. Vivian's lesson . ople live who dwellinside. At the door of one of these lonely cottagesa woman was standing one bright May morn-ing--in the May that followed the eventswhich we have described in the last chapters—shading her eyes from the sun. She was dressed in the ordinary Bretonpeasants dress—a black gown, with a greatwhite cap and a white plaited collar, and herface was wrinkled and weather-beaten. Pierre, Pierre, where art thou ? she cried,scanning the bare moorland with her keen O black eyes; it is already seven oclock, andthe pigs are not fed, nor the chickens, andthe cow waits in he
. Vivian's lesson . ople live who dwellinside. At the door of one of these lonely cottagesa woman was standing one bright May morn-ing--in the May that followed the eventswhich we have described in the last chapters—shading her eyes from the sun. She was dressed in the ordinary Bretonpeasants dress—a black gown, with a greatwhite cap and a white plaited collar, and herface was wrinkled and weather-beaten. Pierre, Pierre, where art thou ? she cried,scanning the bare moorland with her keen O black eyes; it is already seven oclock, andthe pigs are not fed, nor the chickens, andthe cow waits in her stall to be led out topasture. There was no answer, and she shrugged hershoulders impatiently. Plague upon the boy,1 she muttered, andupon those who brought him! Three francs aweek doth not go far on his food, for he eatslike an ox, and as for trouble—Jiein! Andshe shru^o-ed her shoulders again in the ex- oo pressive way only practised by a Frenchwomanor an Italian, then she proceeded to search the. Thou lazy dreamer ! she said, pulling him to his feet by the collar of his blue cotton L- PAGE 205. ASTOTILDEN FOU; R. MADAME GENVIEVE. 205 wretched little outhouses which adjoined hercottage for the delinquent. She found him at last, a little white-faced,dark-haired lad, clad in a blue cotton suit, andwearing the wooden sabots of the country. Hewas lying asleep in the sun behind a diminu-tive haystack, which looked as if hay-crops inthat part of the country were wont to bescanty. He woke with a start as the woman shookhim roughly, and shrank away from her witha look of fear in his brown eyes: Thou lazy dreamer! she said, pulling himto his feet by the collar of his blue cottonblouse, and giving him a push in the directionof the pig-sty, there is all thy work to do,and instead of doing it thou liest and sleepestas if thou wert the son of a lord. Make hastenow, and feed the cow and the chickens, andtake the cow to the pasture over by the bog-side yonder. See, if thou
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