You come to Quebec now in peace, and I trust that you may never come in war.

I can feel, nay I can see the clouds gathering over our two lands.

Why should we fight?
On a continent so vast is there not room enough for all ?" "Room and to spare," replied the hunter, "but as you say, Father Drouillard, you and I have lived longer than these youths, and age has to think.

If left to themselves I've no doubt that New France and the English colonies could make a lasting peace, but the intrigues, the jealousies and the hates of the courts at London and Paris keep our forests, four thousand miles away, astir.

When the Huron buries his arrow in the heart of a foe the motive that sent him to the deed may have had its start in Europe, but the poor savage never knows it." The priest sighed, and looked at Willet with an awakened curiosity.
"I see that you're a man of education," he said, "and that you think.
What you say is true, but the time will come when other minds than those of vain and jealous courtiers will sway the fortunes of all these vast regions.