I was glad at the last to go.

We became weary of the bickerings and strife.

Some of the elders remained behind, but the rest of us went forth to find ourselves a new home and a new country." Humphrey listened to this tale with as much interest as it was possible for him to give to any concern other than his own.
Something of that indignant hatred which was springing into active life all through the western continent began to inflame his breast.
It had been no effect of Charles's inflamed imagination.

The French were raising the Indians against them, and striving to overthrow England's sons wherever they had a foothold, beyond their immediate colonies.

It was time they should arise and assert themselves.
Humphrey's eyes kindled as he sat thinking upon these things.
"I too will go forth and fight France," he said at last; and with that resolve the sense of numb lethargy and despair fell away from him like a worn-out garment, and his old fire and energy returned..