At such times he was more than likely to stray over to the banks of the Perdu.

It would have been hard for Reuben to say just why he found the Perdu so attractive.

The Perdu was but a stone's throw broad, throughout its entire length.

He resolved that he would buy property near the Perdu and settle there.

He laughed softly; and just then the blue heron came back to the Perdu.

Always that phrase of his, he had called himself so often 'perdu!'

The Perdu lay perpetually asleep, along beside a steep bank clothed with white birches and balsam poplars.

For a long time she loved the Perdu primarily for its associations with the boy who was her playmate, her protector, and her hero.

The Perdu, as might have been expected when so many mysteries were credited to it, was commonly held to be bottomless.

But it was with the deepening of the summer that the spell of the Perdu deepened to its most enthralling potency.