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In the following April Levis made his desperate throw for victory; and actually did succeed in defeating Murray outside the walls of Quebec. But the British fleet came up in May; and that summer three British armies converged on Montreal, where the last doomed remnants of French power on the St Lawrence stood despairingly at bay.
"She will do as her owner has done these six years, your Excellency: she will fight her way out alone." He gazed long at the town and at the Levis shore. "From above, then, there is a way?" "For proof, if I come back alive "
He commanded one of the small French frigates of about sixteen guns, and fought like a lion against an English man-of-war of forty guns, until he had no powder nor shot. He then sent all his crew ashore to M. de Levis, judging that they might be of use to him, and remained on board with the wounded, his colors always flying.
"You are the daughter of Capt. Levis Raymond late of United States Navy?" "Yes, sir, his eldest daughter." "How old are you?" "I was twelve on my last birthday; last summer." "Look at the prisoners. Did you ever see them before?" "Yes, sir." "When and where?" "The colored man has lived in our family, and I saw him every day for months." "And the white man?"
"Yes, dear child, I feel quite sure of it," he returned, laying his hand tenderly on her head, then smoothing her hair caressingly as he spoke. "But you haven't finished about the second attack upon Fort Mifflin, have you, brother Levis?" queried Walter.
Had it not been for this most unaccountable accident, to all appearance M. de Levis would have captured all the English advanced posts, which were said to amount to fifteen hundred men, who retired to the town immediately after setting fire to the magazine of powder in the church of St. Foy, which ammunition they had not the time to carry with them.
Levis, am I to have no duties in this house? none of the cares and labors that the mistress of an establishment is usually expected to assume?" "You shall have no care of housekeeping that I can save you from," he said.
Levis soon arrived at Jacques Cartier from Montreal, and took the command, and at once attempted to restore order, and persuaded Vaudreuil to march back to join Bougainville, who had remained firmly with his command, at Cap Rouge, while the horde of fugitives swept by him.
After sixteen days' siege with a most violent cannonade, without a moment's interruption, M. Nogaire, an officer in the Regiment of Royal Roussillon, came to us from Montreal, having crossed directly through the woods, with some Indians for his guides, with two letters from De Bougainville, one of which was from him to Vaudreuil, and the other from M. de Levis.
Camp gossip, the reports from Bougainville, who was still watching Holmes up the river, and whatever other news could be gathered, all seemed to point the same way. But Saunders was still opposite the Beauport entrenchments; and the British camps at the island of Orleans, the Point of Levy, and the Levis batteries still seemed to have a good many redcoats.
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