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Silence in sentence

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'From Staub's, clearly,' he said to himself, listening to him in silence, 'that waistcoat is in good taste, the boots are right; but, on the other hand, that black coat in the early morning!
At length, as the silence continued, he looked at her as a servant looks at his master, when receiving orders.
He appeared; a profound silence at once fell, and vain efforts were made to break it.
On his arrival, a deathly silence fell, as on the day before.
'A fine moment for killing me,' he thought, 'if there is anyone hidden in Mathilde's room'; but a profound silence continued to reign everywhere.
The silence was profound, every eye was fixed on Julien; he repeated his lesson so well that after twenty lines: 'That will do,' said the Duke.
'Silence, please, Gentlemen,' cried the chairman; 'if we continue to disagree, there will have been no use in our sending for M. Sorel.''We know that Monsieur is full of ideas,' said the Duke with an air of vexation and a glance at the interrupter, one of Napoleon's Generals.
After fully a quarter of an hour, silence began to be restored.
He ceased, sat down, and a great silence fell.
Midnight struck during the silence that followed the fine peroration '_that I will do_'.
Silence!'Such were the only words that Julien heard said.
And if I had a friend, does not honour impose on me an eternal silence?'
The Spaniard gazed at him in silence for fully a minute.
Is she a prude, weary of her calling, and malicious because she is miserable?''Or rather,' said Altamira, emerging at last from his profound silence, 'can it be what I have said to you twenty times?
'Then may heaven help you!' the Spaniard concluded; and he accompanied Julien and Altamira in silence to the head of the stair.
'You know very well that I am proud; it is the misfortune of my position, and indeed of my nature, I must admit; so Madame de Fervaques has stolen your heart from me ...Has she offered you all the sacrifices to which that fatal passion led me?'A grim silence was Julien's only answer.
'You wish for guarantees, dear,' she went on after a silence which she had hoped to see broken; 'that is only fair.
After a brief interval of silence, he gained sufficient mastery over his heart to say in an icy tone:'Once we are on the road to London, once you are disgraced, to use your own words, who can promise me that you will love me?
But I owe it to him to answer him, my silence would increase his rage.'
'Conte Altamira ...Can I be sure of eternal silence?
Never speak of me, even to my son: silence is the only way of honouring me.
'What are they saying in Verrieres?''Monsieur Julien, the oath that I took before the Crucifix, in the King's court, the day I was installed in my post, compels me to keep silence.'
His remorse occupied him a great deal and often called up before him the image of Madame de Renal, especially in the silence of the night, disturbed only, in this lofty dungeon, by the cry of the osprey!
From time to time, M. Chelan shed a few tears which rolled in silence down his cheeks; then he gazed at Julien, and was almost stupefied at seeing him take his hands and raise them to his lips.
In the rest of the court, the crowd was enormous; people were struggling at the doors, and the sentries were unable to preserve silence.
He was obliged to pause; amid the silence of the universal anxiety, the echoing notes of the clock filled the court.
She bowed herself over Julien, who was kneeling at her feet, and for a long time they wept in silence.
A furious jealousy and one that was incapable of wreaking vengeance, the prolongation of a hopeless misery (for, even supposing Julien to be saved, how was she to recapture his heart?), the shame and grief of loving more than ever this faithless lover, had plunged Mademoiselle de La Mole in a grim silence from which the zealous attentions of M. de Frilair were no more capable than the rude frankness of Fouque, of making her emerge.
He tried to work out who the man actually was, first in silence, just through observation and by thinking about it, but the man didn't stay still to be looked at for very long.
K. looked on in silence as she took up the knitted stocking once more.
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