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Title: A Little Girl in Old Quebec

Author: Amanda Millie Douglas

Release Date: December 9, 2007 [EBook #23779]

Language: English

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A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD QUEBEC

By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS

A. L. BURT COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Copyright, 1906
BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY

CONTENTS

I. A WILD ROSE

II. THE JOY OF FRIENDSHIP

III. SUMMER TIME

IV. A HUSBAND

V. CHANGING ABOUT

VI. FINDING AMUSEMENTS

VII. JOURNEYING TO A FAR COUNTRY

VIII. WHAT ROSE DID NOT LIKE

IX. ABOUT MARRIAGES

X. MILADI AND M. DESTOURNIER

XI. A FEAST OF SUMMER

XII. A LOVER IN EARNEST

XIII. FROM A GIRL'S HEART

XIV. A WAY OVER THORNS

XV. HELD IN AN ENEMY'S GRASP

XVI. A LOVER OF THE WILDERNESS

XVII. THE PASSING OF OLD QUEBEC

A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD QUEBEC

CHAPTER I

A WILD ROSE

Ralph Destournier went gayly along, whistling a merry French song that
was nearly all chorus, climbing, slipping, springing, wondering in his
heart as many a man did then what had induced Samuel de Champlain to
dream out a city on this craggy, rocky spot. Yet its wildness had an
impressive 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 angle
between the St. Charles and St. Lawrence gave an impregnable site for a
fortress, and Champlain was a born soldier with a quick eye to seize on
the 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 were
the beg