Fille's arm in the companionship of
sorrow.
In silence these two watched the red wagon till it was out of sight.
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By Gilbert Parker
EPOCH THE FOURTH
XVI. MISFORTUNES COME NOT SINGLY
XVII. HIS GREATEST ASSET
XVIII. JEAN JACQUES HAS AN OFFER
XIX. SEBASTIAN DOLORES DOES NOT SLEEP
XX. "AU 'VOIR, M'SIEU' JEAN JACQUES"
XXI. IF SHE HAD KNOWN IN TIME
CHAPTER XVI
MISFORTUNES COME NOT SINGLY
Judge Carcasson was right. For a year after Zoe's flight Jean Jacques
wrapped Sebastian Dolores round his neck like a collar, and it choked him
like a boaconstrictor. But not Sebastian Dolores alone did that. When
things begin to go wrong in the life of a man whose hands have held too
many things, the disorder flutters through all the radii of his affairs,
and presently they rattle away from the hub of his control.
So it was with Jean Jacques. To take his reprobate father-in-law to his
lonely home would have brought him trouble in any case; but as things
were, the Spaniard became only the last straw which broke his camel's
back.
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