The Young Seigneur / Or, Nation-Making

d of our age, that has in it more history within a hundred years than all t

f in some ancestral place in Europe, the pinnacles clustered with such a tranquil grace

mantel ornaments, an immense carved fireplace, and such modern conveniences as Eastlake Cabinets, student's lamps and electric bell. In

im respectfully to hi

aged, quiet lady

f form and movement which his firmer limbs and greater activity gave him, were evidently somet

and his hair, moustache and young beard, of jet black, contrasted well with the color which enriched his brunet cheek. Whether it was due to a happy ch

ment, for it was a cool evening, and saying:-"Do you mind this? It is a liking of mine," stepped over to the lamps and

ut against a background of deep red hangings in its

ng among that riches of fine statues and had begun to feel it an embarras, as our own phrase goes, when I came into a chamber an

been in It

lian days like Longfellow;" and, looking into

d of the

l it is! It

e ... Long

s a youth am

m my heart ha

that like a

th a ring of

orizon of

ression of feeling he could not but feel that Havilan

nd, in a moment again,

beautiful coun

few moments longer, according to a habit of

ur seat in the Domini

al. Why

know, in the Dominion House, while I was in the Local. After it, he arranged that we should exchange seats, as the Legislature has latterly been so quiet. Lately, however, Picault's

their ma

he Courts they saved Libergent from disqualification, and now he appears again against us. Our cau

ill not be lo

tion-making?-that this generation, and particularly a few individuals like you, sir, and myself should

manner was full

effect beyond trying to keep Government pure and prudent, and we are often powerless to do even that? Nor

one too. When I go into the country among the farmers,

e strain, "to be our modest lot to follow the lead of other lands more develope

persistence. A people should plain for a thousand years and be willing to wait centuries. Still, merely to lead is very subordinate in my view: a nation should only exist, and will only exist permanently, if it has a reason of existence. France has hers in the needs of th

our 'reason

aim, a work," h

dear Haviland," he exclaimed, "

dinary man. It is because you are broad, liberal and willing to-examine matters in a large aspect, and that I think that in a large aspect I shall be j

ose to get the peopl

n any that could be advanced against it-it is all they would require. I propose a clear ideal for them-a vision of what Canada ought to b

sler murmured slowl

for a People!" the

ments. The elder looked

ld you of

as she is, all time being given and the utmost stretch of aims. As Plato's mind's eye saw his Republic, Bacon his New Atlantis, Mo

world?" the old man asked. His caution was wavering a li

was a business man. His father had left him large lumber interests to preserve, and the responsibility had framed his prudence. He took the same kind of

ederation, both of them bearing on all advance in civilized organizations,-Unification of Races-development

ke to some such new se

id in Goe

e business different from altering the names o

er; then he added: "I have never known you as well as I wish, Haviland. You speak of this work as if you had some

d cheek; the dark portraits on the walls seemed to look out upon him as if th

velation. The reason, sir, why I asked you here was that you, my venerate

esit

which you will find the first half in you

in coffee and they talked mo