Explore "Sons of the Soil" by Honoré De Balzac on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
One evening in the month of May, when the fine weather had come and the Parisians had returned to Les Aigues, Monsieur de Troisville, -- who had been persuaded to accompany his daughter, -- Blondet, the Abbe Brossette, the general, and the sub-prefect of Ville-aux-Fayes, who was on a visit to the chateau, were all playing either whist or chess. It was about half-past eleven o'clock when Joseph entered and told his master that the worthless poaching workman who had been dismissed wanted to see him, -- something about a bill which he said the general still owed him. "He is very drunk," added Joseph.
"Very good, I'll go and speak to him."