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

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  Speaker 1: Chapter five, quote in such a night did this be fearfully?
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  Speaker 1: O'ertrip the dew and saw the lion's shadow ere himself
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  Speaker 1: unquote Merchant of Venice. The suddenness of the flight of
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  Speaker 1: his guide and the wild cries of the pursuers caused
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  Speaker 1: Hayward to remain fixed for a few moments in inactive surprise. Then,
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  Speaker 1: recollecting the importance of securing the fugitive, he dashed aside
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  Speaker 1: the surrounding bushes and pressed eagerly forward to lend his
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  Speaker 1: aid in the chase. Before he had, however, proceeded a
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  Speaker 1: hundred yards, he met the three foresters, already returning from
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  Speaker 1: their unsuccessful pursuit. Why so soon? Disheartened, he exclaimed, the
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  Speaker 1: scoundrel must be concealed behind some of these trees, and
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  Speaker 1: may yet be secured. We are not safe while he
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  Speaker 1: goes at large? Would you set a cloud to chase?
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  Speaker 1: The wind, returned the disappointed scout. I heard the imbrushing
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  Speaker 1: over the dry leaves like a black snake, and blinking
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  Speaker 1: a glimpse of him just over again, Yon big pine,
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  Speaker 1: I pulled, as it might be on the scent, but
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  Speaker 1: twouldn't do. And yet for a reasoning aim. If anybody
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  Speaker 1: but myself had touched the trigger, I should call it
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  Speaker 1: a quick sight, and I may be accounted to have
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  Speaker 1: experience in these matters. And one who ought to know.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the sumac. Its leaves are red, though everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows the fruit is yellow blossom in the month of July.
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  Speaker 1: Is the blood of some two. He is hurt and
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  Speaker 1: may yet fall. No no returned the scout, in decided
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  Speaker 1: disappropriation of his opinion. I rubbed the bark off a limb, perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: but the creature leaped the longer for it. A rifle
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  Speaker 1: bullet acts like a running animal when it barks him,
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  Speaker 1: much the same as one of your spurs on a horse.
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  Speaker 1: That is, it quickens motion and puts life into the
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  Speaker 1: flesh instead of taking it away. But when it cuts
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  Speaker 1: the ragged hole after a bound or two, there is
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  Speaker 1: commonly a stagnation of further leaping. Be it Indian or
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  Speaker 1: be it deer, we are four able bodies to one
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  Speaker 1: wounded man. Is life grievous to you? Interrupted? The scout
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  Speaker 1: yon red devil would draw you within swing of the
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  Speaker 1: tomahawks of his comrades before you were heated in the chase.
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  Speaker 1: It was an unthoughtful act in a man who has
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  Speaker 1: so often slept with the war, whoop ringing in the
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  Speaker 1: air to let off his piece within sound of ambushment.
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  Speaker 1: But then it was a natural temptation. Twas very natural, come, friends,
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  Speaker 1: let us move our station, and in such fashion too,
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  Speaker 1: as will throw the cunning of a mingo on a
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  Speaker 1: wrong scent, or our scalps will be drying in the
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  Speaker 1: wind in front of Montcalm's marquis again this hour tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: This appalling declaration, which the scout uttered with the cool
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  Speaker 1: assurance of a man who fully comprehended, while he did
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  Speaker 1: not fear to face the danger, served to remind Heyward
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  Speaker 1: of the importance of the charge with which he himself
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  Speaker 1: had been entrusted. Glancing his eyes around with a vain
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  Speaker 1: effort to pierce the gloom that was thickening beneath the
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  Speaker 1: leafy arches of the forest, he felt as if cut
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  Speaker 1: off from human aid, his unresisting companions would soon lie
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  Speaker 1: at the entire mercy of those barbarous enemies, who, like
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  Speaker 1: beasts of prey, only waited till the gathering darkness might
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  Speaker 1: render their blows more fatally certain, his awakened imagination, deluded
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  Speaker 1: by the deceptive light, converted each waving bush or the
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  Speaker 1: fragment of some fallen tree into human forms. And twenty
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  Speaker 1: times he fancied he could distinguish the horrid visages of
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  Speaker 1: his lurking foes, peering from their hiding places in never
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  Speaker 1: ceasing watchfulness of the movements of his party. Looking upward,
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  Speaker 1: he found that the thin, fleecy clouds which Evening had
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  Speaker 1: painted on the blue sky were already losing their faintest
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  Speaker 1: tints of rose color, while the embedded stream which glided
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  Speaker 1: past the spot where he stood, was to be traced
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  Speaker 1: only by the dark boundary of its wooded banks. What
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  Speaker 1: is to be done, he said, feeling the utter helplessness
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  Speaker 1: of doubt in such a pressing strait. Dessert me not,
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  Speaker 1: for God's sake, remain to defend those I escort, and
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  Speaker 1: freely name your own reward. His companions, who conversed a
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  Speaker 1: part in the language of their tribe, heeded not his
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  Speaker 1: sudden and earnest appeal, though their dialog was maintained in
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  Speaker 1: low and cautious sounds, but little above a whisper. Heyward,
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  Speaker 1: who now approached, could easily distinguish the earnest tones of
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  Speaker 1: the younger warrior from the more deliberate speeches of his seniors.
