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Updated: June 11, 2025
"You are more beautiful than ever in all seriousness!" "What folly!" She began to laugh nervously, then shrugged her shoulders, adding: "This young man is plainly partizan and deaf to reason." "Being in love." "You! In love! What nonsense!" "Do you doubt it?" "Oh!" she said carelessly. "You are in love with love as all men are and not particularly in love with me. Men, my dear Euan, are gamblers.
For a moment I thought it was Lois who stood there so white and still, looking at me with grey, unfathomable eyes; then I stepped forward uncertainly, bending in silence over the narrow, sun-tanned hand that lay inert under the respectful but trembling salute I offered. "Euan Loskiel," she murmured in the French tongue, laying her other hand over mine and looking me deep in the eyes.
But one of Walter Butler's painted Tories spies it and bawls out: 'This also will grow to be a rebel! And with that he speared the little smiling creature on his bayonet, tossed it, and caught it Oh, Euan Euan!" Shuddering, she flung her arm across her face as though to shut out the vision. "That villainy," said I, "was done by Newberry or Chrysler, if I remember.
"Unless you truly know me unless you know to whom you give your friendship you can not give it rightly. Can you, Euan? You must learn all that I am and have been, Is not this necessary?" "I I ask you nothing," I stammered. "All that I know of you is wonderful enough " Suddenly the danger of the moment opened out before me, checking my very thoughts.
I truly desire to tell you I I need to tell you. Will you come to me?" "On my honour, Lois." "Then if you please, will you leave me now? I must do my washing and mending and " she smiled, "if you only knew how desperately I need what money I may earn. My garments, Euan, are like to fall from me if these green cockspur thorns give way." "But, Lois," I said, "I have brought you money!"
Which is not strange, I myself being of unknown parentage and birth, high or low, nobody knew; nor had anybody ever told me how I came by my strange name, Euan Loskiel, save that they found the same stitched in silk upon my shift. For it is best, perhaps, that I say now how it was with me from the beginning, which, until this memoir is read, only one man knew and one other.
"What is it then, if it be not love!" I asked angrily. "What is it?" she repeated slowly. Yet I seemed to feel in her very voice a faint, cool current of contempt. "Why, it is what always urges men to speak, I fancy their natural fire their easily provoked emotions.... I had believed you different." "Did you not desire my friendship?" I asked in hot chagrin. "Not if it be of this kind, Euan."
How could I remain behind when every tie I have in all the world was tugging at my heart to draw me hither? You ask me what I can do what I can hope to accomplish. God knows but my mother and my lover are here and how could I stay away if there was a humble chance that I might do some little thing to aid her to aid you, Euan? "Why do you scowl at me? Try me, Test me.
She lifted her head a little and looked at me with clear, proud eyes: "Well, let them say what they may in fort and barracks twixt this frontier and Philadelphia. The truth remains that I have been no man's mistress and am no trull. Euan, I have starved that I might remain exactly what I am at this moment.
"Guard the Mohican as you would the apple of your eye, and God go with you, Euan Loskiel." I saluted, turned squarely, and walked out across the parade to the postern. Here I saw Captain Simpson inspecting the four guides, one of whom, to me, seemed unnecessarily burdened with hunting shirt and blanket.
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