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The manager, who now received a packet of letters and dispatches, wished to read one of his letters aloud.
He spent the nights reading, and received a large number of letters; he even subscribed to the Vengeur, a Belgian Socialist paper, and this journal, the first to enter the settlement, gained for him extraordinary consideration among his mates.
Since yesterday the young man had brought her some fifty letters to sign; he had them copied by neighbours in the settlement who knew how to write, and these letters were sent around among the pits to delegates and to men of whom they were sure.
The manager then heard, for the first time, of the meeting in the forest the evening before; the details were very precise, and he listened while thinking of the intrigue with Pierronne, so well known that two or three anonymous letters every week denounced the licentiousness of the head captain.
I don't care a bloody hang for their telegrams and their letters!
And all the afternoon he hid himself in his study, receiving no one, contenting himself with reading the telegrams and letters which continued to rain in.
Only the bone handle of the knife could be seen with the motto on it, the simple word "Amour," engraved in black letters.
On them were to be read these few lines, in very large letters: "Workers of Montsou!
But to all this Monsieur Bovary, caring little for letters, said, "It was not worth while.
By way of decoration for the apartment, hanging to a nail in the middle of the wall, whose green paint scaled off from the effects of the saltpetre, was a crayon head of Minerva in gold frame, underneath which was written in Gothic letters "To dear Papa."
She sent the patients' accounts in well-phrased letters that had no suggestion of a bill.
On the dark wainscoting of the walls large gold frames bore at the bottom names written in black letters.
Above the basket-shaped racks porcelain slabs bore the names of the horses in black letters.
In the private rooms of restaurants, where one sups after midnight by the light of wax candles, laughed the motley crowd of men of letters and actresses.
But all September passed without letters or visits.
The daylight coming through the plain glass windows falls obliquely upon the pews ranged along the walls, which are adorned here and there with a straw mat bearing beneath it the words in large letters, "Mr.
And the signboard, which takes up all the breadth of the shop, bears in gold letters, "Homais, Chemist."
Then at the back of the shop, behind the great scales fixed to the counter, the word "Laboratory" appears on a scroll above a glass door, which about half-way up once more repeats "Homais" in gold letters on a black ground.
Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.
A fool in four letters!
Besides this there were against the four columns of the town hall four kinds of poles, each bearing a small standard of greenish cloth, embellished with inscriptions in gold letters.
To get back something of her, he fetched from the cupboard at the bedside an old Rheims biscuit-box, in which he usually kept his letters from women, and from it came an odour of dry dust and withered roses.
Finally, he read some of her letters; they were full of explanations relating to their journey, short, technical, and urgent, like business notes.
Thus dallying with his souvenirs, he examined the writing and the style of the letters, as varied as their orthography.
So taking handfuls of the mixed-up letters, he amused himself for some moments with letting them fall in cascades from his right into his left hand.
But the chemist took up the defence of letters.
At the corner of the neighbouring streets huge bills repeated in quaint letters "Lucie de Lammermoor-Lagardy-Opera-etc."
The law irritated him, other vocations attracted him, and his mother never ceased worrying him in every one of her letters.
"Often," he went on, "I wrote you letters that I tore up."
He was to send his letters to Mere Rollet, and she gave him such precise instructions about a double envelope that he admired greatly her amorous astuteness.
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