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

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  Speaker 1: Chapter four. Quote, well go thy way, thou shalt not
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  Speaker 1: from this grove till I torment thee for this injury
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  Speaker 1: unquote Midsummer Night's Dream. The words were still in the
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  Speaker 1: mouth of the scout when the leader of the party,
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  Speaker 1: whose approaching footsteps had caught the vigilant ear of the Indian,
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  Speaker 1: came openly into view. A beaten path, such as those
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  Speaker 1: made by the periodical passage of deer, wound through a
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  Speaker 1: little glen at no great distance, and struck the river
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  Speaker 1: at the point where the white man and his red
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  Speaker 1: companions had posted themselves. Along this track, The travelers, who
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  Speaker 1: had produced a surprise so unusual in the depths of
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  Speaker 1: the forest, advance slowly toward the hunter, who was in
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  Speaker 1: front of his associates, in readiness to receive them. Who comes,
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  Speaker 1: demanded the scout, throwing his rifle carelessly across his left
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  Speaker 1: arm and keeping the forefinger of his right hand on
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  Speaker 1: the trigger, Though he avoided all appearance of menace in
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  Speaker 1: the act, Who comes hither through the beast and dangers
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  Speaker 1: of the wilderness, believers in religion and friends of the law,
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  Speaker 1: And to the king returned he who wrote, foremost men
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  Speaker 1: who have journeyed since the rising sun in the shades
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  Speaker 1: of this forest without nourishment, and are sadly tired of
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  Speaker 1: their wayfaring. You are then lost, interrupted the hunter, and
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  Speaker 1: have found how helpless tis not to know whether to
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  Speaker 1: take the right hand or the left. Even so, sucking
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  Speaker 1: babes are not more dependent on those who guide them
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  Speaker 1: than we, who are of larger growth, and who may
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  Speaker 1: now be said to possess the stature without the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of men. Know you the distance to a post of
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  Speaker 1: the crown called William Henry, shouted the scout, who did
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  Speaker 1: not spare his open laughter. Though instantly checking the dangerous sound,
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  Speaker 1: he in dullged his merriment at risk of being overhead
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  Speaker 1: by any lurking enemies. You are as much off the
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  Speaker 1: scent as a hound would be with Horrican at TwixT
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  Speaker 1: him and the deer William Henry Man. If you are
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  Speaker 1: friends to the king and have business with the army,
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  Speaker 1: your way would be to follow the river down to
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  Speaker 1: Edward and lay the matter before a webb who tarries there,
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  Speaker 1: instead of pushing into the defiles and driving this saucy
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  Speaker 1: frenchman back across Champlain into his den again before the
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  Speaker 1: stranger could make any reply to this unexpected proposition. A
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  Speaker 1: another horseman dashed the bushes aside and leaped his charger
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  Speaker 1: into the pathway in front of his companion. What then
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  Speaker 1: may be our distance from Fort, Edward, demanded a new speaker.
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  Speaker 1: The place you advised us to seek we left this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and our destination is the head of the lake. Then
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  Speaker 1: you must have lost your eyesight afore losing your way.
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  Speaker 1: For the road across the portage is cut to a
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  Speaker 1: good two rods, and is as grand as the path
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  Speaker 1: I calculate as any that runs into London, or even
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  Speaker 1: before the palace of the King himself. We will not
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  Speaker 1: dispute concerning the excellence of the passage, returned Heyward, smiling,
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  Speaker 1: For as the reader has anticipated, it was he. It
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  Speaker 1: was enough for the present that we trusted to an
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  Speaker 1: Indian guide to take us by a nearer, though blinder path,
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  Speaker 1: and that we are deceived in his knowledge. In plain words,
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  Speaker 1: we know not where we are an Indian lost in
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  Speaker 1: the woods, said the scout, shaking his head doubtingly. When
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  Speaker 1: the sun is scorching the tree tops, and the water
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  Speaker 1: courses are full, when the moss on every beach, he
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  Speaker 1: sees will tell him when what quarter the North star
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  Speaker 1: will shine at night. The woods are full of deer
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  Speaker 1: paths which run to the streams and licks places well
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  Speaker 1: known to everybody. Nor have the geese done their flight
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  Speaker 1: to the Canada waters altogether? Tis strange that an Indian
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  Speaker 1: should be lost a TwixT Horican and the bend in
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  Speaker 1: the river? Is he a mohawk? Not by birth, though
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  Speaker 1: adopted by that tribe. I think his birthplace was farther north.
