The counsels of
Mahtoree, however, on whom so much of the policy of his people
depended, lay deep in the depository of his own thoughts. Perhaps he
rejoiced at so easy a manner of getting rid of claims so troublesome;
perhaps he awaited a fitting time to exhibit his power; or it even
might be, that matters of so much greater importance were pressing on
his mind, that it had not leisure to devote any of its faculties to an
event of so much indifference.
But it would seem that while Ishmael made such a concession to the
awakened feelings of Esther, he was far from abandoning his original
intentions. His train followed the course of the river for a mile, and
then it came to a halt on the brow of the elevated land, and in a
place which afforded the necessary facilities. Here he again pitched
his tents, unharnessed his teams, sent his cattle on the bottom, and,
in short, made all the customary preparations to pass the night, with
the same coolness and deliberation as if he had not hurled an
irritating defiance into the teeth of his dangerous neighbours.
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