abbey-nave | near-youth
Part
1 V| prostrated herself in the abbey, and, mingling her prayers
2 I| in a large box of straw above his horses. He pretended
3 I| whose fragrance was spread abroad, while beyond the slope
4 IV| had gone away during her absence, and she fell heavily at
5 II| she was not very well. He acceded to her request immediately,
6 III| she would the next morning accept a proposal which she could
7 II| same. Her hard work was accepted as something that was due
8 I| perspiration. He felt a fresh access of desire, and, putting
9 III| piercing cry. Her long shadow accompanied her, and now and then some
10 I| took his arm of her own accord, in the avenue, as if they
11 III| refuse her master on that account. There must be something
12 IV| But she gradually grew accustomed to her life, her fears were
13 I| light which the sun threw across the long table through the
14 III| You are a good, steady, active and economical girl; and
15 III| and were swelling as they adhered to her flesh. She did not
16 I| to raise the cream in the adjoining dairy.~She wanted to sew,
17 V| hands and said: "I wanted to adopt one, and now we have found
18 V| effect. Then the priest advised them to make a pilgrimage
19 II| if you can.~"From your affectionate mother,~"CESAIRE DENTU,
20 IV| with all her grief awakened afresh; and at dinner the farmer
21 V| sorrow; her husband was also aging prematurely, and was wearing
22 V| he kissed his weeping and agitated wife on both cheeks, and
23 V| about an orphan some time ago."~Then, still laughing,
24 II| made her faint with mental agony; and she was always fancying
25 I| while she looked straight ahead of her. She had fat, red
26 IV| her life, her fears were allayed, her heart was at rest,
27 II| farmer her bad news, and he allowed her to go home for as long
28 V| gesture, she sat up, and in an altered voice she hissed: "I have
29 III| opened her heart to somebody, although he could not understand
30 I| side by side and talked amicably. They spoke about the favorable
31 IV| small bell rang out the Angelus through the increasing mist.
32 I| teeth, and trembling with anger, she replied: "I want --
33 I| consternation, but then she got angry, and her rage increased
34 III| sharp, pricking pains in her ankles made her jump back, and
35 I| the smell from the kitchen annoyed her again, and she went
36 IV| his wife, for at times he answered her roughly, almost angrily.~
37 III| how hard her work was, her anxieties and her hopes, and she quite
38 II| asked a question, did not appear to understand; but she had
39 III| the leeches one by one, applied herbs to the wounds, and
40 III| in a whirl, as if at the approach of some great danger; so,
41 IV| in the darkness of the. arches, looked to Rose like her
42 I| longer; but she took his arm of her own accord, in the
43 II| been wounded so long, there arose something like brightness,
44 V| of water with a pinch of ashes in it every evening. The
45 II| felt a kind of modesty in asking for money, as if it were
46 V| had the strength she would assuredly have run away, but the farmer
47 III| room; and she went, feeling astonished and nervous, without knowing
48 V| a piece of it, but they ate the whole loaf without obtaining
49 III| room, in order to avoid the attentions which the farmer tried to
50 III| that her cries of despair attracted a peasant, who was driving
51 II| the priest, to whom she attributed superhuman powers, which
52 I| of her own accord, in the avenue, as if they had been out
53 III| toward the room, in order to avoid the attentions which the
54 II| to think of any means of avoiding the disgrace that she knew
55 IV| house, with all her grief awakened afresh; and at dinner the
56 II| all their produce, and by baffling the peasants' tricks when
57 II| hundred crowns extra into the bank every month, thanks to her,
58 III| which would be a capital bargain for him, as he thus bound
59 II| by dint of making good bargains, of getting high prices
60 III| the dogs in the farmyards barked as they heard her pass;
61 I| moisture of the stables and barns were coming through the
62 III| will tell you; it is Jean Baudu?' "No, not he," she exclaimed. "
63 I| was covered with small beads of perspiration. He felt
64 I| he was shrewd enough to beg her pardon; so they sat
65 I| admiration which was the beginning of a real love for that
66 II| neighbor, Monsieur Dentu, begs you to come, if you can.~"
67 I| the case." But she did not believe his promises. "It must be
68 I| they met in the moonlight beside the haystack and gave each
69 III| more than if she had the best dowry in the district.~Neither
70 III| perspiration from grief. She became bewildered, and had the nightmare;
71 I| was spread abroad, while beyond the slope the open country
