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"Nicholas Langlumé, the same as my father's; but I am more generally known under the nickname of Faribole." "What do you do?" "Nothing; my father works on the quay, and I, I live from day to day, gaining my bread as I can.
Obliged to find some man who knew how to read and write for the position of assistant mayor, he knew of none and could hear of none throughout the district but Langlume, the tenant of his own flour-mill. The choice was disastrous.
The hay of all the fields in the district was sold at better prices than that of Les Aigues, though the yield of the latter was the best. Langlume, then, became the provisional mayor; but in France the provisional is eternal, though Frenchmen are suspected of loving change.
Not only were the interests of mayor and miller diametrically opposed, but Langlume had long hatched swindling projects with Rigou, who lent him money to carry on his business, or to acquire property. The miller had bought the right to the hay of certain fields for his horses, and Sibilet could not sell it except to him.
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