[Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac]@TWC D-Link bookSons of the Soil CHAPTER XII 19/23
Then if we could catch him in the act and drum him up with a good charivari, the bishop would be obliged to send him elsewhere.
It would please old Rigou devilish well.
Now if your daughter, Courtecuisse, would leave Auxerre--she's a pretty girl, and if she'd take to piety, she might save us all.
Hey! ran tan plan!--" "Why don't _you_ do it ?" said Godain to Catherine, in a low voice; "there'd be scuttles full of money to hush up the talk; and for the time being you'd be mistress here--" "Shall we glean, or shall we not glean? that's the point," said Bonnebault.
"I don't care two straws for your abbe, not I; I belong to Conches, where we haven't a black-coat to poke up our consciences." "Look here," said Vaudoyer, "we had better go and ask Rigou, who knows the law, whether the Shopman can forbid gleaning, and he'll tell us if we've got the right of it.
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