The peculiar freedom of
Mahtoree's religious creed has been more than once intimated, and by a
singular species of contradiction, he appeared to have lavished his
attentions on this emblem of a supernatural agency, in a degree that
was precisely inverse to his faith. It was merely the manner in which
the Sioux imitated the well-known expedient of the Pharisees, "in
order that they might be seen of men."
The tent had not, however, been entered by its owner since his return
from the recent expedition. As the reader has already anticipated, it
had been made the prison of Inez and Ellen. The bride of Middleton was
seated on a simple couch of sweet-scented herbs covered with skins.
She had already suffered so much, and witnessed so many wild and
unlooked-for events, within the short space of her captivity. that
every additional misfortune fell with a diminished force on her
seemingly devoted head. Her cheeks were bloodless, her dark and
usually animated eye was contracted in an expression of settled
concern, and her form appeared shrinking and sensitive, nearly to
extinction.
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