"I know you, Nelly Wade; you are with the lawyers in your heart, and if you come a foot nigher, you shall have frontier punishment.

Put in another pry, girls; in with it! I should like to see the man, of them all, that dare come up into the camp of Ishmael Bush, without asking leave of his children!" "Stir not, Paul; for your life keep beneath the rock!" Ellen was interrupted by the same bright vision, which on the preceding day had stayed another scarcely less portentous tumult, by exhibiting itself on the same giddy height, where it was now seen.
"In the name of Him, who commandeth all, I implore you to pause--both you, who so madly incur the risk, and you, who so rashly offer to take that which you never can return!" said a voice, in a slightly foreign accent, that instantly drew all eyes upward.
"Inez!" cried the officer, "do I again see you! mine shall you now be, though a million devils were posted on this rock.

Push up, brave woodsman, and give room for another!" The sudden appearance of the figure from the tent had created a momentary stupor among the defendants of the rock, which might, with suitable forbearance, have been happily improved; but startled by the voice of Middleton, the surprised Phoebe discharged her musket at the female, scarcely knowing whether she aimed at the life of a mortal or at some being which belonged to another world.

Ellen uttered a cry of horror, and then sprang after her alarmed or wounded friend, she knew not which, into the tent.
During this moment of dangerous by-play, the sounds of a serious attack were very distinctly audible beneath.

Paul had profited by the commotion over his head to change his place so far, as to make room for Middleton.
The latter was followed by the naturalist, who, in a state of mental aberration, produced by the report of the musket, had instinctively rushed towards the rocks for cover.