. Maple leaves, 1894 [microform] : Canadian history, literature, ornithology. Birds; Authors, Canadian; Oiseaux; Ecrivains canadiens. â 163 â the vessel, and getting into one of the smaller boats, drifted ashore with tlie tide, landing at Cap liouge, just as her lover, IJaoul, who was a Lieutenant in La Eoche Beaucour's Cavalry, was patrolling the heights of Sillery. Overi)owered with joy, she rode beliind him back to the city, and left him on nearing her home ; l)ut, to her horror, shii spied dogging her footsteps her arch-enemy the Intendant, and f(dl down in a species of tit, which turned o
. Maple leaves, 1894 [microform] : Canadian history, literature, ornithology. Birds; Authors, Canadian; Oiseaux; Ecrivains canadiens. â 163 â the vessel, and getting into one of the smaller boats, drifted ashore with tlie tide, landing at Cap liouge, just as her lover, IJaoul, who was a Lieutenant in La Eoche Beaucour's Cavalry, was patrolling the heights of Sillery. Overi)owered with joy, she rode beliind him back to the city, and left him on nearing her home ; l)ut, to her horror, shii spied dogging her footsteps her arch-enemy the Intendant, and f(dl down in a species of tit, which turned out to be catalepsy. This furnishes, of course, a veiy moving fahleau. The fair girl, su])posed to be (l-ad, was laid out in her shroud, wlien Uaoul, during th(! coiU'usiiui of tliat terrible day for Frencli Rule, the loth September, calling to see her, finds luu' a corpse just ready for interment. Fortunately foi' the heroine, a, l)ombshell forgotten in the yard, all at once and in tlic nick of time igniting, explodes, shattering the tenement in frag- ments. The concussion recalls Mdlle de lioclu'brune to life ; a happy niarriiige soon aft'U' cnsntis. The chi(!f charactei' in the novel, tlio Intendant, sails shortly after for France, wheri; he was imprisoned, as histor/ states, in the Bastille, during fifteen montlis, and his ill-gotten gains confiscated. All this, with tlie exc(>ption of Mile, de Kocheltrune's character, is strictly histori- cal; but what does not seem so, is the tragical end of l)ig(tt, to whose death, in mid ocean, eattni by a rave- nous shark, we are made to assist. Tlu; Intendant had, it appears, decided to expatriate himself, after seeking to enlist the former partner of his amours, Madame Fean, who then resided in France ; but he became so shocked, on seeing the once lovely face eaten u[) ])y a hideous cam;er, that he sailed aloui'. Why the novelist should have introduced, this very unnecessary "shark and cancer scene" is hard to make out.
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