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M. de Renal entirely agreed that it was wise to let his eldest son have a _visual impression_ of various works which he would hear mentioned in conversation when he went to the Military School; but Julien found the Mayor obdurate in refusing to go any
farther.
By climbing the steep slope which began a few yards
farther
on, one came presently to high precipices fringed with oakwoods, which projected almost over the bed of the river.
'At last!' thought Madame de Renal; she appeared thunderstruck by this discovery, and without having the courage to add a single word went and sat down on the divan, at the
farther
end of the room.
He is a Franc-Comtois and has never been
farther
than Dole, on the road into Burgundy; so tell him whatever you like, don't be afraid.'
Julien continued to hesitate; she added rapidly, her barmaid's imagination supplying her with falsehoods in abundance:'I dare say he did look at you, but it was when he was asking me who you were; he is a man who is rude with everyone, he didn't mean to insult you.'Julien's eye followed the alleged brother-in-law; he saw him buy a number for the game of pool which was beginning at the
farther
of the two billiard tables.
Julien advanced farther, stretching out his hand as though in search of something to lean upon.
Nothing could have been
farther
from the truth.
Is it the last election that is driving you from your district?''My trouble dates from
farther
back.
'Has not Israel Bertuccio more character than all those Venetian nobles?' our rebellious plebeian asked himself; 'and yet they are men whose noble descent can be proved as far back as the year 700, a century before Charlemagne; whereas the bluest blood at M. de Retz's ball tonight does not go
farther
back, and that only by a hop, skip and jump, than the thirteenth century.
The agony of jealousy can go no
farther.
'The courage of a man's heart can go no farther,' he told himself.
His imagination went no
farther.
'Whatever the advantages they may have over me,' he thought as he went into the garden by himself, 'Mathilde has not been to any of them what, on two occasions in my life, she has deigned to be to me.'His sagacity went no
farther.
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.
Self-contempt can be carried no
farther.
I should die of joy!'And he was unable to pursue the idea
farther.
He freed his hands which Mathilde was clasping in her own, and with marked respect withdrew a little way from her.Human courage can go no
farther.
'This is a very different heart from Madame de Renal's,' he said to himself, but he went no
farther.
His reasoning went no farther; he felt a pain in his head as though it had been gripped with violence.
I shall go farther: my crime, being free from any pecuniary motive, will be in no way dishonouring.
"I'm nothing but a forlorn lone body; or, what's the same thing, there's nobody but the old gentleman at home; but a half mile
farther
up the road is a house where you can get entertainment, and that for nothing.
But it matters little to me, I'm sure, if he ever comes back again, or not; - turn in the first gate on your left; - no, I care but little, for my part, whether Harvey ever shows his face again or not - not I" - and she closed the door abruptly on the horseman, who gladly extended his ride a half mile farther, to obtain lodgings which promised both more comfort and greater security.
"Poor man!" continued the black, nestling still
farther
into the chimney corner, "I hope he lay quiet after he die."
So saying, he tore a piece of paper that had been ingeniously fastened to the small fragment of rock which had thus singularly fallen before him; and opening it, the captain read the following words, written in no very legible hand: "A musket bullet will go
farther
than a stone, and things more dangerous than yarbs for wounded men lie hid in the rocks of Westchester.
"He will never stand it for half a mile farther."
Our heroine had to ascend more than a quarter of a mile farther, although she had already conquered two thirds of the height of the mountain.
Birch went no
farther
than a bush that opportunely offered itself as a screen to his person, while he yielded to an unconquerable desire to witness the termination of this extraordinary scene.
At last Becky's frail limbs refused to carry her
farther.
Tom got down on his knees and felt below, and then as far around the corner as he could reach with his hands conveniently; he made an effort to stretch yet a little
farther
to the right, and at that moment, not twenty yards away, a human hand, holding a candle, appeared from behind a rock!
It was at Colchester, in Essex, that those people left me; and I have a notion in my head that I left them there (that is, that I hid myself and would not go any
farther
with them), but I am not able to be particular in that account; only this I remember, that being taken up by some of the parish officers of Colchester, I gave an account that I came into the town with the gypsies, but that I would not go any
farther
with them, and that so they had left me, but whither they were gone that I knew not, nor could they expect it of me; for though they send round the country to inquire after them, it seems they could not be found.
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