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THIRTEEN YEARS AFTER AND THE CLERK OF THE COURT TELLS A.
STORY It was hard to say which was the more important person in the parish, the New Cure or M'sieu' Jean Jacques Barbille.

When the Old Cure was alive Jean Jacques was a lesser light, and he accepted his degree of illumination with content.

But when Pere Langon was gathered to his fathers, and thousands had turned away from the graveyard, where he who had baptised them, confirmed them, blessed them, comforted them, and firmly led them was laid to rest, they did not turn at once to his successor with confidence and affection.

The new cure, M.Savry, was young; the Old Cure had lived to be eighty-five, bearing wherever he went a lamp of wisdom at which the people lighted their small souls.