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Bourlamaque, an excellent officer, was retreating before him, but he thought that Montreal would be safe till the next year if some French reinforcements could be sent up from Quebec. Only good troops would be of any use, and Montcalm had too few of them already. But if Amherst took Montreal the line of the St Lawrence would be cut at once.
"It seems to me that should be a reason for your not asking me to make other sacrifices! When I gave up Blanche I thought you would see that I wanted to please you and that you would do something for me in return...." Amherst interrupted her with a laugh. "Thank you for telling me your real reasons. I was fool enough to think you acted from conviction not that you were simply striking a bargain "
"No, darling, no." "Oh, I see he hasn't got his three-pronged fork. Is it Nelson then?" "I am sure I don't know," said Mrs. Beauchamp, and her laugh was very near tears. "You will tell the twins at once, please," she said to Mr. Amherst as she said good-bye. "I cannot bear to feel that they may be awake and waiting." But Dot and Dash had not passed a sleepless night of misery.
The other column moved down the railroad towards Lynchburg, destroying it as far as Amherst Court House, sixteen miles from Lynchburg; thence across the country, uniting with the column at New Market.
While standing behind the counter in the dining saloon, also while she worked in the adjoining kitchen, many new and wonderful things were witnessed by the inhabitants of Amherst and by strangers from a distance, and many plans were tried to prevent the manifestations. Among others, some one suggested that if she could stand on glass they would cease.
"Hallo, Amherst trying to get under cover?" Westy jovially accosted him, with a significant gesture toward the crowded lawn from which the new-comer had evidently fled. "I was just telling Miss Brent that this is the safest place on these painful occasions Oh, confound it, it's not as safe as I thought! Here's one of my sisters making for me!"
Amherst sighed, crossing the passage to the kitchen. AT the manager's door Amherst was met by Mrs. Truscomb, a large flushed woman in a soiled wrapper and diamond earrings. "Mr. Truscomb's very sick. He ought not to see you. The doctor thinks " she began. Dr. Disbrow, at this point, emerged from the sitting-room.
Here he threw up batteries in addition to those already there, from which he was enabled greatly to annoy both town and shipping, as well as to aid Amherst in his slow, but regular and sure approaches. On the 21st of July, the three largest of the enemy's ships were set on fire by a bombshell.
The French officers and men must not, Amherst insisted, serve again during the war. Levis protested and begged Vaudreuil to be allowed to go on fighting rather than accept the terms, but in vain. The humiliation was rigorously imposed, and it was a sullen host which the British took captive. France had lost an Empire. It was nearly three years still before peace was signed at Paris in 1763.
As Amherst approached, in his evening clothes, the heavy locks smoothed from his forehead, a flower of Cicely's giving in his button-hole, she thought she had never seen him look so kind and handsome. "Not dressed? Do you know that it's ten minutes to eight?" he said, coming up to her with a smile. She roused herself, putting her hands to her hair.
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