Middlemarch vocabulary

he had served in the police, lui, so that I had better do as I was told.

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita

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“Yes, and she just used to say it in this way: ‘Qu’ avez vous donc? lui dit un de ces rats; parlez!’*

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)

*^{What do you have? said one of these rats; speak!}

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Other fellow did it: other me. Hat, tie, overcoat, nose. Lui, c'est moi. You seem to have enjoyed yourself.

James Joyce. Ulysses

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“Non, dites-lui que je ne veux pas le voir, que je suis furieuse contre lui, parce qu’il m’a manque parole"*

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace

^{*No, tell him I don’t wish to see him, I am furious with him for not keeping his word to me}

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those lines of Mallarmé which you used to like: