The French cannon replied, and the hills echoed with the roar, while great clouds of smoke drifted along the river.
Then an afternoon came when Robert felt that the next night and day would tell a mighty tale.

It was in the air.

Everybody showed a tense excitement.

The army was being stripped for battle.

He knew that the troops on the Heights of Levis and at Orleans had been ordered to march along the south shore of the St.Lawrence and join the others.