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1001    II|           while the men sat in their shirt-sleeves, drinking glass after glass
1002    II|           sleeping village, and they shivered, not with cold, but with
1003    II|          cold, but with those little shivers of loneliness which come
1004    II|        carpenter, the innkeeper, the shoemaker and the baker.~The church
1005    II|           But the horse's jerky trot shook the cart so terribly that
1006    II|             a smell of a carpenter's shop, that resinous odor which
1007    II|            would be raised, so as to show a muslin cap, while an old
1008    II|        Joseph, hoped that by dint of showing his sister attention, she
1009     I|            towns, at the foot of the shrine of some saint, burned all
1010     I|           been mayor, found the door shut. The lantern behind the
1011     I|              some reason, and on the shutter he saw a notice stuck up.
1012    II|    speechless from surprise, glanced sideways out of the corner of one
1013    II|           cry.~First of all she wept silently, and the tears dropped slowly
1014     I|               in a harsh voice; told silly, interminable tales, and
1015    II|             the bosom, fastened with silver brooches a hundred years
1016    II|       kneeling near her, overcome by similar recollections, were sobbing
1017    II|          down again, while the three singers continued, their eyes fixed
1018    II|         houses on either side of the single street were inhabited by
1019    II|        especially thank you, my dear sisters, who have come from such
1020    II|           was ready, she was told to sit down and not to move, and
1021    II|          particular style, and had a slate-roofed steeple. When you got past
1022    II|             turned-down collar, wide sleeves tight at the wrist, ornamented
1023    II|             they got in. There was a slight whistle, followed by a loud
1024     I|            was old and damp, smelled slightly of mildew. At times there
1025    II|             of the calm and profound slumber of the earth. But Rosa,
1026    II|              finding herself in such smart company.~There was certainly
1027     I|              which was old and damp, smelled slightly of mildew. At times
1028    II|           ardent prayers of the soul soaring to heaven.~The people behind
1029    II|      recollections, and she began to sob. She took out her pocket
1030   III|             Tall Fernande was on the sofa, her feet on the coat of
1031    II|             their knees, stroked her soft, light hair and pressed
1032    II|           Rosa was delighted, got up softly so as not to awaken any
1033     I|              Yvetot, had immediately sold their house, as they thought
1034    II|           pocket-handkerchief, which somebody was waving, as it disappeared
1035      | somewhere
1036     I|          morning till night she sang songs, which were alternately
1037    II|       prolonged the syllables of the sonorous Latin indefinitely, holding
1038   III|               gave the messenger two sons, and suddenly blushing to
1039    II|            the carpenter said:~"I am sorry you are going; we might
1040    II|            repeated.~Vehicles of all sorts came from neighboring parishes,
1041    II|         words, ardent prayers of the soul soaring to heaven.~The people
1042    II|             which is soon drowned in space. The candidates came out.
1043     I|             sash, and the other as a Spanish woman, with a string of
1044   III|           toss off a long draught of sparkling wine, and that dance was
1045    II|           her left hand.~Just as the sparks from an engine will set
1046    II|         sister-in-law was waiting to speak to her about the child,
1047    II|           powerful Being.~Suddenly a species of madness seemed to pervade
1048     I|              right one had not had a speck in it. Her Roman nose came
1049    II|             females through his wire spectacles.~When they got out at the
1050    II|           The two peasants, who were speechless from surprise, glanced sideways
1051     I| consideration. The regular customers spent money on her, and were delighted
1052    II|       hovering over their heads -- a spirit, the powerful breath of
1053    II|           acquaintance of the little spit, qu-ack! qu-ack!"~The unfortunate
1054     I|             active as a squirrel, in spite of her embonpoint and her
1055     I|             and a Frenchman his nose split.~The drunken man who had
1056    II|         their arms with vehement and spontaneous outbursts of affection,
1057    II|              a lilac dress with gold spots on it, and there was something
1058   III|             and in a moment the news spread, nobody knew how or through
1059    II|            of exclamations, and they squeezed their petticoats between
1060     I|           still, and was active as a squirrel, in spite of her embonpoint
1061    II|       compartment, the ladies put on staid looks, and began to talk
1062     I|             was reached by a winding staircase, through a narrow door opening
1063    II|            herself at the top of the stairs, close to the loft, where
1064    II|           time a priest sitting in a stall and wearing a biretta got
1065    II|        priest, paralyzed by emotion, stammered out incoherent prayers,
