Evangeline 
villages each about Its farmhouse, as the poet 
has shown them to us. 
Down toward Horton's Landing — apart, as 
the poet has set it, and as it should be — is the 
peaceful and charming home of Evangeline. 
There in the broad-beamed house she lives 
with her father. We see her as distinctly as 
we see the young girl of to-day passing along 
the street, far more distinctly, for we shall for- 
get the young girl, but Evangeline's face and 
form will linger in our minds for ever. . 
We know her as well as we know the 
members of our household, and here in Grand 
Pre she seems very near to us. We know she 
is sitting at her spinning-wheel down there by 
Horton's Landing, in the home of her father 
with its oaken beams. She is fair, and bright 
with the sparkle of French vivacity that plays 
in her black eyes, which flash and soften with 
succeeding emotions. 
She is clad in the picturesque attire of her 
country people ; and in the corner near her is 
the great loom where she sits through the 
winter, weaving cloth for the family and laying 
up piles of linen against a day that is nearing, 
and about which she is dreaming. 
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