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Jacques Chapeau was not slow to follow her, and Dame Rouel did not see much of either of them that evening. "Annot," said Jacques, calling to his sweetheart, who perseveringly looked straight before her, determined not to know that she was followed. "Annot, stop awhile. You are not in such a hurry, are you, to see Dame Rouel?" "Ah, M. Chapeau, is that you? in a hurry to see Dame Rouel.
"I didn't say I wouldn't speak to them, Rouel," said the father, "I am as fond of my sons as another man; and as they were resolved to disobey my commands, and to go fighting, why I'll not say but I'm glad they didn't disgrace themselves.
The two young men themselves were hardly at their ease; but they eat their breakfast, and made the best they could of it. "Smothered fire burns longest, neighbour Gobelin," said Rouel, as he left the house. "Take my word, Michael will never forgive those two boys of his the longest day he has to live."
No, neighbour Gobelin; I gave my boys a good trade, and desired them to stick to it; they have chosen instead to go for soldiers, and for soldiers they may go. They don't come into my smithy again, that's all." "You don't mean you won't speak to the lads, and after their fighting so bravely and all!" said Paul Rouel, in a voice of horror.
Then they all sat down to breakfast, and Paul Rouel and old Gobelin, who had contrived to be of the party, were greatly surprised to hear and to see how civil Michael was to his sons.
"Yes, Paul Rouel;" he said to the village innkeeper, who was an ancient crony of his, "it's very well to talk of King and Church; but if King and Church are to teach sons to fly against their fathers, we may, I think, have a little too much of them; didn't I again and again tell the boys not to go?"
Two at least of those great moments in acting that everybody remembers were furnished by Booth in this character the defiance of the masked assailant, at Rouel, and the threat of excommunication delivered upon Barradas.
"Well! people say you are very partial to young Boullin." "People lie they always do; everybody tries to tease and plague me now. You and Jean, and father, and that old fool, Rouel, are all alike," and Annot gave symptoms of hysterical tears. Jacques was again silent for awhile, but he had commenced walking very near to his companion, and she did not appear to resent it.
"Would you, minx," said the father; "it's well for you that your petticoats keep you at home." "Don't be too sure of her, Michael Stein," said Paul Rouel, the keeper of the inn; "she'll marry a soldier yet before the wars are over." "Let her do as her mother did before her, and marry an honest tradesman; that is, if she can find one to take her."
Laud, to give it him there beneath the cross, only he had gone away from her, so that she couldn't do so: and then Jacques begged pardon again and again in his own queer way; and then, having sat there by the mill-stream till the last red streak of sunlight was gone, they returned home to the village, and Annot told her father that Dame Rouel had been so very pressing, she had made them stay there to eat bread and cheese.
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