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"That is his affair," muttered Mount, striding on angrily. "There speaks the obstinate white man, who can see no good in any savage," whispered Dorothy. "Nothing an Indian does is right or generous; these forest-runners hate them, distrust them, fear them though they may deny it and kill all they can. And you may argue all day with an Indian-hater and have your trouble to pay you.
Riflemen, drovers, batt-men, frontier farmers, and some of the dirty flotsam trappers, forest-runners, and the like were continually moving about the parade, going and coming on petty, sordid business of their own; and there were women there, too pallid refugees from distant farms, and now domiciled within the stockade; gaunt wives of neighbouring settlers, bringing baskets of eggs or pails of milk to sell; and here and there some painted camp-wanton lingering by the gateway on mischief bent, or gossiping with some sister trull, their bold eyes ever roving.
Did a body ever hear the like of it! A-gypsying all alone loitering around this army's camp! Mercy! And what a little minx it is to so conduct what with our godless, cursing headlong soldiery, and the loud, swaggering forest-runners! Lord! But it chills me to the bone! The silly, saucy baggage!"
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