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"He is a good man. I don't want to see the Delawares kill him." "He certainly will try it himself," said Wampum. "His heart is set on turning the dark Delaware to his Christianity." Fire-Flower sneered. "How little those white men know, even such great white men as the Black-Coat!" he remarked loftily.
Don't you know, he goes on to Texas, 'my perishin' friend, you are bein' swept downward in the river of your own sinful life till your soul will be drowned in the abyss?" "'Well, no, says Texas, 'I don't. I allows I'm makin' a mighty dry ford of it. "'Lost! lost! lost! says the black-coat gent, a-leanin' back like he's plumb dejected that a-way an' hopeless.
"I don't care two straws for your abbe, not I; I belong to Conches, where we haven't a black-coat to poke up our consciences." "Look here," said Vaudoyer, "we had better go and ask Rigou, who knows the law, whether the Shopman can forbid gleaning, and he'll tell us if we've got the right of it.
No man was louder in his cries of mea culpa than Barnes: no man professed a more edifying repentance. He was hat in hand to every black-coat, established or dissenting. Repentance was to his interest, to be sure, but yet let us hope it was sincere.
Hyde who came among us as a schoolmaster and a teacher of our children, but has now become a black-coat, and refuses to teach them any more that unless we listen to his preaching and become Christians, we shall be turned off our lands.
"I welcome him," he said, earnestly, "Welcome the 'Great Black-Coat. I honor him, though I do not think as he does. He is a good man, a just man; I welcome him, bid him come." Thus was his lordship, the Bishop, invited to see the great pagan Onondaga "Festival of the White Dog." But what was this that happened?
The girl dropped to the ground, drew her blanket over her head, and began to sing her death-song. "So the black-coat and the woman-stealer have come to die before the Indian's god?" sneered the chief. "If it be God's will, we will die defying your god and you," replied Marquette. "Yet we fear not death, and if God willed he could deliver us as easily as he could destroy that worthless image."
It is not necessary for me to say anything about London. But I had nothing particular to say to them, for their great black-coat had nothing to do with my people. I was impatient to get on to Toronto to see the chief black-coat who has authority to send teachers to my people on the great Ojebway Lake.
Perhaps that also was the best. The men were silent and respectful, and for the first time lifted their caps with a hearty courtesy to Tallisker when he left them. "Weel! Wonders never cease!" said Jim Armstrong scornfully. "To see Tony Musgrave hobnobbing wi' a black-coat! The deil must 'a' had a spasm o' laughing." "Let the deil laugh," said Tony, with a snap of his grimy fingers.
So it falls out like, that along at the last of the year, a black-coat party-lawyer he is-comes breezin' up to me in Warwhoop an' says he's got to track this yere Spencer to his last camp, dead or alive, an' allows I'd better sign for the round-up an' accompany the expedition as guide, feclos'pher an' friend kind o' go 'long an' scout for the campaign.
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