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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. 2 of 3) - -Author: Robert Cleland - -Release Date: July 25, 2012 [EBook #40332] - -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 40332 ***</div> <br> <br> @@ -212,7 +177,7 @@ 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 @@ -719,7 +684,7 @@ everything."</p> <p class="normal">"Hm. That sounds serious. Is it really so?"</p> <p class="normal">"I hear so, and more. They tell me his wife, who has her own -property--'<i>separée des biens</i>,' we call it in our law--has had to +property--'<i>separée des biens</i>,' we call it in our law--has had to give security for a large sum."</p> <p class="normal">"Indeed? But after all it is a big institootion. If Sacavent were to @@ -978,7 +943,7 @@ one stay indoors for on a jolly morning like this?"</p> <p class="normal">"But you do not go out at this hour of the morning in general?"</p> <p class="normal">"Neither do you; I know that much. We see the business people go -past--M. Petitôt and the Ferretings--about half-past eight, but you +past--M. Petitôt and the Ferretings--about half-past eight, but you gentlemen of the Stock Board never by any chance before half-past ten. If I were a man, and lazy, I would be a stockbroker. No going back to the office in the evening!"</p> @@ -1224,7 +1189,7 @@ same--to give it the name of juvenile and take off the stiffness. Just like the candy pulling we had at Farmer Belmore's. You know Farmer Belmore's, Muriel? He lives just across the river and down below the island at St. Euphrase. His son's family from Michigan were with him -in the fall, and his wife and daughters are too <i>dévotes</i> to meet +in the fall, and his wife and daughters are too <i>dévotes</i> to meet their neighbours, and are only waiting his death to go off to the convent. However, the old man--and a good Protestant he is--was determined the children should have a good time, so he gave--a candy @@ -1646,7 +1611,7 @@ no means an unalloyed boon as the years go by. She finds herself inadmissible to the conclaves of matrons of her own age, where husbands, doctors and children are discussed with freedom; yet her god-daughters and nieces can scarcely be expected to accept her as a -compeer; she is a <i>demoiselle passée</i>, an outside hoverer on the +compeer; she is a <i>demoiselle passée</i>, an outside hoverer on the confines of social life, with the gay bachelors of earlier decades who are still unwed, and whom society passes by as obdurate and hopelessly unavailable for matrimonial use.</p> @@ -1669,7 +1634,7 @@ of an escort for the evening when they so desired.</p> <br> <h2>CHAPTER IV.</h2> -<h3><a name="div1_04" href="#div1Ref_04">BETSEY EX FÊTE</a>.</h3> +<h3><a name="div1_04" href="#div1Ref_04">BETSEY EX FÊTE</a>.</h3> <br> <p class="normal">In spite of her pretence to make little of an invitation to a juvenile @@ -1975,7 +1940,7 @@ her eyes fixed on Randolph's countenance.</p> <p class="normal">The look met him full in the face as he came before her, struck him as the jets from the fire-engines may have struck the Parisian mob which -General La Moricière so cleverly dispersed without the help of steel +General La Moricière so cleverly dispersed without the help of steel or gunpowder; and he would have run away, but he could not. Not only was Betsey before him, but Muriel was somewhere behind, and both would have seen his demoralization. Betsey's eyes were beaming on him with a @@ -2439,7 +2404,7 @@ out of sight. Betsey had the best of everything to eat, however, which was compensatory, and her companion had at least the satisfaction of sitting opposite Muriel. He had secured them for the rest of his own table, and if he was unable to say much to her himself, it was -something to have prevented a <i>tête-à-tête</i> with his rival.</p> +something to have prevented a <i>tête-à -tête</i> with his rival.</p> <p class="normal">Randolph's disturbed feelings were subsiding into sullen calm. He was eating his supper. He had filled his companion's glass and his own; @@ -2479,7 +2444,7 @@ delicately rendered. She dropped the eye-glass with a click, and a French shrug, and that accompanying rise of the eyebrows so infinitely more expressive of scorn and contempt than any word.