. Maine in history and romance. ces for thesake of the materials which they could carry off they left a number ofbooks and old manuscripts, which had been bought up by the surroundingpeasantry for the petty sum of a few sous or a glass of brandy. Hisgrandfather had in this way secured a few things. H monsieur would,with his wife, accompany him to the rectory, he would be glad to showhim what there was. Thus purely by accident Bertrand Castine came across the ChateauCastin, and when later they were examining the box of relics, he pulledout a musty parchment written in quaint old French and sign
. Maine in history and romance. ces for thesake of the materials which they could carry off they left a number ofbooks and old manuscripts, which had been bought up by the surroundingpeasantry for the petty sum of a few sous or a glass of brandy. Hisgrandfather had in this way secured a few things. H monsieur would,with his wife, accompany him to the rectory, he would be glad to showhim what there was. Thus purely by accident Bertrand Castine came across the ChateauCastin, and when later they were examining the box of relics, he pulledout a musty parchment written in quaint old French and signed JeanVincent de St. Castin. It seemed as if fate had led him in this , the gentle reader will find a rough translation of that ancient doc-ument, as nearly in the form of old English written at that period as canbe expected from a very ordinary student of the French language. I, Jean Vincent dAbbadie, Lord and Baron of St. Castin, in the yearof our blessed Savior, 1716, do write these words about my life, to be.
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