Villette (Barnes & Noble Classics) - Charlotte Bronte [286]
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Seventeenth-century painter known for his depictions of large, fleshy women.
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Old Testament term for a graveyard or place for relics.
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Or Asclepius; Greco-Roman god of medicine.
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Poppy.
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Regarding big Jean.
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Yes, yes, my good friend: I give you permission willingly and from my heart. Your work in my house has always been admirable, full of prudence and warmth: you certainly have the right to amuse yourself. Go out and do as you please. Regarding your choice of company, I am happy; it is wise, dignified, and commendable.
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There is something remarkable in the English character.... I’m not sure how to tell you “how”; but in short, the English have their own ideas on friendship, on love, on everything. But at least there is no need to watch them.
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Biblical character associated with an expression of regret; the name means “Where is the glory?”
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That is what I will do.
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Dévouement: self-devotion; recueillement: meditation; juron: curse, swearword; sacré: sacred; mille: thousand.
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Friedrich von Schiller’s “The Maiden’s Lament”: “Oh holy one, call your child back. / I have enjoyed earthly happiness. / I have lived and loved.” should thus view me; but you know and shall learn to acknowledge that I am verging on my nineteenth year.’
fi
What do you say about it?
fj
Little cat, sweetness, coquette! ... You seem very sad, submissive, dreamy, but you are not; it is I who tells you: Savage! your soul is aflame, your eyes on fire.... Yes, my soul is ablaze, and it has a right to be.
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Look, the dawn is breaking. Say then that you are my friend.... I forgive you, M. Paul.
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Knox (c.1514-1572) was famous for his harsh attacks against Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).
fm
My god! ... What will become of me? Monsieur means to kill me, I’m sure, because he is in a rage.
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From this moment!—the classroom is forbidden. The first person who opens that door or passes that division will be hanged—even if it is Madame Beck herself!
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I can’t take it anymore!
fp
What do you want with me?
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I want the impossible, extraordinary things.
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There I am, bereft of my spectacles.
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A strong woman—a dreadful English woman—a little break-it-all.
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An expression that suggests that Lucy wants Ginevra to go. In the Bible, David’s servants, whose beards had been shaved off, were told to wait at Jericho until their beards had grown again (2 Samuel 10:4-5).
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Don’t move.
fv
You don’t want me for a neighbor.... You put on airs, you treat me like a pariah! ... So be it! I’m going to manage things! ... Stand up ladies!
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Is this enough of a distance? ... Monsieur will be the judge of that.... You know that’s not true. It is you who have created this immense gulf. It isn’t my doing.
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A play by William Shakespeare, the false god ... of these pagan English.
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Fire, ardor.
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Quiet! this instant!
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Quick to spark.
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Anger.
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Heat.
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Doll colors, a nose more or less well made.
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Embroidered collars.
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Extra trinket.
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Worldly fashions.
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Homespun.
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Dusty gray.
gj
Go for the ribbon!
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Silk dress.
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To enjoy pleasures a little.
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Is that all?
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World map.
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Long live England, history and heroes! Down with France, fiction and fops!
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Then I will not be there.... So be it! desk open, his nose was lost to view amongst my papers. His back was towards me, but there could not be a moment’s question about identity. Already was the attire of ceremony discarded: the cherished and ink-stained paletôt was resumed; the perverse bonnet-grec lay on the floor, as if just dropped from the hand, culpably busy.
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I hate you, my boy!
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God protect you from it! assure you, is alien to my whole life and views. It died in the past—in the present it lies buried—its grave is deep-dug, well-heaped, and many winters old: in the future there will be a resurrection, as I believe to my soul’s consolation; but all will then be changed