</p> -<p class="normal">"I am <i>desolée</i>, to have take Mistaire Jordain from ze plaisirs of his +<p class="normal">"I am <i>desolée</i>, to have take Mistaire Jordain from ze plaisirs of his soopaire. But ze demoiselle aippears herself to console ver well. Wich rassure me ver much."</p> @@ -2500,7 +2465,7 @@ replied; "I have won nothing; lost, rather, I fear."</p> <p class="normal">"So sorry; come have a glass of wine, and perhaps the luck may turn."</p> <p class="normal">"<i>N'importe</i>, I shall play no more to-night. The fortunes are -not <i>propices</i>. My <i>système</i> does not conform to the play of +not <i>propices</i>. My <i>système</i> does not conform to the play of Mistaire--what you call?--Constantine."</p> <p class="normal">"Considine. Probably not. He generally plays euchre. You were playing @@ -2746,7 +2711,7 @@ was always respectful, and really very nice.</p> <p class="normal">Considine thought it very nice too--did not know, in fact, how long it was since he had enjoyed anything so much. "Amazing fine woman," is how some of his compeers would have expressed their feelings; but -Considine did not even pretend to be a <i>roué</i>, and he was not a fogy, +Considine did not even pretend to be a <i>roué</i>, and he was not a fogy, though quite old enough to have been one, if that had been a necessary phase of existence to pass through. He felt happy with a respectful enjoyment, such as he might have known thirty years earlier, in the @@ -2858,14 +2823,14 @@ flies, and very private--appeared before him.</p> <p class="normal">"Jordain! Your clerk ees not <i>respectueux</i>. I must complain. He tell me you were gone out. Yen vid dis ear I hear you cough my ownself. -Everee body know Jordain's cough. Yet he <i>défend</i> my entry."</p> +Everee body know Jordain's cough. Yet he <i>défend</i> my entry."</p> <p class="normal">Jordan laid down his pen testily, but composed himself at once. "M. Rouget de la Hache, eh? The young man has orders to let no one in here. He should have said I was engaged. Those were his orders."</p> <p class="normal">"He deed say so; but I shust look heem in ze eye--so!--vit a grand -<i>sévérité</i>; and he fail of his word, and grow <i>confus</i>; and zen he +<i>sévérité</i>; and he fail of his word, and grow <i>confus</i>; and zen he tell me you were gone out. And so--behold me."</p> <p class="normal">"Sim should stick to his orders. The first lie is always the best and @@ -2892,7 +2857,7 @@ meant by it? Had it anything to do with him, Jean Vincent de Paul Rouget? But yet the pencil and slip of paper looked unimportant enough, and so, with the bold assurance of ignorance Rouget concluded that they could not possibly be of much consequence, and Jordan was -only making believe--a humbug, in fact, as all people <i>là bas</i> mostly +only making believe--a humbug, in fact, as all people <i>là bas</i> mostly were. It takes a transatlantic "swell," who has never seen one of the acknowledged great ones of the earth, to fully realize the vast inferiority of the "lower orders" to his own ineffable mightiness.</p> @@ -2962,7 +2927,7 @@ business it is essential to understand the case clearly, and our transactions are for such large sums that you must excuse seeming intrusiveness. Will sixty days suit you?"</p> -<p class="normal">"No. I want time! and freedom from all anxieties. I have a <i>système</i> +<p class="normal">"No. I want time! and freedom from all anxieties. I have a <i>système</i> wich is infallible in the end, and must make me rich, but it demands time, watchfulness, and money."</p> @@ -3001,7 +2966,7 @@ not contemplate renewing the mortgage. I can do much better with the money on the street."</p> <p class="normal">"<i>Mon Dieu!</i> Jourdain. What do I hear? Increase ze interests if so -mus' be--and ze security is good. Ze ministre, <i>mon frère</i>, say zey +mus' be--and ze security is good. Ze ministre, <i>mon frère</i>, say zey are firs class, and zat I pay <i>trop</i>--too much."