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30 - The Last Of The Mohicans - James Cooper · Thrilling Adventures - Daily

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Speaker 1: Chapter thirty. Quote. If you deny me fi upon your law,
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Speaker 1: there is no force in the decrees of Venice. I
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Speaker 1: stand for judgment. Answer shall I have it? Unquote, Merchant
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Speaker 1: of Venice. The silence continued, unbroken by human sounds, for
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Speaker 1: many anxious minutes. Then the waving multitude opened and shut again,
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Speaker 1: and uncas stood in the living circle. All those eyes
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Speaker 1: which had been curiously studying the linements of the sage
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Speaker 1: as the source of their own intelligence, turned on the instant,
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Speaker 1: and were now bent in secret admiration on the erect,
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Speaker 1: agile and faultless person of the captive. But neither the
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Speaker 1: presence in which he found himself, nor the exclusive attention
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Speaker 1: that he attracted in any manner, disturbed the self possession
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Speaker 1: of the young Mohican. He cast a deliberate and observing
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Speaker 1: look onsite of him, meeting the settled expression of hostility
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Speaker 1: that lowered in the visages of the chiefs, with the
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Speaker 1: same calmness as the curious gaze of the attentive children.
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Speaker 1: But when last, in his haughty scrutiny, the person of
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Speaker 1: Tominund came under his glance, his eye became fixed, as
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Speaker 1: though all other objects were already forgotten. Then, advancing with
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Speaker 1: a slow and noiseless step up the area, he placed
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Speaker 1: himself immediately before the footstool of the sage, where he
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Speaker 1: stood unnoted, though keenly observant himself, until one of the
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Speaker 1: chiefs apprized the latter of his presence. With what tongue
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Speaker 1: does the prisoner speak to the manteaux, demanded the patriarch,
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Speaker 1: without unclosing his eyes like his father's uncas replied A
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Speaker 1: tongue of the delaware. At this sudden and unexpected enunciation,
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Speaker 1: A low, fierce yell ran through the multitude that might
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Speaker 1: not inaptly be compared to the growl of the lion
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Speaker 1: as his caller is first awakened, fearful omen of the
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Speaker 1: weight of his future anger. The effect was equally strong
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Speaker 1: on the sage, though differently exhibited. He passed his hand
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Speaker 1: before his eyes, as if to exclude the least evidence
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Speaker 1: of so shameful a spectacle, while he repeated his low
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Speaker 1: guttural tones the words he had just heard, a delaware,
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Speaker 1: I have lived to see the tribes of the Lenape
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Speaker 1: driven from their council fires and scattered like broken herds
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Speaker 1: of deer among the heels of the Iroquois. I have
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Speaker 1: seen the hatchets of a strong people sweep woods from
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Speaker 1: the valleys, and the winds of heaven have spared the
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Speaker 1: beasts that run on the mountains, and the birds that
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Speaker 1: fly above the trees? Have I seen living in the
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Speaker 1: wigwams of men? But never before have I found a
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Speaker 1: Delaware so base as to creep like a poisonous serpent
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Speaker 1: into the camps of his nation. The singing birds have
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Speaker 1: opened their bills, returned uncas in the softest notes of
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Speaker 1: his own musical voice. Antamonund has heard their song. The
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Speaker 1: sage started and bent his head aside, as if to
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Speaker 1: catch the fleeting sounds of some passing melody. Does Danamon dream?
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Speaker 1: He exclaimed, what voice is at his ear? Have the
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Speaker 1: winters gone backward? Will sommer come again to the children
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Speaker 1: of the Lenapee. A solemn and respectful silence succeeded this
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Speaker 1: incoherent burst from the lips of the Delaware prophet. His
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Speaker 1: people readily constructed his unintelligible language into one of those
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Speaker 1: mysterious conferences he was believed to hold so frequently with
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Speaker 1: a superior intelligence, and they awaited the issue of the
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Speaker 1: revelation in awe. After a patient pause, however, one of
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Speaker 1: the aged men, perceiving that the sage had lost the
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Speaker 1: recollection of the subject before him, ventured to remind him
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Speaker 1: again of the presence of the prisoner. The false Delaware
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Speaker 1: dribbles lest he should hear the words of Pomenund. He said,
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Speaker 1: tis a holm that howls when the Yankees show him
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Speaker 1: a trail, And ye returned uncas, looking sternly around him,
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Speaker 1: are dogs that whine? When the Frenchman cast the oufels
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Speaker 1: of his deer, twenty knives gleamed in the air, and
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Speaker 1: as many warriors sprang to their feet at this biting
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Speaker 1: and perhaps merited retort. But in motion from one of
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Speaker 1: the chiefs suppressed the outbreaking of their tempers and restored
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Speaker 1: the appearance of quiet. The task might probably have been
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Speaker 1: more difficult had not a movement made by Tomenin indicated
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Speaker 1: that he was again about to speak. Delaware resumed the sage,
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Speaker 1: Little art thou worthy of thy name. My people have
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Speaker 1: not seen a bright sun in many winters. And the
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Speaker 1: warrior who deserts his tribe when hid in clouds is
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Speaker 1: doubly a traitor. The law of the Maniteau is just
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Speaker 1: it is so while the rivers run and the mountains stand,
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Speaker 1: but the blossoms come and go on the trees. It
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Speaker 1: must be so.
