1 Brother, the woman is the wife of one of my bravest young men; deal justly by her.
2 I take the woman to a distance, where I will strengthen her against any further attacks.
3 When the blows scorched the back of the Huron, he would know where to find a woman to feel the smart.
4 There is no woman in this wilderness could leave such a print as that, but the dark-hair or her sister.
5 Magua, like the father of the sick woman, eyed it keenly for a moment, as if to ascertain its character.
6 The crowd fell back a little, and permitted the father, and one who appeared to be the husband of the woman, to approach.
7 I have heard," he said, "that there is a feeling in youth which binds man to woman closer than the father is tied to the son.
8 They found the sick woman as they had left her, still alone, and passed swiftly on, by the natural gallery, to the place of entrance.
9 When his brief story was ended, the father of the sick woman stepped forth, and, in a few pithy expression, related, in his turn, what he knew.
10 The woman, more in terror than through love of the ornament, wrapped her child in the coveted article, and folded both more closely to her bosom.
11 The woman was commencing a low and plaintive howl at the sad and shameful spectacle, when the chief put forth his hand and gently pushed her aside.
12 You must give 'em your jargon, major; and say that we have shut the evil spirit in the cave, and are taking the woman to the woods in order to find strengthening roots.'
13 Cora was in the act of speaking, with an intent to advise the woman to abandon the trifle, when the savage relinquished his hold of the shawl, and tore the screaming infant from her arms.
14 The ingenious Hawkeye, who recalled the hasty manner in which the other had abandoned his post at the bedside of the sick woman, was not without his suspicions concerning the subject of so much solemn deliberation.
15 Infuriated at the self-command of the captive, the woman placed her arms akimbo; and, throwing herself into a posture of defiance, she broke out anew, in a torrent of words that no art of ours could commit successfully to paper.
16 The impatient Heyward, inwardly execrating the cold customs of the savages, which required such sacrifices to appearance, was fain to assume an air of indifference, equal to that maintained by the chief, who was, in truth, a near relative of the afflicted woman.
17 Hither the Hurons had brought most of their valuables, especially those which more particularly pertained to the nation; and hither, as it now appeared, the sick woman, who was believed to be the victim of supernatural power, had been transported also, under an impression that her tormentor would find more difficulty in making his assaults through walls of stone than through the leafy coverings of the lodges.
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