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I told him that I was an actor, that my name was Fabantou, that I had played comedy with Mamselle Mars, with Mamselle Muche, that my landlord insisted on being paid tomorrow, the 4th of February, and he didn't even notice that the 8th of January, and not the 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! And the four miserable Philippes which he has brought me! Scoundrel!
The gardienne looked me over, and evidently finding me respectable, replied with many protestations of sorrow that he was not, that he had gone with Mamselle very early that morning to his country place at Les Iles. This information I extracted with difficulty, for I was not by any means versed in the negro patois.
"Guitiote," said Reine, "lay two more places at the table. The horse belonging to these gentlemen has been taken care of, has he not?" "Yes, Mamselle, he is in the stable," replied one of the grooms. "Good! Bernard, to-morrow you will take Fleuriot with you, and go in search of their carriage which has been swamped in the Planche-au-Vacher. That is settled.
The master workman then turned to Reine, replying to her remarks in a respectful but familiar tone: "Make yourself easy, mamselle, we shall do our best and rush things in order to get through with the work.
"If Mamselle Grace like I will tell of w'en I track the fierce panther who have kill my lambs, an' what happen to me." "Oh, splendid!" cried Grace. "We should love to hear it." The glow from the big back log reflected the interested faces of the others. Jean's stories were always well received.
I say to myself, "The ground is froze; how can I cover up that skeleton without any shovel, or even a hatchet to break the earth?" But something pull, pull, so I am oblige to stop, and the dogs turn in without one word and drag the sledge up the beach of Bound Island. "What is the matter?" says Mamselle Eosalin. She is out of the sledge as soon as it stops.
'Yes. What can the silly little puss be thinking of to put an excellent fellow like that to so much pain? Going about it in such an admirable way, too, writing to old Mamselle first, and getting a letter from her which he sends with his own, and promising to guarantee her fifty pounds a year out of his own pocket. 'I should like to know what that little Jenny means by it.
With a twinkle in his eyes, he made her a little formal inclination, and she, knowing what he was thinking, answered with an old-world curtsey, after which a grinning ox-teamster of habitant extraction turned and clapped Nasmyth's shoulder approvingly. "V'la la belle chose!" he said. "Mamselle Laura is altogether ravissante. Me, I dance with no one else if she look at me like dat."
"Guitiote," said Reine, "lay two more places at the table. The horse belonging to these gentlemen has been taken care of, has he not?" "Yes, Mamselle, he is in the stable," replied one of the grooms. "Good! Bernard, to-morrow you will take Fleuriot with you, and go in search of their carriage which has been swamped in the Planche-au-Vacher. That is settled.
"'No, no, Mamselle Marie, I'll go 'long, too, for so you don' change your min', I say; an' I stan' outside her door till she pass me de whole dam' works." " Don' forget de little shoes, I say an' dat's how it come!" "And you paid three hundred dollars for it!" Necia said, aghast. The Canadian shrugged. "Only for de good heart of Marie Bourgette I pay wan t'ousan'," said he.
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