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On this stormy afternoon the captain's wife was in my parlor preparing to return to her own quarters with some coffee she had borrowed. Hearing my remark she said, 'O, the snow won't hurt the child, Mrs. Corlyne; she must be storm-proof, living down there on the beach! Duncan can take her home. Duncan was the orderly, a factotum in the garrison.
'Why, my dear Mrs. Corlyne! He is going all the time. Just ask Augusta. Augusta thereupon remarked that society, to a certain extent, was beneficial; that she considered Dr. Prescott much improved; really, he was now very 'nice. I silently protested against the word. But then I was not a Bostonian.
'You must not think, Mrs. Corlyne, that we islanders do not appreciate Father Piret, said the little woman, who belonged to one of the old island families, descendants of a chief factor of the fur trade. 'There has been some feeling lately against the Catholics 'Roman Catholics, my dear, I said with Anglican particularity. 'But we all love and respect the dear old man as a father.
'Isn't she beautiful? I said, when, at the expiration of the hour, Jeannette disappeared, wrapped in her mantle. 'No; not to my eyes. 'Why, what more can you require, Doctor? Look at her rich coloring, her hair 'There is no mind in her face, Mrs. Corlyne. 'But she is still a child.
One day I said to him, 'My protegee is improving wonderfully. If she could have a complete education, she might take her place with the best in the land. 'Do not deceive yourself, Mrs. Corlyne, he answered. 'It is only the shallow French quickness. 'Why do you always judge the child so harshly, Doctor? 'Of course I do, Rodney.
'Sure of the negro blood? I said indignantly. 'Yes. 'But Jeannette does not look in the least like a quadroon. 'Some of the quadroon girls are very handsome, Mrs. Corlyne, answered the surgeon, coldly. 'O yes! said the high-bred Virginia lady. 'My brother has a number of them about his place, but we do not teach them to read, I assure you. It spoils them.
You shall have silk dresses and ribbons, like the ladies of the Mission-House this summer. You shall see all great cities, you shall hear beautiful music. You shall have everything you want, money, bright shillings, as many as you wish. See! Mrs. Corlyne has come with me to show you that it is true. This morning we had orders to leave Mackinac; in a few days we must go.
'Those quadroon girls often have a certain kind of plebeian beauty like this pet of yours, Mrs. Corlyne, she said, with a slight sniff of her high-bred, pointed nose. In vain I exclaimed, in vain I argued; the garrison ladies were all against me, and, in their presence, not a man dared come to my aid; and the surgeon even added, 'I wish I could be sure of it.
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