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Desgranges; but the poor man could not be silenced. "It is enough to know he is in the village; this makes my heart easy. I do not always wish to come in, but I pass before his house, it is always there; and when he is gone a journey I make Juliana lead me into the plain of Noiesemont, and I say 'turn me towards the place where he is gone, that I may breathe the same air with him." Mr.
I put in my hand to feel the current." "Bravo, James." "Yes, but the water was so low and the current so small, that my hand felt nothing. I put in the end of my stick, it was not moved. I rubbed my head finally, I said, 'I am a fool, here is my handkerchief; I took it, I fastened it to the end of my cane. Soon I felt that it moved gently to the right, very gently. Noiesemont is on the right.
For you, it must make you beloved by everybody; you must become so grateful, so affectionate, that when they wish to speak of any one who is good, they will say, good as the blind man of the Noiesemont. That will serve for a dowry to your daughter. This is the way he talked to me, sir: and it gave me heart to be unfortunate." "Yes; but when he was not here?"
She sees for me, I walk for her; those who meet me, say, 'Here is a gentleman who carries his eyes very high; to which I answer, 'that is so I may see the farther. And then at night I have twenty sous more to bring home." "But are you not afraid of stumbling against the stones?" "I lift my feet pretty high; and then I am used to it; I come from Noiesemont here all alone."
The distance and the irregularity of his path prevented me from distinguishing anything clearly; but, at the height of his head, in the place of his face, I saw a great, red mark. In alarm, I approached him, while from the other side of the plain, from Noiesemont, a troop of men and women were advancing, crying aloud. I was the first to reach the poor creature.
I sat down on the ground, I listened; after a moment I heard at, as I supposed, about two hundred paces distant, a noise of running water. I said, 'If this should be the stream which is at the bottom of the plain? I went feeling along on the side from which the noise came I reached the stream; then I reasoned in this way: the water comes down from the side of Noiesemont and crosses it.
"You have not told me of that, James," said Mr. Desgranges. "I was, however, somewhat embarrassed, my dear friend. While I was here the wind changed, I did not perceive it; but at the end of a quarter of an hour, when I had reached the plain of Noiesemont, I had lost my way, and I felt so bewildered that I did not dare to stir a step. You know the plain, not a house, no passersby.
"One morning, three years since, I was walking on a large dry plain, which separates our village from that of Noiesemont, and which is all covered with mill-stones just taken from the quarry. The process of blowing the rocks was still going on. Suddenly a violent explosion was heard. I looked.
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