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"A la claire fontaine

Je m'allais prone"

Her song ended with her work, and as she passed the strangers with

her two flowing pails of yellow milk, Riel whispered softly, as he

touched her sweet little hand: "Ah, ma petite amie!"

The same flash cah the dusk of her cheek, but she restrained herself He was a

guest under her father's roof, and she would suffer the offence to

pass The persistent gallant was more crest-fallen by this last

silent rebuke than by the first with its angry words The first, in

his vanity, he had deemed an outburst of petulance, instead of an

expression of personal dislike, especially as the girl had so

suddenly calnashed his teeth that a half-breed girl, in an obscure village,

should resent his advances; he for whoht eyes were languishing At the evening

meal he received courteous, kindly attention from Annette; but this

was all He related withworld in the East, during his school days, and took good care