The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-09-19

Inc peasant woman began 70 uhuS1
stand. She asked:
"You want to take Chariot from us /"
All ben non mo indeed"
Then Nj. d'Hubiers broke in:
my wife has not explained herself
well. We want to adopt him; but he
will come TO see you. If he should turn
ont we'll, c: we have every reason TO be-
Eeve, he will be our heir. If, by any
| possible chance, we should have other
children he will share our property
equally with them. But if he should
| not turn out according to our expecta-
tions, then, upon his coming of age, We
would settle on him a sum of 10000
francs, which would be at one placed
to his credit in notary's hands. And
as you have of course been taken into
consideration, you will receive regular
" during your whole life an allowance
of 100 francs q month. Now, do you
understand"
The farmers wife had already risen
to her feet in high fury:
"You want me to sell you Chariot?
All! I should say notl-that is a nice
thing to ask of q mother !-Ah! l should
say not! That would be an abomina-
ton ?"
The man himself, serious and thought
full, said nothing; but he approved his
wife's speech by a continuous noddlng OF
his head.
Madame d'Hubieres, quite confused,
began to cry; and, turning to her hus-
band, stammered out IN a voice broken
by sobs, the voice OF a child whose or
binary wishes are always gratitied:
They won't do it, Henry!-they
won't do it,"
Then he made a last effort:
"But, my friends, think of the future
of your child, think of what is offered
10 him, of"
Exasperated, the peasant woman cut
him short
Its all thought over, it's all under
stood, it's all considered. Get out of
here-and what's more dontlet me ever
see You here again. To think peoples
allowed to want to take q child from
folks like that?" .
Then Nine. d. Hubieres, as she was
going, remembered there were two lit
tie ones; and with the tenacity Of self
willed and petted darling who never
can endure refusal, she asked through
her tears:
"But the other little one-it doesn't
belong to y0u?" Father Tuyache re-
piled:
mo; it belongs to the neighbors.
You can go and ask them if you like"
And he returned into the house, where
the loud-echoing voice of his angry wife
could still be heard. +.
The Vallin family were sitting at the
table-eating very ~leisurly some big
crusts of bread, which they rubbed par
simoniously with a little butter, each
taking an almost imperceptible bit of
butter at a time on the end of a knife,
from a plate between them in the mid
die of the table.
M. d'Hubieres recommended his prop
ositions, but this time more insinuating-
ly, with ~oratorical precautions, with as
~tuteness. The two country people at
first shook their heads in sign ofrefusal;
but when told that they would receive
100 francs a month, they looked at one
another; they began to consult one an
others eyes, with their resolution con-
siderably shaken.
They kept silence a long, long time,
feeling tortured; hesitating. At last
the woman asked:
"Herel man, what do you say about
it?"
he answered with sententious pro-
nunciation:
II say that it's worth thinking about"
Then Madame d'Hubieres, ~quivering
with anxiety, began to talk to them
about the fortune of the child, about
the money he would be able to give them
some day.
The peasant asked:
"And that allowance of 1000 francs
you talk about. viii be pledged to us
before the notary?D
M. dHubieres:
1Why, Q course, tomorrow you draw
it,"
The woman, who had been very
thoughtful, spoke again:
"a hundred francs q month isn't
enough for giving up the child; that
there child can work in q few years; we
must git a hundred and twenty francs"
Stamping her little foot with impar
thence, Madame d Hnbieres acceded to
the sum at once; and as she wanted to
take the child away at once, she gave
them q present Of 100 francs, while her
husband commenced to dyaw up the
necessary papers The Mavor and one