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The fantastic airs of her girlhood clung to her. She was at a disadvantage among the married, and young people passed her by as an experiment that had failed. So she was driven to be very religious; but prayers are cold comfort for the want of a bouncing family." If the Etchemin woman had absorbed from her mistress a habit of meditation which shut out the world, Saint-Castin had not.
Judged by this standard Frontenac deserves great praise, for he never lacked capable and loyal lieutenants. With Callieres at Montreal, Tonty on the Mississippi, Perrot and Du Lhut at Michilimackinac, Villebon and Saint-Castin in Acadia, Sainte-Helene at the siege of Quebec, and Iberville at Hudson Bay, he was well supported by his staff.
She seemed to threaten a prayer which might stop her ears to Saint-Castin. "He meant no discourtesy. If you knew his good heart, you would like him." "I do not like men." She made a calm statement of her peculiar tastes. "Why?" inquired Saint-Castin. Madockawando's daughter summoned her reasons from distant vistas of the woods, with meditative dark eyes.
A very remarkable instance of the infatuation which led away so many young men into the forest, is to be found in the life of Baron de Saint-Castin, a native of the romantic Bernese country, who came to Canada with the Carignan Regiment during 1665, and established himself for a time on the Richelieu.
The girl's face seemed to flare toward him as flame is blown, acknowledging the claim he made upon her; but the look passed like an illusion, and she said seriously, "The sagamore should speak to Father Petit. This is heresy." Madockawando's daughter stood up, and took her pail by the handle. "Let me carry it," said Saint-Castin. Her lifted palm barred his approach. "I do not like men, sagamore.
They employed the two deserters, joined with two Acadian prisoners, to kidnap Saint-Castin, whom, next to the priest Thury, they regarded as their most insidious enemy. The Acadians revealed the plot, and the two soldiers were shot at Mount Desert. Nelson was sent to France, imprisoned two years in a dungeon of the Chateau of Angouleme, and then placed in the Bastile.
"They cannot help it; and our Etchemin's husband, who keeps the lodge supplied with meat, he cannot help it, either, any more than he can his deformity. But there is grace for men," she added. "They may, by repenting of their sins and living holy lives, finally save their souls." Saint-Castin repented of his sins that moment, and tried to look contrite.
The government of Massachusetts, with its usual military fatuity, had placed it in the keeping of an unfit commander, and permitted some of the yeoman garrison to bring their wives and children to this dangerous and important post. Saint-Castin and his Indians landed at New Harbor, half a league from the fort.
Still sailing westward, passing Mount Desert, another scene of ancient settlement, and entering Penobscot Bay, you would have found the Baron de Saint-Castin with his Indian harem at Pentegoet, where the town of Castine now stands. All Acadia was comprised in these various stations, more or less permanent, together with one or two small posts on the Gulf of St.
"Ask the little Saint-Castin. Boys stand under windows and talk to women now. Men have to be reconnoitering the enemy." "Monsieur Anselm de Saint-Castin is the son of a good fighter," observed Gaspard. "It is said the New England men hate his very name." "Anselm de Saint-Castin is barely eighteen years old." "It is the age of Mademoiselle Clementine."
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