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Title: Ringfield
A Novel

Author: Susie Frances Harrison

Release Date: October 3, 2008 [EBook #26768]

Language: English

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Produced by Al Haines

RINGFIELD

A NOVEL

BY

S. F. HARRISON,

"SERANUS"

[Transcriber's note: Author's full name is Susie Frances Harrison]

AUTHOR OF "THE FOREST OF BOURG-MARIE," "PINE, ROSE AND FLEURE DE LIS,"
"CROWDED OUT, AND OTHER SKETCHES," "THE CANADIAN BIRTHDAY BOOK," ETC.

TORONTO

THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED

1914

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
THE HOLY WATERS

CHAPTER II
THE WHITE PEACOCK

CHAPTER III
THE MAN IN THE CHAIR

CHAPTER IV
THE HOUSE OF CLAIRVILLE

CHAPTER V
THE UNSEEN HAND

CHAPTER VI
THE MISSIONARY

CHAPTER VII
THE OXFORD MAN

CHAPTER VIII
THE "PIC"

CHAPTER IX
PAULINE

CHAPTER X
THE PICNIC

CHAPTER XI
"ANGEEL"

CHAPTER XII
THE HEART OF POUSSETTE

CHAPTER XIII
A SICK SEIGNEUR

CHAPTER XIV
FATHER RIELLE

CHAPTER XV
THE STORM

CHAPTER XVI
IN THE BARN

CHAPTER XVII
REVELRY BY NIGHT

CHAPTER XVIII
A CONCERT DE LUXE

CHAPTER XIX
REHABILITATION

CHAPTER XX
A RURAL AUTOCRAT

CHAPTER XXI
THE NATURAL MAN

CHAPTER XXII
THE TROUSSEAU OF PAULINE

CHAPTER XXIII
THE SEIGNEUR PASSES

CHAPTER XXIV
RELAPSE

CHAPTER XXV
THE TROUSSEAU AGAIN

CHAPTER XXVI
THE GLISSADE

CHAPTER XXVII
THE CARPET BAG

CHAPTER XXVIII
THE HAVEN

CHAPTER XXIX
THE WILL OF GOD

CHAPTER XXX
THE QUEST OF HAPPINESS

CHAPTER I

THE HOLY WATERS

"...... the sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion."

In a country of cascades, a land of magnificent waterfalls, that watery
hemisphere which holds Niagara and reveals to those who care to travel
so far north the unhackneyed splendours of the Labrador, the noble fall
of St. Ignace, though only second or third in size, must ever ra