Courage and numbers, resources and tenacity must prevail even over great initial mistakes.

Duquesne and Ticonderoga would be brushed away as mere events that had no control over destiny.
He remembered Bigot's ball in Quebec that Willet and Tayoga and he had attended.

It came before him again almost as vivid as reality.

He realized now in the light of greater age and experience how it typified decadence.

A power that was rotten at the top, where the brain should be, could never defeat one that was full of youthful ardor and strength, sound through and through, awkward and ill directed though that strength might be.