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  Speaker 1: And he is one of those you call Huron. Huh,
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  Speaker 1: exclaimed the two companions of the Scout, who had continued
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  Speaker 1: until this part of the dialogue seated immovable and apparently
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  Speaker 1: indifferent to what passed, but who now sprang to their
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  Speaker 1: feet with an activity and interest that had evidently got
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  Speaker 1: the better of their reserve. By surprise, A Huron repeated
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  Speaker 1: the sturdy scout once more, shaking his head in open distrust.
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  Speaker 1: They are a thievy shrace. Nor do I care by
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  Speaker 1: whom they are adopted. You can never make any of
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  Speaker 1: them but skulls and vagabonds. Since you trusted yourself to
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  Speaker 1: the care of one of that nation, I only wonder
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  Speaker 1: that you have not fallen in with more of that,
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  Speaker 1: there is little danger, since William Henry is so many
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  Speaker 1: miles in our front. You forgot that I have told
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  Speaker 1: you our God is now a mohawk, and that he
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  Speaker 1: serves with our forces as a friend. And I tell
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  Speaker 1: you that he who is born a Mingo will die
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  Speaker 1: a mingo, returned the other positively, a mohawk. No, give
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  Speaker 1: me a Delaware or a Mohican for honesty. And when
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  Speaker 1: they will fight, which they won't all do having suffered
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  Speaker 1: their cunning enemies, the mak was to make them women.
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  Speaker 1: But when they will fight at all, look to a
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  Speaker 1: Delaware or a Mohican for a warrior. Enough of this,
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  Speaker 1: said Heyward impatiently. I wish not to inquire into the
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  Speaker 1: character of a man that I know, and to whom
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  Speaker 1: you must be a stranger. You have not yet answered
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  Speaker 1: my question, what is our distance from the main army
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  Speaker 1: at Edward? It seems that may depend on who is
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  Speaker 1: your guide. One would think such a horse as that
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  Speaker 1: might get over a good deal of ground a TwixT
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  Speaker 1: sun up and sundown. I wish no contention of idle
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  Speaker 1: words with you, friend, said Heyward, curbing his dissatisfied manner
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  Speaker 1: and speaking in a more gentle voice, If you will
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  Speaker 1: tell me the distance to Fort Edward and conduct me thither,
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  Speaker 1: your labor shall not go without its reward. And in
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  Speaker 1: doing so, how know I that I don't guide an
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  Speaker 1: enemy and a spy of Montcalm to the works of
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  Speaker 1: the army. It is not every man who can speak
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  Speaker 1: the English tongue that isn't on a subject. If you
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  Speaker 1: serve with the troops of whom I judge you to
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  Speaker 1: be a scout, you should know of such a regiment
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  Speaker 1: of the king as the sixtieth. You can tell me
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  Speaker 1: little of the Royal Americans that I don't know, though
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  Speaker 1: I do wear a hunting shirt instead of a scarlet jacket. Well,
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  Speaker 1: then among other things, you may know the name of
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  Speaker 1: its major. It's major, interrupted the hunter, elevating his body
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  Speaker 1: like one who was proud of his trust. If there
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  Speaker 1: is a man in the country who knows Major Effingham,
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  Speaker 1: he stands before you. It is a corps which has
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  Speaker 1: many majors. The gentleman you name is the senior, But
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  Speaker 1: I speak of the junior of them all, he who
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  Speaker 1: commands the companies in garrison at William Henry. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I have heard that a young gentleman of vast riches
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  Speaker 1: from one of the provinces far south, has got the place.
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  Speaker 1: He is over young too to hold such rank and
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  Speaker 1: to be put above men whose heads are beginning to bleach.
