She suddenly towered over him, like some threatening fate, and her
uplifted arm trembled from the intensity of her indignation.

"At least--you are loyal to your tribe!"

"I am, to my heart's core. You could pay me no higher compliment."

"Ellice wrote that she had bestowed her affections on--on--the
'exiled scion of a noble house,' who paid his board bill by teaching
languages and music in the school; and who very naturally preferred
to marry a rich fool, who would pay them for him. I answered her
letter, which was addressed to her own mother--then quite ill at
home--and I told her precisely what she might expect, if she
persisted in her insane folly. As soon as my wife convalesced
sufficiently to render my departure advisable, I started to bring my
daughter home; but she ran away, a few hours before my arrival, and
while, hoping to rescue Ellice, I was in pursuit of the precious
pair, my wife relapsed and died--the victim of excitement brought on
by her child's disgrace. I came back here to a desolate, silent
house;--bereft of wife and daughter; and in the grave of her mother,
I buried every atom of love and tenderness I ever entertained for
Ellice. When the sun is suddenly blotted out at noon, and the world
turns black--black, we grope to and fro aimlessly; but after awhile,
we accommodate ourselves to the darkness;--and so, I became a
different man--very hard, and I dare say very bitter. The world soon
learned that I would tolerate no illusion to my disgrace, and people
respected my family cancer, and prudently refrained from offering me
nostrums to cure it. My wife had a handsome estate of her own right,
and every cent of her fortune I collected, and sent with her jewelry