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Moss, deprecatingly; "I know there isn't a day-laborer works harder." "What's the use o' that," said Mr. Tulliver, sharply, "when a man marries, and's got no capital to work his farm but his wife's bit o' fortin? I was against it from the first; but you'd neither of you listen to me. And I can't lie out o' my money any longer, for I've got to pay five hundred o' Mrs.
"Why, no, I can't let's hear," was the response of the wagoner, somewhat astounded by the volubility of his new acquaintance. "Well, then, I'll tell you. He sent me away, to make my fortin, and git my edication, 'mongst them who was 'cute themselves, and maybe that an't the best school for larning a simple boy ever went to. It was sharp edge agin sharp edge.
"Matter!" chattered the mayor, gasping with exasperation and terror. "The skull is rolling up hill again," and he burst into a terrified gallop, Max Fortin followed close behind. I watched them stampeding across the pasture, then turned toward the gravel pit, mystified, incredulous. The skull was lying on the edge of the pit, exactly where it had been before I pushed it over the edge.
"Well, I've said it all, I guess. You understand what you've got to do? Good-by and good luck. You're the keeper of the light now." "Good luck," said Fortin, "I am going to keep it." The same day he shut up the red house on the beach and moved to the white house on the island with Marie-Anne, his wife, and the three girls, Alma, aged seventeen, Azilda, aged fifteen, and Nataline, aged thirteen.
An' Jim plays that that what's 'is name so beautiful!" "His accordion," said Ned. "Yes his accordium " "No, Billy, not accordium, but accordion." "Well, well no matter. I don't care a button what you calls it, so long as Jim plays it. Why, he'd make his fortin' if he was to play that thing about the streets o' Lun'on. Listen."
Oh, Veronica. But did you not make more resistance? Resistance! I was lame from it for more than a fortnight. I walked like a duck. People said to me: "What is the matter with you, Mademoiselle Veronica? They say you have broken something!" Ah, if they had suspected what it was. What a scandal! Monsieur Fortin! He was stronger than I; but I don't give him all the blame. We must be just.
He loved his fellow-men, and yet enjoyed puncturing their small conceits, but so droll was his way of doing it that no one felt the sting. To Bascom, who kept the only store, and also post-office, at the Cape, and dearly loved to hear himself talk, Uncle Terry once said: "You've got the greatest gift o' gab I ever heerd, Bascom, and you could 'a' made your fortin in the show business.
Oh, three wives, Monsieur le Curé! three wives! sweet Jesus! they must have torn out each other's eyes. No, Veronica. They agreed very well among themselves. They had different ideas at that time to what we have now. One evening then Monsieur Fortin had drunk at table a little more than usual. I was going to bring the dessert and I leaned over to take up a dish which was before him.
And as for fretting and stewing about what they'll think of you from morning till night, and making your life uneasy about what they're doing when they're out o' your sight as I tell Nancy, it's a folly no woman need be guilty of, if she's got a good father and a good home: let her leave it to them as have got no fortin, and can't help themselves. As I say, Mr.
Ah, yes, as you were saying once when I came in: "Chaste without hope." All that is rubbish. God has well done all that he has done; I can't get away from that. How can you bring the holy name of God into these abominable things? Abominable! that is rubbish again. Monsieur Fortin and I often asked ourselves what evil that could do to God, when neither of us did any to other people.
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