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I saw myself! and probably ending up with a moustache, or an embonpoint, or something like that. Then if I made him sufficiently miserable, he would be willing to fall in with another plan of hers, when I was gone, through sheer désoeuvrement. So you see, Mamma, they look upon me as a regular catspaw, and I won't put up with it.
"Il n'y a rien que je crains comme le desoeuvrement, l'inertie, la lethargie des facultes. Quand le corps est paresseux l'esprit souffre cruellement; je ne connaitrais pas cette lethargie, si je pouvais ecrire.
When she found herself alone and independent, her mind acted like a spring when pressure is removed. After a few weeks of desoeuvrement she obeyed the impulse to occupy herself with a kind of reading alien to Reardon's sympathies. The solid periodicals attracted her, and especially those articles which dealt with themes of social science.
Then for hours he would walk restlessly about his room, smoking enormously, drinking sometimes excessively out of a kind of excitement and désoeuvrement his strong, grizzled hair bristling about his head, his black eyes staring and bloodshot, and that wild gypsyish look of his youth more noticeable than ever in these surroundings of what promised soon to be a decadent middle age.
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