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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: A Rich Man's Relatives (Vol. 1 of 3) - -Author: Robert Cleland - -Release Date: July 25, 2012 [EBook #40331] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A RICH MAN'S RELATIVES *** - - - - -Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the -Web Archive (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - - - - - - -</pre> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40331 ***</div> <br> <br> @@ -211,7 +176,7 @@ regard for the national honour) amusing and natural in no mean degree.</p> <p class="right"><span class="sc">W. E. Henley.</span></p> <br> -<p class="center"><i>Athenæum, 17th November</i>, 1883.</p> +<p class="center"><i>Athenæum, 17th November</i>, 1883.</p> <p class="normal">"Inchbracken" will be found amusing by those who are familiar with Scotch country life. The period chosen, the "Disruption time," is an @@ -412,7 +377,7 @@ AND MIDDLE MILL KINGSTON-ON-THAMES.</h4> <td>--<a name="div1Ref_04" href="#div1_04"><span class="sc">"Ouff."</span></a></td> </tr><tr> <td>V.</td> -<td>--<a name="div1Ref_05" href="#div1_05"><span class="sc">Fidèle.</span></a></td> +<td>--<a name="div1Ref_05" href="#div1_05"><span class="sc">Fidèle.</span></a></td> </tr><tr> <td>VI.</td> <td>--<a name="div1Ref_06" href="#div1_06"><span class="sc">The Misses Stanley.</span></a></td> @@ -1471,7 +1436,7 @@ will have music and a little singing. Some of those dear old songs by the masters we used to revel in long ago. Haydn and the rest. Such as 'Gra-a-aceful partner.'"</p> -<p class="normal">"Quite so, your highness. That I may have to respond 'Spouse adorèd,' +<p class="normal">"Quite so, your highness. That I may have to respond 'Spouse adorèd,' my most sovereign lord and master! Ha, ha, ha! What it is to be a lord of creation! Meanwhile, there is the bell. Hurry to your room."</p> <br> @@ -1611,7 +1576,7 @@ and even with more and more intentness, though still he made pretence to himself of ignoring the whole of the deep-down discussion--till it was finished, that is--then he succumbed, as who may not, under sufficient temptation? It is a question of price or number. Ralph -yielded before the flashing glory of <i>millions of dollars!</i> So Danæ +yielded before the flashing glory of <i>millions of dollars!</i> So Danæ may have stretched her arms, erewhile so chaste and cold, to welcome Jove when drest in that disguise he sought the mercenary maid. Was not gold divine? And has it not continued ever since to be the same? Even @@ -1841,20 +1806,20 @@ reservation far away--up West, say--the farther West the better. I will pay as soon as she gets clear off. But you must not mix me up in the thing, mind that! That is why I offer to pay so much for the job."</p> -<p class="normal">"Much for job? Ouff. Le Père Théophile--the judge court--prison long +<p class="normal">"Much for job? Ouff. Le Père Théophile--the judge court--prison long time. Ouff!" and he shook his head slowly.</p> -<p class="normal">"You must send her where the curé's admonitions will not reach her. +<p class="normal">"You must send her where the curé's admonitions will not reach her. Send her to Brantford, or up the Ottawa; you know better than I do where. You can do a good deal with fifty dollars, you know, Paul."</p> -<p class="normal">"Ouff. And send 'way my squaw. Fidèle good squaw."</p> +<p class="normal">"Ouff. And send 'way my squaw. Fidèle good squaw."</p> <p class="normal">"Chut! Paul, you rascal! You have plenty more sweethearts you know; and they do not marry you so tight as us white men."</p> -<p class="normal">Paul grunted. "The Père Théophile very strict. Make squaw confess -right up. Poor Fidèle go to prison--all found out. Paul sent to Isle +<p class="normal">Paul grunted. "The Père Théophile very strict. Make squaw confess +right up. Poor Fidèle go to prison--all found out. Paul sent to Isle aux Noix--you too, then."</p> <p class="normal">"Stuff, man! No fear of your letting yourself be caught. Send your @@ -1890,7 +1855,7 @@ that the bargain was struck.</p> <br> <h2>CHAPTER V.</h2> -<h3><a name="div1_05" href="#div1Ref_05">FIDÈLE</a>.</h3> +<h3><a name="div1_05" href="#div1Ref_05">FIDÈLE</a>.</h3> <br> <p class="normal">It was a day or two later, in the early forenoon. The air was @@ -2035,7 +2000,7 @@ gains.</p> <p class="normal">The thunder which had been threatening all the morning began to rumble, the sky darkened, and soon the rain came down in torrents. The ferry-boat between Lachine and Caughnawaga had whistled, and was -throwing loose from the wharf, when a squaw--it was Fidèle, Paul's +throwing loose from the wharf, when a squaw--it was Fidèle, Paul's squaw, of course--rain-soaked and draggled, leaped on board. She squatted on the deck beside the three or four others who were the only passengers, cowering over the bundle under her blanket, but not @@ -2048,7 +2013,7 @@ there won't be in this heavy rain, and there would be a row if we attempted to stop her. Best take no notice, I guess; 'taint no business of ours."