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be seen to the best advantage, exchanging salutations, 

 smiles and repartees with the gay young officers and 

 gallants who rode or walked along the lively thorough- 

 fare." 



— " Enough ! Enough ! Poet, my friend. These were 

 festive times, but was there aught in them to make us 

 proud?" (1) 



Now my dear friend, we are getting near to sacred 

 ground. Shall I say " Sta, viator, heroem calcas ! " for, 

 a hero expired here ; I do verily believe. 



Tarry with me one moment, within the lobby of this 

 long, narrow, high-peaked, antique, French tenement 

 facing Parloir street. Doubtless its active present pro- 

 prietor, Mr. P. Campbell, livery stable keeper, will ere 

 long replace it, alas ! with some modern structure more 

 suitable to his calling. (He has done so). 



With due deference to the opinions of others, 

 methinks this was in September, 1759, the surgery of 

 Dr. Arnoux, Jr., where Montcalm was brought wounded 

 from the Plains of Abraham, through St. Louis Gate 

 and where the illustrious patient had his wounds, 

 attended to. (2) 



(1) It sometimes happened, says Col. Cockburn, R. A., in 

 those days, when a gentleman possessed a very handsome 

 wife, that the husband was sent to take charge of a distant 

 post, where he was sure to make his fortune. Bigot's chere 



amie, was a handsome Madame P , in consequence of 



which as a matter of course, Mr. P. became prodigiously 

 wealthy. Bigot had a house that stood where the Officers 

 Barracks, in St. Louis street now stands ; one New Year's Day, 



he presented this house to Madame P , as a New Year's 



gift 5 such was the magnificence of this gentleman." 



{Quebec and its Environs in 1831). 



(2) At 8 p. m., on the 14th, his mortal remains, in a rude 

 coffin, were laid in the hole, within the Ursuline Chapel — 

 which a shell from the English fleet had made. We notice, 

 as we pass, the entrance to the hoary old Monastery alive 

 with memories of eld. 



" A curious pictorial plan or map of the original Convent 



