She continually glanced in every direction, especially toward the village which was fast receding behind them.

Fred swung the paddle powerfully, but with as little noise as possible.
In such crises of a man's life he thinks rapidly.

While the young man's heart was aglow with the ecstacy of a promised fulfillment of his love--a more glorious fulfillment than he had dared to dream of--he saw that a desperate struggle was not only certain but close at hand.
Very soon the flight of Ariel must be discovered, and her infuriated father would stop at nothing to punish the elopers.

He could command hundreds of the most valiant warriors of the Matto Grosso, and any one, except such a lover as Fred Ashman, would have shrunk from the prodigious task before him.
When the flight of the canoe had continued for several minutes, and he could breathe a little more freely, he asked of his companion, whether she was familiar with the region they expected to visit.
The reply was singular.

King Haffgo was accustomed to make regular excursions to the wonderful place, and he rarely did so without Ariel as his companion.