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Mistress in sentence

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The smart maid had to go to her mistress, and Annushka remained with Dolly.
Dolly noticed that she wanted to express her opinion of her mistress's position, and especially of the Count's love of and devotion to Anna, but Dolly carefully stopped her whenever she began to speak about that subject.
And that difficult task for the mistress of a house with a small circle which included such people as the steward and the architect – people of quite a different world, who tried not to be abashed by the unfamiliar luxury and were unable to take any sustained part in the general conversation – Anna managed that task with her usual tact, naturally and even with pleasure, as Dolly observed.
'If I could be anything but his mistress, passionately loving nothing but his caresses – but I cannot and do not want to be anything else.
'The mistress has sent me!
She was speaking of the eldest Levaque, a big girl of nineteen, and the mistress of Zacharie, by whom she had already had two children; her chest was so delicate that she was only a sifter at the pit, never having been able to work below.
"Give it her bloody well!" cried Zacharie, from above, to his mistress.
But the dogs began to bark loudly; perhaps they announced the music mistress, who came from Marchiennes on Mondays and Fridays.
They would all fit beautifully; she hastened and made the servants wrap up the chosen garments; for her music mistress had just arrived; and she pushed the mother and children towards the door.
It was true, then, what she had sworn to him in the morning: she was not any one's mistress; and he, who had not believed her, who had deprived himself of her in order not to act like the other!
The other man looked at him in fear, and thought of the stories of which he had received vague intimation, of charged mines beneath the tsar's palace, of chiefs of police struck down by knives like wild boars, of his mistress, the only woman he had loved, hanged at Moscow one rainy morning, while in the crowd he kissed her with his eyes for the last time.
He felt contempt for both of them and treated them as slaves, telling them that he had a princess for his mistress and that they were unworthy to appear before her.
The air here blew in like a tempest, and was so fresh that a shudder went through him as he seated himself on the earth against the props; his mistress was still unconscious, with closed eyes.
As he came in, he said to his mistress:"By God!
He only knew that the woman was his mistress, and that she had been hanged at Moscow.
Perhaps he saw again in a rapid vision his mistress hanging over there at Moscow that last link cut from his flesh, which had rendered him free of the lives of others and of his own life.
Later on, when he studied medicine, and never had his purse full enough to treat some little work-girl who would have become his mistress?
She called Djali, took her between her knees, and smoothed the long delicate head, saying, "Come, kiss mistress; you have no troubles."
The Viscount's?Perhaps it was a present from his mistress.
He went to the shops and brought back rolls of leather for the shoemaker, old iron for the farrier, a barrel of herrings for his mistress, caps from the milliner's, locks from the hair-dresser's and all along the road on his return journey he distributed his parcels, which he threw, standing upright on his seat and shouting at the top of his voice, over the enclosures of the yards.
Then the difficulties of love-making seen in the distance made him by contrast think of his mistress.
When Rodolphe came to the garden that evening, he found his mistress waiting for him at the foot of the steps on the lowest stair.
"As if your mistress, Madame Homais, didn't wear the same."
She was a pretty mistress!"
The table with all the plates was upset; sauce, meat, knives, the salt, and cruet-stand were strewn over the room; Charles was calling for help; Berthe, scared, was crying; and Felicite, whose hands trembled, was unlacing her mistress, whose whole body shivered convulsively.
Then the expenses of the household, now that the servant was mistress, became terrible.
Well, Madame Liegard assured me that her three young ladies who are at La Misericorde have lessons at fifty sous apiece, and that from an excellent mistress!"
Besides, was she not "a lady" and a married woman—a real mistress, in fine?
She was the mistress of all the novels, the heroine of all the dramas, the vague "she" of all the volumes of verse.
He did not question her ideas; he accepted all her tastes; he was rather becoming her mistress than she his.
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