The brothers laughed.
"You ask too much!" they cried. "That would be like giving you $10,000."
"Oh, very well," said I. "I'll take the will for the deed."
"We'll send you our pictures autographed," said Édouard. "How will that do?"
"I shall be delighted," I replied, as I bowed myself out.
"You can use 'em to illustrate the interview with," Jean called out after me.
And so I left them. I hope their anxiety over their crops will not damage their "focal bowers," as the landlord called them, for with their voices gone I believe their farm would prove a good deal of a burden.