noon
Beauty like hers should command kinder treatment , should inspire compassion even in the breast of a savage ! Alas ! I deemed it doubtful . We rode slowly on , as already said , not desirous of yet overtaking the foe : we were allowing them time to depart from their noon halting-place . We might have stopped there a while longer , but I could not submit to the repose of a halt . Motion , however slow , appeared progress , and in some measure hindered me from dwelling upon thoughts that only produced unnecessary pain . Notwithstanding the incumbrance of their spoils , the Indians must have been travelling faster than we .