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"Yes," answered Goguelat, "he was the Napoleon of our valley, barring the battles." As they reached the parsonage, Genestas saw a little group about the door; Butifer and Adrien were talking with M. Janvier, who, no doubt, had just returned from saying mass.
Here Leroy stopped to speak to Lady Merivale, who, with her sister, the Marchioness of Caine, had motored down from London to witness the race. The marchioness was a lady with a passion for bridge, and an intense admiration for Adrien Leroy. "You are quite sure your horse, that pretty creature with the long neck, is going to win?" she inquired, as he stood by her chair.
I want her, an' I'm agoin' to have her, so you'd better own up where she is." Adrien turned to the others, who were standing silent in their astonishment. "This man," said Leroy, "has a fancied grievance against me; I know nothing of where this girl is, or what has become of her." "That's false!" retorted Wilfer.
Families often present these singularities of contrast, the causes of which it might be interesting to examine; but they are mentioned here merely to explain how it was that Adrien was not likely to find a rival in his brother. Robert's affection for Laurence was that of a relation, the respect of a noble for a girl of his own caste.
In it he had begged Lord Barminster to grant him an interview on important personal business, hinting that by so doing he might avert future peril for Adrien and himself. In a very short time the man returned, with the message that Lord Barminster would see him at once; and Mr. Harker was shown into the Blue Room, in which Adrien Leroy had been arrested little more than a week before.
"This is no jest, sir," said Adrien, and he looked at Mortimer Shelton, who sat, white and bewildered, opposite to him. "I am arrested on a charge of forging Shelton's signature to a bill for ten thousand pounds." "Good Heavens!" exclaimed his friend, starting up in horror. "But it is impossible that they should think you "
The morning following the disastrous steeple-chase, Mr. Jasper Vermont ordered his car, and then sat down to write to Adrien. He told him that he regretted having to leave the Castle so suddenly, but urgent business required his presence in London, and that he would return to Barminster as soon as possible.
"Shelton," continued Adrien steadily, "has written a letter saying that the signature is a forgery." "I wrote last week, not knowing; but, of course" he laughed scornfully "it is all a mistake, which can soon be rectified. The idea of coming to you for such a thing! I hope you don't believe, my dear Adrien, that I had any hand in this monstrous accusation?"
The little Olivier, as pretty as one can be, easily secured the homage of the cavaliers. For all thanks she smiled at the gentlemen, as a well brought up woman should do. Adrien disapproved these manners, too French, in his opinion. One day he dared to say to his wife, and that before witnesses: "Because you have belonged to Madame de Montespan, do you think you have the same rights that she has?"
Here Father Adrien Greslon laboured until January 1650, and Father Leonard Garreau until the following spring. Garreau was then recalled, leaving not a missionary on the mainland in the Huron or the Petun country. The French and Indians on Isle St Joseph, though safe from attack, were really prisoners on the island.
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