when time blunted the keen edge of her feelings her
face became as sweet and mild, though not so lightsome,
as before.
Joe Blunt and Henri became leading men in the
councils of the Mustang Valley; but Dick Varley preferred
the woods, although, as long as his mother lived,
he hovered round her cottage--going off sometimes for
a day, sometimes for a week, but never longer. After
her head was laid in the dust, Dick took altogether to
the woods, with Crusoe and Charlie, the wild horse, as