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Gilbert Parker. The Money Master, Complete
The Money Master, Complete
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. THE GRAND TOUR OF JEAN JACQUES BARBILLE
CHAPTER II. “THE REST OF THE STORY TO-MORROW”
CHAPTER III. “TO-MORROW”
CHAPTER IV. THIRTEEN YEARS AFTER AND THE CLERK OF THE COURT TELLS A STORY
CHAPTER V. THE CLERK OF THE COURT ENDS HIS STORY
CHAPTER VI. JEAN JACQUES HAD HAD A GREAT DAY
CHAPTER VII. JEAN JACQUES AWAKES FROM SLEEP
CHAPTER VIII. THE GATE IN THE WALL
CHAPTER IX. “MOI-JE SUIS PHILOSOPHE”
CHAPTER X. “QUIEN SABE”—WHO KNOWS!
CHAPTER XI. THE CLERK OF THE COURT KEEPS A PROMISE
CHAPTER XII. THE MASTER-CARPENTER HAS A PROBLEM
CHAPTER XIII. THE MAN FROM OUTSIDE
CHAPTER XIV. “I DO NOT WANT TO GO”
CHAPTER XV. BON MARCHE
CHAPTER XVI. MISFORTUNES COME NOT SINGLY
CHAPTER XVII. HIS GREATEST ASSET
CHAPTER XVIII. JEAN JACQUES HAS AN OFFER
CHAPTER XIX. SEBASTIAN DOLORES DOES NOT SLEEP
CHAPTER XX. “AU ‘VOIR, M’SIEU’ JEAN JACQUES”
CHAPTER XXI. IF SHE HAD KNOWN IN TIME
CHAPTER XXII. BELLS OF MEMORY
CHAPTER XXIII. JEAN JACQUES HAS WORK TO DO
CHAPTER XXIV. JEAN JACQUES ENCAMPED
CHAPTER XXV. WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?
EPILOGUE
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Gilbert Parker
Published by Good Press, 2019
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She made a gesture of despair. “So—that’s it. Habit in us is so strong. It comes through the veins of our mothers to us. We say that God is a lie one minute, and then the next minute we say, ‘God guard you!’ Always—always calling to something, for something outside ourselves. That is why I said Santa Maria, why I ask her to pray for the soul of my friend, to pray to the God that breaks me and mine, and sends us over the seas, beggars without a home.”
Now she had him back out of the vanities of his philosophy. He was up, inflamed, looking at her with an excitement on which she depended for her future. She knew the caution of his nature, she realized how he would take one step forward and another step back, and maybe get nowhere in the end, and she wanted him—for a home, for her father’s sake, for what he could do for them both. She had no compunctions. She thought herself too good for him, in a way, for in her day men of place and mark had taken notice of her; and if it had not been for her Gonzales she would no doubt have listened to one of them sometime or another. She knew she had ability, even though she was indolent, and she thought she could do as much for him as any other girl. If she gave him a handsome wife and handsome children, and made men envious of him, and filled him with good things, for she could cook more than tortillas-she felt he would have no right to complain. She meant him to marry her—and Quebec was very near!
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