[The Trail of the Sword Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Trail of the Sword Complete CHAPTER VII 23/32
Eh bien, such is the way of asses." Iberville was about to speak. "But wait," said Perrot, with a slow, tantalising smile; "it is not wise to hurry.
I have a mind to know; so while I am at New York I go to Boston.
It makes a man's mind great to travel.
I have been east to Boston; I have been west beyond the Ottawa and the Michilimackinac, out to the Mississippi.Yes.Well, what did I find in Boston? Peste! I found that they were all like men in purgatory--sober and grave.Truly.And so dull! Never a saint-day, never a feast, never a grand council when the wine, the rum, flow so free, and you shall eat till you choke.
Nothing. Everything is stupid; they do not smile.
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