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III
Germain, the Skilled Husbandman
"YES, I have somebody in mind," replied Father Maurice. "It is a Leonard, the widow of a Guerin. She lives at Fourche."
"I know neither the woman nor the place," answered Germain, resigned, but growing more and more melancholy.
"Her name is Catherine, like your dead wife's."
"Catherine? Yes, I shall be glad to have to pronounce that name, Catherine; and yet if I cannot love one as much as the other, it will pain me all the more. It will bring her to my mind more often."
"I tell you, you will love her. She is a good soul, a woman with a warm heart. I have not seen her for a long time. She was not an ugly girl then. But she is no longer young. She is thirty-two. She comes of a good family, honest people all of them, and for property she has eight or ten thousand
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