"
The unfortunate woman said no more. When she raised her
heaving chest from that of the young officer, her eyes,
though red and shrunk to half their usual size with
weeping, were tearless; but on her countenance there was
an expression of wild woe, infinitely more distressing
to behold, in consequence of the almost unnatural check
so suddenly imposed upon her feelings. She tottered,
rather than walked, through the group of officers, who
gave way on either hand to let her pass; and rejecting
all assistance from the women who had followed into the
room, and who now, in obedience to another signal from
Captain Blessington, hastened to her support, finally
gained the door, and quitted the apartment.
CHAPTER IX.
The sun was high in the meridian, as the second detachment,
commanded by Colonel de Haldimar in person, issued from
the fort of Detroit. It was that soft and hazy season,
peculiar to the bland and beautiful autumns of Canada,
when the golden light of Heaven seems as if transmitted
through a veil of tissue, and all of animate and inanimate
nature, expanding and fructifying beneath its fostering
influence, breathes the most delicious languor and
voluptuous repose.
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