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Sons of the Soil

CHAPTER XI
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Why don't you keep to our side ?" "Why don't you come to church; and why do you steal things night and day ?" asked the child.
"So you let those people talk you over!" sneered Catherine.

"They love us, don't they ?--just as they love their food which they get out of us, and they want new dishes every day.

Did you ever know one of them to marry a peasant-girl?
Not they! Does Sarcus the rich let his son marry that handsome Gatienne Giboulard?
Not he, though she is the daughter of a rich upholsterer.

You have never been at the Tivoli ball at Soulanges in Socquard's tavern; you had better come.

You'll see 'em all there, these bourgeois fellows, and you'll find they are not worth the money we shall get out of them when we've pulled them down.


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