All the mischief that I have ever done was due to his example and persuasion.

It is my misfortune that I have a weak nature, and I am easily led into evil by my associates." "It iss not so.

You are equally bad.

Bring in your baggage und I will see if Caterina, der cook, cannot find enough for you three, who always eat like raging lions." The soldiers, who were to return immediately to Colonel William Johnson, rode away with their horses, and Robert, Tayoga and Willet took their packs into the house of Mynheer Huysman, who grumbled incessantly while he and a manservant and a maidservant made them as comfortable as possible.
"Would you und Tayoga like to haf your old room on the second floor ?" he said to Robert.
"Nothing would please us better," replied the lad.
"Then you shall haf it," said Mynheer, as he led the way up the stair and into the room.

"Do you remember, Tayoga, how wild you wass when you came here to learn the good ways und bad ways uf the white people ?" "I do," replied Tayoga, "and the walls and the roof felt oppressive to me, although we have stout log houses of our own in our villages.