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thought that Rastignac was adorable. Then, woman-like, being at a
loss how to reply to the student's outspokenadmiration, she
answered a previous remark.
"Yes, it is very wrong of my sister to treat our poor father as
she does," she said; "he has been a Providence to us. It was not
until M. de Nucingen positively ordered me only to receive him in
the mornings that I yielded the point. But I have been unhappy
about it for a long while; I have shed many tears over it. This
violence to my feelings, with my husband's brutaltreatment, have
been two causes of my unhappy married life. There is certainly no
woman in Paris whose lot seems more enviable than mine, and yet,
in reality, there is not one so much to be pitied. You will think
I must be out of my senses to talk to you like this; but you know
my father, and I cannot regard you as a stranger."
"You will find no one," said Eugene, "who longs as eagerly as I
do to be yours. What do all women seek? Happiness." (He answered
his own question in low, vibrating tones.) "And if happiness for
a woman means that she is to be loved and adored, to have a
friend to whom she can pour out her wishes, her fancies, her
sorrows and joys; to whom she can lay bare her heart and soul,
and all her fair defects and her gracious virtues, without fear
of a betrayal; believe me, the devotion and the warmth that never
fails can only be found in the heart of a young man who, at a
bare sign from you, would go to his death, who neither knows nor
cares to know anything as yet of the world, because you will be
all the world to him. I myself, you see (you will laugh at my
simplicity), have just come from a remote country district; I am
quite new to this world of Paris; I have only known true and
loving hearts; and I made up my mind that here I should find no
love. Then I chanced to meet my cousin, and to see my cousin's
heart from very near; I have divined the inexhaustible treasures
of passion, and, like Cherubino, I am the lover of all women,
until the day comes when I find THE woman to whom I may devote
myself. As soon as I saw you, as soon as I came into the theatre
this evening, I felt myself borne towards you as if by the
current of a stream. I had so often thought of you already, but I
had never dreamed that you would be so beautiful! Mme. de
Beauseant told me that I must not look so much at you. She does
not know the charm of your red lips, your fair face, nor see how
soft your eyes are. . . . I also am beginning to talk nonsense;
but let me talk."
Nothing pleases a woman better than to listen to such whispered
words as these; the most puritanical among them listens even when
she ought not to reply to them; and Rastignac, having once begun,
continued to pour out his story, dropping his voice, that she
might lean and listen; and Mme. de Nucingen, smiling, glanced
from time to time at de Marsay, who still sat in the Princesse
Galathionne's box.
Rastignac did not leave Mme. de Nucingen till her husband came to
take her home.
"Madame," Eugene said, "I shall have the pleasure of calling upon
you before the Duchesse de Carigliano's ball."
"If Matame infites you to come," said the Baron, a thickset
Alsatian, with indications of a sinistercunning in his full-moon
countenance, "you are quide sure of being well receifed."
"My affairs seem to be in a promising way," said Eugene to
himself.--" 'Can you love me?' I asked her, and she did not
resent it. The bit is in the horse's mouth, and I have only to
mount and ride;" and with that he went to pay his respects to
Mme. de Beauseant, who was leaving the theatre on d'Ajuda's arm.
The student did not know that the Baroness' thoughts had been
wandering; that she was even then expecting a letter from de
Marsay, one of those letters that bring about a rupture that
rends the soul; so, happy in his delusion, Eugene went with the
Vicomtesse to the peristyle, where people were waiting till their
carriages were announced.
"That cousin of yours is hardly recognizable for the same man,"
said the Portuguese laughingly to the Vicomtesse, when Eugene had
taken leave of them. "He will break the bank. He is as supple as
an eel; he will go a long way, of that I am sure. Who else could
have picked out a woman for him, as you did, just when she needed
consolation?"
"But it is not certain that she does not still love the faithless
lover," said Mme. de Beauseant.
The student meanwhile walked back from the Theatre-Italien to the
Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve, making the most delightful plans as
he went. He had noticed how closely Mme. de Restaud had
loss how to reply to the student's outspokenadmiration, she
answered a previous remark.
"Yes, it is very wrong of my sister to treat our poor father as
she does," she said; "he has been a Providence to us. It was not
until M. de Nucingen positively ordered me only to receive him in
the mornings that I yielded the point. But I have been unhappy
about it for a long while; I have shed many tears over it. This
violence to my feelings, with my husband's brutaltreatment, have
been two causes of my unhappy married life. There is certainly no
woman in Paris whose lot seems more enviable than mine, and yet,
in reality, there is not one so much to be pitied. You will think
I must be out of my senses to talk to you like this; but you know
my father, and I cannot regard you as a stranger."
