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Then
starting from their revolting office, her hands would flutter around
her, and seem to seek some fruitless remedy against the violent blow,
which had thus suddenly destroyed the child in whom she had not only
placed her greatest hopes, but so much of her maternal pride. While
engaged in the latter incomprehensible manner, the lethargic Abner
turned aside, and swallowing the unwonted emotions which were rising
in his own throat, he observed--
"Mother means that we should look for the signs, that we may know in
what manner Asa has come by his end."
"We owe it to the accursed Siouxes!" answered Ishmael: "twice have
they put me deeply in their debt! The third time, the score shall be
cleared!"
But, not content with this plausible explanation, and, perhaps,
secretly glad to avert their eyes from a spectacle which awakened so
extraordinary and unusual sensations in their sluggish bosoms, the
sons of the squatter turned away in a body from their mother and the
corpse, and proceeded to make the enquiries which they fancied the
former had so repeatedly demanded.


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