They would have too easy a conquest over four separate men; whilst four men united make a troop.
Among worldly people manner is contagious.
Now, I cannot for one instant believe you so devoid of gallantry as to refuse a lady your escort when she even condescends to ask you for it.
I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.
The marquise heard her sentence without showing any sign of fear or weakness. When it was finished, she said to the registrar, “Will you, sir, be so kind as to read it again? I had not expected the tumbril, and I was so much struck by that that I lost the thread of what followed.
While working night and day, I sometimes lose all recollection of the past, and then I experience the same sort of happiness I can imagine the dead feel; still, it is better than suffering.
D’Artagnan obeyed like a child, without resistance or even objection, which proves that he was very positively in love.
The judges then filed out, disclosing as they did so the various apparatus of the question. The marquise firmly gazed upon the racks and ghastly rings, on which so many had been stretched crying and screaming. She noticed the three buckets of water.
He leaned over the dying man and whispered in his ear, ‘I am – ’ And his lips uttered a name so softly that he himself seemed to be afraid to hear it.
Paid the last debt of nature.
Los hombres generosos son siempre compasivos, cuando la desgracia de su adversario es mayor que su odio.
You live alone, then?” “I do.” “You have no sister, no son, no father?” “I have no one.” “How can you live thus, with no one to attach you to life?
I have descended from a planet called grief.
Ideas never die, Sire, and, though they may slumber for a time, they wake up stronger than when they fell asleep.
When one thinks,” said Caderousse, letting his hand drop on the paper, “there is here wherewithal to kill a man more sure than if we waited at the corner of a wood to assassinate him! I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol.
Oh, what is man!’ d’Avrigny muttered. ‘The most egoistical of all animals, the most personal of all creatures, who cannot believe otherwise than that the earth revolves, the sun shines and death reaps for him alone – an ant, cursing God from the summit of a blade of grass!
Rochelle vertrieben.
The dominions of kings are limited either by mountains or rivers, or a change of manners, or an alteration of language.
Das Kloster der Karmeliterinnen zu Bethune.
Did you not hear what I said, sir? I told you there was fire in my sentence. And though it is only after death that my body is to be burnt, it will always be a terrible disgrace on my memory. I am saved the pain of being burnt alive, and thus, perhaps, saved from a death of despair, but the shamefulness is the same, and it is that I think of.