[The Shadow of the North by Joseph A. Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Shadow of the North CHAPTER VIII 13/41
He, like Tayoga, had a white education, and spoke perfect, but measured English. "We welcome you," he said.
"Colonel Johnson, sir, my sister has already seen the strangers from the hill, and is anxious to greet them." "Molly, for all her dignity, has her fair share of curiosity," laughed Colonel Johnson, "and since it's our duty to gratify it, we'll go forward." Robert had heard often of Molly Brant, the famous Mohawk wife of Colonel, afterward Sir William Johnson, a great figure in that region in her time, and he was eager to see her.
He beheld a woman, young, tall, a face decidedly Iroquois, but handsome and lofty.
She wore the dress of the white people, and it was of fine material.
She obviously had some of the distinguished character that had already set its seal upon her young brother, then known as Keghneghtada, his famous name of Thayendanegea to come later.
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