Thar's as good land here as on Bear's Grass; and we shall be glad of your company.

It is not often we have a rich man to take luck among us.

Howsomever, I won't deceive you, if you will go to the Ohio; I hold, thar's no danger on the trace for either man or woman." "My good friend," said Roland, "you seem to labour under two errors in respect to me which it is fitting I should correct.

In the first place, the lady whom you have several times called, I know not why, my sister, claims no such near relationship, being only my cousin." "Why, sure!" said the colonel, "someone told me so, and thar's a strong family likeness." "There should be," said the youth, "since our fathers were twin brothers, and resembled each other in all particulars, in body, in mind, and, as I may say, in fortune.

They were alike in their lives, alike also in their deaths: they fell together, struck down by the same cannon-ball, at the bombardment of Norfolk, seven years ago." "May I never see a scalp," said the Kentuckian, warmly grasping the young man's hand, "if I don't honour you the more for boasting such a father and such uncles! You come of the true stock, captain, thar's no denying; and my brave old major's estates have fallen into the right hands; for, if thar's any believing the news the last band of emigrants brought of you h'yar, thar war no braver officer in Lee's corps, nor in the whole Virginnee line, than young Captain Forrester." "Here," said Roland, looking as if what he said cost him a painful effort, "lies the second error,--your considering me, as you manifestly do, the heir of your old major, my uncle Roland,--which I am not." "Lord!" said the worthy Bruce, "he was the richest man in Prince-George, and he had thousands of fat acres in the Valley, the best in all Fincastle, as I know very well, for I war a Fincastle man myself; and thar war my old friend Braxley,--he war a lieutenant under the major at Braddock's, and afterwards his steward, and manager, and lawyer-like,--who used to come over the Ridge to see after them.