I'm off to Soulanges; will see you to-night!--Ah! Vaudoyer, good afternoon," said the late mayor as his former field-keeper entered the room.

"What's the news ?" Vaudoyer related the talk which had just taken place at the tavern, and asked Rigou's opinion as to the legality of the rules which the general thought of enforcing.
"He has the law with him," said Rigou, curtly.

"We have a hard landlord; the Abbe Brossette is a malignant priest; he advises all such measures because you don't go to mass, you miserable unbelievers.

I go; there's a God, I tell you.

You peasants will have to bear everything, for the Shopman will always get the better of you--" "We shall glean," said Vaudoyer, in that determined tone which characterizes Burgundians.
"Without a certificate of pauperism ?" asked the usurer.