[The Hunters of the Hills by Joseph Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Hunters of the Hills CHAPTER X 18/32
You feel no apprehensions ?" "None at all, thanks to you.
I'm quite sure I'm his master." "Then it's a good morning for a fight, and the setting is perfect. You'll remember this day, Robert.
What a wonderful situation has the Quebec of the French that was the Stadacona of the Mohawks! A fine town, a great rock and the king of rivers! The St.Lawrence looks golden in the early sunlight, and what a lot of it there is!" "Yes, it's a great stream," said Robert, looking at the golden river and the far shores, green and high. "Here we are," said de Galisonniere, passing beyond some outlying houses.
"It's a good, clear opening, pretty well surrounded by trees, with plenty of sunlight at all points, and as you wished, Mr.Lennox, we're the first to arrive." They stood together, talking with apparent unconcern, while the morning unfolded, and the golden sunlight over the river deepened.
Although he had been trained with the sword for years, it would be Robert's first duel, and, while he approached it with supreme confidence, he knew that he could find no joy in the shedding of another's blood.
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