I did think, the pup
had become unused to the footsteps of man, and that your presence made
him uneasy; but his nose has been on a long scent the whole evening,
and what I mistook as a notice of your coming, has been intended for
something more serious. If the advice of an old man is, then, worth
hearkening to, children, you will quickly go different ways to your
places of shelter and safety."
"If I quit Ellen, at such a moment," exclaimed the youth, "may I--"
"You've said enough!" the girl interrupted, by again interposing a
band that might, both by its delicacy and colour, have graced a far
more elevated station in life; "my time is out; and we must part, at
all events--so good night, Paul--father--good night."
"Hist!" said the youth, seizing her arm, as she was in the very act of
tripping from his side--"Hist! do you hear nothing? There are
buffaloes playing their pranks, at no great distance--That sound beats
the earth like a herd of the mad scampering devils!"
His two companions listened, as people in their situation would be apt
to lend their faculties to discover the meaning of any doubtful
noises, especially, when heard after so many and such startling
warnings.
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