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For eight days, Christiane wholly occupied herself with preparations for this _fête_. The curé, indeed, was able to find no one among his female parishioners except the Oriol girls who could be deemed worthy of collecting along with the Marquis de Ravenel's daughter; and, happy at having the opportunity of making himself prominent, he took all the necessary steps, organized everything, regulated everything, and himself invited the young girls, as if the idea had originated with him.
The inhabitants were in a state of excitement, and the gloomy bathers, finding a new topic of conversation, entertained one another at the _table d'hôte_ with various estimates as to the possible receipts from the two portions of the _fête_, the sacred and the profane.