That night old Theophile Catinat was buried from the ship’s side, his sole mourners the two who bore his own blood in their veins¹. The next day De Catinat spent upon deck, amid the bustle² and confusion of the unlading, endeavouring to cheer Adele by light chatter³ which came from a heavy heart. He pointed⁴ out to her the places which he had known so well, the citadel⁵ where he had been quartered, the college of the Jesuits, the cathedral of Bishop⁶ Laval, the magazine of the old company, dismantled⁷ by the great fire, and the house of Aubert de la Chesnaye, the only private one which had remained standing⁸ in the lower part. From where they lay they could see not only the places of interest, but something also of that motley population which made the town so different to all others save only its younger sister, Montreal. Passing and repassing along the steep path with the picket⁹ fence which connected the two quarters, they saw the whole panorama¹⁰ of Canadian life moving before their eyes, the soldiers with their slouched hats, their plumes¹², and their bandoleers, habitants from the river cotes in their rude peasant dresses, little changed from their forefathers¹³ of Brittany or Normandy, and young rufflers from France or from the seigneuries, who cocked their hats and swaggered in what they thought to be the true Versailles fashion. There, too, might be seen little knots of the men of the woods, coureurs-debois or voyageurs, with leathern hunting

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