CHAPTER X.
My fear hath catch'd your fondness-- * * * * * Speak, is't so?
If it be so, you have wound a goodly clue; If it be not, foreswear't: howe'er, I charge thee, As heaven shall work in me for thine avail, To tell me truly.
SHAKSPEARE.
Arthur Stanhope's protracted stay at St.John's, occasioned much discontent and repining among the crew of his vessel.

Many of them became weary of their inactive life, and impatient to be restored to the friends and occupations they had left; while the laxity of the French soldiers,--the open celebration of popish ceremonies,--the very appearance of the priest,--excited the indignation of the more rigid and reflecting.

The daily exhortations of Mad.

de la Tour's chaplain were not calculated to allay these irritated feelings.

One of the most austere of the Scotch dissenters, Mr.Broadhead, had been induced, by religious zeal, to follow the fortunes of his patron, Sir William Alexander, who, in 1621, received a grant of Acadia, or Nova Scotia, and established the first permanent settlement in that country.