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It was the purpose of the savages to destroy Ville Marie and Three Rivers and Quebec, and to wipe out the French on the St Lawrence for good and all. There was at this time in Ville Marie a young soldier named Adam Daulac, or Dollard, Sieur des Ormeaux, twenty-five years old.
Mr. Stryker also said a great deal about his indifference towards les ormeaux, les rameaux, et les hameaux, affecting much more than he felt, and affirming that the only lakes he liked, were the ponds of the Tuileries, and the parks of London; the only trees, those of the Boulevards; and as for villages, he could never endure one, not even the Big Village of Washington.
A wood-cutter, whom they met within two hundred paces, pointed out the path they must take, and told them that after crossing the great meadow they had only to go, in the one case straight ahead, in the other to the left, to reach their respective destinations, which, by the way, were so near together that the houses at Fourche could be distinctly seen from the farm of Ormeaux, and vice versa.
"Look you, little Marie, I should be very glad if you would go into the house for a little while before going on to Ormeaux: you're a shrewd girl, you have always shown that you have a keen mind, and you notice everything. If you see anything that makes you think, you can quietly tell me about it." "Oh! no, Germain, I wouldn't do that!
He concealed Grise's saddle in the bushes once more, took his bag over his shoulder, and said, taking his son's hand: "Now, Marie, we'll try and finish our journey. Do you want me to take you to Ormeaux?" "We will go out of the woods together," she replied, "and when we know where we are, we will go our separate ways." Germain said nothing.
Some one had offered them bread; the girl had accepted a piece for the child, who was hungry, then she had walked away very fast with him and had gone into the woods. Germain reflected a moment, then asked if the farmer from Ormeaux had not come to Fourche. "Yes," was the reply; "he rode by on horseback a few minutes after the girl." "Did he ride after her?"
He was wounded because the girl did not ask him to escort her to Ormeaux, and he did not realize that he had made the offer in a tone that seemed to challenge a refusal.
"Not to Fourche, but to Ormeaux, where she is going to stay the rest of the year." "What!" said Mère Maurice, "are you going to part from your daughter?" "She has got to go out to service and earn something. It comes hard enough to me and to her, too, poor soul!
We couldn't make up our minds to part at midsummer; but now Martinmas is coming, and she has found a good place as shepherdess on the farms at Ormeaux. The farmer passed through here the other day on his way back from the fair. He saw my little Marie watching her three sheep on the common land. 'You don't seem very busy, my little maid, he said; 'and three sheep are hardly enough for a shepherd.
Germain, having described Grise and being convinced that it was really she, started back to get his saddle. Little Marie thereupon offered to take the child to Ormeaux, where he could come and get him after he had paid his respects at Fourche. "He isn't very clean after the night we have passed," she said.
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