</p> -<p class="normal">On reaching the pier, Fidèle was the first to land and flit away +<p class="normal">On reaching the pier, Fidèle was the first to land and flit away through the village. "I told you so," said the purser, looking wise. "You just see if we don't hear more about that one. Blue blanket, with a tear in one corner; straw hat--brim badly broken; face, like @@ -2056,33 +2021,33 @@ they all have--broad and brown as a butternut; red cheeks--must be young--and real spry on the pins. Guess I'd know her again--know the clothes, any way. Injuns are as like one another as copper cents."</p> -<p class="normal">Fidèle reached a cabin in the outskirts, of square logs, whitewashed, +<p class="normal">Fidèle reached a cabin in the outskirts, of square logs, whitewashed, one window and a door, with a "lean-to" addition of boards in the rear, where the cooking-stove stood in the warm weather. Entering, she -found her sister Thérèse awaiting her, who with very few words -proceeded to strip off her own brightly printed cotton gown. Fidèle +found her sister Thérèse awaiting her, who with very few words +proceeded to strip off her own brightly printed cotton gown. Fidèle carried the child into the room behind, and returning, removed her blanket and dripping headgear.</p> -<p class="normal">"Ouff," said Thérèse, undoing the gay handkerchief from her head and +<p class="normal">"Ouff," said Thérèse, undoing the gay handkerchief from her head and picking up the hat in evident disgust. "No good."</p> <p class="normal">There was a small silver cross hanging from her neck by a black -riband, to which Fidèle stretched out her hand expecting it to be -taken off likewise. But no. Thérèse drew back with a head-shake, +riband, to which Fidèle stretched out her hand expecting it to be +taken off likewise. But no. Thérèse drew back with a head-shake, explaining that that belonged to the ladies of the Convent school, adding, that it was bad enough to give up the smart frock and kerchief -in exchange for such a hat and a damp blanket. Fidèle reminded her of +in exchange for such a hat and a damp blanket. Fidèle reminded her of the new ones she was to receive from Paul, after she had worn the blanket for a week, and again snatched at the nuns' silver badge of -merit. Thérèse caught the hand and bit it. Fidèle screamed, and a +merit. Thérèse caught the hand and bit it. Fidèle screamed, and a battle was imminent, when Paul's growl from the back room, threatening -violence, restored calm, and Thérèse sulkily took up the blanket and +violence, restored calm, and Thérèse sulkily took up the blanket and drew it over her head. Presently, Paul looked out to bid her begone, -and Thérèse, through the open door, saw enough to silence +and Thérèse, through the open door, saw enough to silence remonstrance, and send her trembling away.</p> -<p class="normal">Paul entered as Thérèse went out, and stood before his squaw. He spoke +<p class="normal">Paul entered as Thérèse went out, and stood before his squaw. He spoke in Iroquois, briefly, and in the conclusive tone which admits neither of question nor reply. Another, Messieurs the Benedicts, of those natural gifts dropped by the way in the march of improvement. The @@ -2101,7 +2066,7 @@ Go to your brother, and tell him to expect me next winter." And so saying, he went out by the front of the house, locking the door behind him.</p> -<p class="normal">Fidèle set her teeth and proceeded to obey. It was a repulsive sight +<p class="normal">Fidèle set her teeth and proceeded to obey. It was a repulsive sight which she beheld on entering the inner room, and the work set her to do was horrible. A board or two of the flooring had been pulled up, and there was a sack filled with the earth brought up through the @@ -2117,7 +2082,7 @@ least eaten so far into his nature that to extinguish a helpless and unresisting life was no longer delightful enough to compensate the risk--and he had the squaw.