After an hour of anxious, and frequently, on the part of Faith, of angry
efforts to extract some evidences of his recollection of the condition of
life to which he had once belonged, the attempt for the moment was
abandoned. At times, it seemed as if the woman were about to prevail. He
often called himself Whittal, but he continued to insist that he was also
Nipset, a man of the Narragansetts, who had a mother in his wigwam, and
who had reason to believe that he should be numbered among the warriors of
his tribe, ere the fall of another snow.
In the mean time, a very different scene was passing at the place where
the first examination had been held, and which had been immediately
deserted by most of the spectators, on the sudden arrival of the
Messenger. But a solitary individual was seated at the spacious board,
which had been provided alike for those who owned and presided over the
estate, and for their dependants to the very meanest. The individual who
remained had thrown himself into a seat, less with the air of him who
consults the demands of appetite, than of one whose thoughts were so
engrossing as to render him indifferent to the situation or employment of
his more corporeal part.
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