ake Quebec, mustering about ten thousand men on the
scene of the previous year's engagement. Murray, with a force
amounting to less than one-third of that number, came out and gave them
battle, but was worsted, and had to take shelter behind his ramparts;
nevertheless the enemy subsequently withdrew without effecting anything
beyond that barren success. The great drama, however, was drawing to a
close. Amherst descending with his army from Oswego, Murray ascending
from Quebec, and Haviland approaching from Lake Champlain, converged
upon Montreal; and so admirably was the plan of the campaign carried
out that during the first week of September, 1760, an aggregate force
of sixteen thousand men made their appearance before the defenceless
city. On the 8th of that month Governor de Vaudreuil signed a
capitulation, not in respect of Montreal only, but of the whole colony.
Its inhabitants passed, for the most part with little reluctance, under
the British sceptre. France had impoverished and disgusted them by
misgovernment, and by over-government had destroyed in them all energy
and self-reliance. Thus Canada became a British dependency, and there
was no longer a New France. Under the terms of the capitulation all
French troops with their officers, as well as the civil authorities
with their families, were removed to France in British vessels; and
thus it came about that those whose story has been told in these pages
found themselves again in their native home.

The grant of a seigneury on the banks of the St. Lawrence previous to
the cession of the colony had restored the decayed fortunes of the
Baron de Valricour, and he subsequently returned thither with Clotilde,
whose descendants hold a high position amongst the old French
_noblesse_ in Canada to this day.

In the course of a few years the marquis died, and Isidore and
Marguerite came into possession of the fair domains of Beaujardin. It
may be added that whilst there was not one amongst all the tenants and
dependants on the estate who did not regret the loss of their old
master, they soon found reason to acknowledge that they were not less
fortunate in his successor.

THE END.

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

By the same Author.

BERTIE AND HIS SISTER. A Domestic Story. With Three page Woodcuts.

DICK DARLINGTON AT HOME AND ABROAD. With Three page Woodcuts.

GRETCHEN'S TROUBLES. A Story of German Peasant Life (for Girls). With
Three page Woodcuts.