The Man of the Forest

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Moze shuffled out with alacrity.†

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But on the instant, perhaps, some instinct was born, or he divined an antagonism in Dale that was both surprising and perplexing.†

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In my opinion his motives were to force you to accept or refuse him, and in case you refused him he'd always have those forbidden stolen kisses to assuage his self-respect—when he thought of Turner or any one else daring to be familiar with you.†

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Indeed, so utterly miserable was she that the exquisite relief of sitting down, of a cessation of movement, of a release from that infernal perpetual-trotting horse, seemed only a mockery.†

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It was class hate first, then the hate of real manhood for a craven, then the hate of disgrace for a murder.†

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Squirrels and grouse, turkeys and deer, and less tame denizens of the forest grew more abundant as the travel advanced.†

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She had evidently anticipated an adventure, but her smiling, resolute face had denoted confidence.†

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Milt Dale answered that question to Beasley's discredit; and many strange matters pertaining to sheep and herders, always a mystery to the little village of Pine, now became as clear as daylight.†

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From which presently she sent out the most doleful moans.†

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The pioneers and ranchers of the frontier would never have made the West habitable had it not been for these wild cowboys, these hard-drinking, hard-riding, hard-living rangers of the barrens, these easy, cool, laconic, simple young men whose blood was tinged with fire and who possessed a magnificent and terrible effrontery toward danger and death.†

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This visit, indeed, had been foreshadowed.†

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Not only Dale's intensity, but the very silence, the wildness of the moment and place, seemed fraught with wonderful potency.†

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Bo's raptures were not silent, and the instant the sun sank and the color faded she just as rapturously importuned Helen to get out the huge basket of food they had brought from home.†

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"Reckon livin' in the woods I might think—an' know a whole lot," interposed Dale, just as deliberately.†

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He did not distinguish Helen from Bo in his slow introspection.†

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He seemed so laconic, so easy, so nice, that he could not have been taken seriously, yet Helen's quick perceptions registered a daring, a something that was both sudden and inevitable in him.†

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His tone was both testy and full of pathos.†

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I could find nothing in his papers, so I must repudiate your claim.†

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