She Was A French Canadian, And Added To The
Graces Of Person And Manner For Which They Are Famed A Cleverness And
Sprightliness Peculiarly Her Own.
I was very much pleased with the
friendly, agreeable society of the neighbourhood.
There are a great many
gentlemen residing there, with fixed incomes, who have adopted Canada as
their home because of the comforts which they can enjoy in an untaxed
country, and one in which it is not necessary to keep up appearances. For
instance, a gentleman does not lose caste by grooming his own horse, or
driving his own produce to market in a lumber-waggon; and a lady is not
less a lady, though she may wear a dress and bonnet of a fashion three
years old.
I was surprised one morning by the phenomenon of some morning-callers -
yes, morning-callers in a Canadian clearing. I sighed to think that such a
pest and accompaniment of civilisation should have crossed the Atlantic.
The "callers" of that morning, the Haldimands, amused me very much. They
give themselves great airs - Canada with them is a "wretched hole;" the
society is composed of "boors." In a few minutes they had asked me who I
was - where I came from - what I was doing there - how I got to know my
friends - and if I had come to live with them. Mr. Haldimands, finding I
came from England, asked me if I knew a certain beautiful young lady, and
recounted his flirtations with her.
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