Montcalm and Wolfe . ive full scope to bitter invectives. He praisesthe agreeable manners and cheerful spirit of theCanadian ladies, concerning whom another officeralso writes: It is very surprising with what easethe gayety of their tempers enables them to bearmisfortunes which to us would be whom the calamities of war have reducedfrom the height of luxury to the want of commonnecessaries laugh, dance, and sing, comfortingthemselves with this reflection — Fortune de young ladies take the utmost pains to teach ourofficers French; with what view I know not, if
Montcalm and Wolfe . ive full scope to bitter invectives. He praisesthe agreeable manners and cheerful spirit of theCanadian ladies, concerning whom another officeralso writes: It is very surprising with what easethe gayety of their tempers enables them to bearmisfortunes which to us would be whom the calamities of war have reducedfrom the height of luxury to the want of commonnecessaries laugh, dance, and sing, comfortingthemselves with this reflection — Fortune de young ladies take the utmost pains to teach ourofficers French; with what view I know not, if it isnot that they may hear themselves praised, flattered,and courted without loss of time.^ Knox was quartered in a small stable, with a hay-loft above and a rack and manger at one end: a ^ Alexander Campbell to John Lloyd, 22 October, 1759. Campbellwas a lieutenant of the Highlanders; Lloyd was a Connecticutmerchant. A yiew of the Church of Notre-Dame de la Vicioire. , >\Vv/ Ao AjvnuD •j^\\o ?*n\\\ V. 1759.] WINTER-QUARTERS. 175 lodging better than fell to the lot of many of hisbrother officers; and, by means of a stove and somehelp from a carpenter, he says that he made himselftolerably comfortable. The change, however, wasan agreeable one when he was ordered for a week tothe General Hospital, a mile out of the town, wherehe was to command the guard stationed to protectthe inmates and watch the enemy. Here were gath-ered the sick and wounded of both armies, nursedwith equal care by the nuns, of whom Knox speakswith gratitude and respect. When our poor fellowswere ill and ordered to be removed from their odiousregimental hospital to this general receptacle, theywere indeed rendered inexpressibly happy. Eachpatient has his bed, with curtains, allotted to him,and a nurse to attend him. Every sick or woundedofficer has an apartment to himself, and is attendedby one of these religious sisters, who in general areyoung, handsome, courteous, rigidly reserved, andvery re
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