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Chrysler took the man and made him sit down on a bench, a wild spectacle of reason in the course of dethronement. The household stood about: the two visitors looked on curiously and made useless suggestions. Haviland and Zotique, driving past to make sure of Miséricorde, heard a commotion and turned their horses in.
"I think we had better go in," said Zotique, presently, in a slightly disappointed tone. "Yes, yes, Zotique, what you say is right; there never was a finer night," answered Vital, dreamily, his eyes still fixed thoughtfully on the cottage. He was in one of his absent moods, and had not heard what his brother had said. Zotique turned, looked sharply at him, and then broke into a hearty laugh.
This beginning, delivered with appropriate gestures now a bow, now an ultra-crossing of the arms, only to throw them apart again, now a chopping down with both hands from the elbow, now again a graceful clasping of them in front, made a satisfactory impression on Benoit himself, who prepared to continue indefinitely had not Zotique interrupted. "Benoit, you are too fine for good millstone.
Still he was immensely proud of his two sons, and as he saw them standing together, he decided that they looked far superior to the other farmers' sons, who had been given little or no education. The wanderer Zotique was only twenty-two years of age, while Vital had turned thirty.
Now I have spoiled the joke he was going to have on me, and we can laugh at him." This audacious thwarting of parental plans caused much laughter, during which Zotique sprang to his feet, and going over to where she was standing, and laughing merrily, held out his hand and said, "Have you no word of welcome for me, Katie White?"
There he stands before us, solid as the image of tallow; but his mouth was as black as an oven's, and his features indistinguishable with ink." The circle, all eagerly listening, burst forth: "How did Zotique do it?" they cried. "Voila the mystery." "What was done to Mouton?" "Pére Galibert boiled him down into tapers, and sold him to the congregation."
Katie was soon surrounded by a circle of admirers, and then, unnoticed, Vital slipped away, and hurried into the garden. Zotique was nowhere in sight, but Vital knew just where he would find him. When he came to the great birch he stopped and peered in at the bench, where the shadows were deep: Zotique was there.
Had Zotique not been a sensible fellow, he would surely have had his head turned by the many flattering things said to him. It so chanced, too, that remarks were passed about him to his parents and brother, sotto voce, which, strange as it may appear, managed in some unaccountable manner always to reach his ears.
"But you will not let us lie a little in protection of you," retorted Zotique. "To me the moral law is to beat Picault."
A great crowd gathered into Dormillière at the close of that long day, thickening and pouring in from the country around, and arriving by boats across the river, to hear the returns: and as Zotique read them in triumph from a chair at the door of the Circuit Court, and the issue, at first breathlessly uncertain, finally appeared, the cheering became frantic.
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