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

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Montreal News Company, Limited, 1897 - 614 páginas
 

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Página 580 - THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: And merciful men are taken away, none considering That the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Página 281 - Quand vous chantez, me rattachent à la vie : Ah ! si j'avais des ailes comme vous, Je s'rais heureux avant qu'il fut deux jours ! Seul en ces bois, que j'ai eu de soucis...
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 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 136 - The still, small voice speaks to us in that way, master, to remind us to place our trust in Heaven, not on earth, where all is transitory and uncertain ; for if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, for they are many ! We are no strangers to the vanity and shadows of human life, master ! Pierre's return is like sunshine breaking through the clouds. God is pleased if we bask in the sunshine when he sends it." " Right, dame ! and so we will ! The old...
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 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 Ange'lique, empty of visitors this...
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 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 232 - ... David. Our first duty is to love God, • — our next to honor the King ! and New France will never fail in either ! " Loyalty was ingrained in every fibre of La Corne St. Luc. " Never, Chevalier. Law and Gospel rule together, or fall together ! But we must rise," replied Hortense, springing up. The whole company rose simultaneously. The rich, mellow voice of the Rev. Father de Berey, round and full as the organ of Ste. Marie, commenced the royal anthem composed by Lulli in honor of Louis Quatorze,...

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