ROSE À CHARLITTE

ROSE À CHARLITTE

by
MARSHALL SAUNDERS
Author of "Beautiful Joe," "The House of
Armour," etc.

H. De M. YOUNG

BOSTON
L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY

(INCORPORATED)

1898

[[Link to Original Title Page Image]]

Copyright, 1898
By L. C. Page and Company
(INCORPORATED)
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London

Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, U. S. A.

I inscribe this story of the Acadiens to one who was their warm friend and helper while administering the Public Systems of Education in Nova Scotia and in New Brunswick, to a man whose classic verse is rich in suggestion caught from the picturesque Evangeline land, and who is a valued and lifelong friend of my beloved father,—

TO

OF McMASTER UNIVERSITY

TORONTO

[CONTENTS.]

[BOOK I.]

ROSE À CHARLITTE.

CHAPTER PAGE
I.Vesper L. Nimmo[11]
II.A Message from the Dead[21]
III.From Boston to Acadie[28]
IV.The Sleeping Water Inn[47]
V.Agapit the Acadien[67]
VI.Vesper Suggests an Explanation[82]
VII.A Deadlock[90]
VIII.On the Sudden Something Ill[98]
IX.A Talk on the Wharf[108]
X.Back to the Concession[122]
XI.News of the Fiery Frenchman[138]
XII.An Unhappy River[154]
XIII.An Illumination[161]
XIV.With the Old Ones[178]
XV.The Cave of the Bears[196]
XVI.For the Honor of Their Race[210]
XVII.The Sublimest Thing in the World[222]
XVIII.Narcisse Goes in Search of the Englishman[236]
XIX.An Interrupted Mass[251]
XX.With the Watercrows[262]
XXI.A Supreme Adieu[281]

[BOOK II.]

BIDIANE.

CHAPTER PAGE
I.A New Arrival at Sleeping Water[303]
II.Bidiane Goes to Call on Rose à Charlitte[319]
III.Taken Unawares[334]
IV.An Unknown Irritant[353]
V.Bidiane Plays an Overture[361]
VI.A Snake in the Grass Interferes with the Education of Mirabelle Marie[372]
VII.Ghosts by Sleeping Water[386]
VIII.Faire Bombance[404]
IX.Love and Politics[419]
X.A Campaign Begun in Bribery[434]
XI.What Election Day Brought Forth[451]
XII.Bidiane Falls in a River[463]
XIII.Charlitte Comes Back[474]
XIV.Bidiane Receives a Shock[483]
XV.The Beautiful Stranger Goes Away without Her Captain[499]
XVI.An Acadien Festival[506]

[ILLUSTRATIONS.]

PAGE
"Rose à Charlitte stood confronting the newcomer"[Frontispiece]
"They were friends"[60]
"'Agapit,' she murmured, 'can we not tell him?'"[229]
"'Mademoiselle, I salute your return'"[311]
"'Either that man or I must leave this house'"[409]
"Throwing her arm around the neck of her recovered child"[513]

[BOOK I.]