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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 417
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... Maitre Jpierre. Par Edmond About. A ...
, public buildings—in far-away villages tlie pedestrian is startled by of cut stone and a crowd of workmenand every sign of a rage
. neaps for restoration . No doubt tins accounts for , sonie of the " deficit . _" But to return to " Maitre Pierre "
district Tlie _lier was o a of wild the lad book living , a sort up of to Napoleon his twentieth le petit year in by his fishing own
and shooting , , though , he has a patrimony of 150 acres of lande , about the rent of which ( small you will _supjjose when you learn
that it takes above two acres of it to keep a sheep ) he gives himself no trouble . He is suddenly changed from a purposeless
nomade , hunting wild cattle , taming wild horses , astonishing his neihbors bpresents of ortolans and such likeinto an earnest
gy , very enthusiast simp , le whose adventure every . effort One hard is devoted winter to a one famil sole y in object his native by a
village gets ruined ; the mother dies of the " pellagre" a fearful malady peculiar to the district ; apparently combining consumption with the
worst kind of skin disease ; the father , broken down in body and sp wakes irit , h one angs morning himself , and to see his him wretched dangling little from daughter the bed of six -post ye . ars She old
nearly dies , too . The doctors order her plenty of meat and good wine—" they miht as well ( says Maitre Pierre ) have ordered a
g pauper Pierre sees to take her in the this _mediaeval stateinstals potion her of at pure once gold as his . " pet However , hunts ,
for her , keeps her in good , roast venison and wild boar , and Bordeaux wine bought with the surplus game . Marinette and he
are from henceforth inseparables . As she grows older some folks hint all sorts of scandal , but the pure platonism of the relation
between her and her protector is so well known in the neighborhood that she , being very pretty , has a score of suitors , * among * them a
young dandy from Bordeaux , who comes with liis two friends , " got the up " Landai like stag s fashion e peasants M , arinette to carry ives on a him most too amusing the dish wooing of walnuts after g
. , , , which is the sign of rejection , for she is over head and ears in love with Maitre Pierreindeedhere is just the mystification which must
come in somewhere ; or other , in everything French . He is deeply in love with herfuriously jealous of the provincial dandy—for
, instance—but his love is calm and prospective . Pie can wait ( and but for M . About would seemingly have waited ) until his Landes are
all drainedand the work of his life accomplished . Still , his love for Marinette , though quietis intense . Why did lie take to draining and
been tilling one and long , well hunting -sinking ? , and Just such because like his , he little whose girl , life soon had after before he
takes to herfalls ill of the " _pellagre" and hardly recovers . From that time he , vows vengeance against the " _pellagre" He will
extirpate it , or perish in tlie attempt . What causes it ? The stagcease nant water : "I , , Maitre xDoor living Pierre , bad , ordain wells , it and . " His so forth apprenticeshi . Well , these p is amu shall
_singly told . He knows nothing * of tillage , so lie determines to get
Notices Of Books. 417
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 417
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 417, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/57/
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