." ~" 1387 16| in need of money and not possessing the fortune necessary for 1388 11| beautiful and so full of possibilities. The memories of the night 1389 23| he took me with him in a post-chaise. Without a word to me, he 1390 6 | any letters for me at the poste restante? My father and 1391 19| letter that came with the postmark of C., then I returned to 1392 7 | when my friend asked for a pound of raisins glaces. ~"Do 1393 7 | can be her lover for ten pounds, I would have refused. I 1394 16| awakened by the sunlight pouring into her room, and, jumping 1395 20| you ask of me is beyond my power. Believe me," I continued, 1396 25| hindrances for which you would be powerless to console him, if, with 1397 16| months with my father, which practically gave me twelve thousand 1398 13| before me. ~I tried to put in practice the theories of Prudence, 1399 17| watch. We must take every precaution, my dear Armand, for he 1400 23| be like those which had preceded it. There were moments when 1401 17| laughter, and had had to retire precipitately before the impertinent mirth 1402 1 | constant sight of dissipation, precocious dissipation, in addition 1403 1 | day, as I was going to the Prefecture for a passport, I saw in 1404 10| am sure you will come to prefer a quiet life, which will 1405 9 | minute. Leave her alone. She prefers it." ~I could not stay still; 1406 19| still bound by a foolish prejudice. Do you really think that 1407 21| answer. She ascribed this preoccupation to her anxiety in regard 1408 18| they came, they seemed to preoccupy Marguerite deeply. I did 1409 15| after Joseph and I had begun preparing for my departure, when there 1410 26| me more good than all the prescriptions of our great doctor. ~This 1411 14| evening with my friends, and presenting myself next day at the appointed 1412 8 | keep her from noticing it. ~Presently I saw her glancing across 1413 16| only rest and calm could preserve her health, so that in place 1414 1 | especially in woman? She preserves no dignity, she inspires 1415 6 | frightening me made him press my hand and whisper: "It 1416 24| woman whom I love, under the pretence that this woman is my mistress, 1417 7 | the delight they take in pretending to be witty and in teasing 1418 16| horrible name, is one of the prettiest places that it is possible 1419 12| repass, as I had on the previous day. ~At seven o'clock I 1420 3 | the heroine of the Abbe Prevost. Now this heroine is so 1421 11| is feared like a beast of prey, scorned like a pariah, 1422 16| which would otherwise have preyed upon my heart, and fixed 1423 1 | that it will send up the prices. People can see beforehand 1424 21| understanding. Do not go against his principles, pretend to make some concessions 1425 22| sort of a carriage?" ~"A private carriage." ~What could it 1426 4 | I die. According to all probability, good-bye, my friend. Pardon 1427 20| I owe to the traditional probity of the family I could live 1428 2 | which characterized it, is a problem which we can but state, 1429 20| honest man carry out such a procedure without warning me? Well, 1430 7 | of fever, and even by the process of its cure, to permit him 1431 17| result might be, she publicly proclaimed our liaison, and I had come 1432 3 | marvellous parable of the Prodigal Son to teach us indulgence 1433 2 | now became known for his prodigality. All this was set down to 1434 17| note for a thousand francs, professedly on behalf of Marguerite. 1435 7 | left his side. ~Spring was profuse in its flowers, its leaves, 1436 14| moment I would recall her promises, and endeavour to convince 1437 27| of money in the form of promissory notes, which she could not 1438 26| always your name that she pronounces, when she can speak a word. ~ 1439 9 | imploringly. ~"Oh, how proper you are!" she said, smiling 1440 5 | my curiosity increased in proportion with my astonishment. The 1441 14| Marguerite loved me. First, her proposal to spend the summer with 1442 19| late to live the life I propose, for then you will have 1443 3 | obstinacy, which my amour propre might have sustained somewhat 1444 9 | since that I have done with propriety!" At that moment Nanine 1445 14| this kind of madrigal in prose, and sent it by Joseph, 1446 26| abandoning her. M. de G., prosecuted for his debts, has had to 1447 20| from ruining yourself for a prostitute that I am now in Paris. 