De Maupassant introduces Maitre Malandain in the following paragraph excerpt: Maitre Hauchecorne, economical as are all true Normans, reflected that everything was worth picking up which could be of any use, and he stooped down, but painfully, because he suffered from rheumatism. He took the bit of thin string from the ground and was carefully preparing to roll it up when he saw Maitre Malandain, the harness maker, on his doorstep staring at him. They had once had a quarrel about a halter, and they had borne each other malice ever since. Maitre Hauchecorne was overcome with a sort of shame at being seen by his enemy picking up a bit of string in the road. He quickly hid it beneath his blouse and then slipped it into his breeches, pocket, then pretended to be still looking for something on the ground which he did not discover and finally went off toward the market-place, his head bent forward and his body almost doubled in two by rheumatic pains. How are we supposed to regard Maitre Malandain based on the above excerpt? We are supposed to distrust Maitre Hauchecorne's enemy view of Maitre Malandain. We are also supposed to view Maitre Malandain as an enemy. We are supposed to view Maitre Malandain as an innocent character. We are supposed to ignore how we feel and wait until we know more about the character.