Chapter

 1     1|           is today fifty-two years old, and it is only at this
 2     1|             X - , fifty-five years old, bachelor, clerk. Full-blooded,
 3     1|         attention; it was a silent old copying clerk named Boivin,
 4     1|          immediately fast friends. Old man Boivin said to him:~ ~"
 5     3|          winding paths and full of old trees. But the journalist
 6     3| Rougon-Macquart series.~ ~A pretty old church with two towers appeared
 7     3|       looking out over the valley. Old tapestries covered the walls;
 8     4|     finding his idea excellent. An old gentleman exclaimed:~ ~"
 9     5|           began to row madly.~ ~An old dilapidated mill, whose
10     6|           that he was very clumsy. Old, thin and small, with bright
11     6|            why. People said: "That old fool of a Rade," or else: "