One morning old Rouault brought Charles the money for setting his leg--seventy-five francs in forty-sou pieces, and a turkey.

He had heard of his loss, and consoled him as well as he could.
"I know what it is," said he, clapping him on the shoulder; "I've been through it.

When I lost my dear departed, I went into the fields to be quite alone.

I fell at the foot of a tree; I cried; I called on God; I talked nonsense to Him.

I wanted to be like the moles that I saw on the branches, their insides swarming with worms, dead, and an end of it.
And when I thought that there were others at that very moment with their nice little wives holding them in their embrace, I struck great blows on the earth with my stick.