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"After he had said this the tenor smiled silently. The lips of all the guests repeated that smile, in which there was a lurking expression of malice likely to escape a lover. The publicity of his love was like a sudden dagger-thrust in Sarrasine's heart.
But Paula you must understand that Paula had nothing, positively nothing whatever to do with the stealing of the emerald." Orion, kneeling there, was condemned to hear every word the little girl so vehemently whispered, and each one pierced his heart like a dagger-thrust.
They will all go to the Hotel de l'Imperatrice. This was a new house, the very mention of which was a dagger-thrust into the bosom of Madame Faragon. 'Then they will be poisoned, she said. 'And let them! It is what they are fit for. But the change was made, and for the first three days she would not come out of her room.
"It was your scream, even more than the clashing of swords, that brought us to your aid, Madame Ursula." "Ursula, without the madame," her father said. "She is the daughter of a plain citizen, and all unused to titles, save from my apprentice boys." "I cannot think why the ruffian who held her," Edgar said, "did not stop her screams with a dagger-thrust.
What more terrible to endure than the acrimonious pin-pricks to which a passionate soul prefers a dagger-thrust? Granville neglected his home. Everything there was unendurable. His children, broken by their mother's frigid despotism, dared not go with him to the play; indeed, Granville could never give them any pleasure without bringing down punishment from their terrible mother.
If death be desired, sudden death, free from danger to the huntress, the insect is attacked in the neck; if mere paralysis be required, the neck is respected and the lower segments sometimes one alone, sometimes three, sometimes all or nearly all, according to the special organization of the victim receive the dagger-thrust.
He let fall Tito's hand, and going backwards a little, first rested his arm on a projecting stone in the wall, and then sank again in a sitting posture on the straw. The outleap of fury in the dagger-thrust had evidently exhausted him. Tito stood silent.
The foreign appearance of this Tchernoff made a great impression upon him his dishevelled beard, and oily locks, his spectacles upon a large nose that seemed deformed by a dagger-thrust. There emanated from him, like an invisible nimbus, an odor of cheap wine and soiled clothing.
Happy fate! to die before the fickle populace had taken up a new idol; to step in an instant beyond the reach of malice to leave behind the self-seekers that pursue, the hungry horde that follows, the zealots who defame; to escape the dagger-thrust of calumny and receive only the glittering steel that at the same time wrote his name indelibly on the roll of honor. Carnot, thrice happy thou!
"Good heavens! duchesse, what you tell me is like a dagger-thrust. You obliged to receive a pension from the Jesuits?" "No, chevalier! from Spain." "Except for a conscientious scruple, duchesse, you will admit that it is pretty nearly the same thing." "No, not at all." "But surely of your magnificent fortune there must remain " "Dampierre is all that remains." "And that is handsome enough."
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