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With Wolfe in Canada

CHAPTER 20: The Path Down The Heights
19/35

Now you can come forward, and have a drink.

Fortunately, the river is high." After having satisfied their thirst, Middleton asked: "Where are you going now?
I don't care how far we have got to march, for, after that drink, I feel ready for anything." "It won't do to hide anywhere near," James said; "for, if the boat which comes to take us off were to be seen, it would put them on their guard, and there would be plenty of sentries about here in future.

No, we will keep along at the foot of the precipice till we are about halfway, as far as we can tell, between Samos and Sillery, and then we will climb up, as high as we can get, and show our signal in the morning.

But you must be careful as we walk, for, as I told you, there are some sentries posted by the water's edge, higher up." "I will be careful, don't you fear," the midshipman said.

"There is not much fear of a fellow, walking about in the dark without boots, not being careful.


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