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Updated: May 13, 2025
They entered the village in silence. Presently, however, the sound of Maximilian Cour's violin, as they passed the bakery, set the Seigneur's tongue wagging again, and it wagged on till they came to the tailor's shop. "Good-day to you, Monsieur," he said, as they entered. "Have you a hot goose for me?" "I have, but I will not press it on you," replied Charley. "Should you so take my question eh?"
So you play the dog in the manger, and won't let other decent folk buy what they want." He wilfully distorted the other's meaning, and was delighted to see the Seigneur's fingers twitch with fury. "But since you can't buy the things you love and you seem to think you should how do you get them? Do you come by them honestly? or do you work miracles?
Fordyce met us as we drew up, handed her out with a grand seigneur's courtesy, and stood talking to me so delightfully that I quite forgot it was from Christian duty. My father corresponded with the old Rector about the state of the parish, and at last went over to Bath for a personal conference, but without much satisfaction.
SOME years had elapsed since Monsieur de Montragoux had rid himself of his sixth wife, and only a confused recollection remained in the country-side of the domestic calamities which had fallen upon this worthy seigneur's house. Nobody knew what had become of his wives, and hair-raising tales were told in the village at night; some believed them, others did not.
As it was his first work for them, it was necessary for the Cure to write down the Seigneur's measurements, as the tailor called them off, while the Seigneur did the same when the Cure was being measured. So intent were the three it might have been a conference of war.
We either marry her or do nothing in this business, sir, which, after all, were, perhaps, best left to those who have most interest in it; but if you think differently, be it yours to find the money, I will find the match: and let it be understood, that you find her a dowry which would be fitting for a seigneur's daughter; or else, without a dowry, I shall not scruple to give her to a seigneur's son.
Not unnaturally the habitant came to feel it odious and humiliating to be obliged thus to give his labour at another's order. The seigneuries too were often broken up. In Canada there is no law of primogeniture and, at a seigneur's death, the land went to daughters as well as to sons. Few of the old seigniorial families remained on their original estates.
There was a merciless hatred in the Seigneur's face, a deadly purpose in his eyes; the wild determination of a man who did not care whether he lived or died, ready to throw himself upon a hundred in his hungry rage.
"And Vaudreuil has sent bees buzzing to Versailles about Bigot and Company," added the impish satirist. Madame Duvarney responded with a look of interest, and the Seigneur's eyes steadied to his plate. All at once by that I saw the Seigneur had known of the Governor's action, and maybe had counseled with him, siding against Bigot.
The seigneur's social rank. The growth of discontent in the villages. The evils of Seigniorial Tenure. Agitation against the system. Its abolition in 1854. The last of the Nairnes. The Nairne tomb in Quebec. With the death of Thomas Nairne almost end the dramatic events in the history of the family.
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