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Speaker 2: He is thine, My children deal justly by him.
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Speaker 1: Not a limb was moved, nor a breath drawn louder
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Speaker 1: longer than common, until the closing syllable of this final
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Speaker 1: decree had passed the lips of tominund. Then a cry
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Speaker 1: of vengeance burst at once, as it might be from
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Speaker 1: the united lips of the nation, a frightful augury of
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Speaker 1: their ruthless intentions. In the midst of these prolonged and
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Speaker 1: savage yells, a chief proclaimed in a high voice that
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Speaker 1: the captive was condemned to endure the dreadful trial of
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Speaker 1: torture by fire. The circle broke its order, and screams
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Speaker 1: of delight mingled with the bustle and tumult of preparation.
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Speaker 1: Heyward struggled madly with his captors. The anxious eye of
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Speaker 1: Hawkeye began to look around him with an expression of
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Speaker 1: peculiar earnestness, and Cora again threw herself at the feet
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Speaker 1: of the patriarch, once more a suppliant for mercy. Throughout
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Speaker 1: the whole of these trying moments, Uncas had alone preserved
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Speaker 1: his serenity. He looked on the preparations with a steady eye,
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Speaker 1: and when the tormentors came to seize him, he met
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Speaker 1: them with a firm and upright attitude. One among them,
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Speaker 1: if possible, more fierce and savage than his fellows, seized
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Speaker 1: the hunting shirt of the young warrior, and at a
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Speaker 1: single effort, tore it from his body. Then, with a
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Speaker 1: yell of frantic pleasure, he leaped toward his unresisting victim
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Speaker 1: and prepared to lead him to the stake. But at
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Speaker 1: that moment, when he appeared most a stranger through the
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Speaker 1: feeling of humanities, the purpose of the savage was arrested,
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Speaker 1: as suddenly, as if a supernatural agency had interposed in
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Speaker 1: the behalf of Uncas, the eyes of the delaware seemed
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Speaker 1: to start from their sockets. His mouth opened, and his
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Speaker 1: whole form became frozen in an attitude of amazement. Raising
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Speaker 1: his hand with a slow and regulated motion, he pointed
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Speaker 1: with a finger to the bosom of the captain. His
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Speaker 1: companions crowded about him in wonder, and every eye was
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Speaker 1: like his own, fastened intently on the figure of a
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Speaker 1: small tortoise beautifully tattooed on the breast of the prisoner
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Speaker 1: in a bright blue tint. For a single instant, Uncas
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Speaker 1: enjoyed his triumph, smiling calmly on the scene, then motioning
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Speaker 1: the crowd away with a high and haughty sweep of
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Speaker 1: his arm. He advanced in front of the nation with
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Speaker 1: the air of a king, and spoke in a voice
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Speaker 1: louder than the murmur of admiration that ran through the
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Speaker 1: multitude men of amleny Lenape. He said, my race upholds
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Speaker 1: the earth. Your feeble tribes stands on my shell. What
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Speaker 1: fire that a delaware can light would burn the child
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Speaker 1: of my father's, he added, pointing proudly to the simple
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Speaker 1: blazonry on his skin. That blood that came from such
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Speaker 1: a stock would smother your flames. My raise is the
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Speaker 1: grandfather of nations? Who art thou? Demanded Thomond, rising at
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Speaker 1: the startling tones, he heard more than any meaning conveyed
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Speaker 1: by the language of the prisoner. Uncas, son of Chinkotchkook,
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Speaker 1: answered the captive, modestly, turning from the nation and bending
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Speaker 1: his head in reverence to the other's character. In years,
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Speaker 1: a son of the great Unimus footnote turtle and footnote.
