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I cannot--I ought not, continued Ellen, getting the better of her momentary
weakness. It has pleased God to cast my lot among these people, and I ought
not to quit them. It would be adding the appearance of treachery to what will
already seem bad enough, with one of his opinions. He has been kind to me, an
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orphan, after his rough customs, and I cannot steal from him at such a
moment.
She is just as much a relation of skirting Ishmael, as I am a bishop! said
Paul, with a loud hem, as if his throat wanted clearing. If the old fellow
has done the honest thing by her in giving her a morsel of venison, now and
then, or a spoon around his homminy dish, hasn t she pay d him in teaching the
young devils to read their bible, or in helping old Esther to put her finery
in some shape and fashion. Tell me that a drone has a sting, and I ll believe
you as easily as I will that this young woman is a debtor to any of the tribe
of Bush!
It is but little matter who owes me, or where I am in debt. There are none
to care for a girl who is fatherless and motherless, and whose nearest kin are
the offcasts of all honest people. No, no; go, lady, and Heaven for ever bless
you! I am better here, in this desert, where there are none to know my shame.
Now, old trapper, retorted Paul, this is what I call knowing which way the
wind blows! You ar a man that has seen life, and you know something of
fashions; I put it to your judgment, plainly, isn t it in the nature of things
for the hive to swarm when the young get their growth, and if children will
quit their parents, ought one who is of no kith nor kin--
Hist! interrupted the man he addressed, Hector is discontented. Say it
out, plainly, pup; what is it dog--what is it?
The venerable hound had risen, and was scenting the fresh breeze which
continued to sweep heavily over the prairie. At the words of his master he
growled and contracted the muscles of his lips, as if half disposed to
threaten with the remnants of his teeth. The younger dog, who was resting
after the chace of the morning, also made some signs that his nose detected a
taint in the air, and then the two resumed their slumbers, as though they had
done enough.
The trapper seized the bridle of the ass and cried, as he urged the beast
onward--
There is no time for words. The squatter an his brood are within a mile or
two of this blessed spot.
Middleton lost all recollection of Ellen, in the danger which now so
imminently beset his recovered bride again, nor is it necessary to add that
Dr. Battius did not wait for a second admonition to commence his retreat.
Following the route indicated by the old man, they turned the rock in a body,
and pursued their way as fast as possible across the prairie, under the favour
of the cover the light afforded.
Paul Hover, however, remained in his tracks, sullenly leaning on his rifle.
Near a minute had elapsed before he was observed by Ellen, who had buried her
face in her hands, as if to conceal her fancied desolation from herself.
Why do you not fly? the weeping girl exclaimed, the instant she perceived
that she was not alone.
I m not used to it.
My uncle will soon be here! you have nothing to hope from his pity.
Nor from that of his niece, I reckon. Let him come; he can only knock me on
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the head.
Paul, Paul, if you love me, fly.
Alone!--if I do may I be--.
If you value your life, fly!
I value it not, compared to you.
Paul!
Ellen!
She extended both her hands and burst into another and a still more violent
flood of tears. The bee-hunter put one of his sturdy arms around her thin
waist, and in another moment he was urging her over the plain, in rapid
pursuit of their flying friends.
CHAPTER XVII.
Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight
With a new Gorgon:--Do not bid me speak;
See, and then speak yourselves.
Shakspeare
Thelittle run, which supplied, the family of the squatter with water, and had
nourished the trees and bushes that had grown near the base of the rocky
eminence, took its rise at no great distance from the latter, in a small
thicket of cotton-wood and vines. Hither, then, the trapper directed the
flight, as to the place affording the only available cover in so pressing an
emergency. It will be remembered, that the sagacity of the old man, which,
from long practice in similar scenes, amounted nearly to an instinct in all
cases of sudden danger, had first induced him to take this course, as it
placed the hill between them and the approaching party of their enemies.
Favoured by this circumstance he succeeded in reaching the bushes in
sufficient time, and Paul Hover had just hurried the breathless Ellen into the
tangled brush, as Ishmael gained the summit of the rock, in the manner already
described, where he stood like a man momentarily bereft of his senses, gazing
at the confusion which had been created among his chattles, or at his gagged
and bound children, who had been safely bestowed by the forethought of the
bee-hunter under the cover of a bark roof, in a sort of irregular pile. A long
rifle would have thrown a bullet from the height, on which the squatter now
stood, into the very cover where the fugitives, who had wrought all this
mischief, were clustered.
The trapper was the first to speak, as the man on whose intelligence and
experience they all depended for counsel, after running his eye, over the
different individuals who gathered about him, in order to see that none were
missing.
