The three girls, Louise, Madeleine, and Marguerite, who would soon be old enough to marry, still dwelt in the happy home beside their parents, as well as the three youngest boys, Gregoire, the free lance, Nicolas, the most stubborn and determined of the brood, and Benjamin, who was of a dreamy nature.

Gregoire was anything but reasonable.

But what is all this tittle-tattle which I hear about appointments which you keep with the daughter of the Lepailleurs? Do you wish to cause us serious worry?" Gregoire quietly began to laugh.

But come, father, do you mean to say that it's a crime if we take a little pleasure in speaking to one another when we meet?" Rendered the more anxious by the fire with which Gregoire sought to defend the girl, Mathieu spoke out plainly.

" Then, as Gregoire this time without replying laughed yet more loudly, with the merry laugh of youth, his father gravely resumed: "Listen, my lad, it is not at all to my taste to play the gendarme behind my sons.

" "Yes, isn't that so, father?" interrupted Gregoire enthusiastically.

" In this fashion he continued explaining his ideas while Gregoire listened, again quite lively and taking things in a jesting way.

Then, one morning Marianne was astounded at finding Gregoire's bedroom empty.

They were the more terrified since they divined that Gregoire had not gone off alone.

Indeed, she added that she was taking Gregoire with her, and was quite big and old enough, now that she was two-and-twenty, to know what she was about.

Curiously enough, it came to pass that Gregoire, once married and installed at the mill in accordance with his wife's desire, agreed with his father-in-law far better than had been anticipated.

This resulted in particular from a certain discussion during which Lepailleur had wished to make Gregoire swear, that, after his death, he would never dispose of the moorland enclosure, hitherto kept uncultivated with peasant stubbornness, to any of his brothers or sisters of the farm.

Gregoire took no oath on the subject, but gayly declared that he was not such a fool as to despoil his wife of the best part of her inheritance, particularly as he proposed to cultivate those moors and, within two or three years' time, make them the most fertile land in the district.

There was also Gregoire, at the mill, with a big boy who had received the name of Robert; and there were also the three last married daughtersLouise, with a girl two years old; Madeleine, with a boy six months of age; and Marguerite, who in anticipation of a happy event, had decided to call her child Stanislas, if it were a boy, and Christine, if it should be a girl.

At the mill, too, Gregoire was as yet barely established, and his kingdom was so small that he could not possibly cede half of it.

The virtuous Abbé Gregoire, and several members of the National Assembly, called upon me.

The only odd rencontre we ever had with a liberty advocate was with L'Abbe Gregoire, one of the cabinet advisers of Napoleon, and to judge by his writings, a benevolent man.

At the time we did not recollect that to M. Gregoire is attributed the republican sentiment "the reign of Kings is the martyrology of nations:" his conversation proved him an enthusiast, but we think this liberty rather too strong.

by Henri Gregoire.

Francisco Ibarra & Armand Gregoire (A); 9Aug76; R640772. R640773.

By James Hadley Chase, translation: Catherine Gregoire, pseud. of Jacqueline Raffegeaud & Henri Collard, pseud. of Minnie Danzas.

Catherine Gregoire, pseud. of Jacqueline Raffegeaud & H. Collard, pseud. of Minnie Danzas (A); 7Nov77; R682924. R682925.

by Henri Gregoire.

By James Hadley Chase, translation: Catherine Gregoire, pseud. of Jacqueline Raffegeaud & Henri Collard, pseud. of Minnie Danzas.

Catherine Gregoire, pseud. of Jacqueline Raffegeaud & H. Collard, pseud. of Minnie Danzas (A); 7Nov77; R682924. R682925.