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Which amounted to forgetting our castaway status for much too long, if they really had good intentions toward us.
For several hours I was left to myself, sometimes musing on the islanders-- but no longer fearing them because the captain's unflappable confidence had won me over--and sometimes forgetting them to marvel at the splendors of this tropical night.
Forgetting his regulation language, this poor Frenchman had reverted to speaking his own mother tongue to fling out one supreme plea!
Come to see us; my daughter thinks of you now and again, d'ye know, and she says you are forgetting her.
"Leave the room!" said Emma."You are forgetting yourself.
"You are forgetting nothing?""No.""Are you sure?""Certainly."
He reproached himself with forgetting Emma, as if, all his thoughts belonging to this woman, it was robbing her of something not to be constantly thinking of her.
A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her.
He reigned, so to speak, at Verrieres, under the orders of M. de Renal; but being far more active, blushing at nothing, interfering in everything, everlastingly going about, writing, speaking, forgetting humiliations, having no personal pretensions, he had succeeded in equalling the credit of his Mayor in the eyes of ecclesiastical authority.
'I was forgetting one thing,' said the abbe: 'this young man, although of quite humble birth, has a proud heart, he will be of no use to you if his pride is offended; you will only make him stupid.''I like that,' said the Marquis, 'I shall make him my son's companion, will that do?'Some time after this, Julien received a letter in an unknown hand and bearing the postmark of Chalons, and found a draft upon a merchant in Besancon and instructions to proceed to Paris without delay.
'And so,' Madame de Renal said to herself, 'after a year's absence, almost without a single token of remembrance, while I was forgetting him, his mind was entirely taken up with the happy days he had enjoyed at Vergy.'Her sobs increased in violence.
'Ah!' said the abbe, 'I have been making inquiries on your behalf; I was forgetting M. de La Mole's family.
The day after tomorrow, be at my house at midday ...Run along, ruin yourself ...I was forgetting, go and order boots, shirts, a hat at these addresses.'
'All the worse!' said Julien; 'at least, when we commit crimes, we should commit them with pleasure: that is the only good thing about them, and the only excuse that can in any way justify them.'Mademoiselle de La Mole, entirely forgetting what she owed to herself, had placed herself almost bodily between Altamira and Julien.
MERIMEEHad Julien devoted to the consideration of what went on in the drawing-room the time which he spent in exaggerating Mathilde's beauty, or in lashing himself into a fury at the aloofness natural to her family, whom she was forgetting in his company, he would have understood in what her despotic power over everyone round about her consisted.
Do not go and imagine, Mademoiselle de La Mole, that I am forgetting my station.
I must return in all sincerity to the recognised standards of prudence and honour; a woman has everything to lose in forgetting them.'
'This is what I cannot endure,' cried Mathilde, seizing the letter; 'you are forgetting me entirely, me who am your wife.
He was on the point of forgetting his principle of conduct.
The gate was flung open, and in a moment, Mathilde, forgetting all self-respect, threw herself into his arms.
'_Item_: I am forgetting to live and love, when I have so few days left of life ...Alas!Madame de Renal is absent; perhaps her husband will not allow her to come to Besancon again, and disgrace herself further.
"Don't take it so hard, Mr. K.," she said, with tears in her voice and also, of course, forgetting the handshake.
Ah yes, I'm forgetting myself, the most important person of all, so I'm standing here in front of the table.
"Yes," said K. to himself, forgetting that he had only gone there to investigate the painter.
"What a coincidence that is!" exclaimed K., totally engrossed and forgetting how ridiculous the businessman had seemed to him earlier.
I don't want or need any more thanks than that you're fond of me.""Fond of you?" thought K. at first, and only then it occurred to him, "Well, yes, I am fond of her."Nonetheless, what he said, forgetting all the rest, was, "He receives me because I am his client.
Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be.""But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment.
He had come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it.
"Oh! no," interrupted Frances, eagerly, forgetting all the circumstances in her anxiety for her brother.
Dunwoodie started; and, forgetting everything but the duties of a soldier, he precipitately left the house.
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