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Bouvard wanted to draw up a catalogue for the museum, and declared their curios stupid. Pécuchet borrowed Langlois' duck-gun to shoot larks with; the weapon burst at the first shot, and was near killing him. Then they lived in the midst of that rural solitude so depressing when the grey sky covers in its monotony a heart without hope.
He was going away by the train which left a new railway junction a few miles off, having gently yet firmly declined M. Fille's invitation, and also the invitations of others including the Cure and Mere Langlois to spend the night with them and start off the next day. He elected to go on to Montreal that very night, and before the sale was quite finished he prepared to start.
He could do no good where he was, and he turned to leave the market-place; but in doing so he sought the eye of Virginie Poucette, who, however, kept her face at an angle from him, as she saw Mere Langlois sharply watching her. "Grandfather, mother and daughter, all of a piece!" said a spiteful woman, as Sebastian Dolores passed her.
I will settle with Him myself. Well, then, do you think I'd care what what Mere Langlois or the rest of the world would say?... I can't bear to think of you going away with nothing, with nobody, when here is something and somebody somebody who would be good to you. Everybody knows that you've been badly used everybody.
The beaver-hat which Jean Jacques wore on state occasions, as his grandfather had done, together with the bonnet rouge of the habitant, donned by him in his younger days they fell to the nod of Mere Langlois, who declared that, as she was a cousin, she would keep the things in the family.
Langlois, an experienced teacher and tried scholar, in his introduction to the "Study of History," condemns the natural impulse to set them down in notebooks in the order in which one's authorities are studied, and says, "Every one admits nowadays that it is advisable to collect materials on separate cards or slips of paper," arranging them by a systematic classification of subjects.
They owed one bill to Beljambe for three hogsheads of wine, another to Langlois for two stone of sugar, a sum of one hundred francs to the tailor, and sixty to the shoemaker. Their expenditures were continuous, of course, and meantime Maître Gouy did not pay up.
These had their origin, we can hardly tell with certainty how, or when, or where; although the subject has enlisted the investigating labors of such accomplished scholars and profound antiquaries as Douce and Ottley in England, and Peignot and Langlois in France.
They had visits from Girbal, Foureau, and Captain Heurtaux, and then from inferior persons Langlois, Beljambe, their husbandmen, and even the servant-girls of their neighbours; and, on each occasion, they went over the same explanations, showed the place where the chest would be, affected a tone of modesty, and claimed indulgence for the obstruction.
Here, then, was the most obvious opportunity a man in trouble who had not deserved the bitter bad luck which had come to him. Even old Mere Langlois in the market-place at Vilray had admitted that, and had said the same later on in Virginie's home. For an instant Jean Jacques was fascinated by the sudden prospect which opened out before him.
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