</p> -<p class="normal">Fidèle sat down on the ground with the poor little thing in her lap. +<p class="normal">Fidèle sat down on the ground with the poor little thing in her lap. How peacefully it slept! Was it angels whispering in those little ears which made it smile in its sleep, as the ladies of the Convent had said? Could viewless spirits be hovering around, seeing and noting all @@ -2140,7 +2105,7 @@ hair that framed the face were bright and shining like burnished gold, a glory like the gilded halos about the heads in that sacred picture; and the long eyelashes laid peacefully upon the reddening cheeks, like clouds at daybreak, promising so enhanced a brightness at the -awakening. Fidèle laid her fingers on the little neck. How dark and +awakening. Fidèle laid her fingers on the little neck. How dark and evil they looked upon its creamy whiteness! How could she ever grasp it hard and cruelly, till the heaving bosom grew convulsed to bursting at the interrupted breath, and the sweet face grew black and distorted @@ -2152,7 +2117,7 @@ child awoke with a low and merry laugh. She looked so fearless and trustful out of her blue eyes and crowed so gleefully, caressing with her own tiny palms the dusky fingers so near her throat, and with such fell intent, that surely a fiend must have abandoned the thought of -doing her harm. And Fidèle was no fiend at all. Ignorance and a narrow +doing her harm. And Fidèle was no fiend at all. Ignorance and a narrow horizon had left her sympathies to slumber, but, so far as she could see or know, she was true and good. To serve her man had seemed the chief if not the only end of her being, and she had done it blindly @@ -2182,7 +2147,7 @@ equality and sympathy of the civilized home may secure a man the fulfilment of his wishes no less, at least, than the despotism of the barbarian plan.</p> -<p class="normal">In the twilight Fidèle left her place of concealment and stole away +<p class="normal">In the twilight Fidèle left her place of concealment and stole away under the dripping-trees. The storm was over, and as the light died out of the heavens the stars came twinkling forth, awaiting the rising moon. It was a long and toilsome tramp across the reservation, through @@ -2243,14 +2208,14 @@ watch. Her moccasined feet made no sound, but the knock awoke a dog within. The dog barked, and presently a head looked out of the open casement. The baby, uncovered to the night air and laid on the hard boards, began to cry, and the head--it was a woman's and a -mother's--recognized the voice of a <i>bébé</i>. The door was opened, the +mother's--recognized the voice of a <i>bébé</i>. The door was opened, the woman came out and took up the child.</p> <p class="normal">"Holy Madaleine!--it is a child! And whose? Another, when there are already six, and the loaf so small, and the <i>sous</i> so hard to come by!"</p> -<p class="normal">Fidèle saw, and she may have heard; but she could not understand or +<p class="normal">Fidèle saw, and she may have heard; but she could not understand or enter into the white woman's troubled feelings. <i>Sous</i> scarce and loaves small were just as she knew them, when she knew them at all, which was not always. At least it was better, both for herself and the @@ -2735,12 +2700,12 @@ desk beside ze journaux."</p> time my baby is being carried further and further away; and we know not where she may be or what they are doing to her!"</p> -<p class="normal">"Be tranquillisée madame! Ze occurrence--is of frequent--how you +<p class="normal">"Be tranquillisée madame! Ze occurrence--is of frequent--how you say?--occurrence. Zere are tree--five!" and he held up his fingers to show the number--"infants vich make disappearance all ze days, and zey all turn zemselves up again before to-morrow. Ze leetle tings march in ze streets voisines, and know not ze retour. Ze police arrest, and -bring here; and voilà!--l'enfant perdu ees on return to ze famille." +bring here; and voilà !--l'enfant perdu ees on return to ze famille." At this point the spectacles were discovered, and the speaker returned to his book.</p> @@ -2748,7 +2713,7 @@ to his book.</p> "My baby has been carried off, and you are wasting precious time in talk."</p> -<p class="normal">"Ze publique ees so déraisonnable! And me. Behold me!"--and he spread +<p class="normal">"Ze publique ees so déraisonnable! And me. Behold me!"--and he spread out all his fingers and shrugged his shoulders in philosophic and forbearing remonstrance--"I attend madame's informations."</p> @@ -3277,7 +3242,7 @@ of the eyebrows equivalent to a Frenchman's shrug, which says so plainly "Why all these idle words?" Then, producing a paper from his bosom he handed it to Ralph.</p> -<p class="normal">"Ze notaire gave dis! Want pay--for Thérèse--Judge court defend."</p> +<p class="normal">"Ze notaire gave dis! Want pay--for Thérèse--Judge court defend."</p> <p class="normal">"Ah!" said Ralph, taking the paper and glancing over it. "Your bill of costs. Defending that squaw--eh? You want me to look it over?