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  Speaker 1: And yet they say he is a soldier in his
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  Speaker 1: knowledge and a gallant gentleman. Whatever he may be, or
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  Speaker 1: however he may be qualified for his rank. He now
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  Speaker 1: speaks to you, and of course can be no enemy
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  Speaker 1: to dread. The scout regarded Heyward in surprise, and then
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  Speaker 1: lifting his cap, he answered, in a tone less confident
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  Speaker 1: than before, though still expressing doubt. I have heard a
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  Speaker 1: party was to leave the encampment this morning for the
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  Speaker 1: lake shore. You have heard the truth, but I preferred
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  Speaker 1: a nearer route, trusting to the knowledge of the Indian
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned. And he deceived you and then deserted neither
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  Speaker 1: as I believe, certainly not the latter, for he is
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  Speaker 1: to be found in the rear. I should like to
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  Speaker 1: look at the creature. If it is a true Iroquois,
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  Speaker 1: I can tell him by his knavysh look and by
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  Speaker 1: his paint, said the scout, stepping past the charger of
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  Speaker 1: Heyward and entering the path behind the mare of the
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  Speaker 1: singing masters whose full had taken advantage of the to
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  Speaker 1: extract the maternal contribution. After shoving aside the bushes and
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  Speaker 1: preceding a few paces, he encountered the females, who awaited
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  Speaker 1: the result of the conference with anxiety and not entirely
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  Speaker 1: without apprehension. Behind these, the runner leaned against a tree,
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  Speaker 1: where he stood the close examination of the scout, with
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  Speaker 1: an air unmoved, though with a look so dark and
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  Speaker 1: savage that it might in itself excite fear. Satisfied with
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  Speaker 1: his scrutiny, the hunter soon left him. As he repassed
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  Speaker 1: the females, he paused a moment to gaze upon their beauty,
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  Speaker 1: answering to the smile and nod of Alice with a
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  Speaker 1: look of open pleasure. Thence he went to the side
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  Speaker 1: of the motherly animal, and, spending a minute in a
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  Speaker 1: fruitless inquiry into the character of her rider, he shook
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  Speaker 1: his head and turned to Heyward. A Mingo is a mingo,
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  Speaker 1: and God, having made him so, neither the mohawks nor
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  Speaker 1: any other tribe can alter him, he said, when he
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  Speaker 1: had regained his former position, If we were alone, and
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  Speaker 1: you would leave that noble horse at the mercy of
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  Speaker 1: the wolves. Tonight, I could show you the way to
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  Speaker 1: Edward myself within an hour. Fort lies only about an
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  Speaker 1: hour's journey. Hence, but with such ladies in your company,
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  Speaker 1: 'tis impossible, and why they are fatigued. But they are
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  Speaker 1: quite equal to a ride of a few more miles.
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  Speaker 1: 'tis a natural impossibility, repeated the scout. I wouldn't walk
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  Speaker 1: a mile in these woods after night gets into them
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  Speaker 1: in company with that runner for the best rifle in
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  Speaker 1: the colonies. They are full of outlying Iroquois, and your
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  Speaker 1: mongrel mohawk knows where to find them too well to
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  Speaker 1: be my companion. Thank you, so said Heyward, leaning forward
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  Speaker 1: in the saddle and dropping his voice nearly to a whisper.
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  Speaker 1: I confess I have not been without my own suspicions,
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  Speaker 1: though I have endeavored to conceal them and affected a
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  Speaker 1: confidence I have not always felt on account of my companions.
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  Speaker 1: It was because I suspected him that I would follow
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  Speaker 1: no longer, making him, as you see follow me. I
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  Speaker 1: knew he was at one of the cheets as soon
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  Speaker 1: as I laid eyes on him, returned the scout, placing
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  Speaker 1: a finger on his nose in sign of caution. The
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  Speaker 1: thief is leaning against the foot of the sugar sapling
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  Speaker 1: that you can see over them bushes. His right leg
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  Speaker 1: is in a line with the bark of the tree,
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  Speaker 1: and tapping his rifle. I can take him from where
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  Speaker 1: I stand between the ankle and the knee with a
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  Speaker 1: single shot, putting an end to his tramping through the
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  Speaker 1: woods for at least a month to come. If I
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  Speaker 1: should go back to him, the cunning varment would suspect
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  Speaker 1: something and be dodging through the trees like a frightened deer.
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  Speaker 1: It would not do. He may be innocent, and I
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  Speaker 1: dislike the act, though if I felt confident of his treachery,
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  Speaker 1: tis a safe thing to calculate on the knavery of
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  Speaker 1: an Iroquois, said the scout, throwing his rifle forward by
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  Speaker 1: a sort of instinctive movement. Hold interrupted, heyward. It will
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  Speaker 1: not do. We must think of some other scheme. And
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  Speaker 1: yet I have much reason to believe the rascal has
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  Speaker 1: deceived me. The hunter, who had already abandoned his attention
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  Speaker 1: of maiming the runner, mused for a moment, and then
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  Speaker 1: made a gesture which instantly brought his two red companions
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  Speaker 1: to his side. They spoke together earnestly in the Delaware language,
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  Speaker 1: though in an undertone, and by the gestures of the
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  Speaker 1: white man, which were frequently directed toward the top of
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  Speaker 1: the sapling, it was evident he pointed out the situation
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  Speaker 1: of their hidden enemy. His companions were not long in
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  Speaker 1: comprehending his wishes, and laying aside their firearms. They parted,
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  Speaker 1: taking opposite sides of the path, and burying themselves in
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  Speaker 1: the thicket, with such cautious movements that their steps were inaudible.
