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Title: The Golden Dog
Le Chien d'Or

Author: William Kirby

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Release Date: July, 2001

Language: English

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THE GOLDEN DOG. (LE CHIEN D'OR.)

By William Kirby

AUTHOR'S PREFATORY NOTE.

TO THE PUBLIC:

In the year 1877 the first edition of "The Golden Dog" (Le Chien d'Or)
was brought out in the United States, entirely without my knowledge or
sanction. Owing to the inadequacy of the then existing copyright laws,
I have been powerless to prevent its continued publication, which I
understand to have been a successful and profitable undertaking for
all concerned, except the author, the book having gone through many
editions.

It was, consequently, a source of gratification to me when I was
approached by Messrs. L. C. Page & Company, of Boston, with a request to
revise "The Golden Dog," and re-publish it through them. The result is
the present edition, which I have corrected and revised in the light of
the latest developments in the history of Quebec, and which is the only
edition offered to my readers with the sanction and approval of its
author.

WILLIAM KIRBY.

Niagara, Canada, May, 1897.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. MEN OF THE OLD REGIME

II. THE WALLS OF QUEBEC

III. A CHATELAINE OF NEW FRANCE

IV. CONFIDENCES

V. THE ITINERANT NOTARY

VI. BEAUMANOIR

VII. THE INTENDANT BIGOT

VIII. CAROLINE DE ST. CASTIN

IX. PIERRE PHILIBERT

X. AMELIE DE REPENTIGNY

XI. THE SOLDIER'S WELCOME

XII. THE CASTLE OF ST. LOUIS

XIII. THE CHIEN D'OR

XIV. THE COUNCIL OF WAR

XV. THE CHARMING JOSEPHINE

XVI. ANGELIQUE DES MELOISES

XVII. SPLENDIDE MENDAX

XVIII. THE MEROVINGIAN PRINCESS

XIX. PUT MONEY IN THY PURSE

XX. BELMONT

XXI. SIC ITUR AD ASTRA

XXII. SO GLOZED THE TEMPTER

XXIII. SEALS OF LOVE, BUT SEALED IN VAIN

XXIV. THE HURRIED QUESTION OF DESPAIR

XXV. BETWIXT THE LAST VIOLET AND THE EARLIEST ROSE

XXVI. THE CANADIAN BOAT SONG

XXVII. CHEERFUL YESTERDAYS AND C