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1 I| Three venturesome hens were picking up the crumbs under
2 I| walls, the rafters that were blackened with smoke and
3 I| of the pans of milk which were set out to raise the cream
4 I| to do her good.~The fowls were lying on the steaming dunghill;
5 I| steaming dunghill; some of them were scratching with one claw
6 I| replied to him, as if they were uttering challenges from
7 I| eggs in the hen loft. There were thirteen of them, which
8 I| of the stables and barns were coming through the straw.
9 I| where the carts and buggies were kept. Close to it, in a
10 I| white horses like toys, who were drawing a child's cart,
11 I| and kissed him till they were both out of breath. From
12 I| and replied: "Oh! if a man were to marry all the girls with
13 I| fire; and later, when they were all at work, she went up
14 II| her head:~"Suppose people were to know."~This continual
15 II| poor little hands, which were as thin as a crab's legs;
16 II| asking for money, as if it were something disgraceful; but,
17 III| meaning, for her thoughts were in a whirl, as if at the
18 III| went downstairs, as if she were walking in her sleep. When
19 III| off her heavy shoes, which were full of dust, pulled off
20 III| water, from which bubbles were rising here and there.~A
21 III| feet, long black leeches were sucking her lifeblood, and
22 III| sucking her lifeblood, and were swelling as they adhered
23 III| brutish obstinacy, and, as it were, scratching at her heart
24 III| They used to say that you were always talking together,
25 III| swear to you that if he were to come to-day and ask me
26 IV| him. She felt as if she were in a pit with inaccessible
27 IV| all kinds of misfortunes were hanging over her head, like
28 IV| accustomed to her life, her fears were allayed, her heart was at
29 IV| unpleasant voice: "If that were your own child you would
30 V| tried to find out. They were told of a shepherd who lived
31 V| processes of love which were unknown in the country,
32 V| day long, and when they were in their room together at
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