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When you went into a shop, I waited in the street, and I watched you through the window taking off your gloves and counting the change on the counter.
The next morning, at the open window, and humming on his balcony, Leon himself varnished his pumps with several coatings.
He sat down on a chair, and his eyes fell upon a blue stained window representing boatmen carrying baskets.
Hivert pulled in his horses and, the servant, climbing up to the window, said mysteriously—"Madame, you must go at once to Monsieur Homais.
break, smash, let loose the leeches, burn the mallow-paste, pickle the gherkins in the window jars, tear up the bandages!"
She leant with both hands against the window, drinking in the breeze; the three horses galloped, the stones grated in the mud, the diligence rocked, and Hivert, from afar, hailed the carts on the road, while the bourgeois who had spent the night at the Guillaume woods came quietly down the hill in their little family carriages.
Often they had started when, with a sudden movement, his hat entered the diligence through the small window, while he clung with his other arm to the footboard, between the wheels splashing mud.
One morning, when she had gone, as usual, rather lightly clothed, it suddenly began to snow, and as Charles was watching the weather from the window, he caught sight of Monsieur Bournisien in the chaise of Monsieur Tuvache, who was driving him to Rouen.
Emma opened the window, called Charles, and the poor fellow was obliged to confess the promise torn from him by his mother.
The large room was emptying; the stove-pipe, in the shape of a palm-tree, spread its gilt leaves over the white ceiling, and near them, outside the window, in the bright sunshine, a little fountain gurgled in a white basin, where; in the midst of watercress and asparagus, three torpid lobsters stretched across to some quails that lay heaped up in a pile on their sides.
Or at other times, consumed more ardently than ever by that inner flame to which adultery added fuel, panting, tremulous, all desire, she threw open her window, breathed in the cold air, shook loose in the wind her masses of hair, too heavy, and, gazing upon the stars, longed for some princely love.
She fainted, and they carried her to the window.
He was walking up and down from the window to the bureau, repeating all the while—"Ah!I'll show him!
"No," she replied; "it is a window that has been left open, and is rattling in the wind."
The coach had gone on again when suddenly Monsieur Homais leant out through the window, crying—"No farinaceous or milk food, wear wool next the skin, and expose the diseased parts to the smoke of juniper berries."
He returned; she tapped at the window.
Open the window; I am choking."
He found him alone (Monsieur Canivet had left), sitting in an arm-chair near the window, staring with an idiotic look at the flags of the floor.
Then he felt somewhat stifled by the over-heavy atmosphere of the room; he opened the window; this awoke the chemist.
It was Rodolphe's letter, fallen to the ground between the boxes, where it had remained, and that the wind from the dormer window had just blown towards the door.
They came back at nightfall, when the only light left in the Place was that in Binet's window.
When he was still a child, the sight of certain dragoons of the 6th, in their long, white cloaks, and helmets adorned with long crests of black horsehair, who were returning from Italy, and whom Julien saw tying their horses to the barred window of his father's house, drove him mad with longing for a military career.
'You alone, Ma'am, can go into my room at this moment; feel, without letting yourself be observed, in the corner of the palliasse nearest to the window; you will find there a small box of shiny black pasteboard.''It contains a portrait?' said Madame de Renal, barely able to stand.
At the other end of the room, near the only window through which any light came, he saw a portable mirror framed in mahogany.
He went forward and passed slowly down the length of the room, keeping his eyes fixed on that solitary window and watching the young man who continued to give benedictions, with a slow motion but in endless profusion, and without pausing for a moment.
He will say something offensive to her, in his natural coarseness; she may go mad, throw herself from the window.
Madame de Renal meanwhile had run up the hundred and twenty steps of the dovecote; she knotted the corner of a white handkerchief to one of the iron bars of the little window.
She saw him fasten a knotted cord to the window without saying a word, without returning his kisses.
At the other end of the room, near a small window with dingy panes, decked with neglected flowerpots, he saw a man seated at a table and dressed in a shabby cassock; he appeared to be in a rage, and was taking one after another from a pile of little sheets of paper which he spread out on his table after writing a few words on each.
He noticed that a little window, near the door by which he had entered, commanded a view of the country.
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