Cameron of Lochiel
By Aubert de Gaspé, Philippe
Classic work by Aubert de Gaspé, Philippe.
Table of Contents
than a volume of memoirs and folklore. I have ventured, therefore, at the suggestion of my publishers, to take a liberty with the author's title, and name the story after this youn...
D'HABERVILLE AND CAMERON OF LOCHIEL. Give me, oh! give me back the days When I--I too--was young, And felt, as they now feel, each coming hour, New consciousness o...
A NIGHT WITH THE SORCERERS. Angels and ministers of grace, defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from he...
LA CORRIVEAU. Sganarelle.--Seigneur commandeur, mon maitre, Don Juan, vous demande si vous voulez lui faire l'honneur de venir souper avec lui. Le même.--La statue m'a fait signe...
THE BREAKING UP OF THE ICE. On entendit du côté de la mer un bruit epouvantable, comme si des torrents d'eau, mêlés à des tonnerres, eussent roulé du haut des montagnes; tout le m...
A SUPPER AT THE HOUSE OF A FRENCH-CANADIAN SEIGNEUR. Half-cut-down, a pasty costly made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret, lay Like fossils of the rock, with golden ...
D'HABERVILLE MANOR HOUSE. Je bénis le soleil, je bénis la lune et les astres qui étoilent le ciel. Je bénis aussi les petits oiseaux qui gazouillent dans l'air. +Henri Heine.+ +...
THE MAY-FEAST. Le premier jour de Mai, Labourez, J'm'en fus planter un mai, Labourez, A la porte à ma mie. _Ancienne Chanson._ It was scarcely five o'clock in ...
THE FEAST OF ST. JEAN-BAPTISTE. Every parish used to keep holiday on the feast of its patron saint. The feast of St. John the Baptist, the patron of the parish of St. Jean-Port-Jo...
"THE GOOD GENTLEMAN." Tout homme qui, à quarante ans, n'est pas misanthrope, n'a jamais aimé les hommes.--+Champfort.+ J'ai été prodigieusement fier jusqu'à quarente-cinq ans: ma...
MADAME D'HABERVILLE'S STORY. Saepè malum hoc nobis, si mens non læva fuisset, De c[oe]lo tactas memini praedicere quercus. +Virgil.+ All was silence and gloom at D'Haber...
THE BURNING OF THE SOUTH SHORE. They came upon us in the night, And brake my bower and slew my knight: My servant a' for life did flee And left us in the extremitie. Th...
A NIGHT AMONG THE SAVAGES. What tragic tears bedew the eye! What deaths we suffer ere we die! Our broken friendships we deplore, And loves of youth that are no more. +Log...
THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM. Il est des occasions dans la guerre où le plus brave doit fuir. +Cervantes.+ _Vae victis!_ says the wisdom of the nations. Woe to the conquered!--not only...
THE SHIPWRECK OF THE AUGUSTE. The predictions of the witch of the manor were accomplished. After the surrender of Quebec, the rich D'Habervilles had been but too glad to accept th...
LOCHIEL AND BLANCHE. After seven long years of severe privation, content and even happiness came back to the D'Habervilles. It is true that the great manor house had been replaced...
THE FAMILY HEARTH. Many a calamity had swept over the land since the day when the relations and friends of Jules had gathered at the manor house to bid him farewell before his dep...
CONCLUSION. Ainsi passe sur la terre tout ce qui fut bon, vertueux, sensible! Homme, tu n'es qu'un songe rapide, un rêve douloureux; tu n'existes que par le malheur; tu n'es quelq...
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