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Updated: June 5, 2025
While she measured with her eye this opening, through which could be seen the long valley, so smiling on one side, so ruined on the other, and at its lower end, a league away, the terraced hill-sides back of Montegnac, Farrabesche said: "There'll be a famous rush of water in a few days." "And next year, on this day, not a drop shall flow there.
"You must have suffered very much," she said to Farrabesche, after a few moments' silence. "How could I help it, madame?" he replied; "for I was there without the hope of escape, which supports the life of most convicts." "An awful life!" she said in a tone of horror, inviting Farrabesche by word and gesture to say more.
"I begin to understand how it is that the rector has changed the character of this whole community," said Madame Graslin. "Nothing can resist him," said Farrabesche. "Yes, yes, I know it!" replied Veronique, hastily, making a gesture of farewell to her keeper. Farrabesche withdrew.
"Oh, madame," cried Farrabesche, "before long, when the rains begin, you will hear the torrent roar even at the chateau; but even that is nothing to what happens in spring when the snows melt. The water then rushes down from all parts of the forest behind Montegnac, from those great slopes which are back of the hills on which you have your park.
The front of the house was covered with jessamine and roses, trained to the wall and wreathing the windows of the upper floor, where Farrabesche stored his provisions. He bought little except bread, salt, sugar, and a few such articles, for he kept chickens, ducks, and two pigs. Neither he nor the boy drank wine.
"And Catherine's parents?" "They have never inquired for her since she left. Besides they did enough in taking charge of the little one." "Well, Farrabesche," said Veronique, returning toward the house. "I will make it my business to know if Catherine still lives; and if so, what is her present mode of life."
To this request she added information about Catherine Curieux, begging Grossetete to interest the procureur-general in the good work she wished to do, and persuade him to write to the prefecture of police in Paris to recover traces of the girl. The circumstance of Catherine's having sent money to Farrabesche at the galleys ought to be clew enough to furnish information.
Veronique was determined to know why it was that the young woman had not returned to her child and to Farrabesche, now that he was free. She also told her old friend of her discovery about the torrent of the Gabou, and urged him to select an able engineer, such as she had already asked him to procure for her.
"Then," said Madame Graslin, "if a poor young man, a tender soul, carried away by passion, having committed a murder, was spared from death and sent to the galleys " "Oh! madame," said Farrabesche, interrupting her, "there is no sparing in that. The sentence may be commuted to twenty years at the galleys, but for a decent young man, that is awful!
She was deeply touched by this reception, without knowing the actual cause of it. Seeing Farrabesche humbly stationed among the last, she stopped and said to him: "You are a good hunter; do not forget to supply me with game."
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