The Splendid Water-Way, With The Fine
Position Of Quebec, Makes It A Grand Sight, And I Was Not Disappointed;
And The Clear And Brilliant Morning Sunshine Showed Us All To
Perfection.
Then came such a scene of hurry and confusion, - but we were
favored:
Captain R. Stephenson, the Governor-General's A.D.C., who had
been our fellow passenger, received instructions from him, and we were
conveyed in a police steamboat to the other side - to the Citadel; there
was also a letter from Lord Lansdowne to John, asking him and E - - and
any of his party to breakfast, brought by Captain Streatfield, another
A.D.C. Our maids and luggage were left in charge of the police at their
wharf station. On reaching the wharf a carriage conveyed us to the
Citadel, - such a drive, up the side of a house! over a great many
boulders. A curious old town is Quebec - thoroughly like a French town,
with French spoken everywhere, and French dirt and air of poverty and
untidiness, as in the remoter and older towns of France.
Lord and Lady Lansdowne received us most kindly, and besides there was
Lady Florence Anson (her niece, who is engaged to Captain Streatfield),
Lady Melgund, whose husband is away in Ottawa looking after canoe men
for Egypt, and a young Mr. Anson, A.D.C. After seeing the view from the
balcony - a splendid panorama of Quebec and the river St. Lawrence, with
its tributary St. Charles, and the surrounding country backed by blue
mountains, we went in to our second breakfast, and much we enjoyed our
tea.
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