We live in a wild country among savages and the white folks have to protect each other.

We're used to it." "I never saw or expected to see men like you," she went on.

"I have read of them in books, but I never hoped to see them and talk to them.
You are like Ajax and Achilles." "Then I shall say that you are like the fair lady for whom they fought." "I will not ride and see you walking." "Then sit forward as far as you can and I will ride with you," he answered.
In a moment he was on the colt's back behind her.

She was a comely maiden.

An authority no less respectable than Major Duncan has written that she was a tall, well shaped, fun loving girl a little past sixteen and good to look upon, "with dark eyes and auburn hair, the latter long and heavy and in the sunlight richly colored"; that she had slender fingers and a beautiful skin, all showing that she had been delicately bred.