Evening
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He made no further attempt, that evening, to approach the blue sofa to which Mathilde was faithful.
This
evening
you will have to look a little shabby.
Yes, my friend, one of the venerable personages whom you are about to hear discuss is fully capable of transmitting information by means of which someone may quite possibly administer opium to you, if nothing worse, in the evening, in some respectable inn at which you will have called for supper.''It would be better,' said Julien, 'to travel thirty leagues farther and avoid the direct route.
'Good,' said the Marquis, every inch the diplomat that evening; 'meanwhile this young man is not observing the streets through which we are passing.'
Animated by the debates of so lively an evening, and above all by the sincerity of the discussion, at that moment M. de Nerval believed in his mission.
Prince Korasoff would indeed have been proud, had he been in Paris: the
evening
was passing exactly as he had foretold.
Faithful to the letter to the plan of conduct dictated to him by Prince Korasoff, every
evening
he took his place as near as possible to the armchair occupied by Madame de Fervaques, but found it impossible to think of a word to say to her.
Astonished by this persistence in hiding from her, one
evening
she left the blue sofa and came to work at a little table that stood by the Marquise's armchair.
For the rest of the
evening
she kept her word, albeit with difficulty.
'Consequently,' he told himself, 'she cannot see mine, and this is not the same as looking at her.'That evening, Madame de Fervaques behaved to him exactly as though she had not received the philosophical, mystical and religious dissertation which, in the morning, he had handed to her porter with such an air of melancholy.
The
evening
before, chance had revealed to Julien the secret springs of eloquence; he arranged himself so as to be able to see Mathilde's eyes.
This evening, 'I am a galley slave,' he said to himself, as he entered it, with a vivacity long unfamiliar to him: 'let us hope that the second letter will be as boring as the first.'
Falling asleep while transcribing a sort of commentary on the Apocalypse, going next day to deliver a letter with a melancholy air, leaving his horse in the stable yard with the hope of catching a glimpse of Mathilde's gown, working, putting in an appearance in the
evening
at the Opera when Madame de Fervaques did not come to the Hotel de La Mole; such were the monotonous events of Julien's existence.
'But,' he said to himself one evening, 'here I am transcribing the fifteenth of these abominable dissertations; the first fourteen have been faithfully delivered to the Marechale's Swiss.
One evening, at the Opera, in Madame de Fervaques's box, Julien praised to the skies the ballet in _Manon Lescaut_.
This discovery kept him amused for the rest of the
evening
and made him amusing.
'How is it,' she asked him the following evening, with an air of indifference which seemed to him unconvincing, 'that you speak to me of _London_ and _Richmond_ in a letter which you wrote last night, it appears, after leaving the Opera?'Julien was greatly embarrassed; he had copied the letter line for line, without thinking of what he was writing, and apparently had forgotten to substitute for the words _London_ and _Richmond_, which occurred in the original, _Paris_ and _Saint-Cloud_.
'I am creating an impression,' he said to himself, 'therefore I can spare myself the tedium of the rest of the evening.'
That evening, as he looked over the original text of the letter which he had copied the night before, he very soon came to the fatal passage where the young Russian spoke of London and Richmond.
Surrounded by persons who were eminently moral, but who often had not one idea in an evening, this lady was profoundly impressed by everything that bore a semblance of novelty; but, at the same time, she felt that she owed it to herself to be shocked by it.
It was to perform the most arduous of his duties that he appeared each
evening
in the Marechale's drawing-room.
The boredom of a mode of life whose sole ambition was to create an effect on the public, without there being at the bottom of her heart any real enjoyment of this kind of success, had become so intolerable since she had begun to think of Julien, that, if her maids were not to be ill-treated throughout the whole of a day, it was enough that during the previous
evening
she should have spent an hour with this strange young man.
'You must,' she said to Julien that
evening
in the driest of tones, 'bring me some envelopes with your address written on them.''So now I am to combine the lover and the flunkey,' thought Julien, and bowed, amusing himself by screwing up his face like Arsene, the Marquis's old footman.
That same
evening
he brought a supply of envelopes, and next day, early in the morning, he received a third letter: he read five or six lines at the beginning, and two or three towards the end.
She shuddered with horror when, that
evening
in the drawing-room, a footman announced Madame de Fervaques; the man's voice seemed to her to have a sinister sound.
In the evening, he felt that he absolutely must appear at the Bouffes in Madame de Fervaques's box.
Despite the self-evidence of this argument, he had not the strength, early in the evening, to plunge into society.
She wished to see whether Julien would spend that
evening
with the Marechale.
She rebuked him that evening, with a laugh, for his fondness for Madame de Fervaques: a _bourgeois_ in love with a _parvenue_.
Little Tanbeau took his place one
evening
beside them; she asked him to go to the library and fetch her the volume of Smollett which dealt with the Revolution of 1688; and as he seemed to hesitate: There is no need to hurry,' she went on with an expression of insulting arrogance, which was balm to Julien's spirit.
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