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I spent the last summer and autumn in England, and did not return to Canada until after she had left, but she knew that I should have occasion to see her, or write to her as soon as I could reach home again, and I am anxious to do so now." "You are aware that Mrs. Costello wishes to live very quietly? Her health is much broken." "I know all. Mrs. Costello has herself told me.
He was foiled in the attempt by the superior force which had arrived; so he returned to his station at Ticonderoga. Thus a partisan band, unpractised in the art of war, had, by a series of daring exploits, and almost without the loss of a man, won for the patriots the command of Lakes George and Champlain, and thrown open the great highway to Canada.
It was a happy day for Canada when Lord Elgin accepted this gracious offer of his political opponents, who undoubtedly recognized in him the possession of qualities which would enable him successfully, in all probability, to grapple with the perplexing problems which embarrassed public affairs in the province.
When he came quiet near, I said to him: "What are you doing here?" "Why should I not be here?" he replied; "don't you know this is British soil? When you cross the river you come into Canada." This soldier was thousands of miles from England, and yet he was in the Kingdom of England. Wherever there is an English heart beating loyal to the Queen of Britain, there is England.
Hawkeye started, and dropped his rifle, when, directed by the finger of his companion, the stranger came under his view. Then lowering the dangerous muzzle he stretched forward his long neck, as if to assist a scrutiny that was already intensely keen. "The imp is not a Huron," he said, "nor of any of the Canada tribes; and yet you see, by his clothes, the knave has been plundering a white.
But the frost came twice again and on the third sunrise I stood staring across the blighted crop with despairing eyes, while my hands would tremble in spite of my will. Few men had labored as Harry and I had done; indeed, it was often only the hope of winning Grace Carrington that sustained me, while now I was poorer far than when first I landed in Canada.
Lyell's proof that the whole river might once have flowed, and may again be made to flow, down to St. David's thus, by expending a few millions, cutting off Jonathan's chance. But it is of no use to joke on this subject; Niagara is, both to the United States and to England, but especially to Canada, a public property.
Directly that the board was laid from the Canada to the wharf a rush both in and out took place, in which I was separated from my relations, and should have fallen had not a friend, used to the scene of disorder, come to my assistance. The wharf was dirty, unlighted, and under repair, covered with heaps and full of holes.
It was, however, evident that this girl had an unquestioning faith in Gregory Hawtrey, and once more Wyllard felt compassionate towards her. He wondered if she would have retained it had the man spent those four years in England instead of Canada: for it was clear from the contrast between her and her picture that she had grown in many ways since she had given her promise to her lover.
Relations with the American Republic do not here concern us, but it may be remembered that the situation in 1841 and 1842, just before the Ashburton Treaty, was full of peril; and Bagot was sent to Canada as a person not displeasing to the Americans, and a diplomatist of conciliatory temper. But his work was to be concerned with domestic, not international, diplomacy.
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