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Mistress in sentence

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Arrived in front of the Hotel de Boulogne, Leon left him abruptly, ran up the stairs, and found his mistress in great excitement.
Then, on, reflection, he began to think his mistress's ways were growing odd, and that they were perhaps not wrong in wishing to separate him from her.
The servant and mistress had no secret one from the other.
my poor mistress!
my poor mistress!"
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.
Elisa, Madame de Renal's maid, had not failed to fall in love with the young tutor; she often spoke of him to her mistress.
The young tutor and his timid mistress would have found in three or four novels, and even in the lyrics of the Gymnase, a clear statement of their situation.
Madame de Renal was surprised that her maid's newly acquired fortune had not made the girl more happy; she saw her going incessantly to the cure's, and returning with tears in her eyes; finally Elisa spoke to her mistress of her marriage.
Elisa's tears increased; she said that if her mistress would allow it, she would tell her the whole tale of her distress.
The maid, amazed at the fearful distress in which she found her mistress, paid no attention fortunately to this singular utterance.
Even if we allow him Julien's imagination, a young man brought up among the melancholy truths of Paris would have been aroused at this stage in his romance by the cold touch of irony; the mighty deeds would have vanished with the hope of performing them, to give place to the well-known maxim: 'When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.'
After finding happiness too soon, Fouque had discovered that he was not the sole possessor of his mistress's heart.
Julien, insisting upon playing the part of a Don Juan, he who had never had a mistress in his life, was deadly dull for the rest of the day.
On this occasion he found greater happiness with his mistress, for he was less continually thinking of the part he had to play.
The foolish idea of his being regarded as a servile lover, at his mistress's beck and call, on account of his humble birth, vanished likewise.
In proportion as Julien's transports reassured his coy mistress, she recovered some degree of happiness and the faculty of criticising her lover.
His acts of adoration, his transports at the sight of his mistress's charms, ended by reassuring her somewhat as to the difference in age.
His mistress, leaning upon his shoulder, gazed at him; he himself gazed at those ornaments and fripperies which on a wedding day are displayed among the presents.
Often his mistress's sincere admiration, and her transports of passion made him forget the fatuous theory that had kept him so restrained and almost ridiculous in the first moments of their intimacy.
His mistress's rank seemed to raise him above himself.
Julien gave himself all the more readily to the pleasant society of his mistress inasmuch as, whenever he was left too long by himself, Fouque's fatal offer recurred to his mind to worry him.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona_One evening as the sun set, sitting by his mistress, at the end of the orchard, safe from disturbance, he was deep in thought.
The memory of his mistress's charms distracted Julien from his black ambition.
This great moral crisis changed the nature of the sentiment that united Julien to his mistress.
The Tempest_As they left the drawing-room about midnight, Julien found time to say to his mistress: 'Do not let us meet tonight, your husband has suspicions; I would swear that that long letter he was reading with such displeasure is an anonymous one.'
'He has not yet come to a decision,' he said to his mistress, during a moment of solitude in the drawing-room.
'But, Great God!How do you expect me to believe you?' was Julien's reply to his mistress's chill protestations.
A lady, who seemed to be the mistress of the place, took pity on my raw looks.
Julien slipped his arm round the waist of his mistress; this movement was highly dangerous.
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