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Maria Chapdelaine

CHAPTER X
12/18

Some there be who think themselves pretty strong-able to get on without God's help in their houses and on their lands...but in the bush..." With solemn voice and slowly-moving head he repeated: "We are but little children." "A good man he was," said Eutrope Gagnon, "in very truth a good man, strong and brave, with ill-will to none.' "Indeed that is true.

I am not saying that the good God had cause to send him to his death-him more than another.

He was a fine fellow, hard-working, and I loved him well.

But it shows you ..." "No one ever had a thing against him." Eutrope's generous insistence carried him on.

"A man hard to match for work, afraid of nothing and obliging withal.


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