"You will find no one," said Eugene, "who longs as eagerly as I
do to be yours. What do all women seek? Happiness." (He answered
his own question in low, vibrating tones.) "And if happiness for
a woman means that she is to be loved and adored, to have a
friend to whom she can pour out her wishes, her fancies, her
sorrows and joys; to whom she can lay bare her heart and soul,
and all her fair defects and her gracious virtues, without fear
of a betrayal; believe me, the devotion and the warmth that never
fails can only be found in the heart of a young man who, at a
bare sign from you, would go to his death, who neither knows nor
cares to know anything as yet of the world, because you will be
all the world to him. I myself, you see (you will laugh at my
simplicity), have just come from a remote country district; I am
quite new to this world of Paris; I have only known true and
loving hearts; and I made up my mind that here I should find no
love. Then I chanced to meet my cousin, and to see my cousin's
heart from very near; I have divined the inexhaustible treasures
of passion, and, like Cherubino, I am the lover of all women,
until the day comes when I find THE woman to whom I may devote
myself. As soon as I saw you, as soon as I came into the theatre
this evening, I felt myself borne towards you as if by the
current of a stream. I had so often thought of you already, but I
had never dreamed that you would be so beautiful! Mme. de
Beauseant told me that I must not look so much at you. She does
not know the charm of your red lips, your fair face, nor see how
soft your eyes are. . . . I also am beginning to talk nonsense;
but let me talk."
Nothing pleases a woman better than to listen to such whispered
words as these; the most puritanical among them listens even when
she ought not to reply to them; and Rastignac, having once begun,
continued to pour out his story, dropping his voice, that she
might lean and listen; and Mme. de Nucingen, smiling, glanced
from time to time at de Marsay, who still sat in the Princesse
Galathionne's box.
Rastignac did not leave Mme. de Nucingen till her husband came to
take her home.
"Madame," Eugene said, "I shall have the pleasure of calling upon
you before the Duchesse de Carigliano's ball."
"If Matame infites you to come," said the Baron, a thickset
Alsatian, with indications of a sinistercunning in his full-moon
countenance, "you are quide sure of being well receifed."
"My affairs seem to be in a promising way," said Eugene to
himself.--" 'Can you love me?' I asked her, and she did not
resent it. The bit is in the horse's mouth, and I have only to
mount and ride;" and with that he went to pay his respects to
Mme. de Beauseant, who was leaving the theatre on d'Ajuda's arm.
The student did not know that the Baroness' thoughts had been
wandering; that she was even then expecting a letter from de
Marsay, one of those letters that bring about a rupture that
rends the soul; so, happy in his delusion, Eugene went with the
Vicomtesse to the peristyle, where people were waiting till their
carriages were announced.
"That cousin of yours is hardly recognizable for the same man,"
said the Portuguese laughingly to the Vicomtesse, when Eugene had
taken leave of them. "He will break the bank. He is as supple as
an eel; he will go a long way, of that I am sure. Who else could
have picked out a woman for him, as you did, just when she needed
consolation?"
"But it is not certain that she does not still love the faithless
lover," said Mme. de Beauseant.
