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They would tell the lady and gentleman all that they wished to know.
At first they wished to pull the cable so as to fix one of the carts at the bottom, for if the other should come down during their ascent, they would be crushed.
How I wished I could take this superb bird of paradise back to Paris, to make a gift of it to the zoo at the Botanical Gardens, which doesn't own a single live specimen.
How painfully the hours passed, as I sometimes envisioned myself safe on shore with my companions, or, despite my better judgment, as I sometimes wished that some unforeseen circumstances would prevent Ned Land from carrying out his plans.
The nutritious food, life-giving air, regular routine, and uniform temperature kept illness at bay; and for a man who didn't miss his past existence on land, for a Captain Nemo who was at home here, who went where he wished, who took paths mysterious to others if not himself in attaining his ends, I could understand such a life.
If Charles had but wished it, if he had guessed it, if his look had but once met her thought, it seemed to her that a sudden plenty would have gone out from her heart, as the fruit falls from a tree when shaken by a hand.
But this one taught nothing, knew nothing, wished nothing.
She wished at the same time to die and to live in Paris.
She could have wished this name of Bovary, which was hers, had been illustrious, to see it displayed at the booksellers', repeated in the newspapers, known to all France.
He wished to see the child and thought it well made.
Madame Bovary did not go downstairs to the dining-room; she wished to remain alone to look after the child.
When the moment for the farewells had come, Madame Homais wept, Justin sobbed; Homais, as a man of nerve, concealed his emotion; he wished to carry his friend's overcoat himself as far as the gate of the notary, who was taking Leon to Rouen in his carriage.
"I merely wished to convey to you, Madame Lefrancois, that I usually live at home like a recluse.
"A hundred times I wished to go; and I followed you—I remained."
She would have wished never to leave Rodolphe.
She only wished to lean on something more solid than love.
It is as if one wished, for example, to make a hunchback straight!"
He wished to have two more weeks before him to arrange some affairs; then at the end of a week he wanted two more; then he said he was ill; next he went on a journey.
Ah! and this for fear she should come and hunt me up.""I shall be far away when you read these sad lines, for I have wished to flee as quickly as possible to shun the temptation of seeing you again.
So, with an embarrassed air, he asked if it were possible to get them, adding that it would be for a year, at any interest he wished.
She wished the horse to be sold; what she formerly liked now displeased her.
She bought chaplets and wore amulets; she wished to have in her room, by the side of her bed, a reliquary set in emeralds that she might kiss it every evening.
"I am surprised that in our days, in this century of enlightenment, anyone should still persist in proscribing an intellectual relaxation that is inoffensive, moralising, and sometimes even hygienic; is it not, doctor?""No doubt," replied the doctor carelessly, either because, sharing the same ideas, he wished to offend no one, or else because he had not any ideas.
For fear of seeming ridiculous, Emma before going in wished to have a little stroll in the harbour, and Bovary prudently kept his tickets in his hand, in the pocket of his trousers, which he pressed against his stomach.
For this was how they would have wished to be, each setting up an ideal to which they were now adapting their past life.
Can you certify to me—""But really, sir," said Emma, "you wished to tell me—""Ah, yes! madame.
She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.
She was afraid, almost wished he would not be there, though this was her only hope, her last chance of salvation.
But suddenly controlling himself—"I wished, doctor, to make an analysis, and primo I delicately introduced a tube—""You would have done better," said the physician, "to introduce your fingers into her throat."
'Since Sorel is not delighted and overwhelmed by my proposal, as he ought naturally to be, it is clear,' he said to himself, 'that overtures have been made to him from another quarter; and from whom can they have come, except from Valenod?'It was in vain that M. de Renal urged Sorel to conclude the bargain there and then: the astute old peasant met him with an obstinate refusal; he wished, he said, to consult his son, as though, in the country, a rich father ever consulted a penniless son, except for form's sake.
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