72 III| now and then some night bird flew over her head, while
73 III| stars grew dim, and the birds began to twitter; day was
74 II| and the next day Rose gave birth to a seven-months child,
75 III| followed her and tried to bite her, but she turned round
76 I| with glistening eyes and bits of straw in his hair.~He
77 II| she began to think rather bitterly that if the farmer could
78 I| walls, the rafters that were blackened with smoke and from which
79 I| fist that his nose began to bleed, and he got up and laid
80 I| strong wench. When the bleeding had stopped, he proposed
81 III| stagnant water looked like blood under the reflection of
82 I| sight of the apple trees in blossom. Just then a colt, full
83 I| hearth beneath the large boiler of hot water. From time
84 I| burying her head in the bolster, so that she might not be
85 I| with their heavy nailed boots. By degrees, however, Jacques
86 I| she felt two hands on her bosom, and she sprang up at a
87 III| must be something at the bottom of it, however."~She could
88 I| Jacques was lying in a large box of straw above his horses.
89 IV| One day, when a neighbor's boy came for some eggs, and
90 II| when the farmer was having breakfast by himself in the kitchen,
91 III| began to twitter; day was breaking. The girl was worn out and
92 II| little body against her breast. She could not sleep at
93 I| and to repose in the warm, breathless air. She took a few undecided
94 II| there arose something like brightness, an unknown love for that
95 III| interests who would certainly bring him more than if she had
96 IV| mentioned the matter to me that brings you here." The poor woman
97 I| haystack and gave each other bruises on the legs, under the table,
98 III| fatigue, while he became brutal, intoxicated by desire.~
99 IV| hastily, sometimes even brutally, and it even seemed as if
100 III| to find it out, with his brutish obstinacy, and, as it were,
101 III| still water, from which bubbles were rising here and there.~
102 I| shed, where the carts and buggies were kept. Close to it,
103 I| s finger.~She took up a bundle of straw, threw it into
104 II| married, but could not be burdened with the child, so she left
105 I| into her room and cried, burying her head in the bolster,
106 I| fat, red cheeks, a full bust beneath her cotton jacket;
107 IV| to him, as she was very busy, her husband suddenly came
108 II| last, entrusted her with buying and selling everything,
109 III| had a misfortune, as they call it, or it would have been
110 IV| against you. When a cow has no calves she is not worth anything,
111 II| economized in the bread, oil and candles; in the corn, which they
112 III| expected and which would be a capital bargain for him, as he thus
113 I| as he avoided her most carefully. At last, one night, when
114 III| consent, but she resisted carelessly struggling against that
115 III| with the violence of her caresses.~She took the greatest pleasure
116 I| who were drawing a child's cart, driven by a man as tall
117 I| went to the shed, where the carts and buggies were kept. Close
118 I| marry you, as that is the case." But she did not believe
119 IV| dropped on to his greasy cassock. But Rose did not venture
120 II| fodder for the horses and cattle, which was rather wasted.
121 II| your affectionate mother,~"CESAIRE DENTU, Deputy Mayor."~She
122 IV| she fell on her knees. The chain rattled as the little lamp
123 III| up, but fell back on her chair, as if she had been struck,
124 I| up the crumbs under the chairs, while the smell of the
125 I| as if they were uttering challenges from farm to farm.~The girl
126 I| another word.~She had no chance of speaking to him for several
127 II| have her work done by a charwoman and to take her back when
128 II| which they gave to the chickens too extravagantly, and in
129 IV| she heard footsteps in the choir, for the sacristan was preparing
130 I| breath, as he was almost choked, and so they remained, both
131 II| the wedding to be and the christening? And often she ran away
132 III| it. It had grown rosy and chubby all over, like a little
133 I| were scratching with one claw in search of worms, while
134 I| She looked at the black clay walls, the rafters that
135 I| fixed idea in his head, drew closer to her.~"I have not seen
136 II| PART II~Then a cloud of constant misery began
137 I| grain was growing, with clumps of trees in places, and
138 V| mingling her prayers with the coarse desires of the peasants
139 I| midst. When he crowed, the cocks in all the neighboring farmyards
140 III| without being at all able to collect her thoughts, though, at
141 I| in blossom. Just then a colt, full of life and friskiness,
142 I| with a feeling of animal comfort, and then she went to look
143 I| upon it. Then, not feeling comfortable, she undid it, spread it
