I love freedom; I love what is noble and great.

Sometimes I feel in my heart that England will be the greatest country of the world." Her eyes glowed; she stretched forth her hands in a speaking gesture.

The waters of the great river seemed to flash back an answer.

Cooped up within frowning walls, amid the buildings of the fortress and upper town, Corinne felt sometimes like a bird in a prison cage; and yet the life fascinated her, with its constant excitements, its military environment, its atmosphere of coming danger.

She did not want to leave Quebec till the struggle between the nations had been fought out.