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The cessation of her poignant grief, born of suspicion, the presence of a happiness of which she had never even dreamed, plunged her in transports of affection and wild gaiety.
Madame de Renal was exalted by transports of the most lofty moral pleasure.
Instead of his paying attention to the transports which he excited, and to the remorse that increased their vivacity, the idea of duty was continually before his eyes.
Julien's departure brought no cessation of the transports which were shaking her in spite of herself, nor of her struggle with the remorse that was tearing her.
In proportion as Julien's transports reassured his coy mistress, she recovered some degree of happiness and the faculty of criticising her lover.
His acts of adoration, his transports at the sight of his mistress's charms, ended by reassuring her somewhat as to the difference in age.
In the moments when he forgot his ambition, Julien went into transports over everything that Madame de Renal possessed, including her hats and gowns.
Often his mistress's sincere admiration, and her transports of passion made him forget the fatuous theory that had kept him so restrained and almost ridiculous in the first moments of their intimacy.
They underwent transports of utter madness.
It was in such transports of anger, now against himself, now against all around him, that he passed a night of anguish; but, fortunately, it did not occur to him to spy upon his wife.
I shall not describe Julien's transports at La Malmaison.
Then he is reconciled, and produces seven or eight letters for the transports of affection.
To tell the truth, their transports were somewhat deliberate.
Evidently this was not the same woman who, the night before, had felt or pretended to feel transports of joy too excessive to be genuine.
During the whole of the first act of the opera, Mathilde sat dreaming of the man whom she loved with transports of the most intense passion; but in the second act a maxim of love sung, it must be admitted, to a melody worthy of Cimarosa, penetrated her heart.
In bold and proud natures, it is only a step from anger with oneself to fury with other people; one's transports of rage are in such circumstances a source of keen pleasure.
Two months after our marriage, I shall travel abroad with my husband, and it will be easy for us to pretend that my child was born at a suitable date.'Received at first with transports of rage, this firmness ended by inspiring the Marquis with doubts.
It was in the midst of the transports of the most frenzied ambition that he was interrupted by a young footman from the Hotel de La Mole, who arrived with a letter.
After these first transports, and when she had grown used to the happiness of seeing Julien, a keen curiosity suddenly took possession of her soul.
To find such sentiments, we must go back to the days of the heroes; it was love of this nature that set hearts throbbing in the age of Charles IX and Henri III.'Amid the most impassioned transports, when she pressed Julien's head to her heart: 'What!' she said to herself with horror, 'can this precious head be doomed to fall?
'What a terrible crime religion has made me commit!' she said to him; 'though I did modify the worst passages in the letter....'Julien's transports of joy proved to her how completely he forgave her.
Then, even our British troops were half made up of militiamen and recruits; for the pick of the old Peninsular regiments were on the ocean in transports, coming back from some fool's quarrel with our kinsfolk of America.
She possessed supreme composure, and an apparent tranquillity that masked terrible transports.
But do not tell me anything now; I do not want to lose the pleasure I get from listening to the singer by giving my attention to your transports, for I perceive he is beginning to sing a new strain and a new air."
'In the first transports of her mental anguish, the suffering mother threw herself on her knees at my feet, and fervently sought the Almighty Being who had hitherto supported her in all her troubles to release her from a world of woe and misery, and to spare the life of her only child.
To tell how Mr. Pickwick in the first transports of emotion called Mr. Winkle 'Wretch!' how Mr. Tupman lay prostrate on the ground; and how Mr. Winkle knelt horror-stricken beside him; how Mr. Tupman called distractedly upon some feminine Christian name, and then opened first one eye, and then the other, and then fell back and shut them both--all this would be as difficult to describe in detail, as it would be to depict the gradual recovering of the unfortunate individual, the binding up of his arm with pocket-handkerchiefs, and the conveying him back by slow degrees supported by the arms of his anxious friends.
When the transports of the two lovers were calmer, Milady, who had not the same motives for forgetfulness that d’Artagnan had, was the first to return to reality, and asked the young man if the means which were on the morrow to bring on the encounter between him and de Wardes were already arranged in his mind.
The day after tomorrow he banishes me, he transports me; the day after tomorrow he exiles me among the infamous.
She was free now to give way to her transports without being observed.
How merry we shall be together when we meet!"Her eldest daughter endeavoured to give some relief to the violence of these transports, by leading her thoughts to the obligations which Mr. Gardiner's behaviour laid them all under.
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