Then Prada began to expatiate on Sanguinetti with no little complacency, for he liked the man's spirit of intrigue, his keen, conquering appetite, his excessive, and even somewhat blundering activity.

Et il s’étendit complaisamment sur Sanguinetti, dont il aimait l’intrigue, l’âpre appétit de conquête, l’activité excessive, même un peu brouillonne.

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He calculated all the possible inconveniences of an intrigue with Therese, and only decided to attempt the adventure, when he felt convinced that it could be attended by no evil consequences.

Il calcula tous les incidents possibles d'une liaison avec Thérèse; il se décida seulement à tenter l'aventure, lorsqu'il se fut bien prouvé qu'il avait un réel intérêt à le faire.

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Yet now to-day he was being sacrificed and made the victim of a court intrigue.

Et, aujourd'hui, on le sacrifiait, victime d'une intrigue de cour.

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Finally, he concluded by defying his enemies to name a single act of nepotism in his administration, a single favour granted by him that was due to intrigue.

Et il termina en mettant ses adversaires au défi de trouver dans son administration un seul acte de népotisme, une seule faveur due à l'intrigue.

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Trained to business, having dealt with every nation in Europe, he had nothing against him but his ambition, of which he made too open a display, and his spirit of intrigue, which was ever restless.

Rompu aux affaires, ayant pratiqué toute l’Europe, il n’avait contre lui que son ambition trop affichée, son intrigue toujours aux aguets.

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This purchase of the cruets seemed like a clandestine intrigue to Marthe, and thrilled her with the sweetest pleasure.

Cet achat des burettes fut pour elle toute une intrigue défendue, où elle goûta de vives jouissances.

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Six months later, however, having met Count Gerard de Quinsac she had again been unable to resist her imperative need of adoration, and an intrigue had followed.

Et, six mois plus tard, ayant rencontré le comte Gérard de Quinsac, elle ne put résister de nouveau à son besoin de tendresse, elle se donna.

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All his new intrigue, the two months spent in pursuing another, were as naught.

Toute sa nouvelle liaison, les deux mois passés à en désirer une autre, avaient disparu.

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He watched her in the di-awing-rooms which she frequented ; and, if he had scented any intrigue, he would probably have warned her husband.

Il poussait les choses jusqu'à la faire surveiller, dans les salons où elle se rendait. S'il s'était aperçu de la moindre intrigue, il eût peut-être averti le mari.

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There was incredible intricacy in the depths of the affair; none could exactly tell who was pulling the strings, conducting the vast intrigue.

Il y avait des dessous d’une complication incroyable, personne n’aurait pu dire exactement qui conduisait la vaste intrigue.

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He himself had lived a life of dissolute intrigue and elaborate pleasure-seeking, and stories were told even of his old age which set young men dreaming.

Lui, avait vécu une vie d'aventures suspectes, très dissolu, très inventif, raffinant les jouissances; on racontait sur sa vieillesse des anecdotes qui faisaient rêver les jeunes gens.

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I may tell you that their terror of competition has even made them intrigue against the religious Orders that have attempted to come to Lourdes.

Si je vous disais que leur terreur de la concurrence les a poussés jusqu’à écarter de Lourdes les ordres religieux qui ont tenté d’y venir.

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All Paris see^iied to share in the intrigue.

Paris entier fut pris dans cette intrigue.

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He had his hours of terror, his moments of prudence, and, altogether this intrigue caused him disagreeable agitation. But his discomfort and his fears disappeared.

Il avait des heures d'effroi, des moments de prudence, et, en somme, cette liaison le secouait désagréablement; mais ses pleurs, ses malaises tombaient devant ses désirs.

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And Pierre, standing in that mournful, dusty room, which the sunlight never brightened, pictured the secret hot-bed of political intrigue masked by the civilising ardour of faith.

Et c’était maintenant ce secret foyer d’intrigues politiques que Pierre devinait, sous l’ardeur civilisatrice de la foi, dans le cabinet morne et poussiéreux, que jamais n’égayait le soleil.

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