But the girl, to ascertain if he were wholly hers, questioned him and led him back to the confused recollections he had tried to summon up. He could remember nothing, however; he was truly in a happy state of childhood.

Mais la jeune fille, pour voir s'il était bien à elle, tout entier, l'interrogea, le ramena aux souvenirs confus qu'il tenait d'évoquer; il ne se rappelait rien, il était réellement dans une heureuse enfance.

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She could summon up nothing but expressions tinged with bitterness.

Elle ne trouvait plus que des paroles amères.

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" I beg of you, madame, summon up a little courage," said the assistant.

– Je vous en prie, madame, un peu de courage, disait ce dernier.

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When he had been beaten, and when still all bruised, he would summon up his dream, his hands clasped in a sort of religious frenzy, and he would ask Heaven when he would be able to hide himself and take his rest in a supreme affection.

Quand on venait de le battre, encore tout meurtri, il évoquait son rêve, les mains jointes, avec une sorte de frémissement religieux et il demandait au Ciel quand il pourrait se cacher et se reposer dans une affection suprême.

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' My dear Madame Rougon, he said,' you must summon up your courage.

--Ma bonne madame Rougon, dit-il, il vous faut bien du courage.

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Delestang summoned up all his courage and looked Rougon boldly in the face.

Delestang, brusquement brave, osa regarder Rougon en face.

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Presently she summoned up sutKcient courage to go nearer, and then, furtively raising its covering, she touched the gilded wood, and felt the crimson velvet.

Elle finit par se rapprocher, par s'enhardir; et, d'une main furtive, elle souleva la housse, toucha le bois doré, tâta le velours rouge.

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After a while, however, she summoned up her courage and said: "Will you kiss me, Pierre?

Puis, bravement : « Pierre, voulez-vous m’embrasser ?

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It summoned up before him all his old life, his pious childhood, his happy days at the seminary, and his first Masses in that burning valley of Les Artaud, where he had dreamt of a solitary, saintly life.

Elle évoquait toute sa vie passée, son enfance pieuse, ses joies du séminaire, ses premières messes, dans la vallée brûlée des Artaud, où il rêvait la solitude des saints.

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