It is not as in many other parts of France, where the peasants hate the nobles, and the nobles regard the peasants as dirt under their feet.

Here it is more like what I believe it was in England, when you had your troubles, and the tenants followed their lords to battle.

At any rate, life here would be very preferable to being in business with my father, in Nantes.

I should never have settled down to that; and as my elder brother seems specially made for that sort of life, fortunately I was able to go my own way, to take to the sea in the lugger, and become the carrier of the firm, while taking my share in the general profits." "How is it that your brother does not live at home?
It would seem natural that he should have had the pavilion, when he married." "He likes going his own way," Jean said shortly.

"As far as business matters go, he and my father are as one; but in other matters they differ widely.