Feeling
had flushed the face and illuminated the whole countenance of the
girl, and her beauty was never more resplendant than when she cast
a parting glance at the youth. That glance was filled with anxiety,
interest and gentle pity. At the next instant, she darted into the
hut and was seen no more, though she spoke to Hist from a window,
to inform her that their friend expected her appearance.
"You know enough of red-skin natur', and red-skin usages, Wah-ta-Wah,
to see the condition I am in on account of this furlough," commenced
the hunter in Delaware, as soon as the patient and submissive girl
of that people had moved quietly to his side; "you will therefore
best onderstand how onlikely I am ever to talk with you ag'in. I've
but little to say; but that little comes from long livin' among
your people, and from havin' obsarved and noted their usages. The
life of a woman is hard at the best, but I must own, though I'm
not opinionated in favor of my own colour, that it is harder among
the red men than it is among the pale-faces. This is a p'int on
which Christians may well boast, if boasting can be set down for
Christianity in any manner or form, which I rather think it cannot.
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