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or 4 months in Autumn, who wanted a gardener for his 

 mother. I went to see him, and after a little talk, 

 about wages only, for that man who would have shot 

 me in the street, had told him to hire me with his eyes- 

 shut, closed, that I was all right. As he objected to 

 pay me what I asked, I told him I would take what 

 he used to pay, but if after one or two months he found 

 I was worth more he would pay me what I had asked. 

 At the end of the month his mother paid me what I 

 had stipulated. We had all settled about the day I 

 would leave Paris. When I began to think I had for- 

 gotten to ask him if his mother was a religious woman ? 

 What makes you ask such a question, he said. I ask 

 that because I know folks in the country are fond of 

 going to church, and I am not ! and that probably your 

 mother might require me to go. Oh, yes ! he said,, 

 she is very strict for that. All right she does what 

 suits her and I want the same privilege. Oh what a 

 fool you are; I don't care for religion, any more 

 than you do, but to please her I do it. It is all right 

 for you, she is your mother, but she is not mine ! you 

 understand ? You act hypocrisy to please her, but I 

 did not wish to do so for my own mother. Well he 

 said I find it is of no use to talk any more about it, but 

 I am sorry. Your appearance, your ways of talking 

 please me, but I see you are determined. Well, I told 

 him I am as sorry as you are, and more so, for I need 



