the blood of the French ; there were few wounded and 

 fewer killed. Quebec was very badly fortified for a 

 siege ; it contained very few arms and no provisions, 

 and the troops that had come from Montreal had con- 

 sumed the little food that there was in the city." " The 

 fruits and vegetables of our garden were pillaged by the 

 soldiers ; they warmed themselves at our expense and 

 burned our wood." " Everything appeared sweet to us 

 provided we could be preserved from falling into the 

 hands of those whom we regarded as the enemis of God 

 as well as our own. We had not any professed artille- 

 rymen. Two captains, M. LeMoyne de Maricour and 

 M. de Lorimier, took charge of the batteries and 

 pointed the cannon so accurately as hardly ever to 

 miss. M. de Maricour shot down .the flag of the 

 Admiral, and, as soon as it fell, our Canadians boldly 

 ventured out in a canoe to pick it up, and brought 

 it ashore under the very beards of the English." 

 " The Lower Town had been abandoned by its inhab- 

 itants, who bestowed their families and their furniture 

 within the solid walls of the Seminary. The cellars of 

 the Ursulines Convent were filled with women and 

 children, and many more took refuge at the Hotel-Dieu. 

 The beans and cabbages in the garden of the nuns had 

 all been stolen by the soldiers, and their wood-pile was 

 turned into bivouac fires." " At the Convent of the 

 Ursulines, the corner of a nun's apron was carried off 

 by a canon-shot as she passed through her chamber. 

 The sisterhood began a novena, or nine days' devotion, 

 to Saint Joseph, Ste Anne, the angels, and the souls in 

 purgatory ; and one of their number remained in prayer 

 day and night before the images of the Holy Family." 

 " The Superior of the Jesuits, with some of the elder 

 members of the order, remained at their college during 

 the attack, ready, should the heretics prevail, to repair 

 to their chapel and die before the altar. Kumour exag- 

 gerated the numbers of the enemy, and a general alarm 

 pervaded the town. It was still greater at Lorette, nine 