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Speaker 1: The hour of Taimonon is not exclaimed the sage the
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Speaker 1: day is come at last to the night. I thank
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Speaker 1: the Manitou, the one is here to film my place
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Speaker 1: at the council fire.
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Speaker 3: Uncus, the child of Uncus, is found that the eyes
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Speaker 3: of a dying eagle gaze on the rising sun.
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Speaker 1: The youth stepped lightly but proudly on the platform, where
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Speaker 1: he became visible to the whole agitated and wondering multitude.
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Speaker 1: Tamonon held him long at the length of his arm,
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Speaker 1: and read every turn in the fine lineaments of his
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Speaker 1: countenance with the untiring gaze of one who recalled days
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Speaker 1: of happiness, as Tamonon a boy at length. The bewildered
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Speaker 1: prophet exclaimed.
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Speaker 2: Have I dreamed of so many snows that my people
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Speaker 2: were scattered like floating sands of yengees more plenty than
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Speaker 2: the leaves on the trees. The arrow of Taminond would
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Speaker 2: not frighten the fawn. His arm is withered like the
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Speaker 2: branch of a dead oak. The snail would be swifter
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Speaker 2: in the race, Yet his uncust before him. As they
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Speaker 2: went to battle against the pale faces. Uncus, the panther
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Speaker 2: of his tribe, the eldest son of the Lenape.
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Speaker 1: The wisest Sagamore of the Mohicans, Tell me, ye, delawares,
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Speaker 1: has Tomminin been a sleeper for one hundred winters. The
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Speaker 1: calm and deep silence which succeeded these words sufficiently announced
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Speaker 1: the awful reverence with which his people received all communication
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Speaker 1: of the patriarch. None dared to answer, though all listened
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Speaker 1: in breathless expectation of what might follow. Uncus however, looking
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Speaker 1: in his face with a fondness and veneration of a
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Speaker 1: favored child, presumed on his own high and acknowledged rank,
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Speaker 1: to reply. Four warriors of his race have lived and died,
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Speaker 1: he said, since the fire of Tamonen led his people
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Speaker 1: to battle. The blood of the turtle has been in
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Speaker 1: many chiefs, that all have gone back into the earth
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Speaker 1: from whence they came, except Chinchigotchkook and his son. It
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Speaker 1: is true. It is true, returned the sage a flash
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Speaker 1: of recollection, destroying all his pleasing fancies, and restoring him
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Speaker 1: at once to a consciousness of the true history of
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Speaker 1: his nation. Our wise men have often said that two
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Speaker 1: warriors of the Unchanged race were in the heels of
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Speaker 1: the Yengeese. Why have their seats at the council fires
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Speaker 1: of the Delawares been so long empty. At these words,
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Speaker 1: the young man raised his head, which he had still kept,
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Speaker 1: bowed a little in reverence, and lifting his voice so
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Speaker 1: as to be heard by the multitude, as if to
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Speaker 1: explain it and forever the policy of his family. He
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Speaker 1: said aloud, Once we slept where we could hear the
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Speaker 1: salt lake speak of his anger. Then we were rulers
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Speaker 1: and sagamores over the land. But when a pale face
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Speaker 1: was seen on every brook, we followed the deer back
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Speaker 1: to the river of our nation. The Delawares are gone.
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Speaker 1: Few warriors of them all stayed to drink of the
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Speaker 1: stream they love. They said, my fathers, here will we
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Speaker 1: hunt the waters of the river, go into the salt lake.
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Speaker 1: If we go toward the setting sun, we shall find
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Speaker 1: streams that run into the great lakes of the sweet water.
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Speaker 1: There would a mehican die like fishes of the sea
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Speaker 1: in the clear springs. When the Manitau is ready and
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Speaker 1: shall say, come, we will follow the river to the
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Speaker 1: sea and take our own again. Such Delawares is the
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Speaker 1: belief of the children of the turtle. Our eyes are
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Speaker 1: on the rising and not toward the setting sun. We
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Speaker 1: know whence he comes, but we know not whither he goes.
