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The retaining walls that support the various sections of this splendid garden, which, in a succession of terraces, runs down to the Doubs, are also a reward of M. de Renal's ability as a dealer in iron.
Instead of suggesting, with their low, rounded, flattened heads, the commonest of kitchen garden vegetables, they would like nothing better than to assume those magnificent forms which one sees them wear in England.
Provided that she was left alone to stroll in her fine garden, she never made any complaint.
MOZART (Figaro)With the vivacity and grace which came naturally to her when she was beyond the reach of male vision, Madame de Renal was coming out through the glass door which opened from the drawing-room into the garden, when she saw, standing by the front door, a young peasant, almost a boy still, extremely pale and showing traces of recent tears.
On Saint Louis's day in particular, M. Valenod was laying down the law at M. de Renal's; Julien almost gave himself away; he escaped into the garden, saying that he must look after the children.
A few hundred yards from the picturesque ruins of the old gothic church, M. de Renal owned an old castle with its four towers, and a garden laid out like that of the Tuileries, with a number of box borders, and chestnut alleys trimmed twice in the year.
How often did he long to see Madame de Renal called by some duty which would oblige her to return to the house and so leave the garden!
Midnight had long since struck; at length it was time to leave the garden: the party broke up.
He went out and walked pensively in the garden; presently a bitter smile appeared on his lips.
The children, who had listened to this scene open-mouthed, ran to the garden to tell their mother that M. Julien was in a great rage, but that he was to have fifty francs a month.
On his return to Vergy, Julien did not go down to the garden until night had set in.
When he went into the garden that evening, Julien was ready to listen with interest to the thoughts of the fair cousins.
Such were the conflicts that were agitating her when Julien appeared in the garden.
He went down to the garden, Madame de Renal was long in coming.
At length, in spite of her resolutions, she decided to show herself in the garden.
As she watched him go, overwhelmed by the sombre pride which she read in that glance, so friendly the evening before, her eldest son, who came running up from the other end of the garden, said to her as he embraced her:'We have a holiday, M. Julien is going on a journey.'
'You must not, on any account,' Madame Derville told her when she saw Julien return, 'feeling as you do, sit in the garden this evening, the damp air would make you worse.'Madame Derville was surprised to see that her friend, who was always being scolded by M. de Renal for the undue simplicity of her attire, had put on open-work stockings and a pair of charming little shoes that had arrived from Paris.
Madame de Renal, also pleased with her pretty gown, and with what Julien said to her about it, had proposed a turn in the garden; soon she had confessed that she was not well enough to walk.
He had only one sensible idea; bored with himself and with Madame de Renal, he saw with alarm the evening approach when he would be seated in the garden, by her side and in the dark.
No sooner had they sat down in the garden than, without waiting for a sufficient cloak of darkness, Julien put his lips to Madame de Renal's ear, and, at the risk of compromising her horribly, said to her:'Tonight, Ma'am, at two o'clock, I am coming to your room, I have something to say to you.'Julien was trembling lest his request should be granted; the part of a seducer was so horrible a burden that if he had been free to follow his own inclination, he would have retired to his room for some days, and not set eyes on the ladies again.
On the way from the dining-room to the garden, she pressed Julien's hand.
That evening, in the garden, Madame Derville arranged things so skilfully that she found herself placed between Madame de Renal and Julien.
She left the garden early, and went up to wait in her room.
He went to seek a breath of air in the garden.
His stroll in the garden calmed him somewhat.
She recovered her calm as though by magic on entering the garden and seeing her husband in the distance.
'Here is an abomination,' she said to him, 'which an evil-looking man who claims to know you and that you owe him a debt of gratitude, handed to me as I came past the back of the lawyer's garden.
The abbe Chas had been led by this to show a partiality for him, and, at the end of his class, would gladly take his arm for a turn in the garden.
He had a key to the garden, and might walk there at the hours when it was empty.
'And so there has passed now for ever the moment at which, twenty years ago, a heroic life would have begun for me!'Walking by himself in the Seminary garden, he overheard a conversation between two masons who were at work upon the enclosing wall.
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