Evening
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Julien was sullen all the evening; hitherto he had been angry only with fortune and with society; now that Fouque had offered him an ignoble way of arriving at comfort, he was angry with himself.
He had only one sensible idea; bored with himself and with Madame de Renal, he saw with alarm the
evening
approach when he would be seated in the garden, by her side and in the dark.
That evening, in the garden, Madame Derville arranged things so skilfully that she found herself placed between Madame de Renal and Julien.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona_One
evening
as the sun set, sitting by his mistress, at the end of the orchard, safe from disturbance, he was deep in thought.
(From the Bishop's address, delivered in the Chapel of Saint Clement)On the third of September, at ten o'clock in the evening, a mounted constable aroused the whole of Verrieres by galloping up the main street; he brought the news that His Majesty the King of -- was coming the following Sunday, and it was now Tuesday.
That evening, at Verrieres, the Liberals found an excuse for illuminating their houses a hundred times more brilliantly than the Royalists.
That same
evening
M. de Renal received from the town, with his newspaper, a long anonymous letter which informed him in the fullest detail of all that was going on under his roof.
For the rest of the
evening
the Mayor never recovered his peace of mind; it was in vain that Julien tried to flatter him by asking him to explain obscure points in the pedigrees of the best families of Burgundy.
She kept on picturing to herself her husband killing Julien during the chase, as though by accident, and afterwards, that evening, making her eat his heart.
That evening, they were seated in silence round the domestic hearth; the crackle of the blazing beech logs was their sole distraction.
The good humour of the Neapolitan changed this dull
evening
into one that was extremely gay.
That same evening, I sang the _aria del Moltiplico_.
After having been almost suffocated at first by his sense of scorn, Julien ended by feeling pity: it had often been the lot of the fathers of the majority of his comrades to come home on a winter
evening
to their cottages, and to find there no bread, no chestnuts, and no potatoes.
One evening, in the middle of the armed drill, Julien was sent for by the abbe Pirard, who said to him:'Tomorrow is the feast of Corpus Christi.
That evening, he sent down to the chapel of the Seminary ten pounds of candles, saved, he said, by Julien's efforts and the rapidity with which he extinguished them.
This letter written, he sent to awaken Julien who, at eight o'clock in the evening, was already asleep, as were all the seminarists.
As luck would have it, that
evening
M. l'abbe de Frilair was in attendance in the Bishop's parlour; Monseigneur was dining at the Prefecture.
The prelate, growing more and more pleased with the close of his evening, spoke for a moment of ecclesiastical history.
'You relieve me of a difficulty; for the last ten minutes, I have been trying to think of a way of thanking you for the pleasant
evening
which you have given me, and certainly in a most unexpected manner.
That evening, Monseigneur carried his admiration to the drawing-room of the Marquise de Rubempre.
The sharper wits supposed M. de La Mole to have become a Minister, and allowed themselves that
evening
to smile at the imperious airs which M. l'abbe de Frilair assumed in society.
That evening, Julien hesitated for long before entering the playhouse; he had strange ideas as to that sink of iniquity.
On the
evening
of the third day, curiosity prevailed over his plan of seeing everything before calling upon the abbe Pirard.
In the evening, at eight o'clock, you will put his papers in order, and at ten you will be free.
I forgot to tell you that every
evening
at half-past five you must dress.'Julien looked at him without understanding him.
Comte Norbert appeared in the library about three o'clock; he had come to study a newspaper, in order to be able to talk politics that evening, and was quite pleased to find Julien, whose existence he had forgotten.
On the other hand, you saw in the ante-room ten footmen in livery, and all through the
evening
you had ices or tea every quarter of an hour; and, at midnight, a sort of supper with champagne.
Some consoled themselves by taking quantities of ices; the others with the pleasure of being able to say for the rest of the evening: 'I have just come from the Hotel de La Mole, where I heard that Russia', etc., etc.Julien learned, from one of the flatterers, that less than six months ago Madame de La Mole had rewarded an assiduity that had lasted for more than twenty years by securing a Prefecture for poor Baron Le Bourguignon, who had been a Sub-Prefect ever since the Restoration.
One morning when the abbe was working with Julien, in the Marquis's library, on the endless litigation with Frilair:'Sir,' said Julien suddenly, 'is dining every
evening
with Madame la Marquise one of my duties, or is it a favour that they show me?''It is a signal honour!' replied the abbe, greatly shocked.
That evening, they expected a large party; she made him promise to remain.
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