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Dizzy from the blow, she bounded to her feet and fled, sheltering her head between her hands. But Bambousse had time to fling two more clods at her, and if the first only grazed her left shoulder, the next caught her full on the base of the spine, with such force that she fell upon her knees.
'Oh! old Bambousse is quite right, murmured Lisa, a short dark girl, with gleaming eyes; 'when one has vines, one looks after them. Since his reverence so particularly desired to marry Rosalie, he can very well do it all alone. The other girl, Babet, who was humpbacked, tittered. 'There's mother Brichet, she said; 'she is always here. She prays for the whole family.
And as he lingered at table she sat down opposite him and repeated gently, like a woman tortured by curiosity: 'Where have you been, Monsieur le Cure? 'Well, he answered with a smile, 'I have seen the Brichets, I have spoken to Bambousse. Thereupon he had to relate to her what the Brichets had said, what Bambousse had decided, and how they looked, and where they were at work.
'Monsieur le Cure is free to do as he pleases, since the parish hasn't got to find the money, said old Bambousse, who came round every evening to see how the work was progressing. Abbe Mouret spent all his savings on it. Some of his decorations, indeed, were so awkward that they would have excited many people's smiles.
She'd ask nothing better than to marry big Fortune. Have a talk with old Bambousse; perhaps he will listen to you now. And don't come back at twelve o'clock, like the other day. Come, say you'll be back at eleven, won't you? But the priest turned round no more. So she went in again, growling between her teeth: 'When does he ever listen to me? Barely twenty-six years old and does just as he likes.
Voriau now ran on in front, and suddenly, at a turn in the road, he bolted across the fields. The priest then struck into a small path leading up a low hill. He was now at Les Olivettes, the most fertile spot in the neighbourhood, where the mayor of the commune, Artaud, otherwise Bambousse, owned several fields of corn, olive plantations, and vines.
'If it hadn't been for the little one, she continued, 'Monsieur le Cure would have lost all use for his holy water. Old Bambousse had made up his mind to marry Rosalie to young Laurent, of Figuieres. However, the girls' merriment and their chatter now came to an end, for they saw La Teuse limping furiously towards them.
Abbe Mouret smiled, but made no reply. Addressing Vincent, who was romping with the dog: 'I say, my boy, he asked, 'do you know where old Bambousse is at work this morning? The lad glanced towards the horizon. 'He must be at his Olivettes field now, he answered, pointing towards the left. 'But Voriau will show your reverence the way.
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