| Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - 1882 - 572 páginas
...New Year's gift." Mr. Kirby, in his " Chien d'Or" a historical novel of rare merit, thus recalls this house: — "The family mansion of the des Meloises...edifice, overlooking the fashionable rue St. Louis, where it still stands, old and melancholy, as if mourning over its departed splendors. Few eyes look... | |
| Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - 1890 - 162 páginas
...historical novel on the times, LE CHIEN D'OR, by William Kirby, P. ESC of Niagara, we read the following: "The family mansion of the des Meloises, was a tall...rather pretentious edifice, overlooking the fashionable Hue Saint Louis, where it still stands old and melancholy, as if mourning over its departed splendors.... | |
| Edward Thomas Davies Chambers - 1895 - 156 páginas
...afforded him of making a fortune. The author of " The Golden Dog " thus describes the old house : " It was a tall and rather pretentious edifice, overlooking the fashionable Rue St. Louis, where it still stands old and melancholy, as if mourning over its departed splendor. Few eyes look... | |
| William Kirby - 1897 - 650 páginas
...invitation. He held her hand as he looked up with a face radiant with joy. " I will surely come, Angdlique ; but tell me — " She interrupted him laughingly :...The house was, by a little artifice on the part of Angdlique, empty of visitors this evening. Even her brother, the Chevalier des Meloises, with whom... | |
| William Kirby - 1903 - 666 páginas
...the shades of night had fallen over the Chateau of Beaumanoir. CHAPTER XVI. ANGEL1QUE DES MELOISKS. and see me to-night, Le Gardeur." Angelique des Meloises...congenial society of the officers of the Regiment de Beam. At this moment, amid the clash of glasses and the bubbling of wine, the excited and voluble Gascons... | |
| William Kirby - 1903 - 662 páginas
...Beaumanoir. * CHAPTER XVI. ANGELIQUE DES MELOISES. OME and see me to-night, Le Gardeur." Angelique _ des Meloises drew the bridle sharply as she halted...congenial society of the officers of the Regiment de Beam. At this moment, amid the clash of glasses and the bubbling of wine, the excited and voluble Gascons... | |
| Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - 1894 - 532 páginas
...youth and romance, when Quebec appeared to me like a poem, ,1 described it as follows : " The familj* mansion of the des Meloises was a tall and rather...pretentious edifice, overlooking the fashionable Rue Saint Louis, where it still stands, old and melancholy, as if mourning over its departed splendors.... | |
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