What the Judge said made a deep impression; but he had determined to drink the cup of his misfortune to the dregs.

He was set upon complete renunciation; on going forth like a pilgrim from the place of his troubles and sorrows, taking no gifts, no mercies save those which heaven accorded him.
When the day of the auction came everything went.

Even his best suit of clothes was sold to a blacksmith, while his fur-coat was bought by a horse-doctor for fifteen dollars.

Things that had been part of his life for a generation found their way into hands where he would least have wished them to go--of those who had been envious of him, who had cheated or deceived him, of people with whom he had had nothing in common.

The red wagon and the pair of little longtailed stallions, which he had driven for six years, were bought by the owner of a rival flour-mill in the parish of Vilray; but his best sleigh, with its coon-skin robes, was bought by the widow of Palass Poucette, who bought also the famous bearskin which Dolores had given her at Jean Jacques' expense, and had been returned by her to its proper owner.