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She revived, and began thinking of Berthe asleep yonder in the servant's room.
The servant appeared.
The servant and mistress had no secret one from the other.
At last Felicite sighed—"If I were you, madame, I should go to Monsieur Guillaumin.""Do you think—"And this question meant to say—"You who know the house through the servant, has the master spoken sometimes of me?""Yes, you'd do well to go there."
"No, no!"The child, serious, and still half-asleep, was carried in on the servant's arm in her long white nightgown, from which her bare feet peeped out.
Just then the servant, Madame Lefrancois, and Madame Bovary senior were busy about Emma, finishing dressing her, and they were drawing down the long stiff veil that covered her to her satin shoes.
He also noticed that Monsieur Binet had not been present, and that Tuvache had "made off" after mass, and that Theodore, the notary's servant wore a blue coat, "as if one could not have got a black coat, since that is the custom, by Jove!"
Go and pack your traps, and I'll take you to M. de Renal's where you're to be tutor to the children.''What am I to get for that?''Board, clothing and three hundred francs in wages.''I do not wish to be a servant,''Animal, who ever spoke of your being a servant?
Would I allow my son to be a servant?''But, with whom shall I have my meals?'
A servant came to the door of the drawing-room, Julien went on speaking in Latin.
The servant at first stood motionless and then vanished.
'What,' M. de Renal retorted, with keen annoyance, 'could you tolerate a refusal from a servant?'
Everyone who is not a gentleman, who lives in your house and receives a salary, is your servant.
'Only it would have to be specified,' said Julien with that grave and almost sorrowful air which becomes certain people so well, when they see the success of the projects which have been longest in their minds, 'it would have to be specified that the servant shall not take out any novels.
Once they were in the house, those dangerous works might corrupt Madame's maids, not to speak of the servant himself.''You forget the political pamphlets,' added M. de Renal, in a haughty tone.
He saw Madame de Renal frown suddenly; she assumed a cold, disdainful air; this line of thought seemed to her worthy of a servant.
It would be better if she came to him; if a servant saw her moving about the house, there would be a score of possible reasons to account for her action.
For instance, this servant will find M. Valenod there, and that conceited fool will not be in the least annoyed at hearing himself called _tu_ by Saint-Jean, and will answer him in the same tone.
We pay twenty francs for each servant so that they do not cut our throats.'
This lady, apparently so conscious of the joy of ownership, had just made an abominable scene, during dinner, with a servant who had broken a wineglass and spoiled one of her sets; and the servant had answered her with the most gross insolence.
The mother wept outright, while Julien, who had taken Stanislas on his knees, explained to him that he must not use the word _dupe_, which, employed in that sense, was a servant's expression.
A good-looking man, with bushy black whiskers, entered the room at this moment in the wake of the servant.
His old servant showed me into the room.
One young priest, barely a year in orders, having presented a domestic rabbit to an old cure's servant, had got the cure to ask for him as his assistant, and a few months afterwards, for the cure had died almost immediately, had succeeded him in a good living.
'But you will have to go through the servant's room,' said Julien with astonishment.
As she silently approached the door of the room in which he was, carrying the plate carefully, she found herself face to face with the servant who had hidden the ladder that morning.
The servant made off in some confusion.
He heard voices calling, and could distinctly see the servant, his enemy, fire a gun; a farmer also came and shot at him from the other side of the garden, but by this time Julien had reached the bank of the Doubs, where he put on his clothes.
I believe that if it had ever entered the vicar's head to accuse me of having murdered my servant, there would have been a score of witnesses from both parties, ready to swear that they had seen me commit the crime.'
At length, as the silence continued, he looked at her as a servant looks at his master, when receiving orders.
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