Legend of Moulin Huet
Legend of Moulin Huet
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. "Ha! now I may discover
something," and going a few steps round the corner, he turned himself
into some bushes that overhung the path and bent down his head, prepared
to listen to the conversation of the pair coming along. Ah! Marguerite;
Ah, Charlie! how careful you would be did you know of the presence of
that dark-faced Jacques with his evil designs.
Unconsciously Jacques had placed himself in an excellent position to hear and see all that was going on, as immediately beneath the bushes in which he had hidden himself there was a large block of granite on which the lovers sat down to await Hirzel, who was coming up from the bay. Little they knew what power they were putting in the hands of one who would not scruple to use it to the utmost.
"So your father is still against me, Marguerite?"
"Yes, Charlie; and that dreadful Jacques is persecuting me as much as ever with his impertinent attentions. Only this evening he brought me some bobbins which I told him he might take elsewhere."
"That remind
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