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the General-Hospital, she was seized by a strong arm 

 and thrown insensible on a swift horse, whose rider 

 never stopped until he had deposited the victim at 

 Bigot's country seat, Charlesbourg. The name of this 

 cold-blooded villain was Sournois. He was a minion of 

 the mighty and unscrupulous Bigot. Mile de Roche- 

 brune had a lover. A dashing young French officer was 

 Eaoul de Beaulac. Maddened with love and rage, he 

 closely watched Bigot's movements in the city, and 

 determined to repossess his treasure, it mattered not at 

 what sacrifice. Bigot's was a difficult game to play. He 

 had a liaison with one of the most fascinating and 

 fashionable married ladies of Quebec, and was thus 

 prevented from hastening to see the fair prey awaiting 

 him at Beaumanoir. The lover played a bold game, 

 and calling jealousy to his aid, he went and confided 

 to Madame P6an, Bigot's fair friend ; entreated her 

 immediate interference, and after some hair, breadth 

 escapes arrived at the Chateau with her just in time to 

 save Mile de Rochebrune from dishonor. 



Madame P^an was returning to the city with Mile 

 de Rochebrune and Raoul, when on driving past the 

 walls of the Intendant's palace, close to the spot where 

 Des Fosses street now begins, her carriage was attacked 

 by a band of armed men, a reconnoitering party from 

 Wolfe's fleet, anchored at Montmorency. A scuffle 

 ensued ; shots were fired, and some of the assaillants 

 killed ; but in the mSUe, Mile de Rochebrune was seized 

 and hurried into the English boat commanded by one 

 Captain Brown. During the remainder of the summer 

 the Canadian maid, treated with every species of respect, 

 remained a prisoner on board the admiral's ship. It is 

 singular that Admiral Durell, whose beloved grand-son 

 was at the time a prisoner of war at Three-Rivers, did 

 not propose an exchange. In the darkness and con- 

 fusion which attended the disembarking of Wolfe's 

 army on the night of the 12th September, 1759, at 

 Sillery, Mile de Rochebrune slipped down the side of 



