 133  After a while, however, everything came to light. One day I found out that my eldest boy and Vivette had fallen in love with each other. So I went up to the mill to say a word to the grandfather. Ah! You should have seen how he received me! It was impossible for me to get him to open his door. I explained my reasons through the keyhole. The old man didn’t give me time to finish, but shouted that if I was in such a hurry to get my boy married, I could go and look for a girl at the steam mill. The blood went to my head when I heard such rough talk. I returned to inform the children of my treatment. They decided to speak to the grandfather themselves. When they reached the mill, Master Cornille had gone out. The door was locked, but the old fellow had left his ladder outside. Suddenly it occurred to the children to go in by the window. The main room of the mill was empty. Not a sack, not a particle of grain, not the slightest trace of the silver which had been spoken a lot about, not the slightest trace of flour on the walls or on the spider webs. The lower room had the same look of poverty and neglect: a few rags, a crust of bread, and in a corner three sacks, which had burst, with rubbish and plaster sticking out. That was Master Comille’s secret! It was that plaster that he paraded at night on the roads, to save the honor of the mill and to make people think that he made flour there. Poor mill! Poor Cor-nille! Long ago the steam millers had robbed him of his last customer. The sails still turned, but the mill ground nothing. According to the narrator, the province used to be famous for A15 A16 A17 1) rich harvests of grain. 2) large territories of pine woods. 3) a large number of windmills. 4) a great number of little donkeys. When a steam mill was set up on the road to Tarascon 1) the farmers felt resentful and angry. 2) the windmills were pulled down. 3) the local millers refused to work for its owner. 4) the people’s lifestyle became less enjoyable. Vivette worked on farms because 1) she had to provide for herself. 2) she had no wish to live with her grandfather. 133 |
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