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The tower contained a fine carillon of bells arranged on a rather bizarre platform, giving a most quaint effect to the turret which surmounted it. The face of the tower bore four niches, two at each side of the center and upper windows, and these contained time worn statues of the noble counts of Alost.
"I have seen her three times of late, and the last time I saw her was an hour or so since, when she rode the Rapids of Carillon." The old man started, his lips parted, but for a moment he did not speak. At last words came. "The Rapids speak. What have you heard, Jethro, son of Lemuel?" "I did not hear, I saw her shoot the Rapids. I ran to follow. At Carillon I saw her arrive.
With a splendid force of regular and provincial troops, from fourteen to fifteen thousand altogether, but entirely destitute of artillery, an evidence of extraordinary incapacity, or of culpable negligence, he had thrown himself upon most formidable entrenchments of fallen trees, with their sharp ends pointing outwards, that the French had ingeniously constructed in front of Carillon, which was still incomplete, and defended by less than three thousand men under Montcalm and Lévis.
But Bébée, who only saw in the sun the sign of daily work, the brightness of the face of the world, the friend of the flowers, the harvest-man of the poor, the playmate of the birds and butterflies, the kindly light that the waking birds and the ringing carillon welcomed, Bébée, who was not at all afraid of him, smiled at his rays and saw in them only fairest promise of a cloudless midsummer day as she gave her last crumb to the swallows, dropped down off the thatch, and busied herself in making bread that Mère Krebs would bake for her, until it was time to cut her flowers and go down into the town.
There came a day when he did not see Maryette as he left for the corral in the morning. Her father, very stiff with rheumatism, sat in the sun outside the arched entrance to the inn. "No," he said, "she is going to be gone all day today. She has set and wound the drum in the belfry so that the carillon shall play every hour while she is absent." "Where has she gone?" inquired Burley.
The first ship, an English steamer, entered the new port at Bruges on the morning of May 29 in the present year . The carillon rung from the Belfry, guns were fired, and a ceremony in honour of the event took place in the Hôtel de Ville.
Yet there was something between them which had its authority over their lives, overcoming even that maiden modesty which was in contrast to the bold, physical thing she had done in running the Carillon Rapids those centuries ago when she was young and glad-wistfully glad.
"I have nothing on that will spoil," replied Sara, "but I am a little anxious about your shoes. Are they thick enough?" Miss Carillon was above many vanities; she left her facial beauty to take care of itself. But her feet were uncommonly well moulded, and she was careful not to disguise them in the hideous porpoise-hide boots with flat soles and no instep which found favour with her generation.
Then, tier on tier, the bells of the carillon, fixed to their great beams, appeared above them a shadowy, bewildering wilderness of bells, rising, rank above rank, until they vanished in the darkness overhead. Beside them, almost touching them, loomed the great bell Clovis, a gigantic mass bulking enormously in that shadowy place.
The difficulty was overcome by locking up at the upper or western end 13 feet and down 23 at lower end, supplying the summit by a 'feeder from a small stream called the North River, which empties into the Ottawa three or four miles below Carillon, but is close to the main river opposite the canal.
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