Milk, eggs, poultry, game, fruits, flowers, forage, vegetables, wood, the steward and his wife used in profusion, buying absolutely nothing but butcher's-meat, wines, and the colonial supplies required by their life of luxury.

The poultry-maid baked their bread; and of late years Moreau had paid his butcher with pigs from the farm, after reserving those he needed for his own use.
On one occasion, the countess, always kind and good to her former maid, gave her, as a souvenir perhaps, a little travelling-carriage, the fashion of which was out of date.

Moreau had it repainted, and now drove his wife about the country with two good horses which belonged to the farm.

Besides these horses, Moreau had his own saddle-horse.

He did enough farming on the count's property to keep the horses and maintain his servants.