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My son Zotique he now spick." Had farmer Charest been a second "Mark Antony," the recognition of his oratorical ability could not have been more marked. Certain it is that that renowned orator could not have borne more becomingly the honors showered upon him. Very handsome Zotique looked as he rose, and he spoke in English which fully justified the goodly remarks passed upon it by his father.
"We have a little newspaper Le Coup d'Oeil," cried Zotique. Chrysler congratulated Chamilly on his felicity of design in the dwellings. The greater size of the houses was chiefly for better ventilation. The windmill was part of a simple water-works system, which supplied the village with draughts from the bottom of the river. The school was a gift of Chamilly's.
"My friend the boaster steps forward with the air Napoleonic! He sticks out his breast like this; he shortens his neck, like this; he frowns his brows; he glares at them a terrible look; he cries: 'I am of the Canadian blood!" "And what does he do next, gentlemen?" Zotique paused a moment. "Runs for his life!" The roar that followed shook the apartment. Zotique stopped it.
"Let it alone," says Zotique, and he looks around and takes up the inkbottle carelessly from the shelf and goes off to the kitchen and down into the cellar, where he puts away the wine, and then he comes back to us, upstairs. Mouton disappears in a moment. Zotique pretends to play, but he is calculating the seconds. Presently he says, "Monsieur le Curé, you and I are too good players.
The hopeful, expectant look on Vital's face deserved far better recognition than it was awarded. Despite the fact that there was but little room where Zotique was sitting, the shameless, prevaricating fellow impressed upon her that seats in that particular quarter were actually going begging. For a few moments Katie hesitated as though she hardly knew what to do.
"Now, the Council of war! we must have a command to him from the Bishop; and it is I, Zotique Genest, as prominent citizen! as Registrar! as Zouave! who will write and get it." "But more that sacré Grandmoulin is coming, and we must receive him at point of bayonet,
"Cuiller the village of La Misericorde," directed Zotique. "Now, both of you, the chief thing you have to do is to report to us if the Bleus commence to work there. Go; go!" "Salut, Benoit; how goes it; how is the wife? and the father? the children also? I hope you are well. Comment ça-va-t-il Cuiller?" asked Chamilly. Spoon took the proffered hand with his sleepy grin.
Wrathfully he began to deny such an outrageous statement. "I thought you would like to know," she continued, falteringly, when his indignation had somewhat subsided, "that you are mistaken in that about Zotique and me; we are not engaged. I I told him, no." It was hard to tell him this; but she had treated him so very badly and had taken such an unfair advantage of his trusting nature.
"All I want for say," continued the speaker, rubbing his hands briskly with gratified pride, "is dat me and my femme we both glad dat my son Zotique he come from de States to pay us de visit. My son he do well in de States, where dare is vary much place for work. When he write to say dat he pay us de visit, my femme, she say she mak dis little pleasure so dat you all see him.
"There!" cried Haviland, raising his voice to a pitch of solemnity. "Say whatever you can in that position. That is the position of the Canadian races?" A shout rose in the hall, and every man sprang to his feet. Cheer rose upon cheer, while De La Lande shook the hand in his with feeling; and the cheering, smiling, and hand shaking, lasted nearly a minute. It ended at a story by Zotique.
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