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Listen; if
matters are managed with judgment, we may leave these Tetons as the
night sets in."
"A blessed thought!" exclaimed Middleton, who retained a painful
remembrance of the look of admiration, with which Mahtoree had
contemplated the loveliness of Inez, as well as of his subsequent
presumption in daring to wish to take the office of her protector on
himself.
"Lord, Lord! what a weak creatur' is man, when the gifts of natur' are
smothered in bookish knowledge, and womanly manners! Such another
start would tell these imps at our elbows that we were plotting
against them, just as plainly as if it were whispered in their ears by
a Sioux tongue. Ay, ay, I know the devils; they look as innocent as so
many frisky fawns, but there is not one among them all that has not an
eye on our smallest motions. Therefore, what is to be done is to be
done in wisdom, in order to circumvent their cunning. That is right;
pat his neck and smile, as if you praised the horse, and keep the ear
on my side open to my words.


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