With him this was a sign of keen emotion.
"You saw all that ?" "With my own eyes.

I am telling no tale of hearsay.

And men have tales yet more horrid to tell--tales to which a man may scarce listen for the horror and the shame.

This is the way the Indians serve the subjects of the English crown at the bidding of the servants of France!" Wolfe raised his right hand, and let it slowly drop again.
"May Heaven give to me the grace," he said, in a voice that vibrated with tense feeling, "to go forth to the succour of my countrymen there--to fight and to avenge!" After that there was silence for a while, and the servant came and brought coffee, and took orders for the entertainment and lodging of the guests.

When he had gone Wolfe was calm again, and listened with keen interest to the story they had to tell of their arrival in Pennsylvania, and of the extraordinary apathy of the colonists in the eastern towns, and the difficulty of arousing them to any concerted action with their own countrymen in the neighbouring provinces, even for the common defence.
Wolfe knew something of that, and of the causes at work to bring about such a result.