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WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC
CHAPTER I
On one corner stood the house of Monsieur Garon the avocat; on another,
the shop of the Little Chemist; on another, the office of Medallion the
auctioneer; and on the last, the Hotel Louis Quinze. The chief
characteristics of Monsieur Garon's house were its brass door-knobs, and
the verdant vines that climbed its sides; of the Little Chemist's shop,
the perfect whiteness of the building, the rolls of sober wall-paper, and
the bottles of coloured water in the shop windows; of Medallion's, the
stoop that surrounded three sides of the building, and the notices of
sales tacked up, pasted up, on the front; of the Hotel Louis Quinze, the
deep dormer windows, the solid timbers, and the veranda that gave its
front distinction--for this veranda had been the pride of several
generations of landlords, and its heavy carving and bulky grace were
worth even more admiration than Pontiac gave to it.
The square which the two roads and the four corners made was, on
week-days, the rendezvous of Pontiac, and the whole parish; on Sunday
mornings the rendezvous was shifted to the large church on the hill,
beside which was the house of the Cure, Monsieur Fabre.
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