She was wonderfully true and faithful, and scarcely seemed to concede to gold its paramount rank and influence.

But that might only have been because she had never known the want of it, or had never seen a lump worth stealing, which I was sure that this must be; and the unregenerate state of all who have never been baptized had been impressed on me continually.

How could I mistrust a Christian, and place confidence in an Indian?
Therefore I tried to sleep without telling any one, but was unable.
But, as it happened, my good discovery did not keep me so very long awake, for on the following day our troop of horsemen returned from San Francisco.

Of course I have done very foolish things once and again throughout my life, but perhaps I never did any thing more absurd than during the whole of that day.

To begin with, I was up before the sun, and down at the mill, and along the plank, which I had removed overnight, but now replaced as my bridge to the pine-wood pile.