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diff --git a/40333-h/40333-h.htm b/40333-h/40333-h.htm index 3c88df7..d36f950 100644 --- a/40333-h/40333-h.htm +++ b/40333-h/40333-h.htm @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ <meta name="Publisher" content="F. V. White and Co."> <meta name="Date" content="1885"> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <style type="text/css"> body {margin-left:10%; margin-right:10%; background-color:#FFFFFF;} @@ -98,42 +98,7 @@ p.hang2 {margin-left:3em; text-indent:0em;} </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -Project Gutenberg's A Rich Man's Relatives (Vol. 3 of 3), by Robert Cleland - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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. 3 of 3) - -Author: Robert Cleland - -Release Date: July 27, 2012 [EBook #40333] - -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 40333 ***</div> <br> <br> @@ -215,7 +180,7 @@ 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 @@ -443,7 +408,7 @@ AND MIDDLE MILL KINGSTON-ON-THAMES.</h4> <td>--<a name="div1Ref_13" href="#div1_13"><span class="sc">At Caughnawaga.</span></a></td> </tr><tr> <td>XIV.</td> -<td>--<a name="div1Ref_14" href="#div1_14"><span class="sc">Thérèse's Revenge.</span></a></td> +<td>--<a name="div1Ref_14" href="#div1_14"><span class="sc">Thérèse's Revenge.</span></a></td> </tr><tr> <td>XV.</td> <td>--<a name="div1Ref_15" href="#div1_15"><span class="sc">The Selbys.</span></a></td> @@ -491,7 +456,7 @@ and met reserved and distant glances on every side. They had not waited for his coming, and were already deep in business. His own arm-chair, he observed--the arm-chair of pre-eminence at the end of the table, heretofore sacred to his own use, was occupied by M. -Petitôt, the pork packer, vice-president of the bank, who, however, +Petitôt, the pork packer, vice-president of the bank, who, however, had the grace to rise apologetically, and make way, observing that they had feared Mr. Herkimer did not intend to be present, when Mr. Jowler, the bark dealer, sprang to his feet, and moved that the @@ -538,7 +503,7 @@ turned before proceeding to overhaul his account?"</p> <p class="normal">"It is true, gentlemen, and not a bit stronger than the facts warrant."</p> -<p class="normal">"Indeed, Mr. President," said Petitôt blandly--he was noted for a +<p class="normal">"Indeed, Mr. President," said Petitôt blandly--he was noted for a courteous benignity which never failed, so long at least as there remained a chance of the other side's ability to make him regret being otherwise. After that--well, after those others became too weak for it @@ -620,18 +585,18 @@ papers to-morrow. You will find the announcement on your table, Mr. Seebright, when you get back to your office, and an advertisement for to-morrow's issue."</p> -<p class="normal">"Five per cent?" said Petitôt, congratulating himself on not having +<p class="normal">"Five per cent?" said Petitôt, congratulating himself on not having joined in the late attempted onslaught. "Is not that unexpected? I have heard no word of it."</p> <p class="normal">"It was only decided this morning, and we agreed to declare it at -once, so that <i>bonâ fide</i> shareholders should reap the advantage +once, so that <i>bonâ fide</i> shareholders should reap the advantage rather than mere speculators."</p> -<p class="normal">"And it is not known yet?" asked Petitôt eagerly. "But it <i>will</i> be, +<p class="normal">"And it is not known yet?" asked Petitôt eagerly. "But it <i>will</i> be, in an hour's time," he added, answering himself. "Gentlemen! I think there is no other business before the board. I declare the meeting -adjourned to this day next week;" and, seizing his hat, Mr. Petitôt +adjourned to this day next week;" and, seizing his hat, Mr. Petitôt was gone, and half-way across the street to his broker's before any of his brethren could have interposed a word, which, however, none of them seemed wishful to do. Such a rush for hats and general stampede @@ -1056,7 +1021,7 @@ are prowling about the neighbourhood, and trying to get at our people to treat and pump them?"</p> <p class="normal">"The men speak mostly French, the prowlers English. There is safety in -that. The men are good Catholics, too; M. le Curé recommended many of +that. The men are good Catholics, too; M. le Curé recommended many of them, and they think the English want to tamper with their religion, so they give them a wide berth."