The student meanwhile walked back from the Theatre-Italien to the
Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve, making the most delightful plans as
he went. He had noticed how closely Mme. de Restaud had
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- movement [´mu:vmənt] n.活动；运动；动作 (初中英语单词)
- snatch [snætʃ] v.&n.抢，夺取，抓住 (初中英语单词)
- gallery [´gæləri] n.画廊；美术馆；长廊 (初中英语单词)
- mistress [´mistris] n.女主人；情妇；女能手 (初中英语单词)
- impression [im´preʃən] n.印刷；印象；效果 (初中英语单词)
- measure [´meʒə] n.量度；范围 vt.测量 (初中英语单词)
- spoken [´spəukən] speak的过去分词 (初中英语单词)
- venture [´ventʃə] n.投机 v.冒险；敢于 (初中英语单词)
- fortunate [´fɔ:tʃənət] a.幸运的，侥幸的 (初中英语单词)
- acquaintance [ə´kweintəns] n.相识；熟人，相识的人 (初中英语单词)
- anxious [´æŋkʃəs] a.担忧的；渴望的 (初中英语单词)
- honestly [´ɔnistli] ad.诚实地，老实地 (初中英语单词)
- comparison [kəm´pærisən] n.比较；对照；比喻 (初中英语单词)
- jealous [´dʒeləs] a.妒忌的 (初中英语单词)
- admiration [,ædmə´reiʃən] n.赞赏，钦佩 (初中英语单词)
- gracious [´greiʃəs] a.和蔼可亲的；任慈的 (初中英语单词)
- gratitude [´grætitju:d] n.感激，感谢 (初中英语单词)
- coldly [´kəuldli] ad.冷淡地 (初中英语单词)
- previous [´pri:viəs] a.先，前，以前的 (初中英语单词)
- treatment [´tri:tmənt] n.待遇；对待；治疗 (初中英语单词)
- unhappy [ʌn´hæpi] a.不幸的；不快乐的 (初中英语单词)
- reality [ri´æliti] n.现实(性)；真实；逼真 (初中英语单词)
- eagerly [´i:gəli] ad.渴望地，急切地 (初中英语单词)
- devotion [di´vəuʃən] n.献身；忠诚；热爱 (初中英语单词)
- warmth [wɔ:mθ] n.温暖；热情；激动 (初中英语单词)
- remote [ri´məut] a.遥远的；偏僻的 (初中英语单词)
- passion [´pæʃən] n.激情；激怒；恋爱 (初中英语单词)
- stream [stri:m] n.河 vi.流出；飘扬 (初中英语单词)
- beginning [bi´giniŋ] n.开始，开端；起源 (初中英语单词)
- cunning [´kʌniŋ] a.&n.狡猾(诡诈)的 (初中英语单词)
- promising [´prɔmisiŋ] a.有希望的；有为的 (初中英语单词)
- waiting [´weitiŋ] n.等候；伺候 (初中英语单词)
- meanwhile [´mi:n´wail] n.&ad.其间；同时 (初中英语单词)
- delightful [di´laitful] a.讨人喜欢的 (初中英语单词)
- unconscious [ʌn´kɔnʃəs] a.无意识的；不觉察的 (高中英语单词)
- prosper [´prɔspə] v.(使…)繁荣(成功) (高中英语单词)
- jealousy [´dʒeləsi] n.妒忌；猜忌 (高中英语单词)
- marquis [´mɑ:kwis] n.侯爵 (高中英语单词)
- learned [´lə:nid] a.有学问的，博学的 (高中英语单词)
- passionate [´pæʃənit] a.易动情的；易怒的 (高中英语单词)
- indignation [,indig´neiʃən] n.愤慨；气愤 (高中英语单词)
- severely [si´viəli] ad.剧烈地；严格地 (高中英语单词)
- saying [´seiŋ, ´sei-iŋ] n.言语；言论；格言 (高中英语单词)
- loving [´lʌviŋ] a.爱的，有爱情的 (高中英语单词)
- affectionate [ə´fekʃənit] a.亲爱的 (高中英语单词)
- gratify [´grætifai] vt.使高兴；满足 (高中英语单词)
- positively [´pɔzətivli] ad.确实；断然；绝对 (高中英语单词)
- aspire [ə´spaiə] vi.立志要；升高；热望 (英语四级单词)
- parisian [pə´riziən] n.&a.巴黎人(的) (英语四级单词)
- sublime [sə´blaim] a.崇高的，伟大的 (英语四级单词)
- forsake [fə´seik] vt.遗弃，抛弃，摒绝 (英语四级单词)
- discretion [di´skreʃən] n.谨慎；判断(力) (英语四级单词)
- indulgence [in´dʌldʒəns] n.沉迷；宽容；恩惠 (英语四级单词)
- passionately [´pæʃənitli] ad.多情地；热烈地 (英语四级单词)
- eloquence [´eləkwəns] n.雄辩；口才 (英语四级单词)
- providence [´prɔvidəns] n.天意，天命，上帝 (英语四级单词)
- brutal [´bru:tl] a.兽性的；残暴的 (英语四级单词)
- sinister [´sinistə] a.阴险的；不吉的 (英语四级单词)
- portuguese [,pɔ:tʃu´gi:z] a.葡萄牙的 n.葡萄牙人 (英语四级单词)
- liking [´laikiŋ] n.爱好；嗜好；喜欢 (英语六级单词)
- implication [,impli´keiʃən] n.牵过；暗示；含蓄 (英语六级单词)
- speaking [´spi:kiŋ] n.说话 a.发言的 (英语六级单词)
- calling [´kɔ:liŋ] n.点名；职业；欲望 (英语六级单词)
- delusion [di´lu:ʒən] n.欺骗；幻觉；迷惑 (英语六级单词)
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