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But as she had felt the whimsical charm of De Courtenay, so now she felt the eagerness, the taut anxiety of this man, and she noticed that there was no smile on his face as she hesitated. Moreover, Marie was watching, sharp as a little hawk. "Why, M'sieu," she said, and there was a baffling note to the voice this time, "why, you wish me to have this?" "Yes, Ma'amselle," said McElroy simply.
"Hallo, Jean," he cried, "are you going to leave us?" "Not I, M'sieu Anderton," said the trapper with a grin. "I go wid you to Fort Malsun to help you look after Chigmok an' zee odders. But I zee team sold to M'sieu Stane, an' he goes to zee Engleesh Mission." "To the English Mission!"
He has a soft heart that Babiche!" "And the white bear so strange a thing!" "M'sieu', who can tell? The world is young up here. When it was all young, man and beast were good comrades, maybe." "Ah, maybe. What shall be done with Little Babiche, Pierre?" "He will never be the same again on the old trail, m'sieu'!"
His heart leaped at the sight, and the next moment he was running towards the camp. "Jean! Jean!" he cried. "Jean Bènard!" The sleeping man passed from slumber to full wakefulness with the completeness that characterizes a healthy child. "Ah, m'sieu," he said, standing upright. "Dey haf arrive?" "I do not know. But there is a dog-train a long way up the lake."
"M'sieu'," replied Jo, his face turned away, and his foot pushing a log on the fire, "you have repaid it." Charley shook his head. "I am in a conspiracy of kindness," he said. "It is all a mystery to me. For why should one expect such treatment from strangers, when, besides all, one can never make any real return, not even to pay for board and lodging!"
Some one shook me by the arm. "Oh, oh, monsieur," said the secretary, laughing, "it looks to me as if you were almost caught." But a voice, a real voice, and no longer a dream voice, greeted me with the peasant intonation: "Good morning, m'sieu. How goes it?" My dream was over.
"What do you want?" "Good-day, monsieur; I did not expect to confer with you." "M'sieu'," said Joan, with well-acted dignity, "if you prefer to confer with the captain or Mr. Bissonnette, whom I believe you know in the matter of a pail, and "
It was hard to say which was the more important person in the parish, the New Cure or M'sieu' Jean Jacques Barbille. When the Old Cure was alive Jean Jacques was a lesser light, and he accepted his degree of illumination with content.
"The detonation of bursting trees far in the wood," he began, only to be interrupted. "Non, non! not zee trees, but rifles, look dere, m'sieu, someting ees happening." It certainly seemed so. The sled which had almost reached the bluff, had swung from it again, and had turned towards the open lake.
He hurried down past the child, who called him "M'sieu Yankee," and elbowed his way through the group of soldiers who were standing about Uncle Sam. "Your timer bar's bent," one of them volunteered. Tom did not answer, but knelt and turned the grease cup, then wiped the nickel surfaces, bent and dented though they were, with a piece of cotton waste. Then he felt of his tires.
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