The country parson ; and Albert Savarus ; The peasantry . her as wellas to his creditors wife. The money-lender crossed the Thune (never impassable inthe worst of weather), and Tonsard, stirring abroad, spoketo Eigou on the road. Well, Father Eigou, so the Uphol-sterer means to make slaves of us, does he? We shall see about that, returned Eigou, touching up hishorse. He will find a way of defending us, he will! said Tonsardto a group of women and children who had gathered abouthim. Oh! he has you in mind; an innkeeper has his gudgeonsin mind as he cleans his frying-pan, remarked Fourchon. You
The country parson ; and Albert Savarus ; The peasantry . her as wellas to his creditors wife. The money-lender crossed the Thune (never impassable inthe worst of weather), and Tonsard, stirring abroad, spoketo Eigou on the road. Well, Father Eigou, so the Uphol-sterer means to make slaves of us, does he? We shall see about that, returned Eigou, touching up hishorse. He will find a way of defending us, he will! said Tonsardto a group of women and children who had gathered abouthim. Oh! he has you in mind; an innkeeper has his gudgeonsin mind as he cleans his frying-pan, remarked Fourchon. You just keep your clapper quiet when you are drunk,said Mouche, with a tug at his grandfathers blouse, whichsent the old man over onto the mound at the foot of a the rascally monk heard what you said, he would not giveso much for your words As a matter of fact, the real cause of Eigous hasty visitto Soulanges was the weighty news which Sibilet had brought,news that seemed to threaten the secret coalition among thebourgeoisie of the Avonne A tug at his grandfathers blouse, which sent the old man overon the mound BOOK II I THE BEST SOCIETY OF SOULANGES Six kilometers from Blangy, be the same more or less(to borrow the legal formula), and at a like distance fromVille-aux-Fayes, the little town of Soulanges rises amphi-theatre-fashion up a hillside, a spur of the long cote whichruns parallel to the other ridge above the Avonne. Soulangesthe Picturesque, as they call it, has a better claim to the titlethan Mantes itself. Under this long low hill the Thune widens out over a bedof clay into a sheet of water some thirty acres in extent, withall the mills of Soulanges dotted over the little cluster ofislands at the end, composing a picture as charming as anythat the landscape gardeners art can devise. Further yetthe Thune feeds all the rivers and artificial water in Sou-langes park, and flows at last through a stately channel to jointhe Avonne. Opposite the town stands t
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