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Alphonse Daudet arms asked Avignon balcony beautiful beneath Bouchereau breakfast Caoudal caresses Castelet Chaville child close consul Courbebaisse cries deary Déchelette Déchelette's delicate dinner Divonne door dress Émile Zola Ernest Daudet eyes face Fanny Legrand Fanny's father fear feeling felt Fénat forty winks Gaussin gave girl Gournerie hair hand handsome happy head heart Hettémas JAMES TISSOT Jean kiss knew lady laugh leave Legion of Honour letter light live longer look lover Machaume marriage married mistress months morning mother murmured never night once pale Paris passed PAUL BOURGET Place Vendôme poor Potter pretty Provençal Rosa round Sappho scene silent sleep smile studio suddenly Sunday talk tell thing thought took turned Uncle Césaire Vélizy voice waiting walk whilst wife window woman words young youth
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Page 23 - Alone in the little garden of the restaurant they were kissing each other and eating their fish. All at once, from a rustic arbour built among the branches of the plane-tree at whose foot their table was set out, a loud and bantering voice was heard : ' I say, there, when you've done billing and cooing ,' and the leonine face and ruddy beard of Caoudal the sculptor appeared through an opening in the woodwork of the hut.
Page 23 - Specimen of the Engravings in DAUDET'S "SAPPHO." "Alone in the little garden of the restaurant they were kissing each other and eating- their fish. All at once, from a rustic arbour built among the branches of the plane-tree at whose foot their table was set out...
Page 48 - ... to himself that they had found her beautiful. At his age one is never sure; one doesn't quite know.
Page 44 - ... gone up. A pitiful tale ! But the elegiac poet remained Implacable up to the day when, to get rid of her, he put the matter in the hands of the police. Ah ! a nice gentleman ; and as a final wind-up, a thank-offering to this beautiful girl who had given him the best of her youth, her intelligence a^d her flesh, he poured out on her head a volume of spiteful drivelling verses, curses, lamentations, ' The Book of Love,
Page 42 - said De'chelette, greeting his friend's hobby with a smile. "My dear fellow, don't joke. All that I have, that I am, medals, crosses, the Institute, the whole bag of tricks, I would give them all for that hair and sunburnt face.
Page 46 - Phoque. And with the six letters of her hateful name, all this woman's life passed in disgusting review before his eyes Caoudal's studio, the scenes with La Gournerie, the nightwatches before the dirty lodgings or on the poet's door-mat. Then the handsome engraver, the forgeries, the assizes, and...