Robert saw that he intended to be pleasant, even genial that morning, having no reason for not showing his better side, and the lad, who was learning not only to fence and parry with words, but also to take an intellectual pleasure in their use, was willing to meet him half way.
"I see, Mr.Lennox," said de Courcelles gayly, "that you are in a fine humor this morning.

Your experience with the Ojibway has left no ill results.

He departed in the night.

One can never tell what strange ideas these savages will take into their heads." "I have forgotten it," said Robert lightly.

"I knew that a French gentleman could not take the word of a wild Ojibway against ours." De Courcelles gave him a sharp glance, but the youth's face was a mask.
"At least," he said, "the matter is not one of which I could dispose.
Nor can any government take note of everything that passes in a vast wilderness.