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The tradesman answered arrogantly that these articles had been ordered, and that he would not take them back; besides, it would vex madame in her convalescence; the doctor had better think it over; in short, he was resolved to sue him rather than give up his rights and take back his goods.
Then the landlady shouted out, and other voices answered, while Hippolyte's lantern, as he fetched the boxes from the boot, was like a star in the darkness.
"But why," asked Bovary, "does that gentleman persecute her?""No, no!" she answered; "he is her lover!"
"The gentleman isn't in," answered a servant.
She answered with a nod, and disappeared like a bird into the next room.
Emma answered that she thought she could do without.
gently answered the young man passing his hands over her hair.
"Leave me the bill," said Emma."Oh, it isn't worth while," answered Lheureux.
She passed her hand over her forehead and answered, "At Mademoiselle Lempereur's."
If Charles timidly ventured a remark, she answered roughly that it wasn't her fault.
No one answered.
For he knew that in cases of poisoning an analysis must be made; and the other, who did not understand, answered—"Oh, do anything!
'What a difference!' the gaoler answered promptly; 'why you, M. le cure, we know that you have an income of 800 livres, a fine place in the sun ...'Such are the events which, commented upon, exaggerated in twenty different ways, had been arousing for the last two days all the evil passions of the little town of Verrieres.
Julien answered them all with an air of gloom which kept them at a distance.
'Well, my friend,' she said to him after a little, 'are you pleased with my husband?''How should I not be?'Julien answered with a bitter smile; 'he has given me a hundred francs.'
At length he answered him, sharply enough:'I was unwell.'
As they returned to the drawing-room, towards midnight, Madame de Renal murmured in his ear:'Are you leaving us, are you going away?'Julien answered with a sigh:'I must indeed go away, for I love you passionately; it is a sin ... and what a sin for a young priest!'Madame de Renal leaned upon his arm, bending towards him until her cheek felt the warmth of his.
'But, Ma'am, today is the last Friday of the month,' the man answered her with a curious expression.
'Go, Sir,' the Bishop answered with exquisite courtesy; 'I must have it at once.
'Sir,' she answered him finally, 'I speak as a woman whose honour, that is to say her most priceless possession, has been outraged.'
Julien having answered in the affirmative, a few words in Latin were read out to him at random.
This lady, apparently so conscious of the joy of ownership, had just made an abominable scene, during dinner, with a servant who had broken a wineglass and spoiled one of her sets; and the servant had answered her with the most gross insolence.
Julien answered the questions in a brilliant manner; he saw that Chazel himself was seeking to display the whole extent of his knowledge.
Julien found fresh ideas as he answered, and lost enough of his shyness not, indeed, to display wit, a thing impossible to a person ignorant of the language that is spoken in Paris, but he had original ideas, albeit expressed without gracefulness or appropriateness, and it could be seen that he had a thorough knowledge of Latin.
He went to seek the advice of the abbe Pirard, who, less courteous than the Marquis, answered him only with a whistle and changed the subject.
..'As it is hard to do two things well at the same time, the Marquis answered Mathilde with a vacant air, and as though repeating a lesson:'Who does not know poor Altamira?' and he told her the story of the absurd, abortive conspiracy.
'Yes, in the eyes of certain people,' Julien answered her with an expression of the most ill-concealed scorn, his eye still ablaze from his conversation with Altamira, 'but unfortunately for people of birth, he was a lawyer at Mery-sur-Seine; that is to say, Mademoiselle,' he went on with an air of sarcasm, 'that he began life like several of the Peers whom I see here this evening.
We confess with sorrow, for we are fond of Mathilde, that she had received letters from several of their number, and had occasionally answered them.
He ventured to say a few words:'Are you unwell, dear?'Mathilde answered him with a mock-serious expression.
I have been seduced,' she answered the voice of remorse, 'I am a weak woman, but at least I have not been led astray like a puppet by outward advantages.
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