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Zacharie, who had come up among the first, in spite of his inclination to make fun of everything had weepingly kissed his wife and mother, and remained near the latter, quivering, and showing an unexpected degree of
affection
for his sister, refusing to believe that she was below so long as the bosses made no authoritative statement.
Doesn't it experience both anger and
affection?
Thus she did not amuse herself with those preparations that stimulate the tenderness of mothers, and so her
affection
was from the very outset, perhaps, to some extent attenuated.
It was not affection; it was like a continual seduction.
She had a motive, a reason, and, as it were, a pendant to her
affection.
Charles was thinking of his father, and was surprised to feel so much
affection
for this man, whom till then he had thought he cared little about.
"This," said the chemist, "is a scrofulous affection."
She was ingenious and caressing, rejoicing in her heart at gaining once more an
affection
that had wandered from her for so many years.
Its effect was to some extent to appease Julien's anger; he was far from seeing anything in it that could be mistaken for personal
affection.
There was one only two days ago!'All my reputation brought down, destroyed in a moment!'Julien said to himself as he watched the box burn, 'and my reputation is all I have, I live by it alone ... and what a life at that, great God!'An hour later, his exhaustion and the pity he felt for himself disposed him to feel
affection.
The cessation of her poignant grief, born of suspicion, the presence of a happiness of which she had never even dreamed, plunged her in transports of
affection
and wild gaiety.
Far from his being proud, or even grateful for the
affection
which Madame de Renal betrayed this evening by unmistakable signs, beauty, elegance, freshness found him almost unconscious of their appeal.
Had she been certain of Julien's affection, her virtue might perhaps have found strength to resist him.
'Why cannot I think of some fine plan,' he asked himself, 'to force Madame de Renal to show me those unmistakable marks of
affection
which made me imagine, three days ago, that she was mine!'Julien was extremely disconcerted by the almost desperate situation into which he had been led.
In the surprise that he felt at so extraordinary a token of affection, he gazed at her with passion; for she had struck him as looking very pretty at luncheon, and, without raising his eyes, he had spent his time making a detailed catalogue of her charms.
Don't mix any more with such people,' said Madame de Renal, still preserving a trace of that glacial air which had suddenly taken the place of an expression of the tenderest
affection.
From a lingering
affection
for yourself, I beg you to detach yourself entirely from the little peasant.
That man who took refuge on your roof ...''What I think is that you have neither respect nor
affection
for me,' shouted M. de Renal with all the bitterness that such a memory aroused, 'and I have not been made a Peer!''I think, my friend,' put in Madame de Renal with a smile, 'that I shall one day be richer than you, that I have been your companion for twelve years, and that on all these counts I ought to have a voice in your councils, especially in this business today.
'You would show a hundred times more of sincere
affection
to Madame Derville, to a mere acquaintance.'
'It is she, it is her bounty!'Julien said to himself with emotion, 'she wishes to comfort me; but why is there not one word of affection?'
The eldest replied with
affection
and regret for his former tutor, but it appeared that the two younger had almost forgotten him.
If the five or six flatterers who treated Julien with such fatherly
affection
had deserted the Hotel de La Mole, the Marquise would have been left to long hours of solitude; and, in the eyes of women of her rank, solitude is a dreadful thing: it is the badge of disgrace.
Then he is reconciled, and produces seven or eight letters for the transports of
affection.
Several of the Jansenists had formed an
affection
for him and gave him advice.
I knew what was in her mind before she did; I could see her thoughts take shape; I had no competitor, in her heart, but the fear of losing her children; it was a reasonable and natural affection, indeed it was pleasant for me who felt the same fear.
There was no question, of course, of anything but a grand passion; mere fleeting
affection
was unworthy of a girl of her age and birth.
'So that accounts for the coldness of thy letters!' cried Mathilde, in accents rather of frenzy than of
affection.
This use of the _tu_ form, stripped of the tone of affection, ceased, after a moment, to afford Julien any pleasure, he was astonished at the absence of happiness; finally, in order to feel it, he had recourse to his reason.
One would have said that Mademoiselle de La Mole had resumed, together with the observance of sisterly affection, that of the strictest conventions.
Not knowing what token to give him of his sudden affection, he ended by offering him the hand of one of his cousins, a wealthy heiress in Moscow; 'and once you are married,' he explained, 'my influence and the Cross you are wearing will make you a Colonel in two years.'
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