Chapter 19: Chapter 19

IV Details Concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle Baptistine’s letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious minuteness. … This man paid no attention to anyone. He ate with the voracity of a starving man. However, after supper he said: “Monsieur le Curé of the good …