Evening
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That evening, whether with deliberate affectation or not, she was cruel in her treatment of the bores.
Mademoiselle de La Mole was the centre of a little group that assembled almost every
evening
behind the Marquise's immense armchair.
This modest post was the envy of all the flatterers; Norbert kept his father's young secretary in countenance by addressing him or uttering his name once or twice in the course of the
evening.
Mathilde's friends were that
evening
in a state of constant hostility towards the people who kept arriving in this vast drawing-room.
For some minutes, that evening, he replied from the abundance of his heart to Julien's eager questions, then cut himself short, distressed to find himself speaking ill of everyone, and imputing it to himself as a sin.
Amid a crowd of great noblemen who remained silent, and of intriguers, mostly disreputable, but all of them clever fellows, who arrived one after another that evening, in M. de La Mole's drawing-room (people were speaking of him for a vacant Ministry), young Tanbeau was winning his spurs.
They were speaking of the dancers whom the public had applauded in a ballet of the previous
evening.
That evening, the Chevalier de Beauvoisis spread the report everywhere that this M. Sorel, who incidentally was a perfectly charming young man, was the natural son of an intimate friend of the Marquis de La Mole.
But I have one favour to ask you, which will cost you no more than half an hour of your time: every Opera evening, at half-past eleven, go and stand in the vestibule when the people of fashion are coming out.
One day the Marquis said, with that tone of over-elaborate politeness, which often tried Julien's patience:'Allow me, my dear Sorel, to make you the present of a blue coat: when it suits you to put it on and to pay me a visit, you will be, in my eyes, the younger brother of the Comte de Chaulnes, that is to say, the son of my old friend the Duke.'Julien was somewhat in the dark as to what was happening; that
evening
he ventured to pay a visit in his blue coat.
That evening, in his blue coat, it was with an entirely different tone and one in every way as polite as the
evening
before.
In the evening, when Julien appeared in his blue coat, there was never any talk of business.
This attitude amused the Marquis, who reported it that
evening
to the abbe Pirard.
Julien told the Marquis everything: that
evening
he informed him of Valenod's pretension, and gave an account of his life and actions since 1814.
I seem fated to go wrong this
evening.
'The most dubious of my advantages are those of which they have been telling me all
evening.
'Yes, in the eyes of certain people,' Julien answered her with an expression of the most ill-concealed scorn, his eye still ablaze from his conversation with Altamira, 'but unfortunately for people of birth, he was a lawyer at Mery-sur-Seine; that is to say, Mademoiselle,' he went on with an air of sarcasm, 'that he began life like several of the Peers whom I see here this
evening.
'No doubt about it, I am bored this evening.'
This discomfiture befell him at times after an
evening
in which he had shone more brightly than befitted his position.
One
evening
after dinner, Julien, who had gone with M. de La Mole to his study, came rapidly out to the garden.
As he took leave of her, she clutched his arm violently:'You will receive a letter from me this evening,' she told him in a voice so strained as to be barely audible.
It was a terrible
evening.
In the
evening
she came to the drawing-room for a moment, but did not look at Julien.
Returning to the drawing-room, for the rest of the
evening
she never looked at him again.
She did not lay aside her album until late in the evening, when the Marquise sent for her to go to the Italian opera.
Thanks to her love of music, she became that
evening
as Madame de Renal invariably was when thinking of him.
In the evening, however, as she passed from the dining-room to the drawing-room, she found an opportunity of saying to Julien:'I hope you do not think that it is my idea: Mamma has just decided that one of her maids is to sleep in my room.'
What pain felt by the body alone is comparable to this?JEAN-PAULThe dinner bell rang, Julien had barely time to dress; he found Mathilde in the drawing-room urging her brother and M. de Croisenois not to go and spend the
evening
with Madame la Marechale de Fervaques.
Although the weather that
evening
was charming, she insisted that they should not go out to the garden; she was determined not to be lured away from the armchair in which Madame de La Mole was enthroned.
This evening, nobody spoke to him; his presence passed as though unperceived or worse.
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