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- The peasantry
The peasantry
Author:
Honoré de Balzac
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...Bouret (so they say) strewed silver spangles in it. Do you know it, my lady? Very well, then, there were two women there washing
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clothes, just where the stream crosses the footpath to Conches. I heard them talking; they did not know that I was near. You can see our house from the spot. The two old creatures were looking at it and one said to the other, " What a lot of expense they are going to for him that has taken old Courtecuisse's place! Then the other one said, "Wouldn't you have to pay a man well for plaguing poor folk, as he does?"--M He will not plague them long," answered the first one; "this sort of thing must be put a stop to. After all, we have a right to cut wood. Madame des Aigues, that's gone, allowed us to take faggots. We have done it these thirty years; so it is an established right."--" We shall see how things go this winter," the second one went on. "My man has sworn, I know, by all that's sacred, that we shall get our firewood, and that all the gendarmerie on earth shall not hinder us, and that he will do it himself, and so much the worse for them."--'Lord sakes! we must not die of cold, and we must certainly bake our bread '; said the first woman. They don't want for nothing, they don't! That blackguard Michaud's little wife will be well taken care of!"--In fact, my lady, they said shocking things about me, and you, and M. le Comte. Then at last they said that first the farm buildings would be fired, and then the chateau' 'Pooh!' said Emile,' old wives' gossip. They used to rob the General; now they will not rob him any longer, and they are furious: that is all. Just bear in mind that the Government is always the strongest everywhere, even in Burgundy; and they would...
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ISBN-13:
9781236128584
ISBN-10:
1236128583
Publication Date:
6/26/2012
Pages:
118
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