The Young Seigneur: Or, Nation-MakingLighthall, W. D. (William Douw)
History
The Young Seigneur: Or, Nation-Making
Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)
Canada -- History -- Fiction
The windows of the Parish Church were darkened with thick black
curtains, the altar was heavily draped, the strains of the mournful Mass
of the Dead swayed to the responses of a sorrowing people. In the midst,
raised upon a lofty catafalque whose sable drapery was surrounded with a
starry maze of candle-lights, lay the silent remains of Chamilly
Haviland, who loved Canada. Pure and earnest in life, he receives his
reward in the world of her he loved, who went before him.
A tablet among those of his fathers, facing the Seigniorial pew,
recorded, for a little, the name of the last d'Argentenaye; but now the
proud Cure at length has had his will, and instead of its venerable
house of God, Dormilliere wears in its centre a pretentious nondescript
structure of cut-stone.
Chrysler has done what he could to repair the country's loss by raising
his voice with rejuvenated energy in support of good will and progress,
in the Legislative halls.
"L'idee Canadienne too," Quinet asserts with hope and fire, in his
seer-like editorials, "is not lost; it is founded on the deepest basis
of existence: on the simplicity of common sense; on the true affections,
the true aspirations of the people, on righteousness, on love of God, on
DESTINY!"
THE END.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Young Seigneur, by Wilfrid Chateauclair
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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