1066    II|         skirt with all his might and stammering incoherently.~But Madame
1067    II|            carefully bringing short, starched muslin dresses or very long
1068    II|             did not stir, as she was startled at finding herself in such
1069    II|            effect on the village was startling.~At the school the girls
1070     I|          younger men would sometimes stay later.~It was a small, comfortable
1071    II|          puffed cut its first jet of steam, while the wheels began
1072    II|               and had a slate-roofed steeple. When you got past it, you
1073     I|              jingled at every uneven step, looked like cooks dressed
1074    II|             and stood on the chancel steps, when everybody was silent
1075    II|           the ducks whose heads were sticking out of the basket, and when
1076    II|     protruded. The woman, who sat up stiffly in her rustic finery, had
1077    II|        frenzy, a tempest of sobs and stifled cries. It came like gusts
1078    II|              wrapped in that perfect stillness of the country, which is
1079    II|              her husband and did not stir, as she was startled at
1080    II|              a badly fitting, coarse stocking. The commercial traveller
1081    II|        delight, while occasionally a stone-breaker by the roadside sat up and
1082     I|        besieging the house, throwing stones at the shutters, and shouting,
1083    II|             The commercial traveller stooped down and fastened the garter.
1084    II|           from neighboring parishes, stopping at the different houses,
1085    II|              a sister, seized by the strange sympathy of poignant emotion,
1086     I|         false upper teeth contrasted strangely with the bad color of the
1087     I|           walked aimlessly about the streets.~Presently they met Monsieur
1088    II|              the white horse went on stretching out his head and holding
1089     I|              a Spanish woman, with a string of copper coins in her carroty
1090    II|             took her on their knees, stroked her soft, light hair and
1091    II|              they all went out for a stroll in the country.~It was a
1092     I|       juvenile look, that contrasted strongly with the ripeness of her
1093     I|              shutter he saw a notice stuck up. He struck a wax match
1094    II|           standing crops, which were studded with red or blue.~One o'
1095     I|            were not made of the same stuff."~Sometimes during the week
1096    II|              flint, in no particular style, and had a slate-roofed
1097     I|              insurance agent, on the subject of the tax collector's salary
1098    II|          looks, and began to talk of subjects which might give others
1099    II|            embarrassment. She had no substitute, and did not at all care
1100    II|             next day, but he did not succeed, for she never joked when
1101     I|       frequented. Madame Tellier had succeeded in giving it such a respectable
1102     I|             not meet with any better success. But suddenly they heard
1103    II|        ourselves." And then he had a sudden inspiration:~"Look here,
1104     I|            stout, and his health had suffered. Since she had been a widow,
1105    II|              divine character. It is sufficient, at times, that there should
1106    II|             that lilac pair; it will suit your dress admirably."~That
1107    II|     something Oriental about it that suited her Jewish face. Rosa had
1108    II|           every time the refrain was sung, and galloped a hundred
1109    II|           all sobbing, and something superhuman seemed to be hovering over
1110   III|              They hurried over their supper, and then, when they had
1111    II|              workshop on long boards supported by trestles, and through
1112    II|           the dignity of their white surplices, went on in somewhat uncertain
1113    II|        traveller, offered the ladies suspenders by way of a joke, and taking
1114    II|           the reed stop of the organ sustained in a monotonous, long-drawn-out
1115     I|            representing Leda and the swan. The room was reached by
1116    II|           arose a strong, wholesome, sweet and penetrating odor, which
1117    II|            of shavings that had been swept into the corners gave out
1118    II|            could.~They prolonged the syllables of the sonorous Latin indefinitely,
1119    II|        sister, seized by the strange sympathy of poignant emotion, and
1120   III|       beaming, said to them:~"We don't have a holiday every day."~
1121    II|            was standing quietly on a table, while Madame Tellier was
1122    II|              out his little hairless tail like a rat's, with which
1123    II|              of green-cloth, the two tails of which hung down below
1124      | taking
1125     I|             told silly, interminable tales, and only stopped talking
1126   III|           while she had long private talks in corners with Monsieur
1127     I|           the closed shutters of the taproom with their fists.~The two
1128    II|               as a moral: "This will teach us not to talk to the first
1129    II|            his airs, his wit and his teasing.~Rosa joined in, and leaning
1130     I|           jaw, where two false upper teeth contrasted strangely with
