![]() ![]() She is a pleasant woman, pink-cheeked and jolly, and I think it will be a pleasure to travel with her. Monsieur Deschamps has travelled on ahead to the ship, but Madame Laurent has remained here at Le Cadeau so that she might act as our chaperone on the journey. ![]() I prayed that both Catherine and I will have the strength to make the journey and leave our dear home behind. The mass this Sunday morning was the last I shall ever attend at our church in Reignac. Monsieur Deschamps and Cousin Pierre looked at each other in a way I disliked. I burst out that I was but thirteen years old. "Would you not like to be the wife of a Montréal merchant?" Monsieur Deschamps seemed to think it would be perfectly correct. I cannot imagine marrying at eleven or twelve years of age. I may accompany her, but since I am so young Catherine insisted it will not be as a fille à marier, even though some girls even younger than I have married there. ![]()
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