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Updated: May 23, 2025
The door was opened, as before, by the little Indian girl, Neebin, who, as soon as she had admitted the Knight, ran to the side of the lady, and, falling on her knees, began with curious eyes to examine a book which the lady held in her lap.
The girl turned up to him her bright eyes, and, in better English than that commonly used by the Indians, and even with a pronunciation that approached correctness, replied: "No Neebin knows very little now, but the lady says the book will talk to her by and by."
"Hawks do not wear clothes, nor yellow chains, nor can they say Pater noster and Ave Maria." "No," said the lady; "nor have they a soul to be saved, like Neebin." "What is a soul?" inquired the girl.
Owanux have not found the book with the pretty pictures, nor the man with the sweet face, with his eyes shut, and his head falling on one side, upon his shoulder, who makes Neebin feel like crying when she looks at him; and Sir Christopher is gone away, so that they cannot catch him." "Dear Neebin," said the lady, "thine are timely words of consolation.
The former had not abandoned all hope of changing the strange resolution of Sister Celestina, with whom he determined, on accomplishing her release, to proceed with Neebin to the country of the Pequots in this way only transferring their labors to another place and with the latter, the charge wherewith he was entrusted was too sacred for any cause to be neglected.
"Neebin," answered the girl, whose eyes, from the moment of her entrance, had been scanning the company and the room in that quiet, covert way, in which the Indian is wont to gratify his curiosity while endeavoring to conceal it. At the same time, if she felt fear, neither her voice nor manner betrayed it. "Neebin!" repeated Winthrop.
O good white man! and free him," cried the impatient chief. Philip, guided by the sounds, bent down, and feeling for the shackles which confined the legs of the captive, soon unfastened them, and the liberated Sagamore stretched out with delight his cramped limbs. "Sassacus," he said, "shall see again the pleasant river of the Pequots, and he will deliver Neebin from the robbers."
The voices of thy tribe are shouting thy name through the forest, and calling thee home. Here and now we part." "Sassacus is troubled," replied the Sagamore, "about his little sister. How shall he answer his mother, when she asks after Neebin?" "Neebin is in no danger," said the Knight; "and though she were, thy remaining could do no good.
Tears dimmed the eyes of Sister Celestina at the question, and, before she could reply, the Knight said: "Thou hast asked a question, Neebin, which puzzles wiser heads; but it is something which lives when the body becomes dust." "O, yes," said the child. How does it look?" "There thou askest a question beyond the boundaries of knowledge.
Shall Sassacus love Neebin less than a bear its cub? Owanux burned the lodge of my friend. They seized his sister and Neebin, and carried them away, and their chief asks why Sassacus fought for his friends, and for the daughter of many Sachems! What white man ever before was hurt by Sassacus? Who ever came to his lodge, and he set not a meal before him?
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