He is a man to keep out of trouble." "As you please," replied Harris.
"Let us go.

Dingo, be quiet," added Dick Sand, briefly, so as to end the conversation.
The second observation made by the novice was in connection with the American horse.

He did not appear to "feel the stable," as do animals of his species.

He did not suck in the air; he did not hasten his speed; he did not dilate his nostrils; he uttered none of the neighings that indicate the end of a journey.

To observe him well, he appeared to be as indifferent as if the farm, to which he had gone several times, however, and which he ought to know, had been several hundreds of miles away.
"That is not a horse near home," thought the young novice.
And, meanwhile, according to what Harris had said the evening before, there only remained six miles to go, and, of these last six miles, at five o'clock in the evening four had been certainly cleared.
Now, if the horse felt nothing of the stable, of which he should have great need, nothing besides announced the approaches to a great clearing, such as the Farm of San Felice must be.
Mrs.Weldon, indifferent as she then was to what did not concern her child, was struck at seeing the country still so desolate.