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It was a great delight at first, but soon he no longer concealed the truth, which was, that his master complained very much about these interruptions.
At last Felicite sighed—"If I were you, madame, I should go to Monsieur Guillaumin.""Do you think—"And this question meant to say—"You who know the house through the servant, has the master spoken sometimes of me?""Yes, you'd do well to go there."
"And the master'll soon be in."
"I must tell master."
"Say nothing, or all the blame will fall on your master."
By dint of giving voice to every sort of objection, Sorel succeeded in gathering that his son was to take his meals with the master and mistress of the house, and on days when they had company in a room by himself with the children.
For many years now, perhaps not an hour of Julien's life had passed without his reminding himself that Bonaparte, an obscure subaltern with no fortune, had made himself master of the world with his sword.
I shall say a few words to this Master Julien, and give him a hundred francs.''Ah, my dear,' said Madame de Renal trembling, 'please do not say anything in front of the servants.'
'Here I am walking about as calm as a man who is his own master!
It warned her of the danger of confiding in a husband, who is after all a master.
As one o'clock struck, he slipped quietly from his room, made sure that the master of the house was sound asleep, and appeared before Madame de Renal.
A moment later, she was admiring him as her master.
Do you suppose that I am a blind master who knows nothing of what goes on under his roof?''Very well, if he doesn't read those absurd compliments anywhere, he invents them, which is even worse.
The master's vengeance is terrible, bloody, but martial and noble: a dagger blow ends everything.
When his wife praised the graceful and witty manner in which Julien imparted fresh ideas to his pupils:'Yes, yes, I know, he is making me odious to my children; it is very easy for him to be a hundred times pleasanter to them than I, who am, after all, the master.
'Signer Zingarelli,' went on the young singer, speaking with a slightly exaggerated accent which made the children burst out laughing, 'Signor Zingarelli is an exceedingly severe master.
He made an effort to master his timidity; he ventured to enter, and found himself in a hall thirty or forty feet long, the ceiling of which rose to a height of at least twenty feet.
From this moment, Julien was really admirable, he felt that he was master of himself.
This was only prudent, in the master's interest as well as the pupil's; but more than anything else it was a test.
Remember that, even financially speaking, it is better to earn one hundred louis in an honest trade in timber, where you are your own master, than to receive four thousand francs from a Government, were it that of King Solomon himself.'Julien saw no more in this than the pettiness of a rustic mind.
After abundant conjectures as to the source of the letter with the five hundred francs, Julien had resumed his narrative; he became rather more his own master in speaking of his past life which, in comparison with what was happening to him at that moment, interested him so little.
From that moment he was master of himself.
In his outings with the riding master, he was almost invariably thrown.
CHAPTER 7 An Attack of GoutAnd I received promotion, not on my own merits, but because my master had the gout.
'Faith, she's a past master.'
At length, as the silence continued, he looked at her as a servant looks at his master, when receiving orders.
Good, here comes that master of impertinence, the Comte de Fervaques.'
He said to himself, like his master Tartuffe, whose part he knew by heart:'I might suppose these words an honest artifice Nay, I shall not believe so flattering a speech Unless some favour shown by her for whom I sigh Assure me that they mean all that they might imply.'(Tartuffe, Act IV, Scene V)'Tartuffe also was ruined by a woman, and he was as good a man as most ...My answer may be shewn ... a mishap for which we find this remedy,' he went on, pronouncing each word slowly, and in accents of restrained ferocity, 'we begin it by quoting the strongest expressions from the letter of the sublime Mathilde.
And she was going to make him her lover, possibly her master!
'But if they pinion my arms, the moment I enter the room; they may have set some diabolical machine there ready for me!'It is like a duel,' he told himself with a laugh, 'there is a parry for every thrust, my fencing master says, but the Almighty, who likes things to end, makes one of the fighters forget to parry.
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