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Old world distinctions would seem to be of small account in such a hamlet as St. Ignace and yet questions of caste were felt even there.
Ignace, where to-day candles burn before the portrait of Pere Marquette, saw a vessel equipped with sails, as large as the ships with which Jacques Cartier first crossed the Atlantic, come ploughing its way through waters that had never before borne such burdens without the beating of oars or paddles.
Now the sun shone forth on woody islands, Bois Blanc and Mackinaw and the distant Manitoulins, on the forest wastes of Michigan and the vast blue bosom of the angry lake; and now her port was won, and she found her rest behind the point of St. Ignace of Michillimackinac, floating in that tranquil cove where crystal waters cover but cannot hide the pebbly depths beneath.
Thus her world daily became smaller, more insignificant, less to be regarded, while Ignace himself grew bigger, more preponderant. How could she refuse confidence in one who had such boundless confidence in himself? In the course of these strolls he told her something about his own early life.
Ignace, that displayed its cluster of white huts and wigwams like the petals of a water-lily on the margin of the lake. Just back of the village was a round knoll which served as a landmark on the lake, for the shore near St. Ignace was remarkably level.
His pride of intellect, still unhumbled, forbade his acknowledgment of any such claim. "Oh, yes, I did, Ignace; and now I must get you out of it." "Are you going to see those men?" "I am." "Don't. There is still some hope left," said Prochnow thickly, "and you would only make matters worse.
What will be your course from Green Bay?" "Along the west shore, Monsieur; it is dangerous only by reason of storms." "And the distance?" "From St. Ignace?" "Ay! from St. Ignace! What distance lies between there and this Fort St. Louis, on the Illinois?" "'Twill be but a venture, Monsieur, but I think 'tis held at a hundred and fifty leagues." "Of wilderness?"
But it was an ordinary, old-fashioned lock and key "Mennlicher," Durkin at the first glance had seen the sort of strong box which a Third avenue cigar seller, at home, would scarcely care to keep on his premises. Yet this was the deposit vault for which hotel guests, such as Prince Ignace Slevenski Pobloff, paid ten francs a day extra.
"I am considering it, thinking of it, as you did when coming to St. Ignace." "Considering it! And when when is it likely to be?" "Oh that is for him, for Mr. Hawtree to decide, but I think it will be at Noël, Christmas time, and in Montreal. Next week I pay some visits; after that I go to the Hotel Champlain, in Jacques Cartier Square, to prepare myself for my new rôle, you see." "Your new rôle?
Ignace and Clairville, and in the light of which even Crabbe's backsliding seemed a trivial matter.
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