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The women of the world have again and again set the loftiest examples of it to those who come after." The ladies returned his bow, and drank to his health before they retired to their tents for the night. "If we see you within Quebec, Monsieur Wolfe, we shall know how generous a victor we have to deal with. Madame Drucour has told us the same; but now we have seen it with our own eyes."
In half an hour the chapel and all the northern part of the building were in flames; and no sooner did the smoke rise above the bastion than the English threw into it a steady shower of missiles. Yet soldiers, sailors, and inhabitants hastened to the spot, and labored desperately to check the fire. They saved the end occupied by Drucour and his wife, but all the rest was destroyed.
All hope of further resistance was now at an end, and on the 26th the unfortunate Drucour was obliged to surrender." "Yes, we have heard that," said Boulanger; "but General Montcalm has already done something to make up for that, though Louisburg has been such a triumph for those terrible English."
Peace be with you. Farewell." Montcalm was too much exhausted for further speech, but he made a slight gesture with his hand, and the Abbe left him, Madame Drucour stealing after him for a last word. "You will not run into peril yourself, my brother?" "Nay," he answered, with a touch of bitterness in his tone; "I shall be safe enough, since my errand is to the Governor.
He was seated with a trencher before him, and was doing an justice to the fare set out; but he was also in earnest conversation with Madame Drucour, who was seated opposite, her elbows lightly resting upon the table, and her chin upon her clasped hands. Upon a couch beneath the window lay the Abbe himself, with a cup of wine beside him.
"They have fifteen or sixteen thousand men picked troops with the gallant Wolfe in command," cried another. "You have seen something already of what Wolfe can do when he is set upon a task!" Madame Drucour made a little sign of assent; she had learned that lesson herself very fully.
We want all the soldiers we can get for the defence of the town, since we are in evil case between foes on land and foes on the sea." Julian saluted, and spoke a few words of thanks, and the crowd bore him towards the citadel. "Who was it that spoke to me?" he asked of his next neighbour; and the man replied with a laugh: "Why, Governor Drucour to be sure! Are you blind with the smoke, my friend?
Your people have taken Louisburg; had I been there, it should never have been given up. Drucour was hasty he listened to the women. I should allow no woman to move me. I should be inflexible. They might send two Amhersts and two Wolfes against me, I would hold my fortress." "They will never send two, your Excellency," said I.
But, for some unexplained reason, Drucour declined the offer; though Amherst pointed out that no spot within so small a target as Louisbourg itself could possibly be made immune by any gunners in the world. Reduced to the last extremity, the French council of war decided to ask for terms. Boscawen and Amherst replied that the whole garrison must surrender in an hour.
Next day Montcalm took Madame Drucour and her niece and nephew a tour of inspection about the town, and up to one of the heights which gave them a panoramic view of the city and its defences, both within and without. The batteries of the town bristled with formidable guns; the town itself swarmed with soldiers regulars, militia, Indians.
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