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1 I| stopping occasionally to look at the two streaks of light
2 I| knowing why. She looked at the black clay walls, the
3 I| to farm.~The girl looked at them without thinking, and
4 I| eyes and was almost dazzled at the sight of the apple trees
5 I| suddenly, as if surprised at being alone.~She also felt
6 I| out and lay down upon it at full length on her back,
7 I| bosom, and she sprang up at a bound. It was Jacques,
8 I| he said, and he looked at her with admiration, for
9 I| hesitated and then looked at her sideways, while she
10 I| found that she was enceinte.~At first she was in a state
11 I| avoided her most carefully. At last, one night, when every
12 I| his promises. "It must be at once," she said. "You must
13 I| have the banns put up." "At once," he replied. "Swear
14 I| stable was now always locked at night, she was afraid to
15 I| saw another man come in at dinner time, and she said: "
16 I| later, when they were all at work, she went up into her
17 II| persistently tried to look at her figure in a piece of
18 II| every few minutes to look at herself from top to toe,
19 II| people's consciences; and at meal times the looks of
20 II| stopped in her work to look at those lines written at regular
21 II| look at those lines written at regular intervals, and which
22 II| discover their meaning, until at last, as she felt half mad
23 II| breast. She could not sleep at night; she thought of it
24 II| front of the fire and gaze at it intently, as people do
25 II| offered anything for sale, he, at last, entrusted her with
26 II| something disgraceful; but, at last, one day, when the
27 II| other, and he looked fixedly at, the girl, who felt uncomfortable
28 III| maternity; and she would look at it, almost feeling surprised '
29 III| with their arms hanging at their sides, as if they
30 III| very unusual with him; but, at last, he made. up his mind,
31 III| thoughts were in a whirl, as if at the approach of some great
32 III| to say, and Rose looked at him with the air of a person
33 III| murderer and ready to flee at the slightest movement he
34 III| by some great misfortune. At last the farmer grew impatient
35 III| do you want?" She looked at him, almost in terror, then
36 III| body, and without being at all able to collect her
37 III| collect her thoughts, though, at moments, she remembered
38 III| then she was frightened at the idea of what might happen.
39 III| she was looking fixedly at the deep pool, she was seized
40 III| peasant, who was driving along at some distance, to the spot.
41 III| t it?" She did not reply at first, and then, as he remained
42 III| remained standing and looking at her intently with his piercing
43 III| repeated: "I cannot." He looked at her, and then exclaimed
44 III| as it were, scratching at her heart to discover her
45 III| just as a terrier scratches at a hole to try and get at
46 III| at a hole to try and get at the animal which he scents
47 III| but he interrupted her: "At any rate, he used to follow
48 III| devoured you with his eyes at meal times. Did you ever
49 III| There must be something at the bottom of it, however."~
50 III| you." She was surprised at first, but when he tried
51 IV| were allayed, her heart was at rest, and she lived with
52 IV| increasing. He remained sitting at table after dinner, with
53 IV| grudge against his wife, for at times he answered her roughly,
54 IV| grief awakened afresh; and at dinner the farmer neither
55 IV| spoke to her nor looked at her, and he seemed to hate
56 IV| something about the affair at last. In consequence she
57 IV| out.~"Is Monsieur le Cure at home?" she asked. "Of course
58 IV| absence, and she fell heavily at his feet, and, shedding
59 V| pilgrimage to the shrine at Fecamp. Rose went with the
60 V| were in their room together at night he flung insults and
61 V| insults and obscenities at her, choking with rage,
62 V| could hardly speak, but at last he stammered out: "
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