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She had spoken with a hurry of low-toned words that left me no opening, and now she turned away before my tongue was ready to serve my mind. She bowed us to the door, and the rush mat fell between us. I watched the old chief stalk away and wondered what was in his mind. "Is this the first white woman he has seen?" I asked the priest. Father Nouvel smiled reflectively at the retreating back.
Mademoiselle, I cannot stand it. I must let the men know that you are a woman. And then I must marry you when we reach Father Nouvel." She rose. "Monsieur, you must send me back to Montreal." I kept my seat. "Mademoiselle, I have your word," I reminded. "You agreed to listen." I had meant to plead, not to rebuke, and I regretted that she flushed.
Sous l'auréole d'or des galons du képi.... Nous allons préparer aux faucilles des gerbes, Puisqu'où tombe un soldat pousse un nouvel épi." The poet, shortly before he fell, wrote to a friend "Nous travaillerons mieux après la victoire, ce que nous ferons ayant été mûri par la fatigue et les angoisses. La vie est bonne et belle et la guerre est une chose bien amusante."
"Who calls Father Nouvel?" he demanded in a mellow voice, rich in intonations. "What, an Indian woman, monsieur! Who are you? What means this?" I led the woman forward. "Father Nouvel, this is Mademoiselle Starling, an Englishwoman who was captured by the Indians. We have traveled fast and far to find you. Can you marry us at once?" It was badly done.
On pretend qu'un fermier general voulant s'eviter l'ennui ou s'epargner les frais des lettres dont on l'accabloit au nouvel an, ecrivoit au mois de Decembre a tous les employes de son departement qu'il les dispensoit du ceremonial, et que ceux-ci lui reponderoient pour l'assurer qu'ils se conformeroient a ses ordres.
As yet I had not said good-morning to her, although I had seen her from the distance, and knew that she had breakfasted and had talked with Father Nouvel. She was sitting now under a beech tree on the headland, and when I bent before her she shook her head. "It is not real," she said, with a look over water and forest. "It is all a dream."
"I remembered that you were in Paris three years ago," she explained, "and that our king yes, our king, Father Nouvel, although a king in exile talked sometimes with you. There was often one of your order at the meetings at Meudon." The father looked at her. "I could almost think that age and loneliness have undone my mind," he said slowly. "You talk of kings and courtiers. Who are you?"
They said that a small company of Sacs was encamped to the north, and that Father Nouvel was with them. So after a few days I went on. A waft of fetid air on a hot day will bring the smell of that Sac camp to me even now.
"I understand that, Father Nouvel." The wedding feast followed. Madame de Montlivet, the priest, Onanguissé, and I sat in a semicircle on the ground, and slaves served us with wooden trenchers of food.
"The answer has lost pith and meaning. Yes, mademoiselle, next year will indeed be too late." She put her hands before her eyes. "Then I will change my answer. Monsieur, I will marry you when we reach Father Nouvel." But I would not reply. I walked to the beach where there were dark and stars. I ground my heel into the pebbles, and I did not hear her moccasined step behind me.
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