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VIII Rosalie had left the house and the time of Jeanne’s confinement was drawing near. The sorrow she had gone through had taken away all pleasure from the thought of becoming a mother, and she waited for the child’s birth without any impatience or curiosity, her mind entirely filled with her presentiment of coming evils. Spring was close at hand. The bare trees still trembled in the cold wind, but, in the damp ditches, the yellow primroses were already blossoming among the decaying autumn leaves. The rain-soaked fields, the farm-yards and the commons exhaled a damp odor, as of fermenting liquor, and little green leaves peeped out of the brown earth and glistened in the sun. A big, strongly-built woman had been engaged in Rosalie’s place, and she now supported the baroness in her dreary
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