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An old Surgeon-Major of the Army of Italy, in retirement at Verrieres, who in his time had been simultaneously, according to the Mayor, a Jacobin and a Bonapartist, actually
ventured
one day to complain to him of the periodical mutilation of these fine trees.
Universally despised, as a feeble creature, Julien had adored that old Surgeon-Major who one day
ventured
to speak to the Mayor on the subject of the plane trees.
Madame de Renal felt so happy that she
ventured
to say to Julien:'You won't scold those poor children too severely?'
And so saying he
ventured
to take Madame de Renal's hand and carry it to his lips.
He noticed Madame de Renal's frigid manner, and gathered that she was angry because he had
ventured
to kiss her hand.
She
ventured
to enter the shop of the Verrieres bookseller, in spite of his terrible reputation as a Liberal.
After a month of careful preliminaries, he saw his idea prove successful, so much so that, shortly afterwards, he ventured, in speaking to M. de Renal, to mention an action considerably more offensive to the noble Mayor; it was a matter of contributing to the prosperity of a Liberal, by taking out a subscription at the library.
When M. de Renal was in town, as frequently happened, he
ventured
to read; soon, instead of reading at night, and then taking care, moreover, to shade his lamp with an inverted flower-pot, he could take his full measure of sleep; during the day, in the interval between the children's lessons, he climbed up among these rocks with the book that was his sole rule of conduct, and the sole object of his transports.
The quarter before ten had sounded from the tower clock, without his having yet
ventured
on anything.
He
ventured
to place his hand close to the pretty arm which her gown left bare.
It was dark; no sooner were they seated than Julien, relying on the privilege he had already won,
ventured
to press his lips to the arm of his pretty neighbour, and to take her hand.
She
ventured
to question him as to the portrait in which he took such an interest; Julien swore to her that it was that of a man.
He
ventured
to open them only at night.
He had
ventured
to ply her with questions as to all sorts of little things ignorance of which seriously handicaps the intelligence of a young man born outside the ranks of society, whatever natural genius one may choose to attribute to him.
But as he started for the chapelle ardente His Lordship of Agde summoned the abbe Chelan; Julien
ventured
to follow him.
'I am no longer under any illusion,' she told him, even at the moments when she
ventured
to give absolute rein to her love: 'I am damned, irremediably damned.
In these unfortunate circumstances he
ventured
to write to M. de Renal for the first time in ten years.
'That author is most immoral,' Julien said to Madame Valenod; 'in one of his Fables on Messire Jean Chouart, he has
ventured
to heap ridicule on all that is most venerable.
He made an effort to master his timidity; he
ventured
to enter, and found himself in a hall thirty or forty feet long, the ceiling of which rose to a height of at least twenty feet.
Amanda was taking money at the counter; Julien prided himself on having
ventured
to speak to her: there was a dispute in progress at one of the billiard tables.
He bestowed upon him a magnificent certificate in Latin, and silenced the abbe de Frilair, who
ventured
to make remonstrances.
He thought for a moment; then, with one finger,
ventured
to tap the pane: no response; he tapped more loudly.
There, he
ventured
to broach the subject...'Madame de Renal's speech was interrupted by her tears.
This task ended, Julien
ventured
towards the shelves; he almost went mad with joy on finding an edition of Voltaire.
As her inquiry continued, and as Julien more than once caught her eye, he
ventured
to reply directly, although he had not been questioned, and all three ended in laughter, just like three young peasants from a village in the heart of a forest.
At four o'clock, Julien ventured, after some hesitation, to seek out Comte Norbert.
One day the Marquis said, with that tone of over-elaborate politeness, which often tried Julien's patience:'Allow me, my dear Sorel, to make you the present of a blue coat: when it suits you to put it on and to pay me a visit, you will be, in my eyes, the younger brother of the Comte de Chaulnes, that is to say, the son of my old friend the Duke.'Julien was somewhat in the dark as to what was happening; that evening he
ventured
to pay a visit in his blue coat.
He
ventured
to say a few words:'Are you unwell, dear?'Mathilde answered him with a mock-serious expression.
A bitter irony repulsed the assurances of friendship with which Mademoiselle de La Mole in astonishment
ventured
on two or three occasions, to try him.
Now she had
ventured
to say that she was in love.
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