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But my own distresses silenced all these reflections, and the prospect of my own starving, which grew every day more frightful to me, hardened my heart by degrees.
'Just as it did now to you,' says she, dreadful and frightful'; that she thought she was in hell; 'and I believe so still,' adds she, 'but it is natural to me now, I don't disturb myself about it.'
With these reflections came, of mere course, severe reproaches of my own mind for my wretched behaviour in my past life; that I had forfeited all hope of any happiness in the eternity that I was just going to enter into, and on the contrary was entitled to all that was miserable, or had been conceived of misery; and all this with the frightful addition of its being also eternal.
Therese still maintained her gentle indifference, and her restrained expression of frightful calmness.
These bare apartments, without furniture, looked frightful in their solitude and dilapidation.
She could not close her eyes, a frightful contraction kept them wide open riveted on the hideous struggle.
As soon as the young woman became calmer, Laurent entrusting her to the care of the host and his wife, set out to return to Paris, where he wished to arrive alone to break the frightful intelligence to Madame Raquin, with all possible precautions.
The motive of his visit was to seek protection, in case he should be suspected, and also to escape breaking the frightful news to Madame Raquin himself.
"Ah! good heavens," said he in a broken voice, "ah! good heavens, what a frightful thing!
This head, which looked tanned and drawn out lengthwise, while preserving a human appearance, had remained all the more frightful with pain and terror.
His mind now settled on Camille with frightful tenacity.
There he struggled until daybreak amidst frightful attacks of fever.
According to what he said, it was Therese who shuddered, it was Therese alone who brought on the frightful scenes, at night, in the bedroom.
These attacks resembled the accesses of some frightful illness, a sort of hysteria of murder.
His passion for Therese had conveyed a frightful evil to him, and that was all.
The mind could not imagine the frightful change that came over them, as soon as they were shut up in their bedroom.
The artist had no idea of the frightful shock this man had received, and which had transformed him, developing in him the nerves of a woman, along with keen, delicate sensations.
One night she was crushed by a frightful blow.
A frightful contraction passed over her face, and she experienced such a shock that Therese thought she was about to bound to her feet and shriek, but she fell backward, rigid as iron.
The veil being rent, she perceived apart from the love and friendship which was all she had hitherto been able to see, a frightful picture of blood and shame.
The paralysed woman, cut up by frightful despair, looked at her hand, which had just betrayed her.
The frightful story continued to expand before her.
As soon as one of them accused the other of having killed this man, there came a frightful shock.
The truth was that if she had desired to invent a torment to torture Madame Raquin, it would not have been possible to have found a more frightful one than the comedy of remorse she performed before her.
Laurent also led a frightful existence.
Then these numerous absences of Therese had frightful significance in his eyes.
Then, when he returned home, when he saw Madame Raquin and Therese again, his weariness brought on frightful fits of terror.
Night now closed in more completely, and many lights began to flit through the wood, just as those fiery exhalations from the earth, that look like shooting-stars to our eyes, flit through the heavens; a frightful noise, too, was heard, like that made by the solid wheels the ox-carts usually have, by the harsh, ceaseless creaking of which, they say, the bears and wolves are put to flight, if there happen to be any where they are passing.
Leading it were two hideous demons, also clad in buckram, with countenances so frightful that Sancho, having once seen them, shut his eyes so as not to see them again.
The spectral figures in the Dance of Death, the most frightful shapes that the ablest painter ever portrayed on canvas, never presented an appearance half so ghastly.
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