Faces and Places

rte

llness of a long night,

was a moment's pause, a

near to my bed-cu

rte

s,

ven me the w

, as it seemed, there c

us emphasis, "Thes

ions, apologies, and i

ad come to an end I wa

evious night I had gone

een speeding all night

her in Montreal, and th

h of two or three inch

ave for the sprinkling

ere, as a glance throug

nd of snow. It was not

eighs, joyfully brough

ummer quarters. But the

heerful wintry aspect,

fields and the leafless

snowflakes had endowed

Montreal, but it is ce

, and we began to rea

of the Canadian air of w

eastward travellers d

the other side of the

Quebec as a picture

reover, like many celeb

on at the length of the

its narrow and steep s

s quaint old houses, a

aunt crazy, large-lette

eart of none but a Fren

use and the sabot you

treet in the lower par

ers of Dieppe or Calai

th of France. The peake

lated gables, and the g

g to the eye wearied w

treet arc

ts best, should be gaze

the river. This morning

s many spires in the su

tance. We make our firs

and here are twenty mi

t is indicated by a you

ion gate stolidly ring

nto a room, in the cen

s simply horrible. The

ter, and, as the drops

ify, they are hermetica

y what is apparently th

g jealously closed lest

n. It is impossible to

ood and get out into t

ration is perm

only place where there

at till Trois Pistoles

information turned out

ed at eleven o'clock a

n and fresh restaurant

know how to

ey by rail between Mont

ssary for replenishing

he Grand Trunk, spannin

ntario and Quebec, leav

ns of intercommunication

uestionable roads. Fo

rs interested in the pr

hat make up the Dominio

n would be a railway. T

as to the necessity of

me a military road was

rojected, and in 1846-8

that date up to 1869, w

as fitfully discussed,

railway w

e, and as a commercial

as it does through long

est primeval." It was

of a high national polic

for which it was devise

ax is 561 miles. There i

Fundy, eighty-nine mil

o Pictou, a great coal

Edward Island; while

Monckton and finishing

e Edward Island, makin

el, and the road is, mil

arriages are on the Amer

ing fifty or sixty pers

ugh which the conduct

arriages are heated to d

d. It is possible to op

ished only after an app

ge traveller. After a

phere of the place, as

tmosphere. But the effec

ows must be perman

rtunately come to make

from other consideratio

are thoroughly warmed

here is at least freed

ades the ordinary car

r end. In addition, th

d are hung on smoother

er, and travellers are i

rs and elder brothers

ullma

imit travel on this co

day by rail, which we i

ld take just five days

he Pullman car and i

ess man may leave Mont

and be in Halifax in t

ednesday. Thus he loses

might find many a wors

rrangements for ventila

ess apprehension on the

ce of fresh air. If you

p with impunity. But,

of my immediate neighbou

on pick a pocket as op

made up I secretly ap

the carriage and heavil

aithfully did, as I sa

n the heavy atmosphere,

os

d for a far-reaching run

which we get glimpses n

ant when this mighty riv

e out, and men may skat

ver is free, but the fr

ry shipmasters have a

people are also prepar

winter. As we steamed

ly shunted, ready for u

manent institution on t

h them sometimes for th

erections like a box, b

to drift. Passing swift

ight through the crevic

e effectually closed up.

ide, to the full heigh

the line, will seem to

w m

future. At present the

ve without the monotony

wn earth, tufts of gras

ine showing above the

. One divines already w

oor, or a side of a chi

l the rest is white. Th

ak interregnum when n

aid absolutely to reign.

m it is wearied with s

of warm brown on the s

rprisin

ghbourhood of Rivière

Intercolonial begins, i

ns through a valley bet

the river side stand s

each having a peaked roo

val the steepness of i

the line, as if they had

unding a town for themse

he beauty of the situa

hen be sure you shall f

rnate in its architectu

ch catches whatever sun

strangely in

g the first night of o

are beauty. The sun we

ed all the world to the

ith snow, and spread a

went to bed in New Brun

colonists Northumberl

neck of land which conne

oing to bed in Sweden in

e snow was melted, the s

ad from horizon to horiz

exchanged for a cold,

k drops on the window-p

d. The ground was sodde

field we saw the haple

gh Nova Scotia into Hali

d threatening