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But the great and glorious festival of Chantebled at that period was the birth of Mathieu and Marianne's first great-grandchild a girl, called Angeline, daughter of their granddaughter, Berthe. In this little girl, all pink and white, the ever-regretted Blaise seemed to live again.
Madame Bovary senior was plying her scissor without looking up, and Charles, in his list slippers and his old brown surtout that he used as a dressing-gown, sat with both hands in his pockets, and did not speak either; near them Berthe, in a little white pinafore, was raking sand in the walks with her spade. Suddenly she saw Monsieur Lheureux, the linendraper, come in through the gate.
Only the sound of Berthe's brisk footstep from the kitchen enabled me, forced me, to drop it, and to utter: 'What shall we have to eat, Soames? 'Il est souffrant, ce pauvre Monsieur Soames? asked Berthe. 'He's only tired. I asked her to get some wine Burgundy and whatever food might be ready. Soames sat crouched forward against the table, exactly as when last I had seen him.
They haven't much respect for the infantry trenches," said Boylan. At that instant Peter's mind opened a clearer series of pictures of Berthe Wyndham than he had known for days.
"The day before you go you must dine with us, alone, and Harriet will give you her last greeting." As the day wore away, there was a jovial rapprochement in the special car where General Abercromby and Major Hawke were gayly extolling Madame Berthe Louison's perfections. "Mind you, General, I am no squire of dames," said the Major. "You must make your own running."
I hoped I looked less vulgar than he in contrast with Soames. I was sure he was not an Englishman, but what WAS his nationality? Though his jet-black hair was en brosse, I did not think he was French. To Berthe, who waited on him, he spoke French fluently, but with a hardly native idiom and accent.
There was plenty to hold a man in wonder your zeal to do for others, and the exaltations, but to-day you were down in my valley, in the earth bottoms, just seeing in the human light, your wings tired. It was the best moment of the pilgrimage, Berthe the deepest." Peter had wanted to tell her that. Big Belt stood before a man of his own size Lornievitch, the Commander of commanders, Himself.
In these swiftly gliding days of absence, Ram Lal Singh and the watchful Major Alan Hawke conferred at length over narghileh and glass. A sullen discontent had settled down on Hawke's brow when Berthe Louison publicly departed upon her business trip with not even a fragmentary confidence. "Wait for my return, and only watch the marble house," said the Madame.
A curious piece of traditional folklore came out, but only as hearsay, in court. M. Cheval, Maire of Cideville, deposed that a M. Savoye told him that Thorel had once been shepherd to a M. Tricot. Gibotteau, on his experiments with a hospital nurse called Berthe. This woman, according to the doctor, had the power of making him see hallucinations, of a nature more or less horrible, from a distance.
Berthe fell at the foot of the drawers against the brass handle, cutting her cheek, which began to bleed, against it. Madame Bovary sprang to lift her up, broke the bell-rope, called for the servant with all her might, and she was just going to curse herself when Charles appeared. It was the dinner-hour; he had come home.
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