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Then, listen, it is you who will bite your fingers one day, for Montsou will rise again and Cécile's grandchildren will still get their white bread out of it."
He kept everything there, grocery, cooked meats, fruit, and sold bread, beer, and saucepans.
We must have bread from now to Saturday.
As she walked she was already spending the five francs, first bread, then coffee, afterwards a quarter of butter, a bushel of potatoes for the morning soup and the evening stew; finally, perhaps, a bit of brawn, for the father needed meat.
Bouteloup began to laugh enormously, and threw a fragment of sauced bread into Achille's mouth.
Bouteloup, with the tranquillity of a man who is at home, searched about on the dresser for bread.
"I have just heard that she went this morning to beg at Piolaine, and Maigrat, who had refused them bread, has given them something.
Catherine and Jeanlin had risen, and were taking their coffee standing; while Zacharie, not filled with the soup, cut himself a large slice of bread and covered it with butter.
And Maheu began to swallow by slow spoonfuls the mixture of bread, potatoes, leeks, and sorrel piled up in the bowl which served him as a plate.
He cut square pieces, stuck the point of his knife into them and ate them on his bread without a fork.
We shall have bread until Saturday, and the best is that he has lent me five francs.
Now, like his mates, he got up at three o'clock, drank his coffee, and carried off the double slice of bread and butter which Madame Rasseneur had prepared for him the evening before.
No more frontiers; the workers of the whole world rising and uniting to assure to the labourer the bread that he has earned.
It put no bread into your cupboard to go and vote for fine fellows who went away and enjoyed themselves, thinking no more of the wretched voters than of their old boots.
They're fixed by an iron law to the smallest possible sum, just the sum necessary to allow the workers to eat dry bread and get children.
On this day Maheu went to smoke a pipe in the garden, and then came back to eat his bread and butter alone, while waiting.
They could add bread and butter if they were hungry.
No doubt one had one's feed; one ate, indeed, but so little, just enough to suffer without dying, overcome with debts and pursued as if one had stolen the bread.
It wouldn't yield six days' bread; and if we counted on foreigners, such as the people in England, one might go to bed at once and turn up one's toes.
Not enough money to get bread, and insults as well!
Do they want to make fools of people?""As for me, see, I haven't got enough to pay for the fortnight's bread with."
The injustice was becoming too great; at last they would demand their rights, since the bread was being taken out of their mouths.
The mirth was unbounded when Négrel, having asked the housemaid for bread, she replied, "Yes, sir," in a voice as low and terrified as if she had behind her a troop ready for murder and rape.
Madame Grégoire expressed pity for the poor people who would suffer from hunger; and Cécile was already making plans for distributing gifts of bread and meat.
They would have bread and butter in the evening.
We only want justice, we are tired of starving, and it seems to us that the time has come when things ought to be arranged so that we can at least have bread every day."
You have been promised more butter than bread, and you have been told that now your turn has come to be masters.
He acted besides like a capricious tyrant, giving or refusing bread according to the look of the girl who was sent by her parents for provisions; and he especially closed his door spitefully to Maheude, wishing to punish her because he had not been able to get Catherine.
This faith replaced bread and warmed their stomachs.
Maheu, weary of idleness, had gone fishing; if he had the luck to catch a fine fish under the sluice of the canal, they could sell it to buy bread.
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