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Elwood that Claud had pledged himself to her that he would return from his expedition within the month of April; and to Fluella, with her undoubting confidence in his word, a failure to redeem that pledge would be but little less than certain intelligence that some evil had befallen either him or his father, in their unknown place of sojourn in the wilderness.
Phillips' friend is my friend, and, I I why, I can't thank him now; the words don't come; the thanks remain unshaped in my heart." "Excuse me," replied Claud, "excuse me if I say, Miss Fluella, as Mr. Phillips calls you, that you have already expressed, and in the finest terms, far more than I am entitled to; so let that pass, and tell us how your mishap occurred?"
There was such a heart; and that heart was now wildly beating, in the agonizing uncertainties of a hoped reciprocation, in the bosom of that peerless child of the forest, the beautiful Fluella; and all the more intense were its workings, because confined to its own deep recesses, where the hidden flame was laboring constantly for an outlet to its pride-walled prison, but as constantly shrinking in terror from the disclosure.
I do not even know who you are, kind stranger." "They, call me Fluella," responded the other, the blood slightly suffusing her fair, rounded cheek. "You have not seen me, I know. You have not done me the great favor that brings my gratitude. It is your brave son that has done both." "O, I understand now," exclaimed Mrs. Elwood. "You are the chief's daughter, whom Claud and Mr.
"You Indians!" said Elwood, looking at the other with a playful yet half-chiding expression. "Why, Fluella, should a stranger look at your fair skin, hear you conversing so well in our language, and quoting so appropriately from our books, he would hardly believe you an Indian, I think, unless you told him." "Then I would tell him, Mr.
Fluella looked at Claud as if he was the one to answer the question, and he accordingly remarked: "I have ever heard, chief, that your people always notice a benefit done to them, and that he who does them one secures their lasting gratitude."
He had sold his moose, it appeared, for four hundred dollars, and brought nearly the whole of it home on his bedizened person, with the object, as he soon admitted, of dazzling the hitherto obdurate Fluella.
The astonished hunter then told her of the singular absence of Fluella; when, again to his surprise, she started up, and joyfully exclaimed, "He lives! though in danger, perhaps, he lives, and I shall see him again!" Wondering whether her reason was not unsettled, the hunter departed, and hurried on to the village.
"And you, Fluella?" persisted the saucy querist, turning to the blushing girl. "He has not asked me yet," she quickly replied, with a look in which maiden pride, archness, and unuttered happiness, were charmingly blended. "If he should, and you should command me" "Command? command! Now, that is a good one, Fluella," returned the laughing foster-father.
Perceiving this, the rejoiced maiden prepared him some more stimulating nourishment, in the shape of broth made from jerked venison. Having partaken freely of this, he then, with a whispered "I am much better, Fluella," sank back on his couch, and was soon buried in a sweet and tranquil slumber.
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