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But a stout man of thirty-eight, with a round shaven face and a good-natured smile, now appeared.
Deneulin listened with a constrained smile.
As they attacked the hors-d'oeuvre she said, with a smile:"You must excuse me; I wanted to give you oysters.
Just then, still retaining the smile which illuminated his good-natured face, M. Grégoire was going beyond his wife in paternal sentiments with regard to the miners.
He had rolled a cigarette, and was looking at the other two men with his mild subtle eye, his lips drawn by a slight smile.
The engine-man shrugged his shoulders, and a smile again came on his lips.
She looked at him, and began to smile through her tears.
The sudden idea of the marriage between C&eacue;cile and Paul, which she was arranging with so quiet a smile, completed his exasperation.
Madame Hennebeau, seated and very pale, had not recovered from the shock to her feelings; and she was only able to find a smile when Négrel was complimented.
But she smiled with the wandering smile of the dying, and her eyes were very large; while her poor hands contracted over her hollow breast.
Then she groaned, but without ceasing to smile at both of them, as though she were glad to see them together now that she was going away.
A half smile curled the commander's lips; then, in a calmer tone:"Professor Aronnax," he replied, "do you dare claim that your frigate wouldn't have chased and cannonaded an underwater boat as readily as a monster?"
The ghost of a smile glided across the captain's lips, and that was all.
"Indeed," the captain replied with a smile, "and in this respect, the moderns aren't much farther along than the ancients.
He was the direct, sole heir to these treasures wrested from the Incas and those peoples conquered by Hernando Cortez!"Did you know, professor," he asked me with a smile, "that the sea contained such wealth?"
"I can see we're starting to understand each other, professor," Captain Nemo told me with a half smile.
"Good thinking, Professor Aronnax," the captain replied with a smile.
A smile rose to her lips at certain delicate phrases of the violin, that sometimes played alone while the other instruments were silent; one could hear the clear clink of the louis d'or that were being thrown down upon the card tables in the next room; then all struck again, the cornet-a-piston uttered its sonorous note, feet marked time, skirts swelled and rustled, hands touched and parted; the same eyes falling before you met yours again.
Sometimes in the afternoon outside the window of her room, the head of a man appeared, a swarthy head with black whiskers, smiling slowly, with a broad, gentle smile that showed his white teeth.
Besides, Emma no longer seemed inclined to follow her advice; once even, Madame Bovary having thought fit to maintain that mistresses ought to keep an eye on the religion of their servants, she had answered with so angry a look and so cold a smile that the good woman did not interfere again.
Mere Lefrancois looked at him for a few moments, and ended by saying with a smile—"That's another pair of shoes!
And, without heeding Madame Lefrancois, who was calling him back to tell him more about it, the druggist walked off rapidly with a smile on his lips, with straight knees, bowing copiously to right and left, and taking up much room with the large tails of his frock-coat that fluttered behind him in the wind.
His eyes, very large and covered by heavy lids, were half-closed to look at the crowd, while at the same time he raised his sharp nose, and forced a smile upon his sunken mouth.
Then, when she had her medal, she looked at it, and a smile of beatitude spread over her face; and as she walked away they could hear her muttering "I'll give it to our cure up home, to say some masses for me!""What fanaticism!" exclaimed the chemist, leaning across to the notary.
For one does not struggle against Heaven; one cannot resist the smile of angels; one is carried away by that which is beautiful, charming, adorable."
Then smiling a strange smile, his pupil fixed, his teeth set, he advanced with outstretched arms.
Then Homais represented to him how much jollier and brisker he would feel afterwards, and even gave him to understand that he would be more likely to please the women; and the stable-boy began to smile heavily.
Homais suffered as he listened to this discourse, and he concealed his discomfort beneath a courtier's smile; for he needed to humour Monsier Canivet, whose prescriptions sometimes came as far as Yonville.
They smile upon him; he approaches.
Charles explained once more that he could not absent himself longer, but that nothing prevented Emma—"But," she stammered, with a strange smile, "I am not sure—""Well, you must think it over.
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