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THE LANE THAT HAD NO TURNING
By Gilbert Parker

CONTENTS
Volume 1. THE LANE THAT HAD NO TURNING
Volume 2. THE ABSURD ROMANCE OF P'TITE LOUISON THE
LITTLE BELL OF HONOUR A SON OF THE WILDERNESS A
WORKER IN STONE
Volume 3. THE TRAGIC COMEDY OF ANNETTE THE
MARRIAGE OF THE MILLER MATHURIN THE STORY OF THE
LIME-BURNER THE WOODSMAN'S STORY OF THE GREAT
WHITE CHIEF UNCLE JIM THE HOUSE WITH THE TALL
PORCH PARPON THE DWARF
Volume 4. TIMES WERE HARD IN PONTIAC MEDALLION'S
WHIM THE PRISONER AN UPSET PRICE A FRAGMENT OF
LIVES THE MAN THAT DIED AT ALMA THE BARON OF
BEAUGARD THE TUNE McGILVERAY PLAYED

The Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier G.C.M.G.
Dear Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Since I first began to write these tales in 1892,
I have had it in my mind to dedicate to you the "bundle of life" when it
should be complete. It seemed to me--and it seems so still--that to put
your name upon the covering of my parcel, as one should say, "In care
of," when it went forth, was to secure its safe and considerate delivery
to that public of the Empire which is so much in your debt.
But with other feelings also do I dedicate this volume to yourself. For

many years your name has stood for a high and noble compromise
between the temperaments and the intellectual and social habits of two
races; and I am not singular in thinking that you have done more than
most other men to make the English and French of the Dominion
understand each other better. There are somewhat awkward limits to
true understanding as yet, but that sympathetic service which you
render to both peoples, with a conscientious striving for impartiality,
tempers even the wind of party warfare to the shorn lamb of political
opposition.
In a sincere sympathy with French life and character, as exhibited in the
democratic yet monarchical province of Quebec, or Lower Canada (as,
historically, I still love to think of it), moved by friendly observation,
and seeking to be truthful and impartial, I have made this book and
others dealing with the life of the proud province, which a century and
a half of English governance has not Anglicised. This series of more or
less connected stories, however, has been the most cherished of all my
labours, covering, as it has done, so many years, and being the accepted
of my anxious judgment out of a much larger gathering, so many
numbers of which are retired to the seclusion of copyright, while
reserved from publication. In passing, I need hardly say that the
"Pontiac" of this book is an imaginary place, and has no association
with the real Pontiac of the Province.
I had meant to call the volume, "Born with a Golden Spoon," a title
stolen from the old phrase, "Born with a golden spoon in the mouth";
but at the last moment I have given the book the name of the tale which
is, chronologically, the climax of the series, and the end of my
narratives of French Canadian life and character. I had chosen the
former title because of an inherent meaning in it relation to my subject.
A man born in the purple--in comfort wealth, and secure estate--is said
to have the golden spoon in his mouth. In the eyes of the