You were only fourteen then, but I've never forgotten.

And she, that sweet young lady, she--she was there too; and now when I look at this Tarboe, the brother of that man, and see her and know what I know--sacre!" He waved a hand.

"No-no-no, don't think there's anything except what's in the soul.

That man has touched ma'm'selle--I don't know why, but he has touched her heart.

Perhaps by his great bulk, his cleverness, his brains, his way of doing things.