144 III| she only wanted peace, complete rest, and to sleep forever,
145 IV| consequence she lost her composure, and did not venture to
146 III| she did not even try to comprehend his meaning, for her thoughts
147 III| out in a rage: "Ah! So you confess it, you slut! And pray who
148 II| longer ventured to go to confession, as she feared to face the
149 II| as she did not venture to confide her secret to any one. She
150 V| child another child; she confided her wish to everybody, and,
151 III| her that all this was the confirmation of her maternity; and she
152 II| enabled him to read people's consciences; and at meal times the looks
153 III| her. She certainly did not consent, but she resisted carelessly
154 V| every evening. The farmer consented to try it, but without success;
155 III| known, and as it has no consequences, no girl would refuse her
156 II| PART II~Then a cloud of constant misery began for her. She
157 III| and the female servants constantly become the mistresses of
158 I| first she was in a state of consternation, but then she got angry,
159 V| Vallin one day drove off to consult him. The shepherd gave him
160 II| people were to know."~This continual feeling made her so incapable
161 III| A feeling of delicious coolness pervaded her from head to
162 II| oil and candles; in the corn, which they gave to the
163 I| They plagued one another in corners; they met in the moonlight
164 I| a full bust beneath her cotton jacket; thick, red lips;
165 IV| go, but the priest said: "Courage."~And she went out and returned
166 III| frightened animal ran back and cowered in silence in its kennel.~
167 V| arms behind him. She was cowering on the bed and crying, and
168 II| had been found out by the cowherd, a precocious and cunning
169 II| which were as thin as a crab's legs; but it lived for
170 I| were set out to raise the cream in the adjoining dairy.~
171 I| make any noise, for fear of creating a scandal. One morning,
172 II| love for that frail little creature which she had left behind
173 III| with horror, so that her cries of despair attracted a peasant,
174 I| petticoat, with bare feet, crossed the yard and opened the
175 IV| eggs, and she spoke rather crossly to him, as she was very
176 V| Fecamp. Rose went with the crowd and prostrated herself in
177 I| in their midst. When he crowed, the cocks in all the neighboring
178 I| door, and a cock was heard crowing in the distance.~When she
179 II| could put fifty or a hundred crowns extra into the bank every
180 I| hens were picking up the crumbs under the chairs, while
181 V| cowering on the bed and crying, and suddenly he stopped
182 I| the cream in the adjoining dairy.~She wanted to sew, as usual,
183 III| herself in a low voice as she danced it in her arms: "It is my
184 I| amid which the tall yellow dandelions rose up like streaks of
185 III| the approach of some great danger; so, after waiting for a
186 III| to her flesh. She did not dare to touch them, and screamed
187 I| without speaking, in the dark silence, which was only
188 II| her as follows:~"MY DEAR DAUGHTER: I write to tell you that
189 V| doors in the rain until daylight. As she did not obey him,
190 I| her eyes and was almost dazzled at the sight of the apple
191 III| had troubled him a good deal, for he had no doubt that
192 II| read to her as follows:~"MY DEAR DAUGHTER: I write to tell
193 V| country, but infallible, so he declared; but none of them had the
194 III| was looking fixedly at the deep pool, she was seized with
195 I| window, and which showed the defects in the glass.~Three venturesome
196 III| and there.~A feeling of delicious coolness pervaded her from
197 I| falling into a state of delightful languor. She was, in fact,
198 III| neighborhood, while she denied that he had hit upon the
199 II| mother,~"CESAIRE DENTU, Deputy Mayor."~She did not say
200 V| but none of them had the desired effect. Then the priest
201 V| prayers with the coarse desires of the peasants around her,
202 II| saving up money for it, and determined to work so that her master
203 I| middle of the nose. What a devil!" he said, and he looked
204 II| she returned.~Her mother died soon after she got there,
205 I| of respect and of a very different kind of admiration which
206 III| its kennel.~The stars grew dim, and the birds began to
207 IV| course he is; this is his dinnertime." She trembled as she rang
208 II| had been her own; and, by dint of making good bargains,
209 III| on her heart, in order to dip both her feet in it. She
210 I| water. From time to time she dipped out some water and slowly
211 I| separated like that," and she directed her looks into the distance,
212 II| any means of avoiding the disgrace that she knew must ensue,
213 II| as if it were something disgraceful; but, at last, one day,
214 I| water and slowly washed her dishes, stopping occasionally to
