"We would sink them one by one, as a child's boats could be sunk by throwing stones upon them.

The English have a task before them the magnitude of which they have little idea of.

First they have the river itself to navigate; then they have the guns of Quebec to settle with.

Let them take their choice between Scylla and Charybdis; for of a certainty they lie betwixt the two." Indeed the guns of Quebec were formidable enough.

Next day Montcalm took Madame Drucour and her niece and nephew a tour of inspection about the town, and up to one of the heights which gave them a panoramic view of the city and its defences, both within and without.