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Le Moyne of the whole tract; and as you hold by inheritance from one who purported to convey the fee, the title will thereafter be estopped, and all rights held under the deeds of 'Black Jim' Richards will be confirmed." "Well, what else?" asked Mrs. Le Moyne breathlessly, as he paused. "There is nothing more." "Nothing more!
If Hesden Le Moyne had come then, she would have given her life into his keeping forever after, without the reservation of a thought. That he did not come only showed that he was not her ideal, not the one she had loved, but only the dim likeness of that one. It was so much the worse for Mr. Hesden Le Moyne, but none the worse for Mollie Ainslie.
Do you remember when we stopped those Dutchmen on the Richelieu, and you " The priest interrupted with a laugh. "But, my dear Iberville " "It was 'Pierre' a minute gone; 'twill be 'Monsieur Pierre le Moyne of Iberville' next," the other said in mock reproach, as he went to the fire. "No, no; I merely " "I understand.
I found him later on roaming about among the cucumber frames in a desolate corner of the garden. A man who was digging potatoes directed me to that curious retreat. "It's all right, Moyne," I said. "We've got the whole thing settled most satisfactorily. You needn't be afraid of any disagreeable public scandal." "Thank God!" said Moyne, fervently. "How did you manage it?"
This was the situation of affairs in the good County of Horsford when, one bright morning in December the morning of "that day whereon our Saviour's birth is celebrate" Hesden Le Moyne rode to the depot nearest to his home, purchased two tickets to a Northern city, and, when the morning train came in, assisted his "boy" Charles to lift from a covered wagon which stood near by, the weak and pallid form of the long-lost "nigger preacher," Eliab Hill, and place him upon the train.
"Poor little fellow! It is pitiable to know that I can do nothing for him." "I will do what I can, Mrs. Le Moyne." "But you must not expose yourself in caring for a strange child, my dear. It will not do to be too unselfish." "I cannot leave him, Mrs. Le Moyne." She left the room quickly and returned to her place at the sufferer's bedside. Hesden Le Moyne rose as she approached.
But the real K. Le Moyne that had dreamed dreams, had nothing to do with the figures, but sat somewhere in his head and mocked him as he worked at his task. "Time's going by, and here you are!" mocked the real person who was, of course, not K. Le Moyne at all. "You're the hell of a lot of use, aren't you? Two and two are four and three are seven take off the discount. That's right.
Some of these knew them and nodded, while some did not, and stared. Turning a corner into the town's chief street, where stood the hotel, the bank, the drug store, the general store, and the seven saloons, they were hailed heartily. Here were three friends, Honey Wiggin, Scipio Le Moyne, and Lin McLean, all desirous of drinking the Virginian's health, if his lady would she mind?
McKee's to put it under his plate: DEAR MR. LE MOYNE, I am so excited I can hardly write. Dr. Wilson, the surgeon, is going to take me through the hospital this afternoon. Wish me luck. K. read it, and, perhaps because the day was hot and his butter soft and the other "mealers" irritable with the heat, he ate little or no luncheon. Before he went out into the sun, he read the note again.
Such a pity she is not one of our people. She would be just adorable then. Don't you think so, Hesden?" she said aloud as her son entered. Having been informed of the subject of her cogitations, Mr. Hesden Le Moyne replied, somewhat absently and irrelevantly, as she thought, yet very warmly, "Miss Ainslie is a very remarkable woman."
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