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And she abruptly withdrew her hand to enter the chapel of the Virgin, where, kneeling on a chair, she began to pray.
Then she was frightened, pushed back her chair, and cast down her eyes.
In your own house you do not possess a chair, a pin, a straw, and it is I, poor man, who have ruined you."
Madame de Renal sank down on a chair, almost fainting with grief.
Seated on a chair in the sitting-room of this apartment, Madame de Renal fell a prey to all the horrors of jealousy.
He attempted to clasp a white hand which for some time he had seen close beside him, resting on the back of a chair.
Julien, irritated by this talk, moved his chair nearer to Madame de Renal's.
Trembling at the thought of losing him for ever, her passion carried her to the point of seizing Julien's hand, which, in his distraction, he had allowed to rest upon the back of a chair.
He sat down by the window on the solitary wooden chair that was in his cell, and at once fell into a profound slumber.
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.
He helped Madame Derville to prop that charming head against the back of a straw chair; he was on his knees.
Julien went to her assistance; he was admiring that elegant figure, which suggested anything rather than strength, when suddenly, without help, she grasped the ladder and picked it up as she might have picked up a chair.
You are fully dressed,' said M. de Renal, as he entered; 'you are having supper, and you have locked your door?'On any ordinary day, this question, put with all the brutality of a husband, would have troubled Madame de Renal, but she felt that her husband had only to lower his eyes a little to catch sight of Julien; for M. de Renal had flung himself upon the chair on which Julien had been sitting a moment earlier, facing the sofa.
While in his turn her husband was giving her a long and detailed account of the pool he had won in the billiard room of the Casino, 'a pool of nineteen francs, begad!' he added, she saw lying on a chair before their eyes, and within a few feet of them, Julien's hat.
Cooler than ever, she began to undress, and, choosing her moment, passed swiftly behind her husband and flung a garment over the chair with the hat on it.
At the end of the sofa, opposite to that occupied by the brilliant Mathilde, Julien was silently installed upon a little cane-bottomed chair with a low seat.
'One must admit that he did look handsome when he climbed on the chair, to replace the sword, precisely in the picturesque position which the decorator had chosen for it!
Our hero made the blunder of clinging to that little cane chair which in the past had witnessed such brilliant triumphs.
The next thing was how to leave his little cane chair in a fashion that should not be too awkward.
He would be there waiting for her, but took great care to turn his chair so that he should not be able to see Mathilde.
His feet were caught in a chair overturned by the crowd; as he rose, he felt himself gripped by the collar; it was a gendarme in full uniform who was arresting him.
At other moments, he would rise with a bound from his chair.
He was obliged to lead him to a chair.
K. wanted to sit down, but then he saw that, apart from the chair by the window, there was nowhere anywhere in the room where he could sit.
"Ridiculous formalities!" he grumbled, as he lifted his coat from the chair and kept it in both his hands for a little while, as if holding it out for the policemen's inspection.
He had his legs crossed, and had thrown one arm over the backrest of the chair.
This second man was standing with his legs crossed and his elbows on the backrest of the chair, provoking much laughter.
The judge, however, paid no attention to that but sat very comfortably on his chair and, after saying a few words to close his discussion with the man behind him, reached for a little note book, the only item on his desk.
I can see him now, sitting on the chair belonging to that lady I mentioned - a picture of dull-witted arrogance.
But the young woman was the first to recognise that K.'s behaviour was caused by his feeling slightly unwell, she brought a chair and asked,"Would you not like to sit down?"K. sat down immediately and, in order to keep his place better, put his elbows on the armrests.
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