The Golden Dog (Le Chien D'or): A Romance of the Days of Louis Quinze in QuebecJ. Knight Company, 1896 - 678 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Acadia admiration Amélie de Repentigny Angélique des Meloises Angélique's Aqua Tofana asked aunt Babet Beauharnois Beauport beauty Belmont Bigot Bourgeois Philibert brother Cadet Caroline Castin Charming Josephine Château Chevalier de Pean Colonel Philibert colony Corne St Corriveau corvée Dame Tremblay dare dark Dodier door exclaimed Exili eyes face Fanchon father fear felt fingers France François Bigot Fringue Friponne gallant Gardeur de Repentigny gentlemen girl glance Golden Dog Governor Grand Company habitans hand heard heart Héloise honor Intendant Intendant's Jean King King's kissed knew La Corriveau Lady de Tilly laugh Le Gardeur lettre de cachet lips Lizette looked Lotbinière Madame Mademoiselle Manor House marry Master Pothier Mère Malheur mistress never night Pierre Philibert Pompadour Quebec Recollets replied rose round Royal secret Seigneur Sieur smile stood tell things thought to-day Varin voice wine woman women words
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Página 116 - D'or, — the Golden Dog, — with its enigmatical inscription, looked down defiantly upon the busy street beneath, where it is still to be seen, perplexing the beholder to guess its meaning and exciting our deepest sympathies over the tragedy of which it remains the sole sad memorial. Above and beneath the figure of a couchant dog gnawing the thigh bone of a man is graven the weird inscription, cut deeply in the. stone, as if for all future generations to read and ponder over its meaning : " Je...
Página 228 - Watched, from the centre of their sleeping flocks Those radiant Mercuries, that seemed to move Carrying through ether, in perpetual round, Decrees and resolutions of the gods ; And, by their aspects, signifying works Of dim futurity, to man revealed.
Página 5 - French talk and laughter of the group of officers, who waited the return of the Governor from the bastion where he stood, showing the glories of Quebec to his friend. The walls of the city ran along the edge of the cliff upwards as they approached the broad gallery and massive front of the Castle, of St. Louis, and ascending the green slope of the broad glacis, culminated in the lofty citadel, where, streaming in the morning breeze, radiant in the sunshine, and alone in the blue sky, waved the white...
Página 51 - ... Outside all was still : the song of birds and the rustle of leaves alone met the ear. Neither man nor beast was stirring to challenge Colonel Philibert's approach, but long ere he reached the door of the Chateau, a din of voices within, a wild medley of shouts, song, and laughter, a clatter of winecups, and pealing notes of violins struck him with amazement and disgust. He distinguished drunken voices singing snatches of bacchanalian songs, while now and then stentorian mouths called for fresh...
Página 223 - ... Maintenon. The song composed by Madame Brinon was afterwards translated into English, and words and music became, by a singular transposition, the national hymn of the English nation. " God Save the King ! " is no longer heard in France. It was buried with the people's loyalty, fathoms deep under the ruins of the monarchy. But it flourishes still with pristine vigor in New France, that olive branch grafted on the stately tree of the British Empire.
Página 123 - Tilly at a wedding," said he. There was immense talk, with plenty of laughter and no thought of mischief, among the crowd. The habitans of en haut and the habitans of en has commingled, as they rarely did, in a friendly way. Nor was anything to provoke a quarrel said even to the Acadians, whose rude patois was a source of merry jest to the better-speaking Canadians. The Acadians had flocked in great numbers into Quebec on the seizure of their Province by the English, sturdy, robust, quarrelsome fellows,...
Página 123 - Jean said this with a very demure air of mock modesty, knowing well that the reception of a new ballad from him would equal the furor for a new aria from the prima donna of the opera at Paris. " We will all come to hear it, Jean ! " cried they : " but take care of your fiddle or you will get it crushed in the crowd.
Página 35 - Ah ! the Friponne ! The Friponne ! " ejaculated Jean. " The foul fiend fly away with the Friponne ! My ferryboat is laden every day with the curses of the habitans returning from the Friponne, where they cheat worse than a Basque pedler, and without a grain of his politeness ! " The Friponne, as it was styled in popular parlance, was the immense magazine established by the Grand Company of Traders in New France. It claimed a monopoly in the purchase and sale of all imports and exports in the Colony....
Página 595 - ... remaining cattle. Roots and other esculents of field and garden were more plentiful in the market, among which might have been seen the newly introduced potato, — a vegetable long despised in New France, then endured, and now beginning to be liked and widely cultivated as a prime article of sustenance. At the upper angle of the square stood a lofty cross or Holy Rood, overtopping the low roofs of the shops and booths in its neighborhood. About the foot of the cross was a platform of timber...
Página 5 - ... mirror as the mist blew off its surface. Behind the sunny slopes of Orleans, which the river encircled in its arms like a giant lover his fair mistress, rose the bold, dark crests of the Laurentides, lifting their bare summits far away along the course of the ancient river, leaving imagination to wander over the wild scenery in their midst — the woods, glens, and unknown lakes and rivers that lay hid far from human ken, or known only to rude savages, wild as the beasts of chase they hunted...