Yet that scene--that scene! She flushed with anger again, and, in spite of her smiling lips, the young Seigneur saw the flush, and wondered.
"The thing must end soon," he said, as he rose to go, for a messenger had come for him.

"He is injuring the peace, the trade, and the life of the parishes; he is gathering men and arms, drilling, exploiting military designs in one country, to proceed against another.

England is at peace with France!" "An international matter, this ?" she asked sarcastically.
"Yes.

The Government at Quebec is English; we are French and he is French; and, I repeat, this thing is serious." She smiled.

"I am an American.