Truly, friend, it was my desire to help thee in peace and with a peaceful hand; but, of a truth, there was thee enemies at thee side, with their guns and their knives, ready to start up and knock out thee unfortunate brains.

Truly, friend, thee sees it couldn't be helped; and, truly, I don't think thee conscience can condemn me." "Condemn you indeed!" cried the young man; "it was an act to bind my gratitude for ever,--an act to win you the admiration and respect of the whole world, which I shall take care to make acquainted with it." "Nay, friend," said Nathan, hastily, "the less thee says of it the better: if thee is theeself satisfied in thee conscience of its lawfulness, it is enough.

Do thee, therefore, hold thee tongue on this and all other matters wherein thee has seen me do evil; for truly I am a man of a peaceful faith, and what I have done would be but as a grief and a scandal to the same." "But my friends,--my poor Edith!--wretch that I am to think of myself or of others, while she is still a captive!" cried Roland, again endeavouring to rise.

But his limbs, yet paralysed from the tightness with which thongs had been bound around them, tottered beneath him, and but for Nathan, he must have fallen to the earth.

"The emigrants," he continued with incoherent haste;--"you brought them?
They are pursuing the savages?
they have rescued her?
Speak, Nathan,--tell me all; tell me that my cousin is free!" "Truly, friend," muttered Nathan, his countenance losing much of the equanimity that had begun to cover it, and assuming a darker and disturbed expression, "thee doth confuse both theeself and me with many questions.