The Plowshare and the Sword: A Tale of Old Quebec
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Trevena John. The Plowshare and the Sword: A Tale of Old Quebec
CHAPTER I. THE FATHER OF WATERS
CHAPTER II. AN ENEMY IN THE CAMP
CHAPTER III. CHRISMATION
CHAPTER IV. MAKERS OF EMPIRE
CHAPTER V. DOUBLE DEALING
CHAPTER VI. THE INTRODUCTION TO A FIGHT
CHAPTER VII. THE FIGHT
CHAPTER VIII. COUCHICING
CHAPTER IX. THE GAUNTLET DOWN
CHAPTER X. PILLARS OF THE HOUSE
CHAPTER XI. THE SWORD IMBRUED
CHAPTER XII. SPLENDOUR
CHAPTER XIII. ENCHANTMENT
CHAPTER XIV. FIRESIDE AND GROVE
CHAPTER XV. GLORIOUS LIFE
CHAPTER XVI. CLAIRVOYANCE
CHAPTER XVII. STAMEN
CHAPTER XVIII. COMMITTAL
CHAPTER XIX. ENKINDLED
CHAPTER XX. SACRAMENTAL
CHAPTER XXI. IRON AND STEEL
CHAPTER XXII. OB AND AZURE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE EVERLASTING HILLS
CHAPTER XXIV. ART-MAGIC
CHAPTER XXV. NOVA ANGLIA
CHAPTER XXVI. STIGMA
CHAPTER XXVII. REVELATION
CHAPTER XXVIII. BODY AND MIND
CHAPTER XXIX. WOMAN'S LOVE IS LIFE
CHAPTER XXX. LAND-LOCKED
CHAPTER XXXI. IN THE FALL OF THE SNOW
CHAPTER XXXII. ARMS AND THE MAN
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE THIRST
CHAPTER XXXV. SWORDCRAFT
CHAPTER XXXVI. SETTLEMENT
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE PLOWSHARE
CHAPTER XXXVIII. VALEDICTORY
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At sunset Roussilac, the commandant of Quebec, after receiving reassuring reports from the sentries and thus closing his official duties for the day, went aboard the man-of-war. Having personally superintended the shipping of the gangway, to satisfy himself that immediate communication with the shore was cut off, he withdrew to his cabin, which he occupied in preference to his hut upon the slope. Before retiring to his hammock, he mentally reviewed his position, the difficulties of which had not been lessened by the unexpected arrival of the Dutch ship.
It had never been the way of Holland to go out of her course to be friendly. The commandant could not forget that she had colonised large tracts of country further south; he knew that, like England, she aspired to extend her influence beyond the seas; and what more probable than that, snatching at the opportunity afforded by this alliance, her government should have commissioned Van Vuren to spy out the land and report upon its possibilities?
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The strained voice of Laroche broke the stillness.
"A touch!"
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