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the vessel, and getting into one of the smaller boats, 

 drifted ashore with the tide, landing at Cap Rouge, 

 just as her lover, Eaoul, who was a Lieutenant in La 

 Roche Beaucour's Cavalry, was patrolling the heights 

 of Sillery. Overpowered with joy, she rode behind 

 him back to the city, and left him on nearing her home ; 

 but, to her horror, she spied dogging her footsteps her 

 arch-enemy the Intendant, and fell down in a species 

 of fit, which turned out to be catalepsy. This furnishes, 

 of course, a very moving tableau. 



The fair girl, supposed to be dead, was laid out in 

 her shroud, when Raoul, during the confusion of that 

 terrible day for French Rule, the 13th September, 

 calling to see her, finds her a corpse just ready for 

 interment. Fortunately for the heroine, a bombshell 

 forgotten in the yard, all at once and in the nick of 

 time igniting, explodes, shattering the tenement in frag- 

 ments. The concussion recalls Mdlle de Rochebrune to 

 life ; a happy marriage soon after ensues. The chief 

 character in the novel, the Intendant, sails shortly 

 after for France, where he was imprisoned, as history 

 states, in the Bastille, during fifteen months, and his 

 ill-gotten gains confiscated. All this, with the exception 

 of Mile, de Rochebrune's character, is strictly histori- 

 cal; but what does not seem so, is the tragical end of 

 Bigot, to whose death, in mid ocean, eaten by a rave- 

 nous shark, we are made to assist. The Intendant had, 

 it appears, decided to expatriate himself, after seeking 

 to enlist the former partner of his amours, Madame 

 Pean, who then resided in France ; but he became so 

 shocked, on seeing the once lovely face eaten up by a 

 hideous cancer, that he sailed alone. Why the novelist 

 should have introduced, this very unnecessary " shark 

 and cancer scene " is hard to make out. It was con- 

 trary to history, and out of the general run of events. 



Mr. Marmette had before his eyes a brilliant example 

 in the author of Waverley's failure whenever he tried 

 to heighten interest by resorting to such fare-fetched 



