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"Vive Jesus! Vive Jesus! Avec la croix, son cher partage. Vive Jesus! Dans les coeurs de tous les elus! Portons la croix. Sans choix, sans ennui, sans murmure, Portons la croix! Quoique tres amere et tres dure, Malgre les sens et la nature, Portons la croix! " -- _Acadien Song._
Charlitte had been in his grave for nearly two years. He slept peacefully in the little green cemetery hard by the white church where a slender, sorrowful woman came twice every week to hear a priest repeat masses for the repose of his soul.