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Updated: June 19, 2025
The moment the little birds felt the light, they stretched out their feeble necks and opened their crimson beaks to ask for food. Desiree clapped her hands, enchanted, seized with strange emotion at the sight of these hitherto unknown creatures. 'It's that Paradou girl! exclaimed the Abbe suddenly, remembering everything. La Teuse had gone to the window. 'So it is, she said.
The last had to be used on the days when white, red, or green was prescribed by the ritual, and it was therefore an all important garment. La Teuse lifted it reverently from the shelf covered with blue paper, on which she laid it after each service; and having placed it on the sideboard, she cautiously removed the fine cloths which protected its embroidery.
At this moment the voices in the church rose yet more loudly, and a sound of steps could be distinctly heard. 'No! no! insisted Desiree, dragging La Teuse towards the stable. 'Just come and look at her, and tell me what ought to be done. La Teuse shrugged her shoulders. All that the cow wanted was to be left alone and not bothered.
But, just as she passed the Chapel of the Dead, she caught sight of Abbe Mouret prostrated before the great bleeding Christ. He did not stir; he must have thought that it was only La Teuse putting the seats in order behind him. But Albine laid her hand upon his shoulder. 'Serge, she said, 'I have come for you. The priest raised his head with a start. His face was very pale.
He was a big eater, and clucked his tongue as each mouthful descended audibly into his stomach. Keeping his eyes on his spoon, he did not speak a word. 'Isn't my soup good, then, Monsieur le Cure? the old servant asked the priest. 'You are only fiddling with your plate. 'I am not a bit hungry, my good Teuse, Serge replied, smiling. 'Well! how can one wonder at it when you go on as you do!
I was so very lonely when they took you away to cure you. 'She is right, said La Teuse. 'You don't behave reasonably, Monsieur le Cure. You can't expect to be strong, living, as you do, on two or three crumbs a day, as though you were a bird. You don't make blood; and that's why you are so pale. Don't you feel ashamed of keeping as thin as a lath when we are so fat; we who are only women?
Without replying, however, Abbe Mouret gently pushed her out of the room, and begged her to make as little noise as possible. Till evening, therefore, perfect silence settled on the parsonage. La Teuse finished her washing in the shed.
He stamped on the tiled floor with his heavy boots, his voice thundered and he smote the furniture, whilst he related how he had whipped some of his pupils that morning, or expounded his moral principles in terms as stern, as uncompromising as bludgeon-blows. Then feeling bored, he suggested that he and La Teuse should have a game at cards.
Over them the tall Virgin in gilded plaster bent her tinted face, and smiled with her rosy lips upon the naked Jesus she bore upon her left arm. 'That's it, Lisa! cried La Teuse; 'why don't you sit on the altar while you're about it? Just pull your petticoats straight, will you? Aren't you ashamed of behaving like that? If any one of you lolls about I'll lay her boughs across her face.
La Teuse said it was quite ridiculous to go on ornamenting the church, where nobody slept, while their bedrooms were in such a crazy condition, for she was quite sure they would all be found, one morning, crushed to death by the fallen ceilings. 'I shall end by bringing my bed here, and placing it behind the altar, she grumbled. 'I feel quite terrified sometimes at night.
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