Her cheeks were flushed and angry, and her whole mien was distinguished by an air of spirit and resentment, that was not a little, however, qualified by apprehensions for the future.

In short, there was that about the eye and step of the betrothed of Paul, which gave a warranty that should happier times arrive, and the constancy of the bee-hunter finally meet with its reward, he would possess a partner every way worthy to cope with his own thoughtless and buoyant temperament.
There was still another and a third figure in that little knot of females.

It was the youngest, the most highly gifted, and, until now, the most favoured of the wives of the Teton.

Her charms had not been without the most powerful attraction in the eyes of her husband, until they had so unexpectedly opened on the surpassing loveliness of a woman of the Pale-faces.

From that hapless moment the graces, the attachment, the fidelity of the young Indian, had lost their power to please.