</p> @@ -2537,7 +2502,7 @@ that he had joined Herkimer in his travels. The latter view became the popular one; it kept the two names conjoined, which seemed best, they came up together so often now in the talk on 'Change; for the great house in the Rue des Borgnes--Ralph Herkimer & Son--had come down, and -great was the fall of it, the Banque Sangsue Prêteuse was involved in +great was the fall of it, the Banque Sangsue Prêteuse was involved in the ruin, so was the Mining Association of St. Euphrase, and so were other important concerns. They had all tumbled together in one confusion of ruin which set the ears of the public ringing, and filled @@ -3322,7 +3287,7 @@ plaudits in which they all shared, but which were especially for him who had earned the victory. They had won the first game.</p> <p class="normal">Randolph occupied a chair in front of the grand stand, and beside him -sat Adéline Rouget, dressed in cardinal red and white, tolerably +sat Adéline Rouget, dressed in cardinal red and white, tolerably conspicuous, and not objecting to be looked at; but still better pleased with the evident admiration in Randolph's eyes, and the devoted attention he was paying her, than with anything else. They @@ -3386,7 +3351,7 @@ owing to his companion's close proximity.</p> <p class="normal">"I vish to speak to mademoiselle, my daughtaire."</p> -<p class="normal">"Adéline is here, sir;" showing with his left hand how the parent +<p class="normal">"Adéline is here, sir;" showing with his left hand how the parent might place himself on her other side.</p> <p class="normal">"Mademoiselle Rouget vill dispense vit your presence, sair," with @@ -3395,12 +3360,12 @@ hand, but in the direction of his right, the consequence being that his foot caught between the legs of Randolph's chair, and he found himself prostrated on the turf.</p> -<p class="normal">"<i>Mon Dieu!</i>" cried Adéline, rising and taking refuge with one of her +<p class="normal">"<i>Mon Dieu!</i>" cried Adéline, rising and taking refuge with one of her friends, a few chairs off, under the impression that a brawl in public was imminent, and screening herself from all share in it with her parasol, while she continued to watch the scene through the fringes.</p> -<p class="normal">"<i>Sac-r-r-ré</i>," growled the father, passing from dignity into fury. +<p class="normal">"<i>Sac-r-r-ré</i>," growled the father, passing from dignity into fury. Dignity cannot possibly survive a trip up with a chair leg, and there is no refuge from the ridicule of the thing but in anger.</p> @@ -3445,16 +3410,16 @@ such terms to me? I did not think you would have done it. I know nothing of business transactions between you and my father. I presume both are men of the world. It would be impertinent in me to inquire into your affairs. But you yourself have sanctioned my pretensions to -Adéline's hand, and our engagement."</p> +Adéline's hand, and our engagement."</p> <p class="normal">"Have ze bounty to speake of Mademoiselle Rouget by her proper title--Mademoiselle Rouget de La Hache-young sair! Ze promesse or contract is now forfeit, as you should know, by ze <i>chicane</i> of--of -<i>monsieur voire père</i>," with a shrug and a low bow. "I mus rekvest you +<i>monsieur voire père</i>," with a shrug and a low bow. "I mus rekvest you vill not again intrude yourself on ze presence of mademoiselle my daughtaire, who is on ze point to make a retraite at ze Convent of ze Sacred Heart, and von day may have ze blessedness to become -<i>réligieuse</i>. Mademoiselle Rouget vill not be at home to you in +<i>réligieuse</i>. Mademoiselle Rouget vill not be at home to you in future." And thereupon the little gentleman executed his very finest bow, exhibiting both rows of his perfectly-fitting false teeth from ear to ear, and turned away. He was surprised, a minute later, on @@ -3478,27 +3443,27 @@ make way for Rouget, who presented his arm with a ceremonious bow, and led his daughter from the ground.</p> <p class="normal">Their walk homeward could not have been a happy one. When Randolph met -Adéline, at ten minutes before seven, her face was flushed and her +Adéline, at ten minutes before seven, her face was flushed and her eyes swollen.</p> -<p class="normal">"Adéline! have you consented to be made a nun, then?"