</p> <p class="normal">"Quite so, Mr. Rouget, that is just where it is. I have my feelings @@ -3097,7 +3062,7 @@ saying it--was leading you to destruction. In heaven's name let the <p class="normal">"But ze money? my friend. You cannot develop wid notting. Lend me money, and I vill give my vor d'honneur"--and he patted his palms -outstretched on the bosom of his greatcoat--"to abandon de système."</p> +outstretched on the bosom of his greatcoat--"to abandon de système."</p> <p class="normal">"Mining matters are outside of my field; I do not understand them. You should call on some of our leading capitalists and speculators with @@ -3132,7 +3097,7 @@ with.</p> <h3><a name="div1_07" href="#div1Ref_07">IN THE RUE DES BORGNES</a>.</h3> <br> -<p class="normal">The Banque Sangsue Prêtense occupied the chief part of its own +<p class="normal">The Banque Sangsue Prêtense occupied the chief part of its own cut-sandstone building on the Rue des Borgnes, the remainder, conspicuous in brass and plate glass, being the offices of Ralph Herkimer and Son, general operators, who were "in" railways, in @@ -3323,7 +3288,7 @@ of his property!</p> <p class="normal">"You see it arrived to me all unexpected to make the discovery. The young Richaud, of the Crown Lands Department, is of the relatives of -madame the most intimate. He made a <i>séjour</i> wid us the last +madame the most intimate. He made a <i>séjour</i> wid us the last Septembre, and one day we go for the <i>chasse aux oiseaux</i>, and we stop to repose ourselves in the svamp by the river not far from Saint Euphrase--the svamp is dried up as you may know in Septembre--and @@ -3456,7 +3421,7 @@ company, with all perquisites thereto accruing, Rouget got a fifth part of the stock as his price, and a few thousand dollars, wherewith he hurried to New York in a fever of restlessness until he should have dropped them all into the same abyss which had swallowed so much -already, in obedience to the infallible <i>système</i>. Jordan being first +already, in obedience to the infallible <i>système</i>. Jordan being first mortgagee, with power to become troublesome, was made solicitor of the concern, with a handsome block of stock allotted, the calls on which, it was understood, were not to be pressed. Ralph, as promoter, kept @@ -3502,7 +3467,7 @@ his beloved public to hint at in various picturesque ways. He described gigantic masses of virgin copper quarried from their beds with pre-historic wedges which still lay beside them in witness, and discussed the civilization of the ancient Mound-builders in the -popular archæological manner, still ringing the changes on the wealth +popular archæological manner, still ringing the changes on the wealth of copper so near at hand. Finally, when people's minds were ready to believe, the prospectus of the Mining Association of St. Euphrase appeared.</p> @@ -3679,7 +3644,7 @@ hostess."</p> <p class="normal">"And, Miss Betsey? Were you much admired?"</p> -<p class="normal">Betsey gave her head a little toss with a Venus Victrix glance--<i>à la</i> +<p class="normal">Betsey gave her head a little toss with a Venus Victrix glance--<i>à la</i> Bunce, that is. The marble goddess in the Louvre looks straight out of level eyes, too proud for petty wiles; but Betsy's glance came from the corners. She was arch, you see, or thought so, and the certainty @@ -4019,7 +3984,7 @@ or lean, always strikes me as a melancholy spectacle--like a sapling sprouting from a crumbling wall, as the poet says--and the world is seldom respectful. It is apt to look on him as the man who broke the commandments and married his grandmama, because nobody of his own age -would have him. There is no fear of that with Adèline Rouget; she will +would have him. There is no fear of that with Adèline Rouget; she will improve every year she lives. She is distinguished looking now, though she is not pretty. Every year she will improve, that is the advantage of having plenty of bone. She will look stately in middle life, and be @@ -4048,14 +4013,14 @@ wrap the outflowing