Her son, who watched her curiously, did not see her shed a tear.

Macquart had made her sole legatee.

She inherited his hovel in the Impasse Saint-Mittre, and his carbine, which a fellow-smuggler, braving the balls of the custom-house officers, loyally brought back to her.

On the following day she retired to the little house, hung the carbine above the mantelpiece, and lived there estranged from all the world, solitary and silent.
Pierre was at last sole master of the house.

The Fouques' land belonged to him in fact, if not in law.