</p> +<p class="normal">"Adéline! have you consented to be made a nun, then?"</p> <p class="normal">"Not if I know it! Not if my Randolphe ees true."</p> -<p class="normal">"Are you game to run away, Adéline? It would be a sin to cut off all +<p class="normal">"Are you game to run away, Adéline? It would be a sin to cut off all that splendid hair. My mother is at Long Branch. Shall we go to her? I have money enough to take us down."</p> <p class="normal">"Long Branch! It vould be divine! my Randolphe. Ze saison ees not yet there passed. I vill go. But--for ze toilettes? And so many are demanded zere. But yes! I do see ze vay. I vill send ze robes to -<i>cette chère</i> Mlle. Petitôt, and she vill forvard by express."</p> +<i>cette chère</i> Mlle. Petitôt, and she vill forvard by express."</p> <p class="normal">"The very thing! I hate the bother of women's trunks. Besides, we could not get them out of the house. You can stroll in to Mlle. -Petitôt after dinner and explain. She will do anything to oblige a +Petitôt after dinner and explain. She will do anything to oblige a friend. And then your maid can bundle the things over the wall, from -the one garden to the other, and Mlle. Petitôt will do the rest. Our +the one garden to the other, and Mlle. Petitôt will do the rest. Our train leaves at half-past eleven to-night. I shall be at the corner with a cab at eleven sharp. Be sure and bring as little baggage as you can; nothing but what I can carry on the run from here to the corner, @@ -3517,16 +3482,16 @@ to disturb her, and they hoped to see her at breakfast about ten.</p> a broad verandah overlooking the sea. "You impetuous, inconsiderate, absurd pair of children. And to come to Long Branch, of all places. Do you know how much a day it costs to live here? And what about gowns, -Adéline? You can scarcely come down to breakfast, even once, in that +Adéline? You can scarcely come down to breakfast, even once, in that travelling suit, and assuredly you must not be seen in it again after half-past eleven."</p> <p class="normal">"We came to you, mother, because we had no one else," said Randolph. -"Adéline has run away, without a single thing, unless Mlle. Petitôt +"Adéline has run away, without a single thing, unless Mlle. Petitôt should send her some clothes, and that depends on the maid's being able to throw them over the garden wall."</p> -<p class="normal">"You pair of babies! Adéline, the very wisest thing that you can do is +<p class="normal">"You pair of babies! Adéline, the very wisest thing that you can do is to go right back home again."</p> <p class="normal">"They'd stick her into a convent, mother. Her father told me himself @@ -3545,10 +3510,10 @@ cannot afford to support a family of three at Long Branch. It costs a great deal too much for the mere living, not to speak of the dressing. Again, at St. Euphrase, I can make you young people work for your board, as, of course, being honest, you would like. Randolph shall dig -the garden and Adéline shall milk the cows. That will save me two +the garden and Adéline shall milk the cows. That will save me two servants' wages."</p> -<p class="normal">"<i>Mais, madame</i>," whimpered Adéline, "Randolphe has me promessed to +<p class="normal">"<i>Mais, madame</i>," whimpered Adéline, "Randolphe has me promessed to come to Long Branch for to see ze gaieties."</p> <p class="normal">"My child, you have no clothes to appear in. You will have to look at @@ -3557,7 +3522,7 @@ to be brought you. Are you aware that three new gowns every day is the smallest number in which any self-respecting woman can appear at Long Branch? You need not smile, it is no laughing matter. You will compromise me hopelessly if you come downstairs, and, I may add, -that any things Mlle. Petitôt may send you will not help you here. +that any things Mlle. Petitôt may send you will not help you here. Tailor-made gowns are <i>de rigueur</i>, and above all, they must be indubitably new, and worn for the very first time. I would recommend a bilious attack, my dear; keep your room. And, after all, a fictitious @@ -3567,17 +3532,17 @@ by writing your mother. She will be anxious to know what has become of you, and I dare say I shall be able to make your peace now, more easily than later."