"
"Well, this is wonderful! I always thought that handsome liked
handsome, as riches love riches!"
"It may be so with you men, Deerslayer, but it is not always
so with us women. We like stout-hearted men, but we wish to see
them modest; sure on a hunt, or the war-path, ready to die for the
right, and unwilling to yield to the wrong. Above all we wish for
honesty - tongues that are not used to say what the mind does not
mean, and hearts that feel a little for others, as well as for
themselves. A true-hearted girl could die for such a husband! while
the boaster, and the double-tongued suitor gets to be as hateful
to the sight, as he is to the mind."
Judith spoke bitterly, and with her usual force, but her listener
was too much struck with the novelty of the sensations he experienced
to advert to her manner. There was something so soothing to the
humility of a man of his temperament, to hear qualities that he
could not but know he possessed himself, thus highly extolled by
the loveliest female he had ever beheld, that, for the moment, his
faculties seemed suspended in a natural and excusable pride. Then
it was that the idea of the possibility of such a creature as Judith
becoming his companion for life first crossed his mind.
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