11/22 Their wealth would be enormous; for the value of land rises year after year. Blauville, which cost my father a hundred crowns in 1817, is worth to-day more than a million: so that, when I hear the nobles complain, I shrug the shoulder. Who but they are to blame? They sell their land to the peasants. Soon they will be reduced to beggary, and their escutcheons. |