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One morning, when Charles had gone out before day break, she was seized with the fancy to see Rodolphe at once.
After a few moments Rodolphe stopped; and when he saw her with her white gown gradually fade away in the shade like a ghost, he was seized with such a beating of the heart that he leant against a tree lest he should fall.
She was seized with apprehension, and as she sought in her pocket for some coppers, she looked at the peasant with haggard eyes, while he himself looked at her with amazement, not understanding how such a present could so move anyone.
She was seized with giddiness, and from that evening her illness recommenced, with a more uncertain character, it is true, and more complex symptoms.
Nevertheless, she persevered; and when the volume slipped from her hands, she fancied herself seized with the finest Catholic melancholy that an ethereal soul could conceive.
But the mad idea seized her that he was looking at her; it was certain.
Emma was seized with a vague fear at this shyness, more dangerous to her than the boldness of Rodolphe when he advanced to her open-armed.
But Leon hastily took some silver from his pocket and seized Emma's arm.
But at the contact of his lips the memory of the other seized her, and she passed her hand over her face shuddering.
Something stupefying like the fumes of opium seized her.
It was about this time, that is to say, the beginning of winter, that she seemed seized with great musical fervour.
Suddenly she seized his head between her hands, kissed him hurriedly on the forehead, crying, "Adieu!" and rushed down the stairs.
When she was seized with the desire to see Leon, she set out upon any pretext; and as he was not expecting her on that day, she went to fetch him at his office.
Twenty times Leon tried to escape, but the other seized him by the arm saying—"Presently!
Often, seized with fear, she cried out, and Charles hurried to her."Oh, go away!" she would say.
Then, when her eyes wandered over the chimney-piece ornamented with Chinese screens, over the large curtains, the armchairs, all those things, in a word, that had, softened the bitterness of her life, remorse seized her or rather an immense regret, that, far from crushing, irritated her passion.
But at this moment the rural guard seized him by the collar.
He seized her by her waist.
The desire to return to Lheureux's seized her—what would be the use?
The key turned in the lock, and she went straight to the third shelf, so well did her memory guide her, seized the blue jar, tore out the cork, plunged in her hand, and withdrawing it full of a white powder, she began eating it.
She was seized with a sickness so sudden that she had hardly time to draw out her handkerchief from under the pillow.
But she was seized with convulsions and cried out—"Ah! my God!
A terrible curiosity seized him.
But when he thought of her lying there, and that all was over, that they would lay her in the earth, he was seized with a fierce, gloomy, despairful rage.
Felicite now wore Madame Bovary's gowns; not all, for he had kept some of them, and he went to look at them in her dressing-room, locking himself up there; she was about her height, and often Charles, seeing her from behind, was seized with an illusion, and cried out—"Oh, stay, stay!"
She seemed but the more beautiful to him for this; he was seized with a lasting, furious desire for her, that inflamed his despair, and that was boundless, because it was now unrealisable.
She seized it and fled.
Shortly after their return to Vergy, Stanislas Xavier, the youngest of the children, took fever; at once Madame de Renal was seized by the most fearful remorse.
Julien, overjoyed, seized the opportunity to try his skill and began his answer over again in different terms.
Julien seized the opportunity and, speaking very loud, began to tell the Mayor the incident of the silver mug which Stanislas wanted to sell.
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