A Little Girl in Old St. Louis
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Douglas Amanda M.. A Little Girl in Old St. Louis
CHAPTER I – RENÉE DE LONGUEVILLE
CHAPTER II – OLD ST. LOUIS
CHAPTER III – A NEW HOME
CHAPTER IV – THE SOWING OF A THORN
CHAPTER V – WITH A TOUCH OF SORROW
CHAPTER VI – BY THE FIRESIDE
CHAPTER VII – AT THE KING’S BALL
CHAPTER VIII – THE SURPRISE
CHAPTER IX – PRISONERS
CHAPTER X – IN THE WILDERNESS
CHAPTER XI – WAS EVER WELCOME SWEETER
CHAPTER XII – HER ANSWER
CHAPTER XIII – PASSING YEARS
CHAPTER XIV – AT THE BALL
CHAPTER XV – GATHERING THISTLES
CHAPTER XVI – THE RISE IN THE RIVER
CHAPTER XVII – RIVALS
CHAPTER XVIII – A FINE ADJUSTMENT
CHAPTER XIX – THIS WAY AND THAT
CHAPTER XX – WHEN A WOMAN WILL
CHAPTER XXI – FROM ACROSS THE SEA
CHAPTER XXII – A NEW ST. LOUIS
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The bell had clanged and the gates of the stockade were closed. There were some houses on the outside; there was not so much fear of the Indians here, for the French had the art of winning them into friendship. Farms were cultivated, and the rich bottom lands produced fine crops. Small as the town was twenty years before the eighteenth century ended, it was the headquarters of a flourishing trade. The wisdom of Pierre Laclede had laid the foundation of a grand city. The lead mines even then were profitably worked, and supplied a large tract of the Mississippi River east and west.
Antoine Freneau stood a few moments in the door of his log hut, down by the old Mill Creek, listening with his hand to one ear. There were sounds of spring all about, but he was not heeding them. Then he turned, closed the door, which was braced on the inner side with some rough iron bands; fastened it with the hook, and let down a chain. He was seldom troubled with unexpected evening visitors.
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“I could not get away. There was a fellow,” and Antoine prefaced the excuse with an oath. “He wouldn’t go; I had to fix a bunk for him.”
“Antoine Freneau, if you betray us – ” in a threatening tone.
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