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Here is M. Chapeau complaining you are a bad
hostess."
"M. Chapeau has enough to think of tonight, without my teasing him,"
said Annot; "great soldiers like him have not time to talk to silly
girls. I will walk across the green to Dame Rouel's, father; I shall be
back before sunset."
And Annot went out across the green, at the corner of which stood the
smith's forge. Jacques Chapeau was not slow to follow her, and Dame
Rouel did not see much of either of them that evening.
"Annot," said Jacques, calling to his sweetheart, who perseveringly
looked straight before her, determined not to know that she was
followed. "Annot, stop awhile. You are not in such a hurry, are you, to
see Dame Rouel?"
"Ah, M. Chapeau, is that you?--in a hurry to see Dame Rouel. No--I'm in
no particular hurry."
"Will you take a turn down to the mill, then, Annot? Heaven knows when
you and I may walk to the old mill again; it may be long enough before
I see Echanbroignes again."
Annot made no answer, but she turned into the little path which led
through the fields to the mill.


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