Bouvard and Pécuchet, part 1
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Gustave Flaubert. Bouvard and Pécuchet, part 1
CHAPTER I. Kindred Souls
CHAPTER II. Experiments in Agriculture
CHAPTER III. Amateur Chemists
CHAPTER IV. Researches in Archæology
CHAPTER V. Romance and the Drama
CHAPTER VI. Revolt of the People
CHAPTER VII "Unlucky in Love."
CHAPTER VIII. New Diversions
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How happy they felt when they awoke next morning! Bouvard smoked a pipe, and Pécuchet took a pinch of snuff, which they declared to be the best they had ever had in their whole lives. Then they went to the window to observe the landscape.
In front of them lay the fields, with a barn and the church-bell at the right and a screen of poplars at the left.
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Incessantly they kept talking about "sap" and "cambium," "paling up," "breaking down," and "blinding of an eye." In the middle of their dining-room they had in a frame the list of their young growths, as if they were pupils, with a number which was repeated in the garden on a little piece of wood, at the foot of the tree. Out of bed at dawn, they kept working till nightfall with their twigs carried in their belts. In the cold mornings of spring, Bouvard wore his knitted vest under his blouse, and Pécuchet his old frock-coat under his packcloth wrapper; and the people passing by the open fence heard them coughing in the damp atmosphere.
Sometimes Pécuchet drew forth his manual from his pocket, and he studied a paragraph of it standing up with his grafting-tool near him in the attitude of the gardener who decorated the frontispiece of the book. This resemblance flattered him exceedingly, and made him entertain more esteem for the author.
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