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Updated: May 23, 2025
"Caroline," said he, taking both her hands in his, "I will not urge you longer. I am called bad, and you think me so; but I am not brutal. It was a promise made over the wine. Varin, the drunken beast, called you Queen Vashti, and challenged me to show your beauty to them; and I swore not one of their toasted beauties could match my fair Acadienne." "Did the Sieur Varin call me Queen Vashti?
"Well, never mind then, dear, if you don't understand," responded the tease, with mock tenderness. "But, ma belle Créole " "Je suis Acadienne." "You're an angel, faintly disguised. Only look around here only, Angelica, don't try to practise woman's humbug on a woman. At least, not on this old one. It doesn't work. I'll tell you whom I mean." She pulled, but Marguerite held off.
Castin was an Acadienne of ancient and noble family, whose head and founder, the Baron de St. Castin, had married the beautiful daughter of the high chief of the Abenaquais. Her father's house, one of the most considerable in the Colony, had been the resort of the royal officers, civil and military, serving in Acadia.
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