Happiness
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And you, as usual,' said he; smiling, 'are enjoying tranquil
happiness
outside the currents in your peaceful shadows.
'Can this really be faith?' he wondered, afraid to believe in his
happiness.
At last they entered the large haulage gallery; it was a relief to the indecision from which he was suffering; while she once more had a saddened look, the regret for a
happiness
which they would not find again.
Every morning he liked to give a glance round Piolaine, which was not large enough to cause him anxiety, and from which he derived all the
happiness
of ownership.
For the rest,
happiness
rained on this house.
M. Grégoire, when very young, had married the daughter of a Marchiennes druggist, a plain, penniless girl, whom he adored, and who repaid him with
happiness.
The moist room had that heavy air of comfort in which our middle-class nooks of
happiness
slumber.
The only drawback to all this
happiness
was Mother Brulé, who screamed with all the rage of an old revolutionary, having to avenge the death of her man on the masters, and little Lydie, who pocketed, in the shape of frequent blows, the passions of the family.
When you're young you think that
happiness
will come some time, you hope for things; and then the wretchedness begins always over again, and you get shut up in it.
Since the good God was dead, justice would assure the
happiness
of men, and equality and brotherhood would reign.
Little Alzire picked up a few words, and imagined
happiness
under the form of a very warm house, where children could play and eat as long as they liked.
It was impatience before the promised age of gold, a haste to get a share of the
happiness
beyond this horizon of misery, closed in like the grave.
This time the husband had not been able to keep his ignorance, and after some abominable scenes he resigned himself, disarmed by the quiet unconsciousness of this woman who took her
happiness
where she found it.
It was a suffering without possible cure, hidden beneath the stiffness of his attitude, the suffering of a tender nature in secret anguish at the lack of domestic
happiness.
Since an era of justice had been promised to them they were willing to suffer for the conquest of universal
happiness.
And these fools complained of life, when they could take their supreme fill of this
happiness
of love!
These heads, emptied by famine, saw everything red, and dreamed of fire and blood in the midst of a glorious apotheosis from which would arise universal
happiness.
There are often men who take women just in order to have them, caring mighty little about their
happiness.
Out of the profound silence an impression of good-natured comfort arose, the patriarchal sensation of good beds and a good table, the wise
happiness
of the proprietor's existence.
Who was the fool who placed earthly
happiness
in the partition of wealth?
At every crisis of his existence, he took refuge in the strict execution of the orders he had received; in the military discipline in which he lived he found his small share of
happiness.
Then, indeed, there would be a real kingdom of God, every one recompensed according to his merits, and the law of labour as the foundation for universal
happiness.
You will never be worthy of
happiness
as long as you own anything, and your hatred of the bourgeois proceeds solely from an angry desire to be bourgeois yourselves in their place."
It only needed a little
happiness
to dissipate their shame--that awkwardness which prevented them from coming together because of all sorts of ideas which they themselves could not read clearly.
The need for peace, an irresistible need for happiness, was carrying him away; and he saw himself married, in a neat little house, with no other ambition than to live and to die there, both of them together.
He tried to shake off this dream; then he repeated slowly:"Nothing is ever done with; a little
happiness
is enough to make everything begin again."
It was at length their wedding night, at the bottom of this tomb, on this bed of mud, the longing not to die before they had had their happiness, the obstinate longing to live and make life one last time.
In truth, this animal is a living fishhook, promising wealth and
happiness
to the greenest fisherman in the business.
A meal together, a walk in the evening on the highroad, a gesture of her hands over her hair, the sight of her straw hat hanging from the window-fastener, and many another thing in which Charles had never dreamed of pleasure, now made up the endless round of his
happiness.
And then along the highroad, spreading out its long ribbon of dust, along the deep lanes that the trees bent over as in arbours, along paths where the corn reached to the knees, with the sun on his back and the morning air in his nostrils, his heart full of the joys of the past night, his mind at rest, his flesh at ease, he went on, re-chewing his happiness, like those who after dinner taste again the truffles which they are digesting.
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