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Do you want her to stick to you all your life ? '' Isidore admitted that the guide was right , and on they went . Yet his heart was full of pity for the poor child as he looked back and saw her stealing silently away through the wood , and he felt that he had been compelled to extinguish the ray of sunlight that had shone in upon the darkness of her soul . The travellers halted before noon and rested for some hours . They then pursued their march until near sunset , when they came to the elevated ridges which divide the small rivers flowing northward into the St. Lawrence , from those which run southward towards the West Hudson and the Ohio . Boulanger 's object was to reach a village situated amongst the numerous small lakes in this district , and obtain a canoe , by means of which he might greatly lighten the rest of their journey . The Indians were of a friendly tribe and knew him of old , so he had no fears about the reception they might give him .