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"
Enough
,
"
said
Heyward
,
interrupting
the
burst
of
his
musical
invocation
:
"
we
understand
each
other
;
it
is
time
that
we
should
now
assume
our
respective
duties
.
"
Gamut
cheerfully
assented
,
and
together
they
sought
the
females
.
Cora
received
her
new
,
and
somewhat
extraordinary
protector
,
courteously
at
least
;
and
even
the
pallid
features
of
Alice
lighted
again
with
some
of
their
native
archness
as
she
thanked
Heyward
for
his
care
.
Duncan
took
occasion
to
assure
them
he
had
done
the
best
that
circumstances
permitted
,
and
,
as
he
believed
,
quite
enough
for
the
security
of
their
feelings
;
of
danger
there
was
none
.
He
then
spoke
gladly
of
his
intention
to
rejoin
them
the
moment
he
had
led
the
advance
a
few
miles
towards
the
Hudson
,
and
immediately
took
his
leave
.
By
this
time
the
signal
of
departure
had
been
given
,
and
the
head
of
the
English
column
was
in
motion
.
The
sisters
started
at
the
sound
,
and
glancing
their
eyes
around
,
they
saw
the
white
uniforms
of
the
French
grenadiers
,
who
had
already
taken
possession
of
the
gates
of
the
fort
.
At
that
moment
,
an
enormous
cloud
seemed
to
pass
suddenly
above
their
heads
,
and
looking
upward
,
they
discovered
that
they
stood
beneath
the
wide
folds
of
the
standard
of
France
.
"
Let
us
go
,
"
said
Cora
;
"
this
is
no
longer
a
fit
place
for
the
children
of
an
English
officer
.
"
Alice
clung
to
the
arm
of
her
sister
,
and
together
they
left
the
parade
,
accompanied
by
the
moving
throng
that
surrounded
them
.
As
they
passed
the
gates
,
the
French
officers
,
who
had
learned
their
rank
,
bowed
often
and
low
,
forbearing
,
however
,
to
intrude
those
attentions
which
they
saw
,
with
peculiar
tact
,
might
not
be
agreeable
.
As
every
vehicle
and
each
beast
of
burden
was
occupied
by
the
sick
and
wounded
,
Cora
had
decided
to
endure
the
fatigues
of
a
foot
march
,
rather
than
interfere
with
their
comforts
.
Indeed
,
many
a
maimed
and
feeble
soldier
was
compelled
to
drag
his
exhausted
limbs
in
the
rear
of
the
columns
,
for
the
want
of
the
necessary
means
of
conveyance
,
in
that
wilderness
.
The
whole
,
however
,
was
in
motion
;
the
weak
and
wounded
,
groaning
,
and
in
suffering
;
their
comrades
,
silent
and
sullen
;
and
the
women
and
children
in
terror
,
they
knew
not
of
what
.
As
the
confused
and
timid
throng
left
the
protecting
mounds
of
the
fort
,
and
issued
on
the
open
plain
,
the
whole
scene
was
at
once
presented
to
their
eyes
.
At
a
little
distance
on
the
right
,
and
somewhat
in
the
rear
,
the
French
army
stood
to
their
arms
,
Montcalm
having
collected
his
parties
,
so
soon
as
his
guards
had
possession
of
the
works
.
They
were
attentive
but
silent
observers
of
the
proceedings
of
the
vanquished
,
failing
in
none
of
the
stipulated
military
honors
,
and
offering
no
taunt
or
insult
,
in
their
success
,
to
their
less
fortunate
foes
.
Living
masses
of
the
English
,
to
the
amount
in
the
whole
of
near
three
thousand
,
were
moving
slowly
across
the
plain
,
towards
the
common
centre
,
and
gradually
approached
each
other
,
as
they
converged
to
the
point
of
their
march
,
a
vista
cut
through
the
lofty
trees
,
where
the
road
to
the
Hudson
entered
the
forest
.
Along
the
sweeping
borders
of
the
woods
,
hung
a
dark
cloud
of
savages
,
eying
the
passage
of
their
enemies
,
and
hovering
,
at
a
distance
,
like
vultures
,
who
were
only
kept
from
swooping
on
their
prey
,
by
the
presence
and
restraint
of
a
superior
army
.
A
few
had
straggled
among
the
conquered
columns
,
where
they
stalked
in
sullen
discontent
;
attentive
,
though
,
as
yet
,
passive
observers
of
the
moving
multitude
.
