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'There is something behind this, all the same,' replied the suspicious peasant, and was silent for a moment; 'but I shall get nothing out of you, you damned hypocrite.
At this the old peasant began to see daylight; he at once asked with assurance to see the coat which would be given to his son.
'With this money, your son can go to M. Durand, the clothier, and get himself a suit of black.''And supposing I take him away from you,' said the peasant, who had completely forgotten the reverential forms of address.
'That was your offer, I do not deny it,' said old Sorel, speaking even more slowly; then, by a stroke of genius which will astonish only those who do not know the Franc-Comtois peasant, he added, looking M. de Renal steadily in the face: '_We can do better elsewhere_.'
He recovered himself, however, and, after an adroit conversation lasting fully two hours, in which not a word was said without a purpose, the peasant's shrewdness prevailed over that of the rich man, who was not dependent on his for his living.
'To make a round sum, a rich and generous gentleman like our Mayor,' the peasant insinuated in a coaxing voice, 'will surely go as far as thirty-six.''All right,' said M. de Renal, 'but let us have no more of this.'
The peasant saw that he could advance no farther.
Before arriving at this horrible idea, the soul of the young peasant had had a long way to go.
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.
This young peasant's skin was so white, his eyes were so appealing, that the somewhat romantic mind of Madame de Renal conceived the idea at first that he might be a girl in disguise, come to ask some favour of the Mayor.
Madame de Renal looked at the large tears which lingered on the cheeks (so pallid at first and now so rosy) of this young peasant.
Madame de Renal's face was close to his own, he could smell the perfume of a woman's summer attire, so astounding a thing to a poor peasant.
'Sir,' replied Julien, 'I am uncomfortable in these new clothes; I, a humble peasant, have never worn any but short jackets; with your permission, I shall retire to my bedroom.''What think you of this new acquisition?'
'I am by no means as enchanted as you are with this little peasant; your kindness will turn him into an impertinent rascal whom you will be obliged to send packing within a month.''Very well!
Hence the success of the little peasant Julien.
She found that it was worth her while to listen to him, even when they spoke of the most ordinary things, even when it was a question of a poor dog that had been run over, as it was crossing the street, by a peasant's cart going by at a trot.
At this moment M. de Renal began flinging stones at a little peasant girl who was trespassing by taking a short cut across a corner of the orchard.
If your answer is no,' he went on without giving M. de Renal time to speak, 'how dare you presume to reproach me with neglecting them?'M. de Renal, who had barely recovered from his alarm, concluded from the strange tone which he saw this young peasant adopt that he had in his pocket some more attractive offer and was going to leave him.
'The young peasant has doubtless an offer from someone in his pocket.
The young peasant saw no obstacle between himself and the most heroic actions, save want of opportunity.
'I told her that I should come to her at two o'clock,' he said to himself as he rose; 'I may be inexperienced and coarse, as is natural in the son of a peasant, Madame Derville has let me see that plainly enough; but at any rate I will not be weak.'
From a lingering affection for yourself, I beg you to detach yourself entirely from the little peasant.
'Thank heaven,' said M. de Renal at other moments, 'I have no daughter, and the manner in which I am going to punish their mother will not damage the careers of my children; I can surprise that young peasant with my wife, and kill the pair of them; in that event, the tragic outcome of my misfortune may perhaps make it less absurd.'
'Will he be pleased with me?''This little peasant upon whom we have lavished every attention, including presents, may be innocent,' she said at length, 'but he is none the less the occasion of the first insult I have ever received ...Sir, when I read that abominable document, I vowed that either he or I should leave your roof.''Do you wish to create a scandal that will dishonour me and yourself as well?
You would show temper and make him cross with me; you know how touchy the little gentleman is.''That young man has no tact,' went on Madame de Renal; 'he may be learned, you know about that, but at bottom he is nothing but a peasant.
Whatever talent he may have for Latin, he is nothing more, after all, than a peasant who is often coarse and wanting in tact; every day, thinking he is being polite, he plies me with extravagant compliments in the worst of taste, which he learns by heart from some novel ...''He never reads any,' cried M. de Renal; 'I am positive as to that.
If there is another revolution, all the nobles will be murdered, their father may emigrate, perhaps, because of that peasant who was killed upon a roof.
But Julien was only a young peasant and had no way of approaching the distinguished people.
Later on, he entered the house of a peasant, who agreed to sell him a ladder, and to go with him, carrying the ladder, to the little wood that overhung the Cours de la Fidelite, in Verrieres.
'We are a poor conscript deserting--or a smuggler,' said the peasant, as he took leave of him, 'but what do I care?
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