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But Coupeau exclaimed at this. One could not be married without having a spread, and at length he got her to consent. They formed a party of twelve, including the Lorilleux and some of Coupeau's comrades who frequented the "Assommoir." The day was excessively hot. At the mayor's they had to wait their turn and thus were late at the church.
Twice each week the shop was carefully brushed; all the rubbish was kept and burned, and the ashes were examined, where were found each month twenty-five or thirty francs of gold. Mme Lorilleux did not take her eyes from the shoes of her guest. "If Mademoiselle would be so kind," she murmured with an amiable smile, "and would just look at her soles herself.
Considerable strength and a vast deal of skill were needed, and his sister had both. He had seen her draw out the gold until it was like a hair. She would never let her husband do it because he always had a cough. All this time Lorilleux was watching Gervaise stealthily, and after a violent fit of coughing he said with an air as if he were speaking to himself: "I make columns."
Coupeau, when he was consulted, shrugged his shoulders with a gesture of profound indifference. Mme Lerat said she would pay her share. "There are three of us," said Gervaise after a long calculation; "if we each pay thirty francs we can do it with decency." But Mme Lorilleux burst out furiously: "I will never consent to such folly.
"Ah well," said Madame Lorilleux to the Boches, as they were all leaving, "she's our goddaughter, but as they're going to put her into artificial flower-making, we don't wish to have anything more to do with her. Just one more for the boulevards. She'll be leading them a merry chase before six months are over."
In the family, however, the Lorilleuxs were supposed to earn ten francs per day, and this gave them great weight. Coupeau would never venture to marry unless they agreed to accept his wife. "I have told them about you," he said. "Gervaise good heavens, what a baby you are! Come there tonight with me; you will find my sister a little stiff, and Lorilleux is none too amiable.
"Lorilleux can do as he pleases in regard to being your witness. I only ask for peace." Gervaise, in her embarrassment, had been pushing about with her feet some of the rubbish on the floor; then fearing she had done some harm, she stooped to ascertain. Lorilleux hastily approached her with a lamp and looked at her fingers with evident suspicion. "Take care," he said.
"Your door, indeed!" cried his wife, and then pleasantly went on to express her surprise that they did not postpone their marriage until they had saved enough to buy a little furniture and move away from that hole up under the roof. "But I have given up that room," said her brother. "We shall have the one Gervaise occupies; it is larger." Mme Lorilleux forgot herself; she wheeled around suddenly.
In three years he went seven times to the asylum in this fashion, until he died in the extremities of delirium. Gervaise was next compelled to descend to begging of Lorilleux and his wife. But they refused her a son or a crumb and laughed at her. It was terrible.
Yes, it would do if it were taken in at the waist. Then Mme Lorilleux looked at the bed and the wardrobe and asked if there was nothing else belonging to her mother. Here Mme Lerat interfered. The Coupeaus, she said, had taken care of her mother, and they were entitled to all the trifles she had left. The night seemed endless.
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