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198 A FBENCH STORY
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St. "We Augustin Have H Downwards Ad Ple...
journeyman has decamped , " : and but starts his late off landlad in pursuit y testifies of the to nep having hew . seen He
farthin him along " with with five a -franc big-whiskered piecesand friend laughin play fit ing to split " chuck at the
robbed success g of stabbed his " p and lant thrown . " A few into , weeks the Seine after g , so the th nep ey are hew rid gets of
him at , any rate . , But it is not easy to pull uphill , with a sick child and ailing wife . At last Pierre gets to be a sub-contractor
agains again ; t and the this head time contractor he is ruined under once whom more he by is a working lawsuit . got The up
cli delays ent has of the to wait law , " how till Mr it . paral Swallow yses - exertion the-oyster , how is disengaged the anxious ;"
while creatures , in the have ante to -room listen , he to and jokes the and equall laug y hter anxious from file the of office poor
where the , busy man is planning a party for next day with some friends—all this is very well told . Nor is the successfully
resisted temptation to socialism tlie least useful part of the bookPierre and another " small master" go about a job to
. one of the chief contractors in Paris . Pierre is astonished at the luxury of the house ; splendid carpets , velvet hangings _,,
gilded furniture ; "Why , it's a place fit for a prince" ( says he ) . the " Yes other , and ); he he is has a three prince other —of the houses square in Paris and trowel and a ( answers country
house besides . " Pierre feels the sight of so much , magnificence stir something bad within him : while they are waiting ( however )
• nailed in the office amidst , his companion the maps and shows handsome him a common prints on black the walls profile
" There up 's the gaffer , " says he . " What , has he played with the trowel too ? " " Yesjust like one . of us . " And then follows
the question , " How , is it he ' s up and we're down ? Why does he live in a palace and I in a pigeon house ? Why should lie
have all these fine things ? " " Because he has worked for them and fairly won them ( says a voice behind ) . Come this way , my
good altered men —the , " house adds the is to rich have contractor just as many ; " here rooms 's a but plan to to cover be
just three settle square that yards for less me , and in a to twinkling have a secon . " d " staircase Bless you h to all , boot sir the , I ;
don't know how to draw . " " Well then , go throug items overcharge of this " measurement " Nomaster , and I ' m not see up that in there accounts ' s no en error ough nor for
.., , grumble that . " till * you * know " Well someth then ing , like my as man much , don as 't I beg do ; in and to ,
know remember more , I than began as . " you did * , and * taug The ht rich _myself maa sill is that kindl I y now at
bottom ; he takes you to Pierre , puts a little work in his way ; and by and byehelps him to set up again his old mason friend who
had hopelessl , y embarrassed himself by learning , too late , to
198 A Fbench Story
198 A FBENCH STORY
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/54/
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