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The story follows Jean Jacques Barbille, a miller and businessman who embodies the virtues and flaws of his people, as he navigates his life filled with ambition, love.
"The Money Master" by Gilbert Parker is a novel that was. The story follows Jean Jacques Barbille, a miller and businessman who embodies the virtues and flaws of his people, as he navigates his life filled with ambition, love.
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“Peace and plenty, peace and plenty”—that was the phrase M. Jean Jacques Barbille, miller and moneymaster, applied to his home-scene, when he was at the height of his career. Both winter and summer the place had a look of content and comfort, even a kind of opulence. There is nothing like a grove of pines to give a sense of warmth in winter and an air of coolness in summer, so does the slightest breeze make the pine-needles swish like the freshening sea. But to this scene, where pines made a friendly background, there were added oak, ash, and hickory trees, though in less quantity on the side of the river where were Jean Jacques Barbille’s house and mills. They flourished chiefly on the opposite side of the Beau Cheval, whose waters flowed so waywardly—now with a rush, now silently away through long reaches of country. Here the land was rugged and bold, while farther on it became gentle and spacious, and was flecked or striped with farms on which low, white houses with dormer-windows and big stoops flashed to the passer-by the message of the pioneer, “It is mine. I triumph.”
Contents
- 01Introduction
- 02Chapter I. The Grand Tour of Jean Jacques Barbille
- 03Chapter II. “The Rest of the Story to-Morrow”
- 04Chapter III. “To-Morrow”
- 05Chapter IV. Thirteen Years After and the Clerk of the Court Tells a Story
- 06Chapter V. The Clerk of the Court Ends His Story
- 07Chapter VI. Jean Jacques Had Had a Great Day
- 08Chapter VII. Jean Jacques Awakes from Sleep
- 09Chapter VIII. The Gate in the Wall
- 10Chapter IX. “Moi-Je Suis Philosophe”
- 11Chapter X. “Quien Sabe”—Who Knows!
- 12Chapter XI. The Clerk of the Court Keeps a Promise
- 13Chapter XII. The Master-Carpenter Has a Problem
- 14Chapter XIII. The Man from Outside
- 15Chapter XIV. “I Do Not Want to Go”
- 16Chapter XV. Bon Marche
- 17Chapter XVI. Misfortunes Come Not Singly
- 18Chapter XVII. His Greatest Asset
- 19Chapter XVIII. Jean Jacques Has an Offer
- 20Chapter XIX. Sebastian Dolores Does Not Sleep
- 21Chapter XX. “Au ‘Voir, M’sieu’ Jean Jacques”
- 22Chapter XXI. If She Had Known in Time
- 23Chapter XXII. Bells of Memory
- 24Chapter XXIII. Jean Jacques Has Work to Do
- 25Chapter XXIV. Jean Jacques Encamped
- 26Chapter XXV. What Would You Have Done?
- 27Epilogue.
About this edition
- Author
- Gilbert Parker
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 218 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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