d of the bagpipe.

Mess Lethierry had also heard this bagpipe. By degrees he had come to
remark this persevering musician under Deruchette's window. A tender
strain, too; all the more suspicious. A nocturnal gallant was a thing
not to his taste. His wish was to marry Deruchette in his own time, when
she was willing and he was willing, purely and simply, without any
romance, or music, or anything of that sort. Irritated at it, he had at
last kept a watch, and he fancied that he had detected Gilliatt. He
passed his fingers through his beard--a sign of anger--and grumbled out,
"What has that fellow got to pipe about? He is in love with Deruchette,
that is clear. You waste your time, young man. Any one who wants
Deruchette must come to me, and not loiter about playing the flute."

An event of importance, long foreseen, occurred soon afterwards. It was
announced that the Reverend Jaquemin Herode was appointed surrogate of
the Bishop of Winchester, dean of the island, and rector of St. Peter's
Port, and that he would leave St. Sampson for St. Peter's immediately
after his successor should be installed.

It could not be long to the arrival of the new rector. He was a
gentleman of Norman extraction, Monsieur Ebenezer Caudray.

Some facts were known about the new rector, which the benevolent and
malevolent interpreted in a contrary sense. He was known to be young and
poor, but his youth was tempered with much learning, and his poverty by
good expectations. In the dialect specially invented for the subject of
riches and inheritances, death goes by the name of "expectations." He
was the nephew and heir of the aged and opulent dean of St. Asaph. At
the death of this old gentleman he would be a rich man. M. Caudray had
distinguished relations. He was almost entitled to the quality of
"Honourable." As regarded his doctrine, people judged differently. He
was an Anglican, but, according to the expression of Bishop Tillotson, a
"libertine"--that is, in reality, one who was very severe. He repudiated
all pharisaism. He was a friend rather of the Presbytery than the
Episcopacy. He dreamed of the Primitive Church of the days when even
Adam had the right to choose his Eve, and when Frumentinus, Bishop of
Hierapolis, carried off a young maiden to make her his wife, and said to
her parents, "Her will is such, and such is mine. You are no longer her
mother, and you are no longer her father. I am the Bishop of Hierapolis,
and this is my wife