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M. Fille could hardly bear to see him in this mood, and the New Cure hovered round him with a mournful and harmlessly deceptive kindness. But the end had to come, and practically all the parish was present when it came. That was on the day when the contents of the Manor were sold at auction by order of the Court.
He believes those who flatter him, who impose on his good heart. It has always been so." "I judge it is so still in the case of Monsieur Dolores, his daughter's grandfather?" the Big Financier asked quizzically. "It is so, monsieur," replied M. Fille.
You get us between the upper and the nether mill stones. You are cosmopolitan; M. Jean Jacques Barbille is a provincial; and you, because he has soul enough to forget business for a moment and to speak of things that matter more than money and business, you grind him into powder." M. Mornay shook his head and lighted his cigar again. "There you are wrong, Maitre Fille.
"I will grant you absolution, and award you no worse penance than an embrace, ma fille cherie," said the abbé, who had returned to the veranda just in time to overhear Angela's confession. "I rejoice in your happiness, mignonne. To-day you make two men happy your lover and myself. You have lightened my mind of the cares which threatened to darken my closing days.
"I never saw anything so yellow as you in my life except Lady Minturn's wig. I believe you're dyed!" The note, written in a peculiarly dashing hand on thick mauve paper, was short: "Ma Fille," it ran, "good morning to you the first of many happy ones with us. Yellow Dog Papillon brings this to you. He is an angel dog, and loves you already, as does your Victor Joyselle, "Beau-Papa."
To your high American standards of chivalry, it may seem brutal to take advantage of a woman in this way, but it had to be done. Moreover, these women are absolutely conscienceless themselves. "Grand Dieu! Who are you?" "That does not concern you ma fille, I know that and a good deal more. Austria would be very glad to know where you are. Shall I tell them?" She had recovered to an extent.
But it was quite dark by this time, the air was as black as a northwest gale, and I was 'aweary for all my wings, so forgetting Dick Whittington fille, and only remembering the good female Samaritan who had asked me to stay with her, I made a dart for Victoria Street and jumped into the first 'bus that came along, just as the hotels and the clubs and the great buildings were putting' out the Prince of Wales's feathers as sign and symbol of the usual rejoicings within.
He has had his warnings generally from my lawyers, but what he wants most is the gentle hand to lead him; and I should think that yours, M. Fille, is the hand the Almighty would choose if He was concerned with what happens at St. Saviour's and wanted an agent." The Clerk of the Court blushed greatly.
Monsieur Masson, is it not so?" he added, turning to the master-carpenter. More flushed and agitated than when he had faced Jean Jacques in the flume, the master- carpenter said: "If she wants a few words-of farewell alone with me, she must have it, M'sieu' Fille. The other room eh?
Here he was soon engaged in comment on the master-miller and philosopher. "He has had much trouble, and no doubt his affairs have suffered," remarked M. Fille cautiously, when the ice had been broken and the Big Financier had referred casually to the difficulties among which Jean Jacques was trying to maintain equilibrium; "but he is a man who can do things too hard for other men."
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