And yet she scarcely knew which side she wished to see win.

French though her training had been of late years, yet her childhood had been spent in the stormy north, amid an English-speaking people.

She had seen much that disgusted and saddened her here amongst the French of Canada.

She despised the aged libertine who still sat upon the French throne with all the scorn and disgust of an ardent nature full of noble impulses.
"I hate to call myself his subject!" she had been known to say.

"I will be free to choose to which nation I will belong.