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If Madame de Renal had had the slightest self-control, she would have congratulated him on the reputation he had won, and Julien, his pride set at rest, would have been pleasant and affable to her, all the more as her new gown seemed to him charming.
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.
While he was praying aloud, it seemed as though they could not sufficiently admire his fine lace, his charm, his young and pleasant face.
How pleasant it was in your time to climb to fortune through the dangers of a battle; but meanly to intensify the sufferings of the wretched!'
He knew how to amuse his Bishop, a pleasant old man, made to live in Paris, who regarded Besancon as a place of exile.
'You relieve me of a difficulty; for the last ten minutes, I have been trying to think of a way of thanking you for the pleasant evening which you have given me, and certainly in a most unexpected manner.
Will there never be a little corner anywhere for the mere passenger?''Why, of course, and a very pleasant one, too, for a man of your peaceful nature.
He is the masterpiece of the education of the age; one cannot look at him without his thinking of something pleasant, and even clever, to say to one; he is brave ...But that Sorel is a strange fellow,' she said to herself, and the look of gloom in her eye gave place to a look of anger.
I knew what was in her mind before she did; I could see her thoughts take shape; I had no competitor, in her heart, but the fear of losing her children; it was a reasonable and natural affection, indeed it was pleasant for me who felt the same fear.
I love that period.''And Boniface de La Mole was its hero,' he said to her.'At any rate he was loved as it is perhaps pleasant to be loved.
The drawing-rooms of the nobility are pleasant things to mention after one has left them, but that is all; bare politeness is something in itself only for the first few days.
Gradually she formed the pleasant habit of writing almost every day.
Le GlobeNo argument is sufficient to destroy the mastery acquired by ten years of pleasant fancies.
Faith, no,' he said to himself after a few days, 'Napoleon lived...'Besides, life is pleasant to me; this is a quiet spot to stay in; I have no worries,' he added, laughing, and set to work to make a list of the books which he wished to have sent to him from Paris.
She will make him play a part,"By that right Which a firm spirit planning vast designs Has o'er the loutish minds of common men."'Ah, now; here is a pleasant thing: now that I am to die, all the poetry I ever learned in my life comes back to me.
K. said nothing, he knew what was coming, but, suddenly relieved from the effort of the work he had been doing, he gave way to a pleasant lassitude and looked out the window at the other side of the street.
He's not very pleasant personally, I grant you, his manners are terrible and he's dirty, but as far as the trial's concerned he's quite immaculate.'
He was extremely pleased to be accompanied by someone who was so learned and so pleasant - by this he meant K., who was occupied not with listening to the Italian but the director - and asked if he would be so kind, if the time was suitable, to meet him in the cathedral in two hours' time at about ten o'clock.
A pleasant odour of onions and hot ham, mingled with fried fish and greens, greeted him at the bottom of the ladder; and then the steward came up with an oily smile, and said:"What can I get you, sir?""Get me out of this," was the feeble reply.
Then the big pipes are filled and lighted, and the pleasant chat goes round in musical undertone; while, in the pauses of our talk, the river, playing round the boat, prattles strange old tales and secrets, sings low the old child's song that it has sung so many thousand years - will sing so many thousand years to come, before its voice grows harsh and old - a song that we, who have learnt to love its changing face, who have so often nestled on its yielding bosom, think, somehow, we understand, though we could not tell you in mere words the story that we listen to.
Camping out in rainy weather is not pleasant.
George said it was so pleasant to wake up in the boat in the fresh morning, and plunge into the limpid river.
One crusty old gentleman objected, but I got in, notwithstanding; and, putting my cheeses upon the rack, squeezed down with a pleasant smile, and said it was a warm day.
Let me send them round to you.""Madam," I replied, "for myself I like the smell of cheese, and the journey the other day with them from Liverpool I shall ever look back upon as a happy ending to a pleasant holiday.
Carved oak is very pleasant to look at, and to have a little of, but it is no doubt somewhat depressing to live in, for those whose fancy does not lie that way.
All the inhabitants of Hampton and Moulsey dress themselves up in boating costume, and come and mouch round the lock with their dogs, and flirt, and smoke, and watch the boats; and, altogether, what with the caps and jackets of the men, the pretty coloured dresses of the women, the excited dogs, the moving boats, the white sails, the pleasant landscape, and the sparkling water, it is one of the gayest sights I know of near this dull old London town.
When he spread more than pint of water over one of those dresses, he would give a pleasant little laugh, and say:"I beg your pardon, I'm sure;" and offer them his handkerchief to wipe it off with.
It is a pretty little spot there: a pleasant grass plateau, running along by the water's edge, and overhung by willows.
They must have been quite a pleasant little party, altogether.
We thanked them over and over again, and we said it was a lovely night, and we wished them a pleasant trip, and, I think, I invited them all to come and spend a week with me, and my cousin said her mother would be so pleased to see them.
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