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As she crossed it with her precious burden, she looked constantly and restlessly from side to side. A terrible fear was upon her, the fear of the world beyond the bayou, the morbid and insane dread she had been under since childhood. When she was at the bayou's edge she stood there, and shouted for help as if a life depended upon it: "Oh, P'tit Maitre! P'tit Maitre! Venez donc! Au secours!
In January you will have a leave of absence, and we will be together for a few wonderful weeks, and in May I shall return here. Nothing will be changed." She extended her arm to where a faint red point still showed on the unseen water. "And each night we will wait, as we have waited, side by side, the coming of our little boat, notre p'tit bateau"
"Ces dames wished rooms, they desired lodgings and board ces dames were alone?" The voice finally asked, with reticent dignity. "From Havre from Trouville, par p'tit bateau!" called out lustily our driver, as if to furnish us, gratis, with a passport to the landlady's not too effusive cordiality.
Just as, by dint of steady staring through the darkness, an indistinct form of a mattress, with a human being reclining thereon, began to be visible, another dark corner announced that this new speaker had heard of a p'tit sentier leading to the châlet, but knew neither direction nor distance.
Around the forked promontory to the east, the lights of the little packet-boat for England appeared, like the red cinder in a pipe, slipping toward the horizon. It was the signal for a lover's embrace, conceived long ago in fancy and kept in tenderness. "Madeleine," he said, touching her arm. "There it is our little boat." "Ah! le p'tit bateau with its funny red and green eyes."
The Oriental lady could not breathe a common air with the beast. The former managed a qualified triumph the "p'tit" was caged with a chair in a corner, and the episode, for the moment, dropped. Soon, however, Linda saw that the dog had wriggled out of captivity. It made a cautious progress to where the candy stood on a low stand and ran an appreciative tongue over the exposed sweet surfaces.
"I say-oh, what stout hearts some men have!" "N'est-ce pas, p'tit? So after that sort thing this sort thing is heaven. Soft warm good company, comradancow cou'age diable m-ornk!" And the glib tongue was still for some hours. In the morning Gerard was wakened by a liquid hitting his eye, and it was Denys employing the cow's udder as a squirt.
We were repeatedly called upon to coincide, at the very instant of flagellation, with the verdict pronounced against the youthful offender. "S'il est assez mechant, lui? Ah, mesdames, what do you think of one who goes forth dry, with clean sabots, that I, myself, have washed, and behold him returned, apres un tout p'tit quart d'heure, stinking with filth?
Quand elle aura quinze ans passe Il faudra la marier Avec un p'tit bonhomme Que viendra de Rome. "Hola! Patrick," I cried; "good luck to you! Is it a girl or a boy?" "SALUT! m'sieu'," he answered, jumping up and waving his pipe. "It is a girl AND a boy!" Sure enough, as I entered the door, I beheld Angelique rocking the other half of the reward of virtue in the new cradle.
"Ha," exclaimed Jean LeBlanc, "that is P'tit Vareau. I don't like him, and he shall not come in with us on this big scheme. Tomorrow night I shall discuss it with you at our friend M'sieu Henderson's place. Now, you may let him in, but not a word of anything other than about the furs." Vareau made his entrance, and there was some desultory conversation, and then all of them left the room.
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