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Would she ever have a lover like Jacques Graumont, who would look at her with such adoring eyes and slyly snatch her hand when her mother was not looking? Jeanne was full of enjoyment and capers.
If his father made a great fortune, and after all no one knew where she came from he could marry in very good families, girls in plenty had smiled on him during the past two months. Was it watching these lovers that had stirred his blood? Why should he care for this child? "Had we not better turn about?" said Jacques Graumont, glancing around.
"The prediction may have no effect." "It is to be hoped it will not," commented Monsieur Fleury. "Jacques Graumont is a nice, industrious young fellow, and not given to drink. Now there will be business enough, and he is handy and expert at boat building, while the Ganeaus are thrifty people. M. Ganeau does a good business in provisioning the traders when they go north.
The river was an equal pleasure. Pani filled her pail with plums, Jeanne her arms with flowers. The new house of Delisse Ganeau became a great source of interest. It had three rooms, which was considered quite grand for a young couple. Jacques Graumont had a bedstead, a table, and a dresser that had been his mother's, a pair of brass candlesticks and some dishes.
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