1131     I|    neighborhood.~As they were out of temper already from having nothing
1132    II|              in a state of frenzy, a tempest of sobs and stifled cries.
1133    II|         caress her with that need of tender expansion, that habit of
1134    II|        exaggerated manifestations of tenderness on her, and at last grew
1135    II|          tired with such a prolonged tension of the mind. The parents
1136     I|         Tellier, who was on friendly terms with her customers, did
1137    II|         jerky trot shook the cart so terribly that the chairs began to
1138    II|          were sitting; "I especially thank you, my dear sisters, who
1139     I|              among these five women, thanks to Madame Tellier's conciliatory
1140    II|         uncovered a shapeless, round thing without any ankle, a regular "
1141    II|             of a retort, so, perhaps thinking she had said enough, madame
1142    II|              who was very silent and thoughtful, set off for home in the
1143   III|             wine, and that dance was threatening to become never-ending,
1144    II|           sort of rattle escaped her throat, and she was answered by
1145      | throughout
1146     I|            were besieging the house, throwing stones at the shutters,
1147    II|              his public, he began to tickle them under the bills and
1148     I|       parapet and watched the rising tide, and when the promenaders
1149    II|              or very long wax tapers tied in the middle with a bow
1150    II|             road: carts, cabriolets, tilburies, wagonettes, traps of every
1151     I|           Monsieur Poulin, who was a timber merchant, and had been mayor,
1152    II|         began to ring again, and its tinkle was lost in the air, like
1153    II|               which still had a rosy tint toward the horizon, like
1154    II|         seemed as if she would never tire of kissing her sister-in-law,
1155    II|          movements of a body bent by toil.~The little girls disappeared
1156    II|           monotonous, long-drawn-out tone.~A child's shrill voice
1157      | too
1158   III|           other couple would stop to toss off a long draught of sparkling
1159    II|       emotion come over her.~She was tossing about in bed, unable to
1160   III|             without letting her feet touch the ground. Monsieur Pinipesse
1161     I|             light, almost colorless, tow-like hair, like combed-out hemp,
1162     I|              shouting furiously. The townsmen hid themselves in a doorway,
1163    II|               like a faint remaining trace of dawn. Families of fowls
1164    II|         station and ran along by the track to get another look at Rosa,
1165    II|            and the wheels raised two trails of dust along the highroad.
1166    II|               At Oissel they changed trains, and at a little station
1167    II|               tilburies, wagonettes, traps of every shape and age,
1168    II|         began to dance and threw the travellers about, to the right and
1169    II|             long boards supported by trestles, and through the open door
1170     I|           Goddess of Liberty, with a tri-colored sash, and the other as a
1171    II|          cows and sheep, he took his tribe of women home and installed
1172    II|              to be up to any of your tricks."~He did not reply, and
1173    II|           child, and the carpenter's triumph was complete.~Madame Tellier'
1174    II|               and roly-poly Rosa was trotting behind with Louise and Flora,
1175    II|          sister's occupation did not trouble his scruples in the least,
1176    II|           which come over uneasy and troubled hearts.~As soon as they
1177    II|          dust or dirt on their black trousers.~It was something for a
1178    II|             that master calf, like a true French cavalier.~The two
1179    II|              in a blue blouse with a turned-down collar, wide sleeves tight
1180   III|       upstairs quickly and had a few turns, while their customers downstairs
1181   III|              way seemed to him to be twice as long as usual, in consequence
1182    II|         faces had not a smile, not a twitch.~Then the gentleman, who
1183     I|              epitome of the feminine type, so that every customer
1184     I|            the lower orders, neither uglier nor better looking than
1185    II|            was tossing about in bed, unable to get to sleep, when she
1186    II|       surplices, went on in somewhat uncertain voices, and the reed stop
1187     I|      inherited the house from an old uncle, to whom it had belonged.
1188    II|            and he began on Rosa, who uncovered a shapeless, round thing
1189   III|             were about to come to an understanding.~Monsieur Poulin, the ex-mayor,
1190    II|            he made no objection, but undertook to put them all up for a
1191    II|           loneliness which come over uneasy and troubled hearts.~As
1192    II|           spit, qu-ack! qu-ack!"~The unfortunate creatures turned their necks
1193    II|              general's staff in full uniform, while the effect on the
1194      | unless
1195     I|            docks full of ships being unloaded, the big salt marsh, and,
1196    II|             as she thought it a very unsuitable song for such a day, and
1197     I|          square jaw, where two false upper teeth contrasted strangely
