The silver fruitdish, once (it was said) the property of the Baron of Beaugard, which each generation of Barbilles had displayed with as much ceremony as though it was a chalice given by the Pope, went to Virginie Poucette.

Virginie also bought the furniture from Zoe's bedroom as it stood, together with the little upright piano on which she used to play.

The Cure bought Jean Jacques' writing-desk, and M.Fille purchased his armchair, in which had sat at least six Barbilles as owners of the Manor.

The beaver-hat which Jean Jacques wore on state occasions, as his grandfather had done, together with the bonnet rouge of the habitant, donned by him in his younger days--they fell to the nod of Mere Langlois, who declared that, as she was a cousin, she would keep the things in the family.

Mere Langlois would have bought the fruit-dish also if she could have afforded to bid against Virginie Poucette; but the latter would have had the dish if it had cost her two hundred dollars.