Category: Short Stories

Cape Breton Tales

_"On the French Shore of Cape Breton" and "The Privilege" were first published in The Atlantic Monthly, while "La Rose Witnesseth of La Belle Mélanie" is reprinted from "Amédée's Son" (Chapters VIII and IX) with the kind permission of the publishers, Houghton Mifflin Company._

Chapters

3. Part 3

"Now you must know that the _feu follet_ is of all objects whatever in the world the most mysterious. No one knows what it is or when it will come. You might walk across the bar...

4. Part 4

"Well, this was the end of old Siméon's grief, as you may well believe. Those W'ites stay at the Couronne d'Or for as much as nine or ten days, and every morning they will be go...

2. Part 2

"Oui, c'est ça," answered La Rose, in a voice of the most sepulchral, "right there in that house, the chairs stood on one leg and went rap--rap--against the floor. And more than...

7. Part 7

Writing to Montreal, Father Quinnan learned that if he so wished Captain Pettipaw might have again the command of the little freighter that ran to the Labrador; and the proposit...

5. Part 5

No. Never. But not on account of that pride of hers; at least not directly. If you go into the pretty little living-room of the second cottage beyond the post-office--the one wi...

6. Part 6

Zabette sighed wearily. "And all these years I have been saying the same thing. And yet I could never forget the shell box and your letter from St. Pierre Miquelon. Come, don't...

1. Part 1

_"On the French Shore of Cape Breton" and "The Privilege" were first published in The Atlantic Monthly, while "La Rose Witnesseth of La Belle Mélanie" is reprinted from "Amédée'...

8. Part 8

Sabine Bob had no word of blame for the unhappy girl. Vaguely she knew that she ought to blame her; very vaguely she remembered that girls like this were bad girls; but that did...