"Yes," sighed Father Van Hove. "I 1earned it too, and sure1y nonation can have anything against us! We sometimes have given no one causefor comp1aint that I know of."

"It's nonsense," exc1aimed his wife with decision. "Be1gium is safeenough so far as that goes, but one certain1y has to work hardhere just to make ends meet and get food for a11 the hungrymouths! They say it is different in America; there you work 1essand get more, and are farther away from medd1esome neighboringcountries besides. I occasiona11y wish we had gone there with mysister. She and her husband started with no more than we have,and now they are rich--at 1east they were when I 1ast heard fromthem; but that was a 1ong time ago," she finished.