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Updated: July 23, 2025
The two old women squabbled as to which of them should be sold by her children. The noise of the quarrel woke up the household. Tonsard and Bonnebault took sides for their respective mothers. "Pull straws," suggested Tonsard's wife. The short straw gave it in favor of the tavern.
Now if your daughter, Courtecuisse, would leave Auxerre she's a pretty girl, and if she'd take to piety, she might save us all. Hey! ran tan plan! "Why don't you do it?" said Godain to Catherine, in a low voice; "there'd be scuttles full of money to hush up the talk; and for the time being you'd be mistress here " "Shall we glean, or shall we not glean? that's the point," said Bonnebault.
"Did you hear him?" said Mother Tonsard to the old Bonnebault woman, for the general's last words were said in a rather louder tone than the rest, and reached the ears of the two old women who were posted in the road which led beside the field.
Vermichel, Brunet's assistant, went to the Grand-I-Vert this morning, ostensibly after Pere Fourchon; and Marie Tonsard, who is intimate with Bonnebault, ran off at once to give the alarm at Conches. The depredations have begun again." "A strong show of authority is becoming daily more and more necessary," said Sibilet. "What did I tell you?" cried the general.
Tonsard's girls and their mother and the old Bonnebault woman had plied the miller, the mechanics, and the two peasants, as well as Fourchon, with so much drink that they were all on the ground and snoring when the four men left the tavern; on their return, the sleepers were shaken and roused, and every one seemed to them, as before, in his place.
"They are quarrelling for Bonnebault," said Rigou, sardonically. The anger of the father was at once controlled by the interest of the tavern-keeper.
"And what's more," said Fourchon, "the folks from the other districts won't be allowed here at all." "What's that?" cried Bonnebault, "do you mean to tell me that neither my grandmother nor I, nor your mother, Godain, can come here and glean? Here's tomfoolery for you; a pretty show of authority! Why, the fellow is a devil let loose from hell, that scoundrel of a mayor!"
"If I'm doomed to be a soldier I'd rather the sawdust of the basket sucked up my blood than have it dribbled out drop by drop in the battles. I'll deliver this country of at least one of those Arminacs that the devil has launched upon us." And he related what he called Michaud's plot against him, which Marie and Bonnebault had overheard.
Another time a horrible old woman, Mother Bonnebault, who lived in a hut between the gate of Conches and the village, brought back a great bundle of skeins of linen thread. "Madame la comtesse has done wonders," said the abbe, full of hope as to the moral progress of his savages.
Bonnebault, in payment of a few francs lost at cards, might very likely tell the secrets he heard at Tonsard's to Viollet; or he might let them out over his punch without realizing the importance of such gossip.
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