His apparently complacent acceptance of idle captivity did not comport with her dream of knighthood and heroism.

She had been all the time half expecting him to do something that would stamp him a hero.
Counter protests of this sort are never sufficiently vigorous to take a fall out of Love; they merely serve to worry his temper by lightly hindering his feet.

And it is surprising how Love does delight himself with being entangled.
Both Beverley and Alice day by day felt the cord tightening which drew their hearts together--each acknowledged it secretly, but strove not to evince it openly.

Meantime both were as happy and as restlessly dissatisfied as love and uncertainty could make them.
Amid the activities in which Hamilton was engaged--his dealings with the Indians and the work of reconstructing the fort--he found time to worry his temper about the purloined flag.

Like every other man in the world, he was superstitious, and it had come into his head that to insure himself and his plans against disaster, he must have the banner of his captives as a badge of his victory.