  It should not be assumed that the “Chaudiere” of this story is the real Chaudiere of Quebec province. The name is characteristic, and for this reason alone I have used it. I must also apologise to my readers for appearing to disregard a statement made in ‘The Lane that Had no Turning’, that that tale was the last I should write about French Canada. In explanation I would say that ‘The Lane that Had no Turning’ was written after the present book was finished. G. F.
THE RIGHT OF WAYBy Gilbert Parker “They had lived and loved, and walked and worked in their own way, and the world went by them. Between them and it a great gulf was fixed: and they met its every catastrophe with the Quid Refert? of the philosophers.” “I want to talk with some old lover’s ghost, Who lived before the god of love was born.” “There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.” |
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