</p> -<p class="normal">"Ah! <i>Chère madame</i>, do not write. Zey vill send me to ze <i>couvent</i>. I +<p class="normal">"Ah! <i>Chère madame</i>, do not write. Zey vill send me to ze <i>couvent</i>. I know so vell. And never to come out again. And zere I shall be made -make ze <i>grande rétraite</i> for always for marrying me vidout consent. -And it will be so <i>triste</i>, have <i>pitié, ma mere</i>."</p> +make ze <i>grande rétraite</i> for always for marrying me vidout consent. +And it will be so <i>triste</i>, have <i>pitié, ma mere</i>."</p> <p class="normal">"My dear child, you may trust me. I have no intention of giving you up, all the archbishops in Lower Canada shall not deprive my boy of his wife. Now, be sensible, for once! Go back to your room, and I will do my best for you."</p> -<p class="normal">And poor Adéline, like a naughty child, went upstairs to her room.</p> +<p class="normal">And poor Adéline, like a naughty child, went upstairs to her room.</p> <p class="normal">That day Amelia had a long letter to write. She liked letter-writing, for she imagined she had a talent for affairs, and this is what she @@ -3599,7 +3564,7 @@ disappearance, has fallen into good hands. At the same time, permit me to assure you, dear Madame Rouget, that this--I scarcely know how to express my feelings on the subject--this elopement is none of my devising. I neither instigated, assisted, nor approve it. The children -are of different faiths, and I fear poor Adéline has no fortune, and +are of different faiths, and I fear poor Adéline has no fortune, and no prospect of ever having any. She has come here claiming my maternal care, and, actually, she has not a gown fit to appear at breakfast in. I have recommended her to keep her room, and, if you are the @@ -3615,7 +3580,7 @@ dowered. Perhaps so; I shall not express an opinion; but, for myself, I feel untrammelled by such a consideration. When I was married myself, my dearest father saw that I did not go to my husband penniless. He availed himself of our admirable Lower Canada law, and I -was <i>séparée des biens</i>. I have my own income, which no one can touch, +was <i>séparée des biens</i>. I have my own income, which no one can touch, and my own house at St. Euphrase, bought with my own money. If La Hache--what is left of it--were settled on your daughter in the same way, it might prove a blessing some day.</p> @@ -3637,7 +3602,7 @@ something.</p> themselves, having adopted civil marriage. Had Randolph's suit progressed, as was at one time contemplated, it is probable that, as he is no bigot, he might have acquiesced in any wishes of his -<i>fiancée</i> or her family; but now they have forbidden the match, and +<i>fiancée</i> or her family; but now they have forbidden the match, and yet it has taken place. I will not consent to any disrespect being now shown to our venerable Church of England, and, indeed, I have never been able to understand how one section of the Catholic Church can @@ -3806,7 +3771,7 @@ they had come from.</p> <p class="normal">"Who are you?"</p> -<p class="normal">"His mother--Fidèle--Your squaw."</p> +<p class="normal">"His mother--Fidèle--Your squaw."</p> <p class="normal">"My son? Where born?"</p> @@ -3815,7 +3780,7 @@ they had come from.</p> <p class="normal">"Ouff." It would have been undignified for a man like Paul to say more. It meant all he had to say, too, very likely. For, doubtless, language which is never uttered ceases to be given birth to in the -mind. He turned, however, with Fidèle, and both walked back to the +mind. He turned, however, with Fidèle, and both walked back to the tent.</p> <p class="normal">The lad was better now. Refreshment was going on, the people seeing @@ -3832,9 +3797,9 @@ finally accepted his son and his long absent spouse to his heart; that is to say, he bade them follow him to Lachine, and then conducted them across the river, and to his home in Caughnawaga.</p> -<p class="normal">Thérèse had ruled there as mistress from the day Fidèle had gone away. +<p class="normal">Thérèse had ruled there as mistress from the day Fidèle had gone away. That was so long ago now, that it had never occurred to her that her -sister would return, and the Père Théophile, a wise ruler, who, while +sister would return, and the Père Théophile, a wise ruler, who, while his flock did their duty according to what he considered their lights, and were duly submissive, did not unnecessarily fret them with abstract questions of affinity, ignored any irregularity, collected @@ -3850,10 +3815,10 @@ and otherwise, out of his son's fine play.