"
"So be it, Governor. Give me but the Royal Roussillon and I pledge
you neither English, Dutch, nor Iroquois shall ever cross the waters
of St. Sacrament."
"You speak like your ancestor the crusader, Count. But I cannot
spare the Royal Roussillon. Think you you can hold Carillon with
your present garrison?"
"Against all the force of New England. But I cannot promise the
same against the English regulars now landing at New York."
"They are the same whom the King defeated at Fontenoy, are they
not?" interrupted the Intendant, who, courtier as he was, disliked
the tenor of the royal despatches as much as any officer present,--
all the more as he knew La Pompadour was advising peace out of a
woman's considerations rather than upholding the glory of France.
"Among them are many troops who fought us at Fontenoy. I learned
the fact from an English prisoner whom our Indians brought in from
Fort Lydius," replied the Count de Lusignan.
"Well, the more of them the merrier," laughed La Corne St. Luc.
"The bigger the prize, the richer they who take it.
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