For a long time the Minorets occupied the tanneries, the Cremieres kept the mills, the Massins were in trade, and the Levraults continued farmers.

Fortunately for the neighbourhood these four stocks threw out suckers instead of depending only on their tap-roots; they scattered cuttings by the expatriation of sons who sought their fortune elsewhere; for instance, there are Minorets who are cutlers at Melun; Levraults at Montargis; Massins at Orleans; and Cremieres of some importance in Paris.

Divers are the destinies of these bees from the parent hive.

Rich Massins employ, of course, the poor working Massins--just as Austria and Prussia take the German princes into their service.

It may happen that a public office is managed by a Minoret millionaire and guarded by a Minoret sentinel.