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The size of the lake brought all within the reach of human senses, while it displayed so much of the imposing scene at a single view, giving up, as it might be, at a glance, a sufficiency to produce the deepest impressions. As has been said, this was the first lake Deerslayer had ever seen.
We'll talk no more of these things; if you had reason, you'd be sorrowful at having let others so much into your secret. Tell me, Hetty, what has become of all the Hurons, and why they let you roam about the p'int as if you, too, was a prisoner?" "I'm no prisoner, Deerslayer, but a free girl, and go when and where I please. Nobody dare hurt me!
An honest heart is not to be despised, gal, even though it be not varsed in all the niceties that please the female fancy." "You, Deerslayer! And do you can you, for an instant, suppose I place you by the side of Harry March? No, no, I am not so far gone in dullness as that.
The events that had occurred since their meeting, as well as her isolated and dependant situation, induced the girl to feel towards Deerslayer like the friend of a year instead of an acquaintance of a day, and so completely had she been won by his guileless truth of character and of feeling, pure novelties in our sex, as respected her own experience, that his peculiarities excited her curiosity, and created a confidence that had never been awakened by any other man.
Deerslayer made no answer; but he stood leaning on his rifle, gazing at the view which so much delighted him. The reader is not to suppose, however, that it was the picturesque alone which so strongly attracted his attention.
In the excitement she rose from her bench, and naturally recurring to that language in which she expressed herself the most readily, she delivered her thoughts and intentions, beautifully and with dignity, in the tongue of her own people. "Tell the Hurons, Deerslayer," she said, "that they are as ignorant as moles; they don't know the wolf from the dog.
"Do as you're done by, Deerslayer; that's ever the Christian parson's doctrine." "No, Hurry, I've asked the Moravians consarning that; and it's altogether different. 'Do as you would be done by, they tell me, is the true saying, while men practyse the false. They think all the colonies wrong that offer bounties for scalps, and believe no blessing will follow the measures.
No doubt, Deerslayer, you've seen the Susquehannah, down in the Delaware country?" "That have I, and hunted along its banks a hundred times." "That and this are the same in fact, and, I suppose, the same in sound. I am glad they've been compelled to keep the redmen's name, for it would be too hard to rob them of both land and name!"
Driving one day from his farm with his daughter, he stopped and looked long over his favorite prospect on the lake, and said, "I must write one more story, dear, about our little lake." At that moment the "Deerslayer" was born. He was silent the rest of the way home, and went immediately to his library and began the story. The party returned in a moralizing vein.
Chance began them, but the first few books proved so successful that Cooper settled at once into the career of novelist. The famous "Leather-Stocking Tales" followed, and the world made the acquaintance of the America of the Indian and the pioneer in "The Deerslayer," "The Last of the Mohicans," "The Pathfinder," "The Pioneers," and "The Prairie."
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