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It's L'Eau Dormante, Sleeping Water, an Injin name." "And what does that prove?" returned Teresa. "Only that Indians clap a nickname on any stranger, white or red, who may camp with them. Why, even his own father, a white man, the wretch who begot him and abandoned him, he had an Indian name Loup Noir." "What name did you say?" "Le Loup Noir, the Black Wolf.
Muir was not here, or by this time she would be out in the open and scolding hard. Barrie drew in deep breaths of the strange, still atmosphere which was like air that had been put to sleep years and years ago. It must have smelt exactly like this, she thought quietly, in the lost palace of La Belle Dormante when the Prince found his way in through barricading thickets.
"An Injin! Yes, an out-and-out Cherokee. You see he calls himself Dorman Low Dorman. That's only French for 'Sleeping Water, his Injin name 'Low Dorman." "You mean 'L'Eau Dormante," said Nellie. "That's what I said. The chief called him 'Sleeping Water' when he was a boy, and one of them French Canadian trappers translated it into French when he brought him to California to school.
It's L'Eau Dormante, Sleeping Water, an Injin name." "And what does that prove?" returned Teresa. "Only that Indians clap a nick-name on any stranger, white or red, who may camp with them. Why, even his own father, a white man, the wretch who begot him and abandoned him, HE had an Indian name Loup Noir." "What name did you say?" "Le Loup Noir, the Black Wolf.
"An Injin! Yes, an out-and-out Cherokee. You see he calls himself Dorman Low Dorman. That's only French for 'Sleeping Water, his Injin name! 'Low Dorman." "You mean 'L'Eau Dormante," said Nellie. "That's what I said. The chief called him 'Sleeping Water' when he was a boy, and one of them French Canadian trappers translated it into French when he brought him to California to school.
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