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He might not like the Jesuits, but they were a great force in Canada and had done things which should have provoked his admiration. In any case, it was his duty to work with them on some basis and not dislocate the whole administration by brawling. As to Duchesneau, Frontenac was the broader man of the two, and may be excused some of the petulance which the intendant's pin-pricks called forth.
'You have hint before my officers and my friends that I make free with the King's coffers. M'sieu' answer, 'You should see no such hints, if your palms were not musty. 'How know you, ask the Intendant, 'that my hands are musty from the King's coffers? M'sieu' arrange his laces, and say light, 'As easy from the must as I tell how time passes in your nights by the ticking of this trinket here. He raise his sword and touch the Intendant's watch on the table.
"Wife," said he, "as we have no children of our own, God has sent us one. I recommend him to you; provide him a nurse, and take as much care of him as if he were our own son; for, from this moment, I acknowledge him as such." The intendant's wife received the child with great joy, and took particular pleasure in the care of him.
After some more conversation, Edward mounted his horse and returned to the intendant's. He did not arrive till late, for supper was on the table. The intendant gave him a letter for Mr. Chaloner, which was inclosed in one from Mr. Langton; and further informed Edward that news had arrived of the king having made his escape to France. "Thank God for that!" exclaimed Edward.
Without speaking to her, Edward passed on to the Intendant's room, and knocked. "Who is there?" said the Intendant. "Edward Armitage," was the reply, and the door was opened. The Intendant started back at the sight of Edward in the trooper's costume. "My dear Edward, I am glad to see you in any dress; but this requires explanation. Sit down and tell me all."
The Intendant look, and shrug a shoulder, and shake his head for no, and M'sieu' Doltaire smile in a sly way, so that the Intendant's teeth show at his lips and his eyes almost close, he is so angry. "Just this minute I hear a low noise behind me, and then some one give a little cry. I turn quick and Madame Cournal. She stretch her hand, and touch my lips, and motion me not to stir.
She swallowed her mingled pleasure and vexation salt with tears she could not help. She changed the subject by a violent wrench, and asked Angelique when she had last seen Le Gardeur. "At the Intendant's levee the other day. How like you he is, too, only less amiable!" Angelique did not respond readily to her friend's question about her brother. "Less amiable? that is not like my brother.
I recommend him to you; provide him a nurse, and take as much care of him as if he were our own son; for, from this moment, I acknowledge him as such." The intendant's wife received the child with great joy.
While reviewing the great intendant's activities, we must not fail to mention the brewing industry in which he took the lead. In 1668 he erected a brewery near the river St Charles, on the spot at the foot of the hill where stood in later years the intendant's palace.
I care not for the Bourgeois Philibert more than for the meanest blue cap in his following." This was an ungracious speech. Bigot meant it to be such. He repented almost of the witness he had borne to the Bourgeois's endeavors to quell the mob. But he was too profoundly indifferent to men's opinions respecting himself to care to lie. Colonel Philibert resented the Intendant's sneer at his father.
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