I got the letter only a quarter of an hour ago, and I thought I would go at once to the Manor Cartier and tell M'sieu' Jean Jacques what the letter says.

I wanted to go to the Manor Cartier for something else as well, but I will speak of that by and by.

It is the letter now." She pulled off first one glove and then the other, still holding the letter, as though she was about to perform some ceremony.

"It was a good thing I found out that M'sieu' Jean Jacques was here.

It saves a four-mile drive," she remarked.
"The news--ah, nom de Dieu, the slowness of the woman--like a river going uphill!" exclaimed Jean Jacques, who was finding it hard to still the trembling of his limbs.
The widow of Palass Poucette flushed, but she had some sense in her head, and she realized that Jean Jacques was a little unbalanced at the moment.