"I understand your meaning, Deerslayer," returned the girl, with
a meekness and humility that a little surprised her listener, "and
hope to be able to profit by it. But, you have mentioned only one
of the enemies I have to fear; who, or what is the other."
"The other is givin' way afore your own good sense and judgment, I
find, Judith; yes, he's not as dangerous as I supposed. Howsever,
havin' opened the subject, it will be as well to end it honestly.
The first inimy you have to be watchful of, as I've already told
you, Judith, is oncommon good looks, and the next is an oncommon
knowledge of the sarcumstance. If the first is bad, the last
doesn't, in any way, mend the matter, so far as safety and peace
of mind are consarned."
How much longer the young man would have gone on in his simple and
unsuspecting, but well intentioned manner, it might not be easy to
say, had he not been interrupted by his listener's bursting into
tears, and giving way to an outbreak of feeling, which was so
much the more violent from the fact that it had been with so much
difficulty suppressed. At first her sobs were so violent and
uncontrollable that Deerslayer was a little appalled, and he was
abundantly repentant from the instant that he discovered how much
greater was the effect produced by his words than he had anticipated.
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