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"Your English friend was telling an interesting tale about you to all the loungers in the Rideau bar to-day. They seemed to believe him he told it very creditably. When are you going to stop it, Leslie?" "When I can pay him the equivalent of five hundred sterling in blackmail. I am afraid it will be a long time," answered the secretary, ruefully.
It was an artful and agreeable lever du rideau, and I knew it for that when, at a word from the count, the servants left us at the close of the meal. Then, smiling, he turned to Mrs. Merton and said: "Perhaps, madame, you may have understood that in asking you all here and alone I had more than the ordinary pleasant reasons.
''I fully understand you, madame. May I inquire if you have had any tidings of Mr. Percival? ''Do not, I beg, Mr. Rideau, allude to that painful topic all feelings of resentment are hushed in the grave. ''What! have you heard of his assassination? Yes; the news reached me yesterday; I read it in the newspaper.
M'Taggart, whose work on the Rideau Canal, made him an expert in Canadian labour, much preferred French Canadians to the Irish as labourers, and thought them "kind, tender-hearted, very social, no way very ambitious, nor industrious, rarely speculative."
Besides, I heard you quarrelling with that handsome officer. I am dying to know him. Who is he?" Utie looked viciously up, anger and jealousy inflaming his heated face, for, although he had no engagement with Miss Rideau, he conceived himself her future suitor.
Lawrence, and arrived at Kingston, the tin roofs of which shone brightly in the moonlight. "Kingston is an important town, and is the port of the Rideau Canal, which connects Bytown and the Ottawa with Lake Ontario. A walk through the streets by moonlight enabled us to see the market-house, a stone building, considered to be the finest in Upper Canada.
What will Lady Featherly say? We wont be asked to any more 'at homes' now, and the ball at 'Rideau' is next week, oh dear boo hoo hoo!" Of course the merciless husband gets mad because his poor little helpless wife sees fit to weep over a fate that must disgrace her in the eyes of the social world.
Seen from Rideau Hall in dark silhouette against the sunset sky, the bold outline of the conical roof of the library and the three tall towers flanking it gave a sort of picturesque Nuremberg effect to the distant view of Ottawa, The Parliament buildings proper were destroyed by an incendiary during the war, but the library and wings escaped.
The upper one, or Rideau Fall, is formed by the confluence of a small river with the larger one; and the lower fall designated as lower because it is at the foot of the hill, though it is higher up the Ottawa River is called the Chaudiere, from its resemblance to a boiling kettle. This is on the Ottawa River itself.
The Port Hope line, which absorbed a branch from Millbrook to Peterborough in 1867, fared somewhat better. The Brockville and Ottawa was a lumber road, carrying supplies up and timber down. It was chartered to run from Brockville to Pembroke, with a branch from Smith's Falls on the Rideau Canal to Perth.
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