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Chapter Six. The Camp, the Attack, and the Escape.
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It were vain to attempt a description of the varied1 condition of mind into which the brother and sister fell when they found themselves actually reduced to a state of slavery in an Indian camp, and separated from their parents, as they firmly believed, for ever.
Nelly wept her eyes almost out of their sockets2 at first. Then she fell into a sort of apathetic3 state, in which, for several days, she went about her duties almost mechanically, feeling as if it were all a horrible dream, out of which she would soon awake, and find herself at home with her “darling mother” beside her. This passed, however, and she had another fit of heart-breaking sorrow, from which she found relief by recalling some of the passages in God’s Word, which her mother had taught her to repeat by heart; especially that verse in which it is said, “that Jesus is a friend who sticketh closer than a brother.” And this came to the poor child’s mind with peculiar4 power, because her own brother Roy was so kind, and took such pains to comfort her, and to enter into all her girlish feelings and sympathies, that she could scarcely imagine it possible for anyone to stick closer to her in all her distress5 than he did.
As for Roy, he was not given to the melting mood. His nature was bold and manly6. Whatever he felt, he kept it to himself, and he forgot more than half his own sorrow in his brotherly efforts to assuage7 that of Nelly.
Both of them were active and willing to oblige, so that they did not allow their grief to interfere8 with their work, a circumstance which induced their captors to treat them with forbearance, and even kindness. Nelly sobbed9 and worked; gradually, the
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