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What you've got to do is to take her away to a distance, and settle in some place where nobody knows what's gone by." Fauchon considered for a moment, a slight, deprecatory smile stealing over his face. "I suppose," he remarked, "she hasn't got any little purse of her own by this time; considering, I mean, that she's been of use with the lines and the nets and so on."
But Providence had not blessed their union, for not a child had been born to them, and after but three years of married life, when Fauchon, the husband, was out one day in a fishing smack, which he had just bought to carry on business for himself with men under him, the boat capsized in a sudden squall, and neither he nor the two other men were ever seen or heard of again.
As he did so, he showed himself a disfigured paralytic, one side of his face being partly drawn, and one leg crooked. He was an undersized man, with sandy hair, quick, intelligent, grey eyes, and a well-cut profile. "Jacques Fauchon," said Peter, "have no fear of me." Jacques kept his eyes on him, still distrustfully.
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