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1 I| servant, Rose, remained alone in the large kitchen, where
2 I| which showed the defects in the glass.~Three venturesome
3 I| from the cow stall came in through the half-open door,
4 I| a cock was heard crowing in the distance.~When she had
5 I| set out to raise the cream in the adjoining dairy.~She
6 I| scratching with one claw in search of worms, while the
7 I| the cock stood up proudly in their midst. When he crowed,
8 I| When he crowed, the cocks in all the neighboring farmyards
9 I| sight of the apple trees in blossom. Just then a colt,
10 I| her limbs and to repose in the warm, breathless air.
11 I| she went to look for eggs in the hen loft. There were
12 I| of them, which she took in and put into the storeroom;
13 I| were kept. Close to it, in a ditch, there was a large
14 I| growing, with clumps of trees in places, and groups of laborers
15 I| delightful languor. She was, in fact, almost asleep when
16 I| and, seeing her lying down in the shade, had come up stealthily
17 I| glistening eyes and bits of straw in his hair.~He tried to kiss
18 I| but she gave him a smack in the face, for she was as
19 I| neighbors, of all the people in the country round, of themselves,
20 I| he, with one fixed idea in his head, drew closer to
21 I| distance, toward the village in the north which she had
22 I| struck him so violently in the face with her clenched
23 I| his arm of her own accord, in the avenue, as if they had
24 I| not despise her. He was in love with her, that was
25 I| They plagued one another in corners; they met in the
26 I| another in corners; they met in the moonlight beside the
27 I| enceinte.~At first she was in a state of consternation,
28 I| one night, when every one in the farmhouse was asleep,
29 I| she went out noiselessly in her petticoat, with bare
30 I| where Jacques was lying in a large box of straw above
31 I| motionless and without speaking, in the dark silence, which
32 I| she saw another man come in at dinner time, and she
33 I| cried, burying her head in the bolster, so that she
34 II| doing, with one fixed idea in her head:~"Suppose people
35 II| tried to look at her figure in a piece of broken looking-glass,
36 II| anybody would notice a change in her, and, during the day,
37 II| you have grown lately."~In church she hid behind a
38 II| she had never received one in her life before she was
39 II| paper, covered with ink, in her hand. After a time,
40 II| any one. She often stopped in her work to look at those
41 II| intervals, and which terminated in a signature, imagining vaguely
42 II| from the painful manner in which it moved its poor
43 II| back to the farm.~But now in her heart, which had been
44 II| there was fresh suffering in that very love, suffering
45 II| to kiss it, to press it in her arms, to feel the warmth
46 II| the whole day long, and in the evening, when her work
47 II| was done, she would sit in front of the fire and gaze
48 II| the prick of a pin; and, in order to forget their jokes,
49 II| like two; she economized in the bread, oil and candles;
50 II| bread, oil and candles; in the corn, which they gave
51 II| chickens too extravagantly, and in the fodder for the horses
52 II| the household; so that, in a short time, she became.
53 II| worth more than her weight in gold."~But time passed by,
54 II| She felt a kind of modesty in asking for money, as if
55 II| having breakfast by himself in the kitchen, she said to
56 II| particularly. He raised his head in surprise, with both his
57 II| his knife, with its point in the air, in one, and a piece
58 II| with its point in the air, in one, and a piece of bread
59 II| one, and a piece of bread in the other, and he looked
60 II| immediately, and then added, in some embarrassment himself:~"
61 III| then, for the first time in her life, she opened her
62 III| took the greatest pleasure in handling it, in washing
63 III| pleasure in handling it, in washing and dressing it,
64 III| and would say to herself in a low voice as she danced
65 III| low voice as she danced it in her arms: "It is my baby,
66 III| farm and had scarcely got in before her master called
67 III| they remained side by side, in some embarrassment, with
68 III| and looking each other in the face, after the manner
69 III| never thought of settling in life?" She grew as pale
70 III| meaning, for her thoughts were in a whirl, as if at the approach
71 III| She looked at him, almost in terror, then suddenly the
72 III| eves and she said twice in a choking voice: "I cannot,
73 III| if she had the best dowry in the district.~Neither could
74 III| match between them, for in the country every one is
75 III| frequently become masters in their turn, and the female
76 III| without its making any change in their life or habits.~Rose
77 III| the strength to cry left in her, she was so thoroughly
78 III| struck the hour she broke out in a perspiration from grief.
79 III| as if she were walking in her sleep. When she got
80 III| her head, while the dogs in the farmyards barked as
81 III| animal ran back and cowered in silence in its kennel.~The
82 III| back and cowered in silence in its kennel.~The stars grew
83 III| panting; and when the sun rose in the purple sky, she stopped,
84 III| farther; but she saw a pond in the distance, a large pond
85 III| with her hand on her heart, in order to dip both her feet
86 III| order to dip both her feet in it. She sat down on a tuft
87 III| sufferings would be over in there, over forever. She
88 III| two steps forward. She was in the water up to her thighs,
89 III| about to throw her self in when sharp, pricking pains
90 III| when sharp, pricking pains in her ankles made her jump
91 III| girl to her master's farm in his gig.~She was in bed
92 III| farm in his gig.~She was in bed for a fortnight, and
93 III| poppy, and stammered out in a rage: "Ah! So you confess
94 III| mentioned all the young fellows in the neighborhood, while
95 III| looked her master straight in the face. "No, never, never;
96 III| thrashing machine all day in the place of the old white
97 III| fell asleep immediately. In the middle of the night,
98 III| as she felt quite alone in the darkness, still heavy
99 III| instinct which is always strong in simple natures and very
100 III| and now toward the room, in order to avoid the attentions
101 IV| She felt as if she were in a pit with inaccessible
102 IV| some vague fear floating in it. And so years went on,
103 IV| after dinner, with his head in his hands, sad and devoured
104 IV| her husband suddenly came in and said to her in his unpleasant
105 IV| came in and said to her in his unpleasant voice: "If
106 IV| about the affair at last. In consequence she lost her
107 IV| dusk; the narrow nave was in total darkness, but she
108 IV| but she heard footsteps in the choir, for the sacristan
109 IV| trembling light, which was lost in the darkness of the. arches,
110 V| wish to everybody, and, in consequence of this, a neighbor
111 V| water with a pinch of ashes in it every evening. The farmer
112 V| love which were unknown in the country, but infallible,
113 V| crowd and prostrated herself in the abbey, and, mingling
114 V| second time; but it was in vain, and then she thought
115 V| was wearing himself out in useless hopes.~Then war
116 V| long, and when they were in their room together at night
117 V| go and stand out of doors in the rain until daylight.
118 V| and began to strike her in the face with his fists,
119 V| nothing and did not move. In his exasperation he knelt
120 V| began to beat her. Then in her despair she rebelled,
121 V| gesture, she sat up, and in an altered voice she hissed: "
122 V| and suddenly he stopped in front of her, and said: "
123 V| and While she was kneeling in front of the fireplace and
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