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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Groison! there's another lucky fellow!" said Vaudoyer, "they've built him a house and given him a good wife, and he's got an income and clothes fit for a king. There was I, field-keeper for twenty years, and all I got was the rheumatism." "Yes, he's very lucky," said Godain, "he owns property " "And we go without, like the fools that we are," said Vaudoyer.
"My mother heard him say he would; she told me at Ville-aux-Fayes where I went to carry her some money and her clothes. Well; let that countess keep her money! our five hundred francs shall help Godain buy the land; and we'll revenge ourselves for this thing. Ha! Michaud meddles with our private matters, does he? it will bring him more harm than good.
As Nicolas entered the tavern he was uttering frightful threats against the Michaud family and Les Aigues. "The harvest's coming; well, I vow I'll not go before I've lighted my pipe at their wheat-stacks," he cried, striking his fist on the table as he sat down. "Mustn't yelp like that before people," said Godain, showing him Pere Niseron.
If you go to the ball of Soulanges at Tivoli and dance with her, you'll dance higher than you'll like. Godain is rich and dangerous; he is capable of breaking your arm without your getting a chance to arrest him." "That would be too dear; Catherine is a fine girl, but she is not worth all that," replied Charles. "Why should Godain be so angry? others are not." "He loves her enough to marry her."
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.
Godain, a miser without money, the cruelest of misers, for he who seeks money surely takes precedence of him who hoards it, one turning his eagerness within himself, the other looking outside with terrible intentness, Godain represented the type of the majority of peasant faces.
He was slain as an "accapareur," a monopolist, by the populace, instigated by a mason, the uncle of Godain, with whom he had had some quarrel about the building of his ambitious house.
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