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Two lamps were placed on the table, one at each end, and the disorder was very apparent: the cloth was stained and spotted. Gervaise left the table to reappear presently, bearing the goose in triumph. Lorilleux and his wife exchanged a look of dismay. "Who will cut it?" said the clearstarcher. "No, not I. It is too big for me to manage!" Coupeau said he could do it.
Mme Putois offered to leave because, she said, no one should fly in the face of Destiny; besides, she was not hungry. As to Boche, he laughed, and said it was all nonsense. "Wait!" cried Gervaise. "I will arrange it." And rushing out on the sidewalk, she called to Father Bru, who was crossing the street, and the old man followed her into the room. "Sit there," said the clearstarcher.
"Of nothing of all sorts of things," he would reply with a dazed air. The workwomen laughed and thought it a good joke to ask if he were in love. He paid little heed to them but relapsed into silent thought. From this time Virginie often spoke to Gervaise of Lantier, and one day she said she had just met him. But as the clearstarcher made no reply Virginie then said no more.
Mamma Coupeau never dared to speak out openly to the clearstarcher, but after a dispute she was unsparing in her hints and allusions. The first time Gervaise fixed her eyes on her and heard all she had to say in profound silence.
It was the alcohol in his system, she said, which attacked his nerves now, when he was so reduced by the inflammation on his lungs that he could not resist it. The clearstarcher went home, but how or by what route she never knew. Her husband was mad she heard these words reverberating through her brain. Life was growing very strange.
She never knew how she got up those six flights of stairs. But when she turned into her own corridor little Lalie ran toward her with loving, extended arms. "Dear Madame Gervaise," she cried, "Papa has not come in; please come and see my children. They are sleeping so sweetly!" But when she looked up in the face of the clearstarcher she recoiled, trembling from head to foot.
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