Falling back for a moment, he uttered a few words in the ear of one of his party, who withdrew unobserved from his companions, while he returned to the parley.
"Well, George, I see, as you have said, that you have made some preparations to receive us, but they are not the preparations that I like exactly, nor such as I think we altogether deserve." "That may be, Wat--and I can't help it.

If you will invite yourselves to dinner, you must be content with what I put before you." "It is not a smart speech, Dexter, that will give you free walk on the high road; and something is to be said about this proceeding of yours, which, you must allow, is clearly in the teeth of all the practices prevailing among the people of the frontier.

At the beginning, and before any of us knew the value of this or that spot, you chose your ground, and we chose ours.

If you leave yours or we ours, then either of us may take possession--not without.

Is not this the custom ?" "I tell you what, Munro, I have not lived so long in the woods to listen to wind-guns, and if such is the kind of argument you bring us, your dumpy lawyer--what do you call him ?--little Pippin, ought to have been head of your party.