Though the stinging did not cease he felt great relief.
"I thank you," he said politely, "but, as I told you before, I do not hold it against your warriors, because they bound me.

I'd have escaped had they given me any chance at all, and I warn you now, as I warned them, that I intend to escape later on." St.Luc smiled.
"I'll accept the challenge," he said, "and I'll see that you don't make good your boast.

I can assure you, too, if by any possibility you should escape, it certainly will not be before the great battle." "Great battle! What great battle?
You don't mean that Montcalm will dare to meet Abercrombie ?" "Such an idea was in my mind." "Why, we'll come with four or five to one! The Marquis de Montcalm cannot stand against such a powerful force as ours.

We've definite information that he won't be able to muster more than three or four thousand men.

We hear, too, that the Indians, frightened by our power, are leaving him, for the time, at least." "Some of your surmises may be correct, but your facts don't follow from them.