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Speaker 1: It is enough. The men of the Lenape listened to
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Speaker 1: his words with all the respect that superstition could lend,
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Speaker 1: finding a secret charm even in the figurative language with
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Speaker 1: which the young Sagamore imparted his ideas. Ancas himself watched
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Speaker 1: the effect of his brief explanation with intelligent eyes, and
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Speaker 1: gradually dropped the air of authority he had assumed as
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Speaker 1: he perceived that his auditors were content. Then, permitting his
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Speaker 1: looks to wander over the silent throng that crowded around
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Speaker 1: the elevated seat of Tamenund, he first perceived Hawkeye in
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Speaker 1: his bonds. Stepping eagerly from his stand, he made way
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Speaker 1: for himself to the side of his friend, and cutting
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Speaker 1: his thong with a quick and angry stroke of his
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Speaker 1: own knife, he motioned to the crowd to divide. The
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Speaker 1: Indians silently obeyed, and once more they stood ranged in
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Speaker 1: their circle as before his appearance among them. Uncas stood
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Speaker 1: the scout by the hand and led him to the
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Speaker 1: feet of the patriarch, father, he said, look at his
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Speaker 1: pale face, a just man and the friend of the Delawares.
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Speaker 1: Is he a son i'min Kuan, not so. A warrior
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Speaker 1: known to the Yengeese and feared by the Maquas. What
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Speaker 1: name has he gained by his deeds? We call him Hawkeye,
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Speaker 1: Uncas replied, using the Delaware phrase for his sight never fails.
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Speaker 1: The Mingoes know him better by the death he gives
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Speaker 1: their warriors with them. He is the long rifle long carabine,
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Speaker 1: exclaimed Tominin, opening his eyes and regarding the scout sternly.
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Speaker 1: My son has not done well to call him friend.
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Speaker 1: I call him soul, who proves himself such, returned the
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Speaker 1: young chief with great calmness, but with a steady mien.
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Speaker 1: If Uncas is welcome among the Delawares, then is Hawkeye
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Speaker 1: with his friends. The pale face has slain my young man.
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Speaker 1: His name is great for the blows he has struck
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Speaker 1: the Lennapee. If a Mingo has whispered that much in
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Speaker 1: the ear of the Delaware, he has only shown that
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Speaker 1: he is a singing bird, said the scout, who now
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Speaker 1: believed that it was time to vindicate himself from such
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Speaker 1: offensive charges, and who spoke as the man he addressed,
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Speaker 1: modifying his Indian figures, however, with his own peculiar notion
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Speaker 1: that I have slain the Maquas, I am not the
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Speaker 1: man to deny even at their own council fires, but
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Speaker 1: that knowingly my hand has never harmed the Delaware is
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Speaker 1: opposed to the reason of my gifts, which is friendly
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Speaker 1: to them and all that belongs to their nation. A
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Speaker 1: low exclamation of applause passed among the warriors, who exchanged
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Speaker 1: looks at each other, like men that first began to
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Speaker 1: perceive their error. Where is the Huron, demanded Tominond, has
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Speaker 1: he stopped my ears? Maqua, whose feelings during that scene
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Speaker 1: in which Uncas had triumphed may be much better imagined
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Speaker 1: than described, answered to the call by stepping boldly in
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Speaker 1: front of the patriarch that just Tamanund, he said, will
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Speaker 1: not keep what the Huron has lent. Tell me, son
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Speaker 1: of my brother, returned the sage, avoiding the dark countenance
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Speaker 1: of leesb Till and turning gladly to the more ingenious
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Speaker 1: features of Uncas. Has the stranger the conquerors right over you?
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Speaker 1: He has none. The panther may get into snares set
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Speaker 1: by the women, but he is strong and knows how
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Speaker 1: to leap through them. Let long Carabine laughs at the Mingoes,
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Speaker 1: go Huron, ask your squalls the color of a bear.
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Speaker 1: The stranger and white maiden that come into my camp
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Speaker 1: together should journey an open path. And the woman that
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Speaker 1: Uron left with my warriors, Uncas made no reply. And
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Speaker 1: the woman that the Mingo has brought into my camp,
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Speaker 1: repeated Tamenon gravely. She is mine, cried Magua, shaking his
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Speaker 1: hand in triumphant Uncas, Mohican, you know that she is mine.
