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"Have you been working long at the mine?"Bonnemort flung open both arms.
She had simply put up her hair and flung on a white woollen dressing-gown.
When the Maheus and the others had too quickly digested their soup, made with clear water, they thus rose into a state of semi-vertigo, that ecstasy of a better life which has flung martyrs to the wild beasts.
And they grumbled, flung themselves about, and at last trod on the feet of their dying sister, who groaned.
All the shutters had been flung back at the administration building, the vast structure seemed alive again.
But when the first islander laid hands on the companionway railing, he was flung backward by some invisible power, lord knows what!
There, a city in ruins, flung to the ground by convulsions in the earth.
Endowed with a delicate and haughty nature, that instinct for happiness natural to all human beings made her, generally speaking, pay no attention to the actions of the coarse creatures into whose midst chance had flung her.
Julien lost no time in joining her; he admired those fine arms which a shawl flung in haste across her shoulders left visible.
Indeed, when she had no longer anything to refuse him, she thrust him from her, with genuine indignation, and then flung herself into his arms.
CHAPTER 18 A King at VerrieresAre you fit only to be flung down like the corpse of a nation, its soul gone and its veins emptied of blood?
His Majesty flung himself rather than knelt down on the faldstool.
On his return, he flung a large bundle wrapped in grey paper on the table.
He little knew that M. Pirard had received and had flung in the fire several letters bearing the Dijon postmark, letters in which, despite the most conventional style and language, the most intense passion was apparent.
His heart trembling, but determined nevertheless to see her or to perish, he flung a handful of gravel against the shutter; no reply.
'He has never loved me as I believed then that you loved me ...'Julien flung himself into her arms, without any definite intention but with entire lack of self-control.
Madame de Renal sprang after him and flung herself into his arms.
You are fully dressed,' said M. de Renal, as he entered; 'you are having supper, and you have locked your door?'On any ordinary day, this question, put with all the brutality of a husband, would have troubled Madame de Renal, but she felt that her husband had only to lower his eyes a little to catch sight of Julien; for M. de Renal had flung himself upon the chair on which Julien had been sitting a moment earlier, facing the sofa.
Cooler than ever, she began to undress, and, choosing her moment, passed swiftly behind her husband and flung a garment over the chair with the hat on it.
The man in the greatcoat, hearing this opinion freely vented, flung a handful of visiting cards in Julien's face.
Julien had handed to a tall footman one of the cards flung at him the day before, together with one of his own.
He presented one of the cards that had been flung at him:'This is my name,' said the man of fashion, in whom Julien's black coat, at seven o'clock in the morning, inspired but scant respect; 'but I do not understand, the honour ...'His way of pronouncing these last words restored some of Julien's ill humour.
'Not exactly,' replied Altamira coldly; 'he perhaps had some thirty wealthy landowners of his country, who were supposed to be Liberals, flung into the river.''What a monster!' said Julien again.
I am flung into prison with all the forms of law; I appear in the police court, and they send me, with all justice and equity on the judges' part, to keep MM.
'It is our turn, now,' he exclaimed, as he locked himself into his room, and flung off his coat:'What, Mademoiselle,' he wrote to Mathilde, 'it is Mademoiselle de La Mole who, by the hand of Arsene, her father's servant, transmits a letter couched in too seductive terms to a poor carpenter from the Jura, doubtless to play a trick upon his simplicity ...'And he transcribed the most unequivocal sentences from the letter he had received.
He was extremely annoyed at this instance of his weakness, and had almost ceased to think of the incredible victory which had preceded this slight check when, about nine o'clock, Mademoiselle de La Mole appeared on the threshold of the library, flung him a letter, and fled.
At five o'clock, Julien received a third letter; it was flung at him from the library door.
'My God!How beautiful she is!' said Julien, as he watched her run from the room: 'that is the creature who flung herself into my arms with such frenzy not a week ago ...
He flung himself into the room more dead than alive: 'So it is you!' she said, and fell into his arms ...What words can describe the intensity of Julien's happiness?
Julien flung a crown to the peasant who stood listening to them, open-mouthed.
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