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The Refugees

CHAPTER XXXIII
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You see how along this river every house and every hamlet supports its neighbour?
But you, by Saint Anne of Beaupre, it made my scalp tingle when I came on your frontiers and saw the lonely farm-houses and little clearings out in the woods with no help for twenty leagues around.

An Indian war is a purgatory for Canada, but it would be a hell for the English Provinces!" "We are good friends with the Indians," said Amos.

"We do not wish to conquer." "Your people have a way of conquering although they say that they do not wish to do it," remarked Du Lhut.

"Now, with us, we bang our drums, and wave our flags, and make a stir, but no very big thing has come of it yet.

We have never had but two great men in Canada.


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