Montcalm and Wolfe . of this letter; I have notslept all night with thinking of the robberies and mis-management and folly. Pauvre Boi, pauvre France,car a patria ! Oh, when shall we get out of thiscountry! I think I would give half that I have togo home. Pardon this digression to a melancholyman. It is not that I have not still some remnantsof gayety; but what would seem such in anybodyelse is melancholy for a Languedocian. Burn myletter, and never doubt my attachment. I shallalways say, Happy he who is free from the proudyoke to which I am bound. When shall I see mychateau of Candiac, my pla
Montcalm and Wolfe . of this letter; I have notslept all night with thinking of the robberies and mis-management and folly. Pauvre Boi, pauvre France,car a patria ! Oh, when shall we get out of thiscountry! I think I would give half that I have togo home. Pardon this digression to a melancholyman. It is not that I have not still some remnantsof gayety; but what would seem such in anybodyelse is melancholy for a Languedocian. Burn myletter, and never doubt my attachment. I shallalways say, Happy he who is free from the proudyoke to which I am bound. When shall I see mychateau of Candiac, my plantations, my chestnutgrove, my oil-mill, my mulberry-trees ? 0 bon Dieu !Bon soir ; brillez ma lettre. ^ Never was dispute more untimely than that betweenthese ill-matched colleagues. The position of thecolony was desperate. Thus far the Canadians had 1 The above extracts are from letters of 5 and 27 Novemberand 9 December, 1758, and 18 and 23 March, 1759. Marquis de BoisUbert. .\vvV)..- , \. r^pyrt^ht. /<?;«/. by 1758, 1759.] THE CANADIANS. 9 never lost heart, but had obeyed with admirablealacrity the governors call to arms, borne withpatience the burdens and privations of the war, andsubmitted without revolt to the exactions and oppres-sions of Cadet and his crew; loyal to their nativesoil, loyal to their Church, loyal to the wretchedgovernment that crushed and belittled them. Whenthe able-bodied were ordered to the war, where four-fifths of them were employed in the hard and tediouswork of transportation, the women, boys, and oldmen tilled the fields and raised a scanty harvest,which always might be, and sometimes was, takenfrom them in the name of the King. Yet the leastdestitute among them were forced every winter tolodge soldiers in their houses, for each of whom theywere paid fifteen francs a month, in return for sub-stance devoured and wives and daughters debauched.^No pains had been spared to keep up the courageof the people and feed them with flattering illus
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