The personality of American cities . e future hero of Trafalgarto prevent him from marrying her. Beyond the old house of the Duke of Kent, St. Louisstreet is a narrow path lined by severe little Canadianhomes all the way to the city gate. Many of thesehouses are fairly steeped in tradition. One tiny fellowwithin which the ancient profession of the barber stillworks is the house wherein Montcalm died. And to an-other, Benedict Arnold was taken in that ill-starredAmerican attack upon Quebec. A third was a gift twocenturies ago by the Intendant Bigot to the favoredwoman of his acquaintance. Roman
The personality of American cities . e future hero of Trafalgarto prevent him from marrying her. Beyond the old house of the Duke of Kent, St. Louisstreet is a narrow path lined by severe little Canadianhomes all the way to the city gate. Many of thesehouses are fairly steeped in tradition. One tiny fellowwithin which the ancient profession of the barber stillworks is the house wherein Montcalm died. And to an-other, Benedict Arnold was taken in that ill-starredAmerican attack upon Quebec. A third was a gift twocenturies ago by the Intendant Bigot to the favoredwoman of his acquaintance. Romance does creep upand down the little steps of these little houses. Theychange hardly at all with the changing of the years. Here among them are the ruins of an old theater —its solid-stone fagade still holding high above the narrowrun of pavement. It has been swept within by fire —the evil enemy that has fallen upon Quebec again andagain and far more devastatingly than even the cannonthat have bombarded her from unfriendly d QUEBEC 335 Are they going to rebuild? you may inquire, as youlook at the stolid shell of the old theater. Bless you, no, exclaims your guide. The MusicHall was burned more than a dozen years ago. Quebecdoes not rebuild. But he is wrong. Quebec does rebuild, does progress.^—Quebec progresses very slowly, but also very To a man who returns after twenty years absence fromher quiet streets, the changes are most apparent. Thereare fewer caleches upon the street — those quaint two-wheeled vehicles which merge the joys of a Coney is-land whirly-coaster and the benefits of Swedish massage— although the drivers of these distinctive carriages stillsupply the Americans keen demand for local color byshouting marche done to their stout and ugly littlehorses as they go running up and down the steep side-hill streets. Nowadays most tourists eschew the calecheand turn towards trolley cars. That of itself tells ofthe almost sinful modernization of
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