Fortune
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Do you know what was the extent of my
fortune?
To his great confusion, Julien felt the tears start to his eyes; he was longing to fling himself into the arms of his friend: he could not resist saying to him, with the most manly air that he was capable of affecting:'I have been hated by my father from the cradle; it was one of my great misfortunes; but I shall no longer complain of
fortune.
I have found another father in you, Sir.''Good, good,' said the abbe, with embarrassment; then remembering most opportunely a phrase from the vocabulary of a Director of a Seminary: 'You must never say fortune, my child, always say Providence.'
But, from his Jansenist friends, he had a very accurate notion of the men who make their way into drawing-rooms only by their extreme cleverness in the service of all parties, or by a
fortune
of notorious origin.
A great
fortune!
..Well, to secure a fortune, one marries M. Rothschild's daughter."
Given noble birth and an ample fortune, genius is not to be laughed at, and then, what distinction!
At Pere-Lachaise, when people strew flowers on their graves, as you so charmingly say in Paris, we are told that they combined all the virtues of the knights of old, and we hear of the great deeds of their ancestor who lived in the days of Henri IV: If, despite the good offices of Principe d'Araceli, I am not hanged, and if I ever come to enjoy my
fortune
in Paris, I hope to invite you to dine with nine or ten murderers who are honoured and feel no remorse.
That young man who is so polished, so gentle, so brave, who combines in his own person all the advantages of birth and fortune, any one of which would set my heart so at ease!
Suddenly an idea dawned upon her: 'I have the good
fortune
to be in love,' she told herself one day, with an indescribable transport of joy.
A name and a
fortune.
He would make a name for himself, he would acquire a
fortune.
'Julien is quite sincere with me,' she told herself; 'at his age, in an inferior state of fortune, wretched as an astounding ambition makes him, he needs a woman friend.
They had persuaded her that, in view of all her advantages of birth, fortune, etc., she ought to be happier than other girls.
How does the Marquis increase his vast
fortune?
A charming young man who has all the qualities that I lack: a ready wit, birth,
fortune
...'This remorse will pursue me all my life, not for her, there are heaps of mistresses,"but only one honour",as old Don Diego says, and here I am clearly and plainly recoiling from the first peril that comes my way; for that duel with M. de Beauvoisis was a mere joke.
Julien's frenzied soul, in praising a rival whom he believed to be loved, sympathised with that rival in his good
fortune.
'As the partner of such a man as Julien, who lacks nothing but the
fortune
which I possess, I shall continue to attract attention, I shall by no means pass unperceived through life.
Nor do I think that one can accuse them of unduly despising a brilliant fortune, horses, fine properties, and everything that ensures an agreeable position in society.
This young woman's husband possesses an enormous fortune, or, what is more likely, she herself belongs to the highest nobility of the place.
With the distinction of being under sentence of death, this handsome foreigner combined abundant gravity and had the good
fortune
to be devout; these two merits and, more than all, the exalted birth of the Count were entirely to the taste of Madame de Fervaques, who saw much of him.
I stood to make my
fortune
or to fail; in either case, I saw myself obliged to spend my whole life in the intimate society of all that is most contemptible and disgusting under heaven.
This unexpected fortune, quite considerable for so poor a man, made him ambitious.
After he had enjoyed for two years an immense
fortune
and all the distinctions of the Court, 1790 had cast him into the fearful hardships of the Emigration.
Cloaked by a show of disinterestedness and by phrases from novels, his great and sole object is to contrive to secure control over the master of the house and over his
fortune.
He entered the shop of the local gunsmith, who congratulated him effusively on his recent access to
fortune.
The latter could scarcely find fault with Mathilde's devotion; for he, too, would have sacrificed his whole
fortune
and exposed his life to the greatest risks to save Julien.
It was absurd to cut his head off ..."Then my memory will cease to be infamous; at least, after a certain time ...Your position in society, your fortune, and, let me say, your genius will enable M. de Croisenois to play a part, once he is your husband, to which by himself he could not hope to attain.
But, even were I less guilty, I see before me men who, without pausing to consider what pity may be due to my youth, will seek to punish in me and to discourage forever that class of young men who, born in an inferior station and in a sense burdened with poverty, have the good
fortune
to secure a sound education, and the audacity to mingle with what the pride of rich people calls society.
He was thinking of what he would say to Madame de Renal, if, before the fatal moment, he should have the good
fortune
to see her.
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