In a factory over there, clever and strong as you are, soon you would be in the way of making nearly as much as I do; but no need of that if you were my wife.

I earn enough for both of us, and we should have every comfort: good clothes to wear, a pretty flat in a brick house with gas and hot water, and all sorts of contrivances you never heard of to save you labour and worry every moment of the day.

And don't let the idea enter your head that all the people are English.

I know many Canadian families who work as I do or even keep shops.

And there is a splendid church with a Canadian priest as cure--Mr.Tremblay from St.Hyacinthe.You would never be lonesome ..." Pausing again he surveyed the white plain with its ragged crop of brown stumps, the bleak plateau dropping a little farther in a long slope to the levels of the frozen river; meanwhile ransacking his mind for some final persuasive word.
"I hardly know what to say ...