The Span o' Life: A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec

I sank down into a chair, benumbed in body and bewildered in mind. Everything was in a whirl of confusion, and through it I heard the heart-breaking cry that was no hallucinatio...

Now that the beacon was fairly alight my purpose was accomplished, and I was free to return to the house; but the night was warm, there was no sound save the lapping of the risi...

"We are your prisoners!" I answered, instantly, for the slightest hesitation on such occasions may lead to the most serious results. Explanations can be made subsequently, but a...

Portentous as were its results, I have never been able to look upon the battle of the 13th of September as adding anything of value to military knowledge. From a technical view...

I can make no pretence to marshal the train of thought that swept through my brain when the priest took his way and left me to myself. Engrossed as I was with my own affairs, I...

"When you left with le pere Jean, she was much distressed, for she had not the same reliance on his assurance of your safety as we, and at first insisted that you would never ha...

Christopher was at once examined by M. Arnoux, the surgeon, who obligingly came at Angelique's request, and before long he met us to report that his patient was in no danger; hi...

Lucy's illness proved so serious that all thought of Louisbourg had to be abandoned during the long weeks she lay between life and death. Now it was that I realised the full dre...

It was a scene that would have done credit to a much larger centre than Quebec. It is true the walls were bare of any fitting decoration, the windows too small to break them wit...

We found Mme. de Sarennes awaiting us in her room, with a generous bouillon warming over a lamp. "Hunger and faintness will not add to your courage, my daughters; sit down and e...

I rewarded the men handsomely enough to call forth their approval, and made my compliments so fully to Mr. Lockhart, with so many messages to his family, that I left him more pu...

"Such a man! I have known women silly and vain; I have known women cruel and brainless; but such a combination of the qualities I never expected to meet in man; it makes me blus...

Gabriel altered his course with the satisfaction of a man confirmed in his superior judgment. "'II y a remede a tout, fors a la mort,' madame, and this has come at the last hour...

In Maitre Gabriel I found a type I could readily understand; he was very shrewd, very curious, with a passion for questioning, but so honest and childlike that he took no offenc...

On that 9th of May which saw the _Lowestaffe_ anchor in Quebec to practically settle the fortunes of France and England in the New World, as I walked back along the rue St. Loui...

The rest of the week passed quickly, in one sense, though every hour of it dragged for me. I was burning with impatience to hear M. de Sarennes speak some word of his intended d...

On my way back to Soho I turned over matters with interest. I had but little difficulty in placing the Vicomte; he was one of those clear, simple souls, very charming at times i...

My resolution was immediate, but it was a different matter carrying it into effect. After many applications, and even entreaties, the most favourable opening I could obtain was...

Absorbed though I was in my work, I could not but mark what was passing between Angelique and Archie--how unconsciously my single-hearted brother was following her in that path...

One after another our positions were abandoned or driven in, until the plan of defence by our outlying works entirely failed, and we were forced to fall back on the sorry defenc...

As I had not been in the habit of asking favours of my superiors, permission was readily given that the English lad should be allowed to share my quarters with me.

Sarennes had taken himself off again to gather fresh laurels in ambuscade and retreat, the alternatives which compose the whole science of la petite guerre, and I had but little...

Though the priest spake with confidence, I judged he had no small difficulty in persuading the savages to part with us, for there was much discussion and apparently grumbling on...

"That is much. Now I shall ask you to listen to me patiently, for I may say much with which you will not agree, but you will trust me that I only say that which I know to be bes...

I found the household in Essex Street in a state of perturbation which was soon explained. News had come that Margaret's brother Archibald had been arrested, as Lady Jane had fo...

I myself was not greatly disturbed over the turn things had taken, for I had begun to be suspicious of my thrifty Scot in Greek Street, and, as I had left behind me neither pape...

Every one knows of my connection with the ill-starred Rebellion of Prince Charles, and for this it was that I found myself, a few months after the disaster of Culloden, lying cl...

Never, never shall I forget the elation which filled my heart as I stepped ashore with Lucy that September day in the Baie des Chaleurs, in Canada. After weeks of unrest, my fee...

I stretched myself out at length, with my cloak over me, and dozed uneasily until awakened by a soft knocking at the door, which was slowly pushed open, and a brown head made it...

XXVI. I Close One Account and Open Another XXVII. I Find a Key to my Dilemma XXVIII. I Make a False Move XXIX. I Put my Fortune to the Touch

I. "After High Floods Come Low Ebbs" II. I Discover a New Interest in Life III. "The Dead and the Absent are Always Wrong" IV. In Which I Make Acquaintance with One Near to Me V...

XII. What Happened in the Baie des Chaleurs XIII. Le Pere Jean, Missionary to the Indians XIV. I am Directed into a New Path XV. The Marquis de Montcalm-Gozon de St. Veran XVI....