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Val gathered that Sam had some notion of trying to reintroduce the growing of indigo, a crop which had been forsaken for sugar-cane at the beginning of the nineteenth century when a pest had destroyed the entire indigo crop of that year all over Louisiana. "Let's go out in the garden," suggested Ricky. "What for?" asked her brother. "To provide a free banquet for mosquitoes?
"Oh, you are different!" Isabel exclaimed. They had been using words for counters, to mean at once less and more than they said, but under his irony she penetrated to a hard material egoism, as swiftly as he had detected in her the eternal unrest of youth. "Val was right." "What saith the Gospel according to St. Val?" "That you were only a bird of passage."
I've done everything; it's the last thing I'm doin'." "It must be d d expensive. I should want more reason than that." Monsieur Prosper Profond raised his eyebrows, and puffed out a heavy lower lip. "I'm an easy-goin' man," he said. "Were you in the war?" asked Val. "Ye-es. I've done that too. I was gassed; it was a small bit unpleasant."
He loved Anne too loved her dearly; and though I don't know whether it is quite fair to Anne to let this out the probable future connection between the families was most welcome to him. Next to my father, we boys reverenced the doctor; he was our tutor, in a measure, when we were staying at Hartledon; at least, tutor to poor George and Val; they used to read with him."
But Ah didn't expec' yo' would evah see me, only the niggahs, an' I didn't care 'bout them. Ah always came when yo' were 'way or in bed." "Well, you've explained your interest in the place," Val assented, "but what about the rival? Why did he appear?" "It started in a blackmail plot. Your family have been wealthy, you know," explained LeFleur.
If it comes before Mysie or Val I will talk to them, and I mean to take this poor child alone for a little while each day in the week and try to get at her. 'There's another thing, said Gillian. 'Is she to go down with me always to Casement Cottages on Sunday afternoons when I take the class? 'To teach or to learn? ironically exclaimed Aunt Jane. 'Neither, said Gillian.
'I am sorry to hear it, said Mrs. Val, who among all her excellent acquirements, did not possess that specially excellent one of understanding repartee. 'I am very sorry to hear it, and I shall certainly speak to him the more seriously on that account. I think I have some influence over him; at any rate I ought to have.
But I must not close even this slight sketch of the central history of Val d'Aruo without requesting you, as you find time, to associate in your minds, with this first revolution, the effects of two which followed it, being indeed necessary parts of it, in the latter half of the century.
The faint, far-off chuckle of a wagon came to his ears. He turned impatiently toward the sound. Polycarp was driving up the coulee with a load of wood; already he was nearing the gate which opened into the lower field. Kent stood up, reached out, and caught Val by the hand. "Come on into the house," he said peremptorily. "Polly's coming, and you don't want him goggling and listening.
"Ay, Val the Vulture Val the Vulture I like that fellow like him for his confoundedly clever roguery; only he's a hypocrite, and doesn't set the world at defiance as I do; no, he's a cowardly, skulking hypocrite, nearly as great a one as M'Slime, but doesn't talk so much about religion as that oily gentleman." In a few moments M'Clutchy entered. "Good morrow, Val.
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