If we survived their cruelty we should be crazed with hunger and fatigue long before our eyes were gladdened at sight of the upper Ohio.

I do not say such a journey could not be made, but I retain vivid memory of one such trip, nor will I lightly seek another.

I imagine, Captain, you have small conception of the horrors of the black forests, when you choose recklessly to plunge into their depths." "I served against the Creeks," he announced somewhat sullenly.
"So I heard, yet that was mostly boys' play; armored men pitted against naked savages.

You would discover different foemen among the mountain tribes to the north and east.

Do not suppose I question your courage, but I realize the dangers, as you cannot from your town life, while as to Madame de Noyan, she will be safer here with us than with those black brutes in New Orleans." "You refuse to be comrade with me then ?" "Ay, if such comradeship involve the desertion of your wife." "Desertion!" The term stung him.