Which of you gallants offers for the venture ?" To this day I do not know what were Francis Nicholson's motives.

He wished the mountains crossed, but he cannot have expected to meet a pathfinder among the youth of the Tidewater.

I think it was the whim of the moment.

He would endow Elspeth, and at the same time test her cavaliers.

To the ordinary man it seemed the craziest folly.