. The rebel's daughter; a story of love, politics, and war . uld gladly have |i:ii-doned any crime the young lady could have connnitted, andwas on the point of telling her so. when it occurred to him,that to grant a ])ardon presu])posed an offense, and he couldnot couscientiously admit that he had been offended, (^nitethe contrary: he had never lieen so sweetly charmed, as whenhe heard liis fidl name, coupled with the title •• iNIister pro-nounced by her rosy lips. So he answered, with a diplomacyquite foreign to his nature: • If J had anything to forgive, Iwould gladly do so for the pleasure
. The rebel's daughter; a story of love, politics, and war . uld gladly have |i:ii-doned any crime the young lady could have connnitted, andwas on the point of telling her so. when it occurred to him,that to grant a ])ardon presu])posed an offense, and he couldnot couscientiously admit that he had been offended, (^nitethe contrary: he had never lieen so sweetly charmed, as whenhe heard liis fidl name, coupled with the title •• iNIister pro-nounced by her rosy lips. So he answered, with a diplomacyquite foreign to his nature: • If J had anything to forgive, Iwould gladly do so for the pleasure of hearing you laugh asyou did a while ago. Victor had innnediate reward for his gallantry : for ; encouraged, indulged herself in an unchecked peal ofnuisical merriment, before she exclaimed, ••Yon aic indeed adroll young man, JMr. Waldhorst. • He has given you an example of courtesy worthy of imita-tion, said the Colonel. Then seeing that Yahko]) had resumedhis laborious task, he tnriiecl to him, saying: •• Hut our friend c :iQ. A LESSON IN WOODCRAFT. 15 here needs a lesson in wood-em ft. This is an ar( upon whichwe in the t)!Uk-woo(ls pride ourselves. ^^ith these words hethrew the reins to his daughter and leaped to the himself of his coat, he took the ax from Yahkopshand. * You are making sorry work of this, he said. • ifyou go on in this way, the tree, Avhen you get it down, will(jbstruct the course of the wagon. IJesides, you must do bet-ter than this with the ax. — pointing to the Jagged, irregularopening that had been cut into the trunk of the tree— •• ifyou dont want to be laughed at by our backwoodsmen. ]ioth \ictor and Yalikop were astonished to see with whatease and dexterity he swung the ax; the blows fell rajjidly andwith a precision which i)roduced a perfectly even, smooth sur-face of ))otli edges of the triangular section he cut into thetrunk. Even the chips which his swift strokes dislodged, werelarger and m
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