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Olympia strove to converse gayly with her assemblage of insupportables, but she was chafing like an infuriated lioness. "If Marianna and De Luxemburg would but come! I might, at least, learn how I stand at court, and find out why the king returned to the Louvre by an unusual route. Heavens! how long will I be able to smile upon these hateful bores?
It imputed a primness, all round, to be reduced but to saying, by way of a translation of one's amusement, that she was always so right since that, too often, was what the insupportables themselves were; yet it was, in overflow to Aunt Maud, what she had to content herself withal save for the lame enhancement of saying she was lovely.
«Arrivé au haut de ces montagnes, un nouveau ciel, un nouvel ordre de choses se présentent; ce ne sont plus ces insectes degoûtans et insupportables qui le fatiguoient sans relâche; ces reptiles venimeux, dont il redoutoit la morsure; ces bêtes féroces toujours prêts
It is curious that in this, the earliest of the five great romances, there should be so little of that extravagance that latterly we have come almost to identify with the author's manner. Yet even here we are distressed by words, thoughts, and incidents that defy belief and alienate the sympathies. The scene of the in pace, for example, in spite of its strength, verges dangerously on the province of the penny novelist. I do not believe that Quasimodo rode upon the bell; I should as soon imagine that he swung by the clapper. And again, the following two sentences, out of an otherwise admirable chapter, surely surpass what it had ever entered into the heart of any other man to imagine (vol. ii. p. 180): "Il souffrait tant que par instants il s'arrachait des poignées de cheveux, pour voir s'ils ne blanchissaient pas." And, p. 181: "Ses pensées étaient si insupportables qu'il prenait sa tête
"Camille doesn't squat down on the floor in the middle of them. "For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop. To me and to the state of my great grief Let kings assemble," Miriam quickly declaimed. "Ah if you don't feel the way she makes a throne of it!" "It's really tremendously fine, chère madame," Sherringham said. "There's nothing like it." "Vous êtes insupportables," the old woman answered.
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