Pierre had looked at the shop kept by Bernadette's brother with a heavy heart.

Pierre avait regardé la boutique du frère de Bernadette, avec un serrement de cœur.

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Les Trois Villes - Lourdes

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The Three Cities Trilogy - Lourdes

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She multiplied her absences from the shop, going out as frequently as three and four times a week.

Elle multiplia ses sorties, s'absenta jusqu'à quatre et cinq fois par semaine.

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The shop did not do much business.

Le commerce allait tout doucement.

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Therese Raquin

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She stopped two or three times before the shop-windows, as if absorbed in a sight which she did not even see, and each time she started off again with a more excited step.

Elle s’arrêta, à deux ou trois reprises, devant des étalages, comme toute au spectacle d’objets qu’elle ne voyait seulement pas. Et, chaque fois, elle reprit sa course, d’un pas plus saccadé.

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It had been like living in an oil-shop that week.

Nous avions eu l’impression, cette semaine-là, de vivre dans une raffinerie de pétrole.

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Trois hommes dans le bateau

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Three Men in a Boat

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At five o'clock, Michaud was already in the shop when Laurent entered.

Le soir à cinq heures, Michaud était déjà dans le magasin, lorsque Laurent entra.

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I know them! They watch for their opportunities, turn everything topsy-turvy and wait for us to lose our heads and forget prices, so as to pay even less than they would in a real shop.

Je les connais, elles guettent les occasions, bousculent les étalages, attendent qu’on perde la tête et qu’on ne s’y reconnaisse plus, pour payer moins cher que dans les vrais magasins...

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Les Trois Villes - Paris

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The Three Cities - Paris

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There, at a few steps from the boulevard, Mahoudeau, a sculptor, had rented the shop of a fruiterer who had failed in business, and he had installed his studio therein, contenting himself with covering the windows with a layer of whitening.

Le sculpteur Mahoudeau avait loué, à quelques pas du boulevard, la boutique d’une fruitière tombée en faillite; et il s’y était installé, en se contentant de barbouiller les vitres d’une couche de craie.

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L'Oeuvre

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His Masterpiece

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During the morning and afternoon, when Laurent was absent, Therese went from the dining-room to the shop in anxiety and trouble, at a loss to know what to do to fill up the void in her existence that daily became more pronounced.

Quand Laurent n'était pas là, pendant la matinée et l'après-midi, Thérèse allait de la salle à manger à la boutique, inquiète et troublée, ne sachant comment remplir le vide qui chaque jour se creusait davantage en elle.

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Therese Raquin

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Therese Raquin

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One of his most exquisite pleasures was to pass Pierre's shop ten times a day.

Une de ses plus délicates jouissances fut de passer dix fois par jour devant le magasin de Pierre.

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La Fortune des Rougon

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The Fortune of the Rougons

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But Madame Josserand happened to be in the shop, and he was soon shut up.

Mais madame Josserand se trouvait dans le magasin, il reçut vite son paquet.

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Pot-Bouille

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Pot-Bouille

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All their hatred of independent originality, of the competition of the 'shop over the way,' which frightened them, of that invincible power which triumphs even when it is seemingly defeated, resounded in their voices.

Toute la haine de l’originalité déréglée, de la concurrence d’en face dont on a eu peur, de la force invincible qui triomphe, même battue, grondait dans l’éclat des voix.

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L'Oeuvre

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His Masterpiece

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He lived as little as possible in the shop, preferring to stroll about all day; and he found life so dreadfully dull with nothing to do, that he spoke of returning to Vernon.

Il vivait le moins possible dans la boutique, il flânait toute la journée. L'ennui le prit à un tel point qu'il parla de retourner à Vernon.

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"Madame Menoux's shop is no bigger than my pocket-handkerchief, and at the back of it there is only one little room where she and her husband take their meals and sleep.

Comment voulez-vous que Mme Menoux garde son enfant avec elle, dans sa boutique qui est grande comme ma poche ?

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Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite

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Fruitfulness

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"'I'll go with you,' I said, 'as far as the Pendu farm—they're not short of room in that shop.

– J’vais aller avec vous, que j’dis, jusqu’à la ferme du Pendu. Y a d’la place, c’est pas ça qui manque là-dedans.

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Le feu

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Under fire

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