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  Speaker 1: Now go you back, said the hunter, speaking again to Heyward,
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  Speaker 1: and hold the imp in talk. These Mohicans here will
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  Speaker 1: take him without breaking his paint. Nay, said Heyward, proudly.
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  Speaker 1: I will seize him myself his What could you do
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  Speaker 1: mounted against an Indian in the bushes? I will dismount
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  Speaker 1: and thank you. When he saw one of your feet
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  Speaker 1: out of the stirrup, he would wait for the other
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  Speaker 1: to be free. Whoever comes into the woods to deal
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  Speaker 1: with the natives must use Indian fashions if he would
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  Speaker 1: wish to prosper in his undertakings. Go then talk openly
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  Speaker 1: to the miscreant, and seem to believe him. The truest
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  Speaker 1: friend you have on earth, prepared to comply, though with
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  Speaker 1: strong disgust that the nature of the office he was
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  Speaker 1: compelled to execute. Each moment, however, pressed upon him a
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  Speaker 1: conviction of the critical situation in which he had suffered
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  Speaker 1: his invaluable trust to be involved through his own confidence.
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  Speaker 1: The sun had already disappeared, and the woods, suddenly deprived
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  Speaker 1: of his light, were assuming a dusky hue, which keenly
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  Speaker 1: reminded him that the hour of the savage, usually choose
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  Speaker 1: for his most barbarous and remorseless acts of vengeance or hostility,
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  Speaker 1: was speedily drawing near footnote. The scene of this tale
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  Speaker 1: was in the forty second degree of latitude, where the
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  Speaker 1: twilight is never of long continuation end footnote. Stimulated by apprehension,
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  Speaker 1: he left the scout, who immediately entered into a loud
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  Speaker 1: conversation with the stranger who had so unceremoniously enlisted himself
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  Speaker 1: in the party of the travelers that morning. In passing
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  Speaker 1: his gentler companions, Heyward uttered a few words of encouragement,
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  Speaker 1: and was pleased to find that, though fatigued with the
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  Speaker 1: exercise of the day, they appeared to entertain no suspicion
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  Speaker 1: that their present embarrassment was other than the result of accident,
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  Speaker 1: giving them reason to believe he was merely employed in
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  Speaker 1: the consultation concerning the future route. He spurred his charger
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  Speaker 1: and drew the reins again, when the animal had carried
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  Speaker 1: him within a few yards of the place where the
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  Speaker 1: sullen runner still stood leaning against the tree. You may
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  Speaker 1: see maqua, he said, endeavoring to assume an air of
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  Speaker 1: freedom and confidence. That the night is closing around us,
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  Speaker 1: and yet we are no nearer to William Henry than
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  Speaker 1: when we left the encampment of Webb with the rising sun.
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  Speaker 1: You have missed the way, nor have I been more fortunate.
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  Speaker 1: But happily we have fallen in with a hunt he
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  Speaker 1: whom you hear talking to the singer that is acquainted
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  Speaker 1: with the deer paths and byways of the woods, and
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  Speaker 1: who promises to lead us to a place where we
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  Speaker 1: may rest securely till the morning. The Indian riveted his
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  Speaker 1: glowing eyes on Heyward, as he asked in his imperfect English,
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  Speaker 1: is he alone alone? Hesitatingly answered Hayward, to whom deception
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  Speaker 1: was too new to be assumed without embarrassment. Oh, not alone, surely, makwaf,
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  Speaker 1: for you know that we are with him. Then le
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  Speaker 1: Renard still will go, returned the runner coolly, raising his
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  Speaker 1: little wallet from the place where it had lain at
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  Speaker 1: his feet, And the pale faces will see none but
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  Speaker 1: their own color. Go, whom you call a Renard? Do
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  Speaker 1: is the name his Canadian fathers have given to Maqua?
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  Speaker 1: Returned the runner with an air that manifested his pride
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  Speaker 1: at the distinction. Night is the same as day to
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  Speaker 1: lise abtil when Munroe waits for him. And what account
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  Speaker 1: will le Renard give the chief of William Henry concerning
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  Speaker 1: his daughters? Will he dare to tell the hot blooded
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  Speaker 1: Scotsman that his children are left without a guide? The
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  Speaker 1: Maqua promised to be one. Though the gray head has
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  Speaker 1: a loud voice and a long charm ley Renaud will
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  Speaker 1: not hear him nor feel him in the woods. But
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  Speaker 1: what will the mohawks say? They will make him petticoats
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  Speaker 1: and bid him stay in the wigwam with the women,
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  Speaker 1: for he is no longer to be trusted with the
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  Speaker 1: business of a man. Lies of Hill knows the path
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  Speaker 1: to the great lakes, and he can find the bones
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  Speaker 1: of his father's was the answer of the unmoved runner. Enough,
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  Speaker 1: Maqua said, Heyward, are we not friends? Why should there
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  Speaker 1: be bitter words between us? Monroe has promised you a
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  Speaker 1: gift for your services when performed, and I shall be
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  Speaker 1: your debtor for another Rest your weary limbs, then, and
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  Speaker 1: open your wallet to eat. We have a few moments
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  Speaker 1: to spare. Let us not waste them in talk like
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  Speaker 1: wrangling women. When the ladies are refreshed, we will proceed.
