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The indictment stated that sixty trees thus destroyed were found within a radius of five hundred feet. The old woman was sent to Auxerre, the case coming under the jurisdiction of the assize-court. Michaud could not refrain from saying when he discovered Mother Tonsard at the foot of the tree: "These are the persons on whom the general and Madame la comtesse have showered benefits!
"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.
After a moment's hesitation the keeper said, looking at Brunet and Vermichel, "Here are witnesses." "Witnesses of what?" said Tonsard. "That woman has a ten-year-old oak, cut into logs, inside those fagots; it is a regular crime!" The moment the word "witness" was uttered Vermichel thought best to breathe the fresh air of the vineyard.
"Oh yes, yes!" said he, "make the most of your rejoicing; but I've just heard from Vaudoyer that the countess, to punish you, withdraws the thousand francs promised to Godain; her husband won't let her give them." "It's that villain of a Michaud who has put him up to it," said Tonsard.
But for a certain lawless and slothful good humor, and the free-and-easy ways of a rustic tippler, the man would have alarmed the least observing of spectators. If the portraits of Tonsard, his inn, and his father-in-law take a prominent place in this history, it is because that place belongs to him and to the inn and to the family.
However, out of these various proceeds the Grand-I-Vert was mulcted in a good sum for the personal consumption of Tonsard and his wife, who wanted the best of everything to eat, and better wine than they sold, which they obtained from their friend at Soulanges in payment for their own.
"Of what? witnesses of what?" cried Tonsard, standing in front of the keeper while his wife helped up the old woman. "Do you mean to show your claws, Vatel? Accuse persons and arrest them on the highway, brigand, that's your domain; but get out of here! A man's house is his castle." "I caught her in the act, and your mother must come with me." "Arrest my mother in my house?
For others, he dug ditches, gathered fagots, barked the trees, or cut them down. In all such work the employer is at the mercy of the workman. Tonsard owned his plot of ground to the generosity of Mademoiselle Laguerre.
Nevertheless Gaubertin and Rigou were so well aware of the importance of conciliating bold men able and willing to do mischief, if properly directed against Les Aigues, that Rigou held out certain hopes of safety to Tonsard and his son.
It was none too soon; for Bonnebault rushed out of the billiard-room, his eyes blazing. "It sha'n't end so!" cried Marie Tonsard. "Begone!" shouted Bonnebault, whom Viollet held back round the body lest he should do the girl some hurt. "Go to the devil, or I will never speak to you or look at you again!" "You!" said Marie, flinging him a furious glance.
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