Happiness
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Endowed with a delicate and haughty nature, that instinct for
happiness
natural to all human beings made her, generally speaking, pay no attention to the actions of the coarse creatures into whose midst chance had flung her.
Don Juan_, I. 74The angelic sweetness which Madame de Renal derived from her own character as well as from her present
happiness
was interrupted only when she happened to think of her maid Elisa.
She could think of nothing but them and the
happiness
they would find in their married life.
After all, M. Julien's own father is no better than a carpenter; and he himself, how was he earning his living before he came to Madame's?'Madame de Renal had ceased to listen; surfeit of
happiness
had almost deprived her of the use of her reason.
She could not hold out against the torrent of
happiness
which now poured into her heart after all those days of despair.
Entirely absorbed, before Julien came, in that mass of work which, outside Paris, is the lot of a good wife and mother, Madame de Renal thought about the passions, as we think about the lottery: a certain disappointment and a
happiness
sought by fools alone.
He found in it at once happiness, ecstasy and consolation in moments of depression.
These words confirmed Julien's happiness, which, at this moment, was extreme: he talked, forgot to dissimulate, appeared the most charming of men to his two hearers.
The hours they spent beneath this huge lime, which, local tradition maintained, had been planted by Charles the Bold, were for her a time of
happiness.
Her heart was so to speak carried away by this charming
happiness
which for the last fortnight had astonished even more than it had bewitched her.
The cessation of her poignant grief, born of suspicion, the presence of a
happiness
of which she had never even dreamed, plunged her in transports of affection and wild gaiety.
On returning to his room he thought of one
happiness
only, that of going on with his favourite book; at twenty, the thought of the world and of the impression one is going to make on it, prevails over everything else.
She could not tear her mind from the
happiness
of feeling Julien cover her hand with burning kisses.
That evening she had tasted an unknown happiness; now she suddenly found herself plunged in appalling misery.
After finding
happiness
too soon, Fouque had discovered that he was not the sole possessor of his mistress's heart.
As Madame de Renal had never read any novels, all the refinements of her
happiness
were new to her.
POLIDORIAs for Julien, Fouque's offer had indeed destroyed all his happiness; he could not decide upon any course.
He was a thousand leagues from any thought of abandoning all pretence, all his plans, and of living from day to day with Madame de Renal, contenting himself like a child with the
happiness
that each day would bring.
In a word, what made Julien a superior being was precisely what prevented him from enjoying the
happiness
that sprang up at his feet.
In a word, nothing would have been wanting to complete our hero's happiness, not even a burning sensibility in the woman he had just vanquished, had he been capable of enjoying it.
On this occasion he found greater
happiness
with his mistress, for he was less continually thinking of the part he had to play.
In proportion as Julien's transports reassured his coy mistress, she recovered some degree of
happiness
and the faculty of criticising her lover.
Had she noticed his intentness upon playing a part, the painful discovery would have robbed her of all
happiness
for ever.
When Madame de Renal was calm enough to reflect, she could not get over her astonishment that such
happiness
could exist and that she had never had the slightest idea of it.
After which he could find no objection to his
happiness.
Madame de Renal shed a few tears at her departure, and soon it seemed to her that her
happiness
was doubled.
Julien's
happiness
was, that day, on the point of becoming permanent.
The necessity to refrain from speaking to her of serious, reasonable matters, since they were on opposite sides, added, without his suspecting it, to the
happiness
that he owed to her and to the power which she was acquiring over him.
His
happiness
knew no bounds when, as they passed near the old rampart, the sound of the small cannon made his horse swerve out of the ranks.
Their
happiness
would have seemed great in the eyes of other people.
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