Of course the price was a little higher than the agricultural rate. Sixty thousand francs. He raised a finger. It was not the fact that he had been out-bargained that made him plot his revenge. It was the way in which it had been done.
Arrogance is a dangerous failing.
When it is coupled with ignorance, it can be fatal. It sounded as though Monsieur Verger was a philosopher. Maybe he had learned to be one. In France there is a university qualification in refuse collection and doubtless another in the disposal of effluent. So Mr Verger may well have spent several years pondering on the enigma of man's higher nature in order to become qualified to dig holes to cater for his baser one.