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She had a small travelling looking-glass in her bag, and felt inclined to take it out; but glancing at the backs of the coachman and the clerk who sat swaying beside him, she knew she would feel ashamed if one of them chanced to look round, and she did not take it out.
The clerk wished to get down, but then, changing his mind, shouted authoritatively and beckoned to a peasant.
'Look at him, stuck fast!' shouted the clerk angrily at the peasant, who was slowly stepping with bare feet over the ruts of the dry, hard-trodden road.
Philip the coachman and the clerk shared that feeling.
The clerk, to hide his embarrassment, bustled about, helping the ladies in, but Philip became morose and made up his mind not to be imposed upon by this eternal superiority.
When anyone comes to our place, no fear; we give their horses as much as they'll eat.''A stingy gentleman...' confirmed the clerk.
On the forms along the wall five or six miners were waiting; while the cashier assisted by a clerk was paying another who stood before the wicket with his cap in his hand.
"Maheu and associates," said the clerk, "Filonniére seam, cutting No. 7."He searched through the lists which were prepared from the inspection of the tickets on which the captains stated every day for each stall the number of trains extracted.
"No, no, I've made no mistake," replied the clerk.
"And don't forget the fines," added the clerk.
As Maheu decided to pick up the money with his large trembling hand the clerk stopped him.
Thus shaken up, the old instrument, whose strings buzzed, could be heard at the other end of the village when the window was open, and often the bailiff's clerk, passing along the highroad bare-headed and in list slippers, stopped to listen, his sheet of paper in his hand.
As he was a good deal bored at Yonville, where he was a clerk at the notary's, Monsieur Guillaumin, Monsieur Leon Dupuis (it was he who was the second habitue of the "Lion d'Or") frequently put back his dinner-hour in hope that some traveler might come to the inn, with whom he could chat in the evening.
"It is so tedious," sighed the clerk, "to be always riveted to the same places."
"In fact," observed the clerk, "these works, not touching the heart, miss, it seems to me, the true end of art.
Chapter ThreeThe next day, as she was getting up, she saw the clerk on the Place.
And on the clerk's answer, she begged him to accompany her.
It was one of the clerk's chief occupations to trim them, and for this purpose he kept a special knife in his writing desk.
The latter, entirely absorbed by his business, wearing gold-rimmed spectacles and red whiskers over a white cravat, understood nothing of mental refinements, although he affected a stiff English manner, which in the beginning had impressed the clerk.
The clerk never failed to be there.
This was an attention of the clerk's.
The clerk, too, had his small hanging garden; they saw each other tending their flowers at their windows.
Why did the doctor's wife give the clerk presents?
The clerk was fond of Monsieur Bovary.
"Certainly," replied the clerk.
"I should like to speak to you," he had whispered in the clerk's ear, who went upstairs in front of him.
"But I don't know how to turn," answered the clerk.
Taking a middle course, then, Leon looked for some place as second clerk at Rouen; found none, and at last wrote his mother a long letter full of details, in which he set forth the reasons for going to live at Paris immediately.
I regret leaving before the end, because it was beginning to amuse me.""Why," said the clerk, "he will soon give another performance."
Charles, who understood, took out his purse; the clerk held back his arm, and did not forget to leave two more pieces of silver that he made chink on the marble.
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