An accountancy practice
discount zerit The repetition hammers home the grimness of the novel’s second half, which follows the married life of Thテゥrティse and Laurent after Camille’s murder. A bite mark Camille leaves on Laurent’s neck as he is drowned assumes a life of its own; his water-bloated corpse appears in the bed between the newly-weds, who can’t sleep, let alone sleep together. Things get very ugly: Thテゥrティse, pregnant, provokes Laurent to kick her in the stomach “almost to death” so she’ll miscarry. You wonder if Zola is writing about cruelty or just writing cruelly, with the episode of Camille’s drowning exemplary. We’re not allowed to sympathise even with a cuckold who’s about to be murdered: he’s nervous around water, but as Thテゥrティse hesitates to board the rowboat – because she knows what’s in store – he taunts her as a coward.