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A man endowed with a noble soul, of generous instincts, who would have been your friend did he not live a hundred leagues away, judges you by the public opinion of your town, which is formed by the fools whom chance has made noble, rich and moderate.
Hers was one of those noble and romantic natures, for which to see the possibility of a generous action, and not to perform it gives rise to a remorse almost equal to that which one feels for a past crime.
M. Valenod, who was playing a close game, had placed Elisa with a noble and highly respected family, which included five women.
From that instant the conduct, like the features of Madame de Renal was noble, firm, and perfectly conventional.
'How different for me,' he said with a sigh, 'if I were arriving in this noble fortress to be a sublieutenant in one of the regiments entrusted with its defence!'Besancon is not merely one of the most charming towns in France, it abounds in men and women of feeling and spirit.
These noble sons of ancient Bisontium conversed only in shouts; they gave themselves the air of tremendous warriors.
He saw without observing them; at the same time, whether from a vague sense of his duty, or from admiration of the plain but noble attire of these ladies, he remarked that there was no priest in that confessional.
And yet, my friends write to me, this noble peer never allows a week to pass without going to show off his blue riband in the drawing-room of the Keeper of the Seals, for what that is worth.'
RONSARDIf everything seemed strange to Julien, in the noble drawing-room of the Hotel de La Mole, the young man himself, pale and dressed in black, seemed in turn highly singular to those who deigned to notice him.
The Marquis behaved admirably to his wife; he saw to it that her drawing-room was adequately filled; not with peers, he found his new colleagues scarcely noble enough to come to his house as friends, nor entertaining enough to be admitted as subordinates.
These noble personages did not conceal their sincere contempt for everyone that was not the offspring of people who rode in the King's carriages.
Round the table, which the servants had just brought in already laid, were seated seven or eight ladies, extremely noble, extremely religious, extremely affected, between thirty and thirty-five years of age.
His features, noble and vacuous, betokened a propriety and paucity of ideas, the ideal of the well-meaning man, a horror of the unexpected and of ridicule, an abundance of gravity.
'His behaviour this morning was noble,' thought the Marquis, 'and I shall ennoble him.'
'There is a good deal of coquetry in that noble reserve,' went on the young man with the moustaches.
Given noble birth and an ample fortune, genius is not to be laughed at, and then, what distinction!
Is he to be another Danton,' thought Mathilde; 'but he has such a noble face, and that Danton was so horribly ugly, a butcher, I fancy.'
Immediately his eyes, so noble and unaffected, assumed a slight expression of scorn.
'Has not Israel Bertuccio more character than all those Venetian nobles?' our rebellious plebeian asked himself; 'and yet they are men whose noble descent can be proved as far back as the year 700, a century before Charlemagne; whereas the bluest blood at M. de Retz's ball tonight does not go farther back, and that only by a hop, skip and jump, than the thirteenth century.
It is not, generally speaking, with want of prudence that one can reproach the pupils of the noble Convent of the Sacre-Coeur.
Fortune, noble birth, wit, beauty, or so it was said, and she believed, all had been heaped upon her by the hand of chance.
I should have a scene at the signing of my marriage contract like my youngest cousin, with the noble relatives shedding tears, provided they were not made angry by a final condition inserted in the contract the day before by the solicitor to the other party.'
'If, with his poverty, Julien had been noble, my love would be nothing more than a piece of vulgar folly, an unfortunate marriage; I should not object to that; it would lack that element which characterises great passion: the immensity of the difficulty to be overcome and the black uncertainty of events.'
Yesterday, for instance, her ill humour was quite genuine, and I had the pleasure of seeing discomfited in my favour a young man as noble and rich as I am penniless and plebeian.
And I, cast down to the humblest rank by a stepmotherly Providence, I, whom Providence has endowed with a noble heart and not a thousand francs of income, that is to say not enough for my daily bread, _literally speaking, not enough for my daily bread_; am I to refuse a pleasure that is offered me?
Julien was overjoyed, he had not known what to say to her.'If all this is not a trick arranged with Comte Norbert, plainly it must have been my frigid glance that has kindled the freakish love which this girl of noble birth has taken it into her head to feel for me.
Why!M. de La Mole and Comte Norbert, the only people who ever show their faces here, are absent almost all day; it is easy to watch for the moment of their return to the house, and the sublime Mathilde, for whose hand a Sovereign Prince would not be too noble, wishes me to commit an act of abominable imprudence!
There, one of them kept a close watch over him, and if the honour of the noble family required that the adventure should have a tragic ending, it was easy to end everything with one of those poisons which leave no trace; then, they would say that he had died a natural death, and would take his dead body back to his room.
It would have been hard for anyone to appear at once so noble and so insignificant.
It is to you, Gentlemen, that this saying, so noble and so profound, seems to apply.
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