And this is the story of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, as it is given on the stained-glass window of a church in my birthplace.
A SIMPLE SOUL
CHAPTER I
FÉLICITÉ
For half a century the housewives of Pont-l’Evêque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Félicité.
For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faithful to her mistress—although the latter was by no means an agreeable person.