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If he had been a real genius, rather than a mere lively variation of the commonplace a chicken that could never burst its shell, a bird which could not quite break into song he might have made his biographer guess hard and futilely, as to what he would do after having seen his wife's arms around the neck of another man than himself a man little more than a manual labourer, while he, Jean Jacques Barbille, had come of the people of the Old Regime.
It had never occurred to him that he was ever translating the world into terms of himself, that he went on his way saying in effect, "I am coming. I am Jean Jacques Barbille. You have heard of me. You know me. Wave a hand to me, duck your head to me, crack the whip or nod when I pass. I am M'sieu' Jean Jacques, philosopher."
He had never been a Lothario. In forty years he had never had an episode with one of "the other sex," but it was not because he was impervious to the softer emotions. An intolerable shyness had ever possessed him when in the presence of women, and even small girl children had frightened him, till he had made friends with little Zoe Barbille, the daughter of Jean Jacques.
As he looked at this wayworn fugitive he knew that another, and perhaps the final crisis of his life, was come to Jean Jacques Barbille, and the human pity in him shrank from the possible end to it all. It was an old-world figure this, with the face of a peasant troubadour and the carriage of an aboriginal or an aristocrat.
It was as the master-carpenter had remarked seven years before, he was always involuntarily saying, "Here I come look at me. I am Jean Jacques Barbille!" When Zoe reached out a hand to touch his arm, and raised her face as though to kiss him good-night, Jean Jacques drew back. "Not yet, Zoe," he said. "There are some things What is all this between you and that man?... I have seen.
He had had his day at that in South America, and as Jean Jacques Barbille had said, the water was swift and deep, and the banks of the Watloon high and steep! But Jean Jacques was unconscious of everything save a debt to be collected for a woman he had loved, a compensation which must be taken in flesh and blood.
It was a foolish whim of Jean Jacques that he must have the eight thousand dollars in cash in hundred-dollar bills and not in the form of a cheque; but there was something childlike in him. When, as he thought, he had saved himself from complete ruin, he wanted to keep and gloat over the trophy of victory, and his trophy was the eight thousand dollars got from the Barbille farm.
As she reached the open doorway and the wide windows of the house which gaped with shady coolness, she heard the bell summoning the workers in the mills and on the farm yes, M. Barbille was a farmer, too for the welcome home to "M'sieu' Jean Jacques," as he was called by everyone. That the wedding had taken place far down in Gaspe and not in St.
You are a public officer, to whom the good name of your parish is dear. As all are aware, no doubt, you are the trusted ancient comrade of the daughter of the woman I speak legally Carmen Barbille nee Dolores, a name of charm to the ear. Who but you then to do it?" "There is yourself, monsieur." "Dismiss me from your mind.
There was that in the smile belonging to the old pride, which in days gone by had made him say when he looked at his domains at the Manor Cartier his houses, his mills, his store, his buildings and his lands "It is all mine. It all belongs to Jean Jacques Barbille." Suddenly, however, there came a sharp pause in the singing, and after that a cry a faint, startled cry. Then Mme.
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