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Gentlemen in sentence

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These gentlemen were unanimous in accusing Julien of a _priestly_ air, humble and hypocritical.
Besides, when these gentlemen say anything which they consider clever and startling, is not their first glance always at Julien?
When the fire of these brilliant officers' pleasantries was extinguished:'Tomorrow some country squire from the mountains of the Franche-Comte,' she said to M. de Caylus, 'has only to discover that Julien is his natural son, and give him a name and a few thousand francs, and in six weeks he will have grown moustaches like yourselves, gentlemen; in six months he will be an officer of hussars like yourselves, gentlemen.
'Whether the jokes which Mademoiselle de La Mole makes at the expense of these gentlemen be real, or only intended to inspire me with confidence, I have been amused by them.
'Not so fast, my fine gentlemen, I understand this little stroke of Machiavellianism; the abbe Maslon or M. Castanede of the Seminary could not have been more clever.
'One moment, gentlemen, I am going to send the fatal letter in a carefully sealed packet to the custody of M. l'abbe Pirard.
'But,' he said to himself, laying down his pen, 'the secret room in the post office will open my letter, and give you back the one you seek; no, gentlemen.'
These pretty little gentlemen think me too simple or too conceited.
'Begad, then, gentlemen, you shall bear the mark of my fists, I shall strike at your faces, like Caesar's soldiers at Pharsalia .. .
'If this is not treachery, how foolishly she is behaving for me! ...If it is a mystification, begad, gentlemen, it rests with me to turn the jest to earnest, and so I shall.
'What a fine opportunity to discomfit these gentlemen, if they are listening, and so avoid the conflict!' thought Julien.
We can see that Julien had no experience of life, he had not even read any novels; if he had been a little less awkward, and had said with a certain coldness to this girl, whom he so adored and who made him such strange confidences: 'Admit that though I am not the equal of all these gentlemen, it is still myself that you love ...'Perhaps she would have been glad to have her secret guessed; at any rate his success would have depended entirely upon the grace with which Julien expressed this idea, and the moment that he chose.
No, I shall never see him at my feet again!'On the preceding days, in the artlessness of his misery, Julien had paid a heartfelt tribute to the brilliant qualities of these gentlemen; he went so far as to exaggerate them.
All these great gentlemen whom I have never seen before do not frighten me in the least, and the look in this young Bishop's eyes freezes me!
'One half of this troop will have to be composed of our sons, our nephews, in short of true gentlemen.
'The foreign Kings will listen to you only when you can inform them that there are twenty thousand gentlemen ready to take up arms to open to them the gates of France.
Gentlemen, it is the price of our heads.
Between the liberty of the press and our existence as gentlemen, there is war to the knife.
And with those four letters K-I-N-G, go the priests and the gentlemen.
In this drawing-room he remarked three of the gentlemen who had been present at the drafting of the secret note.
In vain did little Tanbeau supply MM. de Luz, de Croisenois, de Caylus, with two or three most adroit calumnies which those gentlemen took pleasure in spreading abroad, without stopping to consider the truth of the accusations.
Mathilde blamed herself severely for all the confidences she had made to Julien in the past, especially as she did not dare confess to him that she had exaggerated the almost wholly innocent marks of interest of which those gentlemen had been the object.
Nowadays, whenever one of these gentlemen had spoken to her for a few moments, she found that she had a question to ask Julien, and this was a pretext for keeping him by her side.
'I am sorry, gentlemen,' he added, smiling; 'but this reduces your task to a very small matter.
'Gentlemen of the Jury,'My horror of the contempt which I believed that I could endure at the moment of my death, impels me to speak.
Gentlemen, I have not the honour to belong to your class, you see in me a peasant who has risen in revolt against the lowliness of his station.
"These gentlemen and I have got nothing to do with your business, in fact we know almost nothing about you.
These gentlemen first accost me, and now they sit or stand about in here and let me be hauled up in front of you.
"Now, gentlemen," called out K., and for a moment it seemed as if he was carrying all of them on his shoulders, "it looks like your business with me is over with.
And to make things easier for you, and to let you get to the bank with as little fuss as possible I've put these three gentlemen, colleagues of yours, at your disposal."
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