I know the place well, and have been through it
before. There I shall linger until I hear all the particulars of this
affair in its progress, and determine upon my route accordingly. If the
stir is great, as I reckon it will be, I shall push into Tennessee, and
perhaps go for the Mississippi. Could I hope that your father would
consent to remove, I should at once do this and make a settlement,
where, secure from interruption and all together, we might live happily
and honorably for the future."
"And why not do so now--why stop at all among the Cherokees? Why not go
at once into Mississippi, and begin the world, as you propose in the end
to do?"
"What! and leave you for ever--now Kate, you are indeed cruel. I had not
thought to have listened to such a recommendation from one who loved me
as you profess."
"As I do, Mark--I say nothing which I do not feel. It does not follow
that you will be any nigher your object, if my father continue firm in
his refusal, though nigher to me, by lingering about in the nation.
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