CHAPTER VIII.
CHRISTMAS PLANS AND AN ACCIDENT.
That night, when Marie came in to light the lamps and brush Joyce's hair before dinner, she had some news to tell.
"Brossard has been sent away from the Ciseaux place," she said.

"A new man is coming to-morrow, and my friend, Clotilde Robard, has already taken the position of housekeeper.

She says that a very different life has begun for little Monsieur Jules, and that in his fine new clothes one could never recognize the little goatherd.

He looks now like what he is, a gentleman's son.

He has the room next to monsieur's, all freshly furnished, and after New Year a tutor is coming from Paris.
"But they say that it is pitiful to see how greatly the child fears his uncle.