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  Speaker 1: It was evident that they debated on the propriet of
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  Speaker 1: some measure that nearly concerned the welfare of the travelers.
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  Speaker 1: Yielding to his powerful interest in the subject, and impatient
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  Speaker 1: of a delay that seemed fraught with so much additional danger,
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  Speaker 1: Heyward drew still nigher to the dusky group, with an
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  Speaker 1: intention of making his offers of compensation more definite. When
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  Speaker 1: the white man, motioning with his hand as if he
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  Speaker 1: conceded the disputed point, turned away, saying, in a sort
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  Speaker 1: of soliloquy, and in the English tongue, uncas is right.
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  Speaker 1: It would not be the act of men to leave
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  Speaker 1: such harmless things to their fate, even though it breaks
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  Speaker 1: up the harboring place forever. If you would save these
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  Speaker 1: tender blossoms from the fangs of the worst serpents, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: you have neither time to lose nor resolution to throw away.
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  Speaker 1: How can such a wish be doubted? Have I not
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  Speaker 1: already offered? Offer your prayers to him who can give
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  Speaker 1: us wisdom to circumvent the cunning of the devils who
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  Speaker 1: feel these woods calmly interrupted the scout. But spare your
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  Speaker 1: offers of money, which neither you may live to realize,
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  Speaker 1: nor I to profit by these mohicans. And I will
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  Speaker 1: do what man's thoughts can invent to keep such flowers,
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  Speaker 1: which those so sweet were never made for the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: from harm, and that without hope of any other recompense,
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  Speaker 1: but such as God always gives to upright dealings. First,
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  Speaker 1: you must promise two things, both in your own name
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  Speaker 1: and for your friends, or without serving you, we shall
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  Speaker 1: only endure ourselves name them. The one is to be
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  Speaker 1: still as these sleeping woods, let what will happen. And
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  Speaker 1: the other is to keep the place where we shall
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  Speaker 1: take you forever a secret from all mortal men. I
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  Speaker 1: will do my utmost to see both these conditions fulfilled.
