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Taylor had now about 11,000 effectives in the divisions of Mouton, Walker, and Green, with eleven batteries. To occupy him and to push him farther away, Franklin marched to Opelousas on the 21st of October, skirmishing by the way, and until the end of the month continued to occupy a position covering that town and Barré's Landing.
Were you my own daughter I could do no less, and this man is not ill to look upon, a fair-spoken gallant, a friend of La Barre's, chosen by him for special service " "And with influence in the fur trade." "All the better that," he continued obstinately. "Why should a girl object if her husband be rich?" "But he is not rich," I said plainly, looking straight into his eyes.
La Barre's chief purpose was to protect his own interests as a trader, and, so far from wishing to strengthen La Salle's position on the Mississippi, he looked upon that illustrious explorer as a competitor whom it was legitimate to destroy by craft.
I would have said so, but the court bade me be still." "Ay, they were not seeking such testimony. No matter what you said, Jules, De Artigny would have been condemned it was La Barre's orders." "Yes, Madame, so I thought." "Did the Sieur de Artigny speak?" "A few words, Madame, until M. Cassion ordered him to remain still. Then M. de Baugis pronounced sentence it was that he be shot tomorrow."
"France has no more loyal servant, Monsieur Cassion in all this western land nor is he renegade, for he holds the Illinois at the King's command." "Held it yes; under Frontenac, but not now." "We will not quarrel over words, yet not even in Quebec was it claimed that higher authority than La Barre's had led to recall.
It requires no flight of the imagination to appreciate the rage Frontenac must have felt when, on returning to Canada, he saw before his eyes the effects of La Barre's rapacity and Denonville's perfidy, of which the massacres of Lachine and La Chesnaye furnished the most ghastly proofs. But in these two cases the element of tragedy was so strong as to efface the mood of exasperation.
La Barre's eyes turned from the disappearing figure of the officer, rested a moment on my face, and then smiled grimly as he fronted Cassion. He seemed well pleased with himself, and to have recovered his good humor. "A delightful surprise for you, Monsieur Cassion," he said genially, "and let us hope no less a pleasure for the fair lady. Be seated, Mademoiselle; there may be a brief delay.
"'Twas told us he was dead," he said finally, with effort. "Some more of La Barre's men arrived three days ago by boat, under a popinjay they call Cassion to recruit De Baugis' forces. De la Durantaye was with him from the portage, so that now they outnumber us three to one. You know this Cassion, Madame?" "Ay, I traveled with his party from Montreal." "Ah, then you will know the truth no doubt.
'I have been informed, politely writes the king, 'that your years do not permit you to support the fatigues inseparable from your office of governor and lieutenant- general in Canada. La Barre's successor, the Marquis de Denonville, arrived at Quebec in August 1685. Like La Barre, he was a soldier; like Frontenac, he was an aristocrat as well.
However, in spite of all Barre's attempts to distract the attention of the bystanders from the subject, they still persisted in desiring to discover the extent of the devil's knowledge of foreign languages, and at their suggestion the bailiff proposed to Barre to try him in Hebrew instead of Gaelic.
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