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"When you left Mistassini he was but so high..." With a hand he indicated the stature of a child. Mother Chapdelaine's face was bright with interest; doubly pleased to receive a visitor and at the chance of talking about old times. "Nor have you altered in these seven years; not a bit; as for Maria ... surely you find a difference!" He gazed at Maria with something of wonder in his eyes.
Old Chapdelaine's voice was husky but still cheerful as he answered: "Tough! Edwige, tough! The pea-soup will soon be ready." And in truth it was not long before Maria, once more on the door-step, shaping her hands to carry the sound, sent forth the ringing call to dinner. Toward evening a breeze arose and a delicious coolness fell upon the earth like a pardon. But the sky remained cloudless.
It is only the truth to say that you were rarely suited in your wife ... Soon afterwards he rose, and, leaving the house, his face was dark with sorrow. A long silence followed, in which Samuel Chapdelaine's head nodded slowly towards his breast and it seemed as though he were falling asleep. Maria spoke quickly to him, in fear of his offending: "Father! Do not sleep!" "No! No!"
I tell you that we are going to make land." "Make land!" Rude phrase of the country, summing up in two words all the heartbreaking labour that transforms the incult woods, barren of sustenance, to smiling fields, ploughed and sown. Samuel Chapdelaine's eyes flamed with enthusiasm and determination as he spoke.
Just entered, he was telling how consumed with regret his wife was, to be kept away by an old promise to an old friend to go with her to that wonderful movie, "Les Trois Mousquetaires," when Chester came in and almost at once a general debate on Mlle. Chapdelaine's manuscript was in full coruscation.
"I thought it was just that, from what Tit'Be told me." A motion of Chapdelaine's hand eked out his words. "She strained herself lifting a bag of flour, as she says; and now she has pains everywhere. How can we tell ..."
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