[The Honor of the Name by Emile Gaboriau]@TWC D-Link bookThe Honor of the Name CHAPTER VI 10/11
He paused. "You have forgotten only one thing," said M.Lacheneur; "that is, to tell us how your clothing happened to be torn, as if you had been fighting." The young farmer hesitated for a moment, then replied, somewhat brusquely: "I can tell you, all the same.
While Chupin was preaching, I also preached, but not in the same strain.
The scoundrel reported me.
So, in crossing the square, the duke paused before me and remarked: 'So you are an evil-disposed person ?' I said no, but that I knew my rights.
Then he took me by the coat and shook me, and told me that he would cure me, and that he would take possession of _his_ vineyard again.
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