In
short, there was that about the eye and step of the betrothed of Paul,
which gave a warranty that should happier times arrive, and the
constancy of the bee-hunter finally meet with its reward, he would
possess a partner every way worthy to cope with his own thoughtless
and buoyant temperament.
There was still another and a third figure in that little knot of
females. It was the youngest, the most highly gifted, and, until now,
the most favoured of the wives of the Teton. Her charms had not been
without the most powerful attraction in the eyes of her husband, until
they had so unexpectedly opened on the surpassing loveliness of a
woman of the Pale-faces. From that hapless moment the graces, the
attachment, the fidelity of the young Indian, had lost their power to
please. Still the complexion of Tachechana, though less dazzling than
that of her rival, was, for her race, clear and healthy. Her hazel eye
had the sweetness and playfulness of the antelope's; her voice was
soft and joyous as the song of the wren, and her happy laugh was the
very melody of the forest.
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