CHAPTER III

Mademoiselle Pivert--I make her read the _Thousand and One Nights_, or, rather, one story in that collection--Old Hiraux, my music-master--The little worries of his life--He takes his revenge on his persecutors after the fashion of the Maréchal de Montluc--He is condemned to be flogged, and nearly loses the sight of his eyes--What happened on Easter Day in the organ-loft at the monastery--He becomes a grocer's lad--His vocation leads him to the study of music--I have little aptitude for the violin