We've certain advantages that will help us mightily." "Thanks to you and your comrades for bringing us such timely warning," repeated Colden.

"I'll confess that I did not suspect any enemy was nearer than Champlain, and neither we nor our superiors at Albany have feared an attack here." "It's sure to come," said Willet.
Grosvenor, refreshed and reinvigorated, was taking an active share in the preparations.

He had smoothed and brushed his uniform with scrupulous care, and despite the great hardships through which he had passed, looked once more neat and trim.

He had returned to his incarnation as a trim young British officer.

Adaptable and liking the Americans, equipped moreover with a certain experience of the border, he was at once on the best of terms with Colden, Wilton, Carson and the others, and was, in truth, one of them.