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At that moment her father and two brothers came downstairs.
Then, when he had watched it gradually grow calmer by an effort of supreme will, he went downstairs.
The servant had, however, promised that he would come to the settlement before night, and the mother was standing at the window watching, while the little invalid, who had wished to be downstairs, was shivering on a chair, having the illusion that it was better there near the cold grate.
Natasie came downstairs shivering and undid the bars and bolts one after the other.
He found no one downstairs; he went up to the first floor to their room; say her dress still hanging at the foot of the alcove; then, leaning against the writing-table, he stayed until the evening, buried in a sorrowful reverie.
She went downstairs restraining herself from running.
Madame Bovary did not go downstairs to the dining-room; she wished to remain alone to look after the child.
And after presenting arms, during which the clang of the band, letting loose, rang out like a brass kettle rolling downstairs, all the guns were lowered.
He kept downstairs in the sitting-room by the side of the fireless chimney, his chin on his breast, his hands clasped, his eyes staring.
She went downstairs, crossed the yard.
"You were downstairs in the ante-room, ready to go out, standing on the last stair; you were wearing a bonnet with small blue flowers; and without any invitation from you, in spite of myself, I went with you.
Weaker than a child, Charles let himself be led downstairs into the sitting-room, and Monsieur Homais soon went home.
In the passage downstairs they met the undertaker's men, who were coming in.
YOUNGHe made haste to brush his coat and to go downstairs; he was late.
M. de Renal did not leave the house that morning; he was incessantly going up and downstairs, engaged in striking bargains with certain peasants, to whom he was selling his potato crop.
The Chevalier de Beauvoisis came slowly downstairs with the most charming gravity, repeating in the accents of a great nobleman: 'What's this?
'My first blunder,' he said to himself, as he was going downstairs; 'I must carry out the Prince's orders to the letter.'
Once downstairs, K., with his watch in his hand, decided to take a taxi - he had already been delayed by half an hour and there was no need to make the delay any longer.
We finished dressing, and, when it came to the extras, we remembered that we had packed the tooth-brushes and the brush and comb (that tooth-brush of mine will be the death of me, I know), and we had to go downstairs, and fish them out of the bag.
We went downstairs to breakfast.
We said we yearned to hear it, that we wanted a good laugh; and they went downstairs, and fetched Herr Slossenn Boschen.
We came downstairs one at a time, walking softly, and keeping the shady side.
George snatched it up, and rushed downstairs.
Sid flew downstairs and said: "Oh, Aunt Polly, come!
After this he thought he had heard somebody come upstairs, so got off from the bed, lifted me up, professing a great deal of love for me, but told me it was all an honest affection, and that he meant no ill to me; and with that he put five guineas into my hand, and went away downstairs.
He was impatient for my coming out of my chamber, but finding me long, he went downstairs and talked with my landlord about the parson.
The following day, when the young couple came downstairs, Camille had still his sickly languidness, his righteous tranquillity of an egotist.
Her aunt and husband having come downstairs, she seated herself on a trunk, her hands rigid, her throat full of sobs, and yet she could not cry.
Therese had her ear on the alert; and when the bell rang, she rapidly ran downstairs quite relieved, delighted at being able to quit the dining-room.
They were at dessert, and Madame Raquin had just run downstairs to serve a customer.
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