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Updated: May 19, 2025
If your debt is bigger than mine, you shall have the first chance." The gas-flash came again. There was black wrath in the man's eyes. "You can tote it up for yourself, Tom-Jeff Gordon. Late yeste'day evening when me and Nan Bryerson drove to town for your Uncle Silas to marry us, she told me what I'd been mistrustin' for a month back that Vint Farley was the daddy o' her chillern.
One more instance of La Fontaine's inimitable conciseness may be given. Une servante vint; adieu, mes gens! Raton N'était pas content, ce dit-on. How admirable are the brevity and the lightness of that 'adieu, mes gens'! In three words the instantaneous vanishing of the animals is indicated with masterly precision. One can almost see their tails whisking round the corner.
But that same afternoon, after a most affectionate farewell, and many promises to return as soon as ever he had discharged his obligations, Griffith Gaunt started for the "Packhorse," to carry to Mercy Leicester, alias Vint, the money Catharine Gaunt had saved by self-denial and economy. And he went south a worse man than he came.
On vint le prévenir de l'heure
You've said it yourself, Rosa, and thought it greatly to his credit at least Vint does." "You can't imitate my father in that, at least." "I might." "How?" "You could help me, Rosa." "How?" "Would you if you could?" "That depends." "On what?" "On the girl." "Ah! she's a perfect girl, but she's very young," and Dick eyed Rosa with ineffable complacency. "That's bad."
And Startsev avoided conversation, and confined himself to eating and playing vint; and when there was a family festivity in some household and he was invited to a meal, then he sat and ate in silence, looking at his plate.
"Send for Miss Polly and I'll do my best," Vincent said, with a gulp, to conceal his joy. She appeared presently; and, as they were passing out of the door, Rosa cried, imperiously: "Oh, yes, Vint, we need ever so much honeysuckle; you know where it hangs thickest in the Owl's Glen.
Now don't you be so simple as show it to any of the womenfolk. D' ye understand?" "All right," said Carrick, knowingly. And so the boon companions for a day shook hands and parted. And Carrick took the little parcel straight to Mrs. Vint, and told her every word the pedler had said. And Mrs. Vint took the little parcel straight to Mercy, and told her what Carrick said the pedler had said.
"You have your secrets," said she; "and so now I have mine." Griffith became very uneasy. For now Mercy was often in tears, and Mrs. Vint looked daggers at him. All this was mysterious and unintelligible, and, to a guilty man, very alarming. At last he implored Mercy to speak out. He wanted to know the worst. Then Mercy did speak out. "You have deceived me," said she. "Kate is alive.
After this masterstroke of the Comic, you not only put faith in Orgon's roseate prepossession, you share it with him by comic sympathy, and can listen with no more than a tremble of the laughing muscles to the instance he gives of the sublime humanity of Tartuffe: 'Un rien presque suffit pour le scandaliser, Jusque-le, qu'il se vint l'autre jour accuser D'avoir pris une puce en faisant sa priere, Et de l'avoir tuee avec trop de colere.
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