Frank's property at the Rohais was let. The farm at "Les Marches" underwent a complete transformation.
For fully three months, there was such a rubbing and scrubbing, painting and papering, that everything was turned completely topsy-turvy.
Order was at last evoked, the furniture from the Rohais was brought in and the farm-house was made a model of snugness and comfort within.
Without, during those three months, nothing was heard but the noise of the carpenter's hammers and the click of the glazier's tools.
Mr. Rougeant was as completely transformed as his farm. He looked upon the whole with such an air of complacency that the neighbours remarked: "He is in his second infancy."
CHAPTER XXVIII.
A Sad End of a Mispent Life.