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Presently the owner of a river pleasure-steamer entered into the costly emulation also, but he soon fell away; and Virginie Poucette stubbornly raised the bidding by five dollars each time, till the silver symbol of the Barbilles' pride had reached one hundred dollars.
There was something very direct and childlike in Virginie Poucette. She could not pretend; she wore her heart on her sleeve. She travelled a long distance in a little while. "I've got no trouble myself," she responded. "But, yes, I have," she added. "I've got one trouble it's yours. It's that you've been having hard times the flour-mill, your cousin Auguste Charron, the lawsuits, and all the rest.
She and Virginie Poucette had a place together on the market none better than Mere Langlois except Virginie Poucette, and she was like a drink of water in the desert. . . . Well, there, I will begin. Now my father was " It was lucky there were no calls for the Young Doctor that particular early morning, else the course of Jean Jacques' life might have been greatly different from what it became.
The rest I lent money to never paid; but they paid, the dummy and the harlot that was, they paid! But they paid for the rest also! If I had refused these two because of the others, I'd not be fit to visit at Neighbourhood House where Virginie Poucette lives." He looked closely at the order she had given him again, as though to let it sink in his mind and be registered for ever.
Before she had finished speaking Jean Jacques was on his feet with his hat off. Somehow she seemed to be a part of that abstraction, that intoxication, in which he had just been drowning his accumulated anxieties. Not that Virginie Poucette was logical or philosophical, or a child of thought, for she was wholly the opposite-practical, sensuous, emotional, a child of nature and of Eve.
"It's M'sieu' Jean Jacques' flour-mill," was the reply. Wagons and buggies and carts began to take the road to the Manor Cartier; and Maitre Fille went also with the widow of Palass Poucette. Jean Jacques did not go to the house of the widow of Palass Poucette "next day" as he had proposed: and she did not expect him.
As his mind came back from the far places where it had been, and his eyes returned to the concrete world, he saw what the woman recalled to him. It was yes, it was Virginie Poucette the kind and beautiful Virginie for her goodness had made him remember her as beautiful, though indeed she was but comely, like this woman who stayed him as he walked by the river.
He had feeling, the first essential of the philosopher, but there he stayed, an undeveloped chrysalis. His look was abstracted still as he took the hand of the widow of Palass Poucette; but he spoke cheerfully. "It is a pleasure, madame, to welcome you among my friends," he said.
"I will fight it out alone!" he declared with rough emotion, and at the door he turned towards them again. He looked at them both as though he would dare them to contradict him. The restless fire of his eyes seemed to dart from one to the other. "That's the way it is," said the widow of Palass Poucette coming quickly forward to him. "It's always the way.
This very day three things had smitten Jean Jacques, and, if three, why not four or five, or fifty! With a strange fascination Jean Jacques' eyes were fastened on the glow. He clucked to his horses, and they started jerkily away. M. Fille and the widow Poucette said good-bye to him, but he did not hear, or if he heard, he did not heed.
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