And I say more, that if the misadventure had to happen to any Frenchman here in Quebec I am glad it happened to one of the wicked tribe of Bigot." "Your man Bigot, powerful though he may be, seems to have plenty of enemies," said the hunter.
"He has many, but not enough, I fear," said the priest gloomily.

"He and his horde are a terrible weight upon the shoulders of New France.

But I should not talk of these things to you who are our enemies, and who may soon be fighting us." He quit the subject abruptly, and talked in a desultory manner on irrelevant matters.

But Robert saw that Quebec itself and the struggle between the powerful Bigot ring and the _honnetes gens_ was a much greater weight on his mind than the approaching war with the English colonies.
After a stay of a half hour he departed, saying that he was going to visit a parish farther down the river, and might not see them again, but he wished them well.

He also bade them once more to beware of Tandakora.
"A good man and a strong one," said Willet, when, he left.