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"I'm sure the older boys are very industrious, and I think the girl Marcelle is strikingly attractive. You're not really forbidding Kit to go down there, I'm sure." The Dean said something that was lost in a murmur, for he had been one of the property owners vanquished in the lawsuits by the Beaubiens. After breakfast Kit went up-stairs with Miss Daphne into her own little sitting-room.
Besides, there is the Indian strain in them, and they are squatters. There have been several lawsuits against them, and they have persisted in staying there on the shore when the property owners on the bluff distinctly purchased riparian rights." "But, brother, the Beaubiens won all their suits, didn't they?" asked Miss Daphne, pleasantly.
Cub Sutton had confided to Captain Wilton that Madame Beaubien was in total ignorance of the fact that there was to be a party at the doctor's the night he had driven out with Nina and his sister, and that Nina had "pulled the wool over her mother's eyes" and made her believe she was going to spend the evening with friends in town, naming a family with whom the Beaubiens were intimate.
She hurried back, eager to ask questions about the Beaubiens, and found herself late for breakfast the very first morning she was there. The Dean's face was a study as she entered, and Miss Daphne's fingers fluttered somewhat nervously over the coffee urn, and fragile cups. Kit was out of breath, and so full of excitement that she did not even notice the air was chill.
The boys and the little youngsters seemed half-scared to death at the sight of me, and so I didn't bother to get acquainted with them yet." The Dean looked up at her over his glasses with a quizzical expression, and Miss Daphne fairly caught her breath. "The Beaubiens on the shore, my dear?" she asked. "Those half-breed French Canadians?"
"The present generation may be law-abiding, but even within my memory, the Beaubiens had a little habit of smuggling." "Smuggling?" repeated Kit, interestedly. "How could they smuggle way off here?" "Very easily. There were schooners that used to make the run down from the Canadian shore around the Straits carrying contraband goods in war time.
And there was another girl about thirteen that I saw staring at me from the kitchen, and she looked just like 'The Song of the Lark' girl where she's crossing the fields at dawn." "The Beaubiens have not a very good reputation, my dear," the Dean coughed slightly behind his hand as he spoke.
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