1198     I|              the customers, and then urged the men to drink.~The three
1199    II|           Raphaele and Fernande were urging him on, writhing and holding
1200     I|          went away, as he saw it was useless to remain, and left the
1201     I|         establishment of such public utility, which they had under their
1202    II|           elbows very high, and kept uttering a kind of clucking sound,
1203    II|             to scream, but it was in vain. A sort of rattle escaped
1204    II|              open country, which was varied here and there by clumps
1205     I|              shone as if it had been varnished. She had a fringe of curly
1206    II|       pressed her in their arms with vehement and spontaneous outbursts
1207    II|         clung on to the sides of the vehicle, their bonnets fell on their
1208    II|              were possessed, without venturing to move, and their old wrinkled
1209    II|         shouted the refrain to every verse, while Rivet beat time on
1210    II|          elaborate than the priest's vestments.~The mayor offered them
1211     I|           children cry when they are vexed, and the others went away.
1212   III|             started off with renewed vigor, and from time to time one
1213   III|             arms. He seized her in a vigorous embrace and, without saying
1214    II|            out of the room with such violence that he fell against the
1215     I|            The prejudice which is so violent and deeply rooted in large
1216    II|           silk, pink silk, red silk, violet silk, mauve silk garters,
1217     I|           and, rising beyond it, the Virgin's Hill with its old gray
1218     I|            personally, she was quite virtuous, and even the girls in the
1219    II|              to turn a little with a visible effort, and Rivet left the
1220    II|               and Flora, especially, visibly hesitated, and he insisted: "
1221    II|               cabriolets, tilburies, wagonettes, traps of every shape and
1222    II|               who looked like embryo waiters in a cafe and whose heads
1223   III|              danced in good society, waltzed with such elegance that
1224     I|               One man only was still wandering about, Monsieur Tournevau,
1225   III|             Rosa opened the door.~"I want to dance," she exclaimed.
1226    II|         child. She took her into her warm bed, kissed her and pressed
1227    II|             parish; your emotion has warmed all hearts; without you,
1228    II|     afterward they heard him pumping water on his head in the yard,
1229    II|           out, and was answered by a weak voice, broken by sobs. It
1230    II|              the instrument had been weeping; the priest, however, raised
1231    II|             to cry.~First of all she wept silently, and the tears
1232    II|             found that her eyes were wet, and on turning to her sister-in-law,
1233    II|            muslin, which looked like whipped cream, while the lads, who
1234    II|          like a rat's, with which he whisked his buttocks from time to
1235   III|         Fernande gave him a hug, and whispered to him: "Play us a waltz,
1236    II|           from which arose a strong, wholesome, sweet and penetrating odor,
1237    II|          efforts to get out of their wicker prison, and then, suddenly,
1238    II|           with a turned-down collar, wide sleeves tight at the wrist,
1239     I|       suffered. Since she had been a widow, all the frequenters of
1240     I|            The room was reached by a winding staircase, through a narrow
1241     I|       Etienne's Church, and from the windows one could see the docks
1242    II|            the old peasant, began to wink knowingly at the ducks whose
1243    II|             her pocket handkerchief, wiped her eyes and held it to
1244     I|        Madame Tellier's conciliatory wisdom, and to her constant good
1245    II|           with kisses; all the women wished to caress her with that
1246     I|        different directions, without wishing each other good-by.~The
1247    II|              redoubled his airs, his wit and his teasing.~Rosa joined
1248    II|           bell, ringing the Angelus, woke the women, who usually slept
1249    II|           gave out a smell of planed wood, a smell of a carpenter'
1250   III|       Tellier's regular but Platonic wooer, was talking to her in a
1251    II|               although he was in his working clothes, and was walking
1252    II|               which looked faded and worn, hanging down their backs,
1253    II|              The Grandmother" in her worn-out voice, and all the girls,
1254    II|     venturing to move, and their old wrinkled faces had not a smile, not
1255    II|            wide sleeves tight at the wrist, ornamented with white embroidery,
1256    II|           seized that opportunity to write to his sister, asking her
1257    II|         Fernande were urging him on, writhing and holding their sides
1258    II|             water on his head in the yard, and when he reappeared
1259    II|               and galloped a hundred yards, to their great delight,
1260     I|     themselves in a doorway, and the yelling crew disappeared in the
1261      | yet
1262    II|         proprietors, spoke about the yield of the land and the productiveness
1263     I|          home at twelve o'clock! The younger men would sometimes stay