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Another evening Johnson's kind indulgence towards me had a pretty difficult trial. I had dined at the Duke of Montrose's with a very agreeable party, and his Grace, according to his usual custom, had circulated the bottle very freely. Lord Graham and I went together to Miss Monckton's, where I certainly was in extraordinary spirits, and above all fear or awe.
John passed finally into the hands of Great Britain and a permanent English settlement was made upon the shores of our harbor, Monckton's journal contains a brief record of the event: "Sep'br. ye 20th. Made the Signal for Landing about nine and soon after landed near the Old Fort, with as many Men as the Boats could take, being about 400. Met with no opposition. The 2d.
"I might look around in there while I'm waiting for his Majesty t' change. Did y'ever hear th' likes? Bug-house." "But he pays a hundred the day, Haggerty. I'll let you privately into Lord Monckton's suite. But you'll waste your time." "Sure he left this morning?" "I'll phone the office and make sure. . . . Lord Monckton left shortly after midnight. His man followed early this morning.
But Toku, managing to draw Monckton's revolver, shot him dead right through the head, and Monckton, hearing the shot, turned back, and soon discovered young Toku calmly sitting on his enemy's dead body. But, alas! the hero had to suffer in the hour of his triumph, as Monckton ordered him to be flogged for lagging behind the rear guard of police.
She then began a relation of her meeting him at Mr Monckton's house, and had hardly concluded it, before again, and quite out of breath, he made his appearance. "Sir Robert Floyer, sir," said he to Mr Harrel, "will be here in two minutes." "I hope, sir," said Mr Harrel, "you have not given yourself the trouble of going to him?"
But he was always ready to make up a table at bridge; and a shrewd capable player he was, too. The music in the ballroom stopped. "Will you be so good, Miss Killigrew, as to tell me why you Americans call a palace like this a cottage?" Lord Monckton's voice was pleasing, with only a slight accent. "I'm sure I do not know. If it were mine, I'd call it a villa." "Quite properly."
It is said Montcalm had been anxious to occupy it, and intrench it with four thousand men, but was overruled on the supposition that the upper town, about which official Quebec felt most concern, would be outside its range of fire. If this was so, they were soon to be undeceived. The occupation of Point Lévis by Monckton's brigade, which Wolfe now ordered on that service, need not detain us.
Wolfe, though already suffering from more than his chronic ill-health, was ubiquitous and indefatigable; now behind Monckton's guns at Point Lévis, now with Townshend's batteries at Montmorency, now up the river, ranging with his glass those miles of forbidding cliffs which he may already have begun to think he should one day have to climb.
Monckton's wife wrote to him as often as the rules of the jail permitted, and her letters were full of affection, and of hope that their separation would be shortened. She went into all the details of her life, and it was now a creditable one.
"Come to me, then, at Mr Monckton's in Soho-Square," cried she, and hastened into her chair, impatient to end a conference which she saw excited the wonder of the servants, and which also now drew out from the parlour Mr Hobson and Mrs Belfield. She then kissed her hand to Henrietta, and ordered the chairmen to carry her home.
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