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She had rushed immediately to the grocer's shop to tell the thing, and the whole village now imagined that they had a real corpse concealed in their house. Foureau, yielding to the public clamour, had come to make sure about the fact. A number of persons, anxious for information, stood outside the porch.
Foureau and Marescot interrupted him, exclaiming that he was a communist. "I a communist!" And all kept talking at the same time. When Pécuchet proposed to establish a club, Foureau had the hardihood to reply that they would never see such a thing at Chavignolles. After this, Gorju demanded guns for the National Guard, the general opinion having fixed on him as instructor.
M. de Faverges one evening came to look for the curé, in order to tell him that the Count de Chambord had arrived in Normandy. Joinville, according to Foureau, had made preparations with his sailors to put down "these socialists of yours." Heurtaux declared that Louis Napoleon would shortly be consul. The factories had stopped. Poor people wandered in large groups about the country.
All the others followed her example, after their respective ways the curé giving a sort of cluck like a hen, Hurel coughing, the doctor mourning over it, while his wife had a nervous spasm, and Foureau, an unceremonious type of man, breaking an Abd-el-Kader and putting it into his pocket as a souvenir.
Marescot kept twisting a pen; Père Coulon groaned; Heurtaux lashed himself into a fury to make them send for the gendarmes. "Command them to come!" said Foureau. "I have no authority." The noise, however, redoubled. The whole green was covered with people, and they were all staring at the first story of the building when, at the window in the middle, under the clock, Pécuchet made his appearance.
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.
The only guns in the place were those of the firemen. Girbal had possession of them. Foureau did not care to deliver them up. Gorju looked at him. "You will find, however, that I know how to use them." For he added to his other occupations that of poaching, and the innkeeper often bought from him a hare or a rabbit. "Faith! take them!" said Foureau. The same evening they began drilling.
Chamberlan lost his place, and he formed against them a secret coalition, supported by the Abbé Jeufroy, Madame Bordin, and Foureau. Their way of living, so unlike that of other people, gave offence. They became objects of suspicion, and even inspired a vague terror. What destroyed them above all in public opinion was their choice of a servant. For want of another, they had taken Marcel.
She became a propagandist in their behalf, and the tax-collector, the mayor's secretary, the mayor himself, and everybody in Chavignolles sucked camphor by the aid of quills. However, the hunchback did not get straight; the collector gave up his cigarette; it stopped up his chest twice as much. Foureau made complaints that the pills of aloes gave him hemorrhoids.
And the doctor declared himself in favour of progress: "For, indeed, gentlemen, we have need of reforms." "Possibly," said Foureau; "but all these ideas are injurious to business." "I laugh at business!" cried Pécuchet. Vaucorbeil went on: "At least let us make allowance for abilities." Bouvard would not go so far. "That is your opinion," replied the doctor; "there's an end of you, then!
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