Excerpt from Hearts and Creeds HE electric lamps, glaring out across the terrace, offered a garish contrast to the moonlight that rested on the river, two hundred feet below. Over the shining stream brooded the hush of a June night, a hush broken only by an occasional harsh call from the watchman on the ocean steamer anchored in the channel, or by the quiet plashing of the little ferry-boat which wove its leisurely course to and fro between Quebec and the Levis shore. For the hour, the whole life and light of the town seemed focused upon the long sweep of the terrace which hung midway between the dark mass of the citadel above and the shining stripe of the stream beneath. I do dislike that man Patience Tyler said. 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.