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M. de Renal presently returned; he was beside himself.
Get to the point!' cried M. Pirard, almost beside himself.
His distraction was nevertheless half conquered by the sight of two women extremely well dressed who were kneeling, one of them in a confessional, the other, close beside her, upon a chair.
Julien, beside himself with emotion, sprang forward; Madame de Renal's fall would perhaps have brought down her friend if he had not supported them.
'Look how common the fair Fourmont appears beside her,' said a third.
The young Marquise de Rouvray was close beside him; she was a cousin of Mathilde.
'Faith!' said Julien, 'the end justifies the means; if, instead of being a mere atom, I had any power, I would hang three men to save the lives of four.'His eyes expressed the fire of conscience and a contempt for the vain judgments of men; they met those of Mademoiselle de La Mole who stood close beside him, and this contempt, instead of changing into an air of gracious civility, seemed to intensify.
As he was reading with forced attention the first of these letters, he heard close beside him the rustle of a silken gown; he turned sharply round; Mademoiselle de La Mole was standing by his table, and smiling.
Take the gardener's long ladder from beside the well; place it against my window and come up to my room.
Julien stood silent and not unduly distressed; he saw Mademoiselle de La Mole standing close beside him.
Everyone smiled; the turncoat General seemed beside himself with rage.
M. de Nerval, the Minister, had left at a quarter to two, not without having frequently studied Julien's face in a mirror which hung beside him.
Julien took his seat beside the Marechale, in such a way that his eyes should not be visible to Mathilde.
Julien hastened there; he found the Chevalier de Beauvoisis, who took him to the box of the Gentlemen of the Household, immediately beside that of Madame de Fervaques.
The effort that he was imposing on himself to appear cured in the eyes of Mathilde absorbed all his spiritual strength, he remained rooted beside the Marechale like a barely animate being; his eyes even, as in the extremity of physical suffering, had lost all their fire.
'And so,' she cried, beside herself with rage, 'not only have you found favour with her, but you despise her.
It was beside a bower of honeysuckle arranged so as to hide the ladder, in the garden, that he was accustomed to take his stand in order to gaze at the distant shutters of Mathilde's window and lament her inconstancy.
I was close beside you.''M.
Little Tanbeau took his place one evening beside them; she asked him to go to the library and fetch her the volume of Smollett which dealt with the Revolution of 1688; and as he seemed to hesitate: There is no need to hurry,' she went on with an expression of insulting arrogance, which was balm to Julien's spirit.
In spite of the most admirable resolutions, her womanly pride prevented her every day from saying to Julien: 'It was because I was speaking to you that I found pleasure in the thought of my weakness in not withdrawing my hand when M. de Croisenois laid his hand on a marble table beside mine, and managed to touch it.'
She is not dead?' cried Julien, beside himself with amazement.
'On your life, Sir,' cried Julien beside himself with rage, 'bear in mind never again to utter that abominable falsehood.'
But even that is all beside the point, the main question is: Who is issuing the indictment?
He passed through between two men who were talking beside the door - one of them held both hands far out in front of himself making the movements of counting out money, the other looked him closely in the eyes - and someone took him by the hand.
Listen: ten days ago I was placed under arrest, the arrest itself is something I laugh about but that's beside the point.
"I know that," said K. as he looked at the usher's civilian coat which, beside its ordinary buttons, displayed two gilded ones as the only sign of his office and seemed to have been taken from an old army officer's coat.
You say that the family will also be affected by this trial; I really can't see how, but that's beside the point and I'm quite willing to follow your instructions in all of this.
In the light of the candle held up by K.'s uncle an elderly gentleman could be seen sitting beside a small table.
But then he forgot about all of this and had eyes only for the carer who sat very close beside him, almost pressing him against the armrest.
He went over to the window, sat down on the ledge beside it, held firmly on to the handle and looked down onto the square outside.
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