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features of Mere Marie de l'lncarnation, — the first 

 Superioress of the Ursulines of Quebec, who in obe- 

 dience to heavenly visions, as she believed, left France 

 to found schools for the children of the new colonists, 

 and who taught her own womanly graces to her own 

 sex, who were destined to become the future mothers 

 of New France." 



— " Well said," my eloquent friend ! I chimed in. You 

 seem to have left little to add anent the whilhom splendor 

 of the old Chateau St. Louis. One thing yet remains to 

 complete the ornamentation of the historic site on which 

 it stood : A Monument to the immortal founder of 

 Quebec ; worthy of Champlain, worthy of Quebec. To 

 me it is a dream of my youth. May we both be spared 

 to see it ! " 



Spencer Grange, 



Christmas Eve, 1890. 