215 III| had the best dowry in the district.~Neither could there be
216 IV| by some care, some mental disturbance, which was gradually increasing.
217 I| friskiness, jumped over the ditches and then stopped suddenly,
218 III| pool, she was seized with dizziness, and with a mad longing
219 III| over her head, while the dogs in the farmyards barked
220 I| who looked as small as dolls, and white horses like toys,
221 V| and go and stand out of doors in the rain until daylight.
222 III| good deal, for he had no doubt that she would the next
223 III| than if she had the best dowry in the district.~Neither
224 III| night. She threw herself, dressed as she was, on her bed,
225 I| put the plates on the high dresser close to the wooden clock
226 III| handling it, in washing and dressing it, for it seemed to her
227 III| tears suddenly stopped and dried up on her cheeks, like drops
228 V| was, to make her husband drink a glass of water with a
229 I| drawing a child's cart, driven by a man as tall as one'
230 III| attracted a peasant, who was driving along at some distance,
231 IV| spoonfuls of soup, some of which dropped on to his greasy cassock.
232 III| dried up on her cheeks, like drops of water on hot iron, and
233 II| accepted as something that was due from every good servant,
234 III| her, she was so thoroughly dumfounded. She remained quite inert,
235 I| were lying on the steaming dunghill; some of them were scratching
236 IV| the church.~It was getting dusk; the narrow nave was in
237 III| shoes, which were full of dust, pulled off her stockings
238 I| work, wiped down the table, dusted the mantelpiece and put
239 I| kitchen, where the fire was dying out on the hearth beneath
240 I| putting his lips to her ear, he murmured: "Yes, of course
241 II| her, she was still only earning her two hundred francs a
242 IV| of all her happiness on earth, and whom she went to see
243 I| the stale odor from the earthen floor, on which so many
244 IV| rest, and she lived with an easier mind, though still with
245 V| and each of them was to eat a piece of it, but they
246 III| good, steady, active and economical girl; and a wife like you
247 II| to working like two; she economized in the bread, oil and candles;
248 V| of them had the desired effect. Then the priest advised
249 | eh
250 III| III~The child was nearly eight months old, and she did
251 III| two wives, evidently felt embarrassed, which was very unusual
252 II| superhuman powers, which enabled him to read people's consciences;
253 IV| live alone together to the end of their days. That is what
254 II| began to work still more energetically, and, still thinking of
255 II| disgrace that she knew must ensue, which was irreparable and
256 II| anything for sale, he, at last, entrusted her with buying and selling
257 III| every one is very nearly equal; the farmer works with his
258 III| inclination to run away, to escape and to flee before her misfortune,
259 III| become the mistresses of the establishments without its making any change
260 I| breath. From that moment the eternal story of love began between
261 III| eyes at meal times. Did you ever give him your promise, eh?"~
262 V| she confided her wish to everybody, and, in consequence of
263 II| the farmer himself said everywhere: "That girl is worth more
264 III| the tears came into her eves and she said twice in a
265 III| who had lost two wives, evidently felt embarrassed, which
266 I| rather oppressed, without exactly knowing why. She looked
267 V| and did not move. In his exasperation he knelt on her stomach,
268 III| the fields, and ran about excitedly with it, and sat down under
269 I| some information without exciting any suspicion, but she was
270 III| almost tranquilly, but was as exhausted as if she had been turning
271 III| which she could never have expected and which would be a capital
272 II| fifty or a hundred crowns extra into the bank every month,
273 II| gave to the chickens too extravagantly, and in the fodder for the
274 II| She kept such a strict eye on everything about her
275 II| servants almost made her faint with mental agony; and she
276 IV| The poor woman nearly fainted, and the priest continued: "
277 IV| huge rocks, which would fall on the first occasion. Her
278 I| eyes closed, and she was falling into a state of delightful
279 I| her misfortune that she fancied that all the people whom
280 II| agony; and she was always fancying that she had been found
281 II| people do whose thoughts are far away.~They began to talk
282 I| night, when every one in the farmhouse was asleep, she went out
283 I| the grass for a time.~The farmyard, which was surrounded by
284 III| swollen feet refused to go any farther; but she saw a pond in the
285 III| but she was weakened by fatigue, while he became brutal,
