But she proves her love to us, by taking her husband from Pontiac and coming back to us.

May she never find a spot so good to come to and so hard to leave as Pontiac!" He drank, and they all did the same.

Draining his glass, Medallion let it fall on the stone floor.

It broke into a score of pieces.
He came and shook hands with Lajeunesse.

"Give her my love," he said.
"Tell her the highest bidder on earth could not buy one of the kisses she gave me when she was five and I was twenty." Then he shook hands with them all and went into the next room.
"Why did he drop his glass ?" asked Gingras the shoemaker.
"That's the way of the aristocrats when it's the damnedest toast that ever was," said Duclosse the mealman.