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Speaker 1: My son is silent, said Tamanund, endeavoring to read the
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Speaker 1: expression of the face that the youth turned from him
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Speaker 1: in sorrow. It is so, was the low answer. A
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Speaker 1: short and impressive pause succeeded, during which it was very
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Speaker 1: apparent with what reluctance the multitude admitted the justice of
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Speaker 1: the Mingos claim at length of sage, on whom alone
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Speaker 1: the decision depended, said in a firm voice, Huron, depart
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Speaker 1: as he came just Tamanund demanded. The wily Magua or
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Speaker 1: with hands filled with the faith of the Delawares, the
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Speaker 1: Wigwam of les Rena septel is empty. Make him strong
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Speaker 1: with his own. The aged man mused with himself for
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Speaker 1: a while, and then bending his head toward one of
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Speaker 1: his venerable companions, he asked, are my ears open? It
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Speaker 1: is true? Is this Mingo a chief? The first? It
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Speaker 1: is nation girl? What wouldst thou? A great warrior takes
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Speaker 1: thee to wife?
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Speaker 4: Go?
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Speaker 1: Thy race will not end better a thousand times, it
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Speaker 1: should exclaimed the horror struck Cora, that meet with such
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Speaker 1: a degradation You're on her mind is in the tents
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Speaker 1: of her father's. An unwilling maiden makes an unhappy wigwam.
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Speaker 1: She speaks the tongue of her people, returned Magua, regarding
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Speaker 1: his victim with a look of bitter irony. She is
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Speaker 1: of a race of traders, and will bargain for our
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Speaker 1: bright look. Let Tomanon speak the words take you the
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Speaker 1: wampum and our love. Nothing hens but what Magwa brought hither.
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Speaker 1: Then depart with thine own. The great Manito forbids that
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Speaker 1: a Delaware should be unjust. Mackway advanced and seized his
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Speaker 1: captives strongly by the arm. The Delawares fell back in silence,
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Speaker 1: and Cora, as if conscious that remonstrance would be useless,
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Speaker 1: prepared to submit to her fate without resistance. Hold hold,
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Speaker 1: cried Duncan, springing forward, Huron, have mercy. Her ransom shall
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Speaker 1: make thee richer than any of thy people were ever
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Speaker 1: yet known to be. Machwow is a redskin. He wants
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Speaker 1: not the beads of the pale faces, gold, silver, powder, lead.
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Speaker 1: All that the warrior needs shall be in by wigwam,
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Speaker 1: all that becomes the greatest chief lace of till is
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Speaker 1: very strong, cried Makua, violently shaking the hand which grasped
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Speaker 1: the unresisting arm of Cora. He has his revenge, mighty
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Speaker 1: ruler of Providence, exclaimed Heyward, clasping his hands together in agony.
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Speaker 1: Can this be suffered to you? Just tomenond I appealed
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Speaker 1: for your mercy? The words of the Delaware are said,
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Speaker 1: returned the sage, closing his eyes and dropping back into
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Speaker 1: his seat, alike, wearied with his mental and bodily exertion.
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Speaker 1: Men speak not twice. That a chief should not misspend
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Speaker 1: his time in saying. What has been spoken is wise
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Speaker 1: and reasonable, said Hawkeye, motioning to Duncan to be silent.
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Speaker 1: But it is also prudent in every warrior to consider
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Speaker 1: well before he strikes his tomahawk into the head of
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Speaker 1: his prisoner. Kuran, I love you not, nor can I
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Speaker 1: say that any Mingo has ever received much favor at
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Speaker 1: my hands. It is fair to conclude that if this
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Speaker 1: war does not soon end, many more of your warriors
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Speaker 1: will meet me in the woods. Put it to your judgment, then,
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Speaker 1: whether you would prefer taking such a prisoner as that
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Speaker 1: into your encampment, or one like myself, who am a
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Speaker 1: man that it would greatly rejoice your nation to see
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Speaker 1: with naked hands. Will the long rifle give his life
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Speaker 1: for the woman? Demanded Magua, hesitatingly, for he had already
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Speaker 1: made a motion toward quitting the place with his victim. No, no,
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Speaker 1: I have not said so much as that, returned Hawkeye,
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Speaker 1: drawing back with suitable discretion when he noted the eagerness
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Speaker 1: with which my Aua listened to his proposal. It would
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Speaker 1: be an unequal exchange to give a warrior in the
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Speaker 1: prime of his age and usefulness for the best woman
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Speaker 1: on the frontiers. I might consent to go into winter
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Speaker 1: quarters now at least six weeks before the leaves will
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Speaker 1: turn on. Condition you will release the maiden. Maqua shook
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Speaker 1: his head and made an impatient sigh for the crowd
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Speaker 1: to open well. Then added the Scalp, with the a
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Speaker 1: musing air of a man who had not half made
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Speaker 1: up his mind. I will throw killdeer into the bargain.
