L'Abbe Constantin -- Complete

de Lavardens waiting for him at the barracks; he scarcely a

g; the little one was driving four ponies, and with an amount of audacity! I bowed to them;

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e l

I take you t

es

they don't want to s

going back to Long

under the patronage and with the guarantee of the Church. And then they have discovered that I could render them little services. I know the country very well, and they will make use of me as a guide. In a word, I am nob

is none the less true that during those ten

upon

omen? Is it possible? So much beauty, so much luxury. Luxury to that degree upsets me. Those black

Bett

gin again. Oh, how happy that girl would be with me! I would create around her the existence of a fairy queen. In all her luxury she would feel the taste, the art, and the skill of her husband. I would pass my life in adoring her, in displaying her beauty, in petting her, in bearing her triumphant through the world. I would study her be

t, I ass

er: 'Mother, I have won the-heart of a charming little person who is burdened with a capital of twenty millions-they exaggerate when they talk of hundreds of millions. You know these are the correct figures, and they are enough for me. That evening, then, my mother will be delighted, because, in her heart, what is it she desires for me? W

quite mad! I do not,

say and do as you like, but remember what I say t

ve it," replied

re of it. Good-by. I le

antment, dissipated the slight trouble which had agitated his soul after the first meeting. He prepared to meet them again with much pleasure, b

uld try not to remark too much the beauty of Susie and Bettina; he would try not to forget himself as he had done the previous evening, in the contemplation of the four little

ess of this enterprise. Susie, Bettina, the Cure, and Jean

qual affection; he was perfectly happy, perfectly tranquil. Then he was not

e day which would bring to Longueval the Turners, and the Nortons,

lock, Jean arrived at the castle. Bettin

, nothing of consequence, it will be gone by tomorrow; but I dare not rid

not," rep

ou back, and I

his last day, which I had hoped to pass with you. However, sinc

uarter of an hour's conversation? I want to speak to you; sit down there, and now listen to me well. My sister and I had intended this evening, a

ry serious matter. We wish to thank you for having b

cival, pray,

gers. We have been fortunate enough immediately to find friends. Yes, friends. You have taken us by the hand, you have led us to our farmers, to our keepers; while your godfather took us t

for what my grandfather and father did for them; and then I am of their race, the race of t

appear very p

proud nor

r's great-grandfather was a farmer in Brittany. He went to Canada at the end of the last ce

I shall soon be ob

hy

rom garrison to garrison; but certainly, when I am an old commandant or old colonel, on hal

quite

one? I certai

tend to

cert

trying

marrying, but one ough

Come, I can answer for that, and you e

you kn

; you are what they call a good match, and

old yo

eur le

ong," said Jean, wit

speaking of you. So when I was alone with him during our walks, to please him I talked of you, and he related your history to me. You are

bear with a good grace his sha

ht thousand f

y, not

rty thousand francs. You are in an excellen

y hand!

r it-it is the same thing for so many people. Two hundred thousand francs in the one, three hundred thousand in

rned two charmi

stood. One alw

for I did resist-they forced me to spend t

d t

you. I did not feel the slightest touch of emb

, resolutely, "not the

mly to my bachelor den, for I think it is be

think s

ddenly, to the great surprise of both, they

d Bella rushed into the

e you there? Come

as just come back from Paris, and has brought two microscopi

were indeed worthy to figure in t