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But Jenieve was mistress in the house. There is no appeal from a sister who is a father to you, and even a substitute for your living mother. "You sit down first, François, and wipe your feet with this cloth." The absurdity of wiping his feet before he turned in for the night tickled François, though he was of a strongly aboriginal cast, and he let himself grin.
She had told their mother, in their presence, that she intended to buy the children some shoes when she got pay for her spinning; and they thought it meant fashions from the Fur Company's store to wear to mass, but never suspected she had set her mind on dark-looking clamps for the feet. "You must try them on," said Jenieve, and they all stepped experimentally from the water, reluctant to submit.
"You never have been young," complained Mama Lalotte. "You don't know how a young person feels. "I let you go to the dances," argued Jenieve. "You have as good a time as any woman on the island. But old Michel Pensonneau," she added sternly, "is not settling down to smoke his pipe for the remainder of his life on this doorstep." "Monsieur Pensonneau is not old."
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