Did you know that that Shopman called me a thief, me!--son of the stanchest and most incorruptible of republicans; me!--the son in law of Mouchon, that famous representative of the people, who died without leaving me enough to bury him ?" The general raised the salary of the new field-keeper to three hundred francs; and built a town-hall, in which he gave him a residence.

Then he married him to a daughter of one of his tenant-farmers, who had lately died, leaving her an orphan with three acres of vineyard.

Groison attached himself to the general as a dog to his master.

This legitimate fidelity was admitted by the whole community.

The keeper was feared and respected, but like the captain of a vessel whose ship's company hate him; the peasantry shunned him as they would a leper.