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152 will answer for it. We return you our thanks for the bread you earn. God bless you and your labor!"

I said. "May the Lord bless you also!"

The Court resounded with thousands "God bless you, Mr. Fontaine!"

This was the end of the law proceedings, but not of the malicious feeling that had caused the prosecution. The Mayor and his party hated me all the more for having contemned them in the face of the whole town. They continued to annoy me in every possible way. They exaggerated my profits very much, they magnified them to guineas when my gain was but in pennies, and consequently I was taxed to the utmost.