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Mere Langlois would have bought the fruit-dish also if she could have afforded to bid against Virginie Poucette; but the latter would have had the dish if it had cost her two hundred dollars.
He slowly awakened from his self-hypnotism, to hear a woman speaking to him; to see two dark eyes looking at him from under heavy black brows with bright, intent friendliness. "They said at the Manor you had come this way, so I thought I'd not have my drive for nothing, and here I am. I wanted to say something to you, M'sieu' Jean Jacques." It was the widow of Palass Poucette.
Perhaps Virginie Poucette never had shed as many tears in any whole year of her life as she did that night, not excepting the year Palass Poucette died, and left her his farm and seven horses, more or less sound, and a threshing-machine in good condition. The woman had a rare heart and there was that about Jean Jacques which made her want to help him.
He could do no good where he was, and he turned to leave the market-place; but in doing so he sought the eye of Virginie Poucette, who, however, kept her face at an angle from him, as she saw Mere Langlois sharply watching her. "Grandfather, mother and daughter, all of a piece!" said a spiteful woman, as Sebastian Dolores passed her.
The light in his eyes flamed up, died down, flamed up again, and presently it covered all his face, as he grasped what she meant. "Wonder of God, do you forget?" he asked. "I am married married still, Virginie Poucette. There is no divorce in the Catholic Church no, none at all. It is for ever and ever." "I said nothing about marriage," she said bravely, though her face suffused.
It was at this moment Jean Jacques heard a woman's voice bidding, then two women's voices. Looking up he saw that one of the women was Mere Langlois and the other was Virginie Poucette, who had made the first bid.
"You are M'sieu' Jean Jacques Barbille?" she said questioningly. "How did you know?" he asked. . . . "Is Virginie Poucette here?" "Ah, you knew me from her?" she asked. "There was something about her and you have it also and the look in the eyes, and then the lips!" he replied. Certainly they were quite wonderful, luxurious lips, and so shapely too like those of Virginie.
"Better hurry, Mere Langlois, or everybody won't hear your story before sundown. If your throat gets tired, there's Brown's Bronchial Troches " She pointed to an advertisement on the fence near by. "M. Fille's cook says they cure a rasping throat." With that shot, Virginie Poucette whipped up her horses and drove on.
"I don't see what you mean," she said helplessly, and she looked at the paper, as though it had undergone some change while it was in his hand. "That you would lend it me is worth ten times two thousand to me, Virginie Poucette," he explained. "It gives me, not a kick from behind I've not had much else lately but it holds a light in front of me. It calls me.
Saviour's after Jean Jacques made his exit. Slowly the ruined mill rose up again, and very slowly indeed the widow of Palass Poucette recovered her spirits, though she remained a widow in spite of all appeals; but M. Fille and his sister never were the same after they lost their friend.
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