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'Where are we to go now? asked the girl, one day, when the sun seemed brighter and the wind softer than usual. 'I do not care where I go, answered the young man; 'what do you think? The girl replied that she would like to go somewhere right at the other end of the island, and build a house, far away from the huts of the fishing-folk.
Is it from living among these peasants and fishing-folk, or is it because, as people pretend, a skeptic is always superstitious? I could not muster courage to send you Dionea, although your boys are still in sailor-clothes and your uncle, the Cardinal, is eighty-four; and as to the Prince, why, he bears the most potent amulet against Dionea's terrible powers in your own dear capricious person.
Placing himself on the top of the slide, he coasted in and under the water, and then came out with a great bunch of eels, which were soon cooked, and on which they dined. "By my life," thought Master Rabbit, "but that is an easy way of getting a living! Truly these fishing-folk have fine fare, and cheap! Cannot I, who am so clever, do as well as this mere Otter? Of course I can. Why not?"
Then, as the fishing-folk grew familiar with Newfoundland and the continental shores, their attention was drawn to the skins worn by the natives. What prices they would bring in France! Here was a field that would make richer returns than rough and perilous fishing. In this way the fur-trade, which became the life of Canada, had its beginning.
Her soul, sorely troubled and very stern with itself, wandered in mystical, ascetic paths out of human ken. Every morning she hurried through the woods to a little church beside the sea, filled with fishing-folk. There she heard Mass, and made the spiritual communion which sustained her.
'Where are we to go now? asked the girl, one day, when the sun seemed brighter and the wind softer than usual. 'I do not care where I go, answered the young man; 'what do you think? The girl replied that she would like to go somewhere right at the other end of the island, and build a house, far away from the huts of the fishing-folk.
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