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And I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodges his friends in the belly of whales, dies uttering a cry, and rises again at the end of three days; things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them."
At the end of the garden, by the side of the water, he had an arbour built just for the purpose of drinking beer in summer; and if madame is fond of gardening she will be able—""My wife doesn't care about it," said Charles; "although she has been advised to take exercise, she prefers always sitting in her room reading."
He had knocked about the world, he talked about Berlin, Vienna, and Strasbourg, of his soldier times, of the mistresses he had had, the grand luncheons of which he had partaken; then he was amiable, and sometimes even, either on the stairs, or in the garden, would seize hold of her waist, crying, "Charles, look out for yourself."
The good woman accompanied her to the end of the garden, talking all the time of the trouble she had getting up of nights.
In the warm season the bank, wider than at other times, showed to their foot the garden walls whence a few steps led to the river.
When they arrived in front of her garden, Madame Bovary opened the little gate, ran up the steps and disappeared.
The clerk, too, had his small hanging garden; they saw each other tending their flowers at their windows.
She no longer grumbled as formerly at taking a turn in the garden; what he proposed was always done, although she did not understand the wishes to which she submitted without a murmur; and when Leon saw him by his fireside after dinner, his two hands on his stomach, his two feet on the fender, his two cheeks red with feeding, his eyes moist with happiness, the child crawling along the carpet, and this woman with the slender waist who came behind his arm-chair to kiss his forehead: "What madness!" he said to himself.
Madame Bovary had opened her window overlooking the garden and watched the clouds.
Thus, we will suppose you are in a public garden.
What happy afternoons they had seen alone in the shade at the end of the garden!
At night-every night-I arose; I came hither; I watched your house, its glimmering in the moon, the trees in the garden swaying before your window, and the little lamp, a gleam shining through the window-panes in the darkness.
Emma placed her letter at the end of the garden, by the river, in a fissure of the wall.
All through the winter, three or four times a week, in the dead of night he came to the garden.
Rodolphe had a large cloak; he wrapped her in it, and putting his arm round her waist, he drew her without a word to the end of the garden.
I have planted an Orleans plum-tree for her in the garden under your room, and I won't have it touched unless it is to have jam made for her by and bye, that I will keep in the cupboard for her when she comes.
When Rodolphe came to the garden that evening, he found his mistress waiting for him at the foot of the steps on the lowest stair.
For she had run into the garden.
Her strength returned to her; she got up for a few hours of an afternoon, and one day, when she felt better, he tried to take her, leaning on his arm, for a walk round the garden.
They went thus to the bottom of the garden near the terrace.
When it was fine they wheeled her arm-chair to the window that overlooked the square, for she now had an antipathy to the garden, and the blinds on that side were always down.
In the beginning of spring she had the garden turned up from end to end, despite Bovary's remonstrances.
He saw her alone in the evening, very late, behind the garden in the lane; in the lane, as she had the other one!
After dinner he walked about alone in the garden; he took little Berthe on his knees, and unfolding his medical journal, tried to teach her to read.
This did not spoil the garden much, all choked now with long weeds.
She began walking round the garden, step by step; she went into the path by the hedge, and returned quickly, hoping that the woman would have come back by another road.
Go!"The priest took him by the arm for a turn in the garden.
Then suddenly he saw her in the garden at Tostes, on a bench against the thorn hedge, or else at Rouen in the streets, on the threshold of their house, in the yard at Bertaux.
At last, unable to bear it any longer, he had a grass plot in his garden designed to represent the Star of the Cross of Honour with two little strips of grass running from the top to imitate the ribband.
Sometimes, however, some curious person climbed on to the garden hedge, and saw with amazement this long-bearded, shabbily clothed, wild man, who wept aloud as he walked up and down.
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