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AUTUMN GLORY

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    Jarrold & Sons'

    New Six-Shilling Fiction.

    By MAURUS JOKAI.

    _Halil the Pedlar._

    (The White Rose.)


    By COUNT LEO TOLSTOI.

    _Tales From Tolstoi._

    Translated from the Russian by R. NISBET
    BAIN, and with Biography of the Author.


    By the Author of "ANIMA VILIS."

    _Distaff._

    By MARYA RODZIEWICZ.

    Translated from the Polish by COUNT STANISLAUS
    C. DE SOISSONS.


    By RENE BAZIN.

    _Autumn Glory._

    Translated by MRS. ELLEN WAUGH.


    By the Author of

    "DUKE RODNEY'S SECRET."

    _Ivy Cardew._

    By PERRINGTON PRIMM.


    By HULBERT FULLER.

    _God's Rebel._


    By MARTHA BAKER DUNN.

    _Memory Street._


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[Illustration: Rene Bazin]


AUTUMN GLORY

Or

The Toilers of the Field

by

RENE BAZIN

Author of "A Blot of Ink," etc.

Translated by Mrs. Ellen Waugh

With Photogravure Portrait of the Author

SANS PEUR ET
SANS REPROCHE







[Illustration]

Authorised Edition

London
Jarrold & Sons      All Rights Reserved
10 & 11, Warwick Lane, E.C.      1901

Translated from the French, "La Terre qui Meurt,"
by Mrs. Ellen Waugh.

Copyright
London: Jarrold & Sons




CONTENTS.


    CHAPTER                                  PAGE

        I. LA FROMENTIERE                       7

       II. THE FAMILY LUMINEAU                 24

      III. THE DWARF ORCHARD                   48

       IV. THE MICHELONNES                     65

        V. PLOUGHING IN SEPTEMBER              77

       VI. THE APPEAL TO THE MASTER           102

      VII. DRIOT'S RETURN                     116

     VIII. IN THE PLACE DE L'EGLISE           133

       IX. THE CONSCRIPTS OF SALLERTAINE      147

        X. THE UPROOTED VINEYARD              158

       XI. THE DANCE AT LA SEULIERE           178

      XII. ROUSILLE'S LOVE DREAM              196

     XIII. THE AUCTION                        208

      XIV. DWELLERS IN TOWNS                  240

       XV. THE EMIGRANT                       255

      XVI. HER FATHER'S BIDDING               264

     XVII. A FEBRUARY NIGHT                   274

    XVIII. SPRINGTIDE                         289




AUTUMN GLORY.




CHAPTER I.

LA FROMENTIERE.


"Quiet! Bas-Rouge, down! Don't you know folk born and bred here?"

The dog thus addressed, a mongrel in which some twenty breeds were
mixed, with grey long-haired coat changing to auburn silky fleece
about the paws, at once left off barking at the gate, trotted along
the grassy path bordering the field, and, content at having done his
duty, sat down at the extreme edge of the line of cabbages which the
farmer was trimming. Along the same path a man was approaching, clad
in gaiters and a suit of well-worn corduroys. His pace was the even
steady gait of a man accustomed to tramp the country. The face in its
setting of black beard was drawn and pale, the eyes, accustomed to
roam the hedges and rest nowhere, bore an expression of weariness and
mistrust, the contested authority of an agent. He was the head-keeper
and steward to the Marquis de la Fromentiere