Our sins shall find us out....

I never before believed that, Loskiel--not in a wilderness, anyway....

I had rather be here dead and scalped than have had that happen and know that she must hear of it one day." He lay motionless for a while, then turned heavily on his side, facing me across the heap of dead leaves.
"Somehow or other," he said, "she heard of that miserable business--heard of it even at Otsego....

That is why she would not marry me, Loskiel.

Did you ever hear the like! That a man must be so utterly and hopelessly damned for a moment's careless folly--lose everything in the world for a thoughtless moonlight frolic! Where lies the justice in such a judgment ?" "It is not the world that judges you severely.