You didn't think of that when you came here, did you ?" he said composedly.
"Oh, mon Dieu!" she said, dropping rapidly into a different accent, with her white teeth and fixed mirthless smile, "so it is a claim for PROPERTY, eh?
You're wanting money--you?
Tres bien, you forget we are in California, where one does not own a slave.

And you have a fine story there, my poor friend.

Very pretty, but very hard to prove, m'sieu.

And these peasants are in it, eh, working it on shares like the farm, eh ?" "Well," said Dawson, slightly changing his position, and passing his hand over the horse's neck with a half-wearied contempt, "one of these men is from Plaquemine, and the other from Coupee.

They know all the l'Hommadieus' history.