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But, to prevent a recurrence of the catastrophe, the nun made her drink a cupful of claret, adding: "It's just hunger that's what is wrong with you." Then Boule de Suif, blushing and embarrassed, stammered, looking at the four passengers who were still fasting: "'Mon Dieu', if I might offer these ladies and gentlemen " She stopped short, fearing a snub.
He removed the shells, threw them into the straw beneath his feet, and began to devour the eggs, letting morsels of the bright yellow yolk fall in his mighty beard, where they looked like stars. Boule de Suif, in the haste and confusion of her departure, had not thought of anything, and, stifling with rage, she watched all these people placidly eating.
After about an hour, he heard a rustle, peeped out quickly and saw Boule de Suif, who looked still more corpulent in a blue cashmere dressing gown trimmed with white lace. She held a candle in her hand and made straight for the room at the other end of the hall bearing a conspicuous number.
Once indoors again, they did not know what to do with themselves. The silent dinner did not last long, and they shortly afterwards went to bed, hoping to kill time by sleep. They came down next morning with jaded faces and tempers on the thin edge. The women scarcely addressed a word to Boule de Suif. Presently the church bell began to ring; it was for a christening.
Loiseau had an inspiration: he suggested that they should propose to the officer to keep Boule de Suif only and let the others go. Mr. Follenvie undertook again to convey the message, but he came down almost immediately. The German, who knew human nature, had kicked him out of his room. He meant to keep everybody as long as his wishes had not been complied with.
Boule de Suif flushed crimson to the ears, and the three married women felt unutterably humiliated at being met thus by the soldier in company with the girl whom he had treated with such scant ceremony. Then they began to talk about him, his figure, and his face.
The ten people had finished its contents without difficulty amid general regret that it did not hold more. Conversation went on a little longer, though it flagged somewhat after the passengers had finished eating. Night fell, the darkness grew deeper and deeper, and the cold made Boule de Suif shiver, in spite of her plumpness.
And Boule de Suif wept on, and at times a sob which she could not repress broke out between two couplets in the darkness. There were seven of us in a break, four women and three men, one of which latter was on the box seat beside the coachman, and we were following, at a foot pace, the broad highway which serpentines along the coast.
Just as they were sitting down to the evening meal Monsieur appeared and said in his husky voice: "The Prussian officer wishes to know if Mademoiselle Elizabeth Rousset has not changed her mind yet?" Boule de Suif remained standing and turned very pale, then suddenly her face flamed and she fell into such a paroxysm of rage that she could not speak.
Boule de Suif had a child out at nurse with some peasants near Yvetot. She did not see it once in a year and never gave it a thought, but the idea of this baby which was going to be baptized filled her heart with sudden and violent tenderness for her own, and nothing would satisfy her but that she should assist at the ceremony.
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