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Silence in sentence

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Then they remained sitting face to face at the two chimney corners, motionless, in silence.
As she did not speak, he took this silence for a last remnant of resistance, and then he cried out—"Oh, forgive me!
The druggist, on whom the silence weighed, was not long before he began formulating some regrets about this "unfortunate young woman."
Emma was lost beneath it; and it seemed to him that, spreading beyond her own self, she blended confusedly with everything around her—the silence, the night, the passing wind, the damp odours rising from the ground.
'Why should I?''You will, Sir,' she went on after a brief silence and in a voice that grew more emotional every moment, 'you will be kind to them, you promise me?'To hear himself addressed again as 'Sir', in all seriousness, and by a lady so fashionably attired, was more than Julien had ever dreamed of; in all the cloud castles of his boyhood, he had told himself that no fashionable lady would deign to speak to him until he had a smart uniform.
And so, as he spent his time with Madame de Renal, the strangest silence grew up between them as soon as they were alone together.
In consequence of some idea derived from a description of good society, as the old Surgeon-Major had beheld it, as soon as conversation ceased in a place where he found himself in the company of a woman, Julien felt abashed, as though he himself were specially to blame for this silence.
His soul was in the clouds, and yet he was incapable of breaking the most humiliating silence.
At last Madame de Renal and Julien had a subject for conversation; he was no longer exposed to the frightful torture inflicted on him by intervals of silence.
The grasshoppers were chirping in the patch of meadow beneath the rock; when they ceased everything around him was silence.
The conversation took a serious turn, and Julien held his own admirably, apart from a few intervals of silence during which he cudgelled his brains.
Presently a cry of indignation from some, the astonished silence of others announced a general sensation.
He stood there in silence.
After an interval of prayer in the most profound silence, disturbed only by the distant sound of the bells of all the villages within a radius of ten leagues, the Bishop of Agde asked the King's permission to speak.
Then her incessant remorse deprived Madame de Renal even of the power to sleep; she never emerged from a grim silence: had she opened her mouth, it would have been to confess her crime to God and before men.
A profound silence fell instantly; a New Testament appeared as though by magic in the hands of the learned member of the two academies.
Dinner was eaten in silence.
That evening, they were seated in silence round the domestic hearth; the crackle of the blazing beech logs was their sole distraction.
His hints at such a possibility were received only with huge tears that flowed in silence, and with a convulsive pressure of his hand.
A deathly silence reigned throughout the building.
But they found in him merely reserve and silence.
He wished to know the whole extent of the harm, and, with this object, emerged a little from that haughty and obstinate silence with which he repulsed his fellows.
While, in the most perfect weather ever seen, the procession wound its way slowly through Besancon, and halted at the glittering stations which all the local authorities had vied with one another in erecting, the church remained wrapped in a profound silence.
The silence, the profound solitude, the coolness of the long aisles, made Julien's musings all the sweeter.
The one who was kneeling in the confessional turned her head slightly on hearing the sound of Julien's step amid the prevailing silence.
He made certain, by applying his ear, that nothing broke the profound silence in the room.
He wept for a long time in silence.
'Be so kind as to tell me what has happened to you,' Julien said at length, embarrassed by his silence and in a voice almost stifled by tears.
'It was then,' he added, 'that after a long silence, which was doubtless intended to make me understand what I see only too clearly now, that you no longer love me, and that I had become as nothing to you ...'Madame de Renal gripped his hands.
The dogs were running by his side in silence, a second shot apparently shattered the paw of one dog, for it began to emit lamentable howls.
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