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However, as Belhomme seemed angry at their making fun of him, the priest changed the conversation and turning to Rabot's big wife, said: "You have a large family, haven't you?" "Oh, yes, Monsieur le cure and it's a pretty hard matter to bring them up!" Rabot agreed, nodding his head as though to say: "Oh, yes, it's a hard thing to bring up!" "How many children?"
I'd be all right only the colzas ain't a-goin' to give much this year, and times are so hard that they are the only things worth while raisin'." "Well, what can you expect? Times are hard." "Hub! I should say they were hard," sounded the rather virile voice of Rabot's big consort. As she was from a neighboring village, the priest only knew her by name. "Is that you, Blondel?" he said.
The change seen in the syrup brought back from M. Rabot's was not to be accounted for by such fermentation as the mere warmth of the hand could bring about. Several witnesses, interrupted by denials and explanations from the accused, testified to having heard Helene say that neither the Rabot boy nor his mother would recover.
He had seen the lighted window in the upper balcony as he passed the Castle on the way to the gate. Somehow he knew she was there saying good-bye and Godspeed to him. At four o'clock, as the sun reached up with his long, red fingers from behind the Monastery mountain, Truxton King and Hobbs rode away from Rabot's cottage high in the hills, refreshed and sound of heart.
In the slight pause Carterette made, a hundred confused torturing thoughts swam through her mind and presently floated into the succeeding sentences of the letter: "'As for me, I'm like Rabot's mare, I haven't time to laugh at my own foolishness.
"Come along, sir. We take this path here for the upper road. It's a good two hours' walk up the mountain to Rabot's, where we get the horses." All the way up the black, narrow mountain path Hobbs kept the lead. King followed, his thoughts divided between the blackness ahead and the single, steady light in a certain window now far behind.
I'd be all right only the colzas ain't a-goin' to give much this year, and times are so hard that they are the only things worth while raisin'." "Well, what can you expect? Times are hard." "Hub! I should say they were hard," sounded the rather virile voice of Rabot's big consort. As she was from a neighboring village, the priest only knew her by name. "Is that you, Blondel?" he said.
He believed the boy had been poisoned, though he could not be certain. The mother, he was convinced, had been the victim of an attempt at poisoning, an opinion which found certainty in the case of Mme Briere. If Mme Rabot's pregnancy went some way in explaining her illness there was nothing of this in the illness of her mother.
Rabot's son rode with them, a sturdy, loyal lad, who had leaped joyously at the chance to serve his Prince. Undisturbed, they rode straight for the passes below St. Valentine's. Behind and below them lay the sleeping, restless, unhappy city of Edelweiss, with closed gates and unfriendly, sullen walls. There reigned the darkest fiend that Graustark, in all her history, had ever come to know.
In the slight pause Carterette made, a hundred confused torturing thoughts swam through her mind and presently floated into the succeeding sentences of the letter: "'As for me, I'm like Rabot's mare, I haven't time to laugh at my own foolishness.
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