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Speaker 1: Take the word of an experienced hunter. The peace has
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Speaker 1: not its equal between the provinces. Makua still disdained to reply,
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Speaker 1: continuing his efforts to disperse the crowd, perhaps added the Scalp,
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Speaker 1: losing his dissembled coolness, exactly in proportion as the other
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Speaker 1: manifested an indifference to the exchange. If I should, con addition,
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Speaker 1: to teach your young men the real virtue of the weapon,
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Speaker 1: it would smooth the little differences in our judgments. Led
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Speaker 1: Renard fiercely ordered the Delawares, who still lingered in an
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Speaker 1: impenetrable belt around him, in hopes he would listen to
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Speaker 1: the amicable proposal to open his path, threatening by the
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Speaker 1: glance of his eye another appeal of the infallible justice
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Speaker 1: of their prophet. What is ordered must sooner or later arrive,
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Speaker 1: continued Hawkeye, turning with a sad and humbled look to
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Speaker 1: uncas the varlet knows his advantage and will keep it.
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Speaker 1: God bless you, boy. You have found friends among your
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Speaker 1: natural kin, and I hope they will prove as true
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Speaker 1: as some you have met who had no Indian cross.
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Speaker 1: As for me, sooner or later I must die. It
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Speaker 1: is therefore fortunate there are but few to make my death.
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Speaker 1: How after all, it is likely the imps would have
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Speaker 1: managed to master my scalp, so a day or two
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Speaker 1: will make no great difference in the everlasting reckoning of time.
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Speaker 1: God bless you. Added the rugged woodsman, bending his head
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Speaker 1: aside and then instantly changing its direction again, with a
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Speaker 1: wistful look toward the youth. I love both you and
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Speaker 1: your father, uncas though our skins are not altogether of
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Speaker 1: a color and our gifts are somewhat different. Tell the
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Speaker 1: Sagamore I never lost sight of him in my greatest trouble.
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Speaker 1: And as for you, think of me sometimes when on
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Speaker 1: a lucky trail, and depend on it. Boy, whether there
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Speaker 1: be one heaven or two, there is a path in
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Speaker 1: the other world by which honest men may come together again.
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Speaker 1: You'll find the rifle in the place we hit it,
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Speaker 1: Take it and keep it for my sake, and hearkey,
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Speaker 1: lad as, your natural gifts don't deny you the youth vengeance.
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Speaker 1: Use it a little freely on the mingos. It may unburden,
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Speaker 1: grease at my loss, and ease your mind. Huron, I
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Speaker 1: accept your offer. Release the woman. I am your prisoner.
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Speaker 1: A suppressed but still distinct murmur of approbation ran through
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Speaker 1: the crowd at this generous proposition, even the fiercest among
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Speaker 1: the Delaware warriors, manifesting pleasure at the manliness of the
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Speaker 1: intended sacrifice. Makua paused, and for an anxious moment, it
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Speaker 1: might be said, he doubted. Then, casting his eyes on
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Speaker 1: Cora with an expression in which ferocity and admiration were
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Speaker 1: strangely mingled, his purpose became fixed forever. He intimated his
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Speaker 1: contempt of the offer with a backward motion of his head,
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Speaker 1: and said, in his steady and settled voice, Les Renaud
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Speaker 1: subtill is a great chief. He has but one mind come,
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Speaker 1: he added, laying his hand too familiarly on the shoulder
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Speaker 1: of his captive to urge her onward. A. Huron is
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Speaker 1: no tattler, We will go. The maiden drew back in lofty,
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Speaker 1: womanly reserve, and her dark eye kindled, while the rich
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Speaker 1: bloodshot like passing brightness of the sun into her very temples.
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Speaker 1: At the indignity, I have you a prisoner, and at
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Speaker 1: a fitting time shall be ready to follow even to
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Speaker 1: my death. But violence is unnecessary, she coldly said, and
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Speaker 1: immediately turning to Hawkeye, added.
