Evening
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They waited for daylight, seated before the fire, or pacing to and fro as on the
evening
of the wedding-day.
This vision, which they had seen on the
evening
of the wedding-day, returned each night.
They felt they were no longer at home as in the time of Camille; it seemed, so to say, that they were stealing every
evening
they passed seated at the dining-room table.
And each week brought a Thursday evening, each week those lifeless and grotesque heads which formerly had exasperated Therese, assembled round the table.
He dreamed vaguely of a new existence of idleness, and this sufficed to occupy him until
evening.
Awaiting the moment when they would be alone, became more and more cruel as the
evening
advanced.
When the old mercer lost her intelligence, and remained stiff and silent in her armchair, they would find themselves alone, and in the
evening
would no longer be able to escape the dreadful face to face conversation.
One evening, he announced to Madame Raquin and his wife that he had sent in his resignation, and would quit his office at the end of a fortnight.
He next went through the process of digestion, sleeping spread out on the divan until
evening.
He refused, and as, notwithstanding his refusal, she came and knocked at the door, he refrained from opening to her, telling her in the
evening
that he had spent the day at the Louvre Museum.
One evening, while conversing peacefully with Therese and Laurent, she remained in the middle of a sentence with her mouth wide open: she felt as if she was being throttled.
In the morning, Therese inquired of Laurent whether he considered it prudent to leave the paralysed woman in the dining-room during the
evening.
"I have noticed an implacable thought in her eyes since the other evening."
It would be stupid to place an additional load on our conscience by preventing her being present at the gathering this evening."
When the guests arrived in the evening, Madame Raquin occupied her usual place, between the stove and table.
Since Madame Raquin had become aware of the horrible secret, she had been awaiting this
evening
with feverish impatience.
A quarrel broke out every
evening.
As a rule, Therese and Laurent became exasperated, in this manner, after the
evening
meal.
Look, did you not come up to my room one evening, did you not intoxicate me with your caresses to persuade me to rid you of your husband?
Each took the part of accuser in turn, and although the prosecution they instituted against one another proved barren of result, they began it again every
evening
with cruel tenacity.
This attitude irritated Laurent, and every
evening
the quarrels of the couple became more afflicting and sinister.
She slept better at night when she had been thoroughly beaten in the
evening.
What could be said to the Thursday
evening
guests?
When she returned in the evening, worn out, her eyelids heavy with exhaustion, it was to find the little wife of Olivier still behind the counter, bowed down, with a vague smile on her lips, in the same attitude as she had left her five hours previously.
And, until evening, he went along, dazed and seized with sudden shudders whenever he looked at the Seine.
The previous evening, the young woman had mentioned that she intended going out next day and probably would not be home until
evening.
On returning to the shop in the evening, Laurent decided that he would ask his wife for a few thousand francs, and that he would resort to high-handed measures to obtain them.
There was no more question of the commissary of police that
evening.
She returned daily for a moment, in the
evening
to feed Madame Raquin and put her to bed, and then disappeared again until the morrow.
XXXIIThe following Thursday, the
evening
party at the Raquins, as the guests continued to term the household of their hosts, was particularly merry.
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