The Conquest of Plassans (Les Rougon-Macquart book 4)
“He had a little room on the second floor opposite the priest’s rooms, and there he led a monk-like existence, reading a lot.
‘I ought to chuck your books on the fire,’ said Mouret angrily. ‘You’ll end up bedridden.’ And it was true, the young man was of such a nervous disposition that if he wasn’t very careful, he fell prey to every minor illness, like a girl, and had to keep to his room for two or three days at a time. Then Rose would drown him in herbal tea and when Mouret went along to ‘live...n him up a bit’, as he put it, if the cook was there she made her master leave the room, saying: ‘Let him alone, poor lamb! You’ll be the death of him with your brutal ways. He’s not in the least like you, he’s the spitting image of his mother. You’ll never understand either the one or the other.’ Serge smiled. When his father saw he was so delicate he hesitated to send him to Paris to read Law after he left school. He wouldn’t hear of a provincial university; in his view a young man who wanted to get anywhere really had to go to Paris.MoreLess
‘I ought to chuck your books on the fire,’ said Mouret angrily. ‘You’ll end up bedridden.’ And it was true, the young man was of such a nervous disposition that if he wasn’t very careful, he fell prey to every minor illness, like a girl, and had to keep to his room for two or three days at a time. Then Rose would drown him in herbal tea and when Mouret went along to ‘live...n him up a bit’, as he put it, if the cook was there she made her master leave the room, saying: ‘Let him alone, poor lamb! You’ll be the death of him with your brutal ways. He’s not in the least like you, he’s the spitting image of his mother. You’ll never understand either the one or the other.’ Serge smiled. When his father saw he was so delicate he hesitated to send him to Paris to read Law after he left school. He wouldn’t hear of a provincial university; in his view a young man who wanted to get anywhere really had to go to Paris.MoreLess
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