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I, myself, who am no fool, I can't say what I'll do when I fall ill. I believe I shall try to be reconciled with the Church." "Suffer me to hope it," said the Abbe Taupin, for whose benefit Rigou had raised his voice on the last words. "Alas! the wrong I did in marrying prevents it," replied Rigou. "I cannot kill off Madame Rigou." "Meantime, let us think of Les Aigues," said Madame Soudry.
Just as those interested expected to find their fortunes made, a lawyer came from Paris on the evening before the final settlement, and employed a notary at Ville-aux-Fayes, who happened to be one of his former clerks, to buy the estate of Les Aigues, which he did for eleven hundred thousand francs. None of the conspirators dared outbid an offer of eleven hundred thousand francs.
The time which the dismissed steward remained at Les Aigues until his successor could be appointed was employed in creating troubles and annoyances for his late master; one of the little scenes which he thus played off will give an idea of several others.
The policy contained in this allocution was too deep for the drunken heads of those present, who were all, except Courtecuisse, laying by their money to buy a slice of the Aigues cake. So they let Jean-Louis harangue, and continued, as in the Chamber of Deputies, their private confabs with one another.
The Canal of Beaucaire now passes by Aigues Mortes, and reaches the Mediterranean nearly three miles below the town. It was from Aigues Mortes that S. Louis sailed on his Crusades in 1248 and 1270; and it has a little puzzled many people to account for his having chosen such a wretched place as this for the assembly of his Crusaders and for embarkation. But he could not help himself.
It seems as if it were the destiny of the child to be taken care of by the owners of Les Aigues! Pere Niseron obtained its clothes, and now and then some help in money from Mademoiselle."
A dead town The Rhones-morts Bars S. Louis and the Crusades How S. Louis acquired Aigues Mortes His canal The four littoral chains and lagoons The fortifications Unique for their date Original use of battlements Deserted state of the town Maguelonne How reached History of Maguelonne Cathedral The Bishops forge Saracen coins Second destruction of the place Inscription on door Bernard de Treviis His Romance of Pierre de Provence Provencal poetry not always immoral Present state of Maguelonne.
Groison made very satisfactory reports; depredations seemed to have ceased, and it is even possible that the state of the neighborhood and the feeling of the inhabitants might really have changed if it had not been for the revengeful eagerness of Gaubertin, the cabals of the leading society of Soulanges, and the intrigues of Rigou, who one and all, with "the affair" in view, blew the embers of hatred and crime in the hearts of the peasantry of the valley des Aigues.
A burning desire for vengeance led him to settle at Ville-aux-Fayes, and to take a position where he could injure Montcornet and stir up sufficient enmity against to force him to sell Les Aigues. The general was deceived by appearances; for Gaubertin's external behavior was not of a nature to warn or to alarm him.
Shall power lurk in secret places, instead of radiating from its natural source? This is worth thinking about. The spirit of local sectionalism, such as we have now depicted, will soon be seen to invade the Chamber. Montcornet's friend, the late prefect, Comte de la Roche-Hugon, had lost his position just before the last arrival of the general at Les Aigues.
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