Maria Chapdelaine a Tale of the Lake St John Country
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" He checked himself, but it was plain that after the kind of life he had been living and what he had seen of the world, existence on a farm between a humble little village and the forest seemed a thing insupportable. "When I was a girl, " said mother Chap- delaine, "pretty nearly everyone went off to the States. Farming did not pay as well as it does now, prices were low, we were always hearing of the big wages earned over [87] MARIA CHAPDELAINE there in the factories, and every year one famil...y after another sold out for next to nothing and left Canada. Some made a lot of money, no doubt of that, especially those families with plenty of daughters; but now it is different and they are not going as once they did ... So you are selling the farm?" "Yes, there has been some talk with three Frenchmen who came to Mistook last month. I expect we shall make a bargain. " "And are there many Canadians where you are living? Do the people speak French?" "At the place I went to first, in the State of Maine, there were more Canadians than Americans or Irish; everyone spoke French; but where I live now, in the State of Mas sachusetts, there are not so many.
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