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.

On the contrary, will he not, hearing of you in the neighborhood, be more close in his restraints upon me?
Will not your chance of exposure, too, be so much the greater, as to make it incumbent upon him to pursue his determination with rigor?
while, on the other hand, if you remove yourself out of all reach of Georgia, in the Mississippi, and there begin a settlement, I am sure that he will look upon the affair with different notions." "It can not be, Kate--it can not be.

You know I have had but a single motive for living so long among this people and in these parts.

I disliked both, and only lingered with a single hope, that I might be blessed with your presence always, and in the event of my sufficient success, that I might win you altogether for myself.

I have not done much for this object and this unhappy affair forbids me for the present to do more.