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The words were those of a common proverb referring to "close shaving." The Chairman added: "Mr. De La Lande, the floor seems to be already yours." "I have heard," began De La Lande, "that Grandmoulin has commenced to raise the issue of French patriotism." "You are right," said Zotique. "Well, then, why can we not use a like word, that shall go to the heart of the people? Give us a national cry!
"The breach in our wall is the Curé," continued Zotique. "Mais." Qu'allons nous faire, Dans cette gallère? "If we could only strap him up with, every mark of respect, like the sacred white elephant of the Indies! But first, the Bishop's order! Remark my brother, I am not advocating disobedience: only coercion." The laugh rose again.
I know I not spick de lanwige vary much, but my son Zotique, who just come from de States, he spick Anglish just so well as de Anglish, and so he mak you spich better dan I mak." He turned and laid his hand affectionately on Zotique's head. Zotique colored at the unexpected compliment, and looking down into Miss Katie White's bright blue eyes, smiled, and shook his head deprecatingly.
"That's a fact," exclaimed Chamilly, straining his eyes towards the figure; and the three looked at each other in astonishment. "Has he actually the enterprise to try me again? Or what can he want?" "I can answer you," the veracious Zotique undertook, "my eyes are good. He is smiling fully a second hundred thousand." "That is courage after what I gave him for the first."
His sudden lapses into thought, however, created the impression in the minds of some of his listeners that he was laboring under suppressed excitement. At times, when he found himself drifting unconsciously toward Katie, it was amusing to see what a hasty retreat he would beat. As for Zotique, he had never enjoyed himself more. Scarcely for a moment did he leave Katie's side.
It also paid flattering attention to Madame Charest, and so beautified her thin face and silvered her grey hair, as she stood in the door and welcomed the arrivals, as to make the neighbors affirm and that in a manner that it would have been utterly useless to try and gainsay that she looked far younger than she did ten years ago! The lion of the hour, of course, was the wanderer Zotique.
Absent-minded Vital was still standing and looking at her, his whole heart in his eyes. "Yes, I will sit next to you; it was very kind of you to take such interest in getting me a seat." Poor Vital! As he heard these ominous words, saw her look up and smile at Zotique, and after great crushing sit down by his side, all the pleasure of eating left him entirely.
That evening the row of front windows shone with particular illumination for a meeting of Chamilly's supporters, and as Chrysler entered with Haviland and Zotique, they caught from De La Lande the fragmentary assertion, "It is France that must be preached!" "Aux armes, citoyens!" roared Zotique, entering like a captain on the stage. "Give me my battalion!
Over a week had now elapsed since he received the letter from his son Zotique, in the United States, saying he would be home on September 10th. Before the important communication had been in the village a day, it was common property, and had been read and re-read until almost every soul in the place knew it off by heart.
"It goes ill, Zotique," answered the school master, gloomily, "I have had the Curé again." "And what did he say to you?" "Quarrels with everything in the system. Our geography was galimatias, and book-keeping a crime: the people must not think they were on a level with the learned, and the children must do this and that.
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