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  Speaker 1: Then follow, for we are losing moments that are as
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  Speaker 1: precious as the heart's blood to a stricken deer. Heyward
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  Speaker 1: could distinguish the impatient gesture of the scout through the
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  Speaker 1: increasing shadows of the evening, and he moved in his
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  Speaker 1: footsteps swiftly toward the place where he had left the
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  Speaker 1: remainder of the party. When they rejoined, the expecting and
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  Speaker 1: anxious females, he briefly acquainted them with the conditions of
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  Speaker 1: their new guide, and with the necessity that existed for
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  Speaker 1: their hushing every apprehension in instant and serious exertions. Although
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  Speaker 1: his alarming communication was not received without much secret terror
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  Speaker 1: by the listeners, his earnest and impressive manner, aided perhaps
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  Speaker 1: by the nature of the danger, succeeded in bracing their
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  Speaker 1: nerves to undergo some unlooked for and unusual trial. Silently
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  Speaker 1: and without a moment's delay, they permitted him to assist
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  Speaker 1: them from their saddles, and when they descended quickly to
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  Speaker 1: the water's edge, where the scout had collected the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the party more by the agency of expressive gestures
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  Speaker 1: than by any use of words. What to do with
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  Speaker 1: these dumb creatures, muttered the white man, on whom the
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  Speaker 1: soul control of their future movements appeared to devolve. It
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  Speaker 1: would be time loss to cut their throats and cast
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  Speaker 1: them into the river, And to leave them here would
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  Speaker 1: be to tell the mingoes that they have not far
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  Speaker 1: to seek to find their owners. Then give them their
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  Speaker 1: bridles and let them range in the woods. Heyward ventured
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  Speaker 1: to suggest, no, it would be better to mislead the
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  Speaker 1: imps and make them believe they must equal a horse's
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  Speaker 1: speed to run down their chase. Aye. Aye, that will
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  Speaker 1: blind their fireballs of eyes. Jinkotch itch, what stars in
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  Speaker 1: the bush? The coat? That coat, at least must die,
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  Speaker 1: muttered the scout, grasping at the mane of the nimble beasts,
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  Speaker 1: which easily eluded his hand. Uncas your arrows hold, exclaimed
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  Speaker 1: the proprietor of the condemned animal aloud, without regard to
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  Speaker 1: the whispering tones used by the others. Spare the fall
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  Speaker 1: of Miriam. It is the comely offspring of a faithful dame,
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  Speaker 1: and would willingly injure not when men struggle for the
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  Speaker 1: single life God has given them, said the scouts sternly.
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  Speaker 1: Even their own kind seemed no more than the beast
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  Speaker 1: of the wood. If you speak again, I shall leave
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  Speaker 1: you at the mercy of the maquas. Draw to your arrowshead,
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  Speaker 1: uncas we have no time for second blows. The low
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  Speaker 1: muttering sounds of his threatening voice were still audible when
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  Speaker 1: the wounded full first, rearing on its hinder legs, plunged
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  Speaker 1: forward to its knees. It was met by chinchkotchkook, whose
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  Speaker 1: knife passed across its throat quicker than thought, and then,
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  Speaker 1: precipitating the motions of the struggling victim, he dashed into
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  Speaker 1: the river, down whose stream it glided away, gasping audibly
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  Speaker 1: for breath with its ebbing life. This deed, of apparent
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  Speaker 1: cruelty but of real necessity, fell upon the spirits of
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  Speaker 1: the travelers like a terrific warning of the peril in
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  Speaker 1: which they stood, Heightened as it was, by the calm,
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  Speaker 1: though steady resolution of the actors in the scene. The
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  Speaker 1: sisters shuddered and clung closer to each other, while Heyward
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  Speaker 1: instinctively laid his hand on one of his pistols he
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  Speaker 1: had just drawn from their holsters, as he placed himself
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  Speaker 1: between his charge and those dense shadows that seemed to
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  Speaker 1: draw an impenetrable veil before the bosom of the forest.
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  Speaker 1: The Indians, however, hesitated not a moment, but taking the bridles,
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  Speaker 1: they led the frightened and reluctant horses into the bed
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  Speaker 1: of the river. At a short distance from the shore,
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  Speaker 1: they turned and were soon concealed by the projection of
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  Speaker 1: the bank, under the brow of which they moved in
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  Speaker 1: a direction opposite to the course of the waters. In
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, the scout drew a canoe of bark from
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  Speaker 1: its place of concealment, beneath some low bushes, whose branches
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  Speaker 1: were waving with the eddies of the current, into which
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  Speaker 1: he silently motioned for the females to enter. They complied
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  Speaker 1: without hesitation, though many a fearful and anxious glance was
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  Speaker 1: thrown behind them toward the thickening gloom, which now lay
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  Speaker 1: like a dark barrier along the margin of the stream.
