When Valmond came to Pontiac (190,00 руб.)

GILBERT PARKER WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC THE STORY OF A LOST NAPOLEON BY GILBERT PARKER NEW YORK LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1901 COPYRIGHT, 1895 BY STONE AND KIMBALL COPYRIGHT, 1898 BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY First published elsewhere. <...> The chief characteristics of Monsieur Garon's house were its brass door-knobs, and the verdant luxuriance of the vines that climbed its sides; of the Little Chemist's shop, the perfect whiteness of the building, the rolls of sober wallpaper, and the bottles of colored water in the shop windows; of Medallion's, the stoop that surrounded three sides of the building, and the notices of sales tacked up, pasted up, on the front; of the Hotel Louis Quinze, the deep dormer windows, its solid timbers, and the veranda that gave its front distinction — for this veranda had been the pride of several generations of landlords, and its heavy carving and bulky grace were worth even more admiration than Pontiac gave to it. <...> The square which the two roads and the four corners made was, on week-days, the rendezvous of Pontiac, and the whole parish; on Sunday mornings the rendezvous was shifted to the large church on the hillside, beside which was the house of the Curé, Monsieur Fabre. <...> Travelling towards the south out of the silken haze of a midsummer day, you would come in time to the hills of Maine; north, to the city of Quebec and the River St. Lawrence; east, to the ocean; and west, to the Great Lakes and the land of the English. <...> Over this bright province Britain raised her flag, but only Medallion and a few others loved it for its own sake, or saluted it in the English tongue. <...> All the events of that epoch were 2 WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC CHAPTER I dated from the evening of this day. <...> Another day of note the parish cherished, but it was merely a grave fulfilment of the first. <...> When you came to study him closely, some sense of time and experience in his look told you that he might be thirty-eight, though his few gray hairs seemed but to emphasize a certain <...>