Mother Juschereau teaches the protagonist's daughter about saints and miracles, and the street urchin Jacques Gaux becomes friends with her until he leaves to become a sailor.
Mother Juschereau teaches the protagonist's daughter about saints and miracles, and the street urchin Jacques Gaux becomes friends with her until he leaves to become a sailor. The main character hears stories related by the hunchbacked, cross-eyed Jules Blinker, (*) who was formerly an apprentice torturer at Rouen and needs the protagonist to help him to heal his conscience. The main character attempts to treat the illness of his ailing benefactor, Count Frontenac, whose heart is returned to France in lead box after he dies. Luckily, the woodsman Pierre Charron agrees to help the main character with his work after marrying his daughter Cécile. FTP, name this novel set in the waning years of the 17th century which focuses on the Quebecois apothecary Euclide Auclair, a work by Willa Cather.
Mother Juschereau teaches the protagonist's daughter about saints and miracles, and the street urchin Jacques Gaux becomes friends with her until he leaves to become a sailor.
{Shadows on the Rock}