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It is little good I can get from the people who are in it now, and anything I have to give them they don't care to have. From what I hear this man seems to have shut himself up in a world of individual conceits and theories, and to live aloof at his trade of net-mending, regarded by the other islanders with respect and half-ironical sympathy.
"Why, then, with the Duvals it would be young Francois-Auguste. He keeps his old mother with his boot-making..." "And it would be Marie Lebon, she has her blind father dependent on her net-mending." "And old Mother Laferriere, whose grandchildren were left penniless... she keeps them from starvation by her wash-tub." "But Francois-Auguste is a real Republican; he belongs to the Jacobin Club."
To Sarah this very slight expression of her lover's care for her bore more weight than the most passionate protestations of affection could have done to a colder nature, for it was colored by the glowing tints of her own warm love; and when the two parted that day she carried with her a sweet, satisfying sense of being beloved by the "best man on the earth" even as she loved him; while he whistled cheerily over his net-mending, thinking "what a sweet little thing it was!"
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