Contrary to that unnatural etiquette which enjoins that
two betrothed persons, who are expected to be inseparable
after marriage, should never show themselves together in
public immediately before, Ronayne had after parade
ascended the rampart, with Maria Heywood leaning upon
his arm, occasionally glancing at the group of
gaily-costumed Indians, who were amusing themselves on
the green, but oftener admiring the lovely view, softened
by distance, which was presented in various points, and
particularly towards the farm--the theatre of events
which the otherwise happy girl, could not at that moment
avoid bringing to her recollection.
While gazing in that direction, her eye fell upon the
form of a young Indian who was leaning against the corner
of the picketed bastion on her left, in the shallow, dry,
and grass-covered ditch that surrounded it. At first her
glance caught an indistinct human form dressed in the
Indian garb, but as her gaze settled on the object, her
surprise was great to recognise Waunangee, who was even
then looking at her with the same softened and eloquent
expression, which had given her so much anxiety on a
former occasion.
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