A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD QUEBEC
By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
Copyright, 1906
By Dodd, Mead & Company
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. A Wild Rose
CHAPTER II. The Joy of Friendship
CHAPTER III. Summer Time
CHAPTER IV. A Husband
CHAPTER V. Changing About
CHAPTER VI. Finding Amusements
CHAPTER VII. Journeying to a Far Country
CHAPTER VIII. What Rose Did Not Like
CHAPTER IX. About Marriages
CHAPTER X. Miladi and M. Destournier
CHAPTER XI. A Feast of Summer
CHAPTER XII. A Lover in Earnest
CHAPTER XIII. From a Girl's Heart
CHAPTER XIV. A Way over Thorns
CHAPTER XV. Held in an Enemy's Grasp
CHAPTER XVI. A Lover of the Wilderness
CHAPTER XVII. The Passing of Old Quebec
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A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD QUEBEC
CHAPTER I
A WILD ROSE
Ralph Destournier went gayly along, whistling a merry French song thatwas nearly all chorus, climbing, slipping, springing, wondering in hisheart as many a man did then what had induced Samuel de Champlain todream out a city on this craggy, rocky spot. Yet its wildness had animpressive grandeur. Above the island of Orleans the channel narrowed,and there were the lovely green heights of what was to be Point Levis,more attractive, he thought, than these frowning cliffs. The anglebetween the St. Charles and St. Lawrence gave an impregnable site for afortress, and Champlain was a born soldier with a quick eye to seize onthe possibility of defence.
On the space between the cliffs and the water a few wooden buildings,rough hewn, marked the site of the lower town. A wall had been erected,finished with a gallery, loopholed for musketry, and within this werethe beginnings of a town that was to be famous for heroic deeds, for menof high courage, for quaintness that perpetuates old stories which areperfect romances yet to-day after the lapse of three centuries.
There was a storehouse quite well fort