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  Speaker 1: So soon as Cora and Alice were seated, the scout,
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  Speaker 1: without regarding the element, directed Hayward to support one side
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  Speaker 1: of the frail vessel, and posting himself at the other,
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  Speaker 1: they bore it up against the stream, followed by the
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  Speaker 1: dejected owner of the dead full. In this manner, they
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  Speaker 1: proceeded for many rods, in a silence that was only
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  Speaker 1: interrupted by the rippling of the water as its eddies
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  Speaker 1: played around them, or the low dash made by their
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  Speaker 1: own cautious footsteps. Heyward yielded the guidance of the canoe
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  Speaker 1: implicitly to the scout, who approached or receded from the
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  Speaker 1: shore to avoid the fragments of rocks or deeper parts
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  Speaker 1: of the river, with a readiness that showed his knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the route they held. Occasionally he would stop, and,
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of a breathing stillness that the dull
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  Speaker 1: but increasing war of the waterfall only served to render
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  Speaker 1: more impressive. He would listen with painful intenseness to catch
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  Speaker 1: any sounds that might arise from the slumbering forest. When
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  Speaker 1: assured that all was still and unable to detect, even
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  Speaker 1: by the aid of his practiced senses, any sign of
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  Speaker 1: his approaching foes, he would deliberately resume his slow and
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  Speaker 1: guarded progress. At length, they reached a point in the
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  Speaker 1: river where the roving eye of Heyward became riveted on
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  Speaker 1: a cluster of black objects collected at a spot where
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  Speaker 1: the high banks threw a deeper shadow than usual on
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  Speaker 1: the dark waters. Hesitating to advance, he pointed out the
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  Speaker 1: place to the attention of his companion. I returned the
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  Speaker 1: composed scout. The Indians have hid the beast with the
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  Speaker 1: judgment of natives. Water leaves no trail, and an owl's
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  Speaker 1: eyes would be blinded by the darkness of such a hole.
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  Speaker 1: The whole party was soon reunited, and another consultation was
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  Speaker 1: held between the scout and his new comrades, during which they,
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  Speaker 1: whose fates depended on the faith and ingenuity of these
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  Speaker 1: unknown foresters, had a little leisure to observe their situation.
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  Speaker 1: More minutely. The river was confined between high and cragged rocks,
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  Speaker 1: one of which impended above the spot where the canoe rested.
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  Speaker 1: As these again were surmounted by tall trees which appeared
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  Speaker 1: to totter on the brows of the precipice, it gave
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  Speaker 1: the stream the appearance of running through a deep and
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  Speaker 1: narrow dell, all beneath the fantastic limbs and ragged tree tops,
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  Speaker 1: which were here and there dimly painted against the starry zenith,
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  Speaker 1: lay alike in shadowed obscurity behind them. The curvature of
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  Speaker 1: the bank soon bounded the view by the same dark
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  Speaker 1: and wooded outline, but in front, and apparently at no
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  Speaker 1: great distance, the water seemed piled against the heavens, whence
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  Speaker 1: it tumbled into caverns, out of which issued those sullen
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  Speaker 1: sounds which had loaded the evening atmosphere. It seemed, in
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  Speaker 1: truth to be a spot devoted to seclusion, and the
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  Speaker 1: sisters imbibed a soothing impression of security as they gazed
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  Speaker 1: upon its romantic, though not on appalling beauties. A general
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  Speaker 1: movement among their conductors, however, soon recalled them from a
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  Speaker 1: contemplation of the wild charms that night had assisted to
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  Speaker 1: lend the place to a painful sense of their real
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  Speaker 1: peril had been secured to some scattering shrubs that grew
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  Speaker 1: in the fissures in the rocks, where, standing in the water,
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  Speaker 1: they were left to pass the night. The scout directed
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  Speaker 1: Heyward and his disconsolate fellow travelers to seat themselves in
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  Speaker 1: the forward end of the canoe, and took possession of
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  Speaker 1: the other, himself as erecked and steady as if he
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  Speaker 1: flowed in a vessel of much firmer materials. The Indians
