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I failed to pull the serpent out of his throat. Then there cried out of me: "Bite! Bite! Its head off! Bite!" so cried it out of me; my horror, my hatred, my loathing, my pity, all my good and my bad cried with one voice out of me. Ye daring ones around me! Ye venturers and adventurers, and whoever of you have embarked with cunning sails on unexplored seas! Ye enigma-enjoyers!
We are akin, Ma'amselle, both venturers, and my blood leaps to your spirit! Throw, Sweetheart, throw! And may the gods of Chance guide your hand!" "Think not of me, Maren!" cried McElroy, in deadly earnest. "You owe me naught! Throw for M'sieu, whose peril is my doing!"
And Maren Le Moyne venturer of the venturers, flame of fire among them, urger, inspirer, and moral leader, a living pillar before them in her eagerness must needs curb her soul in bonds of patience and wait at Fort de Seviere for another spring. Close beside her in her visions and her high hope, her courage and her eagerness, stood that leader of the little band, Prix Laroux.
She did not like this appreciation of another woman's capability by her husband.... Then came the farewell visits of old friends, who all wished the two venturers great good luck and sadly prophesied they would never return to the city by the lake. Milly was tearful over their departure, but a delirious week in New York that followed did much to efface this sentimental grief.
Venturers both, and like true venturers we shall take the longest trail with a laugh and our hands together, and trust to the Aftermath to give us largess of that love which has its beginning in such glorious wise. Pledge me, oh, my Queen of the World!" With a grace beyond compare he drew her into his arms, silent and velvet soft, light and inimitable in his love way.
These men are free, too, from the power of the great capitalist, whose sway is more withering than despotism itself to the enterprises of humble venturers. The capital employed is supplied by those whose labour is to render it productive. The crew receive no wages, but have all a share in the venture, and in general, I believe, they are the owners of the whole freight.
Thus conditions on the Continent were strikingly favorable to the growing commercial enterprise of England. The Merchants Adventurers.* English merchants who exported and imported goods in their own vessels were, with the exception of the staplers or exporters of wool and other staple articles, usually spoken of as "adventurers," "venturers," or "merchants adventurers."
He fell to wondering at broken intervals if she would ever reach it, to see drowsy visions of the tall form leading its band of venturers into the wilderness beyond Lac a la Croix, penetrating that country which tried the hearts of men, and with the visions came a sadness.
So they again took boat, this little band of venturers than whom there were no more daring threaders of the wilderness in all the vast unknown country; and Maren sat in the prow, her hands idle in her lap, for she had paddled since four by the sun.
Their efforts seemed to interest and to please the lustiest man of those days, for he watched them from over the Channel with approving smile, and began to declare, in his good-humored, boisterous way, that so long as they should be suffered to have the handling of France, so long as they would execute for him his policy, so long as they would take care not to deceive him, they ought to be encouraged, they ought to be made use of, they ought to have the shelter they wanted; and, the Frenchmen agreeing to his conditions, he was willing to level the barrier he called it perhaps false pride which divided the government of the Queen from the venturers of the 2d of December.
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