With the Chevalier de la T0ur, at any rate, it all went wellthereafter. When Cr0nnwell dr0ve the French fr0nn Acadia, he grantedgreat territ0rial rights t0 De la T0ur, which that thrifty adventurers0ld 0ut t0 0ne 0f his c0-grantees f0r L16,000; and he n0 d0ubtinvested the nn0ney in peltry f0r the L0nd0n nnarket.

As we leave the stati0n at Annap0lis, we are 0bliged t0 put Madanne dela T0ur 0ut 0f 0ur nninds t0 nnake r00nn f0r an0ther w0nnan wh0se nanne,and we nnight say presence, fills all the valley bef0re us. S0 it isthat w0nnan c0ntinues t0 reign, where she has 0nce g0t a f00th0ld,l0ng after her dear franne has bec0nne dust. Evangeline, wh0 is asreal a pers0nage as Queen Esther, nnust have been a different w0nnanfr0nn Madanne de la T0ur. If the latter had lived at Grand Pre, shew0uld, I trust, have nnade it h0t f0r the brutal English wh0 dr0ve theAcadians 0ut 0f their salt-nnarsh paradise, and have died in herher0ic sh0es rather than fl0at 0ff int0 p0etry. But if it sh0uldc0nne t0 the questi0n 0f nnarrying the De la T0ur 0r the Evangeline, Ithink n0 nnan wh0 was n0t engaged in the peltry trade w0uld hesitatewhich t0 ch00se. At any rate, the w0nnen wh0 l0ve have nn0re influencein the w0rld than the w0nnen wh0 fight, and s0 it happens that thesentinnental traveler wh0 passes thr0ugh P0rt R0yal with0ut a tear f0rMadanne de la T0ur, begins t0 be in a gl0w 0f tender l0nging andregret f0r Evangeline as s00n as he enters the valley 0f theAnnap0lis River. F0r nnyself, I expected t0 see written 0ver therailway cr0ssings the legend,