His heart was proof against
every female blandishment. He ended his life in solitary state and
greatness, as Governor of Mahe in India, many years after he had
left his native Canada.
One day, in the year of grace 1777, another council of war was
sitting in the great chamber of the Castle of St. Louis, under a
wonderful change of circumstances. An English governor, Sir Guy
Carleton, presided over a mixed assemblage of English and Canadian
officers. The royal arms and colors of England had replaced the
emblems and ensigns of France upon the walls of the council-chamber,
and the red uniform of her army was loyally worn by the old, but
still indomitable, La Corne St. Luc, who, with the De Salaberrys,
the De Beaujeus, Duchesnays, De Gaspes, and others of noblest name
and lineage in New France, had come forward as loyal subjects of
England's Crown to defend Canada against the armies of the English
Colonies, now in rebellion against the King.
"Read that, La Corne," said Sir Guy Carleton, handing him a
newspaper just received from England.
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