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m’ sieu’. T ow pck all day hard forche "money, and when the ritoriey
(¿me—well we have gppd,'tiirierSjSp.itnot fair,'tdi* sieu’? To work
hard one must haye some Tun. For what then is* the moneygopd??-'
Fprile day you will be old-” |
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“I have riot think: of tlyit m’ ,§i£u’,” anylf then'/sjuddeniy^ “The^,
fi^h he ypU bite fin^ tomorrow.”
I “Yes* I Jiòpe so. ,We wiH'St^rth early’' so J think I shall <go;t£)$
béd.Y^QÒd night, Jacq^e^U” §.
But Jaoqtres1 did nofot etite. ! Fi,è .seamed disturbed, as though a
struggle were gding su, within him. ThejKvening silently changed
td night, and Jacques- sat thinking. The stars came out one by oiie^
until the heavèqs were dotted- with twinkling- jo in ts fof light-OThe
mopn showed itself above-the t r ^ j ^ A n d still Ja c q u e s/# t thinking.
Suddenly- he arose and came vapidly into the.cabin.
“.doming,to bed; Jacqqes??’'.'-said-’If^
"“^ih, is m’ sieu’ awaise^j I must tell you wh^t .1 have;think. iT
have decide—” and he hesitated.
“Yes'.”'
• “F have decide.,not -to drink until;—let’s see—one year.” •
^wlfbeached for his hand. “It W a bargain,’ Jacques' for. ¿pe'^ear?^
Àridoi^e‘‘were sodn asleep.
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y /ì^ te n during the long wintry m o n th ^w h en the open fire wan;
lighted, I- would sit in the circle'pf its,cheerful blazean d .dream'
th'psepdanadian w o o d la n d gazing into the glpwiqg coàls I ^ p u ld
Sbnfetimes picture theTiittle cabin in the-w ildernes^'and wpnder if
Jacques had kept his p r o r a i^ W hen the;.w^rm dày^pf,spring began
to awaken sleeping treeSfand flowers, the?-forest stream ^callcd t o
m e,with a sweet persistency ?So?with the. coming of early grimmer
I began my Journey.
V;J^hen,.L arrived at the littk village^eyening hadnlréady.settled
oVW the forest,' and the voices of the y?0^q®wo mume$qu,§ b y | day?
W-er£ hushed, f ^ ^ l i g h t breeze qriietly stirred the b r a n c h ^ of the
trees, but the^Pfl? al^ $ ^ $ ia tt< ib le ,sound^seeme,d to,-add fp the
deep*'stillness? How gpod.it was to* be back again ip t h r f j i e t place;1
It was the comiilg hofrae aftdr ad^l^W andering',,
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' I hurried rip the path untiM heTaFiri loomed before me. J jacqriq^
must have-retired,,fpt no -light'appeared^iri the window. 1 Well, I
wo^ld .awakefi him^SP I rapped lpudLy^upon the d ^ r h ^ h ^ n ^ f e p Ì y
came to my 'ear ; only the murmur of, the trees- Sufely hq was not
at the yWaglJ for had i^ n o b ? proniispd. -3 À ffin I ràpped;?,but no