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1 I| beneath the large boiler of hot water. From time to
2 I| look at the two streaks of light which the sun threw
3 I| chairs, while the smell of the poultry yard and the
4 I| smoked herrings and strings of onions, and then she sat
5 I| was mingled the sour smell of the pans of milk which were
6 I| the sour smell of the pans of milk which were set out
7 I| the door to get a mouthful of fresh air, which seemed
8 I| steaming dunghill; some of them were scratching with
9 I| with one claw in search of worms, while the cock stood
10 I| almost dazzled at the sight of the apple trees in blossom.
11 I| Just then a colt, full of life and friskiness, jumped
12 I| was seized with a feeling of animal comfort, and then
13 I| loft. There were thirteen of them, which she took in
14 I| dandelions rose up like streaks of yellow light, was of a vivid,
15 I| streaks of yellow light, was of a vivid, fresh spring green.
16 I| steamed as if the moisture of the stables and barns were
17 I| there was a large patch of violets, whose fragrance
18 I| was growing, with clumps of trees in places, and groups
19 I| trees in places, and groups of laborers here and there,
20 I| finger.~She took up a bundle of straw, threw it into the
21 I| was falling into a state of delightful languor. She
22 I| bound. It was Jacques, one of the farm laborers, a tall
23 I| glistening eyes and bits of straw in his hair.~He tried
24 I| about the favorable weather, of their master, who was a
25 I| was a good fellow, then of their neighbors, of all
26 I| then of their neighbors, of all the people in the country
27 I| people in the country round, of themselves, of their village,
28 I| country round, of themselves, of their village, of their
29 I| themselves, of their village, of their youthful days, of
30 I| of their youthful days, of their recollections, of
31 I| of their recollections, of their relations, who had
32 I| grew sad as she thought of it, while he, with one fixed
33 I| his head against the stem of a tree. When she saw that,
34 I| him right on the middle of the nose. What a devil!"
35 I| inspired him with a feeling of respect and of a very different
36 I| a feeling of respect and of a very different kind of
37 I| of a very different kind of admiration which was the
38 I| which was the beginning of a real love for that tall,
39 I| a walk, as he was afraid of his neighbor's heavy hand,
40 I| longer; but she took his arm of her own accord, in the avenue,
41 I| and said: "It is not nice of you to despise me like that,
42 I| she looked straight ahead of her. She had fat, red cheeks,
43 I| covered with small beads of perspiration. He felt a
44 I| He felt a fresh access of desire, and, putting his
45 I| ear, he murmured: "Yes, of course I do."~Then she threw
46 I| till they were both out of breath. From that moment
47 I| moment the eternal story of love began between them.
48 I| Jacques seemed to grow tired of her; he avoided her, scarcely
49 I| first she was in a state of consternation, but then
50 I| yard and opened the door of the stable where Jacques
51 I| was lying in a large box of straw above his horses.
52 I| and so they remained, both of them, motionless and without
53 I| as he, pulled the hay out of the manger and then slowly
54 I| word.~She had no chance of speaking to him for several
55 I| make any noise, for fear of creating a scandal. One
56 I| overwhelmed by the thoughts of her misfortune that she
57 II| PART II~Then a cloud of constant misery began for
58 II| mechanically, without thinking of what she was doing, with
59 II| feeling made her so incapable of reasoning that she did not
60 II| did not even try to think of any means of avoiding the
61 II| try to think of any means of avoiding the disgrace that
62 II| at her figure in a piece of broken looking-glass, before
63 II| at meal times the looks of her fellow servants almost
64 II| trembling with that piece of paper, covered with ink,
65 II| promised to take great care of it, and she went back to
66 II| arms, to feel the warmth of its little body against
67 II| sleep at night; she thought of it the whole day long, and
68 II| she would sit in front of the fire and gaze at it
69 II| hurt her like the prick of a pin; and, in order to
70 II| energetically, and, still thinking of her child, she sought some
71 II| child, she sought some way of saving up money for it,
72 II| persuaded him to get rid of one servant girl, who had
73 II| been her own; and, by dint of making good bargains, of
74 II| of making good bargains, of getting high prices for
