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Updated: May 23, 2025
He was really going to reform all his slack, shiftless ways, save a large proportion of his magnificent salary yearly, and, in a very short time, return to marry Agnes Laiter. Phil Garron had been lying loose on his friends' hands for three years, and, as he had nothing to do, he naturally fell in love.
A year later the brother of Madame Villette, a well-known figure on the Paris Bourse, appeared and after a satisfactory arrangement with Garron, took the boy with him to Paris to be educated. It was hard on Julie, who adored him.
"Not a sou!" cried Julie, bringing her fist down on the greasy table, and she shot a jealous glance at the girl. Without a word, young Garron rose dejectedly, got into his goatskin coat, picked up his gun and, turning, beckoned to the girl. "Go on!" she cried; "I'll come later." "He is an infant," said she to Julie, when young Garron had closed the door behind him. "He has no courage.
"If you had your will," the girl continued, with growing emotion; "if your law were carried out as, thank God! it is not, no man's heart being hard enough to possess a pistol were to be pilloried; to possess a fowling-piece were to be whipped; to own a horse, above the value of a miserable garron, were to be robbed by the first rascal who passed!
When he had been riding a good while he thought that the garron would need a while of eating, so he came down to earth, and what should he see coming out of the heart of the western air toward him but a rider riding high, well, and right well. "All hail, my lad," said he. "Hail, king's son," said the other. "What's your news?" said the king's son. "I've got that," said the lad who came.
This startlingly new and original remark gave Hannasyde something to think over for two years; and his own vanity filled in the other twenty-four months. Hannasyde was quite different from Phil Garron, but, none the less, had several points in common with that far too lucky man.
She laughed outright as he gripped her strong arm, and opened her wanton mouth wide, showing her even, white teeth. In return for her welcome he slapped her strong waist soundly. "Allons-y what do you say to a glass, ma belle?" ventured Garron with a grin. "Eh ben! I don't say no," she laughed again, in reply.
The child rolled from his arms still screaming, and the woman who was strangling Garron into obedience now sank her knee in his back until she felt him give up. "Assez!" he grunted out when he could breathe. "Eh ben! I am like that when I don't like a thing!" she cried, savagely repeating her old words. He looked up and saw a dangerous gleam in her eyes.
Some twenty-five years ago so the curé tells me Garron worked one summer for a rich cattle dealer named Villette, on his farm some sixty kilometers back of the great marsh. Villette was one of those big, silent Normans, who spoke only when it was worth while, and was known for his brusqueness and his honesty.
"Where is Giralda?" she exclaimed. "Where is the mare?" "Ay, what have they done with the mare?" Uncle Ulick said in a tone of consternation. "Have they lamed her, I'm wondering? The garron Morty's riding is none of ours." "I begged him not to take her!" Flavia cried, anger contending with her grief.
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