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They chatted, talking about Suzanne, Victor's sister, whom the Lengaignes had apprenticed to a dressmaker's in Châteaudun and who had run away after six months to lead a gay life in Chartres. It was said that she had gone off with a lawyer's clerk and all the girls in Rognes were secretly gossiping about it amongst themselves and imagining all the details. A gay life meant orgies of redcurrant syrup and soda-water...
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Keith [on semi hiatus]
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Berthe shared her father's dislike of the Lengaignes; she shrugged her shoulders: Lengaigne didn't care; all he was sorry about was that his daughter hadn't stayed at home to attract more customers to his own shop by sleeping with them. Hadn't one of her uncles, an old man of forty, already had her before she went off to Châteaudun, one day while they were scraping carrots together?
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Keith [on semi hiatus]
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...amidst a riot of men, dozens of them, getting up you in the backrooms of wine-shops.
'Yes, my dear, that's what it's like... I bet they're letting her have it good and proper!'
Françoise was listening to the older girl wide-eyed, quite flabbergasted.
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'Yes, my dear, that's what it's like... I bet they're letting her have it good and proper!'
Françoise was listening to the older girl wide-eyed, quite flabbergasted.
Keith [on semi hiatus]
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But they were not alone, the whole of Rognes was mowing and tossing the hay in the meadows all around. Delhomme had arrived before daybreak because grass is more tender to cut when it is soaked in dew, whereas it hardens up under the heat of the sun. You could hear it now, tough and crackling under the scythe as he swung it continuously to and fro with his bare arms.
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Keith [on semi hiatus]
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Nobody noticed the rain; a dog was howling dismally; women were bursting into tears, as though at the graveside. Despite their rivalry, Macqueron and Lengaigne were helping each other to illuminate their respective plots, going from one to the other uttering cries of 'Christ Almighty!' as they saw one ruined plant after another in the brief dim glimpse they had before darkness again swallowed it up.
— Aug 21, 2026 06:09AM
Keith [on semi hiatus]
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Often he would lose patience when she was in one of her bad moods, when she devoured his seed and then, because of too much or too little water, refused to give a harvest; at such times, he was seized by doubt and he would even accuse himself of being an incompetent, or impotent male; if the land had not brought forth a child, the fault must be his.
— Aug 16, 2026 12:00AM
Keith [on semi hiatus]
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...despite his annoyance; he was not at all proud of his conduct in all this.
— Aug 15, 2026 11:46PM