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L’Assommoir

CHAPTER VII
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"You couldn't see them; but I was watching.

When she caught sight of the table her face twisted around like that, the corners of her mouth almost touched her eyes; and as for him, it nearly choked him, he coughed and coughed.

Now just look at them over there; they've no saliva left in their mouths, they're chewing their lips." "It's quite painful to see people as jealous as that," murmured Gervaise.
Really the Lorilleuxs had a funny look about them.

No one of course likes to be crushed; in families especially when the one succeeds, the others do not like it; that is only natural.

Only one keeps it in, one does not make an exhibition of oneself.


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