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He had no right to say such things or do what he did." "It's always good to see him licked," said Bernel with gusto. "Nance and I used to try, but he was too big for us." Mrs. Hamon had gone in with a white face to explain things to Grannie. She came back presently and said briefly to Gard, "She wants you," and he went in to the old lady. "You did well, Stephen Gard," she chirped.
See "Vies de S. F. de Sales." by his nephew, Charles Auguste de Sales and Hamon. The gentleness of his disposition made Blessed Francis averse to disputing, either in private or public, in matters of religion. Rather, he loved to hold informal and kindly conferences with any who had wandered from the right way; and by this means he brought back countless souls into the Catholic Church.
It is much more necessary that we should recognize that, amid all his falsifications, doctrinal and jocular, he has a genuine comic sense of character. "Most French critics," M. Hamon tells us ... "declare that Bernard Shaw does depict characters.
From where he stood he could look right in through the open door, and could hear their voices Nance and Bernel and Mrs. Hamon the interlopers, the schemers, the stealers of his rights. The shaft of light was eclipsed suddenly as Nance came out and tripped across the yard on some household duty. He remembered how he used to terrify her by springing out of the darkness at her.
They streamed out along the cliff and huddled there, struck chill with fright in spite of the blazing sun. For there, under the cliff, in the same spot as they found Tom Hamon, lay another dark, huddled figure, and they knew it must be Peter. The finding of Tom had filled them with anger against Gard. The finding of Peter filled them with fear.
Your money and mine take more than half of what he gets. If you'll put yours to mine I'll make up the difference from what I've saved, and we'll retraite the farm, and it shall go to Nance and Bernel when the time comes." "I can't help thinking it's rather hard on Tom," suggested Mrs. Hamon, with less vigour than before.
"Dear me, no. Grannie hears everything," said Mrs. Hamon, with a smile at thought of all the old lady would have to say presently. "Nom d'un nom, then why doesn't she speak? Is it dumb she is?" "Neither deaf nor dumb nor yet a fool," rapped Grannie, so sharply that the visitor jumped.
Some comfort I found in thought of Aunt Jeanne, in whose wisdom I had much faith; and in George Hamon, who knew my hopes and hated Torode; and in my mother and my grandfather and Krok, who would render my love every help she might ask, but were not so much in the way of it as the others.
And there my mother fell gratefully on Carette and me, as though she had feared she might never see either of us again, and I was well pleased to see the tender feeling that lay between these two who were dearest to me in all the world. "Wherever George Hamon puts you you will be safe," said my mother, at which Uncle George's face shone happily, "and I hope it will not be for long."
So presently they were hurrying back along the dark road. As they turned the corner by Vauroque an open doer cast a great shaft of light across the darkness, and there, just as on a previous occasion, on the wall lounged half-a-dozen men, and among them was Tom Hamon, who had come up to have a drink with his friend Peter.
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