[The Grey Cloak by Harold MacGrath]@TWC D-Link bookThe Grey Cloak CHAPTER XII 17/31
"What are we all but a large family, with a worldly and a spiritual father? All I ask of you, when we are inside the fort at Quebec, is not to gamble or drink or use profane language, to obey the king, who is represented by Monsieur de Lauson and myself, to say your prayers, and to attend mass regularly. And your friend, the Chevalier ?" "On my word of honor, he laughed at a jest of mine not half an hour ago.
Oh, we shall have him in his boots again ere we see land.
If we are a big family, as you say, Major, will you not always have a fatherly eye upon my friend? He survives a mighty trouble.
His heart is like a king's purse, full of gold that rings sound and true.
Only give him a trial, and he will prove his metal.
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