286 I| amicably. They spoke about the favorable weather, of their master,
287 II| go to confession, as she feared to face the priest, to whom
288 IV| accustomed to her life, her fears were allayed, her heart
289 V| pilgrimage to the shrine at Fecamp. Rose went with the crowd
290 III| mentioned all the young fellows in the neighborhood, while
291 III| masters in their turn, and the female servants constantly become
292 III| gate she scrambled over the fence, and as soon as she was
293 V| Very well, we will go and fetch the child, as you and I
294 II| if the farmer could put fifty or a hundred crowns extra
295 II| persistently tried to look at her figure in a piece of broken looking-glass,
296 I| As the weather was very fine, the people on the farm
297 I| by a man as tall as one's finger.~She took up a bundle of
298 I| the distance.~When she had finished her work, wiped down the
299 V| kneeling in front of the fireplace and lighting the fire under
300 I| the face with her clenched fist that his nose began to bleed,
301 V| her in the face with his fists, but she said nothing and
302 III| swelling as they adhered to her flesh. She did not dare to touch
303 V| despair she rebelled, and flinging him against the wall with
304 IV| still with some vague fear floating in it. And so years went
305 IV| his feet, and, shedding a flood of tears, she said to him: "
306 V| room together at night he flung insults and obscenities
307 II| extravagantly, and in the fodder for the horses and cattle,
308 III| At any rate, he used to follow you into every corner and
309 III| jumped over the ditch, and followed her and tried to bite her,
310 II| down and read to her as follows:~"MY DEAR DAUGHTER: I write
311 III| pervaded her from head to foot, and suddenly, while she
312 IV| darkness, but she heard footsteps in the choir, for the sacristan
313 V| child?"~"You took me by force, as I suppose you know?
314 II| a pin; and, in order to forget their jokes, she began to
315 V| I am not saying it for form's sake, but I am glad, I
316 III| gig.~She was in bed for a fortnight, and as she was sitting
317 III| like you would make a man's fortune."~She did not move, but
318 III| jovial, obstinate man of forty-five, who had lost two wives,
319 I| seemed to do her good.~The fowls were lying on the steaming
320 I| patch of violets, whose fragrance was spread abroad, while
321 II| an unknown love for that frail little creature which she
322 | francs
323 III| works with his laborers, who frequently become masters in their
324 I| a colt, full of life and friskiness, jumped over the ditches
325 V| prayed that she might be fruitful a second time; but it was
326 V| against the wall with a furious gesture, she sat up, and
327 I| hear? I am enceinte!"~He gasped for breath, as he was almost
328 III| Instead of opening the gate she scrambled over the fence,
329 III| however, the man shouted: "By George! It is Jacques, the man
330 V| the wall with a furious gesture, she sat up, and in an altered
331 III| her master's farm in his gig.~She was in bed for a fortnight,
332 I| man were to marry all the girls with whom he has made a
333 I| holding his breath, with glistening eyes and bits of straw in
334 II| more than her weight in gold."~But time passed by, and
335 IV| her, as the laborers had gone away during her absence,
336 I| country could be seen, where grain was growing, with clumps
337 I| Then she released her grasp and went away without another
338 IV| which dropped on to his greasy cassock. But Rose did not
339 III| her caresses.~She took the greatest pleasure in handling it,
340 I| of a vivid, fresh spring green. The apple trees cast their
341 I| of trees in places, and groups of laborers here and there,
342 I| however, Jacques seemed to grow tired of her; he avoided
343 I| be seen, where grain was growing, with clumps of trees in
344 IV| even seemed as if he had a grudge against his wife, for at
345 III| cunning peasant, who partly guessed the truth; and she replied,
346 III| change in their life or habits.~Rose did not go to bed
347 II| she had a frightened look, haggard eyes and trembling hands,
348 I| stall came in through the half-open door, and a cock was heard
349 III| fellow? Some penniless, half-starved ragamuffin, without a roof
350 III| the greatest pleasure in handling it, in washing and dressing
351 II| her whether he was tall, handsome and rich. When was the wedding
352 III| at the idea of what might happen. Her terror increased, and
353 III| remembered something of what had happened, and then she was frightened
354 IV| also the cause of all her happiness on earth, and whom she went
355 IV| was six. She was almost happy now, when suddenly the farmer'
356 V| thunderstruck and could hardly speak, but at last he stammered
