A few fields and meadows and a hill on the Borderie.

All these together did not in former times yield him an income of five thousand francs a year." "Yes, that is true," replied Chanlouineau; "and if the revenue you mention is quadrupled, it is only because the land is now in the hands of forty proprietors who cultivate it themselves." "Another reason why the duke will not say a word; he will not wish to set the whole district in commotion.

In my opinion, he will dispossess only one of the owners of his former estates, and that is our worthy ex-mayor--Monsieur Lacheneur, in short." Ah! he knew only too well the egotism of his compatriots.

He knew with what complacency and eagerness they would accept an expiatory victim whose sacrifice should be their salvation.
"That is a fact," remarked an old man; "Monsieur Lacheneur owns nearly all the Sairmeuse property." "Say all, while you are about it," rejoined Father Chupin.

"Where does Monsieur Lacheneur live?
In that beautiful Chateau de Sairmeuse whose gable we can see there through the trees.