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"I am indisposed to
matrimony in general, and more especially to all admixture of the
varieties of species, which only tend to tarnish the beauty and to
interrupt the harmony of nature. Moreover, it is a painful innovation
on the order of all nomenclatures."
"Ay, ay, you have reason enough for your distaste to such a life; but
should these Siouxes get you fairly into their village, such would be
your luck, as certain as that the sun rises and sets at the pleasure
of the Lord."
"Marry me to a woman who is not adorned with the comeliness of the
species!" responded the Doctor. "Of what crime have I been guilty,
that so grievous a punishment should await the offence? To marry a man
against the movements of his will, is to do a violence to human
nature!"
"Now, that you speak of natur', I have hopes that the gift of reason
has not altogether deserted your brain," returned the old man, with a
covert expression playing about the angles of his deep set eyes, which
betrayed he was not entirely destitute of humour.


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