The bolder spirits laughed laugh them to scorn , but the women began to weep weep and cower cower , and I , though I laughed laugh too , thought think of Smith , and how he ever held the savages , and more especially that Opechancanough who was now their emperor , in a most deep distrust ; telling us that the red men watched while we slept , that they might teach wiliness to a Jesuit , and how to bide its time to a cat crouched before a mousehole .