Excerpt from Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of Evangeline

He said also of the unhappy people at that time, It hurts me to hear their weeping and wailing. So we conclude that the pleasant face did not belie the heart which it mirrored.

It is a singular coincidence that, for being hostile to their country at the time of the Revolution, his own family were driven into exile twenty years after the deportation of the unhappy French people.

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