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me as slowjy , and with as little surprise as if I bad been talking to her an boor . " I pointed to the sleeping soldier . ' Are you going with him to his country V
"' Yes . ' * 'Are you his wife ?' ' My father gave me to him . ' " 'Has be sworn before the priest in the name of the Great Spirit to be your husband ?' ••* No . ' She looked intentl y into my eyes as she answered , as if she tried in vain to read my meaning . 1
< c' Is he kind to you . •' She smiled bitterly . € t *¦ Why then did you follow him V •* Her eyes dropped upon the burden she bore at her heart . The answer could Dot have been clearer if written with a sunbeam . " I said a few words of kindness , and left her to turn over in my mind how I could best interfere for her happiness .
' On the third evening we had entered upon the St . Lawrence , and were winding cautiously into the channel of the thousand isles . 1 think there is not , within the knowledge of the ' all beholding son , ' a spot so singularly and exquisitely beautiful . Between the Mississippi and the Cimmerian Bosphorus , 1 know there is not , for I have pic-nie'd from the Symplegades westward . The thousand isles of the St . Lawrence are as imprinted on my mind a 3 the stars of heaven . I could forget them as soon .
' The river is here as wide as a lake , while the channel just permits the passage of a steamer . The islands , more than a thousand in number , are a singular formation of flat , rectangular rock , split , as it were , by regular rnathermitical fissures , and overflowed nearly to the tops which are loaded with a most luxuriant vegetation . The water is deep enough to float a large steamer directly at the edge , and ao active deer would leap across from one to the other in any direction . What is very singular , these little rocky platforms are covered with a rich loam , and cari > eted with moss and flowers , while immense trees
take root in the clifts , aud interlace their branches witb those of the neighbouring islets , shadowing the waters with the unsunned dimness of the wilderness . It is a very odd thing to glide through in a steamer . The luxuriant leaves sweep the deck , and the black funnel parts the
drooping spray , as it keeps its way , and you may pluck the blossoms of the acacia , or the rich chestnut flowers , sitting on the tarTrail , and , really a magic passage in a witch ' s steamer , beneath the tree tops of an untrodden forest , could not he more novel and startling . Then the solitude and silence of the dim and still waters are continually broken by the plunge and leap of the wild deer springing or swimming from
one island to another , and the swift and shadowy canoe of the Indian glides out from some unseen channel , and with a dingle stroke of his broad paddle he vanishes , and is lost again , even to the ear . If the beauty-sick and nature-searching spirit of Keats is abroad in the world , my Vjasnet to a prentice-cap * he pusses his summers amid the Thousand Isles of the St . Lawrence ! It is a pleasant thing to find the name of Keet * modmtod
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 357, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/29/
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