Raoul Played A Bold Game,
And Calling Jealousy To His Help, He Went And Confided The Deed To
Madame Pean, Bigot's Fair Charmer, Entreating Her Immediate
Interference, And After Some Hairbreadth Escapes, Arrived At The
Chateau With Her Just In Time To Save Mdlle De Rochebrune From
Dishonor.
Madame Pean was returning to the city with Mdlle de Rochebrune and
Raoul, when on driving past the walls of the Intendant's palace, close
to the spot where Desfosses 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 assailants killed; but in the melee Mdlle. de
Rochebrune was seized and hurried into the English boat commanded by
one Capt. 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
young son was at the time a prisoner of war at Three Rivers, did not
propose an exchange of prisoners.) In the darkness and confusion which
attended the disembarking of Wolfe's army on the night of the 12th of
September, 1759, at Sillery, Mdlle. de Rochebrune slipped down the
side of the vessel, and getting into one of the smaller boats, drifted
ashore with the tide, and landed at Cap Rouge, just as her lover
Raoul, who was a Lieutenant in La Roche-Beaucour's Cavalry was
patrolling the heights of Sillery.
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