After that was done the settlement of the Minoret inheritance (nothing else being talked of in the town for ten days) began with all the legal formalities.

Dionis had his pickings; Goupil enjoyed some mischief-making; and as the business was profitable the sessions were many.

After the first of these sessions all parties breakfasted together; notary, clerk, heirs, and witnesses drank the best wines in the doctor's cellar.
In the provinces, and especially in little towns where every one lives in his own house, it is sometimes very difficult to find a lodging.

When a man buys a business of any kind the dwelling-house is almost always included in the purchase.

Monsieur Bongrand saw no other way of removing Ursula from the village inn than to buy a small house on the Grand'Rue at the corner of the bridge over the Loing.