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Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 1 by John Richardson
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supplication to those who had originally spurned my wife
from their presence; and yet my heart bled for the
privations of her who, alike respectable in family, was,
both from sex and the natural delicacy, of her frame, so
far less constituted to bear up against the frowns of
adversity than myself. Our extremity had now become
great,--too great for human endurance; when, through the
medium of the public prints, I became acquainted with
the glorious action that had been fought in this country
by the army under General Wolfe. A new light burst suddenly
upon my mind, and visions of after prosperity constantly
presented themselves to my view. The field of honour was
open before me, and there was a probability I might, by
good conduct, so far merit the approbation of my superiors,
as to obtain, in course of time, that rank among themselves
to which by birth and education I was so justly entitled
to aspire. Without waiting to consult my Ellen, whose
opposition I feared to encounter until opposition would
be fruitless, I hastened to Lieutenant Walgrave, the
recruiting officer of the regiment,--tendered my
services,--was accepted and approved,--received the bounty
money,--and became definitively a soldier, under the
assumed name of Frank Halloway.

"It would be tedious and impertinent, gentlemen," resumed
the prisoner, after a short pause, "to dwell on the
humiliations of spirit to which both my wife and myself
were subjected at our first introduction to our new
associates, who, although invariably kind to us, were,
nevertheless, ill suited, both by education and habit,
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