The Golden Dog: (Le Chien D'or) a Romance of the Days of Louis Quinze in Quebec

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L.C. Page, 1897 - 624 páginas
 

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Página 580 - The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; the merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous are taken away from the evil to come.
Página 412 - For loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.
Página 592 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God, my God.
Página 594 - Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest" He smiled and wept, when he spoke these words.
Página 131 - Je suis un chien qui ronge 1'os, En le rongeant je prends mon repos. Un temps viendra qui n'est pas venu Que je mordrai qui m'aura mordu.
Página 132 - I am a dog that gnaws his bone, I couch and gnaw it all alone — A time will come, which is not yet, When I'll bite him by whom I'm bit.
Página 281 - A few more friends of the family dropped in — Coulon de Villiers, Claude Beauharnais, La Corne St. Luc, and others, who had heard of the lady's departure and came to bid her adieu. La Corne raised much mirth by his allusions to the Iroquois. The secret was plainly no secret to him.
Página 170 - He would fain have prolonged the interview ; but she capriciously shook the reins, and with a silvery laugh rode through the gateway and into the city. In a few minutes she dismounted at her own home, and giving her horse in charge of a groom, ran lightly up the broad steps into the house. The family mansion of the Des Meloises was a tall and rather pretentious edifice overlooking the fashionable Rue St.. Louis. The house was, by a little artifice on the part of Angelique, empty of visitors this...
Página 564 - Gens the way he does. I did not think he would have ventured upon it here in the market, in face of so many habitans. who swear by the Bourgeois Philibert." The bold denunciations by the preacher against the Honnetes Gens and against the people's friend and protector, the Bourgeois Philibert, caused a commotion in the crowd of habitans, who began to utter louder and louder exclamations of dissent and remonstrance. A close observer would have noticed angry looks and clenched fists in many parts of...
Página 277 - The paths of glory lead but to the grave," as he floated down the St. Lawrence in that still autumnal night to land his forces and scale by stealth the fatal Heights of Abraham, whose possession led to the conquest of the city and his own heroic death, then it was the two glorious streams of modern thought and literature...

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