1448 23| and the morning's news had prostrated me. My father profited by 1449 23| father profited by this total prostration of all my faculties to demand 1450 17| a little silk pelisse to protect her against the damp of 1451 14| My dear Prudence, your protege is not polite; one thinks 1452 26| heard men's voices, and hers protesting against them in vain. She 1453 18| francs." ~"All right, I will provide that amount." ~"You will 1454 25| has loved you; he might provoke him, fight, be killed. Think, 1455 8 | moment one of his servants is prowling about in the street to see 1456 4 | order to have the right to pry into his affairs. ~It was 1457 7 | rooms of the restaurant, pulling the camellias of her bouquet 1458 9 | but I won't inflict such a punishment on you." ~"You show me that 1459 3 | hour after, I sent for my purchase. On the first page was written 1460 22| Probably she had found a purchaser for her furniture, and she 1461 3 | of the cold, to make some purchases, and was not the least looked 1462 1 | even her bedroom. Death had purified the air of this abode of 1463 27| smiles, not knowing, in the purity of her youth, that far away 1464 26| but the whole of their purses. It was of him that I immediately 1465 23| The memory of Marguerite pursued me unceasingly. I had loved, 1466 22| toward the bed-room and pushed open the door. I sprang 1467 13| very like calculation, and puts the man who consents to 1468 23| even, and in one of the quadrilles I perceived Marguerite dancing 1469 10| must have three very rare qualities: he must be confiding, submissive, 1470 16| about a green table end by quarrels in which life or honour 1471 14| was once more in my own quarters, and I wrote to Marguerite: ~" 1472 15| superior enough not to ask questions about my life, and to be 1473 6 | its imposing reality. ~"Quick," said the inspector. Thereupon 1474 25| me the possibility of a quieter and happier life, and he 1475 19| finally found, in one of the quietest parts of Paris, a little 1476 11| and then think they are quit of me. If those who are 1477 14| permit me to feel properly quits of her, as of a kept woman, 1478 16| cherries, milk, stewed rabbit, and all the rest of the 1479 13| married, he has children, he races, gambles, travels, and what 1480 16| darkening with its shadow the radiant picture of our youth and 1481 22| will walk." ~"But it is raining." ~"No matter." ~"But madame 1482 7 | my seat. The signal for raising the curtain was given. Ernest 1483 6 | become a Trappist, like M. de Rance', after having seen, I will 1484 14| silence was not even that of rancour; it was contempt. ~I might 1485 18| Prudence now came but rarely; but she often wrote letters 1486 23| you, my dear fellow. The rascal of an agent to whom she 1487 7 | evening, I have eaten my ration of chicken," he said to 1488 7 | Alphonse Karr entitles Am Rauchen, there is a man who one 1489 26| rejoiced secretly to see the ravages that disease had made in 1490 11| as "cabbages." She looked ravishing. She had satin slippers 1491 26| never knew before that a ray of sunshine could contain 1492 27| grave, on which the first rays of the April sun were bringing 1493 6 | them and returned. When I re-entered the room Armand was dressed 1494 3 | matter of fact, never even reaches the limit of his income, 1495 23| day experience a terrible reaction, which might be dangerous, 1496 24| dress, for, by one of those reactions so frequent in her malady, 1497 5 | the man, and some of my readers will understand, without 1498 16| to receive it. You will readily understand why. Gambling 1499 21| as if we felt the need of realizing them as quickly as possible. 1500 14| supplanted M. de G.: a mode of reasoning which permits many women 1501 23| will which had begun to reassert itself in a body so long 1502 4 | known her. I hastened to reassure him. ~"I knew Mlle. Gautier 1503 21| days. I spent the night in reassuring her, and she sent me away