Cousin
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Behind her, Deneulin, a
cousin
of M. Grégoire's, appeared without ceremony; with his loud voice, his quick gestures, he had the appearance of an old cavalry officer.
Like his
cousin
he had inherited a denier in the Montsou mines.
This quarrel had strengthened the relations with Pierronne, only Pierronne had left Pierron and Lydie with her mother, and set out early in the morning to spend the day with a
cousin
at Marchiennes; and they joked, for they knew this cousin; she had a moustache, and was head captain at the Voreux.
Cousin
Charles was waiting for us with sausages, but the women were crying too much, and it stuck in our throats.
When they passed into the drawing-room for coffee, M. Grégoire drew his
cousin
aside and congratulated him on the courage of his decision.
Their grandfather was a shepherd, and they have a
cousin
who was almost had up at the assizes for a nasty blow in a quarrel.
The
cousin
all the same did not give in to these reasons readily.
"A
cousin
of mine who travelled in Switzerland last year told me that one could not picture to oneself the poetry of the lakes, the charm of the waterfalls, the gigantic effect of the glaciers.
Besides the servant to look after them, they had Justin, the chemist's apprentice, a second
cousin
of Monsieur Homais, who had been taken into the house from charity, and who was useful at the same time as a servant.
I had some doubts as to his morals; for he was the Benjamin of that old surgeon, the Member of the Legion of Honour who on pretence of being their
cousin
came to live with the Sorels.
I have never been to College, I was too poor; I have never talked to any other men, except my
cousin
the Surgeon-Major, a Member of the Legion of Honour, and the Reverend Father Chelan.
Madame Derville laughed heartily at what she called her
cousin'
s absurd ideas.
On this visit, the sensible Madame Derville found her
cousin
much less merry and much happier.
Julien did not notice a detail which would have greatly reassured him; Madame de Renal, who had been obliged to remove her hand from his, on rising to help her
cousin
to pick up a pot of flowers which the wind had overturned at their feet, had no sooner sat down again than she gave him back her hand almost without difficulty, and as though it had been an understood thing between them.
A
cousin
of some Minister or other might suddenly descend upon Verrieres and take over the Governorship of the Poorhouse.
'Signor de Beauvaisis, your cousin, and my good friend, Madame, tells me that you know Italian.'
But the young lady behind the counter had remarked the charming appearance of this young country cousin, who, brought to a standstill three paces from the stove, hugging his little bundle under his arm, was studying the bust of the King, in gleaming white plaster.
'If you like, Mademoiselle,' he said to her suddenly with assurance, 'I can say that I am your cousin.'
She said to him very quickly, without looking at him, for her eye was occupied in watching whether anyone were approaching the counter:'I come from Genlis, near Dijon; say that you are from Genlis too, and my mother's cousin.''I shall not forget.'
Say you are from Genlis, and a
cousin
of my mother.'
If the porters at the Seminary refuse to take your message, say that you are my cousin, and come from Genlis ..."''All this farrago will have to be investigated,' exclaimed the abbe Pirard who, unable to remain in one place, was striding up and down the room.
For, if we may be so bold as to say it: what judge is there who has not a son, or at least a
cousin
to help on in the world?
The young Marquise de Rouvray was close beside him; she was a
cousin
of Mathilde.
'They are all the same perfect gentlemen, ready to set off for Palestine,' she said to her
cousin.
And when that has happened to them, they talk about it so often!' said Mademoiselle de Sainte-Heredite, Mathilde's
cousin.
Presently the sincere and unfeigned resistance, with which our hero received a number of her ideas, began to occupy her mind; she thought about him; she reported to her
cousin
the pettiest details of their conversations, and found that she could never succeed in displaying them in every aspect.
I should have a scene at the signing of my marriage contract like my youngest cousin, with the noble relatives shedding tears, provided they were not made angry by a final condition inserted in the contract the day before by the solicitor to the other party.'
She did not complete her thought: 'some malicious friend may suppose and indeed spread the report that he is some humble little cousin, one of my father's family, some tradesman decorated by the National Guard.'Until the moment of her first meeting Julien, Madame de Fervaques's greatest pleasure had been to write the word Marechale before her own name.
George has a cousin, who is usually described in the charge-sheet as a medical student, so that he naturally has a somewhat family-physicianary way of putting things.
It was a country
cousin
that Harris took in.
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