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He had not finished speaking when the door opened and Sénateur saw before him a fat girl, with a very red color, blowzy, with pendant breasts, a big stomach and broad hips, a sort of sanguine and bestial female, the wife of the shepherd Severin, and he went into the cottage. "I have come to pay you a visit, as I want to make a little search," he said, and he looked about him.
"Oh Severin," she cried out joyously. "I have been impatiently waiting for you." She leaped up, and folded me in her arms. She sat down again on the rich cushions and tried to draw me down to her side, but I softly slid down to her feet and placed my head in her lap.
And when, his arguments exhausted, after a vehement diatribe against provincial life, Durtal ended by saying, "Then at Paris there are the quays, Saint Séverin, Notre Dame; there are delightful convents " "You would find equally good things at Chartres," answered the Abbé.
That is over, and we will not say any more about it; but if I catch them again ... by G d if I catch them again, I will make them lose all taste for such nonsense, Maître Cacheux, as sure as my name is Severin ..."
"What, Severin? What are you talking about?" "Don't you love me any more?" I continued. "Haven't you even a little bit of pity for me? Has the beautiful stranger taken complete possession of you?" "I cannot lie," she replied softly after a short pause. "He has made an impression on me which I haven't yet been able to analyse, further than that I suffer and tremble beneath it.
This man, the footstool for her feet, was Severin, but beardless, and, it seemed, some ten years younger. "Venus in Furs," I cried, pointing to the picture. "That is the way I saw her in my dream." "I, too," said Severin, "only I dreamed my dream with open eyes." "Indeed?" "It is a tiresome story." "Your picture apparently suggested my dream," I continued. "But do tell me what it means.
Yet on the right bank were the more self-respecting churches, for religious Paris stops on that side of the Seine, and comes to an end as you pass the bridges. In fact, to sum up all, he might believe that St. Severin by its scent, and the delightful art of its old nave, St.
He had not finished speaking when the door opened and Senateur saw before him a fat girl, with a very red, blowzy face, with drooping breasts, a big stomach and broad hips, a sort of animal, the wife of the shepherd Severin, and he went into the cottage. "I have come to pay you a visit, as I want to make a little search," he said, and he looked about him.
Only Farmer Rodel's wife said: "I don't see anything foolish in that. Although it is a mark of honor that Severin has, it is after all a strange thing for him to go about in the churchyard with such a decoration on in the place where we see what we are all coming to, whether in our lifetime we have worn clothes of silk or of homespun.
Durtal had then heard, after a mournful and solemn "Kyrie Eleison," sharp and almost tragic, the decided cry, so loving and so grave, of the "Gloria in Excelsis," to the true plain chant; he had listened to the Credo, slow and bare, solemn and pensive, and he was able to affirm that these chants were totally different from those which were sung everywhere in the churches. St. Severin and St.
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