Colonel Leboeuf, choleric as he was, refrained from pressing the
quarrel with La Corne St. Luc. He sat sulkily smothering his wrath--
longing to leave the hall and go to the relief of the Intendant,
but kept against his will by the command of the Governor.
The drums of the main guard beat the assembly. The clash of arms
and the tramp of many feet resounded from the court-yard of the
Chateau. The members of the Council looked out of the windows as
the troops formed in column, and headed by Colonel St. Remy, defiled
out of the Castle gate, the thunder of their drums drowning every
other sound and making the windows shake as they marched through the
narrow streets to the scene of disturbance.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE CHIEN D'OR.
On the Rue Buade, a street commemorative of the gallant Fontenac,
stood the large, imposing edifice newly built by the Bourgeois
Philibert, as the people of the Colony fondly called Nicholas Jaquin
Philibert, the great and wealthy merchant of Quebec and their
champion against the odious monopolies of the Grand Company favored
by the Intendant.
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