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"I think I'll go to Montreal by the special boat to-night," she said. "The hotel's crowded, the town's full, and you keep meeting people whom you know or have heard about. I came here to see Canada, but find it hard to realize that I'm not in London; I'm tired of the bustle." Mrs. Ashborne smiled.
She was not strong, and I always thought he had her highly-strung nervous temperament, though he must have learned to control it in the army." "He couldn't have got in unless the doctors were satisfied with him," said Mrs. Ashborne. "That's true, but both mental and physical traits have a way of lying dormant while we're young and of developing later.
"The hotel's crowded, the town's full, and you keep meeting people whom you know or have heard about. I came here to see Canada, but I find it hard to realize that I'm not in London; I'm tired of the bustle." Mrs. Ashborne smiled. She had met Margaret Keith by chance in Quebec, but their acquaintance was of several years' standing. "Tired?" she said. "That is sorely a new sensation for you.
Lord George Murray, however, having gained his object, turned sharp off to the left, and after a long march arrived at Ashborne, where the prince, with the other division of the army, had marched direct. The next afternoon they arrived at Derby, having thus altogether evaded the Duke of Cumberland, and being nearly three days' march nearer London than was his army.
"Though he spoke only a word or two to me, he did a very chivalrous thing; one that needed courage and coolness. I find it hard to believe that such a man could ever be a coward." "So do I," Mrs. Keith agreed. "Still, I haven't seen him since he was a boy." "I saw him in London just before he went to India," Mrs. Ashborne said.
Dinner was over at the Windsor, in Montreal, and Mrs. Keith was sitting with Mrs. Ashborne in the square between the hotel and St. Catharine's Street. A cool air blew uphill from the river, and the patch of grass with its fringe of small, dusty trees had a certain picturesqueness in the twilight.
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