The Deerslayer

Chapter 25

The meeting between the two lovers was simple, but affectionate.

The chief showed a manly kindness, equally removed from boyish

weakness and haste, while the girl betrayed, in her smile and half

averted looks, the bashful tenderness of her s*x. Neither spoke,

unless it were with the eyes, though each understood the other as

fully as if a vocabulary of words and protestations had been poured

out. Hist seldom appeared to more advantage than at that moment,

for just from her rest and ablutions, there was a freshness about

her youthful form and face that the toils of the wood do not always

permit to be exhibited, by even the juvenile and pretty. Then

Judith had not only imparted some of her own skill in the toilet,

during their short intercourse, but she had actually bestowed a

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