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" The water kept it all on Wednesday, while Thursday, while Friday and all Saturday morning, although they had been searching everywhere for poles and fangs, but nothing was discovered, because she had to turn these three days on site or it was left to take root under an overhang, so it will be balanced there all that time and until her hair will have given up or maybe it's her skirt, that is to say that it was Saturday morning, shortly after that the mule had gone to provisions for the cottage, it being agreed that it would not go to the cottage and that provisions would be deposited in Scex Red ... So the question was: "Should prevent Joseph?" but right away we said, 'No, let us in well, he will go down ... " The mule is gone, they say about eight hours old Theodule was in his meadow. It never left him, he went there all day, all his days, he had spent three days there, seeing if it would not come. She did not come. and then it is coming: maybe she had finally had mercy on him ... "
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"The old Theodule was in his meadow, they say, when suddenly, he sees ahead. It was like a swing, she stopped in front of him a little while ... He walks, but she leaves, so he walked beside her and as she went, he walked ... At that moment she happened to be in the middle of the river, so it was no impediment, the chin in the air. Water well supported her, she allowed herself to, she went up and down like on a swing, while her skirt blown rose above the water and her apron was over ... We only had to let her come to the bridge ... It was after breakfast Ernest after the mule fell after the accident Romain. And then there were always up there, the disease ... "
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Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz , The big fear in the mountains (1926), The red books, pp. 130-131.
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Painting: Ophelia by John Everett Millais (1851-1852, London , Tate Britain ).
The photograph: Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878-1947) in 1935 by Gustave Rud Fund (photographic Gustave Roud , of BCU Lausanne )
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