His first care was to make a bargain with an architect, in virtue of which, by means of a hundred crowns a year, the latter engaged to keep the house in constant good repair.
Mondor was already congratulating himself on the happy days which he hoped to spend in this retreat, declared sacred by our Constitution.

But Valerius wished to make it his residence.

"How can you think of such a thing ?" said Mondor; "it is I who have built it; it has cost me ten years of painful labor, and now you would enjoy it!" They agreed to refer the matter to judges.

They chose no profound economists--there were none such in the country.

But they found some just and sensible men; it all comes to the same thing: political economy, justice, good sense, are all the same thing.