Things were definitely going badly. The night looked like ending in disaster. In one corner of the room Maria Blond had started squabbling with Léa de Horn, whom she accused of sleeping with men who weren't really rich.
Émile ZolaTags: golddigging squabbling
Satin occupied a couple of rooms which a chemist had furnished for her in order to rescue her from the clutches of the police; but in little over a year she had broken the furniture, knocked in the chairs and dirtied the curtains in such a frenzy of filth and disorder that the two rooms looked as if they were inhabited by a pack of mad cats.
Émile ZolaTags: prostitution disorder filth squalor
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
Émile ZolaThe passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too.
Émile ZolaTags: corruption defilement
Monsieur Josserand died very quietly - a victim of his own honesty. He had lived a useless life, and he went off, worthy to the last, weary of all the petty things in life, done to death by the heartless conduct of the only human beings that he had ever loved.
Émile ZolaWhen younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.
Émile ZolaTags: youth fun getting-old tedium
Her anger was rekindled.
'You see, I keep it to myself, but, oh! it's more than I can stand. Don't say anything, sir; don't say anything , or I'll explode!'
He said nothing, and she exploded all the same.
Tags: anger
Hortense and Berthe nodded, as though profoundly impressed by the wisdom of their mother's pronouncements. She had long since convinced them of the absolute inferiority of men, whose sole function was to marry and to pay.
Émile ZolaShe was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.
Émile ZolaTags: pleasure passionless cold-hearted
She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her head.
Émile ZolaTags: warrior free-spirit amazon
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