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Hetty, hast thou forgotten who
appeased thine anguish when thy auricular nerves were tortured by the
colds and damps of the naked earth! and thou, Phoebe, ungrateful and
forgetful Phoebe! but for this very arm, which you would prostrate
with an endless paralysis, thy incisores would still be giving thee
pain and sorrow! Lay, then, aside thy weapons, and hearken to the
advice of one who has always been thy friend. And now, young woman,"
still keeping a jealous eye on the muskets which the girl had suffered
to be diverted a little from their aim,--"and now, young woman, for
the last, and therefore the most solemn asking: I demand of thee the
surrender of this rock, without delay or resistance, in the joint
names of power, of justice, and of the--" law he would have added; but
recollecting that this ominous word would again provoke the hostility
of the squatter's children, he succeeded in swallowing it in good
season, and concluded with the less dangerous and more convertible
term of "reason."
This extraordinary summons failed, however, of producing the desired
effect.


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