From the time of Henrich’s captivity, he bad endeavored to keep up in his own mind a remembrance of the Sabbath, or the Lord’s Day (as it was always called by the Puritans); and, as far as it was in his power to do so, he observed it as a day of rest from common occupations and amusements.  On that day, he invariably declined joining any hunting or fishing parties; and he also selected it as the time for his longest spiritual conversations with Oriana; as he desired that she, also, should learn to attach a peculiar feeling of reverence to a day that must be sacred to every Christian, but which was always observed with remarkable strictness by the sect to which Henrich belonged.

In this, as in all other customs that the young pale-face wished to follow, he was unopposed by Tisquantum; who seemed entirely indifferent as to the religious feelings or social habits of his adopted son, so long as he acquired a skill in the arts of war and hunting:  and, in these respects, Henrich’s progress fully answered his expectations.  He
        was, like most youths of his age, extremely fond of every kind of
sport; and his strength and activity—­which had greatly increased since he had adopted the wild life of the Indians—­rendered every active exercise easy and delightful to him.  He consequently grew rapidly in the Sachem’s favor, and in that of all his companions, who learnt to love his kind and courteous manners, as much as they admired his courage and address.  One only of the red men envied him the esteem that he gained, and hated him for it.  This was Coubitant—­the aspirant for the chief place in Tisquantum’s favor, and for the honor of one day becoming his son-in-law.  From the moment that the captor’s life had been spared by the Sachem, and he had been disappointed of his expected vengeance for the death of his friend Tekoa, the savage had harbored in his breast a feeling of hatred towards the son of the slayer, and had burned with a malicious desire for Henrich s destruction.  This feeling he was compelled, as we have observed, to conceal from Tisquantum; but it only gained strength by the restraint imposed on its outward expression, and many were the schemes that he devised for its gratification.  At present, however, he found it impossible to execute any of them; and the object of his hate and jealousy was happily unconscious that he had so deadly an enemy continually near him.  An instinctive feeling had, indeed, caused Henrich to shun the fierce young Indian, and to be less at ease in his company than in that of the other red warriors; but his own generous and forgiving nature forbade his suspecting the real sentiments entertained towards him by Coubitant, or even supposing that his expressions of approval and encouragement were all feigned to suit his own evil purposes.