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  Speaker 1: warily retraced their steps toward the place they had left,
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  Speaker 1: when the scout, placing his pole against a rock by
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  Speaker 1: a powerful shove, sent his frail bark directly into the
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  Speaker 1: turbulent stream. For many minutes, the struggle between the light
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  Speaker 1: bubble in which they floated and the swift current was
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  Speaker 1: severe and doubtful, forbidden to stir even a hand, and
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  Speaker 1: almost afraid to breathe lest they should expose the frail
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  Speaker 1: fabric to the fury of the stream. The passengers watched
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  Speaker 1: the glancing waters in feverish suspense. Twenty times they thought
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  Speaker 1: the whirling eddies were sweeping them to destruction. When the
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  Speaker 1: master hand of their pilot would bring the bowels of
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  Speaker 1: the canoe to stem the rapid along a vigorous and
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  Speaker 1: as it appeared to the females, a desperate effort closed
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  Speaker 1: the struggle, just as Alice veiled her eyes in horror
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  Speaker 1: under the impression that they were about to be swept
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  Speaker 1: within the vortex. At the foot of the cataract, the
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  Speaker 1: canoe floated stationary at the side of a flat rock
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  Speaker 1: that lay on a level with the water. Where are
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  Speaker 1: we and what is to be done? Demanded Heyward, perceiving
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  Speaker 1: that the exertions of the scout had ceased. You are
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  Speaker 1: at the foot of Glen's, returned the other, speaking aloud
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  Speaker 1: without fear of consequences within the roar of the cataract.
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  Speaker 1: And the next thing is to make a steady landing
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  Speaker 1: lest the canoe upset, and you should go down again
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  Speaker 1: the hard road. We have traveled faster than you came up.
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  Speaker 1: 'tis a hard rift to stem when the river is
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  Speaker 1: a little swelled, and five is an unnatural number to
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  Speaker 1: keep dry. In a hurry, scurry with a little birch
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  Speaker 1: and bark and gum. There go you all on the rock,
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  Speaker 1: and I will bring up the Mohicans with the venison.
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  Speaker 1: A man had better sleep without his scalp than famish
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of plenty. His passengers gladly complied with
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  Speaker 1: these directions. As the last foot touched the rock, the
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  Speaker 1: canoe whirled from its stations when the tall form of
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  Speaker 1: the scout was seen for an instant gliding above the waters,
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  Speaker 1: before it disappeared in the impenetrable darkness that rested on
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  Speaker 1: the bed of the river. Left by their guide, the
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  Speaker 1: travelers remained a few minutes in helpless ignorance, afraid even
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  Speaker 1: to move among the broken rocks lest a false step
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  Speaker 1: should precipitate them down some one of the many deep
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  Speaker 1: and roaring caverns into which the water seemed to tumble
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  Speaker 1: on every side of them. Their suspense, however, was soon
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  Speaker 1: relieved four aided by the skill of the natives, the
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  Speaker 1: canoe shot back into the eddy and floated again at
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  Speaker 1: the side of the low rock. Before they thought the
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  Speaker 1: scout had time to even rejoin his companions. We are
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  Speaker 1: now fortified, garrison and provisioned, cried Heyward, cheerfully, and may
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  Speaker 1: set Montcalm and his allies at defiance. How now, my
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  Speaker 1: vigilant sentinel can see anything of those you call the
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  Speaker 1: Iroquois on the mainland. I call them Iroquois because to me,
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  Speaker 1: every native who speaks a foreign tongue is accounted an enemy,
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  Speaker 1: though he may pretend to serve the king. If Webb
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  Speaker 1: wants faith and honesty in an Indian, let him bring
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  Speaker 1: out the tribes of the Delawares and send these greedy
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  Speaker 1: and lying Mohawks and Oneidas with their six nations of
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  Speaker 1: varlets where in nature they belong among the French. We
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  Speaker 1: should then exchange a warlike for a useless friend. I
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  Speaker 1: have heard that Delawares have laid aside the hatchet and
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  Speaker 1: are content to be called women. I shame on the
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  Speaker 1: Hollanders and Iroquois who circumvented them by their deviltries into
