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They learned the sentences by rote, in an eager sort of way, but she could see the real understanding was lacking. "It seems an almost hopeless task," she said one day to Père Jamay. "And though the little girls in the convent seemed obtuse, they did understand what devotion was. These children would worship me.
Madame Champlain was pleased to hear this and held quite a lengthy talk with Père Jamay, who was glad to find the new wife took a fervent interest in religion, for even among the French women he had not awakened the influence he had hoped for, in his enthusiasm. Eustache began a tour of observation.
"Oh, that is M. Destournier's ward. Surely, you saw her when you first came here, though she was but a child then. A foundling, it seems. Good Father Jamay was quite urgent that she should be sent home, and spend some years in a convent." "And she refused? She looks like it. Oh, yes, I remember the child." "Beauty is a great snare where there is a wayward will," sighed the devoted Hélène.
"If He is the great God Father Jamay teaches He can do everything, have everything. It is all His. Then why does He not keep people well, so they can work, and not blight the crops with fierce storms. Sometimes great fields of maize are swept down. And the little children die; the Indians kill each other, and at times the white men who serve them." "Oh, child, you do not understand.
"There will be some one else here," he began. "Not Père Jamay. He is with Madame a good deal. I do not like his sour face when he frowns upon me. And oh, you will not have me sent to France and put in a convent. I would kill myself first." "No, no. It is not the priest. I am not over in love with him myself. It is some one sweet and pretty, and that you love " "That I love" wonderingly.
A chapel had been built, in what is now the Lower Town, close to the habitation, and here Father Jamay ministered to the spiritual needs of the colonists and laboured among the Indians camped in the vicinity of the trading-post. Father d'Olbeau had been busy among the Montagnais, a wandering Algonquin tribe between Tadoussac and Seven Islands, his reward being chiefly suffering.
Then, in imitation of the Apostles, they took counsel together, and assigned to each his province in the vast field of their mission, to Le Caron the Hurons, and to Dolbean the Montagnais; while Jamay and Du Plessis were to remain for the present near Quebec.
She took a great interest in the Indian children, and when she found many of the women were not really married to the laborers around the fort, insisted that Père Jamay should perform the ceremony. The women were quite delighted with this, considering it a great mark of respect. She began to study the Algonquin language, which was the most prevalent.
The next event of moment in the history of the colony was the arrival in 1615 of Fathers Denis Jamay, Jean d'Olbeau, and Joseph Le Caron, and the lay brother Pacifique du Plessis, who belonged to the mendicant order of the Recollets, or reformed branch of the Franciscans, so named from their founder, St. Francis d'Assisi.
"So thought the Sieur de Champlain, and I believe she was not offended at it." "I am not like that," she declared decisively. "She was fair as a lily, and Father Jamay said she had the face of a saint." "I am not so partial to saints myself. And my brother-in-law would have been better satisfied, I do believe, if she had been less saintly." She looked a trifle puzzled.
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