"Yet my surroundings were all new, and I have the training of De Croix in such matters." "Pah! 't is just as well.

I am inclined to like you as you are, my friend, and we shall not quarrel; yet, with all his love for lesser things, your comrade has always shown himself a truly gallant gentleman." I made no answer to these flattering words, for I felt them to be true; yet no less this open praise of him, falling from her lips, racked me sorely, and I lacked the art to make light of it.
"The soldiers in the block-house tell me you come here often," I ventured at last, for the dead silence weighed upon me.

"You have never seemed to me like one who would seek such loneliness." "I am one whom very few wholly comprehend, I fear, and surely not upon first acquaintance," she answered thoughtfully, "for I am full of strange moods, and perhaps dream more than other girls.

This may have been born of my early convent training, and the mystic tales of the nuns; nor has it been lessened by the loneliness of the frontier.

So, if I differ from other young women, you may know 't is my training, as well as my nature, that may account for it.