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Against the plaster wall diagonally crossed by black joists, a meagre pear-tree sometimes leans and the ground-floors have at their door a small swing-gate to keep out the chicks that come pilfering crumbs of bread steeped in cider on the threshold.
I've there known poor mothers of families, virtuous women, I assure you, real saints, who wanted even bread."
"But those," replied Emma, and the corners of her mouth twitched as she spoke, "those, Monsieur le Cure, who have bread and have no—""Fire in the winter," said the priest.
Some are cited who faint at the smell of burnt hartshorn, of new bread—""Take care; you'll wake her!" said Bovary in a low voice.
In fact, he had to work devilish hard, although he didn't make enough, in spite of all people said, to find butter for his bread.
As for me, I shall never forgive the cure.'CHAPTER 3 The Bread of the PoorA virtuous priest who does not involve himself in intrigue is a blessing for the village.
'Why should I not spend the night here?' he asked himself; 'I have bread, and _I am free_!'
'I am not of the stuff of which great men are made, since I am afraid that eight years spent in providing myself with bread may rob me of that sublime energy which makes men do extraordinary things.'
For my own part, I have never had any opinion of him since he refused to marry Elisa, it was a fortune ready made; and all because now and again she pays a secret visit to M. Valenod.''Ah!' said M. de Renal, raising his eyebrows as far as they would go, 'what, did Julien tell you that?''No, not exactly; he has always spoken to me of the vocation that is calling him to the sacred ministry; but believe me, the first vocation for the lower orders is to find their daily bread.
'"If I were not afraid of spoiling the finest bass voice I have ever heard, I should lock you up on bread and water for a fortnight, you scoundrel."
Off with you, off with you!" he said, aiming a kick at my hindquarters, "or it will be bread and water in a cell."
'Madame, I have come for the first time in my life to Besancon; I should like to have, and to pay for, a roll of bread and a cup of coffee.'
The pretty girl had just set before him a cup, some sugar and a roll of bread.
Almost all of them were the sons of peasants, and preferred to earn their bread by reciting a few Latin words rather than by tilling the soil.
'All these poor devils,' he added, 'labourers from the cradle, have lived, until they came here, upon skim milk and black bread.
Not to smile respectfully at the mere name of the Prefect is reckoned, among the peasants of the Franche-Comte, an imprudence; and imprudence, among the poor, is promptly punished with want of bread.
After having been almost suffocated at first by his sense of scorn, Julien ended by feeling pity: it had often been the lot of the fathers of the majority of his comrades to come home on a winter evening to their cottages, and to find there no bread, no chestnuts, and no potatoes.
That is their sole interest once they are provided with bread.
She returned presently with oranges, biscuits, a bottle of Malaga; she had found it impossible to purloin any bread.
Madame de Renal went to the pantry to look for bread.
She returned and told him that on entering the dark pantry, making her way to a cupboard in which the bread was kept, and stretching out her hand, she had touched a woman's arm.
Madame de Renal had forgotten that, ever since dinner, they had been filled with bread.
And yet I am just thinking whether I shall not begin my political career, in the Roule quarter, by presenting the blessed bread in the parish church.''None of that would have happened to you under Bonaparte,' said Falcoz, his eyes shining with anger and regret.
'The history of their ancestors raises them above vulgar sentiments, and they have not always to be thinking of their daily bread!
My life is nothing more than a sequence of hypocrisies, because I have not an income of a thousand francs with which to buy my bread.''What are you dreaming of, Sir?'Mathilde asked him, running back outdoors.
And I, cast down to the humblest rank by a stepmotherly Providence, I, whom Providence has endowed with a noble heart and not a thousand francs of income, that is to say not enough for my daily bread, _literally speaking, not enough for my daily bread_; am I to refuse a pleasure that is offered me?
'Noble England,' the speaker went on, 'is crushed today, for every Englishman, before paying for his daily bread, is obliged to pay the interest on the forty thousand million francs which were employed against the Jacobins.
And how come it's like this?""Now you're starting again," said the policeman, dipping a piece of buttered bread in the honeypot.
The bread is two- thirds rainwater, the beefsteak-pie is exceedingly rich in it, and the jam, and the butter, and the salt, and the coffee have all combined with it to make soup.
For other breakfast things, George suggested eggs and bacon, which were easy to cook, cold meat, tea, bread and butter, and jam.
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