And then, you see, the real nature breaks out when they are provoked." Some more reasonable person would suggest, "But they say that at Moose Island Mr.Strafford has done wonders;" and he answered, "Ah! 'they say.' It is so easy to _say_ anything.

Why, this very man, or brute, comes from Moose Island!" "Does he?
But, of course, there must be some bad.

Let us ask Miss Costello.

She knows Mr.Strafford." And Lucia would have to command her face and her voice, and say, "I only know by report.

I believe Mr.Strafford's people are all more or less civilized." Sometimes she would hear this crime used as an argument in favour of driving the Indians further back, and depriving them of their best lands, for the benefit of that white race which had generously left them here and there a mile or two of their native soil; sometimes as a proof that to care for or instruct them, was waste of time and money; sometimes only as a text whereon to hang a dozen silly speeches, which stung none the less for their silliness; and it was but a poor compensation for all she thus suffered when some one would speak out heartily and with knowledge, in defence of her father's people.
She said not a word to her mother of these small but bitter annoyances; only found herself longing sometimes for the time when, at whatever cost, her secret might be known, and she be free.