"How is it your accent is so good? It is quite that of our gentry."
"I learnt it at the Little Seminary, from the priests, who are gentlemen of Paris. There also the best families send their boys, and we young men grew up together. I have lived a little in Montreal too."
"Ah, what is Montreal now like? Are the town walls still standing?"
"They surround the city, but the commander-in-chief talks of replacing them by avenues and a Champ de Mars."
"The British garrison of course occupies the Arsenal, the British flag flies from the Citadel. Where does the British Governor reside?"
"At the Château de Ramezay."
"But why not at the Château de Vaudreuil, where Governor de Vaudreuil dwelt? It was larger and its gardens finer."
"That now belongs to Monsieur de Lotbinière."
"De Lotbinière! the new Marquis! Lucky devil; but blue death, what changes!"
They rose and strayed into the gardens.