The news of the legacy told to some of the loiterers of the Ecfavian public had pre ceded the old couple on their return ; to the Rue Mouffetard.. The quarter was on the tiptoe of excitement. A sudden regard for Pere Perrault had developed ' itself in the community. Mere Perrault noted how the old man was treated with a respect he had never experienced before. The gargotte of Pere Michel was the resort of chiffoniers oh holiday occasions. Thither Pere Perriault went at the invitation of his friends, to talk over the big question how to spend 3000 francs. It was felt due to the community to consider the question as one of public in terest, to be properly discussed only before a table on which stood brandy and petit vin bleu. The Mouffetardians are a silent race for one of Gallic origin, but they can come out volubly on occasions, with speech literally strewn 'with sapristis and other ex pletives, to whiph the rumble of R,s gives a distant semblance to the mutter of artillery.
