Spite
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His expression became more and more embarrassed, for now at last, in
spite
of all his efforts, he could not avoid hearing them, and however slight his experience might be, he realised the full importance of the matters that were being discussed without any attempt at concealment; and yet how careful the evidently exalted personages whom he saw before him ought to be to keep them secret.
Julien was growing impatient with the deliberateness and imperturbable phlegm of the Spaniard; now and again, in
spite
of himself, he gave vent to a monosyllabic comment.
Her heart was exposed to violent combats: sometimes she flattered herself that she was despising this gloomy young man; but, in
spite
of her efforts, his conversation captivated her.
In
spite
of the most admirable resolutions, her womanly pride prevented her every day from saying to Julien: 'It was because I was speaking to you that I found pleasure in the thought of my weakness in not withdrawing my hand when M. de Croisenois laid his hand on a marble table beside mine, and managed to touch it.'
But in
spite
of all these specious arguments, the Marquis could not grow reconciled to abandoning the hope of a _tabouret_ for his daughter.
The examinations became more frequent, in
spite
of the efforts of Julien, whose answers were all aimed at cutting the whole business short.
I do not see, anywhere among the jury, a peasant who has grown rich, but only indignant bourgeois ...'For twenty minutes Julien continued to speak in this strain; he said everything that was in his heart; the counsel for the prosecution, who aspired to the favour of the aristocracy, kept springing from his seat; but in
spite
of the somewhat abstract turn which Julien had given the debate, all the women were dissolved in tears.
In
spite
of himself, and albeit frequently replying to what Mathilde said to him, he could not free his mind from the memory of that bedroom at Verrieres.
'I believe sincerely in God; I believe equally, indeed it has been proved to me, that the crime I am committing is fearful, and yet, as soon as I set eyes on you, even after you have fired at me twice with a pistol...'Here, in
spite
of her resistance, Julien covered her with kisses.
Thanks to M. l'abbe de Frilair, and in
spite
of his unfortunate choice of a confessor, Julien, in his cell, was under the protection of the Congregation; with a little more of the spirit of action, he might have made his escape.
M. de Frilair had assured her that in
spite
of his position he dared not flout all the conventions so far as to permit her to see her friend more than once daily.
But in
spite
of all that we're still willing, if you've got the money, to go and get you some breakfast from the café over the road."
If, in
spite
of that, you're still a gentleman then I'm just as much a gentleman as you are, if not even more so.
Then, on the breaking-up day, we caught colds, and whooping cough, and all kinds of disorders, which lasted till the term recommenced; when, in
spite
of everything we could manoeuvre to the contrary, we would get suddenly well again, and be better than ever.
But Caesar crossed in
spite
of this.
So they let him practise in the day-time, in the back-kitchen with all the doors shut; but his more successful passages could generally be heard in the sitting-room, in
spite
of these precautions, and would affect his mother almost to tears.
It was not a beautiful face; it was too prematurely aged-looking, too thin and drawn, to be that; but it was a gentle, lovable face, in
spite
of its stamp of pinch and poverty, and upon it was that look of restful peace that comes to the faces of the sick sometimes when at last the pain has left them.
There is more satisfaction in squaring one's back, and fighting against it, and winning one's way forward in
spite
of it - at least, so I feel, when Harris and George are sculling and I am steering.
"Pardon me, my sister - my little Fanny," cried the repentant youth, pressing her to his bosom, and kissing off the tears which had burst,
spite
of her resolution, from her eyes.
But in
spite
of her, Tom knew where the wind lay, now.
At last he was satisfied that time had ceased and eternity begun; he began to doze, in
spite
of himself; the clock chimed eleven, but he did not hear it.
Every pore inside the boys' cheeks became a spouting fountain; they could scarcely bail out the cellars under their tongues fast enough to prevent an inundation; little overflowings down their throats occurred in
spite
of all they could do, and sudden retchings followed every time.
He easily guessed his way to the truth--the girl had simply made a convenience of him to vent her
spite
upon Tom Sawyer.
He was trying his best to keep the old man from getting the faintest hint of who the Spaniard might be, and yet his tongue seemed determined to get him into trouble in
spite
of all he could do.
You are none of them that want a fortune, whatever else you want.''I understand you, brother,' replies the lady very smartly; 'you suppose I have the money, and want the beauty; but as times go now, the first will do without the last, so I have the better of my neighbours.''Well,' says the younger brother, 'but your neighbours, as you call them, may be even with you, for beauty will steal a husband sometimes in
spite
of money, and when the maid chances to be handsomer than the mistress, she oftentimes makes as good a market, and rides in a coach before her.'I thought it was time for me to withdraw and leave them, and I did so, but not so far but that I heard all their discourse, in which I heard abundance of the fine things said of myself, which served to prompt my vanity, but, as I soon found, was not the way to increase my interest in the family, for the sister and the younger brother fell grievously out about it; and as he said some very disobliging things to her upon my account, so I could easily see that she resented them by her future conduct to me, which indeed was very unjust to me, for I had never had the least thought of what she suspected as to her younger brother; indeed, the elder brother, in his distant, remote way, had said a great many things as in jest, which I had the folly to believe were in earnest, or to flatter myself with the hopes of what I ought to have supposed he never intended, and perhaps never thought of.
There was something horrid and absurd in their way of sinning, for it was all a force even upon themselves; they did not only act against conscience, but against nature; they put a rape upon their temper to drown the reflections, which their circumstances continually gave them; and nothing was more easy than to see how sighs would interrupt their songs, and paleness and anguish sit upon their brows, in
spite
of the forced smiles they put on; nay, sometimes it would break out at their very mouths when they had parted with their money for a lewd treat or a wicked embrace.
In
spite
of himself he had exaggerated the wan complexion of his model, and the countenance of Camille resembled the greenish visage of a person who had met death by drowning.
It seemed as though your blood cast puffs of heat on me as I passed, and it was this sort of burning cloud in which you were enveloped, that attracted me, and detained me beside you in
spite
of my secret revolt.
Still, in
spite
of himself, his frame revolted, disgust and terror gained possession of his being, as soon as ever he found himself in the dampness, and unsavoury odour of the hall.
For fully five minutes, he stood motionless, lost in unconscious contemplation, engraving, in
spite
of himself, in his memory, all the horrible lines, all the dirty colours of the picture he had before his eyes.
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