but, this was not the change on the village, and on many a village like it. for scores of years gone by, monseigneur had squeezed it and wrung it, and had seldom graced it with his presence except for the pleasures of the chase now, found in hunting the people; now, found in hunting the beasts, for whose preservation monseigneur made edifying spaces of barbarous and barren wilderness. no. the change consisted in the appearance of strange faces of low caste, rather than in the disappearance of the high caste, chiselled, and otherwise beautified and beautifying features of monseigneur.