Ah! natur is natur , and has done its work! he said, nodding to the
exulting Paul, with a smile of approbation. I thought it would be hard for
those, who had so often met in fair and foul, by starlight and under the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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I cannot--I ought not, continued Ellen, getting the better of her momentary
weakness. It has pleased God to cast my lot among these people, and I ought
not to quit them. It would be adding the appearance of treachery to what will
already seem bad enough, with one of his opinions. He has been kind to me, an
Page 131
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orphan, after his rough customs, and I cannot steal from him at such a
moment.
She is just as much a relation of skirting Ishmael, as I am a bishop! said
Paul, with a loud hem, as if his throat wanted clearing. If the old fellow
has done the honest thing by her in giving her a morsel of venison, now and
then, or a spoon around his homminy dish, hasn t she pay d him in teaching the
young devils to read their bible, or in helping old Esther to put her finery
in some shape and fashion. Tell me that a drone has a sting, and I ll believe
you as easily as I will that this young woman is a debtor to any of the tribe
of Bush!
It is but little matter who owes me, or where I am in debt. There are none
to care for a girl who is fatherless and motherless, and whose nearest kin are
the offcasts of all honest people. No, no; go, lady, and Heaven for ever bless
you! I am better here, in this desert, where there are none to know my shame.
Now, old trapper, retorted Paul, this is what I call knowing which way the
wind blows! You ar a man that has seen life, and you know something of
fashions; I put it to your judgment, plainly, isn t it in the nature of things
for the hive to swarm when the young get their growth, and if children will
quit their parents, ought one who is of no kith nor kin--
Hist! interrupted the man he addressed, Hector is discontented. Say it
out, plainly, pup; what is it dog--what is it?
The venerable hound had risen, and was scenting the fresh breeze which
continued to sweep heavily over the prairie. At the words of his master he
growled and contracted the muscles of his lips, as if half disposed to
threaten with the remnants of his teeth. The younger dog, who was resting
after the chace of the morning, also made some signs that his nose detected a
taint in the air, and then the two resumed their slumbers, as though they had
done enough.
The trapper seized the bridle of the ass and cried, as he urged the beast
onward--
There is no time for words. The squatter an his brood are within a mile or
two of this blessed spot.
Middleton lost all recollection of Ellen, in the danger which now so
imminently beset his recovered bride again, nor is it necessary to add that
Dr. Battius did not wait for a second admonition to commence his retreat.
Following the route indicated by the old man, they turned the rock in a body,
and pursued their way as fast as possible across the prairie, under the favour
of the cover the light afforded.
Paul Hover, however, remained in his tracks, sullenly leaning on his rifle.
Near a minute had elapsed before he was observed by Ellen, who had buried her
face in her hands, as if to conceal her fancied desolation from herself.
Why do you not fly? the weeping girl exclaimed, the instant she perceived
that she was not alone.
I m not used to it.
My uncle will soon be here! you have nothing to hope from his pity.
Nor from that of his niece, I reckon. Let him come; he can only knock me on
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the head.
Paul, Paul, if you love me, fly.
Alone!--if I do may I be--.
If you value your life, fly!
I value it not, compared to you.
Paul!
Ellen!
She extended both her hands and burst into another and a still more violent
flood of tears. The bee-hunter put one of his sturdy arms around her thin
waist, and in another moment he was urging her over the plain, in rapid
pursuit of their flying friends.
CHAPTER XVII.
Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight
With a new Gorgon:--Do not bid me speak;
See, and then speak yourselves.
Shakspeare
Thelittle run, which supplied, the family of the squatter with water, and had
nourished the trees and bushes that had grown near the base of the rocky
eminence, took its rise at no great distance from the latter, in a small
thicket of cotton-wood and vines. Hither, then, the trapper directed the
flight, as to the place affording the only available cover in so pressing an
emergency. It will be remembered, that the sagacity of the old man, which,
from long practice in similar scenes, amounted nearly to an instinct in all
cases of sudden danger, had first induced him to take this course, as it
placed the hill between them and the approaching party of their enemies.
Favoured by this circumstance he succeeded in reaching the bushes in
sufficient time, and Paul Hover had just hurried the breathless Ellen into the
tangled brush, as Ishmael gained the summit of the rock, in the manner already
described, where he stood like a man momentarily bereft of his senses, gazing
at the confusion which had been created among his chattles, or at his gagged
and bound children, who had been safely bestowed by the forethought of the
bee-hunter under the cover of a bark roof, in a sort of irregular pile. A long
rifle would have thrown a bullet from the height, on which the squatter now
stood, into the very cover where the fugitives, who had wrought all this
mischief, were clustered.
The trapper was the first to speak, as the man on whose intelligence and
experience they all depended for counsel, after running his eye, over the
different individuals who gathered about him, in order to see that none were
missing.
Ah! natur is natur , and has done its work! he said, nodding to the
exulting Paul, with a smile of approbation. I thought it would be hard for
those, who had so often met in fair and foul, by starlight and under the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]