Saying one thing while meaning another, often the opposite. The true meaning is left to the reader or listener.
In The Red and the Black
After having instilled in him the habit of reasoning correctly and of not being content with empty words, he took no care to tell him that, for someone not highly regarded, this habit is a crime; for every good argument offends.
The narrator censures Chélan with mock seriousness, saying he "took no care" to warn that reasoning is a crime, and so criticizes not the curé but a society in which a poor man's reason offends.
Book I, Chapter 27: First experience of life, the narrator
The ancestor was at court and had the honor of having his head cut off at the Place de Grève, on April 26, 1574, because of a political intrigue. You are the son of a carpenter from Verrières and, what is more, in the service of his father.
Book II, Chapter 1: The pleasures of the country, Abbé Pirard
Not a hundred thousand crowns a year, nor any decoration, can stand against this salon rule. A living idea, however small, seemed like rudeness.
Book II, Chapter 4: The La Mole mansion, the narrator
You and I, at this dinner, will be the only ones without a stain of blood, but I will be despised and almost hated as a bloodthirsty Jacobin monster, and you, despised simply as a man of the people, an intruder in good society.
Book II, Chapter 9: The ball, Count Altamira
I have no illusions, death awaits me: it will be just. I was capable of attacking the life of the woman most worthy of all respect and all homage. [...] My crime is atrocious and was premeditated. I deserve, therefore, death, gentlemen jurors. [...] But even if I were less guilty, I see men who, without taking into account what my youth might deserve in pity, will want to punish in me and discourage forever that class of young men who, born in an inferior class and somehow oppressed by poverty, have the good fortune to obtain a good education and the boldness to mix with what the pride of the rich calls good society.
Book II, Chapter 41: The trial, Julien Sorel
There is no natural right: this expression is nothing but an old folly worthy of the prosecutor who accused me that day, whose ancestor was enriched by a confiscation under Louis XIV. There is only one right when there is a law forbidding an act under penalty of punishment.
Book II, Chapter 44, Julien Sorel (in thought)
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