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1 I| close to the wooden clock with its loud tick-tock, she
2 I| rafters that were blackened with smoke and from which hung
3 I| which the heat brought out. With this there was mingled the
4 I| of them were scratching with one claw in search of worms,
5 I| eyes, for she was seized with a feeling of animal comfort,
6 I| blue and yellow irises, with their sword-like leaves,
7 I| where grain was growing, with clumps of trees in places,
8 I| full length on her back, with both arms under her head
9 I| and holding his breath, with glistening eyes and bits
10 I| thought of it, while he, with one fixed idea in his head,
11 I| so violently in the face with her clenched fist that his
12 I| said, and he looked at her with admiration, for she had
13 I| for she had inspired him with a feeling of respect and
14 I| despise her. He was in love with her, that was all.~"So you
15 I| almost bare, was covered with small beads of perspiration.
16 I| the legs, under the table, with their heavy nailed boots.
17 I| noiselessly in her petticoat, with bare feet, crossed the yard
18 I| he then asked her. And with clenched teeth, and trembling
19 I| clenched teeth, and trembling with anger, she replied: "I want --
20 I| were to marry all the girls with whom he has made a slip,
21 II| thinking of what she was doing, with one fixed idea in her head:~"
22 II| servants almost made her faint with mental agony; and she was
23 II| sat anxious and trembling with that piece of paper, covered
24 II| piece of paper, covered with ink, in her hand. After
25 II| last, as she felt half mad with impatience and anxiety,
26 II| but could not be burdened with the child, so she left it
27 II| the child, so she left it with some neighbors, who promised
28 II| at last, entrusted her with buying and selling everything,
29 II| and selling everything, with the direction of all the
30 II| of all the laborers, and with the purchase of provisions
31 II| kitchen, she said to him, with some embarrassment, that
32 II| raised his head in surprise, with both his hands on the table,
33 II| table, holding his knife, with its point in the air, in
34 III| that it began to scream with terror; and then she began
35 III| and ran about excitedly with it, and sat down under the
36 III| she quite tired the child with the violence of her caresses.~
37 III| in some embarrassment, with their arms hanging at their
38 III| did not know what to do with them, and looking each other
39 III| which was very unusual with him; but, at last, he made.
40 III| can never succeed, even with a servant like you." Then
41 III| and Rose looked at him with the air of a person who
42 III| that he is face to face with a murderer and ready to
43 III| glad to have got through with the matter, which had troubled
44 III| equal; the farmer works with his laborers, who frequently
45 III| on straight before her, with a quick, springy trot, and
46 III| and she limped on slowly with her hand on her heart, in
47 III| deep pool, she was seized with dizziness, and with a mad
48 III| seized with dizziness, and with a mad longing to throw herself
49 III| forever, and she got up with raised arms and took two
50 III| touch them, and screamed with horror, so that her cries
51 III| looking at her intently with his piercing eyes, she said
52 III| piercing eyes, she said with difficulty: "No, master,
53 III| she replied, trembling with shame.~The man got as red
54 III| every moment wiped her eyes with the corner of her blue apron.
55 III| still tried to find it out, with his brutish obstinacy, and,
56 III| corner and devoured you with his eyes at meal times.
57 III| would have nothing to do with him." She spoke with such
58 III| do with him." She spoke with such an air of sincerity
59 III| cannot, master," she said, with a sigh, and he turned on
60 III| woke her. She . trembled with fear, but immediately recognized
61 III| tried to take liberties with her she understood and began
62 III| and quite unprotected, with that man standing near her.
63 IV| as if she were in a pit with inaccessible sides from
64 IV| was at rest, and she lived with an easier mind, though still
65 IV| easier mind, though still with some vague fear floating
66 IV| sitting at table after dinner, with his head in his hands, sad
67 IV| went back into the house, with all her grief awakened afresh;
68 IV| venture to remain alone with him after the meal was over,
69 IV| like her last hope, and with her eyes fixed on it, she
70 V| husband drink a glass of water with a pinch of ashes in it every
71 V| marks; it was kneaded up with herbs, and each of them
72 V| shrine at Fecamp. Rose went with the crowd and prostrated
73 V| and, mingling her prayers with the coarse desires of the
74 V| grief. She was wasting away with sorrow; her husband was
75 V| obscenities at her, choking with rage, until one night, not
76 V| to strike her in the face with his fists, but she said
77 V| knelt on her stomach, and with clenched teeth, and mad
78 V| clenched teeth, and mad with rage, he began to beat her.
79 V| flinging him against the wall with a furious gesture, she sat
80 V| said again, mechanically, with increasing surprise: "You
81 V| began to walk up and down, with his arms behind him. She
82 V| How could I?" she replied, with a sigh.~He remained standing,
83 V| up," he said. She got up with some difficulty, and then,
84 V| suddenly began to laugh with the hearty laugh of his
85 V| up and down the kitchen with long strides, repeating:~"
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