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"That was your offer. I won't deny it," said old Sorel, speaking even more slowly; then, with the inspiration of genius something that will astonish only those who do not know the peasants of Franche-Comte he added, looking M. de Renal straight in the eye: "We can do better."

At these words the …

Always more disposed to cavil in proportion as he detected a genuine eagerness on the mayor's part, and otherwise full of suspicion and awe

his horror of eating with the servants was not instinctive with Julien; in order to make his fortune, he would have done far more disagreeable things than that. He had borrowed this aversion from Rousseau's Confessions. It was the only book by which his imagination had formed any idea of society. c…

As he went over to his mill Pere Sorel called out to Julien in a stentorian voice