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Updated: August 3, 2024
"Of course it was a hundred and fifty years ago, when Bigot was Intendant-ah, what a rascal was that Bigot, robber and deceiver! He never stood by a friend, and never fought fair a foe so the Abbe said. Well, Beaugard was no longer young. He had built the Manor House, he had put up his gallows, he had his vassals, he had been made a lord.
While gazing at the dismal scene, however, and unheeding the idlers who poked about among the ruins, and watched him as one who was the centre of a drama, he suddenly caught sight of the gold Cock of Beaugard, which had stood on the top of the mill, in the very centre of the ruins.
"At last the Baron, fierce because he knew that Bigot was the cause of the great delay, so that he might not call Falise his wife, seized a transport on the river, which had been sent to brutally levy upon a poor gentleman, and when Bigot's men resisted, shot them down. Then Bigot sent against Beaugard a company of artillery and some soldiers of the line.
I have you here, as your Seigneur, but I have you here as a man who will "He sat down by her at that point, and whispered softly in her ear; at which she gave a cry which had both gladness and pain. 'Surely, even that, he said, catching her to his breast. 'And the Baron of Beaugard never broke his word. What should be her reply? Does not a woman when she truly loves always believe?
I have been insurance agent, sold lightning-rods, and been foreman of a gang building a mill but I could not bear that. Every time I looked up I could see the Cock of Beaugard where the roof should be. And so on, so on, first one thing and then another till now till I came to Askatoon and fell down by the drug-store, and you played the good Samaritan.
"I promised Jean Jacques that I would come and salute it in his name, before I did aught else, and so now I do salute it." He waved a hand and made a bow to the gold Cock of Beaugard, the pride of all the vanished Barbilles.
If I find you ever again in Beaugard I will have you whipped from parish to parish. Here is money for you good gold coins. Take them, and go. "Garoche got still and cold as stone. He said in a low, harsh voice: 'M'sieu' le Baron, you are a common thief, a wolf, a snake. Such men as you come lower than Judas. As God has an eye to see, you shall pay all one day.
And all the time there was Falise with the Baron very quiet and sweet and fine to see, and going to Chapel every day, and to Mass on Sundays which no one could understand, any more than they could see why she should be called the Baroness of Beaugard; for had they all not seen her married to Garoche? And there were many people who thought her vile. Yet truly, at heart, she was not so not at all.
"I promised Jean Jacques that I would come and salute it in his name, before I did aught else, and so now I do salute it." He waved a hand and made a bow to the gold Cock of Beaugard, the pride of all the vanished Barbilles.
So, all at once, he was face to face with a woman who has the look of love in her face, who was young, and fine of body so the Abbe said and was walking to marriage at her father's will and against her own, carrying the Baron's glove in her bosom. What should Beaugard do? But no, ah no, m'sieu', not as you think, not quite!
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