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My brother and I were brought up by our uncle, the abbé Loisel -- the curé Loisel, as we called him. Our parents died when we were small, and he had taken us into his rectory and raised us.
For eighteen years he had had the parish of Join-le-Sault, not far from Yvetot. It was a small village, set in the very middle of the Norman plateau known as the pays de Caux, dotted with farms whose orchards rose up here and there amidst the fields.