Lecacheur

The curé, who had been consulted by Madame Lecacheur, responded:

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Then, turning toward the landlady, I said: ` Madame Lecacheur, it will not be long now before I shall have to take my leave of you. '

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` ` Madame Lecacheur, hostile by instinct to everything that was not rustic, felt in her narrow soul a kind of hatred for the ecstatic extravagances of the old girl.

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Then Madame Lecacheur came to them, and very quietly, with all a peasant's cunning, questioned the brigadier in her turn.

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Madame Lecacheur, who was seized by a fresh access of rage, of rage increased by a married woman's anger against debauchery, exclaimed:

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And Lecacheur replied, with a look of Normandy slyness in his eyes:

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Lecacheur made them sit down, and told them the affair, and then they went and saw the scene of the theft, in order to verify the fact that the hutch had been broken open, and to collect all the proofs they could.

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Lecacheur, anxious to examine the thing for herself, went and looked down the hole.

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This Polyte was a laborer, who had been employed on the farm for a few days, and who had been dismissed by Lecacheur for an insolent answer.

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A week later, as the affair had made much stir, Lecacheur, on going into the mairie to consult the schoolmaster, was told that the shepherd

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