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With a slight shrug of her shoulders, Emma interrupted him to speak of her illness, which had almost killed her.
He was thinking how to resume the interrupted conversation, when she said to him—"How is it that no one until now has ever expressed such sentiments to me?"
Making no answer, he walked on with a rapid step; and Madame Bovary was already, dipping her finger in the holy water when behind them they heard a panting breath interrupted by the regular sound of a cane.
But Emma, turning to Madame Homais, "I was told to come here—""Oh, dear me!" interrupted the good woman, with a sad air, "how am I to tell you?
Rodolphe interrupted her, declaring he was "hard up" himself.
"Yet," Homais went on, "one of two things; either she died in a state of grace (as the Church has it), and then she has no need of our prayers; or else she departed impertinent (that is, I believe, the ecclesiastical expression), and then—"Bournisien interrupted him, replying testily that it was none the less necessary to pray.
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.
The possibility of making a fortune with Fouque gave a certain facility to the course of Julien's reasoning; it was less often interrupted by irritation, and the keen sense of his own poverty and humble position in the eyes of the world.
Often he would have been just as well pleased not to be interrupted by an assignation, the tension of waiting for which, even before the little scene in the orchard, would have left him incapable of reading.
A moment later M. de Renal, his wounded vanity once more gaining the mastery, was laboriously recalling all the stories told in the billiard-room of the Casino or Noble Club of Verrieres, when some fluent talker interrupted the pool to make merry at the expense of some cuckolded husband.
There, he ventured to broach the subject...'Madame de Renal's speech was interrupted by her tears.
They spoke very loud; and it might have been two o'clock in the morning when they were interrupted by a violent blow on the door.
What a misfortune, if I had had to endure that insult a second time in a cafe!'The amusing conversation had scarcely been interrupted.
These lofty thoughts were interrupted by the sudden arrival of Mademoiselle de La Mole, who at this moment entered the library.
One day he interrupted her suddenly: 'Has Mademoiselle de La Mole some order to give to her father's secretary?' he asked her; 'he is obliged to listen to her orders and to carry them out with respect; but apart from that, he has not one word to say to her.
Julien was sharply interrupted in his physiognomical studies by the voice of M. de La Mole.
'If he were to take his pen to prescribe my conduct, what would he write?'Julien was sharply interrupted by M. de La Mole's old valet.
It was in the midst of the transports of the most frenzied ambition that he was interrupted by a young footman from the Hotel de La Mole, who arrived with a letter.
FRAU VON GOETHEThis conversation was interrupted by a judicial examination, followed by a conference with the lawyer retained for the defence.
K. was interrupted by a screeching from the far end of the hall, he shaded his eyes to see that far, as the dull light of day made the smoke whitish and hard to see through.
"It wasn't any disadvantage for you to have your speech interrupted.
She suddenly interrupted herself and lay her hand on K.'s as if she wanted to calm him down, and whispered, "Be quiet, Berthold is watching us."
"That's right," exclaimed K., with such joy that he nearly interrupted what the man was saying, "I'm sure that'll make me feel better straight away, I'm really not that weak, all I need is a little support under my arms, I won't cause you much trouble, it's not such a long way anyway, lead me to the door and then I'll sit on the stairs for a while and soon recover, as I don't suffer from attacks like this at all, I'm surprised at it myself.
He interrupted himself, whispered, "I bet you she's listening!" and sprang over to the door.
We snarled at one another in this strain for the next few minutes, when we were interrupted by a defiant snore from George.
"What's that he's doing now", his father would say after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again.
Meanwhile Gregor's sister had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was suddenly interrupted.
His request was listened to with evident unwillingness, and, while yet unfinished, it was eagerly interrupted by the reply:"I can't say I like to give lodgings to a stranger in these ticklish times," said the female, in a pert, sharp key.
Mr. Harper bowed in silence to the compliment, and he soon resumed the meditations from which he had been interrupted, and for which the long ride he had that day made, in the wind, might seem a very natural apology.
"I take it, you have little reason to apprehend much from the Yankees, in that way," interrupted the guest at the table, coolly helping himself to another glass, from the bottle he had admired.
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