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Having half mastered these several truths, which however all the words uttered in a Seminary tend to deny, Julien fell into a deep melancholy.
Julien's melancholy, assisted by the indifferent food supplied to the Seminary by the contractor for dinners at 83 centimes a head, was beginning to have an effect on his health, when one morning Fouque suddenly appeared in his room.
The men assembled in this drawing-room seemed to Julien to be somehow melancholy and constrained; people speak low in Paris, and do not exaggerate trifling matters.
And yet,' she added, with a growing melancholy, 'what advantages has not fate bestowed on me!Birth, wealth, youth!
But, in the carriage, the little strength that remained to her was still employed in making her melancholy and wretched.
Accustomed to the perfect naturalness that shone through the whole of Madame de Renal's conduct, Julien saw nothing but affectation in all the women of Paris, and even without feeling disposed to melancholy, could think of nothing to say to them.
He forgot his melancholy role as a plebeian in revolt.
It was always the most profound, the most melancholy passion.
But there was also a great deal of pride in Mathilde's nature, and the birth of a sentiment which made all her happiness dependent upon another was attended by a sombre melancholy.
Julien had made sufficient progress since his arrival in Paris to discern that this was not the barren melancholy of boredom.
If this assembly will permit me to express somewhat boldly a melancholy reflection, England does not sufficiently understand that with a man like Bonaparte, especially when one had had to oppose to him only a collection of good intentions, there was nothing decisive save personal measures ...''Ah!Praise of assassination again!' said the master of the house with an uneasy air.
A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air.
If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded.
The Prince found him decidedly melancholy: 'Ah, my dear fellow,' he said to him, as they rode into Strasbourg, 'have you lost all your money, or can you be in love with some little actress?'
Next day the Prince sent for a copyist, and two days later Julien had fifty-three love letters carefully numbered, intended to cope with the most sublime and melancholy virtue.
One hands the letter to the porter with a contrite air; profound melancholy in the gaze.
'Consequently,' he told himself, 'she cannot see mine, and this is not the same as looking at her.'That evening, Madame de Fervaques behaved to him exactly as though she had not received the philosophical, mystical and religious dissertation which, in the morning, he had handed to her porter with such an air of melancholy.
Falling asleep while transcribing a sort of commentary on the Apocalypse, going next day to deliver a letter with a melancholy air, leaving his horse in the stable yard with the hope of catching a glimpse of Mathilde's gown, working, putting in an appearance in the evening at the Opera when Madame de Fervaques did not come to the Hotel de La Mole; such were the monotonous events of Julien's existence.
'What a vast stride I have made,' thought Julien, with a melancholy smile, 'and how cold it leaves me!
Her old porter noticed that, when he brought her a letter from that handsome young man, who wore such a melancholy air, he was certain to see vanish the distracted and irritated expression which the Marechale always took care to assume when any of her servants entered the room.
He had given the conversation a turn of melancholy philosophy.
For nearly eighteen months we have all known him to be pious, wise, studious; but, two or three times in the year, he was seized by fits of melancholy which bordered on insanity.
Heaven preserve me from exaggeration.''To speak so is to command me,' she said with a timid and melancholy smile.
'I have gone beyond the last limits of modesty ...I am a woman who has forfeited her honour; it is true that it was for your sake ...'Her tone was so melancholy that Julien embraced her with a happiness that was quite new to him.
The piercing grief, envenomed by cowardice, to which he had been a prey since the departure of Madame de Renal, had turned to melancholy.
We rowed on all that day through the rain, and very melancholy work it was.
Her face was leant to one side, following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy expression.
His countenance evinced a settled composure and dignity; his nose was straight, and approaching to Grecian; his eye, of a gray color, was quiet, thoughtful, and rather melancholy; the mouth and lower part of his face being expressive of decision and much character.
The brow of Harper contracted, and a deeper shade of melancholy crossed his features; his eye kindled with a transient beam of fire, that spoke a latent source of deep feeling.
Captain Wharton, without heeding this display of interest in his sister, immediately continued, "At times he is melancholy - we tell him it must be love."
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