The Young Seigneur / Or, Nation-Making

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of his two or three sentences, "I don't destine him for a Thibetan prayer-mill," (she had fondly intended me for the priesthood) he sat down to a letter, the result of which was that I found myself in a week at the Royal Grammar School at Montreal. Here, where the great city appeared a wild

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clever and famous. I took a prize mys

at athletics. I saw a tournament of sport

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aken. What is greater than Life? what discovery is more momentous than of its profound meaning? Anything I a

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gates and drove up an avenue, lined by stately trees and running between broad grain fields, which led to a court shaded with leafy giants of elms and cobbled in an antique fashion; and under the woof of boughs and leaves overhead ran a very long old country-house, cottage-built. Surpassingly peaceful, and secluded was its air. It had oblique-angle-faced, shingled gabl

our wheels stopped, a little exquisite girl stood on the gallery, looking. Her child's face eyed us with wonder

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