I Trust They Had
The Grace To Plant A Sweetbrier On The Grave Of The Noble Woman To
Whose Faithfulness And Courage They Owe Their Rescue From Obscurity.
At Least The Parties To This Singular Union Must Have Agreed To
Ignore The Lamented Existence Of The Chevalier D'Aunay.
With the Chevalier de la Tour, at any rate, it all went well
thereafter.
When Cromwell drove the French from Acadia, he granted
great territorial rights to De la Tour, which that thrifty adventurer
sold out to one of his co-grantees for L16,000; and he no doubt
invested the money in peltry for the London market.
As we leave the station at Annapolis, we are obliged to put Madame de
la Tour out of our minds to make room for another woman whose name,
and we might say presence, fills all the valley before us. So it is
that woman continues to reign, where she has once got a foothold,
long after her dear frame has become dust. Evangeline, who is as
real a personage as Queen Esther, must have been a different woman
from Madame de la Tour. If the latter had lived at Grand Pre, she
would, I trust, have made it hot for the brutal English who drove the
Acadians out of their salt-marsh paradise, and have died in her
heroic shoes rather than float off into poetry. But if it should
come to the question of marrying the De la Tour or the Evangeline, I
think no man who was not engaged in the peltry trade would hesitate
which to choose.
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