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Speaker 5: Generous hunter, from my soul, I thank you. Your offer
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Speaker 5: is vein, neither could it be accept but still you
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Speaker 5: may serve me even more than in your old noble intention.
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Speaker 5: Look at that drooping, humble child. Abandon her not until
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Speaker 5: you leave her in the habitations of civilized men. I
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Speaker 5: will not say, wringing the hard hand of the scout,
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Speaker 5: that her father will reward you for such as you
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Speaker 5: are above the rewards of men. But he will thank
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Speaker 5: you and bless you. And believe me, the blessing of
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Speaker 5: a just and aged man has virtue in the sight
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Speaker 5: of Heaven. Would to God I could hear.
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Speaker 1: What word from his lips.
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Speaker 4: At this awful.
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Speaker 1: Moment, her voice became choked, and for an instant she
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Speaker 1: was silent, then and advancing a step nigher to Duncan,
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Speaker 1: who was supporting her unconscious sister. She continued in more
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Speaker 1: subdued tones, but in which feeling and the habits of
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Speaker 1: her sex maintained a fearful struggle.
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Speaker 4: I need not tell you to cherish the treasure you possess.
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Speaker 4: You love her, Heyward, That would conceal a thousand thoughts,
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Speaker 4: though she had them. She is kind, gentle, sweet, good
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Speaker 4: as mortal may be, there is not a blemish in
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Speaker 4: mind or person at which the proudest of you all
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Speaker 4: would sicken. She is fair, Oh, oh, how surpassingly fair.
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Speaker 1: Laying her own beautiful but less brilliant hand in melancholy
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Speaker 1: affection on the alabaster forehead of Alice, and parting the
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Speaker 1: golden hair which clustered about her brows.
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Speaker 4: And yet her so as pure and spotless as her skin.
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Speaker 4: I could say much more, Perhaps then cooler reason would
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Speaker 4: approve that I will spare you and myself.
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Speaker 1: Her voice became inaudible, and her face was bent over
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Speaker 1: the form of her sister. After a long and burning kiss,
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Speaker 1: she arose, and with features of the hue of death,
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Speaker 1: but without even a tear in her feverish eye, she
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Speaker 1: turned away and added to the savage with all her
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Speaker 1: former elevation of manner.
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Speaker 4: Now, sir, if it be your pleasure, I will follow.
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Speaker 1: I go, cried Duncan, placing alice in the arms of
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Speaker 1: an Indian girl. Go Magua. Go. These Delawares have their
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Speaker 1: laws which forbid them to detain you. But I I,
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Speaker 1: I have no such obligation. Go, malignant monster, Why do
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Speaker 1: you delay? It would be difficult to describe the expression
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Speaker 1: with which Marquitt listened to this threat to follow. There
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Speaker 1: was at first a fierce and manifest display of joy,
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Speaker 1: and then it was instantly subdued in a look of
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Speaker 1: cunning coldness. The words are open. He was content with
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Speaker 1: answering the open hand. Can come hold, cried Hawkeye, seizing
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Speaker 1: Duncan by the arm and detaining him by violence. You
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Speaker 1: know not the craft of the imp He would lead
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Speaker 1: you to an ambushment and your death. Uron interrupted, Uncas,
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Speaker 1: who submissive to the stern customs of his people, had
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Speaker 1: been an attentive and grave listener to all that passed. Huron,
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Speaker 1: The justice of the Delawares comes from the Manitau. Look
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Speaker 1: at the sun. He is now in the upper branches
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Speaker 1: of the hemlock. Your path is short and open. When
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Speaker 1: he is seen above the trees, there will be men
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Speaker 1: on your trail. I hear a crow exclaimed Maqua with
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Speaker 1: a taunting laugh. Go, he added, shaking his hand at
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Speaker 1: the crowd, which had slowly opened to admit his passage.
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Speaker 1: Where are the petticoats of the Delawares. Let them send
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Speaker 1: their arrows and their guns to the Wyandots. They shall
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Speaker 1: have venison to eat and corn dohoe, dogs, rabbits, thieves.
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Speaker 1: I spit on you. His parting jibes were listened to
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Speaker 1: in a dead boding silence, And with these biting words
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Speaker 1: in his mouth, the triumphant Maqua passed unmolested into the four,
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Speaker 1: followed by his passive captive and protected by the inviolable
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Speaker 1: laws of Indian hospitality. End of Chapter thirty