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These little refinements became, indeed, very agreeable, only alloyed by the spirit of caste in which they were performed, elbowing the peasant-woman off the sidewalk for the sake of doffing the hat to the Baroness. I thought of the impartial courtesies shown towards woman as woman in my own country, and the spread eagle within me flapped his pinions.
"Yes, La Corriveau; I will bind you to me with chains of gold; you shall have it uncounted, as I get it, gold enough to make you the richest woman in St. Valier, the richest peasant-woman in New France." "I am no peasant-woman," replied La Corriveau, with a touch of pride, "I come of a race ancient and terrible as the Roman Caesars! But pshaw! what have you to do with that?
They had with them, half governess, half maid, a lean peasant-woman with a suspicious air. The young lady confessed to Caesar that she had been dreaming of the Catacombs for a long while. She knew the description Chateaubriand gives of them in Les Martyres by heart. The next day the French family in one landau, and Don Calixto with the Canon and Caesar in another, went to see the Catacombs.
"But see," said Vinet, interposing to cut off Maxime's reply, which would doubtless have been bitter; "suppose we send the affair to the criminal courts, and the peasant-woman, instigated by the Beauvisage couple, should denounce the man who had sworn before a notary, and offered himself for election falsely, as a Sallenauve: the question is one for the court of assizes." "But proofs?
A profound silence followed this complaining outburst, and the peasant-woman, with her head bent to the earth, sympathized with him truly, till, after a few moments, she attempted to console the sufferer in her simple way: "Oh, sir, I understand only too well how much you endure! And yet why despair? Who knows but we may receive some news of our dear young lady when we least expect it?
Instances might be cited where a portion of the shoe was carried away without serious injury to the wearer, and where knitting-needles, scissors and other household implements have been struck, sometimes conducting the current to the person with fatal effect. During a thunderstorm in France in July, 1858, a peasant-woman, on her way home from the fields, was struck down by lightning.
I was about to go in at the gate, but found that, contrary to the common usage, it was locked. I knocked. 'Who's there?... A customer? whined a woman's voice. 'Yes. 'Coming, sir, coming. The gate was opened. I beheld a peasant-woman of fifty, bareheaded, in boots, and a sheepskin worn open. 'Please to come in, kind sir, and I'll go at once, and tell Anastasei Ivanitch ... Nazar, hey, Nazar!
It is unhurt nothing but frightened. Your majesty can see him now in the arms of the old peasant-woman there." "She is about to return to the cottage with it," said the queen. Then stretching her arms toward the old woman, she cried out in an imploring voice: "Give me the child bring it here! Heaven has sent it to me as a comfort! Give it to me, I entreat you."
Snowdrop longed for the pretty apple; and when she saw the peasant-woman eating it, she could resist no longer, but stretched out her hand and took the poisoned half. She had scarcely tasted it, when she fell lifeless to the ground.
A horse-bus, dug up out of the past, jogs along the most famous boulevard in the world like a country diligence, with a fat, laughing peasant-woman clinging to its back-step and collecting fare-moneys into the immense pocket of her black apron. Many of the most expensive and unnecessary shops are shut; the others wait with strange meekness for custom.
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