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And he pointed his speech with an energetic gesture toward the Colleville windows, which could be seen through the passage from the alley of the Luxembourg, where they were walking alone, in that immense tract trodden by so many and various young ambitions. "I have been frank, and I expected reciprocity," resumed Theodose.
"But, madame, only a day or two ago Madame du Bruel told Madame Colleville that the unexpected opposition she had met with piqued her, and that she meant to go in person to the minister." "But you forget that since then this seizure has been made by the police; it is not usual to decorate a man who is summoned before the court of assizes.
In 1818, Madame Colleville held the cavalry in high estimation, above even art; and she distinguished more particularly a sub-lieutenant in the dragoons of Saint-Chamans, the young and rich Charles de Gondreville, who afterwards died in the Spanish campaign. By that time Flavie had had a second son, whom she henceforth dedicated to a military career.
"Oh! in the matter of physical beauty a woman might hesitate before choosing," replied Madame Colleville.
In my position as the most interested person, will you allow me to have an interview with mademoiselle, which, indeed, has now become necessary? This favor I am sure will not be refused by Madame Colleville. Under present circumstances, there can surely be nothing in my request to alarm her maternal prudence."
For all the use we make of stars it seems to me we have got enough of them as it is." "Bravo, Brigitte!" said Colleville, getting loose again; "you are right, my girl, and I think, as you do, that the man who discovers a new dish deserves better of humanity." "Colleville," said Flavie, "I must say that your style of behavior is in the worst taste."
If I know arithmetic that will give three empty places for us to fill " Bixiou. "Three places right under our noses, which will certainly be given to some bloated favorite, some spy, some pious fraud, to Colleville perhaps, whose wife has ended where all pretty women end in piety." Dutocq. Dutocq. "I don't wish to be anything more than under-head-clerk.
"Monsieur le maire," interrupted Phellion, with redoubled solemnity, "Solon, the law-giver, decreed no punishment for parricide, declaring it to be an impossible crime. I think the same thing may be said of the offence to which you seem to make allusion. Madame Colleville granting favors to Monsieur de la Peyrade, and all the while intending to give him her daughter?
"I have long thought so myself but I never talk religion; if it had not been for Madame de Colleville, I " "Are there demonstrations in theology?" asked the professor of mathematics, naively, plunging headlong into the conversation. "I think, monsieur," replied Theodose, looking straight at Felix Phellion, "that you cannot be serious in asking me such a question."
"That is to say that, as usual, you make yourself pretentious and disagreeable; people sing as they can sing; all voices have their own merits." "My dear," said Colleville, who, having just lost twenty francs at the card-tables, found courage in his ill-humor to oppose his wife, "that saying, 'People sing as they can sing' is a bourgeois maxim.
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