</p> <p class="normal">He received, then, his new-found family into his home and established them there with honour. Young Paul, with the privileges of a "buck," lolled about the place, eating, sleeping, smoking all day long, like -his father. Fidèle sat by the hearth in her blanket and smoked her +his father. Fidèle sat by the hearth in her blanket and smoked her pipe, while the household drudgery, now doubled by the addition to the household, trebled by the presence of a squaw claiming to be first -wife, criticizing, ordering, and doing no work, fell on Thérèse and +wife, criticizing, ordering, and doing no work, fell on Thérèse and her girls--to cut and carry wood, draw water, dig potatoes, cook, and share the leavings, after the more considered members had eaten their fill. It was hard lines.</p> @@ -3863,15 +3828,15 @@ That same evening the crest-fallen lacrosse players were told that old Paul had recognized young Paul as his son, and brought him away from the Brautford band to themselves; and all the bucks in the Reservation came to welcome the certain winner of games, and congratulate his -father. The middle-aged squaws recollected Fidèle, and came to praise +father. The middle-aged squaws recollected Fidèle, and came to praise her son, squatting round the hearth in their blankets with lighted -pipes, while poor Thérèse, deposed from her motherhood of the house, +pipes, while poor Thérèse, deposed from her motherhood of the house, stole out to the garden-patch to dig and bewail her fate.</p> <p class="normal">It cannot be supposed that the relations of the two squaws could be cordial when they found themselves alone together. Their being sisters made it none the less intolerable to be, or to have been, supplanted. -Thérèse felt injured now, and Fidèle remembered the wrongs and the +Thérèse felt injured now, and Fidèle remembered the wrongs and the jealousy of fifteen years. It was not many days before they came to blows, scolding, screaming, scratching, and pulling handfuls of each other's hair, till a crowd of squaws had gathered from the surrounding @@ -3892,14 +3857,14 @@ we be better off, I wonder? When every one is master, who will serve? When all become commissioned officers, who will be left to fill the ranks?</p> -<p class="normal">There was worse yet in store for Thérèse, however. Fidèle must needs +<p class="normal">There was worse yet in store for Thérèse, however. Fidèle must needs go to mass in that well-watched community. In Brant she could please herself, but in Caughnawaga there were ladies of the convent to be -pleased, who were so bountiful. Fidèle's re-appearance came thus -officially before the Père Théophile. Scandal must be prevented, Paul +pleased, who were so bountiful. Fidèle's re-appearance came thus +officially before the Père Théophile. Scandal must be prevented, Paul could not be permitted the luxury of two wives at once, however capable he might be of keeping them both in order. More, it was the -newcomer, in this case, who was the lawful wife. Thérèse must go, and +newcomer, in this case, who was the lawful wife. Thérèse must go, and he laid his injunction on Paul accordingly. Paul was submissive; one squaw was enough to mind his comfort, and it mattered not which, though, if anything, the boy's mother would suit the best. He obeyed @@ -3922,7 +3887,7 @@ their blankets, bruised and ashamed. No one spoke to them or pitied them. The squaws, their daily companions, sitting at their doors, sewing, smoking, idling, looked steadily at them as they went by; some with a wooden stolidity which showed no sign of recognition, some with -a spiteful and vindictive leer. Thérèse had been better off than many +a spiteful and vindictive leer. Thérèse had been better off than many of them, but who would change places with her now?</p> <p class="normal">The dusk was falling, and the nights were growing chilly now; there @@ -3951,7 +3916,7 @@ them off.</p> <br> <h2>CHAPTER XIV.</h2> -<h3><a name="div1_14" href="#div1Ref_14">THÉRÈSE'S REVENGE</a>.</h3> +<h3><a name="div1_14" href="#div1Ref_14">THÉRÈSE'S REVENGE</a>.</h3> <br> <p class="normal">The daylight had returned, but the sun was not yet up, and the air was @@ -3960,7 +3925,7 @@ them roughly.</p> <p class="normal">"What are yez doin' here? Stailin' is it ye're afther, eh?"