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  Speaker 1: such a treaty. But I have known them for twenty years,
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  Speaker 1: and I call him liar that says cowardly blood runs
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  Speaker 1: in the veins of a Delaware. You have driven their
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  Speaker 1: tribes from the sea shore, and would now believe what
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  Speaker 1: their enemies say, that you may sleep at night upon
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  Speaker 1: an easy pillow. No, no to me. Every Indian who
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  Speaker 1: speaks a foreign tongue is in Iroquois, whether the castle
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  Speaker 1: of his tribe be in Canada or be in York. Footnote,
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  Speaker 1: the principal villages of the Indians are still called castles
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  Speaker 1: by the Whites of New York. Oneida castle is no
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  Speaker 1: more than a scattered hamlet, but the name is in
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  Speaker 1: general use. And footnote Heyward, perceiving the stubborn adherence of
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  Speaker 1: the scout to the cause of his friends, the Delawares
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  Speaker 1: or Mohicans, for they were branch of the same numerous people,
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  Speaker 1: was likely to prolong a useless discussion. Change the subject,
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  Speaker 1: treaty or no treaty. I know full well that your
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  Speaker 1: two companions are brave and cautious warriors. Have they heard
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  Speaker 1: or seen anything of our enemies? An Indian is immortal
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  Speaker 1: to be felt afore he is seen returned the scout
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  Speaker 1: ascending the rock and throwing the deer carelessly down. I
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  Speaker 1: trust to other signs than such as come in at
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  Speaker 1: the eye when am outlying on the trail of the mingoes.
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  Speaker 1: Do your ears tell you that they have traced our retreat?
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  Speaker 1: I should be sorry to think they had, though this
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  Speaker 1: is a spot that stout courage might hold for a
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  Speaker 1: smart scrimmage. I will not deny, however, But the horses
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  Speaker 1: cowered when I passed them, as though they scented the wolves.
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  Speaker 1: And a wolf is a beast that is apt to
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  Speaker 1: hover about it. Indian ambushment, craving the awfuls of the deer.
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  Speaker 1: The savages kill you, forget the buck at your feet?
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  Speaker 1: Or may we not owe their visit to the dead colt? Huh,
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  Speaker 1: what noise is that? Poor Miriam? Murmured the stranger, Thy
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  Speaker 1: fool is fordainned to become prey to ravenous beast. Then, suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: lifting up his voice amid the eternal din of the waters,
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  Speaker 1: he sang aloud, first born of Egypt, smite, did he
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  Speaker 1: of mankind and of beast? Also, Oh Egypt, wondercent amidst
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  Speaker 1: thee om Faro and his servants too. The death of
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  Speaker 1: the colt sits heavy on the heart of its owner,
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  Speaker 1: said the scout. But it's a good sign to see
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  Speaker 1: a man account upon his dumb friends. He has the
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  Speaker 1: religion of the matter, in believing what is to happen
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  Speaker 1: will happen. And with such a consolation, it won't be
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  Speaker 1: long before he submits to the rationality of killing a
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  Speaker 1: four footed beast to save the lives of human men.
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  Speaker 1: It may be as you say, he continued, reverting to
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  Speaker 1: the purport of Heyward's last remark, And the greater the
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  Speaker 1: reason why we should cut our stakes and let the
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  Speaker 1: carcass drive down the stream, or we shall have the
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  Speaker 1: pack howling along the cliffs, begrudging every mouthful we swallow. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: though the delaware tongue is the same as a book
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  Speaker 1: to the Iroquois, the cunning varlets are quick enough in
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  Speaker 1: understanding the reason of a wolf's howl. The scout, while
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  Speaker 1: making his remarks, was busied in collecting certain necessary implements.
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  Speaker 1: As he concluded, he moved silently by the group of
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  Speaker 1: travelers accompanied by the Mohicans, who seemed to comprehend his
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  Speaker 1: intentions with instinctive readiness. When the whole three disappeared in succession,
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  Speaker 1: seeming to vanish against the dark face of a perpendicular
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  Speaker 1: rock that rose to the height of a few yards
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  Speaker 1: within as many feet of the water's edge, end of
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  Speaker 1: chapter five,