"But you have your feelings!" said Mabel quickly. "You cannot --
no one can live among such scenes without feeling how much they
ought to trust in God!"

"I shall not belie my training so much as to say I do not sometimes
think of these things, but I fear it is not so often or so much as
I ought."

"Fresh water," resumed Cap pithily; "you are not to expect too
much of the young man, Mabel. I think they call you sometimes by
a name which would insinuate all this: Eau-de-vie, is it not?"

"Eau-douce," quietly replied Jasper, who from sailing on the
lake had acquired a knowledge of French, as well as of several of
the Indian dialects. "It is a name the Iroquois have given me to
distinguish me from some of my companions who once sailed upon the
sea, and are fond of filling the ears of the natives with stories
of their great salt-water lakes."

"And why shouldn't they? I daresay they do the savages no harm.
Ay, ay, Eau-deuce; that must mean the white brandy, which may well
enough be called the deuce, for deuced stuff it is!"

"The signification of Eau-douce is sweet-water, and it is the
manner in which the French express fresh-water," rejoined Jasper,
a little nettled.

"And how the devil do they make water out of Eau-in-deuce, when
it means brandy in Eau-de-vie? Besides, among seamen, Eau always
means brandy; and Eau-de-vie, brandy of a high proof. I think