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But Monsieur Cruchot told me he bought Froidfond two years ago; that may have pinched him." Eugenie, not being able to understand the question of her father's fortune, stopped short in her calculations. "He didn't even see me, the darling!" said Nanon, coming back from her errand. "He's stretched out like a calf on his bed and crying like the Madeleine, and that's a blessing!
The mules trotted through a coconut grove and for half a mile beside the sparkling sea before Ah Cho spoke again. "I tell you I am not Ah Chow. The honourable judge did not say that my head was to go off." "Don't be afraid," said Cruchot, with the philanthropic intention of making it easier for his prisoner. "It is not difficult to die that way." He snapped his fingers. "It is quick like that.
Nobody who died that way ever came back to say." He considered this last an excruciating joke, and permitted himself to be convulsed with laughter for half a minute. Part of his mirth was assumed, but he considered it his humane duty to cheer up the Chinago. "But I tell you I am Ah Cho," the other persisted. "I don't want my head cut off." Cruchot scowled.
"If I were a good Catholic, I would have two, for then I could get absolution," he cried gaily, and laughed immoderately at his jest. The days of his visits were marked red in Emmy's calendar. "I wish I were a funny beggar, and had lots of conversation like our friend Cruchot, and could make you laugh," said Septimus one day, when the tædium vitæ lay heavy on her.
"My dear child," he said to Eugenie when the table had been cleared and the doors carefully shut, "you are now your mother's heiress, and we have a few little matters to settle between us. Isn't that so, Cruchot?" "Yes." "Is it necessary to talk of them to-day, father?" "Yes, yes, little one; I can't bear the uncertainty in which I'm placed. I think you don't want to give me pain?" "Oh! father "
Such was his visible estate; as to his other property, only two persons could give even a vague guess at its value: one was Monsieur Cruchot, a notary employed in the usurious investments of Monsieur Grandet; the other was Monsieur des Grassins, the richest banker in Saumur, in whose profits Grandet had a certain covenanted and secret share.
I'm an old hand at it," answered the former cooper. At the moment when Grandet was mending his worm-eaten staircase and whistling with all his might, in remembrance of the days of his youth, the three Cruchots knocked at the door. "Is it you, Monsieur Cruchot?" asked Nanon, peeping through the little grating. "Yes," answered the president.
Septimus was sitting with Hégisippe Cruchot outside the little café of the iron tables painted yellow where first they had consorted. "Mon ami," said he, "you are one of the phenomena that make me believe in the bon Dieu.
A little later, after Septimus had inspected her morning's work in the flat, and the night's progress in the boy's tooth, and the pretty new blouse which she had put on in his honor, and the rose in her bosom taken from the bunch he had sent to greet her arrival in the flat the night before, and after he had heard of the valorous adventure of Madame Bolivard and of a message from Hégisippe Cruchot which she had forgotten to deliver overnight, and of an announcement from Zora to the effect that she would call at Ecclefechan Mansions soon after lunch, and of many things of infinite importance, Emmy asked him what Clem Sypher had been doing, and wherein lay the particular magnificence of character to which Septimus had alluded.
Schemmer would never have cause to complain. It was a hot day. There had been a stoppage of the trades. The mules sweated, Cruchot sweated, and Ah Cho sweated. But it was Ah Cho that bore the heat with the least concern. He had toiled three years under that sun on the plantation. He beamed and beamed with such genial good nature that even Cruchot's heavy mind was stirred to wonderment.
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