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His eyes followed Négrel for a moment, as he trotted beside the carriage door.
The sentinel was about to be relieved, and he went away, running off to bury himself at Réquillart, his heart crushed once more by the certainty of defeat; while the little scamp who ran beside him was accusing that dirty beast of a trooper of having called out the guard to fire at them.
There was a noise of sabots, and the Levaque woman pushed open the door like a gale of wind, beside herself, shouting furiously from the threshold at Maheude:"Then it's you who have said that I forced my lodger to give me twenty sous when he sleeps with me?"
With a furious, unreasoning blow of the fist he knocked the child down beside the body.
He was still waiting beside Catherine, who had fallen from fatigue and anguish, when a sonorous voice made him start.
He remained for hours with fixed gaze, having no intelligence now except to spit into a plate filled with ashes, which was put beside him for cleanliness.
It was his favourite walk, a grass-covered path two leagues long, passing straight beside this geometrical water-way, which unrolled itself like an endless ingot of molten silver.
Beside them, in the other tram, Chaval was loudly saying to Father Mouque that the directors had made a mistake in not taking advantage of the opportunity to free the pits of the blackguards who were corrupting them; but the old groom, who had already fallen back into the dog-like resignation of his existence, no longer grew angry over the death of his children, and simply replied by a gesture of conciliation.
Jeanne, who always carried a sketch-book with her, began to draw, carried away by the horror of the subject; while Lucie, seated beside her on the remains of a wagon, was crying out with pleasure, and finding it awfully jolly.
Bonnemort, tottering on his dead legs, had fallen beside her without power to rise.
Something was certainly striking beside his head, violent blows were approaching him; but he had been too lazy to reply, benumbed by immense fatigue; and now he knew nothing, he only dreamed that she was walking before him, and that he heard the slight clank of her sabots.
Conseil, stationed beside me, stared straight ahead.
At first I didn't know what to make of this sudden assault, but I was reassured to observe the captain lying motionless beside me.
My chief officer was standing beside him.
"And now he rests beside his companions in that coral cemetery?"
With a gesture he ordered us to crouch beside him at the foot of a wide crevice.
The shark returned, rolled over on its back, and was getting ready to cut the Indian in half, when Captain Nemo, who was stationed beside me, suddenly stood up.
"What's more, Ned," I said, "Captain Nemo himself did the honors in his tunnel, and I stood beside him in the pilothouse while he steered the Nautilus through that narrow passageway."
His instruments were beside him.
The servant's breakfast was boiling beside it in small pots of all sizes.
He ran to his mother; she was beside herself.
He made his way to the shed; as he entered it, he looked in vain for Julien in the place where he ought to have been standing, beside the saw.
Read them in the evening, when you go and waste your time with the cure.'Julien, although stunned by the force of the blow, and bleeding profusely, went to take up his proper station beside the saw.
To all that Madame de Renal said to him, Julien could only murmur in reply:'This is what rich people are like!'M. de Renal kept close beside them; his presence increased Julien's anger.
'That is not enough for me, Sir,' Julien went on, beside himself with rage; 'think of the abominable things you said to me, and in the presence of ladies, too!'M. de Renal was only too well aware of what Julien was asking, and conflicting passions did battle in his heart.
He attempted to clasp a white hand which for some time he had seen close beside him, resting on the back of a chair.
Madame de Renal realised her own imprudence: 'I am feverish,' she told her, 'and I think, a little light-headed; stay beside me.'Thoroughly awakened by the necessity of controlling herself, she felt less wretched; reason resumed the sway of which her state of drowsiness had deprived it.
But, beside herself with impatience, she rose and went to glue her ear to Julien's door.
He had presence of mind enough to arrange his sentence and to make it plain to the noble lady, seated so close beside him on the bank of verdure, that the words he had just uttered were some that he had heard during his expedition to his friend the timber merchant.
I walk beneath the dais in processions, beside the cure and the mayor.
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