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Updated: June 18, 2025
This was no reason for abandoning their tour into Brittany. They even purposed to take Gorju along with them to assist them in their excavations. For some time past, he had slept at the house, in order to finish the more quickly the repairing of the chest.
"Do you understand in the least?" asked Madame Gorju timidly of Madame de Clagny. The Public Prosecutor's wife, who, to use a phrase of Monsieur Gravier's, might have put a Cossack to flight in 1814, straightened herself in her chair like a horseman in his stirrups, and made a face at her neighbor, conveying, "They are looking at us; we must smile as if we understood."
Bouvard and Pécuchet represented to Gorju that he would never be strong enough to overcome the coalition of the peasants and the village shop-keepers, filled him with uncertainty, and deprived him of all confidence. Petit, through pride, had allowed his ambition to be seen. Beljambe warned him that, if he failed, his dismissal was certain.
Gorju took a candle, in order to give Pécuchet a better view of the left one, which exhibited Adam and Eve under a tree in Paradise in an affectionate attitude. Bouvard equally admired the chest. "If you keep it they'll give it to you cheap." They hesitated, thinking of the necessary repairs. Gorju might do them, cabinet-making being a branch of his trade. "Let us go. Come on."
Gorju declaimed against the clumsiness of all "these country fellows," then, on his knees in front of the article of furniture, he tried to put the piece in its place. Pécuchet, while offering to assist him, traced beneath the dust faces of notable characters.
The sun shone down upon the fields covered with yellow grain. Far in the distance carriage-wheels softly slipped along the road. There was a torpor in the air not a bird's cry, not an insect's hum. Gorju cut himself a switch and scraped off the bark. Madame Castillon did not raise her head again.
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