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She involuntarily smiled with vanity on seeing the crowd rushing to the right by the other corridor while she went up the staircase to the reserved seats.
When, from the summit of the hill, he saw in the valley below the church-spire with its tin flag swinging in the wind, he felt that delight mingled with triumphant vanity and egoistic tenderness that millionaires must experience when they come back to their native village.
This poor piano, that had given her vanity so much satisfaction—to see it go was to Bovary like the indefinable suicide of a part of herself.
This was less from vanity than from the one desire of pleasing her.
He was not joking; but vanity getting the better of all prudence, Leon, in spite of himself protested.
He discoursed on the vanity of earthly things.
He detested him, and wishing, in the interests of his own reputation, to get rid of him at all costs, he directed against him a secret battery, that betrayed the depth of his intellect and the baseness of his vanity.
The novels would have outlined for them the part to be played, shown them the model to copy; and this model, sooner or later, albeit without the slightest pleasure, and perhaps with reluctance, vanity would have compelled Julien to follow.
He greatly curtailed the children's lessons, and when, later on, the presence of Madame de Renal recalled him to the service of his own vanity, decided that it was absolutely essential that this evening she should allow her hand to remain in his.
'I owe it to myself all the more,' went on Julien's petty vanity, 'to succeed with this woman, so that if I ever make my fortune, and someone reproaches me with having filled the humble post of tutor, I may let it be understood that it was love that brought me into that position.'
A moment later M. de Renal, his wounded vanity once more gaining the mastery, was laboriously recalling all the stories told in the billiard-room of the Casino or Noble Club of Verrieres, when some fluent talker interrupted the pool to make merry at the expense of some cuckolded husband.
'Was I to make trouble between two friends all for a little outburst of vanity on the part of our dear Governor?
There is a streak of middle-class pettiness in my nature; my vanity is hurt, because M. de Renal is a man!
'I supposed you to have been corrupted by the vanity of the world,' said the old man, shedding tears of joy; 'this quite redeems the childishness of that dazzling guard of honour uniform which made you so many enemies.'
The air of happiness which animated his family in his absence was not calculated to improve matters with a man dominated by so sensitive a vanity.
To add to his embarrassment, his wife informed him that she wished to have Julien in the house; the idea appealed to her vanity.
Never before had she handled his vanity with so much skill.
The effect of his old employer's petty vanity was that Julien now trod upon the Marquis's heels, and caused him considerable pain, owing to his gout.
In the provinces, a waiter in a cafe takes an interest in you if you meet with some accident on entering his cafe; but if that accident involves anything capable of wounding your vanity, then, in condoling with you, he will repeat again and again the word that makes you wince.
The Marquis's kindness was so flattering to our hero's easily wounded vanity that presently, in spite of himself, he felt a sort of attachment to this genial old man.
Mathilde had too much taste to lead up in conversation to a witticism prepared beforehand; but she had also too much vanity not to be delighted with her own wit.
I can see nothing in France but vanity.
A sere and haughty vanity, all the refinements of self-esteem and nothing more.'
In time she became deadly to wounded vanity.
Mademoiselle de La Mole's letter had so flattered Julien's vanity that, while he laughed at what was happening to him, he had forgotten to think seriously of the advantages of departure.
While Julien, steeped in the prejudices he had derived from books and from memories of Verrieres, was pursuing the chimera of a tender mistress who never gives a thought to her own existence the moment she has gratified the desires of her lover, Mathilde in her vanity was furious with him.
'He may be the soul of honour; but if I goad his vanity to extremes, he will have his revenge by making public the nature of our relations.'
CHAPTER 22 The DiscussionThe republic--for every person today willing to sacrifice all to the common good, there are thousands and millions who know only their own pleasures and their vanity.
Ambition, the mere triumphs of vanity, had I distracted him in the past from the sentiments that Madame de Renal inspired in him.
Simply and solely French vanity; it is the memory of her father, the famous cloth merchant, that causes the unhappiness of a character naturally morose and dry.
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