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And he ate in silence with the obstinacy of a miser who hides his coppers, with the same gloomy persistence with which he formerly performed his daily labors. But all of a sudden he noticed at the end of the table Celeste's child on a woman's lap, and his eye remained fixed on the little boy.
Thereupon Cesaire began to enumerate his reasons, to speak about Celeste's good qualities, to prove that she would be worth a thousand times what the child would cost. But the old man doubted these advantages, while he could have no doubts as to the child's existence; and he replied with emphatic repetition, without giving any further explanation: "I will not have it! I will not have it!
So she accepted the invitation, and then came to plead with her daughter for Celeste's sake, and for the sake of all her family, so that the world might see that she was not crushed by misfortune! There were reasons why the invitation was a difficult one to decline. Mrs.
But Celeste's mind began to be occupied by graver anxieties. The farm needed a man to look after it and cultivate it. Somebody should be there always to go through the fields, not a mere hired laborer, but a regular farmer, a master who understood the business and would take an interest in the farm.
After casting into the minds of the two persons on whom Celeste's fate chiefly depended, an interest and curiosity that were almost feverish, Theodose pretended to be a very busy man; for five or six days he was out of the house from morning till night, in order not to meet Flavie until the time when her interest should increase to the point of overstepping conventionality, and also in order to force the handsome Thuillier to come and fetch him.
Thereupon Cesaire began to enumerate his reasons, to speak about Celeste's good qualities, to prove that she would be worth a thousand times what the child would cost. But the old man doubted these advantages, while he could have no doubts as to the child's existence; and he replied with emphatic repetition, without giving any further explanation: "I will not have it! I will not have it!
Celeste remained at the piano, but Nora turned as if to move away. "No, no!" cried the padre, his palms extended in protest. "If you stop the music I shall leave instantly." "But we are all through, Padre," replied Nora, pinching Celeste's arm, which action the latter readily understood as a command to leave the piano. Celeste, however, had a perverse streak in her to-day.
Then, like a hurricane, she rushed into Madame Thuillier's chamber; the latter was pale and trembling. "What's this you have told monsieur? that you give nothing to Celeste's 'dot'?" "Yes," said the slave, declaring insurrection, although in a shaking voice; "my intention is to do nothing." "Your intention," said Brigitte, scarlet with anger, "is something new."
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