15/38 Religion is religion: submit, resign yourself, and that will quiet you better than my drugs. By degrees the girl will get accustomed to living under the same roof with me. That abominable old woman tells her mistress Max would have led her a hard life; and declares she overheard him say that if, after the old man's death, he was obliged to marry Flore, he didn't mean to have his prospects ruined by it, and he should find a way to get rid of her. My uncle, by old Hochon's advice, has destroyed his will. |