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Yet I do not forget him. The whole Illinois Territory will remember him. But Reece Zhone himself would not blame me, when I am bringing you home to my house, for hinting that I hope to keep you there." "To keep me there, monsieur the colonel! No, I am not to be married in a hurry." "But I made my proposals months ago, Angélique. The children and I have long had our secrets about bringing you home.
And Father Olivier is too sensible an old fellow to object to setting you in the car of my ambition." They stood in silence. "Good-night, Monsieur Zhone," said Angélique. "Don't wait." "But I shall wait," said Rice. He had bowed and turned away to the currant hedge, and Angélique was entering her father's lawn, when he came back impetuously.
What would my father and Colonel Menard say, if they found Monsieur Reece Zhone killed in our house?" In her panic Angélique tore the vest wide, and found the great stain over the place where the heart should be. She was kneeling, and she turned back to Peggy, who stood behind her.
"Oh, Peggy, I wish Monsieur Reece Zhone could but hear what you say. Do teach me some of your clever ridicule. It must be that I take suitors too seriously." "Thank you," said Peggy dryly, "I need it all for my second-hand lot. He is the worst fool of any of them." "Take care, Peggy, you rouse me. Why is a man a fool for loving me?" "He said he loved you, then?"
But my tante-gra'mère is so old; please forgive her. My mother and the children are quite ready. I wish poor Mademoiselle Zhone were with you, too." "I will fetch Mademoiselle Zhone out of her house before madame and the children get in," said Pierre Menard promptly. "As for the delay, it is nothing, mademoiselle; we must get you all to land as we can." "Monsieur, will it not be dangerous?
Jean Lozier is such an obliging creature he will do anything I ask him." "But, Odile," argued the boy, with some sense of equity, "she is not yet engaged to our family." "And how shall we get her engaged to us if Monsieur Reece Zhone must hang around her? Papa says he is the most promising young man in the Territory. If I were a boy, Pierre Menard, I would do something with him."
"Will it grow the better for that?" asked the puzzled French girl. "We don't want it to grow, you goose. We want to try our fortunes." "It was Peggy Morrison's plan," spoke out Clarice Vigo. "It's an old English custom," declared Peggy, "as old as burning brushwood." "Would you like to observe this old English custom, Mademoiselle Zhone?" questioned Angélique. "Yes, let us hurry on."
It must be as her tante-gra'mère said, that girls had too much liberty in the Territory. Jules Vigo and Billy Edgar had both proposed in one day, and Angélique hid herself in the loom-house, feeling peculiarly humbled and ashamed to face the family, until her godmother had her almost forcibly brought back to the usual post. "I love you," said Rice Jones. "But please, no, Monsieur Zhone, no."
"I do not think Monsieur Reece Zhone is for me," said Angélique, with intuitive avoidance of Colonel Menard's name; Peggy cared nothing for the fate of Colonel Menard. "Indeed, I believe his mind dwells more on his sister now than on any one else." "I hate people's relations!" cried Peggy brutally; "especially their sick relations. I couldn't run every evening to pet Maria Jones and feed her pap."
"It is rising higher," said Peggy. Angélique wished she had not mentioned Mademoiselle Zhone. Perhaps, when the colonel had risked his life to bring the sick girl out of a swamped house, her family might prefer to wait until morning to putting her in the boat now.
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