[L’Assommoir by Emile Zola]@TWC D-Link bookL’Assommoir CHAPTER IX 80/117
Mademoiselle Remanjou had noticed that her right eye was still open.
Madame Gaudron maintained that she had a fine complexion for her age.
Madame Fauconnier kept repeating that she had seen her having coffee only three days earlier. Towards evening the Coupeaus were beginning to have had enough of it. It was too great an affliction for a family to have to keep a corpse so long a time.
The government ought to have made a new law on the subject. All through another evening, another night, and another morning--no! it would never come to an end.
When one no longer weeps, grief turns to irritation; is it not so? One would end by misbehaving oneself.
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