draperies more compactly about her in gracious quietude. The gentleman gave the equipage a push beyond the brink, jumped in behind with a parting kick against the shore, and they were away; swiftly, and with ever-accelerating speed as the hill grew -steeper--"shooting Niagara." The <i>bienséances</i> of the convent, with +steeper--"shooting Niagara." The <i>bienséances</i> of the convent, with their modest tranquillity, are scarcely maintainable in a toboggan shooting down a glassy incline of fifty degrees or more, at the rate of miles in a minute, with the certainty that dislodgment from the quarter-inch board one is seated on may hurl one anywhere, bruised or maimed, but assuredly ridiculous.</p> -<p class="normal">Adèline caught her breath with a gasp as she found they were off, and, +<p class="normal">Adèline caught her breath with a gasp as she found they were off, and, as the pace quickened down hill, she clenched her teeth tightly and closed her eyes; and then there came a jolt as they sped across some swelling in the ice, and she felt herself thrown backwards, and gave a @@ -4068,7 +4033,7 @@ themselves from adhering snow, and found, the experience was over, that they were both safe, and that it had been a little thrilling, but "<i>awfully jolly</i>." The ice was broken between the two young people forthwith, and the Lady Superior with her nuns, who had taken such -pains in the formation of Adèline's character and manners, would +pains in the formation of Adèline's character and manners, would scarcely have recognized her, or been able to distinguish her from one of those dreadful, fast, heretical English girls, they had been wont to hold up to her and her companions as models to avoid, as she caught @@ -4240,7 +4205,7 @@ over her. Gerald was ready with one from the shoulder, delivered squarely in the jaw, to knock down the first, but the other two sprang on him together, and he would have fared ill if one from the crowd had not leaped into the fray with blazing eye, clenched fist, and gnashing -teeth, and a growl of <i>sssacrrré</i> and <i>chien</i>, as he felled one +teeth, and a growl of <i>sssacrrré</i> and <i>chien</i>, as he felled one ruffian with a blow under the ear and attacked the other. The first was now up again, assaulting Gerald with foot and fist, and calling his fellows in the crowd to come and help him, when the ministers of @@ -4357,7 +4322,7 @@ Jordan, or whomever you think the best. We would have sent word to Mr. Jordan by Randolph to act for us, but Randolph has not come back here. He will have walked home with Miss Rouget, I dare say. They seemed to enjoy each other's company immensely, which rather surprised me. -Adèline is a nice girl, but rather inanimate, and Randolph is a lazy +Adèline is a nice girl, but rather inanimate, and Randolph is a lazy fellow, who prefers to sit still and let a lady amuse him. So they struck me, when they went off together, as being not a well-assorted pair, and yet they seemed to hit it off together uncommonly well. In @@ -4485,8 +4450,8 @@ not of the return?"</p> Stanley feels under the greatest obligations to him, and will do her very utmost to have him well defended and brought off."</p> -<p class="normal">"Police, madame? My Pierre <i>chez</i> ze police!--<i>à la prison?</i> But vy? -Is it as he have <i>cassé la tête de personne?</i> Ah! <i>le pauvre garcon</i>," +<p class="normal">"Police, madame? My Pierre <i>chez</i> ze police!--<i>à la prison?</i> But vy? +Is it as he have <i>cassé la tête de personne?</i> Ah! <i>le pauvre garcon</i>," and she wiped her eyes.</p> <p class="normal">"I feel deeply indebted to him myself--under the very greatest @@ -4583,12 +4548,12 @@ be no loser in the end----"</p> <p class="normal">"For Mees Muriel? Always Mees Muriel! My Pierre shut up for <i>her!</i> Sainte Vierge! Have pity on a wife and mother <i>malheureuse!</i>--ah!--And was it me who brought her there! <i>Serpenteau! Que tu m'as broui les -yeux par ta vue! Que tu as niaisé le cœur de ton frère légitime!</i>"</p> +yeux par ta vue! Que tu as niaisé le cœur de ton frère légitime!