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CHAPTER 6
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About nine o'clock on the following evening, Abbé Bourrette called for Abbé Faujas. He had promised to go with him to the Rougons' and introduce him there. He found him ready, standing1 in the middle of his big bare room, and putting on a pair of black gloves that were sadly whitened at the finger-tips. Bourrette could not restrain a slight grimace2 as he looked at him.
'Haven't you got another cassock?' he asked.
'No,' quietly replied Abbé Faujas. 'This one is still very decent, I think.'
'Oh, certainly! certainly!' stammered4 the old priest; 'but it's very cold outside. Hadn't you better put something round your shoulders? Well! well! come along then!'
The nights had just commenced to be frosty. Abbé Bourrette, who was warmly wrapped in a padded silk overcoat, got quite out of breath as he panted along after Abbé Faujas, who wore nothing over his shoulders but his thin, threadbare cassock. They stopped at the corner of the Rue6 de la Banne and the Place of the Sub-Prefecture, in front of a house built entirely7 of white stone, one of the handsome mansions8 of the new part of the town. A servant in blue livery received them at the door and ushered9 them into the hall. He smiled at Abbé Bourrette as he helped him to take off his overcoat, and seemed greatly surprised at the appearance of the other priest, that tall, rough-hewn man, who had ventured out on such a bitter night without a cloak.
The drawing-room was on the first floor, and Abbé Faujas entered it with head erect10, and grave, though perfectly11 easy,[Pg 54] demeanour, while Abbé Bourrette, who was always very nervous when he went to the Rougons' house, although he never missed a single one of their receptions, made his escape into an adjoining apartment, thus cowardly leaving his companion in the
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踩( trample的过去式和过去分词 ); 践踏; 无视; 侵犯 | |
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