Capitolo 12
the value of almost one hundred thousand frank of real estate.
But, later everything, this is not what I started to tell him--that was around
my national setups. Amelie does all for me. You come
soon in the morning, he/she builds a fire, then it goes through the field for the
milk while water is heating. Then her system my bath, finds my coffee,
it orders on the house. You purchase everything of what I have need, kitchen for me, waits on
me, the equal repair for me,--all for the magnificent sum of eight dollars a
month. It really is not as much as that, it is forty frank one mesas,
what it enters to on a dollar and eighty cents for week in Your currency.
You have on his/her farm everything in the way of vegetables of which I have need,
from potatoes to "asparagras", from tomatoes peas. You have chickens
and eggs. Bread, butter, cheese, meat come to right to the gate; then ago
the messenger of letter that not only door away him my mail but taken. The
only thing we have to go for it is the milk.
To make to seem him/it all the more primitive there is an old rickety diligence
what it works from Quincy--Huiry is really a suburb of Quincy--to Esbly
twice a day, to connect with trains for Paris with which the road of branch
doesn't connect. It has an imperial, and when you go out for seeing me,
to of the future duration, you will find a beautiful sight of the country from a
place of top. You could walk the four miles most rapid of the horse
it is almost all in slope the way,--but it calculates it is more some
you object with me. Amelie has a donkey and a small cart to drive me to
the station to Couilly when I take that line, or when I want to do a
errand or it goes to the laundress, or only to have a good time him.
If you can be equal to this for a convenient way, easy, simple for really a
elderly person to live in dignity, I desire you to be able. It is easier far
what way of living in Paris was, and to live in Paris was easier for me that the
States. I am sorry, but it am the truth.
You ask to me what I do with the long days."" My darling! they is short, and