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1. Maheu finds food at home, eats after the working children, and shares his meat with Lénore and Henri.
2. The children wash, and the parents hear Levaque beating his wife next door.
3. While washing Maheu, Maheude explains that Maigrat provides bread, supplies, and a five-franc loan after she confronts him.
4. The parents enjoy a private sexual encounter, discuss work, and let Catherine leave to buy a bonnet ribbon.
5. Maheu tends his vegetables and refuses Levaque’s invitation to drink, preserving the household’s borrowed money.
6. At nightfall, Maheude serves dinner without the absent children or the dandelion greens Jeanlin is supposed to gather.

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Maheu’s discomfort interrupts the rule that reserves scarce meat for him. He acts on this feeling by feeding Lénore and Henri from his portion.

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