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As for me, I am Robert Lennox, of Albany and sometimes of
New York, without rank or office."
The officer abated his haughty manner. The answer seemed to please him.
"That surely is explicit enough," he said. "I am Louis de Galisonniere,
a captain of the battalion Languedoc, stationed for the present at
Montreal and charged with the duty of watching the river for all
doubtful characters, in which class I was compelled to put the three of
you, if you gave no explanations."
"Galisonniere! That is a distinguished name. Was there not a Governor
General of Canada who bore it?"
"A predecessor of the present Governor General, the Marquis Duquesne. It
gives me pride to say that the Count de Galisonniere was my uncle."
Robert saw that he had found the way to young Galisonniere's good
graces through his family and he added with the utmost sincerity, too:
"New France has had many a great Governor General, as we of the English
colonies ought to know, from the Sieur de Roberval, through Champlain,
Frontenac, de Beauharnais and on to your uncle, the Count de
Galisonniere.


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