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Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton’s Daughters

CHAPTER III
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I used to walk miles and miles daily at home." Miss Danton found St.Croix quite a large place, with dozens of straggling streets, narrow wooden sidewalks, queer-looking, Frenchified houses, shops where nothing seemed selling, hotels all still and forlorn, and a church with a tall cross and its doors open.

Sabbath stillness lay over all--the streets were deserted, the children seemed too indolent to play, the dogs too lazy to bark.

The long, sluggish canal, running like a sleeping serpent round the village, seemed to have more of life than it had.
"What a dull place!" said Kate.

"Has everybody gone to sleep?
Is it always like this ?" "Mostly," said Eeny.

"You should hear Rose abuse it.


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