If you will be headstrong, see that you have your eyes about
you. You have need of them both."
This was all in by-play. The group had passed on, and a single nod of
the head and a doubtful smile, on her part, concluded the brief dialogue
we have just narrated. The youth was puzzled to understand the
significant warnings, which, from time to time, she had given him. He
felt unconscious of any foe in particular, and though at that time
sojourning with a people in whom he could repose but little confidence,
he yet saw no reason to apprehend any danger. If her manner and words
had reference simply to the general lawlessness of the settlement, the
precaution evidently conveyed no compliment to his own capacities for
observation. Whatever might have been her motive, the youth felt its
kindness; and she rose not a little in his esteem, when he reflected
with how much dignity and ladylike propriety she had given, to a
comparative stranger, the counsel which she evidently thought necessary
to his well-being.
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