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"Sweet girl, in the hour of pain you always can give me consolation

Indians have also skulked after us; and itwhither Captain Stephens went"

"My view precisely, mademoiselle; but we shall talk no more about it

now Sit beside me here upon the bank, and look at the peace and the

beauty of all this scene" Under the shadow of the bank, with its

reen; midway in

the expanse it was purple, and beyond, in the last faint light of the

sun, it was an exquisite violet The sand at their feet alternated in

veins of umber brown, and ashes of roses; while the vereous contrast to the glaucous

green of the leafage

Little ripples ca tide-mark

"What causes the ripple now, Julie, when no breath of wind is in the

heavens, and neither oar nor paddle is on the lake?"

"Stay; I thought that I heard it a ain

Hear you not the note of some waterfowl?"

Yes, Annette did hear it; but she could not say fro came

"Well,in

upon the sand co you hear The bird

itself is the swan, end, Julie Repeat it to me,

s'il vous plait"

"Well; there was once a beautiful maiden of the plains, whom many of

the bravest and most noble of the chiefs adored; but she disdained

their wooing, for she loved with a passion that absorbed her soul and

body a young man with hair like the corn leaves when, after rain, the