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A few days later, on the eldest boy's questioning Julien as to a book advertised in the _Quotidienne_, in M. de Renal's presence:'To remove all occasion for triumph from the Jacobin Party,' said the young tutor, 'and at the same time to enable me to answer Master Adolphe, one might open a subscription at the bookshop in the name of the lowest of your servants.'
This creature, for whom hypocrisy and the absence of all fellow feeling were the ordinary line of conduct, could not on this occasion bear the thought of the slightest want of delicacy towards a man who loved him.
On this occasion he found greater happiness with his mistress, for he was less continually thinking of the part he had to play.
Fortunately, he showed almost nothing, on this occasion, of that borrowed air which had made their meeting the night before a victory, but not a pleasure.
His Majesty alighted at the fine new church, which was decked out for the occasion with all its crimson hangings.
On the occasion of a visit from a sovereign prince, etiquette requires that the canons shall not accompany the Bishop.
'Will he be pleased with me?''This little peasant upon whom we have lavished every attention, including presents, may be innocent,' she said at length, 'but he is none the less the occasion of the first insult I have ever received ...Sir, when I read that abominable document, I vowed that either he or I should leave your roof.''Do you wish to create a scandal that will dishonour me and yourself as well?
On this occasion, Mademoiselle de La Mole asked him what might be the height of the mountain on which the citadel of Besancon stood.
I still notice provincial mannerisms in you at times, you must get rid of them; besides, it can do you no harm to know, at least by sight, important personages to whom I may one day have occasion to send you.
'That air of reserve is as much as to say: "How charming I should make myself to you, if you were the man that was worthy of me."''And who could be worthy of the sublime Mathilde?' said the first: 'Some reigning Prince, handsome, clever, well made, a hero in battle, and aged twenty at the most.''The natural son of the Emperor of Russia, for whom, on the occasion of such a marriage, a Kingdom would be created; or simply the Comte de Thaler, with his air of a peasant in his Sunday clothes . .
The truth on this occasion was worthy of me.
Julien's pride tasted a momentary joy when he saw the love that glowed in the eyes of this beautiful creature, surrounded by every mark of deference; but soon his prudence found an occasion for alarm.
Her head was dressed on this occasion with the greatest pains; a marvellous art had been employed to conceal the gap left by the clipped locks.
On this occasion, neither the chairman nor the Duke dared show annoyance, though Julien thought he could read in their eyes that they were tempted to do so.
I must appear to be what I really was a week before my disaster ...'He had occasion to be satisfied with his success, and remained in the drawing-room.
What leads me to augur well of this one is the difference in his style from that of the young men whose letters I have had occasion to see.
To obey Mathilde, whose love of giving orders he knew, Julien had made an unnecessary journey of forty leagues: he was at Villequier, examining the accounts of the agents; this generosity on the part of the Marquis was the occasion of his return.
(In so large a sum, bestowed on a young man, the priest saw only an occasion of sin.)'The Marquis adds: "M.
The first set of documents to be submitted were being worked on but still not ready, which usually turned out to be a great advantage the next time K. went to see him as the earlier occasion would have been a very bad time to put them in, which they could not then have known.
He would have liked to leave the pictures in the cab but feared there might be some occasion when he would have to let the painter see he still had them.
But Harris, who is an old traveller, rose to the occasion, and, laughing cheerily, said:"Oh, well, we can't help it.
In the discharge of the novel duties which now devolved on him, Mr.-- had occasion to employ an agent whose services differed but little from those of a common spy.
Major Dunwoodie was not less distinguished by coolness and judgment, than, where occasion offered, by his dauntless intrepidity.
Dunwoodie was by his side and held his hand, giving frequent and stern injunctions to the men to proceed with care, and, in short, manifesting all the solicitude that the most tender friendship could, on such an occasion, inspire.
On the present occasion, the mortified surgeon and exulting trooper met in the room of Captain Singleton, as a place where they could act on common ground.
Isabella yielded to the gentle influence of Frances without resistance; and, having gained the room where the latter conducted her, wept in silence on the shoulder of the observant and soothing girl, until Frances thought her tears exceeded the emotion natural to the occasion.
The uniform of his corps was always a passport to the best tables, and this, though somewhat tarnished by faithful service and unceremonious usage, was properly brushed and decked out for the occasion.
The kind-hearted spinster had deemed the occasion worthy, not only of extraordinary preparations in the culinary department, but had seen proper to deck her own person in garments suited to the guests whom it was now her happiness to entertain.
"Well, if you don't there's no occasion to make rash promises, even to yourself.
Sometimes the cart itself was her shop; at others the soldiers made her a rude shelter of such materials as offered; but on the present occasion she had seized on a vacant building, and, by dint of stuffing the dirty breeches and half-dried linen of the troopers into the broken windows, to exclude the cold, which had now become severe, she formed what she herself had pronounced to be "most illigant lodgings."
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