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As for the Church, that is another matter. But but see," he added addressing Louis Charron, "does the station-master say what place they took tickets for?" "Montreal and Winnipeg," was the reply. "Here it is in the telegram. Winnipeg that's as English as London." "Winnipeg a thousand miles!" moaned Jean Jacques.
He shaved through this financial crisis, in spite of the blow he had received by the loss of his lawsuits, the flitting of his cousin, Auguste Charron, and the farm debts of this same cousin. It all meant a series of manipulations made possible by the apparent confidence reposed in him by M. Mornay.
In all the folly about Charron with which he tormented me in the three days we were together, I found by bitter experience the truth of the Italian proverb: 'Guardati da colui che non ha letto che un libro solo'. By reading the work of the misguided priest he had become an Atheist, and of this he made his boast all the day long.
Thinking of these things, and believing that his own preparations would soon be finished, he left Widow Shanks to proclaim his merits, while under the bold and able conduct of Captain Renaud Charron he ran the gauntlet of the English fleet, and was put ashore southward of Cape Grisnez.
The President could never keep out of the kitchen, from which he returned with most assuring reports: "Cette fois ca y est, mes amis," he would jubilantly exclaim, rubbing his hands, and even "Papa Charron" himself bearing in the first dish, his face scorched scarlet from his cooking-stove, would confidently aver that "MM. les juges seront contents aujourd'hui."
So far as I know, Charron, a friend of Montaigne, was one of the first to say a good word for man's animal nature, and a hundred years later the amiable Shaftesbury pointed out some honestly gentlemanly traits in the species. To the modern student of biology and anthropology man is neither good nor bad.
Which of them has the distinguished honour of winning the regard of Captain Charron?" "If there are two, it is so much more better. If I succeed not with one, I will try with the other. But the one who has made me captive for the present is the lady with the dark hair done up like this."
It was then I found out how good a thing it is to be able to read, for this book, which you, sir, may not have read, contains all that a man need know purging him of all the prejudices of his childhood. With Charron good-bye to hell and all the empty terrors of a future life; one's eyes are opened, one knows the way to bliss, one becomes wise indeed.
The hand will be held up at my signal, and that I shall trust you to convey to-night, as soon as I have settled certain matters. Where is that sullen young Tugwell? What have you done with him?" "Wonderfully clever is your new device, my friend," Charron replied, after a long pull at the bottle.
Renaud Charron, who considered himself as all Frenchmen did then, and perhaps do now far swifter of intellect than any Englishman, found himself not well pleased at this, and desired to know more about it. "Nothing can be simpler," the Englishman replied; "and therefore nothing surer.
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