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I would understand why there should be a wee bit of envy; but I cannet see a reason for the whole intensity of what he feels. Now, can you, Lucetta? It is more like old-fashioned rivalry in love than just a bit of rivalry in trade." Lucetta had grown somewhat wan. "No," she replied. "I give him employment I cannet refuse it.
"You are a a thriving woman; and I am a struggling hay-and-corn merchant." "I am a very ambitious woman." "Ah, well, I cannet explain. I don't know how to talk to ladies, ambitious or no; and that's true," said Donald with grave regret. "I try to be civil to a' folk no more!" "I see you are as you say," replied she, sensibly getting the upper hand in these exchanges of sentiment.
The winter of 1856 she passed at Cairo. She returned to France in the spring of 1857, but her physicians forbade her to remain long in Paris. In September she moved again to the South, finding her last retreat in the villa Sardou, at Cannet, a little village in the environs of Cannes. She lingered to January 3, 1858.
"You're liberal very liberal, but no, no I cannet!" the young man still replied, with some distress in his accents. "So be it!" said Henchard conclusively. "Now to change the subject one good turn deserves another; don't stay to finish that miserable supper. Come to my house, I can find something better for 'ee than cold ham and ale."
"They are both in a very melancholy position, and that's true!" murmured Donald. "They are! For myself I don't care 'twill all end one way. But these two." Henchard paused in reverie. "I feel I should like to treat the second, no less than the first, as kindly as a man can in such a case." "Ah, well, it cannet be helped!" said the other, with philosophic woefulness.
When Jane was in the convent, she became acquainted with a young lady from Amiens, Sophia Cannet. They formed for each other a strong attachment, and commenced a correspondence which continued for many years. There was a gentleman in Amiens by the name of Roland de la Platière, born of an opulent family, and holding the quite important office of inspector of manufactures.
"Why should he do it?" added the young man bitterly; "what harm have I done him that he should try to wrong me?" "God only knows," said Joyce, lifting his eyebrows. "It shows much long-suffering in you to put up with him, and keep him in your employ." "But I cannet discharge a man who was once a good friend to me.
"But it will be long before I see one that would suit me so well!" The young man appeared much moved by Henchard's warm convictions of his value. He was silent till they reached the door. "I wish I could stay sincerely I would like to," he replied. "But no it cannet be! it cannet! I want to see the warrld."
The plebeian maiden could utter the same exclamation in accents of joyfulness. Sophia Cannet. Roland de la Platière. M. Roland. His personal appearance. Character of M. Roland. First impressions. Jane's appreciation of M. Roland. Minds and hearts. Journal of M. Roland. His notes on Italy. The light in which Jane and M. Roland regard each other. M. Roland professes his attachment. Feelings of Jane.
We have vivid pictures of the calm and sympathetic Sophie Cannet, to whom she unburdens all her hopes and aspirations and sorrows; of the lively sister Henriette, who years afterward, in the generous hope of saving her early friend, proposed to exchange clothes and take her place in the cells of Sainte-Pelagie.
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