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The yellow curtains along the
windows
let a heavy, whitish light enter softly.
But the child began to cough in her cot or Bovary snored more loudly, and Emma did not fall asleep till morning, when the dawn whitened the windows, and when little Justin was already in the square taking down the shutters of the chemist's shop.
It was the inn that is in every provincial faubourg, with large stables and small bedrooms, where one sees in the middle of the court chickens pilfering the oats under the muddy gigs of the commercial travellers—a good old house, with worm-eaten balconies that creak in the wind on winter nights, always full of people, noise, and feeding, whose black tables are sticky with coffee and brandy, the thick
windows
made yellow by the flies, the damp napkins stained with cheap wine, and that always smells of the village, like ploughboys dressed in Sundayclothes, has a cafe on the street, and towards the countryside a kitchen-garden.
Monsieur Leon put her long lace shawl carefully about her shoulders, and all three went off to sit down in the harbour, in the open air, outside the
windows
of a cafe.
I thought I recognised you at street-corners, and I ran after all the carriages through whose
windows
I saw a shawl fluttering, a veil like yours."
Silver plate sparkled in the jeweller's windows, and the light falling obliquely on the cathedral made mirrors of the corners of the grey stones; a flock of birds fluttered in the grey sky round the trefoil bell-turrets; the square, resounding with cries, was fragrant with the flowers that bordered its pavement, roses, jasmines, pinks, narcissi, and tube-roses, unevenly spaced out between moist grasses, catmint, and chickweed for the birds; the fountains gurgled in the centre, and under large umbrellas, amidst melons, piled up in heaps, flower-women, bare-headed, were twisting paper round bunches of violets.
The nave was reflected in the full fonts with the beginning of the arches and some portions of the glass
windows.
The church like a huge boudoir spread around her; the arches bent down to gather in the shade the confession of her love; the
windows
shone resplendent to illumine her face, and the censers would burn that she might appear like an angel amid the fumes of the sweet-smelling odours.
Let us pass on quickly to see the gargoyle windows."
Next she walked up and down, went to the windows, and looked out at the Place.
The wind blew through the cracked
windows.
The ready-laid table, the two silver chafing-dishes, the crystal door-knobs, the parquet and the furniture, all shone with a scrupulous, English cleanliness; the
windows
were ornamented at each corner with stained glass.
And now turning round, she once more saw the impassive chateau, with the park, the gardens, the three courts, and all the
windows
of the facade.
And, without listening to the chemist, who was still venturing the hypothesis, "It is perhaps a salutary paroxysm," Canivet was about to administer some theriac, when they heard the cracking of a whip; all the
windows
rattled, and a post-chaise drawn by three horses abreast, up to their ears in mud, drove at a gallop round the corner of the market.
People were at the
windows
to see the procession pass.
The
windows
of the village were all on fire beneath the slanting rays of the sun sinking behind the field.
In view of some festival, all the
windows
in the building had been covered with crimson cloth; the effect of this, when the sun shone, was a dazzling blaze of light, of the most imposing and most religious character.
On his way out, Julien thought he saw blood by the holy water stoup; it was some of the water that had been spilt: the light from the red curtains which draped the
windows
made it appear like blood.
First of all she had watched him pass from one of the
windows
of the town hall; then, getting into her carriage, and rapidly making a wide detour, she was in time to tremble when his horse carried him out of the ranks.
He went a little way and found himself in an immense gothic chamber, very dark and panelled throughout in black oak; with a single exception, its pointed
windows
had been walled up with bricks.
The front was painted white, and the
windows
adorned with handsome green shutters.
He had long conversations with Mademoiselle de La Mole, who would stroll with him in the garden sometimes after dinner, past the open
windows
of the drawing-room.
'She is mad,' Julien said to himself; when one o'clock struck, there was still a light in Comte Norbert's
windows.
'It is huge, and may break the
windows
of the room below, or of the mezzanine.'
'It must not break the windows,' Mathilde went on, trying in vain to adopt the tone of ordinary conversation; 'you might, it seems to me, let the ladder down by means of a cord tied to the top rung.
Julien had fastened the cord to the highest rung of the ladder, he now let it down gently, leaning far out over the balcony so as to see that it did not touch the
windows.
Mathilde returned and strolled past the drawing-room windows; she saw him busily engaged in describing to Madame de Fervaques the old ruined castles that crown the steep banks of the Rhine and give them so distinctive a character.
All the tall
windows
of the building were screened by crimson curtains.
In the upper classes of Parisian society, in which Mathilde had lived, passion can only very rarely divest itself of prudence, and it is from the attics on the fifth floor that girls throw themselves out of
windows.
I see a gothic cathedral, storied windows; my feeble heart imagines the priest from those
windows
...My soul would understand him, my soul has need of him.
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