Ordinarily the entire ecclesiastic or lay staff is absent; residents are furnished only by the secondary or inferior grades.

What are their relations with the peasant?
One point is certain, and that is that they are not usually hard, nor even indifferent, to him.

Separated by rank they are not so by distance; neighborhood is of itself a bond among men.

I have read in vain, but I have not found them the rural tyrants, which the declaimers of the Revolution portray them.

Haughty with the bourgeois they are generally kind to the villager.