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When she was in front of the Company's Yards she crossed the road and entered a laundress's where she was certain to find Mouquette; for the latter stayed there from morning till night, among women who treated each other with coffee all round.
Opposite the Yards they were playing at bowls.
On pay-day at the Company's Yards, Montsou seemed to be in the midst of a fete as on fine Sunday feast-days.
And when he turned his back after nodding affirmatively, both men decided to enter the Yards.
It was a dead workshop, these great empty abandoned Yards where work was sleeping.
Zacharie, in a masterly manner, at his first stroke, composed of a series of three, sent the ball more than four hundred yards across the beetroot fields; for it was forbidden to play in the villages and on the streets, where people might be killed.
Mechanically, M. Hennebeau, who wished to look out, went up to Paul's room on the second floor: it was on the left, the best situated, for it commanded the road as far as the Company's Yards.
" Only at first his sole idea had been to protect the Company's Yards, which there had been talk of sacking.
The manager's villa, the Company's Yards, even the houses of certain residents, were bristling with bayonets.
So he led her back to her lover's, with sunken head, and made no protest when she stopped him on the main road, at the corner of the Yards, twenty metres from the Estaminet Piquette, saying:"Don't come any farther.
Deneulin would show them over his yards and then they would return by Réquillart, where Négrel would tell them the exact state of things in the galleries, and if there was still hope.
He went to the shops and brought back rolls of leather for the shoemaker, old iron for the farrier, a barrel of herrings for his mistress, caps from the milliner's, locks from the hair-dresser's and all along the road on his return journey he distributed his parcels, which he threw, standing upright on his seat and shouting at the top of his voice, over the enclosures of the yards.
To get to the nurse's it was necessary to turn to the left on leaving the street, as if making for the cemetery, and to follow between little houses and yards a small path bordered with privet hedges.
Sometimes through a rift in the clouds, beneath a ray of sunshine, gleamed from afar the roots of Yonville, with the gardens at the water's edge, the yards, the walls and the church steeple.
He would send her a black barege, twelve yards, just enough to make a gown.
Then he called her back to show her three yards of guipure that he had lately picked up "at a sale."
But, a hundred yards higher up, if the visitor continues his stroll, he will notice a house of quite imposing appearance, and, through the gaps in an iron railing belonging to the house, some splendid gardens.
He gave Sorel four acres in exchange for one, five hundred yards lower down by the bank of the Doubs.
This nuisance, which affected everybody alike, placed M. de Renal under the fortunate obligation to immortalise his administration by a wall twenty feet in height and seventy or eighty yards long.
Despite these brave resolutions, as soon as he caught sight of the house twenty yards away he was overcome by an unconquerable shyness.
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.
By climbing the steep slope which began a few yards farther on, one came presently to high precipices fringed with oakwoods, which projected almost over the bed of the river.
They formed the habit of spending the evening under a huge lime a few yards from the house.
Tall beeches rose almost as high as these rocks whose shadow provided a delicious coolness within a few yards of places where the heat of the sun's rays would have made it impossible to stop.
Julien jumped the wall of a terrace, proceeded fifty yards under cover, then continued his flight in a different direction.
On catching sight of Mademoiselle de La Mole thirty yards off, a man of taste could tell the rank that she occupies in society.
When he had gone a hundred yards along the road, and was well out of earshot:'Do you know what is happening?' he said to Julien; 'this postmaster is a rogue.
He found himself standing a few yards behind Madame de Renal's bench.
Then we had to find the rule and the string again, and a new hole was made; and, about midnight, the picture would be up - very crooked and insecure, the wall for yards round looking as if it had been smoothed down with a rake, and everybody dead beat and wretched - except Uncle Podger.
Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.
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