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Updated: May 15, 2025
In the first place, let us explain the continual pleasure that he took in sleeping under his own roof. Blangy by that we mean the sixty houses described by Blondet in his letter to Nathan stands on a rise of land to the left of the Thune. As all the houses are surrounded by gardens, the village is a very pretty one. Some houses are built on the banks of the stream.
He excused himself from visiting on the ground of his occupations, his habits, and his health, which latter did not allow him, he said, to return at night along a road which led by the foggy banks of the Thune.
Thus, not only were the houses of the ex-monk and the young priest connected and yet separated by the church, but they were in a position to watch each other. Indeed, the whole village spied upon the abbe. The main street, which began at the Thune, crept tortuously up the hill to the church. Vineyards, the cottages of the peasantry, and a small grove crowned the heights.
As Rigou crossed the Thune, fordable at all seasons, Tonsard came out of the tavern and met him on the high-road. "Well, Pere Rigou," he said, "so the Shopman means to make dogs of us?" "We'll see about that," said the usurer, whipping up his horse. "He'll protect us," said Tonsard, turning to a group of women and children who were near him.
From either slope a man could aim at a victim and kill him at close quarters, with all the more ease because the little hill is covered with vines, and the evil-doer could lie in ambush among the briers and brambles that overgrow them. We can readily imagine why the usurer did not take that road after dark. The Thune flows round the little hill; and the place is called the Close of the Cross.
"Well, where is it, that otter of yours?" said Charles, smiling doubtfully. "This way," said the old fellow, going toward the Thune. The name is that of a brook formed by the overflow of the mill-race and of certain springs in the park of Les Aigues.
He wore a blouse, through the breast opening of which could be seen a shirt of coarse linen, so black that he must have worn it a month and washed it himself in the Thune. His sabots were mended with old iron. The original stuff of his trousers was unrecognizable from the darns and the infinite number of patches.
After watering the park of Soulanges, where it feeds various other streams and artificial lakes, the Thune falls into the Avonne through a fine broad channel. The chateau of Soulanges, rebuilt under Louis XIV. from designs of Jules Mansart, and one of the finest in Burgundy, stands facing the town; so that Soulanges and its chateau mutually present to each other a charming and even elegant vista.
Judging by threats, general, they are resolved on war to the knife against you; and therefore since you mention incendiarism, let me beg of you to insure all your buildings, and all your farmhouses." "Michaud, do you know whom they mean by 'Shopman'? Yesterday, as I was riding along by the Thune, I heard some little rascals cry out, 'The Shopman! here's the Shopman! and then they ran away."
Now, my sweetest, inasmuch as I hold the keys of the whole cabal, the kings of Thune, the chiefs of sorcery, the gypsy fortune-tellers, the masters of the future, the heirs of all past soothsayers, I intend by their means to read you, to know your heart; and, together, we will find out what is to happen to us."
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