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Here, with a very few words of explanation, mingled with
scarce but ominous denunciations against the plunderers, he made his
wife acquainted with the state of things on the prairie, and announced
his own determination to compensate himself for his broken rest, by
devoting the remainder of the night to sleep.
The trapper gave his ready assent to the measure, and adjusted his
gaunt form on the pile of brush that was offered him, with as much
composure as a sovereign could resign himself to sleep, in the
security of his capital and surrounded by his armed protectors. The
old man did not close his eyes, however, until he had assured himself
that Ellen Wade was among the females of the family, and that her
relation, or lover, whichever he might be, had observed the caution of
keeping himself out of view: after which he slept, though with the
peculiar watchfulness of one long accustomed to vigilance, even in the
hours of deepest night.

CHAPTER VI
He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd,
As it were too peregrinate, as I may call it.


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