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'You will kill yourself, jumping down,' was her sole reply and her sole anxiety.
At the dinner the Marquis, wishing to include him in the conversation, asked him about his ride; Norbert made haste to reply in generous language.
As her inquiry continued, and as Julien more than once caught her eye, he ventured to reply directly, although he had not been questioned, and all three ended in laughter, just like three young peasants from a village in the heart of a forest.
You will write the replies and send them to me, enclosing each letter with its reply.
There are so many undeserved reputations!'Julien made no reply.
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.
I know beforehand everything that the poor Marquis would say to me, all that I should have to say to him in reply.
'You must be feeling very ill to reply to a joke with a sermon.
She would sometimes reply to her friends with witticisms that were offensive in their pointed emphasis.
'Good!' he cried, 'here is the signature to my reply ready found.
He gave himself the pleasure of mystifying, for the space of two pages, the people who might wish to make a fool of him, and it was with a fresh pleasantry that he announced, towards the end of his reply, his decision to depart on the following morning.
He received the reply to the secret note that he had brought, and hastened to Paris; but he had barely been by himself for two days on end, before the thought of leaving France and Mathilde seemed to him a punishment worse than death itself.
When Madame de Fervaques had the author, a poor devil on half pay, deprived of a post worth eighteen hundred francs: "Take care," said I to her, "you have attacked this rhymester with your weapons, he may reply to you with his rhymes: he will make a song about virtue.
If he spoke to me now and again, it was solely because of his profound gratitude to you: for the natural pride of his character leads him never to reply save officially to anyone who is placed so far above him.
The reply was unexpected.
The firmness of this reply astonished Mathilde.
Read the letter which I have received in reply to a request for information.
The magistrate, surprised by the character of this reply, sought to multiply his questions so that the accused might contradict himself in his answers.
the women would ask the men of their acquaintance and one could see them grow pale as they awaited the reply.
K. was going to give him a reply but had no time to do so, as hardly had the man spoken than a general muttering arose all over the right hand side of the hall.
This reply was followed by laughter among the right hand faction down in the hall, it was so hearty that K. couldn't stop himself joining in with it.
They were hardly able to reply, and the young woman might even have fallen over if K. had not shut the door extremely fast.
K. said nothing in reply, he should have chased her from the room as soon as she had opened her mouth, and he didn't want to do that.
He sent the maid back with the reply that he was on his way, then he went to the wardrobe to change his coat, and in answer to Mrs. Grubach's gentle whining about the nuisance Miss Montag was causing merely asked her to clear away the breakfast things.
There was no sound so he knocked again but there was still no answer in reply.
She nodded and asked in reply, "What d'you want to see him for?"
"No," was the painter's curt reply, as if the question prevented him saying any more.
K. made no reply, but it was actually not the heat that made him uncomfortable but, much more, the stuffiness, the air that almost made it more difficult to breathe, the room had probably not been ventilated for a long time.
asked K."Of course it is," was the man's reply, "why do you doubt it?"
K. made an appropriate reply, the Italian shook first the director's hand and then K.'s, then the director's again and went to the door, half turned to the two men who followed him and continuing to talk without a break.
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