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When we had passed the ed beyond reason, by pointing to the village upon its bank, and telling her so her if she feared the savages

When at length she succeeded in abstracting her attention froative, in a tone of the supremest indifference, after which she relapsed into her conteain "That is Kent's, yonder He brought his wife froe of sunflowers she has planted! If you love flowers, you will find those of paradise in these woods"

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Below Martin-Brandon we hs, bound upon a friendly visit to some one of the down-river tribes; for in the botto men lay trenchers of maize cakes and of late side held up the brooch froe was soon made; they sped away, and I placed the ry," she said coldly "Take them away"

I bit my lip, and returned to my place at the tiller This rose was set with thorns, and already I felt their sting Presently she leaned back in the nest I had htily, and, turning her face from me, pillowed her head upon her arms

I sat, bent forward, the tiller in my hand, and stared at eon, the rosy, humble, domestic creature as to make me a hos swooped down upon the water, now dark and ridged, rested there astorht at ti, which had played incessantly in pale flashes across the low clouds in the south, now leaped to higher peaks and becaed to long, booinia storms had struck us with terror Compared with those of the Old World we had left, they were as cannon to the whistling of arrows, as breakers on an iron coast to the dull wash of level seas Now they were nothing tocities, I an to fall, slowly, in large sullen drops, and I rose to cover her with azing at the storh with no fear in their dark depths When I moved they closed, and when I reached her the lashes still swept her cheeks, and she breathed evenly through parted lips But, against her will, she shrank from my touch as I put the cloak about her; and when I had returned to my seat, I bent to one side and saw, as I had expected to see, that her eyes ide open again If she had been one whit less beautiful, I would have wished her back at Jamestown, back on the Atlantic, back at whatever outlandish place, where manners were unknown, that had owned her and cast her out Pride and temper! I set my lips, and vowed that she should find her match