</p> -<p class="normal">"Sleep here all night," was Thérèse's answer, as she slowly regained +<p class="normal">"Sleep here all night," was Thérèse's answer, as she slowly regained her feet. She was stiff with cold. "No home to go to--come here."</p> <p class="normal">"A shindy at home was it? Turned out of doors is it ye are? Sarves ye @@ -3994,21 +3959,21 @@ superiors could be got, as three squawks sleeping on a pier.</p> you off this time, but if"--another shake of his finger--"but if ever--I--catch-you here again--you may look out for squalls."</p> -<p class="normal">Thérèse had lifted her head in dull indifference; but at the sound of +<p class="normal">Thérèse had lifted her head in dull indifference; but at the sound of his voice her face changed. She looked at him. It was now long ago since she had heard that voice before--when she was quite a girl, the speaker quite a young man--but the occasion was a momentous one. It -was when she had been arrested by mistake instead of Fidèle. If only -it had been Fidèle indeed; and if Fidèle had been punished then as she +was when she had been arrested by mistake instead of Fidèle. If only +it had been Fidèle indeed; and if Fidèle had been punished then as she deserved, she would not have come back again, like the hungry ghosts of the long forgotten dead, to push the living from their stools and bring them to ruin.</p> -<p class="normal">There kindled a red coal down deep at the bottom of Thérèse's eyes +<p class="normal">There kindled a red coal down deep at the bottom of Thérèse's eyes and made them glow and burn, and the surging blood rose to her weather-beaten cheek and reddened it behind the scarce transparent; skin the lips parted, and the white teeth glistened, and for the -moment Thérèse in her fury looked handsomer, if in an evil way, than +moment Thérèse in her fury looked handsomer, if in an evil way, than she had ever done in her youth. It was no apathetic face now, carven in walnut wood, but rather the features of a snake-haired fury, as one may see them at times in the caverns of a red-coal fire.</p> @@ -4032,13 +3997,13 @@ next time."</p> <p class="normal">"To be sure. Do you know where it is?"</p> -<p class="normal">"<i>Morte</i>," grunted Thérèse, with a wicked flash of her eye--"ze +<p class="normal">"<i>Morte</i>," grunted Thérèse, with a wicked flash of her eye--"ze bones."</p> <p class="normal">"Murder? Do you say it was murdered? Did you see it done? Did you do it yourself?"</p> -<p class="normal">"No. Fidèle and Paul."</p> +<p class="normal">"No. Fidèle and Paul."</p> <p class="normal">"Will you swear out an information. There is a reward still out. It has not been withdrawn that ever I heard. If I get you that reward, is @@ -4053,7 +4018,7 @@ bargain?"</p> <p class="normal">"Where shall I find you?--to-morrow morning, say?"</p> -<p class="normal">Thérèse shook her head despondingly, and looked at her children. +<p class="normal">Thérèse shook her head despondingly, and looked at her children. "Hungry."</p> <p class="normal">"Who's your buck?"</p> @@ -4062,7 +4027,7 @@ bargain?"</p> <p class="normal">"I know Paul. Has he turned you off?"</p> -<p class="normal">"Got Fidèle."</p> +<p class="normal">"Got Fidèle."</p> <p class="normal">"Aha! That's it, is it? And you know where those bones are? Sure?"</p> @@ -4073,9 +4038,9 @@ dollar for you. You say you're hungry, and Paul has turned you out of doors. Be on the Lachine side of the ferry this evening. I may have to lock you up, but you'll be well used."</p> -<p class="normal">That evening, at sunset, the police landed Paul and Fidèle, both -handcuffed, on the Lachine wharf, where Thérèse joined the party of -her own accord, and they all proceeded by train to Montreal. Thérèse +<p class="normal">That evening, at sunset, the police landed Paul and Fidèle, both +handcuffed, on the Lachine wharf, where Thérèse joined the party of +her own accord, and they all proceeded by train to Montreal. Thérèse could not refrain from uttering one cluck of triumph as she passed her late master and looked at his bonds, while he shot her a look of fury and strained at his handcuffs in a way which showed it was well that @@ -4083,14 +4048,14 @@ they were strong; and then all the party subsided into the stony stillness of their ordinary demeanour.