They had the right to wish them success.
Corinne rehearsed all this to herself as she stood upon the lofty heights behind the town that afternoon with her uncle and aunt.
They were looking with anxiety and grave misgivings at the clustering sails dimly seen in the distance upon the shining water of that vast estuary.

Montcalm himself had come up to see, and stood with his telescope at his eye, watchful and grave.
"We have made a mistake," he said to the Abbe in a low voice.

"I did speak to the Governor once; but he was against the measure, and we permitted it to drop.

But I can see now it was a mistake.

We should have planted a battery--a strong one--upon Cape Tourmente, and bombarded the ships as they passed by.