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IFor fifty years the ladies of Pont-l’Évêque envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicity.For a hundred francs a year she cooked, and cleaned, sewed, washed, ironed, could harness a horse, fatten up poultry, churn butter; and she remained loyal to her mistress who, all the same, was not an agreeable person.Madame Aubain had married a fine young fellow without a fortune, ...