"What a meeting! And under what circumstances!" "And there are others here whom you know," said Robert.

"Look, this is David Willet who commands us, and here also is Tayoga, whom you remember in the vale of Onondaga." Father Drouillard saluted them gravely.
"You are the enemies of my country," he said, "but I will not deny that I am glad to see you here.

I understand that the savage, Tandakora, means to attack this house to-night, thinking that it holds a British garrison.

Well, it seems that he will not be far wrong in his thought." A ghost of a smile flickered over the priest's pale face.
"A garrison but not the garrison that he expects to destroy," said Willet.

"Tandakora fights nominally under the flag of France, but as you know, Father, he fights chiefly to gratify his own cruel desires." "I know it too well.