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Excerpt from A Daughter of PatriciansAlthough upon the hour of midnight, the snow covered streets were dark with people hurrying to the great church, whose imposing nave and tiers of loft… More...

Excerpt from A Daughter of PatriciansAlthough upon the hour of midnight, the snow covered streets were dark with people hurrying to the great church, whose imposing nave and tiers of lofty galleries could accommodate eighteen thousand souls.It was Christmas Eve: to the devout French Canadian the night of nights; the anniversary of the birth of Him who, nineteen hundred years ago, came to preach goodwill to men. To-night, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-six.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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. F. Clifford Smith, Books, Fiction and Literature, A Daughter of Patricians (Classic Reprint) Books>Fiction and Literature, FB&C Ltd<