"Little friend much damn fool." He straightened up his tall form and stood leering at her for some seconds, then added: "Little friend get killed, scalped, maybe." The indescribable nobility of animal largeness, symmetry and strength showed in his form and attitude, but the expression of his countenance was absolutely repulsive--cold, hard, beastly.
He did not speak again, but turned quickly, and stooping low, disappeared like a great brownish red serpent in the high grass, which scarcely stirred as he moved through it.
Somehow that day made itself strangely memorable to Alice.

She had been accustomed to stirring scenes and sudden changes of conditions; but this was the first time that she had ever joined actively in a public movement of importance.

Then, too, Long-Hair's picturesque and rudely dramatic reappearance affected her imagination with an indescribable force.

Moreover, the pathetic situation in the love affair between Rene and Adrienne had taken hold of her conscience with a disturbing grip.
But the shadowy sense of impending events, of which she could form no idea, was behind it all.

She had not heard of Brandywine, or Bunker Hill, or Lexington, or Concord; but something like a waft of their significance had blown through her mind.