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The Shadow of the North

CHAPTER XI
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They and an able support soon took the whole audience captive, and all, fashionable and unfashionable alike, hung with breathless attention upon the play.

Robert forgot absolutely everything around him, Willet was carried back to days of his youth, and Master Benjamin Hardy, who at heart was a lover of adventure and romance, responded to the great speeches the author has written for his characters.

Tayoga did not stir, his face of bronze was unmoved, but now and then his dark eyes gleamed.
In reality the influence of the tragedy upon Tayoga was as great as it was upon Robert.

The Onondaga had an unusual mind and being sent at an early age to school at Albany he had learned that the difference between white man and red was due chiefly to environment.

Their hopes and fears, their rivalries and ambitions were, in truth, about the same.


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