Charteris lived in the hope that they might take Quebec and her with it.

But Robert was far too fine of feeling ever to allude to such an affair of the heart to Charteris, or in truth to any one else.
It was a period of waiting and yet it was a period of activity.

The partisans were incessant in their ways.

Robert heard that his old friend, Langlade, was leading a numerous band against the English, and the evidences of Tandakora's murderous ferocity multiplied.

Nor were the outlying French themselves safe from him.