Excerpt from Maria Chapdelaine: A Romance of French Canada By his side Egide Simard and others, who like him had come a long journey by sleigh, were fastening their heavy fur coats as they went out of the church, and drew them close at the waist with red scarves. Some young fellows from the village, very handsome in their overcoats with collars of otter skin, were speaking with deference to old Nazaire Larouche, a tall grey man with large bony shoulders, who for the mass had made no change in his everyday garb' a short coat of brown homespun lined with sheepskin, patched breeches, and thick grev woolen socks in moose hide moccasins. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.