within these walls? Return me to the spot whence
you have taken me; render me to my home, so
desecrated, so invaded by such felonious feet as yours.
Felon, convey me to my home at Stillyside, and there
reinstate me; if indeed you have the heart, as you
have the outward semblance, of a man;" and, in spite
of her resentment, she burst into a flood of tears.

But not even woman's tears could move his stolid
disposition, or melt his stony heart; and, looking at her
with an expression akin to contempt, he demanded:

"What, take the bird back to the bush where we
have caught it? No. Besides at present you have
taken a long-enough ride, and when next you journey
it must be further in the same direction. You shall
see the world, and learn how wide it is; you shall
have most excellent French society."

"Oh, keep me, heaven, from such society as yours,"
she ejaculated: -- "base man! -- but do you know to
what you have exposed yourself? Beware; I am
not without friends both subtle and strong, and one
of whom will not be slow to punish you for this out-
rage. Release me, stranger, or you shall be visited
with his vengeance, not to be trifled with, not to be
risked with safety."

"Ah, the old advocate," exclaimed the giant, with
more bitterness than he had hitherto manifested;
"Outrage! he has himself outraged too many of our
race."

"Ay, that he has;" the woman chimed in, whilst
her eyes suddenly glared dilating, and she looked
menacingly at Amanda; "there is Robitaille, and
Lamoureux, and Paille, and myself, and Babet Blais, --
poor Babet! but her boy, _his_ boy, his own son, has

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