</i>"</p> <p class="normal">"Speak English, my good woman. What is it you say? You seem to have some ground of complaint against Miss Stanley's niece."</p> -<p class="normal">"She is not niece of Mees Stanley. She is <i>enfante trouvée</i>."</p> +<p class="normal">"She is not niece of Mees Stanley. She is <i>enfante trouvée</i>."</p> <p class="normal">"What sort of an infant? But why do you say she is not Miss Stanley's niece? She is the daughter of Miss Stanley's brother. Surely a lady @@ -4648,15 +4613,15 @@ Mees Stanley for sure."</p> <p class="normal">"We'll promise you," cried Betsey, in eager curiosity. "Go ahead."</p> -<p class="normal">"<i>Cela étant</i>----"</p> +<p class="normal">"<i>Cela étant</i>----"</p> <p class="normal">"No French now, please. Take your time, but put it all into English."</p> <p class="normal">Annette settled herself in her chair, clasping her hands in her lap with a long breath; while her eyes rolled abstractedly in her head in search, no doubt, of the English words to convey her meaning. "Madame -is <i>mariée</i> as me. She will know <i>la jalousie</i>, which carries ze good -vife for <i>son époux</i>."</p> +is <i>mariée</i> as me. She will know <i>la jalousie</i>, which carries ze good +vife for <i>son époux</i>."</p> <p class="normal">"Auntie!" cried Betsey in uncontrollable hilarity. "Were you ever so jealous of Uncle Dionysius that you had to carry him about with you? @@ -4667,23 +4632,23 @@ would want watching. He! he!"</p> propriety was outraged, "you surprise me. No! Mrs. Bruneau, I am not jealous. I have no occasion."</p> -<p class="normal">"Madame ees <i>heureuse</i>; but me--<i>l'épouse</i> who loves as me, vill have +<p class="normal">"Madame ees <i>heureuse</i>; but me--<i>l'épouse</i> who loves as me, vill have <i>des doutes</i> from time in time. Zere arrive von night--it was a hot night of summer, ven ze vindow ver leff open, and I do not sleep well, -and zen sound <i>au dessous de la fenêtre</i>--"</p> +and zen sound <i>au dessous de la fenêtre</i>--"</p> <p class="normal">"Say window, and go on."</p> -<p class="normal">"I hear ze cry of a <i>bébé</i>, I raise myself and go down, and behold! on +<p class="normal">"I hear ze cry of a <i>bébé</i>, I raise myself and go down, and behold! on ze stoop it were laid. And <i>la jalousie</i> she demand of me '<i>pour-quoi</i> -at ze door of my Jean Bruneau?' And I <i>réponds qu'oui</i>, it is too +at ze door of my Jean Bruneau?' And I <i>réponds qu'oui</i>, it is too evident. And I say in myself that no! It shall not be that the -<i>enfante d'autrui</i> shall eat the <i>croûte</i> of <i>mes enfants</i>; and for +<i>enfante d'autrui</i> shall eat the <i>croûte</i> of <i>mes enfants</i>; and for Jean Bruneau, he shall of it never know. And then I carry to the <i>porte</i> of Mees Stanley, and I sound, and hide myself till I shall see it carried in ze house. And now, behold, the reward of my -<i>bienfaisance!</i> Pierre, <i>à la prison!</i> And he has loffe her since long -time. <i>Peut-être sa sœur!</i> Oh! My boy so innocent, in sin so +<i>bienfaisance!</i> Pierre, <i>à la prison!</i> And he has loffe her since long +time. <i>Peut-être sa sœur!</i> Oh! My boy so innocent, in sin so mortal, and not to know! But how to hinder?"</p> <p class="normal">"And the child is no relation to them at all? Well--I call it @@ -4731,7 +4696,7 @@ respectable clouds, exhaling its own smoke--the villagers had burnt only wood in their golden age, and their atmosphere had been pure--with brawling navvies at the lane corners to disturb the night, and the glare of illuminated saloons, now for the first time able to -outface the disapproval of M. le Curé, who hitherto had been able to +outface the disapproval of M. le Curé, who hitherto had been able to fend off such dangerous allurements from his simple flock.