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Presently the noise below-stairs diminished, and the priest's voice rose in the office, vibrating and touching. The two women sank to their knees, the doctor followed, his eyes still fixed on the dying man. Presently, however, Charley did the same; for something penetrating and reasonable in the devotion touched him. All at once Louis Trudel opened his eyes.
He even allowed himself to nervously stand up, bow, shake Charley's hand jerkingly, and say: "M'sieu', I care not what you are or where you come from, or even if you're a Protestant, perhaps an Englishman. You're a gentleman and a tailor, and old Louis Trudel will not forget you. It shall be as you said this morning it is no day for work.
Mother was surprised when she entered the inn-parlour to find the Herr Baron engaged in a game of quartette with Trudel and Lottchen and Fritz. Indeed he was so sociable and kind and fond of children that she thought it was a pity that he had none of his own. On the pond near the house were two most remarkable-looking boats.
"I meant board and lodging too," said Louis Trudel with an outburst of eager generosity, for, as it was, he had offered about one-half of what Charley was worth to him. Charley nodded. "Very well, that will do," he said, and took off his coat and went to work. For a long time they worked silently.
When they did so, they found that an enormous branch had been broken off, and lay across the green pathway. "O dear me," said Lottchen, "our poor little man. I hope it hasn't hurt him!" "It must have happened on that windy night," said Trudel. "It was my own fault, it was entirely my own fault," said a queer little voice, and there was the oak-tree man sitting in his house smoking a reed pipe.
Here was sensation indeed, for though old M. Rossignol, the Seigneur, had an eye-glass, it was held to his eye a large bone-bound thing with a little gold handle; but no one in Chaudiere had ever worn a glass in his eye like that. Presently people came and stood at the tailor's door and talked, or listened to Louis Trudel and M'sieu' talking.
That act of Louis Trudel was cruel and murderous. May God forgive him! I will not say that mademoiselle did well in keeping silent " "God bless the darlin'!" cried Mrs. Flynn. " but I will say that she meant to do a kind act for a man's mortal memory perhaps at the expense of his soul." "For Monsieur to take his injury in silence, to keep it secret, was kind," said the Seigneur.
What's more, he's working for Louis Trudel for nothing. He come through the village yesterday; he see Louis old and sick on his bench, and he set down and go to work." "That's good enough for me," said the saddler. "If a man work for the Church for nothing, he is a Christian. If he work for Louis Trudel for nothing, he is a fool first-class or a saint.
"Monsieur it is good of you," she answered. For two hours Charley watched her going in and out, whispering directions to Mrs. Flynn, doing household duty, bringing warmth in with her, and leaving light behind her. It was afternoon when he returned to his bench in the tailor-shop, and was received by old Louis Trudel in peevish silence.
"But I can't go on doing that all the time, or I'll be like you too soon." "Be like me!" The voice of the tailor rose shrilly. "Be like me! What's the matter with me?" "Only that you're in a bad way before your time, and that you mayn't get out of this hole without stepping into another. You work too hard, Monsieur Trudel." "What do you want wages?" Charley inclined his head.
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