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All her virtue returned, for her love was in eclipse.
The abbe Pirard, relaxing the speed of his utterance as he came to the signature, breathed with a sigh the word 'Chelan.''He is calm,' he said; 'indeed, his virtue deserved that reward; God grant it to me, when my time comes!'
'How weak I am,' he thought, 'to let myself be imposed upon by this show of virtue!
You owe me obedience in virtue of the seventeenth paragraph of the Bull _Unam Ecclesiam_ of Saint Pius V. I am your ecclesiastical superior.
Julien, satisfied with his own conduct, looked around him; he found everywhere an appearance of the purest virtue.
The writer gave an address at Dijon, and at the same time hoped that Julien would never reply, or that at least he would confine himself to language which a woman restored to the ways of virtue could read without blushing.
The pleasure of triumphing over the Marquis de Croisenois completed the rout of this lingering trace of virtue.
And so the pride that had been inculcated in her from her cradle began to fight against her virtue.
'The enemy makes a false move, now I am going to bring coldness and virtue into play.'
'Can it, by any chance,' he asked himself, 'be a return to the path of virtue?'
Woe to the student who belongs to no set, even his minute and far from certain successes will be made a reproach to him, and the higher virtue will triumph over him as it robs him.
The twofold remorse of her virtue and her pride made her, that morning, equally unhappy.
One is esteemed in Paris for one's carriage, not for one's virtue.
Her whole life seemed to have no other object than to make people forget that she was the daughter of an _industrial_, and in order to count for something in Paris she had set herself at the head of the forces of virtue.
There are specimens for every kind of woman, I have a set for the most rigid virtue.
Next day the Prince sent for a copyist, and two days later Julien had fifty-three love letters carefully numbered, intended to cope with the most sublime and melancholy virtue.
'She represents the purest and loftiest virtue,' replied Altamira, 'only it is a trifle Jesuitical and emphatic.
When Madame de Fervaques had the author, a poor devil on half pay, deprived of a post worth eighteen hundred francs: "Take care," said I to her, "you have attacked this rhymester with your weapons, he may reply to you with his rhymes: he will make a song about virtue.
He set to work at once to copy out this first love letter; it was a homily stuffed with phrases about virtue, and of a deadly dullness; Julien was fortunate in falling asleep over the second page.
This unexpected turn in his affairs made him talk like an angel; and as self-esteem finds its way even into hearts that serve as temples to the most august virtue: 'Madame de La Mole is right,' the Marechale said to herself, as she stepped into her carriage, 'that young priest has distinction.
Indeed, everything that one finds in that house is very frivolous; all the virtue I see there is the result of age, and stood in great need of the congealing hand of time.
It is impossible not to recognise unction, a profound earnestness and great conviction in the prose of this young Levite; he must have the soothing virtue of Massillon.'
'What!' thought Julien, with surprise and amusement, 'a person of such extreme virtue praise a novel!'Madame de Fervaques used to profess, two or three times weekly, the most utter scorn for the writers, who, by means of those vulgar works, sought to corrupt a younger generation only too prone to the errors of the senses.
All the sentiments of modesty and feminine virtue had returned to her heart ...'Very well!
There was no longer any trace of rugged grandeur in him, any Roman virtue; death appeared to him on a higher plane, and as a thing less easily to be won.
She did not even find on his handsome countenance the imprint of that energetic, that almost wild virtue, so antipathetic to Parisian society.
Once or twice virtue has triumphed, and I have got out at six and half-dressed myself, and have taken my drawers and towel, and stumbled dismally off.
Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father - a noble, pious man.
"Oh!" cried his sister, exulting, "he has loyalty, and that with me is a cardinal virtue."
CHAPTER VIAnd let conquerors boast Their fields of fame - he who in virtue arms A young warm spirit against beauty's charms, Who feels her brightness, yet defies her thrall, Is the best, bravest conqueror of them all.
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