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Updated: May 29, 2025
"There were sons and daughters of the family of Adam that had names, but there were plenty others you whistled to as you would to a four-footer, and they'd come. The Barbilles had names always names of their own back to Adam. The child is a Barbille Don't rock the cradle so fast," he suddenly added with an irritable gesture, breaking off from his argument.
"It is linked up in the chain of the history of the Barbilles. It is one with the generations of noblesse and honour and virtue. It is " "It's one with Abel the son of Adam, if it comes to that, and so am I," Norah bitingly interjected, while her eyes flashed fire, and she rocked the cradle more swiftly than was good for the child's sleep. Jean Jacques flared up.
Presently the owner of a river pleasure-steamer entered into the costly emulation also, but he soon fell away; and Virginie Poucette stubbornly raised the bidding by five dollars each time, till the silver symbol of the Barbilles' pride had reached one hundred dollars.
Why the Barbilles have ever in the past built up life on a basis of thought and action, and I have added philosophy the science of thought and act. Jean Jacques Barbille has been the man of design and the man of action also. Don Quixote was a fool, a dreamer, but Jean Jacques is no Don Quixote. He is a man who has done things, but also he is a man who has been broken on the wheel of life.
"There were sons and daughters of the family of Adam that had names, but there were plenty others you whistled to as you would to a four-footer, and they'd come. The Barbilles had names always names of their own back to Adam. The child is a Barbille Don't rock the cradle so fast," he suddenly added with an irritable gesture, breaking off from his argument.
Then, with an impulse he could not check and did not seek to check why should he? was not the child his own by every right? he went to the cradle and looked down at the tiny face on its white pillow. There could be no mistake about it; here was the face of his lost Zoe, with something, too, of Carmen, and also the forehead of the Barbilles.
With sudden inspiration, for he saw she was trying to make it easy for him, he drew the great silver-watch from his pocket, which the head of the Barbilles had worn for generations, and said: "I have the only heirloom I could carry about with me. It will keep time for me as long as I'll last. The Manor clock strikes the time for the world, and this watch is set by the Manor clock."
Well, I am alone all alone in the world, and I need her Mother of God, I need her more than I ever needed anything in my life! You have each other, but I have only myself, and it is not good company. Besides, the child is mine, a Barbille of Barbilles, une legitime a rightful child of marriage. But if it was a love-child only it would still be mine, being my daughter's child.
"I promised Jean Jacques that I would come and salute it in his name, before I did aught else, and so now I do salute it." He waved a hand and made a bow to the gold Cock of Beaugard, the pride of all the vanished Barbilles.
I owe and I will pay what I can; and what I can't pay now I will try to pay in the future, by the cent, by the dollar, till all is paid to the last copper. It is the way with the Barbilles. They have paid their way and their debts in honour, and it is in the bond with all the Barbilles of the past that I do as they do.
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