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Many things had astonished Julien during the five years since he had begun to spend his evenings with the cure.
So powerful still, even in this age of boredom, are the dictates of the need of amusement, that even on the evenings of dinnerparties, as soon as the Marquis had left the drawing-room, everyone else fled.
It so happened that, only two evenings before, Julien had seen _Marino Faliero_, a tragedy by M. Casimir Delavigne.
In the evenings in the drawing-room, she would summon Julien, and would hold long conversations with him in private.
That spring, whenever possible, K. usually spent his evenings after work - he usually stayed in the office until nine o'clock - with a short walk, either by himself or in the company of some of the bank officials, and then he would go into a pub where he would sit at the regulars' table with mostly older men until eleven.
"There's a lot of work to do," she said, "during the day I belong to the tenants; if I'm to sort out my own things there are only the evenings left to me.""I fear I may have caused you some exceptional work today."
But now, just when K. needed to apply all his thoughts to his work, when he was still rising and already posed a threat to the deputy-director, when every hour passed so quickly and he wanted to enjoy the brief evenings and nights as a young man, this was the time he had to start working out these documents.
He tried on two or three evenings, while we were up the river, to get a little practice, but it was never a success.
It nearly makes me cross the way he never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but stayed home every evening.
He's made a little frame, for instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon as Gregor opens the door.
The same tired man as used to be laying there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his companions around him.
Soon after dinner, his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings so that she might be able to get a better position later on.
"I find it very difficult," said Mr. Wharton, cautiously avoiding at first, such subjects as he wished to introduce, "to procure that quality of tobacco for my evenings' amusement to which I have been accustomed."
The summer evenings were long.
And now I have very nearly come to the end of it all, and precious glad I shall be to find myself there; for I began this old memory with a light heart, thinking that it would give me some work for the long summer evenings, but as I went on I wakened a thousand sleeping sorrows and half-forgotten griefs, and now my soul is all as raw as the hide of an ill-sheared sheep.
On summer evenings, the two young people ran to the edge of the water.
These Thursday evenings were a torture to her.
He took three evenings to draw the head.
In the future he saw comfortable evenings, with all the Raquins contributing to his enjoyment: Therese giving him her love, Madame Raquin wheedling him like a mother, and Camille chatting with him so that he might not feel too dull, at night, in the shop.
Those evenings were pleasant and calm.
The young man was delighted to see these Thursday evenings resumed.
In a week his passions rebelled and he began spending entire evenings at the shop again.
Ah! alas, for our poor happiness, and our nice tranquil evenings!"
He prided himself on having had the first idea of this marriage which would convey to the Thursday evenings all their former gaiety.
XXIVIn accordance with the hopes of old Michaud, when doing his best to bring about the marriage of Therese and Laurent, the Thursday evenings resumed their former gaiety, as soon as the wedding was over.
These evenings were in great peril at the time of the death of Camille.
The guests were well received, and they viewed with delight a future full of a long string of warm Thursday evenings.
The evenings, nevertheless, were calm.
But they soon had much more preference for the Thursday gatherings, than for these family evenings.
They did not wish to lose a third party who rendered their evenings supportable; and they did not wish the dining-room and the whole house to become a cruel and sinister spot like their room.
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