--Oh yes! @@ -3321,7 +3286,7 @@ you your two hundred dollars at once to get you away. Not, mind you, that I couldn't fight you off, if I cared to; but I have other things to think of."</p> -<p class="normal">"And for Fidèle and the papoose?"</p> +<p class="normal">"And for Fidèle and the papoose?"</p> <p class="normal">"That must suffice them for the present. When it is all spent--we will see--" and so Ralph got rid of his importunate visitor for the @@ -3366,7 +3331,7 @@ built by Montrealers desiring something less suburban than their own island affords. There is a railway, and a few modern shops; and gaily-dressed townspeople may be seen driving fast horses or playing lawn tennis in the cool of the afternoon; but these are recent -innovations on the old time when M. le Curé in his long skirts walked +innovations on the old time when M. le Curé in his long skirts walked down the street alone among the bowing <i>habitants</i>, smiling as he went and bestowing his blessing.</p> @@ -3396,7 +3361,7 @@ disturbing at first, when dropped into that sweet but stagnant reservoir of old-world manners; and soon there was on the outskirts of the village a Protestant mission, a meek little clap-boarded structure, without spire or bell, but sufficient for the needs of its -few worshippers, and enough to rouse the watchfulnesss of the curé and +few worshippers, and enough to rouse the watchfulnesss of the curé and the jealous wrath of his flock. However, the parson proved to be a peace-loving man, and the zeal which at first threatened to become flagrant, simmered down for want of provocation, into armed @@ -3523,7 +3488,7 @@ it, or use it kindly; and there seem to be only three other ways of disposing of it--the Protestant Orphans' Home, the Grey Nunnery, or to adopt it ourselves. Now, suppose we were to do the last--I do not propose it, mind; but, after there seems no more likelihood of its -being claimed, if we should--would it be nice to have our <i>protegée</i> +being claimed, if we should--would it be nice to have our <i>protegée</i> spoken of as a foundling, and nobody's child? Would it not tell against her when she grew up, and we took her into society with us, as of course we should if we reared her ourselves?"</p> @@ -3674,7 +3639,7 @@ girl's misfortune."</p> <p class="normal">"Think the matter over, Penelope, and I am sure you will come to see it as I do. Meanwhile there is no hurry. We need not converse to -visitors about our <i>protégée</i>, she is too little yet to be shown to +visitors about our <i>protégée</i>, she is too little yet to be shown to company, and as the weather is growing cold, I propose we arrange that room at the top of the house as a nursery, and establish her there with Smithers. She will be out of the way both of draughts and idle @@ -3745,7 +3710,7 @@ than to fight them, he would be civil to this broken-down fireater, heap coals of fire on his head like a good Christian, and make him thoroughly ashamed of his rudeness in former years.</p> -<p class="normal">Considine, too, was no very cumbrous <i>protégé</i>. He was better supplied +<p class="normal">Considine, too, was no very cumbrous <i>protégé</i>. He was better supplied with money than many of his compatriots at that time, having inherited some property in New York, which the same events which had ruined his estate in the South had rendered four times as valuable as before, in @@ -4437,7 +4402,7 @@ boyhood he had regarded a venerable aunt and a saintly mother both deceased. He was a young man of a pre-eminently earnest cast of mind, which turned churchwards. He greatly admired and fain would have copied the saints and heroes of early times. Had the Church of Canada -kept a wilderness for retiring into, like the Thebæid of antiquity, he +kept a wilderness for retiring into, like the Thebæid of antiquity, he would have turned hermit; or had there been some real genuine pagans within its confines he would have been a missionary; but the Indian of the North-West, part horse-thief, part fur-trader, and altogether @@ -4922,7 +4887,7 @@ penetrating without sharpness and soft without being dull; lips short, red, and parted, displaying teeth small, regular, well apart, like a string of evenly-assorted pearls.</p> -<p class="normal">The fête was hers--her birthday it was called--and in reality it was +<p class="normal">The fête was hers--her birthday it was called--and in reality it was the anniversary of her appearance in her present life, on the night after the thunderstorm, when the ladies had found her on their doorsteps. Penelope, prudent and timid, would rather have left the day @@ -4950,7 +4915,7 @@ shoulders with a sigh, as she always did in the end when Matilda was "positive," and yielded the point.