4.If there was any road work done at all, it was done as an actofcharity;a little money was collected from families "wishing to gain merit in the next world", and a few narrow, skimpily paved roads were built.
6.One day the Bishop caught sight of him in the actof bestowing this charity, and said to his sister, with a smile, "There is M. Geborand purchasing paradise for a sou."