As she passed him, she said: "At least we keep it in the parish.

If you don't have it, well, then..." She paused, for she did not quite know what to say unless she spoke what was really in her mind, and she dared not do that.
"But you ought to have an heirloom," she added, leaving unsaid what was her real thought and hope.

With sudden inspiration, for he saw she was trying to make it easy for him, he drew the great silver-watch from his pocket, which the head of the Barbilles had worn for generations, and said: "I have the only heirloom I could carry about with me.

It will keep time for me as long as I'll last.

The Manor clock strikes the time for the world, and this watch is set by the Manor clock." "Well said--well and truly said, M'sieu' Jean Jacques," remarked the lean watchmaker and so-called jeweller of Vilray, who stood near.