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  Speaker 1: The pale faces make themselves dogs to their women, muttered
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  Speaker 1: the Indian in his native language. And then when they
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  Speaker 1: want to eat, their warriors must lay aside the tomahawk
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  Speaker 1: to feed their laziness. What say you, Renaud leesab Tille
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  Speaker 1: says it is good. The Indian then fastened his eyes
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  Speaker 1: keenly on the open countenance of Heyward, but meeting his glance,
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  Speaker 1: he turned them quickly away, and, seating himself deliberately on
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  Speaker 1: the ground, he drew forth the remnant of some former
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  Speaker 1: repast and began to eat, though not without first bending
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  Speaker 1: his looks slowly and cautiously around him. This is well,
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  Speaker 1: continued Heyward, and the Renauld will have strength and sight
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  Speaker 1: to find the path in the morning. He paused, for
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  Speaker 1: sounds like the snapping of a dried stick and the
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  Speaker 1: rustling of leaves rose from the adjacent bushes. But recollecting
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  Speaker 1: himself instantly, he continued, we must be moving before the
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  Speaker 1: sun is seen, or moret calm may lie in our
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  Speaker 1: path and shut us out from the fortress. The hand
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  Speaker 1: of Maqua dropped from his mouth to his side, and
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  Speaker 1: though his eyes were fastened on the ground, his head
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  Speaker 1: was turned aside. His nostrils expanded, and his ears seemed
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  Speaker 1: to stand even more erect than usual, giving him the
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  Speaker 1: appearance of a statue that was made to represent intense attention. Heyward,
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  Speaker 1: who watched his movements with a vigilant eye, carelessly extricated
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  Speaker 1: one of his feet from the stirrup while he passed
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  Speaker 1: a hand toward the bare skin covering of his holsters.
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  Speaker 1: Every effort to detect the point most regarded by the
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  Speaker 1: runner was completely frustrated by the tremulous glance of his organs,
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  Speaker 1: which seemed not to rest a single instant on any
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  Speaker 1: particular object, and which at the same time could be
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  Speaker 1: hardly said to move. While he hesitated, how to proceed
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  Speaker 1: less of tille cautiously raised himself to his feet though
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  Speaker 1: with a motion so slow and guarded that not the
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  Speaker 1: slightest noise was produced by the change. Heyward felt it
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  Speaker 1: had now become incumbent on him to act. Throwing his
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  Speaker 1: leg over the saddle, he dismounted with a determination to
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  Speaker 1: advance and seize his treacherous companion, trusting the result to
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  Speaker 1: his own manhood. In order, however, to prevent unnecessary alarm,
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  Speaker 1: he still preserved an air of calmness and friendship. Les
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  Speaker 1: Renards of Stills. Does not eat, he said, using the
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  Speaker 1: appellation he had found most flattering to the vanity of
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  Speaker 1: the Indian. His corn is not well parched, and it
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  Speaker 1: seems dry. Let me examine. Perhaps something may be found
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  Speaker 1: among my own provisions that will help his appetite. Makua
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  Speaker 1: held out the wallet to the proffer of the other.
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  Speaker 1: He even suffered their hands to meet, without betraying the
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  Speaker 1: least emotion or varying his riveted attitude of attention. But
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  Speaker 1: when he felt the fingers of Hayward moving gently along
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  Speaker 1: his own naked arm, he struck up the limb of
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the young man, and, uttering a piercing cry, he darted
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  Speaker 1: beneath it and plunged at a single bound into the
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  Speaker 1: opposite thicket. At the next instant, the form of Chingotkok
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  Speaker 1: appeared from the bushes, looking like a specter in its paint,
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  Speaker 1: and glided across the path in swift pursuit. Next followed
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  Speaker 1: the shout of Uncas when the woods were lighted by
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  Speaker 1: a sudden flash that was accompanied by the sharp report
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  Speaker 1: of the hunter's rifle end of Chapter four