You've been wise enough to keep clear of me, if that be truly wisdom.

Come, Euan, what do you think?
Do you and I contain these fellow elements, that you seem to dread our mutual conflagration if you kiss me ?" "You know me better." "Do I?
No, I don't.

Young sir, caper not too confidently in your coat of many colours! If you flout me once too often I may go after you, as a Mohawk follows a scalp too often flaunted by the head that wears it!" I tried to sustain her delighted gaze and reddened, and the impudent little beauty laughed and clung to my arm in a very ecstasy of malice, made breathless by her own mirth.
"Come, court me prettily, Euan.

It is my due after all these grey and Quaker years when I made eyes at you from the age of twelve, and won only a scowl or two for my condescension." But we had reached the river bank, and there the group came once more together, the ladies curious to see the batteaux arriving, loaded with valley sheep, we officers pointing out to them the canoes of our corps of Oneida guides, and Hanierri and the Reverend Mr.Kirkland reading their Testaments under the shade of the trees, gravely absorbed in God.
"A good man," said I, "and brave.

But his honest Stockbridge Indians know no more of Catharines-town than do the converted Oneidas yonder." Boyd nodded: "I prophesy they quit us one and all within an arrow-flight of Wyalusing.