Favour
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But I ask one
favour
of you, if anyone comes to ask for me to sing outside, refuse him.
But my protection is neither
favour
nor weakness, it is an increase of precaution and severity against vice.
As a special favour, he was giving Julien a room to himself.
He ought to have thought of the wear and tear of the ropes, of the timber, of the danger from the bell itself which fell every two hundred years, and to have planned some way of diminishing the wage of the ringers, or of paying them with some indulgence or other
favour
drawn from the spiritual treasury of the Church, with no strain upon her purse.
It was a great piece of news for the select society of Besancon; people were lost in conjectures as to the meaning of this extraordinary
favour.
Tanbeau, who worked in a room apart, having heard of the
favour
that was being bestowed upon Julien, was anxious to share it, and that morning had come and set up his desk in the library.
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.
This is his favourite device when he has some
favour
to ask.
The little monster loathed him as the source of the
favour
that Julien enjoyed, and had come to pay court to him.
Julien was out of
favour
with the young Count.
This frankness found
favour
with the Chevalier's friend; he repeated the anecdotes to him in full detail, and extremely well.
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.
And the
favour
she shows me, I obtain on the footing of a confidential servant!
Heaven owed me this
favour.
Yesterday, for instance, her ill humour was quite genuine, and I had the pleasure of seeing discomfited in my
favour
a young man as noble and rich as I am penniless and plebeian.
He said to himself, like his master Tartuffe, whose part he knew by heart:'I might suppose these words an honest artifice Nay, I shall not believe so flattering a speech Unless some
favour
shown by her for whom I sigh Assure me that they mean all that they might imply.'(Tartuffe, Act IV, Scene V)'Tartuffe also was ruined by a woman, and he was as good a man as most ...My answer may be shewn ... a mishap for which we find this remedy,' he went on, pronouncing each word slowly, and in accents of restrained ferocity, 'we begin it by quoting the strongest expressions from the letter of the sublime Mathilde.
This caprice, which told in Julien's favour, lasted for the rest of the day; Mathilde formed a charming impression of the brief moments during which she had loved him, and looked back on them with regret.
During the two or three amorous impulses to which she has yielded in your favour, by a great effort of imagination, she beheld in you the hero of her dreams and not yourself as you really are ...'But what the devil, these are the elements, my dear Sorel, are you still a schoolboy?
But such drawing-rooms are worth visiting only when one has a
favour
to ask.
'And so,' she cried, beside herself with rage, 'not only have you found
favour
with her, but you despise her.
At such times a plan of conduct would not please him because it was backed by sound reasons; the reasons found
favour
in his sight only in so far as they supported his favourite plan.
After five or six days of hesitation, the general opinion of the Regiment declared itself in his
favour.
Though only just a Lieutenant, promoted by
favour
and after two days' service, he was already calculating that, in order to be Commander in Chief at thirty, at latest, like all the great Generals, he would need at three and twenty to be something more than Lieutenant.
CHAPTER 39 IntrigueCastres, 1676.--He that endeavoured to kill his sister in our house, had before killed a man, and it had cost his father five hundred ecus to get him off; by their secret distribution, gaining the
favour
of the counsellors.
'I have a
favour
to ask you,' her lover said to her one day: Put your child out to nurse at Verrieres, Madame de Renal will look after the nurse.''That is a very harsh saying . .
I do not see, anywhere among the jury, a peasant who has grown rich, but only indignant bourgeois ...'For twenty minutes Julien continued to speak in this strain; he said everything that was in his heart; the counsel for the prosecution, who aspired to the
favour
of the aristocracy, kept springing from his seat; but in spite of the somewhat abstract turn which Julien had given the debate, all the women were dissolved in tears.
And, as he saw him hesitate: 'I am composing a memorial for my appeal to clemency ... but anyhow ... do me a favour, never to speak to me of death.
Napoleon at Saint-Helena! ...Pure charlatanism, a proclamation in
favour
of the King of Rome.
And what you have said has not exactly been in your favour."
Am I really so worthless that you won't even do me the
favour
of staying a little bit longer?""You misunderstand me," said K., sitting back down, "if it's really important to you for me to stay here then I'll be glad to do so, I have plenty of time, I came here thinking there would be a trial taking place.
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