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I had seen too many men die during those five years not to imagine easily that Elzeard Bouffier was dead, _________________ (30 SPECIAL) since, at twenty, one regards men of fifty as old men with nothing left to do but die. He was not dead. Now he had only four sheep but, instead, a hundred beehives. He had got rid of the sheep because they threatened his young trees. For, he told me, the war __________________ (31 DISTURB) him not at all. He _______________________________________ (32 IMPERTURBABLY CONTINUE) to plant. The oaks of 1910 were ten years old and taller than either of us. It was an _________________ (33 IMPRESS) spectacle. I was literally ________________ (34 SPEECH) and, as he did not talk, we spent the whole day walking in __________________ (54 SILENT) through his forest. It measured 11km in ______________ (36 LONG) and 3km in its greatest ________________ (37 WIDE). When you remembered that all this had sprung from the hands and the soul of this one man, you understand that men could be as effectual as God in other realms than that of ________________ (38 DESTROY).
(Life had slowly floated into the abandoned village, once dried brook reappeared, . there were meadows, gardens, flowers, After World War Two, in June 1945, the author saw Elzeard Bouffier, who was then eighty-seven, for the last time.)
The bus put me down at Vergons. In 1913 this hamlet had three _________________ (39 INHABIT). All about them nettles were feeding upon the __________________ (40 REMAIN) of abandoned houses. Everything was changed. ..a gentle breeze ________________ (41 BLOW), laden with scents. A sound like water came from the mountains: it was the wind in the forest. Most amazing of all, I heard the actual sound of water A fountain _________________ (42 BUILD) and someone had planted a linden beside it. Hope had returned. It was now a village where one would like to live. When I reflect that one man was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is _________________ (43 ADMIRE). Elzeard Bouffier died ______________ (44 PEACE) in 1947.
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