</p> <p class="normal">There was nothing very striking in the first examination which -followed. Thérèse recollected having seen a small grave dug in the -back kitchen, and an empty box laid beside it. Then Fidèle had come in -and exchanged clothes with her, and then she (Thérèse) went away. -Neither Fidèle nor the baby had been seen afterwards. She herself had +followed. Thérèse recollected having seen a small grave dug in the +back kitchen, and an empty box laid beside it. Then Fidèle had come in +and exchanged clothes with her, and then she (Thérèse) went away. +Neither Fidèle nor the baby had been seen afterwards. She herself had been taken up and accused of stealing the child, but it had been shown that she had not left Caughnawaga on the day of the kidnapping, and she had been acquitted. After that Paul had taken her as his squaw, -and they had lived together ever since. A fortnight ago Fidèle had +and they had lived together ever since. A fortnight ago Fidèle had returned, and since then she had suffered much ill-usage, and finally been turned out of doors.</p> @@ -4174,12 +4139,12 @@ almost seemed; but then there would have been no information laid against Herkimer, and ever since the day he had been dismissed with contumely from his office before all those sniggering clerks, his fingers had been itching to be at the man's throat, and only prudence -had restrained them. Fidèle's face remained unchanged, for, naturally, +had restrained them. Fidèle's face remained unchanged, for, naturally, she was not surprised; but there came a twinkle of childish humour into her face to see how all those arrogant whites had been fooled by a poor squaw.</p> -<p class="normal">Thérèse was disappointed, but not more than her experiences as a squaw +<p class="normal">Thérèse was disappointed, but not more than her experiences as a squaw had long taught her to bear. The down-trodden are not much crushed when an expectation gives way. Her foes, it was true, were not to be tried for their lives, but they were still to be locked up, and @@ -4362,7 +4327,7 @@ before then, but not much. Well, he tells Uncle Dionysius here--that's not here, exactly, but in the study--that he ran away with Miss Rouget, the seignior's daughter. Stuck-up looking thing she is. No complexion to speak of; a snub nose. Yes, indeed, Aunt Judy, it is a -snub. <i>Nez retroussé</i>, is it? That's because she's Miss Rouget de La +snub. <i>Nez retroussé</i>, is it? That's because she's Miss Rouget de La Hache, and a kind of a somebody; though folks do say they've lost their money all the same--like better folks who make less moan. But, anyhow, Randolph ran away with her--fixed a fire-escape on to her @@ -4422,10 +4387,10 @@ on to it. White satin? Oh, yes, it's pretty and stylish; but I see by white as they used to be; and white satin would not be much use afterwards for apple-paring bees, and sich; that's the form our gaiety takes mostly in the country round here. Yellow? Well, I did read not -long ago about a <i>recherché</i> nuptials, somewhere, and the bride was +long ago about a <i>recherché</i> nuptials, somewhere, and the bride was dressed to represent a sunflower--poetical fancy, wasn't it? Yes, yellow's a good colour--easily seen--but it soils just as bad as -white, or worse, for one can say <i>écru</i> for dirty white, but what can +white, or worse, for one can say <i>écru</i> for dirty white, but what can be said for soiled yellow? Just nothing, for everybody sees it's gone dirty.</p> @@ -4702,7 +4667,7 @@ girl's hand.</p> for had she not brought these people together? The emotional silence, when every one was filled with the same idea, made her think of the closing tableau in a pantomime, and to feel herself the beneficent -spirit who had brought about the happy <i>dénouement</i>. She could not +spirit who had brought about the happy <i>dénouement</i>. She could not refrain from holding out her parasol over so many bowed heads. It seemed to her to have become a magic wand, tipped with a sparkling star. She could fancy, too, that her gown had transformed itself into @@ -4996,382 +4961,7 @@ AND MIDDLE MILL KINGSTON-ON-THAMES.</h5> <br> <br> - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Rich Man's Relatives (Vol. 3 of 3), by -Robert Cleland - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A RICH MAN'S RELATIVES *** - -***** This file should be named 40333-h.htm or 40333-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/3/3/40333/ - -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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