CHAPTER III

Mademoiselle Pivert--I make her read the _Thousand and One Nights_, or, rather, one story in that collection--Old Hiraux, my music-master--The little worries of his life--He takes his revenge on his persecutors after the fashion of the Maréchal de Montluc--He is condemned to be flogged, and nearly loses the sight of his eyes--What happened on Easter Day in the organ-loft at the monastery--He becomes a grocer's lad--His vocation leads him to the study of music--I have little aptitude for the violin

## CHAPTER IV The dog lantern-bearer--Demoustier's epitaph--My first fencing-master--"The king drinks"--The fourth terror of my life--The tub of honey

## CHAPTER V My horror of great heights--The Abbé Conseil--My opening at the Seminary--My mother, much pressed, decides to enter me there--The horn inkstand--Cécile at the grocer's--My flight

## CHAPTER VI The Abbé Grégoire's College--The reception I got there--The fountains play to celebrate my arrival--The conspiracy against me--Bligny challenges me to single combat--I win

## CHAPTER VII The Abbé Fortier--The jealous husband and the viaticum--A pleasant visit--Victor Letellier--The pocket-pistol--I terrify the population--Tournemolle is requisitioned--He disarms me

## CHAPTER VIII A political chronology--Trouble follows trouble--The fire at the farm at None--Death of Stanislas Picot--The hiding-place for the louis d'or--The Cossacks--The haricot mutton

## CHAPTER IX The quarry--Frenchmen eat the haricot cooked for the Cossacks--The Duc de Treviso--He allows himself to be surprised--Ducoudray the hosier--Terrors

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