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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: kind, and he said to Michaud: "It pains me to see it. One must know
the importance of these measures to be able to insist upon them."
"If every land-owner followed your example, lived on his property, and
did the good that you and yours are doing, general, there would be, I
won't say no poor, for they are always with us, but no poor man who
could not live by his labor."
"The mayors of Conches, Cerneux, and Soulanges have sent us all their
paupers," said Groison, who had now looked at the certificates; "they
had no right to do so."
"No, but our people will go to their districts," said the general.
"For the time being we have done enough by preventing the gleaning
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