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THORNS OF JEALOUSY.
Now Amedee had no family.

The day after his father's death he had a violent rupture with M.Isidore Gaufre.

Under the pretext that a suicide horrified him, he allowed his niece's husband to be carried to the cemetery in a sixth-class hearse, and did not honor with his presence the funeral, which was even prohibited from using the parish road.

But the saintly man was not deterred from swallowing for his dinner that same day, while thundering against the progress of materialism, tripe cooked after the Caen fashion, one of Berenice's weekly works of art.
Amedee had now no family, and his friends were dispersed.