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He had regained his calmness, the rough politeness, without bitterness, of an agent who has received his instructions, and means that they shall be respected.
I said out of politeness.
Charles out of politeness made a dash also, and as he stretched out his arm, at the same moment felt his breast brush against the back of the young girl bending beneath him.
The housewives admired her economy, the patients her politeness, the poor her charity.
Chapter SixDuring the journeys he made to see her, Leon had often dined at the chemist's, and he felt obliged from politeness to invite him in turn.
'Do not go and quarrel with M. Valenod, nor crop his ears, as you once threatened; on the contrary, show him every politeness.
Julien was astonished most of all by the extreme politeness shown him by the Bishop.
I am no expert in what these people call politeness, soon you will know more about it than I; still, the boldness of your stare seemed to me to be scarcely polite.'
But, except on wet days, and in their moments of furious boredom, which were rare, they were never to be found wanting in politeness.
As soon as he stopped working, he fell into the clutches of a deadly boredom; this was the withering effect of the politeness, admirable in itself, but so measured, so perfectly graduated according to one's position, which is a mark of high society.
No doubt, provincials may be accused of a trace of vulgarity, or of a want of politeness; but they do show a little warmth in answering one.
As soon as he had furnished himself with this explanation, he reverted to a perfect politeness, and addressed Julien almost as an equal.
One day the Marquis said, with that tone of over-elaborate politeness, which often tried Julien's patience:'Allow me, my dear Sorel, to make you the present of a blue coat: when it suits you to put it on and to pay me a visit, you will be, in my eyes, the younger brother of the Comte de Chaulnes, that is to say, the son of my old friend the Duke.'Julien was somewhat in the dark as to what was happening; that evening he ventured to pay a visit in his blue coat.
Julien had a heart capable of appreciating true politeness, but he had no idea of the finer shades.
His ill humour, having no fault to find with the tone of politeness, indeed of personal interest, in which Norbert had addressed him, vented itself upon the reply which he himself had made to this friendly speech.
And his features betrayed that contempt which is all the more striking because one sees that politeness makes it a duty to conceal it.
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.
He replies to their objections only so far as politeness requires.
'You are in a hurry for me to conclude,' he said with heat, entirely discarding that smiling politeness and measured speech which Julien had assumed to be the natural expression of his character: 'you are in a hurry for me to conclude; you give me no credit for the efforts that I am making not to offend the ears of anyone present, however long they may be.
His politeness was rewarded: about eight o'clock, Madame la Marechale de Fervaques was announced.
Julien, for his part, found in the Marechale's manner an almost perfect example of that patrician calm which betokens a scrupulous politeness and still more the impossibility of any keen emotion.
He then busied himself in gathering together all Madame de Fervaques's letters which were scattered over the divan, and it was with a show of extreme politeness, so cruel at that moment, that he added:'Mademoiselle de La Mole will deign to permit me to think over all this.'
The patience with which he puts up with the man's requests through all these years, the little questioning sessions, accepting the gifts, his politeness when he puts up with the man cursing his fate even though it was the doorkeeper who caused that fate - all these things seem to want to arouse our sympathy.
It really now seemed very obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or entertaining violin playing but had been disappointed, that they had had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed.
For a moment he paused, as if debating with his politeness, but at length threw an inquiring glance on the stranger, as he inquired,-"To whose health am I to have the honor of drinking?"
In acting as they did, they believed they were giving proof of politeness; they, moreover, avoided the annoyance of the customary condolences.
Round the skins six of the men belonging to the fold seated themselves, having first with rough politeness pressed Don Quixote to take a seat upon a trough which they placed for him upside down.
Don Quixote returned his salutation with equal politeness, and dismounting from Rocinante advanced with well-bred bearing and grace to embrace him, and held him for some time close in his arms as if he had known him for a long time.
The distressed damsel strove with much pertinacity to kiss his hands; but Don Quixote, who was in all things a polished and courteous knight, would by no means allow it, but made her rise and embraced her with great courtesy and politeness, and ordered Sancho to look to Rocinante's girths, and to arm him without a moment's delay.
Many were the compliments and expressions of politeness that passed between Don Quixote and Don Fernando; but they were brought to an end by a traveller who at this moment entered the inn, and who seemed from his attire to be a Christian lately come from the country of the Moors, for he was dressed in a short-skirted coat of blue cloth with half-sleeves and without a collar; his breeches were also of blue cloth, and his cap of the same colour, and he wore yellow buskins and had a Moorish cutlass slung from a baldric across his breast.
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