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I couldn't bear the thought of ever going back then; so I tramped over the hill and St. Angé adopted me. It's been a tame plot since then, but it's never been as bad as it was before. I dropped into their speech and ways, and things sank to a dead level. I got word from Hillcrest the other day." Filmer looked blankly into the red embers.
A few days after Gaston's departure Jock Filmer walked into the shack quite as easily as if months had not passed without a sight of him; he came almost daily afterward. It was like Jock to assume the new relation in this easy, companionable way. Joyce was grateful. This was but another proof of Gaston's greatness. "Everything going straight, Joyce?"
One morning, lying luxuriously back among his cushions and inhaling the pine-filled air with relish, Drew electrified Filmer, who sat near him on the porch railing, by observing calmly: "Filmer, I've a load of questions I want to ask." "Heave 'em out." Jock sighed resignedly. Of course, he had anticipated this hour, and he knew that he must be the high priest.
"That's how I got the deal so prompt, I told him I'd undertake the job without any settlement till he got here to boss the doings." "But where did you get the money, Jude?" "It's partnership, Joyce," Gaston broke in. He set down his own emptied mug, and drew a little farther from the fire's revealing light. "Lauzoon, Filmer and Gaston, Contractors and Builders. How does it sound?"
Tom Smith, with energy concentrated on this single activity of the twenty-four hours, began hurling mail-bag and boxes about with the abandon that marks the man whom Nature has fitted to his legitimate calling. Filmer eyed the passenger with disapproving interest; Murphy, after looking at some part of the machinery, lolled up to Jock. "Is that it?"
The Restoration had heralded its coming, and the tone of Halifax has more in common with Bolingbroke and Hume than with Hobbes and Filmer. Nor has the eighteenth century an historical profundity to compare with that of the zealous pamphleteers in the seventeenth.
There was some cheering as the central party came into view of the enclosures, but it was not very unanimous nor invigorating cheering. They were within fifty yards of the apparatus when Filmer took a hasty glance over his shoulder to measure the distance of the ladies behind them, and decided to make the first remark he had initiated since the house had been left.
The lumberman is going to meet her at Laval's. When she's caught safe and sure, Jock Filmer he's the go-between in all this will get that information, or the part about her going away, to Gaston; then the game's in our hands. If Gaston means business, he'll pay what we say. If he ain't sharp set as to a big figger, we've got Joyce; and by thunder! who's got a better right?
"No more was it Pa; it was that Jude what beat me most to a jelly." This was startling enough to awaken a new interest. Jude was too lazy on general principles to reduce any one to jelly unless the provocation had been great. "What divilment was you up to?" Filmer asked with a leer. "I didn't do nothing! 'Pon my soul, I didn't. I swear!" This Billy did, fervently and fluently. The children of St.
"I didn't have any inclination to take his guff myself, but I don't half like the idee, now that I've slept on it, of his coming in here as a disturbing element, so to speak. Living and minding your business, is one thing; interfering with other folks' business is another. Filmer, he told me a time back that he ain't had a comfortable spree since that young feller was here.
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