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It was thus that the Mayor's subordinates spoke of his house when they wished to please him.
He wished to conceal the admiration that he felt for the clever middle course discovered by his children's tutor.
M. de Renal talked politics in an angry tone: two or three manufacturers at Verrieres were becoming decidedly richer than himself, and wished to oppose him at the elections.
No doubt she wished to show me that she repented of having let me hold her hand the night before ...It is a lovely hand, all the same!
She wished to take him by surprise, him and the town.
If I could take your sin upon my conscience, as you so generously wished that you might take Stanislas's fever!'
She sought to take the burden upon herself, she wished not to poison the existence of him whom she loved.
Wicked one, that is what I wished to discuss with you; but no, you were right.
To add to his embarrassment, his wife informed him that she wished to have Julien in the house; the idea appealed to her vanity.
She turned the whole house upside down; she wished at all costs to distract Julien's thoughts from the description of him as a spy which twice in that day he had heard ringing in his ear.
Julien raised his eyes with an effort, and in a voice which the palpitation of his heart made tremulous explained that he wished to speak to M. Pirard, the Director of the Seminary.
He wished to know the whole extent of the harm, and, with this object, emerged a little from that haughty and obstinate silence with which he repulsed his fellows.
When the Sanctus bell rang during high mass, Julien wished to put on a surplice so as to follow the Bishop in the superb procession.
He wished to present him to the Bishop.
What embarrassed him was a sentence which he wished to cast in a polite form, but really he was incapable of using his mind.
The Vicar-General wished to insinuate a few words as to the choice of a successor.
The one thing I never wished to hear mentioned was politics, and politics pursue me everywhere.''But to what party do you belong?''To none, and that is what has been fatal to me.
I wished to give two or three hundred francs every year to the poor, they pestered me for them on behalf of pious associations; Saint Joseph, Our Lady, and so forth.
But also what bliss in those first few hours, when his mistress really wished to send him away, and he pleaded his cause, seated by her side in the darkness!
If you were a fool, you might let yourself be taken in by them; if you wished to succeed, you ought to let yourself be taken in.''On the day when all this ceases to agree with me,' said Julien, 'shall I be considered ungrateful if I return to my little cell, number 103?''No doubt,' replied the abbe, 'all the sycophants of the house will slander you, but then I shall appear.
'I think,' he said to Julien, 'that presently you might go to the riding school; and after a few weeks I shall be delighted to ride with you.''I wished to have the honour of thanking you for all your kindness to me; pray believe, Sir,' Julien added with a most serious air, 'that I am fully conscious of all that I owe you.
Passing unperceived owing to his lack of importance, Julien approached several groups in turn; he was following Baron Baton at a distance, and wished to hear him talk.
It was his intention to be insolent, but he wished at the same time to show his good breeding.
The Lieutenant of the 96th realised that M. de Beauvoisis was anxious to fight; he wished also, diplomatically enough, to preserve for his friend the advantages of the initiative.
La Mole wished to carry off the Princes, his friends, whom Queen Catherine de' Medici was keeping as prisoners with the Court.
'Thou hast a man's heart,' she replied, without paying much attention to what he was saying; 'I wished to test thy bravery, I admit.
In small matters as in great, he knew clearly what he ought and wished to do, and carried it out.
She wished to enjoy the sound of her own voice at that moment.
She wished to see whether Julien would spend that evening with the Marechale.
Faith, no,' he said to himself after a few days, 'Napoleon lived...'Besides, life is pleasant to me; this is a quiet spot to stay in; I have no worries,' he added, laughing, and set to work to make a list of the books which he wished to have sent to him from Paris.
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