Scorn
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He thought he could read
scorn
in her brief answer.
If you prefer Monsieur Julien to me,' she added with ill-concealed scorn, 'I am prepared to go and spend the winter with my aunt.'
'So learning is really nothing here!' he told himself with scorn; 'progress in dogma, in sacred history, and the rest of it, count only in appearance.
After having been almost suffocated at first by his sense of scorn, Julien ended by feeling pity: it had often been the lot of the fathers of the majority of his comrades to come home on a winter evening to their cottages, and to find there no bread, no chestnuts, and no potatoes.
I
scorn
you.'
'Yes, in the eyes of certain people,' Julien answered her with an expression of the most ill-concealed scorn, his eye still ablaze from his conversation with Altamira, 'but unfortunately for people of birth, he was a lawyer at Mery-sur-Seine; that is to say, Mademoiselle,' he went on with an air of sarcasm, 'that he began life like several of the Peers whom I see here this evening.
Immediately his eyes, so noble and unaffected, assumed a slight expression of
scorn.
She had been scorned by Julien, and was unable to
scorn
him.
Later on, her proud
scorn
will find out a way of avenging itself.
She was strolling with him at the moment of this unfortunate utterance; she left him, and her final glance was expressive of the most bitter
scorn.
Next day, this
scorn
of him had entire possession of her heart; there was no longer any question of the impulse which, for a whole week, had made her find such pleasure in treating Julien as her most intimate friend; the sight of him was repulsive to her.
Mathilde's feeling reached the point of disgust; no words could express the intensity of the
scorn
that she felt when her eyes happened to fall on him.
Julien had understood nothing of all that had been happening in Mathilde's heart, but for the past week he discerned her
scorn.
'My death will increase the
scorn
that she feels for me!' he exclaimed.
In a moment, Mademoiselle de La Mole reached the stage of heaping on Julien the marks of the most intense
scorn.
Hearing her heap upon him such cruel marks of scorn, so cleverly calculated to destroy any good opinion that he might have of himself, he felt that Mathilde was right, and that she was not saying enough.
Julien was barely out of the Marquis's sight before he had forgotten both the secret note and his mission, and was thinking of nothing but Mathilde's
scorn.
'What!' thought Julien, with surprise and amusement, 'a person of such extreme virtue praise a novel!'Madame de Fervaques used to profess, two or three times weekly, the most utter
scorn
for the writers, who, by means of those vulgar works, sought to corrupt a younger generation only too prone to the errors of the senses.
She could not bring herself to look at him; she trembled lest she should meet an expression of
scorn.
In religion ...Yes,' he added with a bitter smile of the most intense scorn, 'in the mouths of the Maslons, the Frilairs, the Castanedes ...Perhaps in true Christianity, whose priests would be no more paid than were the Apostles?
As for our meek suggestions of stables, billiard-room, or coal-cellars, she laughed them all to scorn: all these nooks had been snatched up long ago.
No; your accomplished angler would
scorn
to tell a lie, that way.
Around the throne on high not a single star quivered; but the deep intonations of the heavy thunder constantly vibrated upon the ear; whilst the terrific lightning revelled in angry mood through the cloudy chambers of heaven, seeming to
scorn
the power exerted over its terror by the illustrious Franklin!
I would keep up the play as well as I could, but soon some luckless word would show that I was only plain Jock Calder of West Inch, and out would come her lip again in
scorn
of me.
Indeed it was too much to believe, but the Major laughed our doubts to
scorn.
He coloured as red as fire to see me turn so quick upon him, and in a kind of a rage told me he would conquer me, and writes again thus--'I
scorn
your gold, and yet I love.'
Presently he broke out again, as if he were love-stricken in earnest,"O Princess Dulcinea, lady of this captive heart, a grievous wrong hast thou done me to drive me forth with scorn, and with inexorable obduracy banish me from the presence of thy beauty.
And with this kind of disposition she does more harm in this country than if the plague had got into it, for her affability and her beauty draw on the hearts of those that associate with her to love her and to court her, but her
scorn
and her frankness bring them to the brink of despair; and so they know not what to say save to proclaim her aloud cruel and hard-hearted, and other names of the same sort which well describe the nature of her character; and if you should remain here any time, senor, you would hear these hills and valleys resounding with the laments of the rejected ones who pursue her.
Let this general declaration serve for each of my suitors on his own account, and let it be understood from this time forth that if anyone dies for me it is not of jealousy or misery he dies, for she who loves no one can give no cause for jealousy to any, and candour is not to be confounded with
scorn.
"That is the natural way of women," said Don Quixote, "to
scorn
the one that loves them, and love the one that hates them: go on, Sancho."
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