357 IV| over, but left the room and hastened to the church.~It was getting
358 IV| at her, and he seemed to hate her, to despise her, to
359 II| day, when the farmer was having breakfast by himself in
360 I| horse as he, pulled the hay out of the manger and then
361 I| the moonlight beside the haystack and gave each other bruises
362 I| fire was dying out on the hearth beneath the large boiler
363 V| began to laugh with the hearty laugh of his good days,
364 I| continually spilled and which the heat brought out. With this there
365 IV| her absence, and she fell heavily at his feet, and, shedding
366 III| sigh, and he turned on his heel.~She thought she had got
367 I| to look for eggs in the hen loft. There were thirteen
368 I| glass.~Three venturesome hens were picking up the crumbs
369 I| a long time. He had been herding the sheep, and, seeing her
370 I| hung spiders' webs, smoked herrings and strings of onions, and
371 III| feeling surprised 'that it was hers, and would say to herself
372 III| began to speak vaguely, hesitating a little, and looking out
373 II| grown lately."~In church she hid behind a pillar, and no
374 V| in an altered voice she hissed: "I have had a child, I
375 III| a terrier scratches at a hole to try and get at the animal
376 II| but asked for a week's holiday, so that she might get away,
377 III| before the wind. An owl hooted; she shivered, sat up, passed
378 IV| looked to Rose like her last hope, and with her eyes fixed
379 III| them, and screamed with horror, so that her cries of despair
380 IV| then she went back into the house, with all her grief awakened
381 II| provisions necessary for the household; so that, in a short time,
382 IV| hanging over her head, like huge rocks, which would fall
383 I| with smoke and from which hung spiders' webs, smoked herrings
384 II| PART II~Then a cloud of constant
385 III| PART III~The child was nearly eight
386 | ill
387 II| terminated in a signature, imagining vaguely that she would suddenly
388 II| as she felt half mad with impatience and anxiety, she went to
389 III| At last the farmer grew impatient and said: "Come, what more
390 III| simple natures and very imperfectly protected by the undecided
391 IV| Her husband gave her the impression of a man whom she had robbed,
392 IV| if she were in a pit with inaccessible sides from which she could
393 II| continual feeling made her so incapable of reasoning that she did
394 III| imagine, and she felt a mad inclination to run away, to escape and
395 II| up her mind to ask for an increase of wages. She went to see
396 II| short time, she became. indispensable to him. She kept such a
397 I| she tried to obtain some information without exciting any suspicion,
398 II| piece of paper, covered with ink, in her hand. After a time,
399 III| the animal which he scents inside it. Suddenly, however, the
400 I| admiration, for she had inspired him with a feeling of respect
401 III| bright light over the fields. Instead of opening the gate she
402 III| struggling against that instinct which is always strong in
403 V| together at night he flung insults and obscenities at her,
404 III| thus bound a woman to his interests who would certainly bring
405 III| invoke sacred things, but he interrupted her: "At any rate, he used
406 II| lines written at regular intervals, and which terminated in
407 III| while he became brutal, intoxicated by desire.~They lived together
408 III| as she did not venture to invoke sacred things, but he interrupted
409 I| which grew blue and yellow irises, with their sword-like leaves,
410 III| like drops of water on hot iron, and she exclaimed: "No,
411 II| knew must ensue, which was irreparable and drawing nearer every
412 III| suppose the affair is settled isn't it?" She did not reply
413 II| which was as sure as death itself. She got up every morning
414 IV| PART IV~She married him. She felt
415 I| bust beneath her cotton jacket; thick, red lips; and her
416 III| Then I will tell you; it is Jean Baudu?' "No, not he," she
417 II| in order to forget their jokes, she began to work still
418 III| peasants.~The farmer, a stout, jovial, obstinate man of forty-five,
419 II| suffering continually, to judge from the painful manner
420 III| pains in her ankles made her jump back, and she uttered a
421 V| this neighborhood without keeping his word."~The man was thunderstruck
422 III| cowered in silence in its kennel.~The stars grew dim, and
423 IV| could never get out, and all kinds of misfortunes were hanging
424 V| made some marks; it was kneaded up with herbs, and each
425 V| downstairs; and While she was kneeling in front of the fireplace
426 II| avoiding the disgrace that she knew must ensue, which was irreparable
427 II| on the table, holding his knife, with its point in the air,
428 III| it, or it would have been known, and as it has no consequences,