75 II| everything, with the direction of all the laborers, and with
76 II| laborers, and with the purchase of provisions necessary for
77 II| miles around people talked of "Master Vallin's servant,"
78 II| servant, and as a mere token of good will; and she began
79 II| mind to ask for an increase of wages. She went to see the
80 II| something else. She felt a kind of modesty in asking for money,
81 II| air, in one, and a piece of bread in the other, and
82 III| over, like a little roll of fat. She threw herself on
83 III| sat down under the shade of the trees; and then, for
84 III| child with the violence of her caresses.~She took the
85 III| this was the confirmation of her maternity; and she would
86 III| the face, after the manner of peasants.~The farmer, a
87 III| stout, jovial, obstinate man of forty-five, who had lost
88 III| little, and looking out of the window as he talked. "
89 III| that you have never thought of settling in life?" She grew
90 III| whirl, as if at the approach of some great danger; so, after
91 III| looked at him with the air of a person who thinks that
92 III| over."~And he hurried out of the room, very glad to have
93 III| constantly become the mistresses of the establishments without
94 III| she remembered something of what had happened, and then
95 III| was frightened at the idea of what might happen. Her terror
96 III| over the fields. Instead of opening the gate she scrambled
97 III| blood under the reflection of this new day, and she limped
98 III| She sat down on a tuft of grass, took off her heavy
99 III| heavy shoes, which were full of dust, pulled off her stockings
100 III| here and there.~A feeling of delicious coolness pervaded
101 III| forever. She no longer thought of her child; she only wanted
102 III| back, and she uttered a cry of despair, for, from her knees
103 III| from her knees to the tips of her feet, long black leeches
104 III| horror, so that her cries of despair attracted a peasant,
105 III| her eyes with the corner of her blue apron. But he still
106 III| on her cheeks, like drops of water on hot iron, and she
107 III| She tried to think of something by which to swear,
108 III| She spoke with such an air of sincerity that the farmer
109 III| something at the bottom of it, however."~She could
110 III| thought she had got rid of him altogether and spent
111 III| altogether and spent the rest of the day almost tranquilly,
112 III| machine all day in the place of the old white horse, and
113 III| immediately. In the middle of the night, however, two
114 III| protected by the undecided will of inert and gentle races.
115 IV| never get out, and all kinds of misfortunes were hanging
116 IV| gave her the impression of a man whom she had robbed,
117 IV| other. And then she thought of her child, who was the cause
118 IV| child, who was the cause of her misfortunes, but who
119 IV| but who was also the cause of all her happiness on earth,
120 IV| for the night. That spot of trembling light, which was
121 IV| was lost in the darkness of the. arches, looked to Rose
122 IV| Cure at home?" she asked. "Of course he is; this is his
123 IV| trembled as she rang the bell of the parsonage. The priest
124 IV| swallowed several spoonfuls of soup, some of which dropped
125 IV| spoonfuls of soup, some of which dropped on to his
126 IV| feet, and, shedding a flood of tears, she said to him: "
127 IV| alone together to the end of their days. That is what
128 V| everybody, and, in consequence of this, a neighbor told her
129 V| this, a neighbor told her of an infallible method. This
130 V| her husband drink a glass of water with a pinch of ashes
131 V| glass of water with a pinch of ashes in it every evening.
132 V| find out. They were told of a shepherd who lived ten
133 V| up with herbs, and each of them was to eat a piece
134 V| them was to eat a piece of it, but they ate the whole
135 V| mysteries and processes of love which were unknown
136 V| so he declared; but none of them had the desired effect.
137 V| with the coarse desires of the peasants around her,
138 V| not being able to think of any means of making her
139 V| able to think of any means of making her suffer more he
140 V| up and go and stand out of doors in the rain until
141 V| suddenly he stopped in front of her, and said: "Then it
142 V| laugh with the hearty laugh of his good days, and, seeing
143 V| she was kneeling in front of the fireplace and lighting
144 V| Well, I am really glad of this; I am not saying it
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