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Canadian MaritimesOften simply "The Maritimes", the Canadian Maritimes are a region of Canada on the southern Atlantic coast, northeast of New England and southeast of the Gaspé. The Maritime provinces are New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were two of the original four provinces in the Canadian Confederation. Newfoundland and Labrador is sometimes called a Maritime province, but strictly speaking it isn't. (It can be called part of Atlantic Canada.) Neale
dreams. When he went away she could still be happy. She owed it to
had discovered to her an inward courage and an indomitable will. She
thought.html">thought, and anticipation, and always achievement, for she could not
willows along the brook she knew that before their leaves had
strange and inexplicable sense of the heart told her that he was
down at her face mirrored in the crystal spring. Neale had made her
such a strange treasure to him.
On the May morning that Slingerland left her alone she was startled
his departure.
Her first thought was that Neale and Larry had returned. All her
a violent, agonizing wrench. She lost all control of her muscles for
door.html">door. He was a young giant with hulking shoulders, ruddy-faced,
in California. He stared hard at her.
"Hullo! Ain't you Durade's girl.html">girl?" he asked, in gruff astonishment.
Then Allie knew she had seen him out in the gold-fields.
"No, I'm not," she replied.
"A-huh! You look uncommon like her.... Anybody home round here?"
"Slingerland went over the hill," said Allie. "He'll be back
three riders arrived.
"Mornin', miss," said one, a grizzled veteran, who might have been
wore a wide-brimmed black sombrero from under which a dark, sinister
door. He stretched out a long arm and grasped Allie before she could
wrist until she could have screamed with pain.
"Hold on, girl! It won't do you no good to jerk, an' if you holler
around lively."
With one pull he hauled Allie toward his horse, and, taking a. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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