Would there be also an expedition by sea?
At least my errand in Montreal, now finished, had not been in vain, even though it ended in a mystery and a query.

But ah! had I but been less clumsy in that war of wits with a woman, what might I have learned! Had she not been free to mock me, what might I not have learned! She was free to mock me, why?
Because of Elisabeth.

Was it then true that faith and loyalty could purchase alike faithlessness and--failure?
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