</p> <p class="normal">As spring advanced things progressed with a rush, and everybody in the @@ -4792,7 +4757,7 @@ holidays, hammer in hand, rummaging for minerals, and picking up information about the remarkable find already made at La Hache. Every house, and even every shanty, to be let, was secured for the hot months, and some impatient prospectors, unwilling to wait so long, -arrived at once, and established themselves with the Père Podevin, +arrived at once, and established themselves with the Père Podevin, whose house had never been so full before, and who, feeling that his fortune was as good as made, began to prepare his family to adorn the great position they were about to fill, withdrew his eldest daughter @@ -4808,7 +4773,7 @@ inquisitive stranger should scale the barrier. Excitement among the speculators grew intense. It was immediately inferred that silver, or perhaps even gold, had been found, else why this jealousy? and the crowds who came from town to scour the adjacent lands were so great -that the Père Podevin had to use his stable and poultry house as +that the Père Podevin had to use his stable and poultry house as sleeping quarters, and sold permission to two gentlemen to sleep on the floor under his billiard table on the same terms as he had been wont to charge for an entire chamber.</p> @@ -5130,7 +5095,7 @@ minded to forego or endanger the emoluments of his directorship. He was in waiting, though they did not see him, behind a convenient cattle-car on the siding, anxious only to avoid speech with them till all were in presence of the president, that his own misgivings might -be resolved without prejudice; for he dreaded that his <i>confrères</i> +be resolved without prejudice; for he dreaded that his <i>confrères</i> might elicit something from him before he had learned the right way to view or state it himself, and so his undigested words might get abroad and do him harm. Wherefore he waited till he saw the couple step on @@ -5167,7 +5132,7 @@ me by one of your own number, here present. He is now, I doubt not, ready to repeat his statements at length for your united consideration. I allude to my respected friend, Mr. Podevin."</p> -<p class="normal">The Père Podevin coughed behind his hand, looking disgust from under +<p class="normal">The Père Podevin coughed behind his hand, looking disgust from under his eyelids for a solicitor who could thus betray a confidential conversation. "Was the man a fool or a rogue?" he asked himself. If he had not actually paid him a fee on addressing him, had he not given @@ -5182,8 +5147,8 @@ letting himself be ruined with the rest. However, all eyes were on him now, and there was no escape.</p> <p class="normal">"It was on yesterday," he said, "zat I hear of ze men to say, ver -<i>secrètement</i> to ze ozers, as they have dig out all ze <i>cuivre</i> of ze -mine. I £five zose men to drink in retirement from ze rest, and I ask, +<i>secrètement</i> to ze ozers, as they have dig out all ze <i>cuivre</i> of ze +mine. I £five zose men to drink in retirement from ze rest, and I ask, and zey confirm zat of ze <i>cuivre</i> is no more. <i>Mon Dieu!</i> Misterre Herkimair--to tink of ze moneys to nourish my <i>vieillesse</i>, and ze <i>dots</i> of my daughtairs <i>innocentes!</i> All sunk in ze mines----"</p> @@ -5211,7 +5176,7 @@ should not play. Look at me! Think of the thousands I stand to lose if our enterprise miscarries! What are your few hundreds compared to that? Yet I make no lament."</p> -<p class="normal">"M'sieur ees so <i>riche</i> and <i>distingué!</i> He vill not see a poor man +<p class="normal">"M'sieur ees so <i>riche</i> and <i>distingué!</i> He vill not see a poor man lose ze sparings of his life," and he bowed cringingly to the chair.</p> <p class="normal">Farmer Belmore vied with him in a gaze of pathetic sweetness and @@ -5456,382 +5421,7 @@ AND MIDDLE MILL KINGSTON-ON-THAMES.</h5> <br> <br> - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Rich Man's Relatives (Vol. 2 of 3), by -Robert Cleland - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A RICH MAN'S RELATIVES *** - -***** This file should be named 40332-h.htm or 40332-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/3/3/40332/ - -Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the -Web Archive (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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