E-text prepared by Hélène de Mink, renebazin, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 38255-h.htm or 38255-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38255/pg38255-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38255/38255-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). AUTUMN GLORY * * * * * Jarrold & Sons' New Six-Shilling Fiction. By MAURUS JOKAI. _Halil the Pedlar._ (The White Rose.) By COUNT LEO TOLSTOI. _Tales From Tolstoi._ Translated from the Russian by R. NISBET BAIN, and with Biography of the Author. By the Author of "ANIMA VILIS." _Distaff._ By MARYA RODZIEWICZ. Translated from the Polish by COUNT STANISLAUS C. DE SOISSONS. By RENÉ BAZIN. _Autumn Glory._ Translated by MRS. ELLEN WAUGH. By the Author of "DUKE RODNEY'S SECRET." _Ivy Cardew._ By PERRINGTON PRIMM. By HULBERT FULLER. _God's Rebel._ By MARTHA BAKER DUNN. _Memory Street._ London: JARROLD & SONS, Publishers, 10 & 11, Warwick Lane, E.C. At the Libraries. And of all Booksellers. * * * * * [Illustration: René Bazin] AUTUMN GLORY Or The Toilers of the Field by RENÉ BAZIN Author of "A Blot of Ink," etc. Translated by Mrs. Ellen Waugh With Photogravure Portrait of the Author SANS PEUR ET SANS REPROCHE [Illustration] Authorised Edition London Jarrold & Sons All Rights Reserved 10 & 11, Warwick Lane, E.C. 1901 Translated from the French, "La Terre qui Meurt," by Mrs. Ellen Waugh. Copyright London: Jarrold & Sons CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. LA FROMENTIÈRE 7 II. THE FAMILY LUMINEAU 24 III. THE DWARF ORCHARD 48 IV. THE MICHELONNES 65 V. PLOUGHING IN SEPTEMBER 77 VI. THE APPEAL TO THE MASTER 102 VII. DRIOT'S RETURN 116 VIII. IN THE PLACE DE L'EGLISE 133 IX. THE CONSCRIPTS OF SALLERTAINE 147 X. THE UPROOTED VINEYARD 158 XI. THE DANCE AT LA SEULIÈRE 178 XII. ROUSILLE'S LOVE DREAM 196 XIII. THE AUCTION 208 XIV. DWELLERS IN TOWNS 240 XV. THE EMIGRANT 255 XVI. HER FATHER'S BIDDING 264 XVII. A FEBRUARY NIGHT 274 XVIII. SPRINGTIDE 289 AUTUMN GLORY. CHAPTER I. LA FROMENTIÈRE.