429 II| precocious and cunning little lad, whose bright eyes seemed
430 I| bleed, and he got up and laid his head against the stem
431 I| into a state of delightful languor. She was, in fact, almost
432 II| how stupid you have grown lately."~In church she hid behind
433 I| saucepan off the fire; and later, when they were all at work,
434 V| some time ago."~Then, still laughing, he kissed his weeping and
435 I| undid it, spread it out and lay down upon it at full length
436 | le
437 V| a shepherd who lived ten leagues off, and so Vallin one day
438 I| laughed maliciously. All she learned, however, was that he had
439 I| irises, with their sword-like leaves, steamed as if the moisture
440 I| lay down upon it at full length on her back, with both arms
441 II| a year, neither more nor less; and so she made up her
442 II| the postman brought her a letter, and as she had never received
443 III| but when he tried to take liberties with her she understood
444 III| leeches were sucking her lifeblood, and were swelling as they
445 V| front of the fireplace and lighting the fire under the saucepan,
446 II| home for as long as she liked, and promised to have her
447 I| move and to stretch her limbs and to repose in the warm,
448 III| of this new day, and she limped on slowly with her hand
449 II| her work to look at those lines written at regular intervals,
450 V| sobbing.~Then he got up, lit the candle, and began to
451 IV| it is not that they may live alone together to the end
452 I| the stable was now always locked at night, she was afraid
453 I| look for eggs in the hen loft. There were thirteen of
454 II| figure in a piece of broken looking-glass, before which she did her
455 I| the wooden clock with its loud tick-tock, she drew a long
456 III| would say to herself in a low voice as she danced it in
457 III| been turning the thrashing machine all day in the place of
458 I| people whom she asked laughed maliciously. All she learned, however,
459 I| pulled the hay out of the manger and then slowly munched
460 I| down the table, dusted the mantelpiece and put the plates on the
461 I| earthen floor, on which so many things had been continually
462 V| on which he had made some marks; it was kneaded up with
463 III| exclaimed. "Then it is Pierre Martin?" "Oh! no, master."~And
464 III| laborers, who frequently become masters in their turn, and the female
465 III| scruples about an unequal match between them, for in the
466 III| the confirmation of her maternity; and she would look at it,
467 II| CESAIRE DENTU, Deputy Mayor."~She did not say a word
468 I| another in corners; they met in the moonlight beside
469 V| told her of an infallible method. This was, to make her husband
470 I| stood up proudly in their midst. When he crowed, the cocks
471 II| wonderfully, and for five miles around people talked of "
472 I| sour smell of the pans of milk which were set out to raise
473 I| out. With this there was mingled the sour smell of the pans
474 V| herself in the abbey, and, mingling her prayers with the coarse
475 II| felt every hour and every minute, because she was parted
476 II| a seven-months child, a miserable little skeleton, thin enough
477 II| rather wasted. She was as miserly about her master's money
478 II| Then a cloud of constant misery began for her. She worked
479 IV| Angelus through the increasing mist. She went up to him, as
480 III| You see, a farm without a mistress can never succeed, even
481 III| servants constantly become the mistresses of the establishments without
482 II| else. She felt a kind of modesty in asking for money, as
483 I| leaves, steamed as if the moisture of the stables and barns
484 II| wages.~By degrees she almost monopolized the work and persuaded him
485 III| prowling scamp, for the moon, which was setting, shed
486 I| corners; they met in the moonlight beside the haystack and
487 I| went to the door to get a mouthful of fresh air, which seemed
488 II| painful manner in which it moved its poor little hands, which
489 III| to flee at the slightest movement he may make; but, after
490 I| remained side by side like that much longer; but she took his
491 I| the manger and then slowly munched it.~When Jacques found that
492 III| he is face to face with a murderer and ready to flee at the
493 I| his lips to her ear, he murmured: "Yes, of course I do."~
494 II| something to say to you myself."~
495 V| a schoolmaster unveiled mysteries and processes of love which
496 I| table, with their heavy nailed boots. By degrees, however,
497 V| between them; he called her names and beat her. They quarrelled
498 IV| It was getting dusk; the narrow nave was in total darkness,
499 III| always strong in simple natures and very imperfectly protected
500 IV| getting dusk; the narrow nave was in total darkness, but
|