Cameron of Lochiel

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Aubert de Gaspé Philippe. Cameron of Lochiel

PREFACE

FOREWORD

CHAPTER I. D'HABERVILLE AND CAMERON OF LOCHIEL

CHAPTER II. A NIGHT WITH THE SORCERERS

CHAPTER III. LA CORRIVEAU

CHAPTER IV. THE BREAKING UP OF THE ICE

CHAPTER V. A SUPPER AT THE HOUSE OF A FRENCH-CANADIAN SEIGNEUR

CHAPTER VI. D'HABERVILLE MANOR HOUSE

CHAPTER VII. THE MAY-FEAST

CHAPTER VIII. THE FEAST OF ST. JEAN-BAPTISTE

CHAPTER IX "THE GOOD GENTLEMAN."

CHAPTER X. MADAME D'HABERVILLE'S STORY

CHAPTER XI. THE BURNING OF THE SOUTH SHORE

CHAPTER XII. A NIGHT AMONG THE SAVAGES

CHAPTER XIII. THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM

CHAPTER XIV. THE SHIPWRECK OF THE AUGUSTE

CHAPTER XV. LOCHIEL AND BLANCHE

CHAPTER XVI. THE FAMILY HEARTH

CHAPTER XVII. CONCLUSION

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As my story lays no claim to classicism, either in style or structure, this foreword may as well be made to play the part of a preface. My acquaintances will, doubtless, open their eyes on seeing me thus enter, at the age of seventy-six, on the perilous paths of authorship. Possibly I owe them an explanation. Although tired of reading all these years with so little profit either to myself or others, I yet dreaded to pass the Rubicon. A matter small enough in itself in the end decided me.

One of my friends, a man of parts, whom I met last year in St Louis Street, in our good city of Quebec, grasped me warmly by the hand and exclaimed:

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"Come into my room. I have just had a letter from father which concerns you."

"Concerns me!" exclaimed the other in astonishment.

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