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Title: Adele Dubois
A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick

Author: Mrs. William T. Savage

Release Date: July 5, 2005 [EBook #16207]

Language: English

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ADELE DUBOIS:

A Story

OF THE

LOVELY MIRAMICHI VALLEY,

IN

NEW BRUNSWICK.

LORING, Publisher,

319 WASHINGTON STREET,

BOSTON.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by

A.K. LORING,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of
Massachusetts.

ROCKWELL & ROLLINS,

PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPERS, 122 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON.

CHAPTER I.

THE DUBOIS HOUSE.

"Well, verily, I didn't expect to find anything like this, in such a
wild region", said Mr. Norton, as he settled himself comfortably in a
curiously carved, old-fashioned arm-chair, before the fire that blazed
cheerily on the broad hearth of the Dubois House. "'Tis not a Yankee
family either", added he, mentally. "Everything agreeable and tidy,
but it looks unlike home. It is an Elim in the desert! Goodly
palmtrees and abundant water! O! why", he exclaimed aloud, in an
impatient tone, as if chiding himself, "should I ever distrust the
goodness of the Lord?"

The firelight, playing over his honest face, revealed eyes moistened
with the gratitude welling up in his heart. He sat a few minutes
gazing at the glowing logs, and then his eyelids closed in the blessed
calm of sleep. Weary traveller! He has well earned repose.

There will not be time, during his brief nap, to tell who and what he
was, and why he