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Project Gutenberg's A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1, by Mrs. Harry Coghill This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 A Novel Author: Mrs. Harry Coghill Release Date: March 16, 2006 [EBook #18002] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CANADIAN HEROINE, VOLUME 1 *** Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Janet B and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (www.canadiana.org)) A CANADIAN HEROINE. A Novel. BY THE AUTHOR OF "LEAVES FROM THE BACKWOODS." "Questa chiese Lucia in suo dimando, E disse: Or ha bisogno il tuo fedele Di te, e io a te lo raccomando."--_Inferno. Canto II._ "Qu'elles sont belles, nos campagnes; En Canada qu'on vit content! Salut o sublimes montagnes, Bords du superbe St. Laurent! Habitant de cette contree Que nature veut embellir, Tu peux marcher tete levee, Ton pays doit t'enorgueillir."--_J. Bedard._ IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE STREET. STRAND. 1873. [_All rights Reserved._] PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND CO., LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS. A CANADIAN HEROINE. CHAPTER I. It was near sunset, and the season was early summer. Every tree was in full leaf, but the foliage had still the exquisite freshness of its first tints, undimmed by dust or scorching heat. The grass was, for the present, as green as English grass, but the sky overhead was more glorious than any that ever bent above an English landscape. So far away it rose overhead, where colour faded into infinite space, that the eye seemed to look up and up, towards the Gate of Heaven, and only through mortal weakness to fail in reaching it. Low down around the horizon there was no blue, but pure, pale green depths, where clouds floated, magnificent in deep rosy and golden splendour. Under such skies the roughest landscape, the wildest forest, softens into beauty; such light and colour, like fairy robes, glorify the most commonpla
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