</p> <p class="normal">"What a pretty, graceful child Muriel is," said Mrs. Martindale, -Tilly's mother, a widow. They had come from Montreal for the fête.</p> +Tilly's mother, a widow. They had come from Montreal for the fête.</p> <p class="normal">"Yes, indeed," said Mrs. Jordan, "she will make a sensation in Montreal when you bring her out, Matilda; but that is some years in @@ -4974,7 +4939,7 @@ either.</p> <p class="normal">And now the creaking of the entrance gate was heard, and the crunching of wheels on the gravel; and presently from among the clumps of -shrubbery which screened them from the road there issued a <i>calèche</i>, +shrubbery which screened them from the road there issued a <i>calèche</i>, the French Canadian substitute for an American buggy, high set and hung on leather straps instead of springs; and in it swung the rector and his spouse, trundling along to the front of the house.</p> @@ -5039,7 +5004,7 @@ hemlocks, where the newcomers inhaled the perfumed coolness with infinite relish, after the glare and dust of their recent drive; and then there came presentations of the lately come neighbours, with profuse explanations from Madame, "that her English so <i>difficile</i> had -made her delay, till she was so <i>comblée</i> of confusions, that---- Ah, +made her delay, till she was so <i>comblée</i> of confusions, that---- Ah, well! she prayed the ladies to excuse;" and she smiled very graciously, and pressed the hands of Amelia and Martha, lisping hopes to be better acquainted; meaning, no doubt, as with Penelope and her @@ -5049,14 +5014,14 @@ expected. That church counted for a great deal became evident when "Mrs. Bunce, the wife of my cousin the rector," was next presented. The smile died out of Madame's face, and the <i>empressement</i> faded from her manner as she bowed more deeply than before with eyes fastened on -the ground. "The <i>bêtise</i>," as she said to her daughter afterwards, +the ground. "The <i>bêtise</i>," as she said to her daughter afterwards, "of those English! To introduce the wife of one of their married priests to me, the niece of My Lord the Archbishop!"</p> <p class="normal">"But he is of their family, we must recollect, my mother," replied this judicious young person. "And perhaps they do not know of my great uncle the Archbishop. At least the ladies intended to be kind, and -Monsieur Gerald Herkimaire, and Monsieur Randolphe are both <i>trés +Monsieur Gerald Herkimaire, and Monsieur Randolphe are both <i>trés comme il faut?</i>" On which Madame patted the precocious utterer of so much wisdom--she was not yet sixteen--with her fan, and laughed heartily. But this did not occur till the following morning.</p> @@ -5101,7 +5066,7 @@ of a boy, and it is Jordan's business to think what is to become of him," glancing at the croquet players.</p> <p class="normal">"That young gentleman," said Madame, following the direction of the -other's eyes. "<i>Distingué!</i> What joy to have one so fine son!"</p> +other's eyes. "<i>Distingué!</i> What joy to have one so fine son!"</p> <p class="normal">Mrs. Jordan smiled her gratification and could not help glancing across at Mrs. Martindale, whose daughter's depreciation of the @@ -5416,11 +5381,11 @@ to the stammering tongue. But there came a shrill call up the road just then, "Pier-r-re!" which quenched their lustre in a moment, and brought a faint frown of impatience even to Muriel's sunny brow.</p> -<p class="normal">"Your mother is calling you, Pierre. Good night. <i>Bon appétit</i>.</p> +<p class="normal">"Your mother is calling you, Pierre. Good night. <i>Bon appétit</i>.</p> <p class="normal">"Ah! <i>coquin!</i> What is it thou dost there?" was the greeting which met him as he drew near, from his mother standing in the road before the -door. "<i>Cochon! Bête!</i> And thou lingerest at the gate with the +door. "<i>Cochon! Bête!</i> And thou lingerest at the gate with the <i>donzelle</i>, forsooth. Thou!--Deny it not! Undutiful! And I have beaten thee for it when thou wert small, till my poor heart ached more than the bruises on thy little skin. And still thou wilt persist. I pray @@ -5439,7 +5404,7 @@ more true and good than Mademoiselle Muriel. But you will not think so--I remind me often how you beat me for her sake. Beat me again, my mother, if so it please you; but she is good and very beautiful."</p> -<p class="normal">"<i>Sacr-ré!</i>" she ground out from between her clenched teeth, with +<p class="normal">"<i>Sacr-ré!</i>" she ground out from between her clenched teeth, with flashing eyes glancing up and down the road; and then she started with a sob of afright, and a tremor ran through her frame as she composed herself to speak quite calmly. "I see thy father coming home. 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